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  1. Re:One of the advantages of Linux on Red Hat's Linux Changes Raise New Questions · · Score: 1

    The high precision timestamps in Rsyslog, specified in RFC5424 are not epoch seconds. They look like 2011-12-02T04:31:39.171878-08:00 and yes that's microseconds. High precision is essential for multi-source, high volume collection and analysis. It allows you to see the actual order of events when they're coming in from multiple hosts like a large pool of webservers. But hey, if near enough is good enough for you...

  2. Re:Your kidding, right? on Saving Gas Via Underpowered Death Traps · · Score: 5, Informative

    The asshat who wrote the first study sited in TFA is a shill for ExxonMobil. The article hinges it's entire premis on the results of the second scholarly work which is a month old draft of an unpublished, unpeer-reviewed, unproven idea for an econometric model to analyze policy effects on on safety (translate: probably not even close to accurate). In fact, the article states as it's first line "Research confirms that increasing fuel economy standards does cost lives on the road.", as if this is proven fucking fact now. Stuff like this on slashdot makes me want to punch people in the face. Few bother to question or even read linked articles but love to go all modern jackass on meta shit that doesn't even have anything to do with the subject.

  3. Re:Pricing!! on Verizon To Drop Unlimited Data Plans In Two Weeks · · Score: 1

    That's bullshit and easily checked with a search. US consumed 138.5 billion gallons of gas in 2010. While Exxon Mobile made profits of $30.46 billion on $383 billion in revenue. Why are so many people compelled to be apologists for big business. I bet you believe that rapist really loved you too. I suppose it's possible that they made on $0.02 per gallon and made up the rest on t-shirt sales to corporate fan boys.

  4. No cable. Just Roku and my laptop on Ask Slashdot: Are You Streaming-Only For Home Entertainment? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I will never pay for cable or dish or watch broadcast tv again. Roku streams Netflix, Hulu, even Aljazeera and Democracy Now to my TV. Device only cost $60. You don't need a DVR when you're watching on demand. I also watch tv and movies on my laptop, which enables me to sit outside and drink and smoke. Roku has tons of channels and you can even create your own.

  5. Re:as always depends on the person on Can For-Profit Tech Colleges Be Trusted? · · Score: 2

    You should change that to "...never go to college for FREE". It's true that if you test poorly the government doesn't give you a free ride. You can sill pay. Heck you can even come to the US on a student visa and attend ITT. You would be better off buying a few books, a good laptop, attending local programming user groups and trying to work on open-source or mechanical turk projects.

  6. Re:Not as long as it's done in a crippled way. on Can the Atrix 4G Really Become Your Next PC? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Exchange started out not support SMTP or even TCP out of the box. You had to buy a special enabler that came on a separate floppy. Exchange had it's own crappy protocol but now supports IMAP4, POP3, LDAP, NNTP and IRC (go figure). It used to have WebDAV but now a soap api. NTLM became kerberos. AD's LDAP started with their own schema but now includes iNetOrg. IE used to suck but now, not as much. Sony memsticks lost to MMC All cell phones will one day just use a regular USB cable

  7. Re:Bye-bye! on Are 10-11 Hour Programming Days Feasible? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The ford motor company set a 48 hour, 6 day work week because, as Henry Ford said himself, for social justice reasons but it was really to reduce an extremely high turnover rate. This wasn't the whole picture in practice though. http://books.google.com/books?id=4K82efXzn10C&pg=PA126#v=onepage&q&f=false He didn't invent the assembly line either. Ford Motors wasn't even the first to use it for auto manufacturing. Ford is not a hero. He was a CEO.

  8. Re:Matrix Jokes ... on DARPA To Turn Humans Into Batteries · · Score: 1

    The 3rd one is where Coppola's daughter gets killed and everyone in the audience applauded.

  9. Re:How much? on High Depreciation May Slow Electric Car Acceptance · · Score: 1

    This link does a good job explaining the continuing mem effect urban legend. http://www.dansdata.com/gz011.htm

  10. Re:AMERICAN CITIZEN KILLED BY TURK ON ISRAELI GROU on Police Officers Seek Right Not To Be Recorded · · Score: 1
    A "blockade" has been considered an act of war for hundreds of years. Only the UN security council can say what is legal or illegal. A resolution could call for sanctioning Israel for the blockade but would need to be not vetoed by any of the Security Council members in order for it to be "illegal" (whatever that means), in which case Israel could be "legally" blockaded by UN sanction. You could say that it's not illegal because the US says so. It has nothing to do with law and everything to do with military power and money. At any time, any country that wanted to trade with or come to the aid of people living in Gaza could do so and it would also be "legal". Turkey could go to war with Israel claiming that the blockade is illegal and their actions against the Turkish flagged ships was piracy and it would be "legal".

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade

    Of course no country will directly aid the Palestinians as long as the US backs Israel. I do feel sorry for both sides of the conflict. For the Palestinians because it's hopeless for them and for Israel for the day when the US is no longer willing or able to back them. So many problems could be solved if they found a peaceful resolution.

  11. Re:declining oil production on Thorium, the Next Nuclear Fuel? · · Score: 1

    Independent analysis of your idiotic statement http://www.eia.doe.gov/cabs/Iran/Oil.html

  12. Re:citation needed on "Violent" Video Games To Be Banned In Venezuela · · Score: 1

    I apologize for assuming you were from the US. I'm really curious what is with all the hate against Chavez from your perspective? Not the part about how he's censoring stuff or acting like a dictator. But what about his policies is so offensive to you or the significant part of the population that support a coup would seem like a good idea?

  13. Re:citation needed on "Violent" Video Games To Be Banned In Venezuela · · Score: 5, Interesting
    That didn't happen. It was faked by the TV station that was actively taking part in the coup attempt and picked up by CNN, et. al. to support the US position on the coup.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_chavez#Ch.C3.A1vez_and_the_media

    Now I know you're saying "that just wikipedia" but maybe read the cites. Or do a google search. Educate your self. You might find that the US government has done far worse in acting out foreign policy goals... And publicly acknowledged it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_sponsored_regime_change. Almost as bad as the Brits.

    But I understand your need to deny anything that the US does that could be construed as bad since this might force you to take personal responsibility for your own life.

  14. Re:More to the Story? on Verizon Sued After Tech Punches Customer In Face · · Score: 1

    Well there's Incitement to Violence which can be a valid legal defense for assault and can be a crime in itself depending on the circumstances.

  15. Re:What compares to Access on PostgreSQL? on PostgreSQL 8.4 Out · · Score: 1

    Access is to PostgreSQL. You can easily use access to query and manipulate data in a pg db. If you searched Access and Postgresql, you'd see there are tons of tutorials around the pair. You can also use OpenOffice.org Calc to do the same thing.

  16. Re:Not unless... on Siemens, Nokia Helped Provide Iran's Censoring Tech · · Score: 1

    An Israeli company produces the underlying software of the only product they could be talking about, Checkpoint. Maybe that would make a stink with the people that bought it.

  17. Re:GTA X London on UK Tax Breaks For "Culturally British" Games · · Score: 1

    GTA Chav edition

  18. Re:DRM on NASA Tests Deep-Space Network Modeled On the Internet · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's called trademark, not copyright and someone already did it: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=jemidk.2.1

  19. Re:5th Ammendment? on Feds Block EFF Look at Google/DoJ Contacts · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Isn't the 1st amendment an easy way to say you're ignorant?

  20. Your flying car sir on Space Plane to Offer 2 Hour Flight around the World · · Score: 1

    The Aerocar started commercial production in 1956 but was canceled due to lack of interest. You say you want a flying car but I bet you don't even have a pilots license.

  21. Toxicological results on Enron's Kenneth Lay Dies · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I heard on the radio leaked info from the coroner that he had Viagra in his system. Makes sense; going away to prison for what amounts to a life sentence and all.
    On another note, what's with most press accounts characterizing his death is a tragedy?

  22. Re:New Math Sucks! Let's Raise the Stakes! on Spacecraft Crashes Into Satellite · · Score: 1

    My god! Dr. Bronner is alive and posting on /.

  23. Boost on Oracle to Boost AJAX, Java · · Score: 1

    Pronunciation: 'büst
    Function: verb
    5 slang: STEAL, SHOPLIFT

  24. Re:Main problem... on Sarbanes-Oxley Costs Exceed Benefits · · Score: 1

    SOX is all about making sure you have processes and policy to keep your business financially safe (disaster recovery, access controls, financial controls, etc.) and auditing to make sure you're following your own process/policy. If you don't have well documented process standards and policies auditors are happy to apply "industry standards" for you that usually doesn't match what you actually do. I've been through 4 rounds of "controls" audits and I believe they're a good thing. They force you to do what everyone should have been doing in the first place which is documenting important stuff in an organized fasion and verifying that you're actually following the docs. The truth is that those controls can be anything you want them to be. Don't want to do backups? Just document why and be ready to explain it to the auditor. You are still in "compliance". The CXO's hate it because they don't understand the nuts and bolts of their business and the people that understand the nuts and bolts don't understand what the auditors are doing so it ends up taking many man hours more than it really should. The audit firms prey on this. Really there isn't anything that complex about it.

    If you hate SOX you probably work for idiots. If you don't see any idiots...

  25. Re:Cedega and Punkbuster on Cedega 5.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Latest(?) version of Cisco VPN client for Linux. Runs great on Ubuntu 5.10 and Fedora Core 4, lateset kernels.