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  1. Re:older generation is totally clueless about tech on NSA-Reform Bill Fails In US Senate · · Score: 1

    Being a crack addict does not confer knowledge of plant alkaloids or even botany.

    Nicely said. I hope you don't mind if I hold on to that one for future use.

  2. Re:older generation is totally clueless about tech on NSA-Reform Bill Fails In US Senate · · Score: 1

    Honestly, I don't see a lot of age difference in politician's understanding of tech. Young or old, f they're in politics, they typically don't understand it at all.

  3. Re: RTFA on California Votes To Ban Microbeads · · Score: 1

    If there is any turbulence or convection in the water, there is nothing to say that they will ever sort.

  4. Re: Meh... on California Votes To Ban Microbeads · · Score: 0

    According to TFA, they are more expensive than the things they replace, so the law probably isn't necessary, they were on their way out anyway.

  5. Re:Moose, Moo, Mo on Ask Slashdot: Career Advice For an Aging Perl Developer? · · Score: 1

    It's nice to be appreciated :-)

  6. Re: Why ext4 on Linux 4.0 Has a File-System Corruption Problem, RAID Users Warned · · Score: 1

    It had some REALLY ugly failure modes.

  7. Re:Why ext4 on Linux 4.0 Has a File-System Corruption Problem, RAID Users Warned · · Score: 1

    In a production server, I can see value in stepwise evacuating old drives and then swapping them for new larger drives only once the data is stable on the filesystem. Done right you could pull it off with zero downtime without opening a window where a single failure brings you down.

  8. Re:Why ext4 on Linux 4.0 Has a File-System Corruption Problem, RAID Users Warned · · Score: 1

    I'm using ZFS in production for now but I'm actively testing btrfs for that reason among others.

  9. Re:Why ext4 on Linux 4.0 Has a File-System Corruption Problem, RAID Users Warned · · Score: 1

    You're thinking of the ZFS that goes through FUSE. There is also ZFS on Linux that runs as kernel modules like any other fs.

    There's also btrfs.

    Of course, neither of those needs the md driver at all, they have their own raid like systems.

  10. Re:Streisand Effect on Student Photographer Threatened With Suspension For Sports Photos · · Score: 1

    Since the contact details are her work details posted to a public website and in regard to a work matter, it's not a problem. Private contact details would be over the line.

  11. Re:Moose, Moo, Mo on Ask Slashdot: Career Advice For an Aging Perl Developer? · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you plan on staying with Perl, I would highly recommend checking out Moose and the other derivative packages that append object systems to Perl 5.

    Then learn to affect a cheesy eastern European accent and tell the interviewer you are after Moose and Perl.

  12. Re:Tolls? on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 1

    But certainly not on a regular road ridden by something other than 5 elephants.

  13. Re:Now if only the rest of the country would follo on California Senate Approves School Vaccine Bill · · Score: 1

    Yet we DID have a patient zero not long ago and the spread was very limited and died out quickly in spite of your claim that there is no herd immunity at our current level of vaccination.

  14. Re:Brain-controlled? on After a Year of Secret Field-Testing, Brain-Controlled Bionic Legs Are Here · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily, but you would need more than a 15 minute procedure. In some cases they can divide a muscle and graft different nerves to different parts to get a myoelectric output for muscles that are gone.

  15. Re:Tolls? on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 1

    No, the damage is controlled by axle weight. Surely you don't claim that a unicycle causes more damage than a fully loaded dump truck?

  16. Re:In other news... on Canadian Piracy Rates Plummet As Industry Points To New Copyright Notice System · · Score: 1

    Go to any torrent search site and the ads there (other thjan the porn ads) are all for VPNs so people can't see you download. I'm sure they could figure that out.

  17. Re:Why not just... on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Solve a Unique Networking Issue? · · Score: 2

    ATA over Ethernet for one. If it's running over a private network also used for management the second question is also yes.

  18. Re:Minimum Wage on Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage To $15 an Hour · · Score: 1

    He said they weren't real jobs. I guess that means they don't need doing.

    Sure minimum wage jobs are not desirable. Do you REALLY think the people trying and failing to make ends meet on one PLANNED to be in a minimum wage job? Do you REALLY believe that was their aspiration in high school?

    Fact is, the economy tanked and decent paying skilled manufacturing jobs got sent overseas. Sometimes all that's left are minimum wage or welfare. And then people here have the nerve to call them lazy after they choose minimum wage over welfare. Those people really should be ashamed of themselves.

  19. Re:Minimum Wage on Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage To $15 an Hour · · Score: 1

    I do sympathize, but that is between him and the publisher. Of course, that only applies to new issues. He can do what he wants (within reason) with old issues and with other related merchandise.

    But my point is that everyone complains when the price goes up but that doesn't mean it wasn't necessary and it doesn't make it go back down. I asked for an example of a business 'going broke' in Seattle and all I've got is one that's complaining.

    That's pretty much the story of the cheap labor conservative in a nutshell.

  20. Re:Minimum Wage on Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage To $15 an Hour · · Score: 1

    Funny thing, if you actually do the math, it's not really helping us that much. If you have ever actually ordered something direct from a Chinese company, you know the savings are not being passed on to the consumer at all.

    Consider, there's what, about an hour of human labor in assembling an iPhone (a mostly automated process)?

  21. Re:Minimum Wage on Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage To $15 an Hour · · Score: 1

    Complaining, but still up and running? I'll bet there's probably people in the area complaining about the last time his prices went up too, but I'll bet he still did it.

  22. Re:I wonder why... on North Carolina Still Wants To Block Municipal Broadband · · Score: 1

    It seems to be an issue that happens both in government and telecommunicatyions. For example, Comcast has 'won' awards for worst service ever year after year. There's even the briefly famous youtube of a Comcast installer sleeping on a customer's couch.

    Most of the municipal broadband providers get decent customer service ratings, perhaps because they are semi-independent or perhaps because the sorts of governments that implement community broadband are the sort that remember they are public servants.

  23. Re:Hmm... on Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage To $15 an Hour · · Score: 1

    Enjoy your mugging and plague!

  24. Re:Minimum Wage on Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage To $15 an Hour · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In a sense, minimum wage is just a best effort to re-balance the market distortion introduced by the social safety net. Were there no net, people being paid less than it costs to live would be forced to quit either because their health would decline from the privation or because they would be too busy dealing drugs and robbing people to show up for work. Then wages would go up to bring people in who won't quit, go to jail, or die or the business would fold up and go away.

    Since we find high crime, shanty towns, and riots undesirable, we introduced the social safety net. A side effect is that it becomes possible to capture people in a situation where they are paid less than it costs to live and the taxpayers get stuck for the rest. The minimum wage seeks to patch that up to the extent possible.

    The sad reality is that people were forced to accept minimum wage jobs in the big crash and many are still stuck there because Wall Street recovered a hell of a lot faster than Main Street.

  25. Re:You're God damn right I wouldn't on Survey: 2/3 of Public Sector Workers Wouldn't Report a Security Breach · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up!

    For exactly those reasons, I would seriously consider keeping quiet and letting someone else take the hit. If management has made it clear that reporting risks is forbidden, why do it?