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  1. That is the idea. Bilk.

  2. computer output to laser disc on Where Facebook Stores 900 Million New Photos Per Day · · Score: 1

    is it cold in here or what?

  3. I'd pay on Europe Vows To Get Rid of Geo-Blocking · · Score: 1

    the BBC for their Olympics coverage (and other stuff). Proxying in works but is not kosher. On the BBC I feel I am watching sport, not entertainment. Not so with NBC, etc.

  4. I am afraid on Who's Afraid of Android Fragmentation? · · Score: 1

    Last night I dreamed that Frances McDormand was shoving my phone down a chipper.

  5. Re:Rails never had 'steam'. on Is Ruby On Rails Losing Steam? · · Score: 1

    But right now Rails as a FW is way to bloated --> But right now Rails as a FW is way _too_ bloated

    my german is Hogan's Heroes based. "to" might be a simple typo, but just in case. "too", in this case, is to an excessive degree. As opposed to: me, too, I think RoR is excessively bloated. Like a fish too long on the shore (simile). In the sun.

  6. seth thomas inspired me on Ask Slashdot: What Inspired You To Start Hacking? · · Score: 1

    I took apart the mechanism one of my Dad's antique mantel clocks. My Mom saw me at the dining room table with brass gears and plates and screws scattered in front of me. "Your Dad is going to kill you when he gets home from work!" I put that sucker back together and it worked as well as before (not well).

  7. proximal impacts on Ask Slashdot: What Essays and Short Stories Should Be In a Course On Futurism? · · Score: 1

    Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction An Unnatural History

  8. where are jesus's foot prints on Britain's Eastern Coast Yields Oldest Human Footprints Outside Africa · · Score: 1

    This has so many problems. Number one. the photograph is undated, so who knows the reference point for the footprint dating? Number two. the lens cap is obviously intelligently designed. This foot print is 4000 years old. Max.

  9. Re:Headline...? on Doctors Reverse With Drugs Autism-Linked Fragile X Syndrome In Mice · · Score: 1

    Candidate research subject

  10. everyone from India? cure for slashdoters? on Doctors Reverse With Drugs Autism-Linked Fragile X Syndrome In Mice · · Score: 2, Interesting

    1. Aparna Suvrathan a,
          2. Charles A. Hoeffer b,
          3. Helen Wong b,
          4. Eric Klann b, and
          5. Sumantra Chattarji a,1

    - Author Affiliations
                a National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore 560065, India; and
                b Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003

    These are lab findings in cells of knock out mice and indicate that the process may be still amenable to pharmaceuticals. All you Asperger's at /. keep this in mind!

  11. Re:Summary is wrong ... on Filming For The Hobbit Begins In July · · Score: 4, Funny

    dammit. should have gotten the refundable plane tickets.

  12. Re:You don't. You find out what the software did on Learning and Maintaining a Large Inherited Codebase? · · Score: 1

    you are nearly absolutely right. If you can easily mod it, mod it. If not, go your route. Programmers and the software they create are a complex adaptive system. The newbie will eventually understand it better than those that left but because of the changes the newbies have made and the failure of memory of those that have left.

  13. Re:Drive By Wire not really the problem on Toyota Pedal Issue Highlights Move To Electronics · · Score: 2, Funny

    It was not an electrical gremlin by the way, it was the amc gremlin.

  14. oh but they are on Why Coder Pay Isn't Proportional To Productivity · · Score: 1

    I have never seen a bad programmer make more money than a good programmer in the long run. Unless of course the bad programmer goes into management.

  15. testing is the issue on Moving Decimal Bug Loses Money · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is not a representation issue. It is a project management and testing issue.

  16. Re:How can they tell... on New Research Forecasts Global 6C Increase By End of Century · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The CO2 dissolved in the ocean reacts with water and lowers pH. Also with consequence. Yes a sink, but we are not doing this sink any favors.

  17. I do! on Who Installs the Most Crapware? · · Score: 2, Funny

    On Fedora core 8. I have installed so much crap I am afraid to upgrade my operating system!

  18. huh? on Are Software Developers Naturally Weird? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    My mistake ... I thought it said WIRED.

  19. video pulled on Chinese Subvert Censorship With a Popular Pun · · Score: 1

    The video has disappeared from youtube. I guess the censor woke up.

  20. Re:So it doesn't run on water at all? on Jet Pack Runs For Hours On Water · · Score: 1

    More than likely that it runs on beer.

  21. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone ... on Twitter Hack Details Revealed · · Score: 1

    porn name?

  22. surface mounted raceways on Wiring a House While It's Still Being Built? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Run all your transports outside the wall interior to the rooms. Blue pipe for outgoing water, red for incoming. Plastic channel surface mounted raceways for communication links. Gray electrical conduit. Black mat painted hvac. Choose your own colors. Run things in parallel. Come together. Fan out. Make a statement.

  23. Ig Noble Prizes awarded a few days ago on Nobel Prizes for Physics Awarded to Smart People · · Score: 4, Funny

    The prizes are awarded in various categories, including physics and chemistry:

    PHYSICS
    Arnd Leike of the University of Munich, for demonstrating that beer froth obeys the mathematical Law of Exponential Decay. [REFERENCE: "Demonstration of the Exponential Decay Law Using Beer Froth," Arnd Leike, European Journal of Physics, vol. 23, January 2002, pp. 21-26.]

    http://www.improb.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2 00 2

  24. Re:Mistake in comments (Pet vs. Pets Warehouse) on Google sued as PetsWarehouse Lawsuit Continues. · · Score: 1

    I actually thought the headline refered to pestwarehouse.

  25. become your own CA on Cheap SSL Certificates for Small Websites? · · Score: 1

    Hope this is not too late. The practical use of certificates has nearly been destroyed by the CA's that get into the browsers as trusted roots. Here is a way to get things done cheaply.
    1. buy a certificate from a recognized CA (Verisign, Thawte, Entrust, etc) for a web server.
    2. create your own self-signed certificate in the context of a properly managed CA (you need to know what you are doing)
    3. publish the CAs public certificate on a https web page on your server authenticated by the recognized CA
    4. tell your users to pick up a copy at your trusted site and install it in their browser (or what ever other client they are using)
    5. use your own CA to create subsequent certificates.

    Remember that as a CA, you have parties that are relying on you. You need to handle revocation processing and certificate revocation. The good thing is that nearly everyone is producing PKI software these days. If you have a Win2K Serve instance, you have a reasonable PKI. Do things right and there is no reason why you cannot use certificates in a trusted manner.