Comment Re:Not as big as the original (Score 2) 170
Also, will a 9-minute ride still be 50 cents?
Inflation adjusted, that's just under $12.00
Comment Hybrid Drives (Score 2) 405
The summary mentions hybrid drives, but I can't seem to find any for desktops - am I looking wrong, or do hardware makers assume a desktop user like me doesn't want one?
Comment Re:Dupe (Score 1) 291
But that was two entire months ago!
Comment Re:In other news: (Score 4, Interesting) 291
I stopped locking my car for a similar reason. Nothing in my car is worth more than the cost of a broken window.
I will say that I've lost a few jackets I've left in there during the winter, but, as I said, they were a lot cheaper than a new window.
HP Offers Free Access To OpenStack 30
krow writes "HP Cloud is offering free access to Open Stack via its public cloud. Adoption of the Open Stack APIs is growing, and we [note: 'krow' is also known as Brian Aker, once Slashdot's 'database thug,' later the creator of the Drizzle database, and now an HP Fellow] are offering up access to push tool integration and adoption around the APIs. Most recently we have been able to add support for on-demand Jenkins orchestration via the JCloud's plugin. API as well as console access is being made to the computer, object storage, and CDN interfaces. There are images being provided for different Linux distributions, and additionally images for Bitnami, ActiveState's Stackato, and Enterprise DB's Postgres images."
Comment Finally! (Score 5, Funny) 207
My skills will be put to use!
Comment Re:Rent To Own (Score 1) 510
Many people are taking an arrogant view of these people and there math skills.
Not me. I'm taking an arrogant view of your English skills.
A Lego Replica of the Antikythera Mechanism
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A user writes "The Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known scientific computer, built in Greece at around 100 BCE. Lost for 2000 years, it was recovered from a shipwreck in 1901. But not until a century later was its purpose understood: an astronomical clock that determines the positions of celestial bodies with extraordinary precision. In 2010, a fully-functional replica out of Lego (YouTube video) was built."
Comment Re:Highly connected. (Score 1) 91
Yea, and in the game, the terrorists didn't speak Russian!
Comment DNS Verisign USA (Score 1) 193
DNS moving from the hands of Verisign and into the hands of the government? Sounds like "Out of the frying pan and into the fire" to me.
Comment Re:I wish... (Score 1) 88
I wish I had mod points. I was about to stop reading the thread but then a small sliver of sanity spoke up.
Comment Re:Forget the FCC (Score 1) 602
Whatever happened to parents being ultimately responsible for what their children are watching?
This is America, that's what happened.
On a related note, I live in perpetual fear of the current/coming wussification of America.
Comment Re:They collected $75,000... (Score 1) 650
I think a lot of the pool permit/safety issues deal less with the safety of the builder's employees and more with general safety of the pool like the pool has to be surrounded by a fence of certain height with a self locking door so neighbor's toddlers can't chase a ball over and fall in while playing in the backyard, proper wiring of any lighting/circulation systems in the pool ect.
If the parents watched the kid and kept him out of my yard, we wouldn't have this problem. Oh wait, this is America. That means that I have to put up a fence because I am personally responsible for someone else's kid trespassing onto my property.
Comment Re:.04 DUI in Oregon (Score 1) 957
but IMVHO, you kill someone drunk driving, and that's premeditated murder. Jail. Life.
That totally throws away the meaning of premeditated murder though. Pre-meditated murder means you intentionally killed someone and planned that kill ahead of time.
That's not what happened in your hypothetical case. The reality is you acted like an irresponsible dick and got someone killed. We already SPECIFICALLY DEFINED a term for that crime, and it's manslaughter. Truly accidental killings where you were at no fault aren't criminal. The manslaughter crime is for when you did it through a negligent or irresponsible action. Specifically if there's not specific INTENTION to kill someone, then it's not murder. If you were taking pot shots with that Glock in your back yard and a stray bullet hit a car (and killed someone) on a street behind your house that would still just be manslaughter, as you weren't intentionally trying to kill someone.
If you think that manslaughter should be punished more harshly, then I'm fine with that, but the reality is it's a dangerous game to start to apply legal definitions outside of their actual scope just because you think someone deserves a harsher sentence.
Indeed. If drinking and driving is premandated murder (AKA First Degree Murder) than drinking is the premeditation. Vis-a-vis, drinking is attempted first degree murder.
Comment come sail away (Score 3, Funny) 284
I thought those crazy japanese were angels, but much to my surprise, they climbed aboard their starship and headed for the skies.
