They buried all the local infrastructure lines last year in my area. Power, communications, gas.

That actually could be a problem in a flood. Outside Plant techs are supposed to use sealed splice cases for telecom, but high voltage stuff is probably not sealed against immersion, so if the right vaults flood then the power goes out. On top of that the transformers are all at ground level too.

My neighborhood has buried electrical and low-voltage, but the main distribution lines to the neighborhood themselves are above ground. This seems like a good compromise, keeps the bulk of the neighborhood looking nice but means that if one neighborhood takes a hit it many not knock out otherwise-unaffected neighborhoods.

I think DNF's release was a product of some new company executives that took over Apogee not realizing that it was supposed to be a joke...

That depends on which Natalie Portman movie... If it's Léon, eew...

I think that this is more of a "government snitches get stitches" kind of thing, where one assumes that all functions of that organization are bad.

In my view, the problem is that since the police are the only official authority to take such crime-related complaints to in the first place, this leak punishes those that are simply trying to get justice served, who have no other authority to take their complaints or other information to.

On another note, isn't the point of "Anonymous", written into the name and everything, that there is no real structure, that there are no real decision makers beyond everyone individually choosing what they're going to work on, and if they're going to participate with an idea that someone else has? Wouldn't it make more sense to compare "Anonymous" the entity as a medium through which individuals can collaborate for their own projects?

I think he's talking about that chemist's wet dream that is the label of most heavily processed junk food.

That and they can add G23 Paxeline Hydrochloride to the food powders to calm the population and weed out aggression. I wonder if there'll be any side effects? Nah!

On the contrary, They'd come up with a whole new bunch of GenMod crops to corner the Ag part of printable foods and then lobby Congress to make certain that only their crop could be used in the making of printed food.

Yeah, instead you want to lay down fine layers of ingredients the expose it to a high frequency standing wave to mix materials at the antinodes. You introduce fibers and sheets of material this way and create all kinds of density changes giving it very complex structure. I want something that could print Sushi!

Here's a little extrusion... just for you!

"If you close your eyes, it almost feels like your eating runny eggs." -- Mouse

"It's a single cell protein combined with synthetic aminos, vitamins, and minerals. Everything the body needs." -- Dozer

Talk about explosive flatulence!

However as the summary stated: "If they get cut, then layoffs might be next"

So very true. Look, soda, junk food, coffee? How much does any of that cost? A few bucks here and there? You are right, its nothing, you can afford all of that on your salary now if you want it right?

But.... flip it around....its really cheap. So why take it away? If the company is hurting for cash, ending soda and coffee is such a small change that its not going to actually help anything. If the company is THAT strapped.... its time to worry.

Even if you don't take advantage of it, I would be wary of a company that cuts ANY perk that doesn't cost them much. In fact, I would just be worried about them cutting any perk at all, because it really shows what their priorities are, and... a change in the priority of "be an attractive place to work to employees" is a serious red flag.

Switching CPU architectures? I missed that.

The lack of backwards compatability is a death blow seeing as there are no "must have" features to drive people to buy the new system. I know many people who have acquired huge libraries of 360 games, and they're not going to want a machine that can't play them.

Given the backwards compatability of the Windows software stack for gaming, I'm absolutely baffled as to why they couldn't implement backwards compatability for the 360 in a trivial fashion.

Ah well. Looks like Windows 8 all over again. And Vista. And SE.

All rolled into one massive FAIL.

One company I worked for not only didn't provide coffee and drinks, they didn't provide coffee machines or drink dispenser machines. Even worse, they forbid coffee machines at the desk.

Not because of power supply issues, no.

Because they gave the cafeteria company an exclusive contract to supply beverages to the entire staff.

So instead of having coffee clubs like I did at most places I worked over the years, I was expected to pay nearly $2 for a sixteen ounce shitty cafeteria coffee. And I wasn't supposed to have them any time except 10, 12, and 2.

I quit.