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Comment Re:So what? (Score 1) 407

I would call chemical dependence, i.e. addiction, to be a pretty negative side effect. Wouldn't you?

Hundreds of millions of caffeine users couldn't give a shit.

Apparently you have never met any of them when they haven't had their fix yet.

Comment Re:I don't get it (Score 1) 409

I mean think about it, apparently the problem is the officer finished his job then asked the defendant to wait for a second search. If the officer had started a 15 minute search after placing the defendant in his car to ensure he was safe would that have made this incident ok? Searches are legal, but waiting for backup to conduct a search isn't?

No, that would still have been conducting an unlawful search as part of a fishing expedition. The courts do not tolerate that sort of thing.

What would have been legal would have been to ask the driver to step out of the car, and then shoot him eight times because he made a sudden movement with his hands out of sight.

Comment Re: And this is news... (Score 1) 309

There are also plenty of people asking for free beer and a pony, but some of them just read the article instead.

"Until NVIDIA finally delivers these signed firmware blobs (they're not even trying to get the source to the firmware, just the signed binary blobs) to Nouveau developers, the GeForce GTX 900 open-source support is going to be really problematic and basically non-existent."

Comment Re:And this is news... (Score 3, Insightful) 309

That's funny. They had no trouble ignoring these problems before last September, which is when they started requiring signed firmware images.

Nobody is asking for source code or intellectual property rights related to firmware, all they need is the single signed blob of otherwise unreadable code which the new GM20x cards require before doing anything more complicated than simple mode switching. The kind of thing that nVidia said they would provide last year, but haven't.

Comment Re:Offsite (Score 1) 446

I think in this situation it is assumed that you would have a nominated person per office to do the cloning, swapping and carrying in their car.

Just remember to have another nominated person check the clones every now and then, because the first person has no idea why that little red lamp turned on and has been driving around with a blank disk for the past six months.

Comment Re:Anyone remember... (Score 1) 153

you can get Secret of Monkey Island from Good Old Games. It's a remake (still kinda old even so), but very faithful.

You may not be able to see "A Midsummer Night's Dream" performed in the Globe Theatre by the Lord Chamberlain's Men, but you can watch "Get Over It" on Netflix. It's practically the same thing.

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