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  1. Re:FIAF. on Gut Bacteria In Slim People Extract More Nutrients · · Score: 3, Informative

    Gut bacteria feed themselves, not you.

    More efficient or effective gut bacteria eat your lunch before you can.

    While in our overfed society, having hyperactive gut bacteria keeping you thin would be good, fatties would be laughing in a major disaster, since they'd get to enjoy more of that roadkill dinner they scavenged, and they'd have longer reserves for the initial disaster and the ensuing survival training course.

    Now if we could just toggle between two sets of bacteria, we'd have a pretty ideal setup!

  2. Re:Cool Shot on Mechwarrior Online Developer Redefines Community Warfare · · Score: 2

    The article (past page 1) is NOT about Cool Shot. Cool Shot is addressed on page 1, page 2 is primarily about Ghost Heat, and page 3 is about Third Person View and the many, many, many reversals of previous commitments that PGI has now made.

    If you want to make a widely-popular shooter set in the MW universe, that's FINE. Really, it is. It's been done dozens of times.

    But if you want to make something special, something sim-like and first person, and leave out the pay to win elements, then you need to DO that, and NOT backtrack or change your mind when the funds get low!

    You die the hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villian. PGI lived too long, they outlasted their own ideals.

  3. Re:Whoah whoah on Linux 3.11-rc7 Release Celebrates 22 Years of Linux · · Score: 1

    Awesome. My new thing I learned for today is "f***ing motherf***er" in Finnish! perkeleen vittupää!

    I'm going to memorize that for a while and then take a long nap, because my day has peaked before 12AM.

  4. Re:It's not a moonshot on The Next US Moonshot Will Launch From Virginia · · Score: 1

    Indeed, the terms from the time period were generally "bathtub gin" or "hooch".

  5. Re:OP or tune it ee on How Companies Are Preparing For the IT Workforce Exodus · · Score: 2

    Funny that you would choose that joke. NSA is actually *firing* almost all it's sysadmins.

    This will be hilarious in a few years, when their new highly automated system has a problem and they desperately want to contract some of those canned admins back in.

    http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/08/09/1419228/nsa-firing-90-of-its-sysadmins

  6. Re:Ballmer leaving. on Ballmer To Retire · · Score: 1

    That's hilarious, that you think that would be a problem. Current corporate America is cronyism all the way down, Ballmer probably made lots of deals before announcing his retirement. For an unloved CEO, making deals to appoint your successor tied to your stepping down at the time and in the manner preferred by the board is not unusual. While Ballmer cannot simply name a successor and have it done, he can certainly steer the board and make deals to get the result he wants.

  7. Re:As soon as the smart car counts as the driver on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 1

    I disagree. All three are possible. I think you mean asleep, and that's a big grey area. I put about 1500 miles on my car last weekend, and I think I was only conscious for about half to one third. Reflexes can be amazing things on interstates.

    Hell, when I was fully awake and aware, I had these brief episodes of panic, because I'd start thinking about my tires, and/or how very fatal an accident at full highway speeds will likely be.

    Concrete abutments at anything over about 50MPH are HUNGRY for BLOOD and SOULS.

  8. Re:What exactly have they opened? on NVIDIA Open Sources SHIELD's Operating System · · Score: 2

    You know, I still wish the Linux Nvidia driver was fully open source, but they done a exceptional job of making large parts of the binary blob's support open and documented. This means while you still have a large blob acting as a black box, the inputs and outputs are at least well documented, and the supporting semi-open bits are often modifiable into working while you wait for a driver update to support new open tech XYZ. Specifically, most new xorg versions and kernel versions can be made to work with a few patches to the compilable parts of the blob's support, and Nvidia has been good about moving as much out of the blob as they can, without complicating their work or offending BS IP laws.

    They get a big black mark for obfuscating the hell out of the open nv 2D-only driver, though. While they may be contributing nearly all the code, that doesn't make it ethically acceptable to obfuscate and encode the source till it's functionally unusable.

  9. Re:Google can fix it with a hammer. on AOSP Maintainer Quits · · Score: 1

    I support this, and would pay a price premium for Nexus to come to mean such an open device.

    Open hardware means you can compile and install any version of AOSP/Android you like, and enables third party ROMs and modding.

    Closed hardware means the Nexus 10 GPU memory leak took months to get addressed.

    Closed hardware means that when Google declines to release recovery images of Android for your device, it becomes a doorstop at some later date.

  10. Re:well gosh on Google's Second Generation Nexus 7 Benchmarks · · Score: 2

    I am the target market, I bought two original Nexus 7s, and later a Nexus 10, and I love them. This news is deeply distressing, I was already unhappy at the number of binary blobs needed to make the N7 and N10 go, to find out that the N7-2 won't even have public restore images as a result of them is a deal breaker.

    I've just gone from "will buy an N7-2 when the budget allows" to "totally disinterested". You can't even try out third party ROMs on your N7-2.

    You've missed the boat, Google. You forgot what it was that made Android awesome, and now it's time to leave you to it.

    Upvote parent if it comes off of +5, please.

  11. Re:I'd love to build laptops on The Open Source Laptop and the Golden Age of Open Hardware · · Score: 1

    Well, it's always been possible to cherry pick hardware that Linux will have a lot of trouble with, just like it's possible to spec out a machine that runs Windows poorly, if at all.

    If your sample size was larger than one absurdly old laptop, you'd carry more weight.

  12. Re:couches on CouchDB: Roll Your Own, Or Go With a Service? · · Score: 1

    I must be extra old today, because I was thinking the same thing. This seems like the summary is being needlessly obtuse, a single short introductory line would have completely sufficed.

  13. Re:maybe next time lose the lockdown on Asus CEO On Windows RT: "We're Out." · · Score: 2

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq9B3evfu8s

    Asus themselves danced around the edges of that joke.

  14. Re:Apple doesn't have a strategy for winning here on Tim Cook May Not Know Why, But Samsung Is Winning in China · · Score: 1

    Vmware is the magic sauce in your scenario, not OSX. I can boot Linux, reboot to Win8, or boot my Win8 install as a VM. It's very, very simple to set up. I also installed OSX in a VM under Linux on my machine, no hackery needed at install time and only one, one-time hack was needed to enable OSX support in VMware.

    The difference between you and I is that while I pay for my OSes, I find the terms and conditions of their EULAs unreasonable to such a degree that I simply dismiss and disregard them, and am prepared to make that same statement in court.

  15. Re:And no fixes for problems. on Google Announces Android 4.3, Netflix, New Nexus 7, and Q Successor Chromecast · · Score: 1

    There's a pretty major fix in there for Nexus 10 as well. The 4.2.2 release had a bug in the Mali T604 driver, it leaked memory like a sieve. 4.3 has an updated binary blob. Now I just keep wishing that I had FOSS drivers for everything.

    A Nexus device with a fully FOSS software load, now that would be worth something to me!

  16. Re:I wish Google would make its Maps more function on Microsoft Bug Bounties Flow To Googlers · · Score: 1

    I have no idea what you're on about. There is an "Avoid Tolls" function, and it's persistent if you're logged in. If you're wanting toll roads avoided by default for non-logged-in users, tough. There are very many people out there who don't mind paying small amounts to make their trips faster. I think it's a slim majority, and Google seems to agree.

    Option in question:
    http://i.imgur.com/IFSZRh5.png

  17. Re:And the story is...? on TSA Orders Searches of Valet Parked Car At Airport · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hey, nobody's perfect! I have a link here somewhere...

    Ah, there we go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs

  18. Re:And the story is...? on TSA Orders Searches of Valet Parked Car At Airport · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Because "sand n***er" is an American slur, and the GP appears to be of UK origin, where terms like "Paki" or "Muzzie" are the preferred slurs?

  19. Re:wonderful idea! on Spanish Chatbot Hunts For Pedophiles · · Score: 1

    And SAL 9000 back at Urbana was so upset by the news, she was willing to undergo significant risk to herself in order to help Dr. Chandra revive him.

    Yet, we are offtopic further still. Where will it end?

  20. Re:Good news for AMD patients on Telescopic Contact Lens With Switchable Magnification To Help AMD Patients · · Score: 1

    Nvidia doesn't have any patience.

  21. Re:state dmv records mined by police on State Photo-ID Databases Mined By Police · · Score: 1

    I used to own a dark green Honda Accord. Apparently that model and color was very popular among fugitives from the law. On six occasions in three years, I was pulled over for no fault of my own. On two of those six occasions, I had loaded weapons pointed at me, and was ordered to put my hands out the window while the officers approached. On two others, the officer came to the window normally, but I noticed they had the snap closure on their holster open, and kept one hand on their sidearm at all times.

    Needless to say, when my Accord dropped it's transmission on the road later, twice, I didn't exactly exhaust myself getting it fixed. New car time! Haven't been pulled over that way since.

  22. And yet... on Intel Claims Haswell Architecture Offers 50% Longer Battery Life vs. Ivy Bridge · · Score: 4, Informative

    Too bad CPU power consumption hasn't been the biggest consumer of watts in many years.

    Hint; the biggest amount of consumed current in most laptops is the glowing part you look at.

  23. Re:Helpful hint. on Aurora Attackers Were Looking For Google's Surveillance Database · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Steganography plus photos of the "kids".

    Last word of every sentence plus a one time pad (NEVER EVER REUSE ONE TIME PADS. IT'S IN THE FUCKING NAME.).

    Simple coded phrases that seem innocuous. The garbage can spilled again. You need to stop letting that dog off the leash! I miss you and can't wait to see you next weekend. I want to do dinner at that Szechuan place again, I think it's gotten better.

    There are plenty of uses for an email account in intel/cointel. Sending plaintext messages over an uncontrolled service just isn't one of them.

    When in the field on an operation without official cover, the agent should assume that all actions and responses are monitored by the local and national cointel groups at all times. Communications should be deniable and overt. Email and public message boards are ideal, as they are fully deniable. The days of taping a tiny cannister full of microfiche to the bottom of a park bench ended forty-plus years ago. It's not hard to run deniable covert operations, you just need to be somewhat intelligent, recruit people who are likewise not stupid or lazy, and NEVER EVER take things for granted or relax.

  24. Re:Why Debian? on Debian 7.0 ("Wheezy") Released · · Score: 1

    Only your install media, production servers, and kiosks run Debian stable. Everyone else gets testing, except for machines where you don't mind some breakage, and you deploy sid. Sid is usually quite up to date, testing is usually not much worse than most static distros. Stable is outdated because it is exactly that; STABLE.

  25. Re:WWDC sold out in 1998 on WWDC Sells Out In 2 Minutes; Ticket On eBay 45 Minutes Later · · Score: 1

    Please don't practice pedantry publicly until you've reviewed and corrected your sig. If it was intended to be ironic, you may wish to call it out as such in some way. Have a good day.

    http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_the_saying_'all_intents_and_purposes'_or_'all_intense_purposes'