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  1. Re:Lumpy: This, is for you... apk on Ask Slashdot: Do You Run a Copy-Cat Installation At Home? · · Score: 1

    I see my stalker is back.

  2. Re:Lab environment on Ask Slashdot: Do You Run a Copy-Cat Installation At Home? · · Score: 1

    His is inside an actual lunchbox, Zero IQ MBA's look at them and see "lunchbox" Learn corporate camouflage, and you did not need it on your desk, under the desk works just fine. he has an IEC plug on it and a 802.11a wifi on it. never has to touch it and corporate security is too stupid to look for wireless AP's outside of 802.11bg or n.

  3. Netflix runs on linux. on Run Netflix On OpenSUSE · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Every BluRay player that has netflix on it is running Linux. so they are lying when they say they do not support it. My Panasonic BluRay states it runs linux in the manual and the License information, and there is Netflix right there on it.

    Netflix does not support a generic distro because they dont want to bother supporting it.

  4. Re:Enjoy it while you can... on Ask Slashdot: Do You Run a Copy-Cat Installation At Home? · · Score: 1

    You are what is Rubbish.

    Try having kids forced on you by a lying wife, I love my kids but I would change ever marrying their mother in a heartbeat. I never wanted kids, but being forced to because of stupid religion and even worse cultural pressure is wrong. and a LOT of men are trapped into having kids like this every single day.

  5. Re:Yeah, this .... on Ask Slashdot: Do You Run a Copy-Cat Installation At Home? · · Score: 2

    You are the only person that has commented that has a clue as to what I meant. Thank you.

  6. Re:I actually learn at work on Ask Slashdot: Do You Run a Copy-Cat Installation At Home? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm a problem creator at a Fortune 500 company.... I'm the guy that keeps you with work to do.

  7. Re:Lab environment on Ask Slashdot: Do You Run a Copy-Cat Installation At Home? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You can do this inside of a lunch box today. I have a friend that has a complete production system with 2 SQL servers, 2 app servers, and a failover/load balancer all in a lunch box. he brings it to work and tinkers during compiles.

  8. Re:Enjoy it while you can... on Ask Slashdot: Do You Run a Copy-Cat Installation At Home? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The solution to that is do not have kids. Honestly unless you really want the single most expensive hobby in the world, raising kids, just do not do it.
    People claim, Legacy: and being remembered... Bah, after 2 generations you will be completely forgotten and your grave never visited. Dont waste precious time and money on children.

    This is from a guy that raised 4 kids. Yes I enjoyed my kids, but if I was able to go back in time and kick my teenage self in the nuts 30 times to keep me from ever having children, I would do it in a heartbeat.

  9. I do it at work anyways. on Ask Slashdot: Do You Run a Copy-Cat Installation At Home? · · Score: 2

    It's easier to get forgiveness than permission. so I have a separate setup that is not on their network that I simply plug into to do my bidding and experiments. If I am learning new skills for them then they can pay me to do it.

  10. I know when.... on Astronomers Discover When Galaxies Got Their Spirals · · Score: 2

    The guy that picked up the snowglobe and gave it a twist... Sadly that is when the great galactic disaster happened and most of the residents of Betelgeuse IV died.

  11. Re:Missile Base on How To Avoid a Scramble For the Moon and Its Resources · · Score: 1

    NASA blasts a 1000Watt laser at the moon on a regular basis, in fact the Goddard center has an even bigger one going in place to give them a better return pulse for range finding. Yes they actually measure how far away the moon is quite a bit

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

    Lasers lose power on a logarithmic scale, so to hit the moon with enough power of a laser beam to actually heat the ground, not destroy anything, but act as a space heater, the ground based laser here would have to be so big that the atmosphere would boil, and they would have to use most of the power that the United states generate to fire the beam. Attenuation from our atmosphere is huge, but the distance is just mindbogglingly large.

    So if you did have a moon base, you have about 5000 years before technology is at a point where someone can shoot a laser at your base from earth and even be noticed on the moon.

  12. Re:nothing of any us to us on moon on How To Avoid a Scramble For the Moon and Its Resources · · Score: 1

    " It is at the bottom of a shallow gravity well,"

    It is at the bottom of a Gravity well that is 1/3 as deep as the Earths gravity well but also still within the earths gravity well, which is also within the Sun's gravity well.

    To orbit is easy from there, out of orbit still needs a lot of energy.

  13. Re:nothing of any us to us on moon on How To Avoid a Scramble For the Moon and Its Resources · · Score: 1

    you forgot the two MOST valuable resources...

    11 Moon Rocks.
    12 Moon Dust.

    Moon rocks go for more than 5000X their weight in gold. Moon dust is close to the same value.

    So DeBeers will be there selling wonderful classy Moon rock engagement rings, because being expensive means you love her....

  14. Re:nothing of any us to us on moon on How To Avoid a Scramble For the Moon and Its Resources · · Score: 1

    So the worst that can happen is that the moon starts generating life on it's own?

  15. Re:nothing of any us to us on moon on How To Avoid a Scramble For the Moon and Its Resources · · Score: 1

    Luckily, the guys at NASA are into that kind of thing....

  16. Re:Citation needed on Clear Solar Cells Could Help Windows Generate Power · · Score: 1

    Very simple. Thin film on glass = junk.

    Actual silicon solar cells = good.

    Mono crystalline = very good.

    Citation? try www.google.com and my experience at wasting a LOT of money on the garbage sold at Harbor Freight, Sears, Home Depot, etc... if it's a "brown" color and a sheet of glass they are complete garbage.

  17. Re:Near the waterfront? on Enormous Tunneling Machine 'Bertha' Blocked By 'The Object' · · Score: 2

    So they ran into the location where they buried all the bowling balls from the great bowling blight of the 1700's.

  18. Wide scale blocking. on Ask Slashdot: Managing Device-Upgrade Bandwidth Use? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I strongly suggest you also block all the common advert servers such as doubleclick as they consume far more bandwidth than the updates do.

  19. Re:It's not about places to put them. on Clear Solar Cells Could Help Windows Generate Power · · Score: 2, Informative

    These are thin film solar technology that has less than a 3 year lifespan. they lose nearly 30% of their power output withing 8 months. It is the same junk as the solar panels sold at Harbor Freight.

  20. Re:It's not about places to put them. on Clear Solar Cells Could Help Windows Generate Power · · Score: 0

    Glass is $0.25 a square foot. Solar Cells that have any real efficiency and longevity cost $2.25 a square foot. The bog point is there is barely 10% offset on cost, and these same windows will generate less than 20% of what a normal panel can generate so their economy is even less. Add in losses by being vertical and not tilted to the sun and they will generate 5% of the electricity than a standard cell on the roof will.

    So yes, he is missing a big point, these things are worthless as a technology unless used on vaery large mostly glass buildings as a supliment to the existing solar generation system if the contractor can afford a 500% increase in cost of the windows.

  21. Pseudo Science... on Clear Solar Cells Could Help Windows Generate Power · · Score: -1

    They would have to be horribly inefficient to allow most of the light through. So much that they would be useless in any installation other than an all glass high rise.
    That pesky Laws of Physics getting in the way again.

  22. Re:Mod Parent Article Down. on Why Charles Stross Wants Bitcoin To Die In a Fire · · Score: 1

    Tisk Tisk, blaming "christians" for what the "holy roman church" did is wrong. Please learn your history.

    The vatacan actually has the largest stash of bitcoins in the world, it's in the vaults next to the holy Grail and the ark of the covenant.

  23. Re:Flimsy cover story on Embedded SIM Design Means No More Swapping Cards · · Score: 1

    I pop out the sim all the time with the phone on. you can not "brick" a phone by doing this.

  24. No thanks. on Embedded SIM Design Means No More Swapping Cards · · Score: 1

    Because I have 100% control with a removable SIM. I don't need yet another thing held hostage by the telephone carrier.

  25. Re:imperfect ir filters are common, point blank ra on How a MacBook Camera Can Spy Without Lighting Up · · Score: 1

    do you notice how dim the IR remote looks on the camera? you do realize that that ir remote is blasting a LOT of light so it is the same as if you can take a 3Watt flashlight and blast your face with sunglasses and see a dim light. they block 90-98% of the light. Go ahead, get a piece of Unexposed but developed 35mm film in front of your webcam and show me how it can see clearly, it cant not without a LOT of light in the room or you remote the IR filter.