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I know Kamakazie Sith is a very much police apologist who will excuse damn near anything if done by the blue wall, but wow . Prevented from leaving a room in solidary confinement is totally the same as a line of less than a dozen protestors huddling heads bowed on a sidewalk blocking someone's path ...

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People have email notifications on this thread for some reason. testing some security changes to make sure they still work

So how's this for fucked up? I am going on 24 hours without electricity, and later tonight I am going to LAN party at my friend Richard's house not one mile down the street. He has not lost power. What the hell could knock out power to such a small area and require this long to fix? I'm going to gu...

Honestly of all the ways a life could finish up, that is probably the worst I can conceive of. I had someone in my year group from highschool who was honestly smarter than me. Except after graduating he was caught in a car accident (as a passanger), and had to learn how to walk and talk again and n...

And you would have played the "improved" Mass Effect 3 final after some of the nasty edges where patched out.

By curiosity, wouldn't there be some legal considerations to be had if SDN moved from Canada to Australia ? Some copyright laws and other things ? Nothing that matters to be honest. Both Australian and Canada legally need to honor DMCA takedown requests. At least for this server's ISP, there is no ...

Guv'ness you've crashed TEO :O Is not loading! Hilariously, this forum's hardware is so over speced it could run both SDN & sb.com without noticing besides the increased traffic utilisation (which is the expensive bit in Australia). And Perth, Western Australia idea of bad weather is just hot s...

Little Witch Academia 2 kickstarter. Reached ~150k funding in ~6 hours

I'm so tempted to back that if they add a high-def version of episode 1 to any of the bluray versions.

Losonti Tokash wrote:Oxy. Post took forever to go through for some reason.

Hmm. Wierd.

I've moved the database store to a faster storage device (which I've been meaning todo for a while). Hopefully shouldn't happen again unless it is a networking derp.

Losonti Tokash wrote:rfid chips and thumbprint scanners seem like solutions looking for a problem

Rfid chips are used everywhere these days. They are so cheap these days, they are be paired with accelerometers to determine exactly which step in the chain it suffered excess acceleration which is known to break stuff.

Darksi4190 wrote:I think my brain just exploded from reading Saxonite's most recent post in the Zimmerman trial thread.

It can't be any worse than Kamikaze Sith on SB trying to use a published paper he hasn't read or couldn't access which said the opposite of his stated point.

Can it?

I can't wait for SSDs to mature enough to become competitive with hard disk drives. They already are. What needs to happen is for people to stop saying "omg I need the slowest 1tb spinning rust on the market" when they can get a 256gb SSD for the same price. Sure, they aren't competitive ...

The closest thing in procedural or object oriented is probably LINQ. It's a pitty LINQ doesn't play very nicely with async/await. Those two keywords have some really trippy function re-writing going on in the background which supports some really nice functionality of nearly-free blocking free code...

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Ugh, that OP is horrible. Surlethe is making some insanely basic mistakes. As in equating employment to full-time employment.

... But remember that even many of those don't really need any university education: accountancy, investment banking, arguably even law. AUGH fuuuuuuuuck yooooouuuuuuuuu I really do question what people are thinking when they start arguing that properly handling large amounts of money doesn't requi...

That was a rather literial take;

I think you mean "can not" rather "do not", cos none of the streaming services which the XBone uses exist in Australia.

It is rather clear that you haven't actually read the report then. The figures they give for copyright infringement "loses" are larger than all the other "loses" for every other IP violation type they list combined. Also, the context is they are not talking about what is currentl...

"Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property" _http://ipcommission.org/report/IP_Commission_Report_052213.pdf Additionally, software can be written that will allow only authorized users to open files containing valuable information. If an unauthorized person accesses the info...

they're right to live in fear, since piracy is a massive threat to their business model - it has already destroyed a lot of the big record labels. This kind of draconian idiocy isn't the right reaction, of course. Market consolidation and massive shift away from albums to singles via electronic sal...

weemadando, this shouldn't be a suprise at all. It was amazing that iTunes/Quickflix even got a look in before thier deal was shredded.

It's change in temperature which have the biggest impact on hard drive livespan, doesn't matter if it is fancy enterprise stuff or consumer grade.

timmy wrote:Oh shit

Do they use different gauges of ethernet cable?

You joke, but it is a minor holy war over; Copper Category 5e/6/7 cabling and the dozen different fibre connections which can carry the ethernet protocal

Switching to veganism in Australia would probably cause more suffering as almost all of our non chicken meat is raised on marginal lands useless for other food production Even the land Australia grow crops on tends to low quality crap, it's made up for by using a hell of a lot of land. The big chan...

Aren't they already experimenting with artificially grown meat? Aside from the whole animal rights issue, it's gotta have less impact on the environment than factory farming. One amusing part they have found with artificially growning meat (in the lab), is you need to excerise it with electrical im...