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  1. Re:Recruiting policy on Microsoft Cheaper To Use Than Open Source Software, UK CIO Says · · Score: 2

    How about small enough then? For a while, I maintained Debian 'Woody-Potato' for a 10 person shop.

  2. Re:not about cost in my oppinion on Microsoft Cheaper To Use Than Open Source Software, UK CIO Says · · Score: 5, Informative

    It says cost, but the whole of TFAs boil down to MS is big and you can't depend on small vendors just because. So, ignoring Red Hat (reason not given) and IBM (reason not given), there are no large vendors of Linux. QED(ish, sorta).

  3. Re:Well duh on Sony Warns Demand For Blu-Ray Diminishing Faster Than Expected · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This! They made a beautiful cake, moist without being sticky, the perfect crumb. Then thay slathered it with whipped horse shit frosting and wonder why nobody will buy it.

  4. Re:Disrepectful women teach women can't be critici on Help EFF Test a New Tool To Stop Creepy Online Tracking · · Score: 1

    My experience is that age and gender have little to do with it. Inexperience and wannabe status seem to be the determining factors.

  5. Re:ISPs are Shady on Mozilla Offers FCC a Net Neutrality Plan With a Twist · · Score: 1

    Clearly, in this case the business is the parent given stewardship over the net. They are abusive parents, so need to lose custody FAST.

    Or, if you prefer, the businesses are children who refuse to play nice with their toys, so they will be taken away. It's not a bad analogy, the toy in question came from the parent in the first place (DARPA).

    Or we can go with the businesses are children and government is Cosby's dad: "I brought you into this world and I can take you out! Doesn't matter to me, I can make another one that looks just like you".

  6. Re:ISPs are Shady on Mozilla Offers FCC a Net Neutrality Plan With a Twist · · Score: 1

    It seems like you are suggesting the same as emancipating a child because he misbehaves: the parents are not parenting properly,

    It's more like saying that if the parents don't do their job well enough, the children are made wards of the state. Which is EXACTLY what happens today.

  7. Re:now I never looked into it on California City Considers Restarting Desalination Plant To Fight Drought · · Score: 1

    Which is cheaper, even at California power rates than bottled water.

  8. Re:now I never looked into it on California City Considers Restarting Desalination Plant To Fight Drought · · Score: 2

    The hilarious part is conservatives who don't understand that the eeeeeevil regulations are less expensive to comply with than accepting what the market rate would be with no intervention.

  9. Re:And with that yoiu get POWER! on California City Considers Restarting Desalination Plant To Fight Drought · · Score: 1

    That would be a great way to deal with varying demand while maintaining constant reactor output.

  10. Re:And with that yoiu get POWER! on California City Considers Restarting Desalination Plant To Fight Drought · · Score: 1

    That won't actually get you much. The pressure driving the water through the membrane will be quickly counter-balanced by the pressure from the water column in the fresh water outlet hose. At that point, the whole process will be driven solely by the fresh water pump.

  11. Re:What's the difference on Help EFF Test a New Tool To Stop Creepy Online Tracking · · Score: 1

    If they keep that up, some bad guy or another will manage to get some bad JS into a LOT of big sites all at once.

  12. Re:frosty piss on Death Wish Meets GPS: iPhone Theft Victims Confronting Perps · · Score: 1

    Those helos SWAT likes to use cost $50/minute to keep in the air (that was in the '90s. I'm sure it's more now). The armored vehicles use a LOT of fuel. They hire more SWAT with more expensive equipment and training to maintain availability because they keep them busy on calls that a detective and a couple patrolmen used to handle.

  13. Re:Problem Illustrated on Help EFF Test a New Tool To Stop Creepy Online Tracking · · Score: 1

    Worse, the site that recommends it has multiple trackers on it that Privacy Badger flagged almost immediately.

  14. Re:One example: Slashdot's owner, Dice Holdings on Help EFF Test a New Tool To Stop Creepy Online Tracking · · Score: 1

    Sadly, had he said inexperienced wannabe graphic designers, he'd probably be right.

  15. Re:Vampirism on Elderly Mice Perk Up With Transfused Blood · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The young poor will be forced to give blood to the old rich. The old poor will be expected to die before they start actually using their social security.

  16. Re:And the question of the day is... on Could Google's Test of Hiding Complete URLs In Chrome Become a Standard? · · Score: 1

    Nope, I looked at passwordreset.bankofamerica.com.0.34234.com and decided I'd better not use that one.

    Or the very first part, http://./ Again, not a good idea for a password reset.

    The end part: ?=customerpasswordreset&34234 is irrelevant to the question.

  17. Re:Startup or frat party? on Ask Slashdot: Joining a Startup As an Older Programmer? · · Score: 1

    That's the problem with stake holders, they think productivity is a vampire.

  18. Re:That was a key plot point of the 1st season... on Breaking Bad's Scientific Consultant On Making Meth and More · · Score: 1

    That is most certainly an abuse of prescription law.

  19. Re:Useless colors on Help EFF Test a New Tool To Stop Creepy Online Tracking · · Score: 1

    The position of the slider is a secondary indicator.

  20. Re:What police officers lack ... on Death Wish Meets GPS: iPhone Theft Victims Confronting Perps · · Score: 1

    Or, I wait till he leaves his house, call my own number and while he's distracted, I bonk his head with a bat...

    But more likely, an average middle aged guy answers, I make my phone ring and his teenaged son returns the phone. Probably the last phone he will see for a while.

    Or the more thuggish individual gets a bit hostile until he hears that distinct sound of a bolt action rifle...

  21. Re:What's the difference on Help EFF Test a New Tool To Stop Creepy Online Tracking · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's the best policy. The problem isn't sites using JS, it's sites sucking in random bits of JS from 5 otrhert domains that each suck in yet more bits from 3 or 4 additional domains.

    Generally whjen I see that, I decide they're trying to convince me to just allow all witrhout seeing everything I'm allowing. That, in turn, tells me that that's is the last thing I should do so I leave the page and never go back.

  22. Re:Happy to see it. on Pirate Bay Sports-Content Uploader Faces $32m Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    As is a punitive system.

  23. Re:ICE - Why don't phones have this on Death Wish Meets GPS: iPhone Theft Victims Confronting Perps · · Score: 1

    If it's not locked, look in the address book for numbers like Mom, Bro, Sis, etc and call one of them. Tell them you found the phone and want to return it.

  24. Re:What police officers lack ... on Death Wish Meets GPS: iPhone Theft Victims Confronting Perps · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, you probably just want your phone back and don't give a crap about the rest. If you were a big believer in calling the cops you wouldn't be there at his door. But if you turn up dead and anyone at all knows where you were going, now he's looking at some serious trouble that will bring the cops around.

  25. Re:frosty piss on Death Wish Meets GPS: iPhone Theft Victims Confronting Perps · · Score: 2

    They dial the number which the phone company verifies is the complainant's number, listen for the ring. There's the exact location and probable cause in one neat package.

    They'll probably solve a lot more crimes at the same time. If you want to find thieves, go to where all the stolen goods are.