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  1. Good... on BSG Prequel Series Caprica Canceled · · Score: 1

    Caprica was a terrible show.
    Cylons are spoiled teenaged girls, deep down, where it counts...

    Pthththt...

    Good riddance.

    Make more episodes of Stargate Universe...

  2. Re:Time's arrow on What 'IT' Stuff Should We Teach Ninth-Graders? · · Score: 2, Informative

    You are not going to hold the attention of a ninth grader with tech that they will never see in use outside your classroom.

    Then this person should not work in IT.
    And won't need the training the OP is talking about.

    If they don't work in IT, they only need to learn how to use a mouse and keyboard.

  3. Re: Barking Dog on Where To Start With DIY Home Security? · · Score: 1

    Heh...

    My two mutts were 8 weeks old.
    One Lab and Spaniel mix, one generic retriever.

    Sweetest damn dogs you'd ever want to meet.

    But their barks were fearsome... :)

  4. Re: Barking Dog on Where To Start With DIY Home Security? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Came to say this ---^

    Lived in Miami and had many things stolen from my fenced in yard and many "false alarms" on my alarm system whenever I was out of the house after dark.

    Got 2 puppies from the local animal shelter and voila, problems stopped...

    Barking PUPPIES stopped it all...And when they got bigger and their barks were deeper, it was just a bonus that kept solicitors away as well...

    Now, they're both 15 years old and sleep all the time and they deserve it.

    Be a mensch. Rescue a puppy and save yourself a lot of hassle and get a buddy to hang out with as well...

    One of the best decisions I ever made.

  5. Re:Nanites on First Self-Replicating Creature Spawned In Conway's Game of Life · · Score: 1

    Just because material goods are free does not mean services will be free. To get medical treatment, you would need money.

    Replicate yourself a doctor and have him treat you...

    Or, replicate yourself as an earlier, non-sick, you...Just like they did with the Doctor in STTNG...

  6. Re:Astronomy! on Scientific R&D At Home? · · Score: 1

    Seconded...This is a great book and convinced me to get back into astonomy after a 25 year break...

    Last thing I did before this was photograph Halley's Comet back in '85/'86, with my 6" reflector and Minolta 35mm SLR...

    Now, I've got a 150mm Mak-Cass and a Canon 20Da...Gonna do me some Variable Star Asronomy...

  7. Same thing that happened to the rest of IT.... on Whatever Happened To Programming? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, most of us are not "engineers" any more, we're factory workers on a production line...

    Unless you're working for the company making the tools, you're using someone else's wrench to build that "truck".

  8. Hah! Our own government uses Open Source a lot! on Use Open Source? Then You're a Pirate! · · Score: 1

    I wonder how that will work out?

  9. Re: Me too on Tomorrow's Science Heroes? · · Score: 1

    ...Got a bit of a man-crush going...

  10. Actually, you don't want another computer geek... on Where Does a Geek Find a Social Life? · · Score: 1

    IMHO, don't chase only COMPUTER geek chicks...

    I was married to a total babe who was not a geek, but turned out to be not a fantastic match in the long run
      and another who was not a babe, but was a wonderful person and a Fabric/Knitting geek. We were together for 7 years until she unfortunately fell to Colon cancer last year...

    Learn some real world social skills...Wash your clothes once in awhile...Read a non-computer, non-sci-fi book now and then...

    Oh, and stop using "meatspace" to describe the real world...It sounds condescending and stupid.

  11. Re:Trying to be too hip... on Extrapolating the Near Future of Gaming · · Score: 1

    Yup. Modded as a Troll.

  12. Trying to be too hip... on Extrapolating the Near Future of Gaming · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...gadgets that don't so much provide access to the internet as smear the internet all over the meatspace world around their owners

    Using the term "meatspace", automatically identifies you a hipster doofus in my book...

     

  13. When CF fails... on How Does Flash Media Fail? · · Score: 1

    ...it seems to fail catastrophically.

    The company I work for makes systems which use CF as a boot device.

    I've yet to see a "partial" failure. It's usually all or nothing...During system upgrades we write new a boot kernel to the CF card and usually, I have found when that fails, the system will not boot either.

  14. Re:So what next? on Why the CAPTCHA Approach Is Doomed · · Score: 1

    On the message board of our podcast website, we put in a very simple question, which has stopped spam posts completely when Captcha definitely was not working.

    "What's the name of the movie character in the picture in the upper right hand corner of the page?"

    Stopped it 100%.

  15. IRC... on Internal Instant Messaging Client / Server Combo? · · Score: 1

    We use an in house IRC server with all IRC traffic blocked at the firewall...

  16. What no RTP? on Places Where the World's Tech Pools, Despite the Internet · · Score: 4, Informative

    So, I guess Cisco, IBM, GlaxoSmithKline, Bayer, Sony Ericson, NIH, EPA, NetApp, EMC, Red Hat and others don't count? And don't forget, as I've mentioned before, the Sanrio store...

  17. Not About Beer? on The State of the Homebrew Games Scene In 2009 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Am I the only one who thought this was going to be about beer?

  18. How about fixing the Javascript Memory Leak? on Firefox 3.2 Plans Include Natural Language, Themes · · Score: 0

    Nuff said

  19. Microsoft Is Not Going to Like This.... on Apple Awarded Patent For iPhone Interface · · Score: 1

    What about MS's new touch screen stuff...

    You think they're going to sit still for this?

  20. Re:OpenXML Plug-In Exists for Novell's OO.o on Can a Small Business Migrate Smoothly To OpenOffice.org v3? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Technically it would be binary lob or blob, since binary blob is redundant:)

    Well, maybe he's referring to an amorphous object consisting of binary data... :)

  21. Hopefully, alternate fuel research will go on. on Are Biofuels Still Economically Feasible? · · Score: 1

    I think makers of internal combustion engines and their fuel suppliers, need to look at this as a temporary reprieve from the Governor while their case is reviewed.

    Research into alternate energy sources for transportation must continue.

    To give up this research just because petroleum prices are low, would be a grave mistake.

    Heck, bump prices up a little and use the surplus to fund research instead of paying CEO salaries and shareholder dividends.

  22. Re:Sounds like fun. on USPS Server Meltdown · · Score: 4, Interesting

    USPS has IT people? Oiy veih I can imagine that job.

    A few years ago, I used to be one of them...

    Oy Vey, indeed...

  23. I Googled Scarlett Galabekian on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 2, Insightful
  24. Common Household Item - on Silencing a Hard Drive Using Household Items · · Score: 2

    Gun

  25. Re:Carefully protected? on Why RAID 5 Stops Working In 2009 · · Score: 1

    Mind you, I've worked in IT for over 15 years and I've never had the fortune to experience a double disk failure.

    Lucky you.

    I work as a TSE for one of the major storage companies. I see double disk failures at least weekly, usually more often.

    This is where the difference between a home-brewed solution and a commercial solution comes in.

    Two and a half years of working this kind of case at least weekly and I've never lost any data, because we have the tools to deal with these issues.

    So, ideally, mirrored raid for availability. Snapshots to protect against deletion and off-site replication for DR.

    No tapes needed.