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  1. Re:Drugs on Predicting a Future Free of Dollar Bills · · Score: 1

    And people will switch to Tide as a currency (it's already happening!)

  2. Re:Cashless can't happen, here is why ... on Predicting a Future Free of Dollar Bills · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Personally, I find the idea of being 100% dependent on the finance industry to carry out a 'legitimate' transaction to be at the very least distasteful.

    Do we really want to give banks the power of taxation?

  3. Re:Not a rule on FAA Pressures Coldwell, Other Realtors To Stop Using Drone Footage · · Score: 1

    You should also be better able to manage sharing airspace with a properly operated drone.

  4. Re:What if he forgot it? on UK Computing Student Jailed After Failing To Hand Over Crypto Keys · · Score: 1

    He is sentenced to jail based on that decision. It seems a lot like a conviction to me.

    You seem to be firmly convinced that it's fine to build a house on quick sand as long as the floor is sturdy.

  5. Re:We live in the future tsarkon reports on New Technology Uses Cellular Towers For Super-Accurate Weather Measurements · · Score: 2, Funny

    Awwww, did I make someone feel like a braying ass?

    Who's a braying ass? YOU're a braying ass, yes you ARE!

    Learn to speak like a grownup and I'll stop with the baby talk.

  6. Re:I don't get it on Utility Wants $17,500 Refund After Failure To Scrub Negative Search Results · · Score: 2

    With fake news, fake blogs, and attempting to find an excuse (ANY excuse) to have an article taken down or de-listed?

    You have lowered your expectations WAYYYYYYYyy too much.

  7. Re:Puppet. on Ask Slashdot: Unattended Maintenance Windows? · · Score: 1

    If the clone isn't on the same VLAN, accessing the same data-gathering hardware, there is no way the infrastructure

    Sounds like you should make sure the clone is on the same vlan and accessing the same data gathering hardware, doesn't it?

    I'm not saying that we don't try (use data from an old run, etc.), but there is no way to truly duplicate everything, and sometimes you just have to live with that.

    So, use the clone with that setup to verify as much as you can. Then use the snapshot to allow you to roll back if things don't work out in production.

    If you still can't afford the risk, then you don't need a Maintenance window at all. You need to airgap the network and never update anything on the expensive side.

  8. You can polish a turd. on Utility Wants $17,500 Refund After Failure To Scrub Negative Search Results · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Mythbusters showed us you CAN polish a turd. This suggests you still can't polish a CEO.

    The natural conclusion is left as an exercise for the reader.

  9. Re:We live in the future tsarkon reports on New Technology Uses Cellular Towers For Super-Accurate Weather Measurements · · Score: 1

    Fedex depends on USPS for last mile delivery in a lot of places. USPS handles orders of magnitude more deliveries than Fedex.

    Based on that, they are much MORE efficient than Fedex.

  10. Re:Interesting argument on CDC Closes Anthrax, Flu Labs After Potentially Deadly Mix-Ups Come to Light · · Score: 2

    In cases with potentially dire consequences, I suspect people will be careful even if they don't believe they will be held accountable. In other cases, it may be too easy to rationalize that nothing bad will actually happen (often true of things like workplace safety).

  11. Re:What if he forgot it? on UK Computing Student Jailed After Failing To Hand Over Crypto Keys · · Score: 1

    Is that a serious question?

    They have to PROVE that the defendant did NOT forget. Even if they decide the defendant has no credibility, they still have no conviction since nobody else in the world is able to directly witness the defendant's state of mind and there isn't enough behavioral evidence to conclude that he remembers.

    The defendant is innocent until PROVEN guilty. That means that until proven otherwise, the defendant must be assumed to have forgotten the password.

  12. Re:Explain to me on CDC Closes Anthrax, Flu Labs After Potentially Deadly Mix-Ups Come to Light · · Score: 1

    Agriculture includes animals that can transmit some strains of the flu. The most dangerous strains are those that have just jumped species.

    Meanwhile, USDA knows more about pigs and chickens than the CDC.

  13. Alas, it exists in the wild and so the only way we can destroy it there is to study it in a lab.

  14. Re:So will there be criminal charges? on CDC Closes Anthrax, Flu Labs After Potentially Deadly Mix-Ups Come to Light · · Score: 2

    You would rather punish someone than make sure this doesn't happen again? Why?

    If you want people to be open and honest about how things are actually being done so you can find out where the problem lies, you cannot also be playing the blame game.

    Beyond that, where is the criminal intent? Do you allege that some psychopath is deliberately endangering lives for a laugh?

  15. Re:Puppet. on Ask Slashdot: Unattended Maintenance Windows? · · Score: 2

    But the solution will be just a more complex variant on this theme. Consider also that you might have allowed complex to become Rube Goldberg.

  16. Re:Moby Dick ain't got no Porta Potty on Texas Town Turns To Treated Sewage For Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    Yes, but it's filtered by natural processes rather than by the lowest bidder.

  17. Re:Ewww... on Texas Town Turns To Treated Sewage For Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    So you're saying Republicans drink poop water?

  18. Re: Holy grey area! on Biohackers Are Engineering Yeast To Make THC · · Score: 1

    Thank you for that!

  19. Re:Not a rule - Not just the FAA on FAA Pressures Coldwell, Other Realtors To Stop Using Drone Footage · · Score: 1

    It's 500 feet AND they have to be able to glide to a safe landing location if their engine cuts out. 500 feet doesn't make that a good bet in a neighborhood for a manned vehicle.

  20. Re: Holy grey area! on Biohackers Are Engineering Yeast To Make THC · · Score: 1

    Given the way the DEA is going, the question might be can you make Sudafed from meth?

  21. Re:Not a rule on FAA Pressures Coldwell, Other Realtors To Stop Using Drone Footage · · Score: 1

    In a neighborhood where a realtor might use a drone to photograph the property, a manned plane would certainly violate the safe landing requirement anywhere near an altitude suitable to photograph the home.

  22. Re:Not a rule - Not just the FAA on FAA Pressures Coldwell, Other Realtors To Stop Using Drone Footage · · Score: 1

    If there's any manned plane flying at an altitude where a realtor's drone would be, there are already larger problems, like manned planes crashing into people's homes.

  23. Re:No one cares, so why does it matter? on William Binney: NSA Records and Stores 80% of All US Audio Calls · · Score: 1

    So then you agree with the NRA/2nd amendment supporters that it is not now time to use their firearms in a revolution. So what's your complaint about them again? We have no idea what they might have said through channels other than the NRA (which i specifically for gun related issues).

  24. Re: Seems appropriate on UK Computing Student Jailed After Failing To Hand Over Crypto Keys · · Score: 1

    Did you read my responses carefully? Where I expressed doubt that the prosecution would even try absent physical evidence or witnesses to a discussion of guilty knowledge to back up the theory? For example, an accountant will certainly know if they keep 2 books. A written communication indicating state of mind in the case of the adviser or at least a repeated pattern of behavior.

  25. Re: You have only yourself to blame... on Chinese State Media Declares iPhone a Threat To National Security · · Score: 1

    Because who knows what 'extras' might have been included when they were made in China.