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  1. I remember swapping out an Evergreen AMD K6-2 400 (Spectra) into an Intel P133 socket 7 board, the thing came with the BIOS upgrade and poof I was seriously upgraded. I have been value shopping ever since.

  2. https://en.oxforddictionaries.... of squick
    Cause (someone) to feel intense disgust

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki...
    Seemingly phonaesthetic, formed of squ- as in squirm and -ick as in ick. Originated in the Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.bondage; popularized primarily in the newsgroup alt.tasteless.

  3. Google Translate might just be fatal in a real time conversation...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKxaxrxVMsg

  4. Re:Amazon is part of it... on 'Amazon Effect' Hits Retailers Around the Globe (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of the (really) old Radio Shack parody:
    Radio Shack. You've got questions, We've got blank stares...

  5. Re:Just not worth supporting any longer on Google Quietly Discontinues NFC Smart Unlock Without Explanation (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    If Google can't make advertising money off of it or use it to collect data, it's not in their interests.

    In Corporate American, Google beta tests you?

  6. I didn't see a reference to engineers in the summary.
    It could be that they are the stuff of Raj's nightmares...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-SVvtxHJGU

  7. Re:It's Just Good Business on Silicon Valley Courts Brand-Name Teachers, Raising Ethics Issues (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Seeing as Godwin's law was named after Mike Godwin, wouldn't we have to call this Coward 's law?
    Or maybe AC law?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

  8. The revenue is a bonus, not an objective. The point is to make sure everyone is guilty of something. The feeling of guilt breeds fear in most people and unease in even the best... actual criminals could care less but that's pretty much always been the case. Democracy was a bold experiment but once you dumb people down enough they will happily sell the future for a simple and obvious lie. As long as you can keep people fractured and afraid, you can lead them just about anywhere. Power is only threatened when people look past the interests of self, clan (tribe, not kkk), political affiliation, and nation to see what would actually benefit the future of humanity.

    Power is pretty safe as things sit at the moment.

  9. Re: Face Palm? on Congressmen Propose a New Military Branch: The 'US Space Corps' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Major Face Palm? Has he signed up?

    He's the first casualty...
    Concussion.

  10. Re:Hydrogen Holographic Display on RED Launches a $1,200 Smartphone With a 'Hydrogen Holographic Display' (phonedog.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure what a "phonedog" is

    dog [dawg, dog] noun ... 12. Machinery.

    any of various mechanical devices, as for gripping or holding something. a projection on a moving part for moving steadily or for tripping another part with which it engages.

    13. Also called gripper, nipper. Metalworking. a device on a drawbench for drawing the work through the die. 14. a cramp binding together two timbers. 15. an iron bar driven into a stone or timber to provide a means of lifting it. 16. an andiron; firedog.

    A phonedog appears to be a type of zombie that is always gripping a phone as it wanders about.

    Oh Dear Lord!
    Our cities have already been overrun by them!!!

  11. Re:Hydrogen Holographic Display on RED Launches a $1,200 Smartphone With a 'Hydrogen Holographic Display' (phonedog.com) · · Score: 2

    Little bit more info and slightly better photo (along with that shadowed one) here
    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/07/red-teases-a-modular-1600-titanium-android-phone-with-a-3d-screen/
    Not sure what a "phonedog" is, but if it's what I think then I don't want the phone back...

  12. Re:Office Space on OneDrive Has Stopped Working On Non-NTFS Drives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that making it stop working is their fix...
    It's not like they only want Windows users, so what does forcing an NTFS drive format on people get them, marketable data of some sort?
    Then again it might be totally innocent.
    Hey I got that out with nothing splattered on the screen or anything!

  13. Re: We already have it. on 'In the Knowledge Economy, We Need a Netflix of Education' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    OK. I have never run across any content like you describe while searching for "how to" videos.
    I guess I'm just blessed with mundane interests...
    Now, there are a ton of people that don't know what they are talking about, but that's what happens when you give everyone a voice.
    It never means we are obligated to listen.

  14. Re: We already have it. on 'In the Knowledge Economy, We Need a Netflix of Education' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Youtube is free, and is the closest to a Netflix of Education.

    Ask Youtube how to do anything. There is probably a video.

    And hundreds of people who are there to tell you,

    A) You're doing it wrong
    B) You don't need to learn this, because the Earth is flat and Jews control everything
    C) You're a fag for wanting to learn this. And probably a Jew.

    If I'm looking at a how to video (laptop tear down comes to mind), why would I bother with the comments?

    Also:
    D) Prophet!!!

  15. Re:Gotta Love the Free Market on iPhone Bugs Are Too Valuable To Report To Apple (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a +1 Painfully True...

  16. Re:There is always a solution: on iPhone Bugs Are Too Valuable To Report To Apple (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Then they quit and get replaced by cheaper developers that create more bugs.

    Prompting more payouts followed by decreased developer payments leading to cheaper developers that create more bugs...
    Now THAT'S how you simulate an economy!

    (Seriously Kidding... or Kiddingly Serious...
    I always get those mixed up...)

  17. Re:So Make Hydrogen on California Has So Much Solar Power That Other States Are Paid To Take It (mic.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you could get the brine into deep water pretty easy in Southern California. The more salt, the heavier the solution so getting it off the continental shelf should keep it at the bottom. It would cool just flowing through a pipe to the edge of the drop, which is not far in a lot of places. GoogleMaps
    Another thought along your lines is that if oil consumption goes down there may be cold water deep sea oil platforms available for re-purposing... Save fresh water in bags below the waterline and dump salty water right back into the deep. Obsolete oil tankers could haul water just as well as they did oil... and a spill would not be an issue like it is now.

  18. Re:So Make Hydrogen on California Has So Much Solar Power That Other States Are Paid To Take It (mic.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually, I think one of the issues with melting polar ice is a decrease in salinity that slows the circulation of the oceans. It used to be that cold salty water dropped to the ocean floor at the poles and drove an underwater river that circled the globe, http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/conveyor.html. That is now slowing, too much warmer fresh water from ice melting (no matter why). Less winter sea ice forming means less salt adding to the process.
    Also, people are actively harvesting sea salt today in California... not sure why... lot of algae from the looks of it.
    San Francisco Bay @ Coyote Creek... I don't think I want that on my salad...

  19. Re:Narly on Modularity Finally Approved For Java 9 (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    gnarly dude...

  20. Re:So Make Hydrogen on California Has So Much Solar Power That Other States Are Paid To Take It (mic.com) · · Score: 1

    Building large projects never gets cheaper over time. As to staffing, how many people will a modern, well constructed plant need? If it's more than a dozen then that's a bad design. The plants do not need to sit idle either. If you use solar to heat salt water to steam and use electricity to move steam and distilled water, and flush salt during the day and then if power is available use it to heat water to steam at night as well as the other functions, the thing could run as long as the water demand is there. And Southern California alone imports about half their water everyday... from sources that are overused already. The demand is there now, the extra electrical power may give people the political courage to build needed infrastructure before an emergency situation make them indispensable.

  21. Re:So Make Hydrogen on California Has So Much Solar Power That Other States Are Paid To Take It (mic.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not cost effective on a large scale. Needs way too much storage capacity. Worse, the state often has droughts so fresh water is EXPENSIVE, while salt water has huge corrosion problems when making hydrogen...

    Build some desalinizing plants and run them when there is too much available power. Getting some fresh water is better than giving away power, and they WILL need the desalinizing plants in the future in any case.

    As to making hydrogen, that would be more viable with a supply of distilled water, but still not a great plan unless you can use it without storing it... maybe make hybrid natural gas for consumer use, offset buying some of the natural gas now used.

  22. Re:I get that logic on Germany Approves Plans To Fine Social Media Firms Up To $57M (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    The guy who puts the manufacturer logo on the side of the chalk?

  23. Re:50% completeness on Artificially Intelligent Painters Invent New Styles of Art (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the stinky cheese and over-priced wine inputs. Only by receiving what it thinks are the "best" inputs can a maximum level of pretension be obtained.
    Oh, Oh!!! Truffle digitizer!!!

  24. Only hackers and criminals use these money transfer services. Any legitimate purchase should be made via a proper band credit or debit card.

    Trump 3030

    My credit card is from The Moody Blues...
    they're proper, right?
    Only asking because my BieberCharge stopped working...

  25. Re:what TUMBLR really is.... on Tumblr's Unclear Future Shows That There's No Money in Internet Culture (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    So, the part of the headline reading:
    "No Money in Internet Culture"
    should read:
    "No Culture in Internet Culture"...