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  1. War of good verses evil. on The Single Vigilante Behind Facebook's 'Real Name' Crackdown · · Score: 1

    I hate to say this, but this is a classic war of good versus evil. The good people have been trying to live their lives, but also not allowing hate speech to be spread about them. The bad is the people who spew the hate and who have had their hate groups shut down because they were reported, rightfully so as spewing hate. Seems like the evil side found a easy way to retaliate. :(

  2. Re:Do not understand this. on Transgendered Folks Encountering Document/Database ID Hassles · · Score: 1

    s/embrace the way our heads our wired or suicide/embrace the way our heads are wired or commit suicide/

  3. Re:I call bull! on Transgendered Folks Encountering Document/Database ID Hassles · · Score: 1

    Be strong, you are not alone.

  4. Re:Oh no on Transgendered Folks Encountering Document/Database ID Hassles · · Score: 1

    In my area of the United States, best estimate is 0.3-0.5% of the local population, and since there is a prevalence for people to go into deep stealth to to insensitive society, who really knows....

  5. Re:Do not understand this. on Transgendered Folks Encountering Document/Database ID Hassles · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously? The choice for most of us is to transition and embrace the way our heads our wired or suicide. I don't see a choice there. I didn't have a choice. I didn't choose to have my marriage explode either. Our society is about gender binaries, Male or Female, for the number of people who fit someplace outside of that precise box, having documentation and paperwork that does NOT match their presentation can be crippling in this binary society where people think that if looks don't match that M/F field, then something is very wrong automatically.

    How would you like to hit a TSA checkpoint and almost be denied in the ability to pass beyond the checkpoint to catch your flight because your ID says your Male and you have breasts and look like a Woman? Or better yet, when you present your identification, and people completely change their interaction with you, their tone of speaking, and begin using word that remind you of the pain that you endured.

    Preventing the ability to change documentation is not only for people that are transgendered, its for everyone else who has to see/interact with that identity information. It is inhumane to both parties to prevent the ability to correct the information.

  6. As a blackberry user, I don't need a crystal ball on RIM Unveils New OS Based On QNX · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I already know the future. Fail, of the epic kind.

  7. What you call optimize, they call cooking? on Google Accused of "Cooking" Search Results and Charging MSFT Too Much · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'd hate to say this, but company $A having an algorithm that might be tuned however they damn well please does not constitute cooking... unless, there is a master defined algorithm that every search provider must follow. Yes... I can see the goose-stepping algorithm enforcement brigades now.

    Now, are we going to start with the "In Soviet America Jokes", or are we going to just define the algorithm Führer and get over with it?

  8. ad-hoc http encryption? on Pakistan Bans Encryption · · Score: 1

    Well.... sounds like we need an adaptive add-on to the HTTP protocol for ad-hoc encryption.

  9. Hi Lazyweb! Alternatives? on After Complaints, VMware Revises VSphere 5 Licensing · · Score: 1

    I hate to say it, so instead of my bill being someplace between 2-3x of what it is presently, it will end up being around 2x..... So Anyone have a pretty gui built around one of the open source/free hypervisors with all the same basic features as vCenter (live migration, live storage migration, performance reporting)? oh, and the GUI needs to be easy for a windows person to use.

  10. Tracking? Remote data access? on Intel's Sandy Bridge Processor Has a Kill Switch · · Score: 4, Informative

    Anyone else getting the vibe that since this thing will have a 3g connection on the backend, that it can be misused by others(governments) to track and remotely control/access your device. Geeeeeeeeee. This does not sound like a good idea... Well unless your the TSA.

  11. Perhaps... Perhaps not. on Is a US High-Speed Railway Economically Feasible? · · Score: 1

    I could see it working in larger areas, or between larger cities. Example, in North Carolina, If I could go from Winston-Salem, NC to Raleigh, NC, however we're talking 120 miles highway, and possibly 160 via rails, although I don't see myself driving 30-60 miles to get to a train station, to hop on a train that only runs 2 times a day, to get to a city where I would have to rent a car or get a ride from a friend because... in some cities in NC... public transportation only stops most places 2 times a day.... so I think I'll just drive the 80-100 miles to get where I need to go and do what I need to do. K THX GIVE ME MY TAX MONEY BACK BAI

  12. Re:Why does the UPS not have a fail safe that kill on Server Room Smells Can Be an Early Warning · · Score: 1

    You can test lead-acid batteries by measuring the resistance between the terminals. Most upses only look for voltage from the battery. This means that the battery casing can split open, leak acid, before the batter grounds out or goes kaboom, or whatnot. I had one battery in a 64 battery cabinet leak out and ground out the batteries.... The bloody APC Silcon (now discontinued) ups didn't throw an alarm at all, all we noticed that there were no lights all of a sudden when the power flickered. It was apparently a firmware bug or some sort because APC swapped out the firmware IC chips when they replaced the batteries.

    Generally, with larger ups systems, you tend to have a quarterly battery inspection where a tech comes out, takes voltage and ohms readings for each battery in the unit, and visually inspects the batteries in the cabinet.

  13. Re:A: The law. on What Is Holding Back the Paperless Office? · · Score: 1

    Also, anything that has to be audited/signed/checked off for process control/accountability, which relates back to regulations.

  14. Kick Ass on Archive Team Is Busy Saving Geocities · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I could find my site from ages ago... and find all the fun crap people have posted to geocities.

  15. I live in Greensboro, FSCK TW Cable. Maybe I shou on Time Warner Expanding Internet Transfer Caps To New Markets · · Score: 1

    I live in Greensboro, and frankly, this just irks me to no end. I work in IT, I've negotiated high capacity circuit contracts with telecom carriers. This is just such an insane markup that its crazy. You could practically exceed their 5 GB cap just with BACKGROUND traffic on some of their larger broadcast subnets. (Think larger then a /24.)

    I'm thinking I should just start a WISP. With their logic, with just a T1 line, I could make a crap load of money.

  16. Antenna on How Best To Deal With WiFi Interference? · · Score: 1

    Install a bigger antenna. Oh 12 db gain should do nicely.

    Nuff said.

  17. Re:The new Sirius lineup on iPhones, FStream and the Death of Satellite Radio · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm really quite upset with how many of my favorite XM stations are now their serius counterparts instead of what was there... I was a big fan of Squizz, Ethel, Fred, now we have the closest thing Sirius had to the content, and frankly its far from the same. How in the hell do you go from RATM to Ozzy? And why in the !@#$ do I have to listen to some DJ talk about his other show?!? The rock stations just... suck.

    I went shopping for FM transmitters for my iPod last night.

    To be honest, I want a giant undo button and I want XM back. I'm likely going to drop the service though, which is sad because its a great idea.... at least I have BPM for now.

  18. As a data center operator that buys dell.... on Dell Abandons Its Customization Roots · · Score: 1

    I think I may be looking to move to HP or IBM. While the last time I ordered HP, it was a room full of boxes for five servers and some drive shelves, I do believe they went into the custom built model in the last few years.... Hmmm..

  19. On Road Runner Business in Greensboro, NC on Time Warner Filtering iTunes Traffic? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have a "teleworker" account, which means I get business class service to my house. (I might add, its useful to be able to get them dispatched in the middle of the night with such an account.) I've noticed that using iTunes before 8pm, its useless, right after 8pm though all my iTunes downloads speed up from 1-2 hours for a half hour tv show, to like 10 minutes. Its pretty clear that something is amiss, but I just went to downloading everything after 8 PM.

    FWIW, Before 8pm, I've seen no other speed impacts, and have been able to download ISOs at a normal speed. I've only seen it with iTunes.

  20. This could help safety also... on Use of Asphalt Paved Surfaces For Solar Heat · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This could help reduce the overall temperature of blacktop services... which have this side effect in very hot summers of melting.

  21. Re:Doesn't surprise me.... on Another Battery Fire in AT&T's Network · · Score: 1

    FWIW anyway, there is a similar risk with wet cell batteries, but they are not small, and they are typically monitored very closely. Most rooms I've seen wet cells in have hydrogen sensors and ventilation.

  22. Re:Doesn't surprise me.... on Another Battery Fire in AT&T's Network · · Score: 1

    Whoops, I have been corrected. I would have assumed VRLA given thats the standard, at least inside central offices and DC powered data centers. If its a lithium battery, then they are just plum overcharging it.

  23. Doesn't surprise me.... on Another Battery Fire in AT&T's Network · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It really doesn't surprise me. Sealed cell VRLA Battery + High Temperatures (Summer) + Hydrogen creation inside battery from the Water/Acid mix + brown out causing battery to be utilized = practical bomb. I had one cook off in a generator this week. One of my data center generators went to start up for its weekly exercise this week and it never started, but one of the batteries exploded. It didn't lead to a fire, but I'm sure it would have if it was in a more confined space.

  24. I'm glad I already put the piping in. on Dell To Sell Advanced Server Cooling Systems · · Score: 1

    What I'd like to see is integrated liquid cooling using the XD systems built into dell servers.

  25. Ofcourse! on Why Doesn't Microsoft Have A Cult Religion? · · Score: 1

    Of course people worship at the altar of Microsoft. It is a very large secular religion, too large to even be a cult, its one of the big religions! Next, Eddie Izzard will be making jokes about the teachings of cathol and the gospel of Bill Gates.