Comment Re:TV ain't broken? (Score 1) 839
Pft, you kids and your instant-on solid state TVs. Real men don't mind waiting for the tubes to warm up.
Comment Re:What next? (Score 1) 319
Wait, so early-20th century never actually had lead in the "lead," but they were coated in lead paint? Amazing...
Comment Re:bankruptcy on student debt (Score 1) 768
Certainly, but it's no "get out of debt free" card, as the previous poster seems to be implying.
Comment Re:bankruptcy on student debt (Score 1) 768
Indeed, it's not like bankruptcy affects your ability to secure credit, right?
Comment Re:Should Have Been a Property Developer (Score 2) 768
Assuming you actually graduate.
Submission + - DHS scaremongering while Anonymous actually gettin (pastebin.com) 2
ClemensW writes: While the DHS released a scaremongering report on Anonymous yesterday, Anonymous has silently and unnoticed by any mainstream media taken down 40+ child porn websites, deleted the largest collection of childporn on the internet and published the usernames of almost 1600 pedophiles. Makes one wonder who the bad guys actually are...
Submission + - Parking Garage to Become A Data Center (datacenterknowledge.com) 1
1sockchuck writes: A parking garage in Seattle will soon become a new data center. Colocation provider Equinix says it plans to house up to 1,000 cabinets of servers in the facility once the conversion is complete. The six-story garage is located next to the Westin Building, Seattle's primary Internet connectivity hub. A similar carpark-to-server farm conversion has been contemplated in Chicago.
Submission + - A Gaggle of Intel Z68 Motherboards Rounded-Up (hothardware.com)
AmyVernon writes: Until Intel's next-gen, high-end Sandy Bridge-E processor sometime this quarter, Intel's second generation Core family of processors and the Z68 Express chipset are Intel's current premiere desktop platform for the mainstream. This look at several different motherboard offerings from manufacturers that cover a range of form factors, feature sets, and price points, shows that you can pull together a fairly potent system for a reasonably modest investment. Asus, MSI, ASRock, Gigabyte, eVGA and Zotac are all represented here. In addition to support for the entire line of 2nd-gen Intel Core chips with Turbo Boost 2.0, the Z68 chipset supports Intel High Definition Audio, 8 PCI-Express 2.0 lanes (16 more in the CPU), 6 SATA ports (2 x 6Gbps, 4 x 3Gbps), integrated Gigabit Ethernet, 14 USB ports, and a smattering of A/v ports including HDMI and DisplayPort.
Comment Re:I'd buy a USRP2 receiver (Score 3, Insightful) 37
...because anyone that wants to be able to monitor their public servants is obviously a hardened criminal.
Comment I'd have more to say about this, but.. (Score 1) 186
...I need to get back to TF2 so I can finish crafting this Cow Mangler 5000 already.
Comment Re:Not everything is encrypted (Score 1) 84
you can buy a "dubiously legal" P25 scanner at any Radio Shack or Amazon... P25 is an open standard.
Comment Aluminum eh? (Score 1) 897
Just what I need, something else to worry about.... like scrap thieves running off with my fenders.
Comment Re:No, that's a job for the police! (Score 3, Insightful) 639
Obvious bullshit story is obvious.
Comment Re:United decided my bag wasn't good enough to get (Score 1) 264
Since you mentioned United, I'll add that whenever I fly through Chicago, my baggage usually ends up laying over about 12 hours longer than I do. Returning to the airport the next day to retrieve my bags (I'm close to my home airport, quicker than having them brought to me) has become a bit of a ritual.
