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  1. Re:Yep on Dell Selling Faulty PCs · · Score: 4, Funny

    if you had read the article

    You demand the impossible.

  2. Re:Yep on Dell Selling Faulty PCs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So... considering that bad boards were used to replace bad boards, how many of those GX270s are still around?

    Your assumption is incorrect. They replaced the bad "boards" with boards that had good capacitors. We could tell whether a motherboard had been replaced by whether its caps in the GPU area were X-topped or K-topped. That visual indication was a big help when we decided to pressure Dell into sending us tons of motherboards for mass replacement before they went bad.

  3. Re:SCOTUS has too much power on SCOTUS Nominee Kagan On Free Speech Issues · · Score: 1

    Wow, paraphrased from the video: "We can do things that are against the law because the government hasn't in the past wanted to enforce those particular laws"

  4. Re:Well? on The Tuesday Birthday Problem · · Score: 1

    The order is totally irrelevant for even enumerating the possibilities. The author of the article is a dimwit. The question is: What is the probability of the sex of the other child? That will always be 50/50. What if the first child was listed as an unknown sex? Does that suddenly magically make the probability of the other child's sex more 50/50? The question was worded incorrectly to reach the answer in the article. You're looking at [b,b][b,g][g,b][g,g], while failing to realize that since order is irrelevant, [b,g] and [g,b] are the same thing. Your choices are between [b,g] and [b,b]

  5. Re:Well? on The Tuesday Birthday Problem · · Score: 1

    Order is Irrelevant. The question ask for the probability of the sex of the "other" child, not second child. It's like saying "One of my children's eyes are blue. He's a boy. What are the chances that a specific pregnant rural family in Russia will have a girl?"

  6. The other person on Facebook, Friend of Divorce Lawyers · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter how well the cheater ties down their site and cleans up tags of themselves with their side-S.O., if the side-S.O. posts any non-tagged photos publicly, divorce lawyers and P.I.s will find them in less than a day.

  7. i.e. 22 million virtual sites on 22 Million SSL Certificates In Use Are Invalid · · Score: 2, Insightful

    22 million virtual sites sharing IPs where only one site on an IP really needs the SSL, and the other sites weren't configured to only listen to the http port(s).

  8. Re:Smith Chart on Tattoos For the Math and Science Geek? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Being discharged from a company for being a bigot is a consequence of your speech.

    Having to wear long sleeves at work is elimination of your right to speak, no matter what you have to say.

    Being discharged from a company for [saying something] is a consequence of your speech.
    Being discharged from a company for [displaying something] is a consequence of your "speech".
    Having to wear long sleeves at work is good sense if displaying tattoos get you discharged.

  9. Re:Playing your alignment? on Believing You Are Very Good Or Evil Boosts Your Physical Capabilities · · Score: 1

    Nice guys don't date for sex, they date for love or at least "like". "move on to another one" is a bad-boy strategy.

    Eh, sex is part of it, a fantastic part, but not the whole.

    "Move on to another one" is the advice I give to "nice guys" who are absolutely fixated on one girl, especially one who clearly isn't interested in them and\or doesn't even know they exist. This is a tremendously common problem.

    Even if you're looking for love above all else, why would you waste your time on someone who isn't interested in you?

    Amendment: Nice guys don't date to be loved, they date because they do love. They're stuck in a romantic notion that if they're nice enough, the one girl they really love will take notice. And they're too nice to date a girl that's 2nd best because they know they couldn't completely commit. BTW, there is an XKCD for this. http://xkcd.com/513/

  10. Re:Because the DM said so on Believing You Are Very Good Or Evil Boosts Your Physical Capabilities · · Score: 1

    I'm gonna choose evil so I can use the Helm of Disintegration!

    "Paladins can't use the Helm of disintegration!"

  11. Re:Paladin on Believing You Are Very Good Or Evil Boosts Your Physical Capabilities · · Score: 1

    If that's the case, then why is Paladin the worst 3.5e base class?

    Because Paladin was never intended to be a base class. It should have been an epic class requiring 9 levels of Fighter and an oath of poverty (no landholdings). OD&D FTW!

  12. Re:Playing your alignment? on Believing You Are Very Good Or Evil Boosts Your Physical Capabilities · · Score: 1

    If she's not interested, fine, move on to another one.

    Nice guys don't date for sex, they date for love or at least "like". "move on to another one" is a bad-boy strategy.

  13. Re:Smith Chart on Tattoos For the Math and Science Geek? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The "no visible tattoo" policy is the antithesis of the 1st Amendment. Stop giving corporations more power than the government has.

    Or the "no visible tattoo" policy is the heart of the 1st Amendment. Stop giving the government more power than it should have. I think the only people that could win a "no visible tatto" lawsuit would be survivors of the holocaust.

  14. !Bacta on ACTA Is Backta, New Round of Talks Start Today · · Score: 1

    Not intended for medical use a long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away.

  15. Re:SCOTUS has too much power on SCOTUS Nominee Kagan On Free Speech Issues · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Making decisions in ambiguous cases is quite different from advocating new approaches to skirt around the first amendment. She's thinking like a Mafia defense lawyer, not a judge.

  16. Re:Nice accomplishment! on Porting Lemmings In 36 Hours · · Score: 1

    Wrong as in 350 pound man wearing a Sailor Moon costume? (You're welcome for that lovely image too)

    C'mon, we've all been to gencon. Try harder.

  17. Re:Stop that task in the name of the law! on Sen. Bond Disses Internet 'Kill Switch' Bill · · Score: 1

    With the good-intention Chernobyl that is modern copyright legislation

    Recent copyright legislation has no basis in any good intentions, unless they're intentions to leave large inheritances to RIAA/MPAA members' children.

  18. Re:military clauses in contracts on Verizon Charged Marine's Widow an Early Termination Fee · · Score: 1

    As a general rule, most contracts have a military clause that extends to the spouse/family of the military member. The reason this clause exists is to protect them should they be required to move without notice, relocate to another area, or lose their spouse. This applies, to homes, cars, and many other things. It's a good policy, and Verizon screwed up by choosing to ignore it. If Verizon stuck to their guns, she could easily have gone to family advocacy department in the USMC and they would have helped correct Verizon

    with extreme prejudice. Can we get them to correct Verizon anyway?

  19. Re:In Pennsylvania There Is No Doubt on MIT Says Natural Gas Best To Lower Carbon Emissions · · Score: 1

    The latest edition to Pennsylvania's vast natural gas reserves, the Mercellus Shale find, is our only hope in this state to recover from de-investment since the steel industry was obliterated in the 1970s, and the coal industry before that. Since NatGas prices are now trading at obscenely low levels, I'm hoping for more expansion (and driller taxation) in my state to at least make up somewhat for 30 years of economic decline

    "Driller taxation" As in taxing drilling companies more? Doesn't that seem like a reverse-investment?

  20. Re:The transistion to nat gas should be smooth but on MIT Says Natural Gas Best To Lower Carbon Emissions · · Score: 1

    The reason these power plants have not already switched to natural gas should be obvious, it's cheaper. Not only that but with the threat of "cap and tax" hanging over their heads few will switch to natural gas even if it is cheaper. They need the history of being "dirty" so that if a cap on CO2 emissions is placed upon them the reduction of CO2 output can be done as easily, and cheaply, as throwing a switch over to natural gas.

    Or they figure they should use up as much coal as they can while they can. Or maybe they make an extra profit from the leftover coke?

  21. Re:Well, yeah, the gas industry funded it! on MIT Says Natural Gas Best To Lower Carbon Emissions · · Score: 1

    most gas is now imported from Canada

    ... a known Terrorist State and Enemy of Freedom

  22. Re:Dilbert? on Women Dropping Out of IT · · Score: 1

    4. I can't recall any "phallic compensation gadget consumerists", but perhaps I'm not looking hard enough...

    Obviously. The only way you'd know whether someone's gadget was compensatory would be to sneak a peak at the urinals. Apparently GP does that a lot.

  23. Re:ASCAP tries to ban Wikipedia on Creative Commons Responds To ASCAP Letter · · Score: 1

    If that's true, this page could become interesting.

  24. "do not want to pay for the use" on ASCAP Declares War On Free Culture, EFF · · Score: 1

    'Many forces including Creative Commons, Public Knowledge, Electronic Frontier Foundation and technology companies with deep pockets are mobilizing to promote "Copyleft" in order to undermine our "Copyright." They say they are advocates of consumer rights, but the truth is these groups simply do not want to pay for the use of our music. Their mission is to spread the word that our music should be free.'

    Yes, that's right, I don't want to pay for the use of that music... twenty years from now after its copyright period has ended. The groups listed above are waging war against groups that are trying to make copyright permanent.

  25. Searching for blasphemy on Pakistan To Scour Google, Yahoo For Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    Searching for blasphemy seems to be a little odd. Sure, if blasphemy crops up while you're Googling something innocuous like "How do I host an Al Qaeda party". Maybe then you send a suicide bomber, but to actively look for blasphemy seems like such a waste of time unless you're looking for an excuse to cause a ruckus.