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  1. Your local free/reduced medical clinic.. on Tech-Related Volunteer Gigs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...i bet could really use some simple PHP+xSQL database for scheduling and stuff.

    Most small non-profits keep records in a smattering of paper and undocumented excel sheets, they could really use your IT expertise.

  2. Great.... on Review: Lord of the Rings: Conquest · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now a video game trilogy of people walking to a fucking volcano.

  3. Re:Washinton County School District... on Tapping the Earth For Home Heating and Cooling · · Score: 2, Funny

    The dragon also keeps the kids away from the GSHP equipment which is near the playground.

  4. Washinton County School District... on Tapping the Earth For Home Heating and Cooling · · Score: 1

    ...in Utah uses GSHP for almost every school. It saves them a grundel, but takes years to pay off.

    Seriously though, burying your buildings or simply building them underground would be MUCH more efficient. Ammunition bunkers I used to go to in Hawaii or now in Utah were always cool in the summer and kinda warm in the winter. And hella insulated.

  5. Re:even when... on YouTube Muting, Removing Videos Involving Warner Music · · Score: 1

    Even Rocky had a montage.

  6. even when... on YouTube Muting, Removing Videos Involving Warner Music · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...you use a small clip of a song for the background music of a video.

    That's about half the videos on Youtube.

  7. Re:Light, huh. on Wireless Internet Access Uses Visible Light, Not Radio Waves · · Score: 1

    Thermal weapon sights and FLIR systems see thru fog, rain, and snow quite well. If the wavelength is smaller than the particle it's going around, you don't see it.

    All media have distortion and absorption problem, it's up to the protocol layers to deal with that. The mufuckin microwave slows your 802.11 throughput...

  8. Re:The article is even more amusing than that. on Wireless Internet Access Uses Visible Light, Not Radio Waves · · Score: 1

    There are radio waves above "light" and below "light" on the spectrum. It's just a matter of how fast you shake your electrons.

    And the real genius of fiber right now is being able to multiplex sub-frequency lamdas thru a single fiber. Not simply increasing the freq. indefinitely.

  9. Re:It's called free space optics on Wireless Internet Access Uses Visible Light, Not Radio Waves · · Score: 1

    Had you been thinking, you could have sold IrDA switches in the form of a box of mirrors. Or IrDA hubs in the form of disco balls.

  10. Re:Sure, 17 year-olds believe this because of a ga on Halo 3 Criticized In Murder Conviction · · Score: 1

    [...]and physical death. I pity the fool that feels you must berate religion any[...]

    I don't know how many times I have to tell you.

  11. Re:No on actually reads that thing on Halo 3 Criticized In Murder Conviction · · Score: 1

    Either God went through a pretty radical transformation at some point

    You could say he had a "Come to Jesus Moment".

  12. Re:The state of Utah is trying something out. on How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out? · · Score: 1

    Well...for a lot of state employees it just means 4 10s and an unpaid 5 in the form of comp time that gets lost at the end of the fiscal year. Getting up earlier and it's not like you can run state government-related errands on that friday off...they are closed!

    Of course, some of them like it. But it really was Gov. Huntsman's idea to save $ on electricity / generate fiscal + environmental street cred. Works fine for office folk in SLC, not so well for wildlife biologists.

  13. The state of Utah is trying something out. on How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out? · · Score: 1

    They just went to 4 10's. 80 hrs in 8 days. And pretty much everyone I know hates it. OTOH, statistically you get more done a couple hours after you get there up to a couple hours before you leave.

  14. Re:research in motion on Solving Obama's BlackBerry Dilemma · · Score: -1, Troll

    The best part is the withdrawal deal was signed months before Obama takes office, and you will collectively remember that Obama did it.

    On a related note, Obama single-handedly:

    • beat the nazis
    • cured polio
    • is the PROFFIT!!1!
  15. Animals could be bred und SLAUGHTERED. on Va. Tech Students Create Experimental Bricks For the Moon · · Score: 1

    Ummm...why not just live in tunnels or caves. We cannot allow a mine-shaft gap! That would provide better structure for pressurized environments and protection from tiny meteorites.

  16. Re:But... on Va. Tech Students Create Experimental Bricks For the Moon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Bricks are like violence or astraglide.

    If it's not working, you're not using enough.

  17. Re:*sigh* on Visitors To US Now Required To Register Online · · Score: 1

    don't think we don't appreciate that you don't travel

    Wait...what?

    bool huh=(!(!(!american_travel)eurpean_appreciation)american_thoughts_of));

  18. Re:*sigh* on Visitors To US Now Required To Register Online · · Score: 1

    Hi! It seems you don't actually understand the Statue of Liberty. Would you like me to:

    • Explain it to you?

    The Enlightenment spawned a few countries. The United States was the brightest and most promising country as far as liberty was concerned. The French gave us a statue to commemorate that our "democratic ideals of life, liberty, and property" should set an example... "a shining city on a hill"..."a beacon of light" for the rest of the world.

    The beacon wasn't for people to come here. It was to remind non-enlightenment countries of the possibilities. Hopefully, all nations would be free.

    In 1883, a poet named Emma Lazarus rote a poem called "The New Colossus". It had nothing to do with the Statue of Liberty. Then in 1912, because of a fund raiser, the whole idea that America was a supposed to be open to the huddled masses was retroactively applied to the statue and thus the ehtos of the USA.

    No country lets poets write immigration policy.

  19. So what? on How Microsoft Beats GNU/Linux In Schools · · Score: 1

    how is this different from what Apple has done since....there was an Apple?

    And what the fuck is this, Comrade?

    the world could save up to $500 million each year by dumping Microsoft

    Imagine the money we could save if we dumped all commercially-produced products? We could totally save a ton of money if we just worked on collective farms and no-one ever made a profit. Way to tie FLOSS to the socialist agenda.

    Letting kids into the workplace without MS training is a non-starter. Here's a better idea: Kids well rounded in MS, Mac, and a Linux distro?

  20. Re:Users are to blame on More Than Coding Errors Behind Bad Software · · Score: 1
  21. standards and gov't interference. on Obama Proposes Digital Health Records · · Score: 1

    Medical records are, for the most part in the US, stored in standardized formats on paper. The standards are pervasive enough that colleges can teach transcription and billing classes, med and nurses courses can be consistent.

    What we really need is some lawyer telling every business how to do their jobs. I really hope Obama decides to switch the "national data structures system" to the binary search tree and outlaws the link-list-based stack. Irrespective of the fact that a: it's not his business; and b: the practitioners will chose the best tool for the job.

    If the president wants to mandate his government to perform a certain way...great. If he wants to do that to private business, it's just another loss of liberty. But....think of the children!

  22. Re:Who said "seize"? on Storm Worm Botnet "Cracked Wide Open" · · Score: 1

    You'll see why remotely removing the zombie code is the best use of resources.

    Except that the owner never gave you permission to do anything to his/her computer. Are we going to start using the "reasonable person" standard like for CPR on an unconscious person? Do I need a DNR to legally stop you from performing actions on my computer? Why stop with Storm? How about when the government thinks you looked at the porn or read politically subversive literature?

    The slashdot ethos is "from my cold dead hands" when we are talking about government censorship or Vista DRM being forced upon the masses...but it's ok to pull this shit to stop a botnet?

  23. Re:You're on to something there. on Storm Worm Botnet "Cracked Wide Open" · · Score: 1

    When your ISP calls you because a) they got a call from a target or b) they see a shitload of smtp traffic coming from you.

  24. Re:You're on to something there. on Storm Worm Botnet "Cracked Wide Open" · · Score: 0, Troll

    So a possible infection becomes grounds for the government to seize your property so it can be "cleaned"?

    Here's an idea: if your computer is under attack from someone's compromised computer. It's your responsibility to defend yourself with technological and litigious means as you deem necessary. If your computer is being used to attack someone else, it is your legal responsibility to stop it. If you are an ISP, just disconnect offenders until they can prove they are clean.

  25. Like the GRE... on Cisco Mulls Adding Verbal Interview To CCIE Exams · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...it could at least have essay questions that real people read. You can't bullshit a bullshitter.