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  1. I think I found the customer for the 5 9's disks on Former NATO Nuclear Bunker Now an 'Airless' Unmanned Data Center · · Score: 1

    So this is the customer who requested this study: Proposed Disk Array With 99.999% Availablity For 4 Years, Sans Maintenance
    http://hardware.slashdot.org/s...

    It makes sense now.

  2. Route through comcast's mail servers. on Ask Slashdot: How To Unblock Email From My Comcast-Hosted Server? · · Score: 1

    Try having your mail server send all mail to the comcast mail server for delivery instead of trying to send it directly. That's what you usually have to do if they block the port, may try it without the block anyway.

  3. Original Article? on The Plane Crash That Gave Us GPS · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So, which of these links is the original article the large excerpt is from?

    I really wish OA was linked separately at the top or something. Why was it the 3rd link? Why not anchor it on "The Atlantic" in the first line?

    http://www.theatlantic.com/tec...

    Thanks...

  4. Re:Remind my why they are being sued on Supreme Court Rules Against Aereo Streaming Service · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because they were able to successfully extort cable companies for doing the same thing 50 years ago.

  5. Re:Rockethub / Indiegogo on This 360-Degree, 4K Video Camera isn't Getting Kickstarted (Video) · · Score: 1

    If it still puts you on the hook to produce something and you don't have enough to do it, I'd rather get the nothing and be able to walk away.

    Imagine a Rockethub fund raiser to go to Mars that only reaches 80% of its goal. You'd get a ride to mars, but will you have enough food and a safe landing too?

  6. Re:thugs are also armed populace on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    Gangs and Mobs are just competing governments and they already have guns, so this change in the law wouldn't really change anything compared to today. Murder and coercion are crimes either way.
    The street thugs robbing 7-11s would get shot by armed 7-11 clerks (if corporate policies changed too).

  7. Re:My revision: on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    What's good for the goose is good for the gander... Although the above would be the time-traveler version. Try explaining "nuclear" to somebody in the 1700s and expecting it to stick to the 1900s.

    Modernly, I probably would go with "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Laws limiting weapons in any way are prohibited, including but not limited to background checks, registration lists, and places where they can be carried. All governments, foreign and domestic, should be afraid of the armed populous. Nuclear weapons of any size may be regulated and prohibited. Biological and chemical weapons of over (researched volume or weight) may be regulated and prohibited. "

    In a civil war, you would want to be able to at least shoot down the aircraft so they can't deploy the three banned weapon classes.

  8. Re:My revision: on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    If everybody has a gun, the death toll should hover around 2. The first victim and the shooter.

  9. My revision: on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1, Interesting

    My suggested new text:
    "The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. Laws limiting weapons in any way are prohibited, including but not limited to background checks, registration lists, and places where they can carried. All governments, foreign and domestic, should be afraid of the armed populous."

    If a gun can be anywhere, everywhere can be defended quickly.

    (Did you know that a convicted felon is not required to register his guns since that would violate his 5th ammendment right to not self-incriminate? Look it up!)

    IMarv

  10. What I Will. on Interview: Ask Bruce Perens What You Will · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, I keep misreading these interview headlines. I do not think Bruce Parens knows what I will do, what I want, or what the contents of my will are.

    So Bruce, do you happen to know what I will do, what I want, or what my will says?

  11. Re:insert selection, not paste on Middle-Click Paste? Not For Long · · Score: 1

    Can I have text selected in two windows at once? Which one wins?

    I forgot my other pet peeve, how do I highlight to replace when the system is being smart enough to synchronize the clipboards?

    1. I never said the feature was rocket science. The problem I run into is discovering the correct keyword for the magic. How am I supposed to know that xsel is a copy-paste thing vs some Excel clone? The question I have is, "After I get to the desktop, how do I discover what I can do?" http://lmgtfy.com/?q=what+controls+middle+click+paste+in+linux does not return xsel. The question does have other interesting answers though. How did you learn that xsel exists and what it does?

    2. Android smart phones have a limited user input methods, it is easier to learn fewer options. When was the last time you middle clicked to paste on your phone?

    IMarv

  12. Re:insert selection, not paste on Middle-Click Paste? Not For Long · · Score: 1

    My original post got marked as flamebait.

    I have run into a few windows programs that try to simulate the behavior, such as Trillian or Putty, that copies on select. Putty is the worst, because I have a hard time telling if I've actually entered my password (from a password storage app). CTRL-V does not work to paste. I have no idea why Trillian does it, but Putty is being a "good" multi-environment player by being the same in each. It just is an odd-ball in the windows court.

    What are the rules for "current selection"? Does it include any echo of most recently, but not now highlighted? Highlighted in a windows that is the the active window?

    But the "issue" is that there is nothing that tells you that there are TWO DIFFERENT WAYS to make stuff that is at point A go to point B. I didn't know that I had a choice between not using one or the other because I did not know that they were different. I thought I highlight text and it goes into THE clipboard automagically or I can select text and hit ctrl-c and get a 50/50 chance of copying it to THE clipboard or terminating the program. I thought that middle clicking would usually paste or do nothing or pressing ctrl-v would usually paste or send ^V or some such.

    Another way to say the "issue" is that established Windows users carry some baggage of how stuff should work and the extra choices in Linux can cause confusion. I'm all for extra options, but sometimes the option I want is, "stop doing some annoying thing". Where is the option to NOT copy when I highlight text? If it is in some .config file, great! How did you know which one? Why can't that .config file have a GUI in a control panel?

    Thanks,
    IMarv

    IMarv

  13. Re:insert selection, not paste on Middle-Click Paste? Not For Long · · Score: 1

    Multiple invisible clipboards is not intuitive. Know that will help some of my confusion.

    I wasn't going for flamebait, just venting why a user could be confused with an example of my own confusion.

    Thanks.
    IMarv

  14. I hate Select to copy. on Middle-Click Paste? Not For Long · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I hate select to copy. I frequently highlight words to help myself read them and track where I am. I don't associate highlighting text with copying it, which screws up my internal clipboard memory. Middle click to paste simply never occurs to me. Middle mouse button on Windows is generally application dependent. Since I never middle click, it's function by default is irrelevant. It'd the damned highlight to copy that screws me up.

    IMarv

  15. Linus said something... on SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Linux said "So I don't want to necessarily blame the harddisk, since it's just ten
    days since I upgraded the rest of my machine, after it worked years in
    the previous one. That just makes me go "hmm". As far as I know, all
    the fans etc were working fine, but.."

    There's his problem: "after it worked years in the previous [machine]."

    His SSD died a natural death of old age.

    IMarv

  16. Electric Universe on Mystery Alignment of Planetary Nebulae Discovered · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "The team of astronomers, who used data from Hubble and the European Southern Observatory's New Technology Telescope (NTT) to survey 130 nebulae, posit that powerful magnetic fields may be behind the phenomenon."

    Hey, you mean that mainstream science may be coming around to what http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/ have been suggesting?

    Good luck!

  17. Re:Its all about altitude.. on Why We Need to Keep Our Night Skies Dark (Video) · · Score: 1

    Fortunately, I know some Rabbids that are working on a pile of stuff. Perhaps when they are done with it, you can use it.

    I think they're saying something about home and moon, but it isn't safe around them.

  18. Jury Nullification. on Jail Looms For Man Who Revealed AT&T Leaked iPad User E-Mails · · Score: 1

    Please, make sure the Jury knows about Jury Nullification. They can still declare him not guilty even if he technically broke the law. Juries are your protection against bad laws. Let them know it.

    IMarv

  19. Make it look exctly like Windows XP. on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Fix the Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Make it so that any windows user wouldn't know they weren't on Windows other than the missing Windows icon in the start button. Integrate Wine so it is seemless.

    Make it so if I know how to use Windows, I can know how to use a Linux desktop.

    There will need to be a classic mode for those like me who prefer the clean classic Windows 98 desktop, as well as one for those that like the Aero Glass or whatever that pretty mode is. (I don't like pretty mode, when I want to see the window behind my primary, I'll give it focus! I don't need to watch my window minimize, just get it out of my way!)

    If you want to switch a desktop user, make it so the user doesn't have to know they switched.

    IMarv

  20. Re:Obligatory... on DirecTV Drops Viacom Channels · · Score: 1

    Nick Jr already got rid of Moose A. Moose and Zee D Bird. So, yeah, nothing important lost from this.

    Good thing my kids have switched to Sprout already.

  21. Jury Deliberation went something like this: on Texas Jury Strikes Down Man's Claim to Own the Interactive Web · · Score: 5, Funny

    Juror 1: "If we say this patent is valid, they'll take our internet away!"
    Jurors: "Hell no!"
    Juror 1: "I guess we should shoot the breeze for a couple hours so they will think we thought hard about this."

  22. Flex Your Rights dot Org on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way To Deal With Roving TSA Teams? · · Score: 5, Informative
  23. Feel free to start here: on SETI To Scour the Moon For Alien Footprints? · · Score: 4, Funny
  24. I donno, it might be a pretty good place to look. on Why Mars Is Not the Best Place To Look For Life · · Score: 1

    Just try looking a bit harder. You may wish to check out the leads at http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/index.htm

    Then again, would you really want to find life there and open that bag of worms?

  25. Is the telephone wiring Cat-5? on Ask Slashdot: Best Wi-Fi Solution For a Hotel? · · Score: 1

    If the wiring is already Cat5, then you should be good to swap out the proprietary boxes and find the other end for the router/network closet.
    If they are really telephone-grade wires, find the other ends and pull Cat5 through (by tying string/cat5 to the existing wiring.)

    Whatever the right thing is, do it right the first time and the hotel will save money either fixing it or dealing with unhappy guests. It may cost more initially. Really unhappy guests don't return.

    IMarv