Comment Well... (Score 1) 374
I sure as hell hope we are, if not I am left asking where all the idiots come from.
Comment Re:Will they go after the post office now? (Score 1) 650
Holy hell, why didn't I think of this. I know the Rastafarian tried this with pot and it didn't pan out (at least here in the US) so I'm not sure if this would be any more effective. I know that one guy got the right to wear the spaghetti strainer on his head in his license photo for being a "Pastafarian" though so it might work somewhere. Worth a shot.
Comment Re:Sad Little People (Score 2) 616
I can't help but wonder if this is their end-game... I mean are they looking for this kind of thing to happen so they become martyrs? Seriously, I am wondering if this is what they want so they can rally the masses behind even more legislation to make this just like 1984. Think about it, the possibilities are limitless when you get the angry mob on your side. When people see red, they don't think they just react. It's not until the situation is DE-escalated when most people stop and think real hard about what the fight was really about. This scares the shit out of me. The recent poll may not have been too far off, we will succeed in extinction before any of that other shit for this very reason.
Comment Re:I can see it now... (Score 1) 199
http://instantrimshot.com/
This played in my head right after reading that.
Submission + - NASA Shuttle Discovery set to buzz Washington, DC (networkworld.com)
coondoggie writes: "Barring bad weather, NASA said the space shuttle Discovery mounted atop the space agency’s 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft will make a series of low passes – 1,500 ft. around parts of Washington DC on April 17 between 10-11 am eastern daylight time."
Submission + - Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore Business Machines, dies at age 83 (forbes.com)
LoTonah writes: Jack Tramiel, the founder of Commodore Business Machines and later, the owner of Atari, died Easter Sunday. He was 83. He undoubtedly changed the computing landscape by bringing low cost computers to millions of people, and he started a price war that saw dozens of large companies leave the market. He also took a bankrupt Atari and managed to wring almost another decade out of it. The 6502 microprocessor would have withered on the vine if it weren't for Tramiel's support. Could anyone else have done all of that?
Submission + - Google launches campaign to help keep the internet the way it is. (google.com)
NIN1385 writes: "Google is stepping up it's efforts to keep bad policies from affecting the way we all use and communicate on the internet. Monday they sent an email to all the Google users that helped participate in the stand against SOPA and PIPA through their call to action."
Submission + - The 28 Corporations that support CISPA
Submission + - An American Search Alternative to Google (kickstarter.com)
TehBeer writes: "We're starting a Kickstarter to create an open source search engine not based on the Stanford Patented PageRank system licensed by Google that was originally derived from Baidu founder Robin Lee's Rankdex. It uses a FOSS Apache stack comprising of HBase, Hadoop, Whirr, and Data Nucleus and Spring Framework 3. The source code license costs $25 because we don't want to make it FOSS and mail people CDs and waste plastic to give the impression of value such as other Kickstarter open software projects have."
Comment Re:My goodness (Score 1) 279
And now I see the same story below mine posted yesterday, my bad. Can't post it enough though.
Comment Re:My goodness (Score 1) 279
Comment Re:Yet another reason.... (Score 1) 279
...and replace him with who, another puppet? They're all lawyers, so the old saying old boss, same as the new boss. Yeah.
Comment Re:sure it is (Score 1) 443
Okay, that made me spit out my mouth full of water.
Comment Re:S.M.A.R.T. (Score 1) 297
True, although most IT departments and/or computer shops don't have a spare board for every make and model of HDD. We tried a few swaps at a shop I used to work at and it was successful I think one time, and that was pure luck that we had that exact PCB for that drive.
Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 297
Haha, I was thinking the same shit while I was typing that. That and an older rap song about backing that ass up.
