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Comment Re:...er... (Score -1, Troll) 236

Unless the router firmware is open source, you have no way of knowing what it is doing, DOCSIS or not.

..and when it is open source, we get our hearts bled anyways.

Instead of jabber-jawing about your religious crusade to promote open source, why dont you instead focus on reviewing some open source codebases. Maybe if you are really diligent for a long enough period of time, your religion will earn our trust.

Comment Re:want to figure it out BEFORE most customers pay (Score 0) 504

hat the hell are you talking about. Any engineer will tell you that generating power at peak demand is much more expensive on the plant than at other times.

What the hell are YOU talking about? The people with panels arent generating much power at peak usage times -- they are drawing power at peak because the sun isnt above their house. At peak the sub is approaching or already below the horizon.

Given this, nothing you said makes any sense at all. its like you dont even have the first clue about what you are talking about. Seems fishy to me that you would be so gung-ho to post on a topic you for certain know that you dont understand. Almost as if you are just repeating some shit someone else said, because you share some sort of bond, such as a god damned bleeding heart.

Comment Re:What the hell is this article? (Score 1) 243

Its more elemental. If those that produce are convinced they won't keep or benefit from what they produce they won't produce and everyone suffers.

Its worse than that. They do not understand that everyone that trades benefits when trades are a choice. The "Free" in "Free Trade" means Liberty. You are also Free to not trade. These are not ironically the same people that complain about things that they are willing consumers of....

I don't think that its the "socialist" philosophy that has turned them into "fuckwits" as you say -- I think its simply that they are Statists. See their calls to confiscate Google properties. "Nationalize them" indeed.

Comment Re:Why concerned about only one side of Keystone X (Score 2) 243

It's like the Democrats are already trying to rationalize why they've lost the 2014 mid-terms.

They want the Koch brothers silenced just like they want Rush Limbaugh silenced. It is unimaginable to them that others might disagree with them without the root of that disagreement being pure greed.

They just cannot believe that half the country disagrees with them, even though clearly half the country isnt "the 2%" They truly believe that "the 2%" are greedy and the other 48% that also disagree with them are "too stupid to vote in their own self interest." This is of course a catch-22 .. their logic is that the 2% are guilty because they are greedy, and the rest of the people that arent liberals are guilty because they arent greedy.

I'm not a Republican. I just cant fucking stand the dripping hypocrisy, nor the unimaginable logical fallacies of the fucking American Democrats any longer. I used to think the Democrats were liberal. They fucking aren't. They are just pure petty intolerant fucks with a giant splash of jealousy coupled with unashamed levels of outlandish hypocrisy.

Comment Re:Well considering that.. (Score 1) 390

None of you seem to know what wealth is.

Wealth is not a dollar amount in a bank account, nor is it a deed to a property, nor the size of your paycheck.

Wealth is the goods and services that you can enjoy. Money is a means to that end, but when comparing percentages of money between different pools (such as between different countries) you cannot possibly be comparing wealth in any way at all, because money percentages are even more removed from wealth than money itself is.

Americans are doing quite fine in the wealth department. The vast majority of Americans enjoy levels of goods and services that are the envy of most of the world. 5% this, 11% that, 20% whatever, 44% blah blah... meaningless crap that does not relate to wealth at all.

With the looming trillion dollar student loan bubble, it is quite clear that Americans are not going without access to the higher education services, that quite the contrary there is evidence that too many are partaking in the service to the detriment of us all.

Comment Re:Bad idea? (Score 1) 32

Exactly.

If NTIS were funded through appropriations then the behavior of other government departments would significantly effect the funding that NTIS needs. If NTIS charges the requesting department per document then NTIS's budget scales with demand and the burden for the activity of the requesting department rests on the requesting department.

As far as charging for free documents - the NTIS is offering a one-stop-shop service, which requires money to implement and maintain. That some of the documents are free elsewhere is irrelevant.

Comment Re:Singapore (Score 1) 386

Nowhere in the wikipedia article you "cite" does it say that

..except for where it gives the 13.8 figure right away in the second sentence of the article, and references it as a number estimated by the United Nations.

"The city-state had the second highest per-capita execution rate in the world between 1994 and 1999, estimated by the United Nations to be 13.83 executions annually per hundred thousand of population during that period."
You are completely worthless if you cant even find shit right at the top when looking at a reference. Seriously. Fucking. Worthless.

Comment Re:Some are more equal than others... (Score 0) 1116

One of the insidious liberal fallacies right here.

They (like the parent) claim that its OK to oppress and discriminate so long as the person you are oppressing or discriminating against has support/is represented.

At least you didnt pull out the he was a CEO so anything goes fallacy mindset that is also prevalent here on slashdot.

You are better off ending the debate by calling him a homophobe (throw in racist too) because at least that fallacy ends the debate. Otherwise people like me can point out how intolerant you are.

Comment Re:here's how stupid this is (Score 5, Insightful) 146

I design cooling systems for high-heat semiconductors.

So we can expect you to be pretty knowledgeable about stuff, not overlooking important details, and understanding the various limitations imposed by each method...

Guess what? Liquid cooling SUCKS as you're still limited by how fast you can transfer the heat to the air ultimately.

...except what we find out is that actually you only have just enough knowledge to look stupid because you overlooked important details such as the obvious limitations imposed by having your radiator mounted directly on the device being cooled.

Comment Re:Microsoft still provide support for Windows XP (Score 1) 650

And those OSs will run all the software I need? Mission-critical software that the existence of my company hinges on?

So its not windows that is the monopoly.... its this other software you insist is too important to part with. You claim that you locked yourself into OS dependencies... no.. quite clearly you just admitted that you locked yourself into being dependent on other non-os software.

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