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  1. Re:anyone else curious on Google Outage Shows Risk of Doing Business In China · · Score: 1

    seeing how the leaked route was from Pakistan, no, it wasn't related at all.

  2. Re:Could we hear some Germans tell this story? on Germany Exports More Electricity Than Ever Despite Phasing Out Nuclear Energy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ummm... yes it does. Concrete block has an inherent R value of 1.28 where wood siding is about 0.8.

  3. Re:Excellent! on How CoreSite Survived Sandy · · Score: 1

    I watched a show the other night that demonstrated animals including monkeys, dogs and even mice have empathy for each-other. In other words a mouse will release another mouse who is trapped and then share its food. What do it say about you that you think it is great they hoarded resources while others suffered?

  4. welcome back to the 90's! on Department of Homeland Security Wants Nerds For a New "Cyber Reserve'" · · Score: 3

    Does that website actually use tables? maybe one of the first "1337 skilz" they get should be someone that knows how to use something newer than frontpage 2000 and knows better than to put an unobfuscated email addresses like infragardteam@infragard.org as a contact link.... unless this is a honeypot those poor bastards are going to get a serious introduction to spam. How clueless.

  5. where is my hardware keyboard? on Google's Nexus 4, 7, 10 Strategy: Openness At All Costs · · Score: 1

    And if they would just add a hardware keyboard I would be perfectly satisfied... every try working on a server with a touchscreen even in a pinch? Was that backspace or enter you wanted on that commandline? Finger slipped.... whoops!

  6. I'm no economist.... on Crowdsourcing Concerts — the Future of Live Music? · · Score: 1

    I am no economist, but there are some serious flaws with this economic model. Also it smells like a pyramid scheme.

  7. Re:So fucking what? on Black Sheep Blackberry Blackballed By Business · · Score: 4, Insightful

    amen. We finally got our last user off blackberry this month and shut down the BES the next day. Good riddance to a piece of bloated crapware!

  8. Re: Sylvania SilverStar series bulbs on Where Has All the Xenon Gone? · · Score: 2

    You are holding it wrong! Seriously though: people tend to handle the bulbs with a bare hand leaving oil residue on the bulb and thus causing it to fail prematurely. Use a rag or a glove when installing the new bulbs and this won't be an issue!

  9. Re:It demonstrate how inefficient desktop software on Stress-Testing Software For Deep Space · · Score: 1

    Your desktop word processing software also didn't have a licensing cost in the hundreds of thousands of dollars...

  10. Re:"earlier Mars mission" == MER-A Spirit on Stress-Testing Software For Deep Space · · Score: 1

    policy inheritance can be handled through FUTEX_PI. Issues due to a lock-contention can be handled by the kernel via FUTEX_LOCK_PI.

  11. Re:Time for a boycott! on Twitter Restricts Client Developers · · Score: 1

    That's just bad coding and there is no excuse. It doesn't help that the demo code snip-its from twitter et al are blocking javascript garbage, but any webdesigner or programmer worth their salt should be able to rewrite it into async non-blocking code in no time flat.

  12. t-mobile on Ask Slashdot: A Cheap US Cellphone Plan With an Unlocked Phone? · · Score: 5, Informative

    get the online/walmart $35 plan which has unlimited data or pay by the minute at 10 cents a minute if you don't use it much. You can also get unlimited text/data/voice on at&t or t-mobile through net10 for $45/month - check their website as the deal is online only. tell it you are using an at&t locked phone if you want at&t otherwise they send t-mobile by default

  13. Re:And NASA has made mistakes with this before... on Upgrading Software From 350 Million Miles Away · · Score: 1

    as long as it isn't HP writing the installer I'm ok with it... Installing printer... error... rolling back... installing.. error... ad infinitum

  14. Re:Bacula is your friend on Ask Slashdot: Simple Way To Backup 24TB of Data Onto USB HDDs ? · · Score: 1
  15. is that real broadband or cell co broadband? on US Adoption of 10 Mbps+ Broadband Nearly Doubles In a Year · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I am curious how much of this availability is due to high speed cellular, which while perfectly fast is pretty much useless due to ridiculous data caps. My choices at home are cellular, dial-up, or satellite. Satellite latency sucks, cellular latency is fine but the 5GB data cap is horrible and dial-up is well.... dial-up. I would hardly consider myself as connected to high speed broadband, but does this study count me as such?

  16. Re:Why? on US Missile Defense Staff Told To Stop Watching Porn · · Score: 2

    How is the president supposed to tweet the launch codes if they don't have internet access?

  17. Re:Had to restart because there on South Korea To Restart Its Oldest Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 2

    The UN boogeyman is just that, but your comment about housing workers in the factories reminds me of joking that the new super walmart being built in town was going to have apartments for the employees upstairs. I expected "yikes, scary" but what I got was "that makes sense!" which is even scarier coming from fellow Americans. Don't be fooled: people are for more complacent than you would like to think, and that was a decade ago.

  18. Re:Sinkholes on Russian City Ever Watchful Against Being Sucked Into Earth · · Score: 3, Informative

    As a Floridian, I can tell you this is made worse by water bottling operations, mining, bad agricultural practices and pollution. While they do occur naturally doing things that erode the limestone (acidifying the soil) or lower the water table (the water helps holds it all up!) really makes it more prevalent. Last year there were many sinkholes that opened up on the same day - all within about a 10 mile radius of the water bottling plant. Sure, you could say that could be a coincidence, but it isn't. This can be observed time and time again.

  19. Re:Key AND Password on The Optimum Attack Rate For SSH Bruteforce? Once Every Ten Seconds · · Score: 1

    If you are worried about that setup VPN with only access to ssh. Use a password for one and a key for the other. Otherwise, just keep your keys password protected and in a safe place. You can also restrict ssh/vpn to your IP address or a known range to limit the attack surface to locations you might actually be using to login. Add in fail2ban and a honeypot... wait why I am I telling you all this? If you are that worried just unplug it from the internet, don't use removable media and you will be fine!

  20. reply to comments STILL broken - please fix! on Slashdot Coming Attractions · · Score: 4, Informative

    For the love of Linus please fix the bug that causes me to always have a notification that there is a reply to one of my comments. I have tried everything to delete it and nothing works. It is super annoying! If I click on the message it just says that message xxxxxxxxxx isn't found (where xxxxxxxxxx = message ID). Arghh!!!

  21. Re:Yay! I have a Lexmark! on FOIA Request Shows Which Printer Companies Cooperated With US Government · · Score: 5, Funny

    No worries, lexmark print quality is so horrid and their printers so unreliable who in their right mind would actually try to counterfeit anything using one?

  22. Re:write only media FTW! on New Technique Promises Much Faster Hard Drive Write Speeds · · Score: 1

    psshhht if you don't need to read it back my /dev/null tech can beat the pants off your laser nanoisland tech any day.

  23. Re:Human failure on Viruses Stole City College of S.F. Data For Years · · Score: 1

    is that manufactured by /dev/null technologies, inc?

  24. Re:Gee, maybe U.S. shouldn't try to steal oil on Tensions Over Hormuz Raise Ugly Possibilities For War · · Score: 1

    Because that isn't how how deficit spending works. If they stop spending money they don't have they don't magically have money to give us as 'tax breaks', they just have less debt to pay back with our future taxes. Trust me, I'd love a tax break, but sound economics is important too.

  25. Re:Is somebody paying for these articles? on Sorry, IT: These 5 Technologies Belong To Users · · Score: 1

    Looks interesting. Can you please provide the link for the rack mount server I am supposed to run this on.... oh wait, apple stopped making those.