The current firmware update ships as a bootable ISO. Burn it to a CD/DVD (or a flash drive if you can work it out), hold down "option" at boot, and you'll be looking at a DOS prompt in no time. I verified this two days ago when I misread the firmware version on the website and downloaded an updater for the version I already had.

A womans contribution requires 9 months, during which time any distraction, disruption or stress can cause the "person creation" process to fail catastrophically.

If that were true, the human race would have become extinct long ago. Pregnant women are actually pretty robust and remain capable of just about anything (except becoming pregnant again) for the great majority of the 9 months.

At the end of the day, the problem is people like you...

That's not the best way to start a sentence in which you care to make a point.

but lose the guilt-tripping SJW faux indignation BS.

I bet you care deeply about ethics in gaming journalism.

Silencers prevent your people from going deaf.

If your officers are firing their weapons so much that it's affecting their hearing, maybe you're doing something wrong.

When methheads try to rob your county house in the middle of the night, you will wish you had a gun.

When methheads try to rob my county house in the middle of the night, I will also wish I had never moved to Texas.

I know you are "joking" but why is it bad that each human has a right to defend and protect oneself from injustice?

I know, right? Currently, I am defending and protecting myself from ethics in game journalism.

I stand corrected. Since I am a white man, I have to be occasionally reminded that my constitutional right to be violent is not shared with non-white citizens.

The FCC exercised much more control over television broadcasting

Oh, you're one of /those/ nutcases that believe that Net Neutrality would be a re-implementation of the Fairness Doctrine, repeating Fox Snooze/TW/Cox/VZN FUD.

Industry shill spotted. Go fuck yourself.

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Supposedly a man of Indian heritage (Asian Indian, from India, not Amerindian) will burn fewer calories than a woman of so-called "white" heritage.

Of course, all this is based on "average" people of particular genders or races, and the variance within those groups is probably far greater than the variance between the averages. And you don't necessarily expect astronauts to be average, now do you?

So you're still probably better off picking people with exceptional caloric efficiency who have the other skills you need and leaving race and gender entirely out of the selection process. Don't pre-bias your results with bigotry based on averages - average people are not what you want!

Shall we ascribe your rant to estrogen-driven fear of guns?

I'm guessing you're part of #gamergate.

"You don't like guns? You're a big fag. I like guns because I'm fighting for journalistic ethics."

After all, we need a government-mandated monopoly on violence.

Here in the US, we have democratized violence. Anyone, no matter their station in society, has the God-given right to be violent.

This is why violent crime is so out of control in Japan.

Soooo.... what's its name?

Yes, how hard can it possibly be to get millions of lines of code written over a span of decades by thousands of authors to interoperate close enough to flawlessly to parse some simple text in hundreds of grammars through the use of a couple dozen basic operations executed billions of times a second? Geez.

Whenever a computer problem arises, the first thing to remember is that it's not strange that it doesn't work.

The problem is that you're building more and more tooling on top of a painfully decrepit system. Every time you spend more than zero seconds dealing with renaming a file, you've lost money on the deal. Every time you work off HEAD because it's too painful to branch, you're spending developer salaries. I get that "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", but CVS it utterly and fundamentally broke. You're throwing good money after bad trying to keep it alive.