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  1. Re:And Now For An Opposing Viewpoint... on New MRI Studies Show SSRIs Bring Rapid Changes to Brain Function · · Score: 1

    Offtopic, really?!?

  2. Re:Finally someone decides to do something on Fork of Systemd Leads To Lightweight Uselessd · · Score: 2

    That's more or less my feeling on it. Perhaps an early fork will afford the opportunity to assert a proper design on the thing and salvage a win. Some of the individual features of systemd are good in themselves and I believe most of the cons can be fixed with a proper design.

  3. Re:Which is why you shouldn't be on such systems on NY Magistrate: Legal Papers Can Be Served Via Facebook · · Score: 1

    You have been served! :-)

    Perhaps you could try dancing back?

  4. Re:Word! on Data Archiving Standards Need To Be Future-Proofed · · Score: 1

    Even MS can't say exactly what that spec is. Sure, there's an alleged standard but Word never actually followed it and in spite of over 1000 pages of documentation, it's incomplete.

  5. Re:Repair on Inside Shenzen's Grey-Market iPhone Mall · · Score: 1

    I keep seeing things with several regular screws and one a funky type (security torx and such), If they want to make it tamper evident, put a dot of acrylic on the screw,

    Then there's clips that will snap together to make a tight fit exactly once. And of course the stupid plastic rivets.

    I have no idea what devices you are seeing.

  6. Re:Repair on Inside Shenzen's Grey-Market iPhone Mall · · Score: 1

    So you're claiming it is somehow cheaper to produce 10,000 desk fans with 3 phillips head screws and one security head crew epoyed in than it is to produce the same run of fans with 4 phillips screws?

    You claim the parts are interchangable on the assembly line but somehow not on the repair bench?

    Or are you claiming somehow that it's cheaper to have employees assemble random piles of parts in bespoke fashion than it is to have them putting the same parts in the same place every time?

  7. Re:Repair on Inside Shenzen's Grey-Market iPhone Mall · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, there are plenty of LCD monitors thrown away even though a $25 CFL and 10 minutes could have it up and running if you could get the right CFL.

    And don't forget that the time to go get a new whatever isn't free either. Some problems can be fixed in less time than it takes to buy a new one if it's reasonably made to be repaired.

  8. Re:Repair on Inside Shenzen's Grey-Market iPhone Mall · · Score: 1

    The problem is devices that WOULD be significantly cheaper to repair if parts were more easily (and reasonably) available and if the things weren't designed to be harder to repair.

    Often the repair hostile design isn't in any way cheaper to manufacture.

  9. Re:Too expensive on Dremel Releases 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    The trick is to grasp that at high RPMs, it's not pressure that drives the work. A light touch will make more progress.

  10. Re:Too expensive on Dremel Releases 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    My mid-90s Dremel kicks ass.

  11. Re:Patent Attorney chiming in on Alice Is Killing Trolls But Patent Lawyers Will Strike Back · · Score: 1

    A *NEW* use. Not the same old use but online now.

  12. Re:"forced labor" on Use of Forced Labor "Systemic" In Malaysian IT Manufacturing · · Score: 2

    By that time there were millions of slaves in the U.S. and as you pointed out, they reproduced and even resulted in a surplus for the larger plantations. There was a lively internal slave trade at that point.

  13. Re: "forced labor" on Use of Forced Labor "Systemic" In Malaysian IT Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    Actually, the war on poverty was working until the GOP insisted on surrendering.

    And yes, businesses that mooch on the taxpayer to supplement their inadequate payroll are evil. They know damned well they are mooching off of people with a lot less than they already have.

    We don't claim the car thief is blameless if you leave your keys in your car, do we?

  14. Re:"forced labor" on Use of Forced Labor "Systemic" In Malaysian IT Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    As timeOday said, they cost about 10 years wages for an equivalent free worker, so if the owner didn't keep them alive and well at least that long, it was a losing proposition.

    So as despicable as the practice was, the modern practice is in some ways worse.

  15. Re:"forced labor" on Use of Forced Labor "Systemic" In Malaysian IT Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    That's the new innovation of forced labor. In the bad old days, slaves were quite expensive so you had to provide food, clothing, shelter, and at least minimal healthcare.

    The new improved forced labor lets them pick up the slaves cheap, provide them minimal food and shelter and just let them die from overwork.

  16. Re:Simple set of pipelined utilties! on Torvalds: No Opinion On Systemd · · Score: 1

    Both upsides were already easily solvable. Most distro's rc scripts already call a function to start a daemon. That could easily have called a helper program to set up the cgroup and register on dbus to act as a controller for the group.

    Meanwhile, at least Debian's rc scripts already had dependencies listed in their headers that could be used to compute a start order. It could as easily be used to compute a makefile to start in parallel.

    The problem is, now that the init process will be such a hairball of dependencies, it becomes harder to implement such solutions without seemingly unrelated bits breaking. For example, no reasonable person expects the GUI desktop to break if you switch out init. (and no reasonable person creates such a dependency)

  17. Re:Attacker is your Peer on Why Is It Taking So Long To Secure Internet Routing? · · Score: 1

    Or, you go with signed routes. That is, you use a public key system to prove that you have the right to broadcast a route for a particular subnet.

    In practice, it will probably mean some router upgrades. No more router cpus that were considered a bit underpowered for a calculator in the '90s. However, as an interim measure, it could be used to set some BGP filters to limit the potential damage.

  18. Re:Because of capitalism. on Why Is It Taking So Long To Secure Internet Routing? · · Score: 1

    The problem is, we're tipped over into corporatism where the net is controlled by a very few very large legal sictions tha tthe courts insist are somehow people.

    You worry about the bad old government censoring the net but forget to worry about the ISPs censoring the net.

    I can't imagine why you think the overmetered network protects us from the market cornering legislation and the pompous asses. Without proper net neutrality, we get all of the above and nowhere to turn.

  19. Re:Replacement Organs on Medical Milestone: Scientists Reset Human Stem Cells · · Score: 1

    I appreciate the offer, but I'm really not qualified. My interest is of the avid armchair variety. As I understand it, the dialysate is the key to making it work. Previous experiments achieved some removal of urea but it wasn't adequate or it caused electrolyte imbalances. In all forms of dialysis, it's something that could easily be mixed up at home but for the requirement of a sterile solution for hemo or peritoneal dialysis.

  20. Re:DNA? on Schizophrenia Is Not a Single Disease · · Score: 1

    Waiting to put on a black shirt?

    Who is first on your extermination list?

  21. If the civilian police could do the search, then they probably should have.

    If the search was done on-duty, it used military resources and so should not be reported.

  22. Re:A solution in search of a problem... on Technological Solution For Texting While Driving Struggles For Traction · · Score: 1

    You'd be surprised how much use can be made of 30 minutes of information. Also, in the absence of an accident, the information you mentioned cannot determine if anyone was actually put at risk. Practically no car has GPS connected with control positions and few record 30 minutes.

    Will legacy cars have an automatic out since the recorded information won't be there?

    How about if the black box malfunctions or "malfunctions"

  23. Re:Replacement Organs on Medical Milestone: Scientists Reset Human Stem Cells · · Score: 1

    Interestingly, your brief description of the method was enough to google up a heap of research on Google.

    Since you said non-sterile and mentioned surgery, I'll guess this is isolated intestinal loop dialysis?

    What was the improvement?

  24. Re:Replacement Organs on Medical Milestone: Scientists Reset Human Stem Cells · · Score: 1

    So it's public domain, used by thousands but you can't say what it is and I couldn't possibly read about it? Not even a little hint?

    Is it in Dan Brown's next novel by chance? You realize you make the whole thread sound like 'beef by-products', yes?

  25. Re:You have all been trained to accept this as nor on Navy Guilty of Illegally Broad Online Searches: Child Porn Conviction Overturned · · Score: 1

    In this case, it is a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act (look up a few posts). That act is what keeps the military from doing civilian law enforcement. It ran afoul of it because an NCIS agent did a search on civilians.

    The perp isn't terribly sympathetic in this case but the act is very important and calls for strict protection.