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  1. Re:ran debian on sparc for over 10 years on Debian Drops SPARC Platform Support · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Used it in comcast to make close to $1,000,000 a day gathering data from the old ad insertion boxes.

    Solaris was a major PITA to deal with so I installed debian and simply rewrote the data harvester in C and it ran that way for 11 years. 4 of which were without any maintenance at all as I had left the company. and 4 years later I started getting notifications of script failures to a private email address I had that interfaced with my MSN watch. (Yes that long ago)

    The funny part is someone recently fired that box back up as last month I had an email that it successfully rebooted and started the cron job but could not find the servers it was trying to harvest data from.

  2. Re:Storage? on Clinton Promises 500 Million New Solar Panels · · Score: 3, Funny

    By using it to electrocute puppies.

  3. She can give me 30 of them on Clinton Promises 500 Million New Solar Panels · · Score: 2

    I'll even do the install on my home myself.
      give me 30 monocrystalline current tech 300 watt panels. 9000 Watt Hour will reduce my carbon footprint dramatically, in fact I will use a syncing inverter that will push my excess power back to the grid so that my neighbors can benefit from it.

    I'll even put a sign in my yard for her if she does this.

    Note to the uneducated that will pipe in, This is how most solar installations work, grid intertied syncing inverters without battery storage are incredibly common for solar installs. No it doesn't cost the power company anything.

  4. Free speech does not exist. on Police Shut Down Anti-Violence Fundraiser Over Rapper's Hologram · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In a world where we have "free speech zones" miles from events, and jack booted thugs called police that are too much of pussies to deal with crime instead of being assholes you dont get free speech.

    Unless you are rich enough to cause the police problems. Then you can have some.

  5. And this is why I dont have a 500 abarth. on Fiat Chrysler Hit With Record $105 Million Fine Over Botched Recalls · · Score: 2

    I was going to buy one, but after looking at owner forums and discovering the problems and horrible service that most people are getting I ran away.

    I really like the idea of a small sporty car, and I really wanted one, but not if Fiat cant figure out that you have to bend over backwards for customers and make sure they are happy. Apologize while you fix your screwups and do not try and push back fixing them.

    I do give honda plusses there. Recalls are done fast and mostly right. Except the pain recalls. Honda has the crappiest paint in the entire automotive industry, and the recalls are repainting with the same low grade crap that will fail in another 5 years.

  6. Linked in is still relevant?

    I have yet to meet ANYONE that has found linked in to be useful in any way. 99% of the "employers" are headhunters that are doing shotgun requests.

  7. So they both admit.. on Apple and Nike Settle FuelBand Lawsuit · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That the fuelband is a steaming pile of crap and everyone else has done a far better job?

    Everyone I have known that bought a fuelband has had theirs fail. Fitbit destroyed nike's market because Nike has no clue at all how to do anything but sell $9.00 low quality shoes to idiots that pay $250+ for them.

  8. Ugliest corners? on Secret Service Agents Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet · · Score: 1

    So they are paying really close attention to the lemonparty websites?

    Suicide rates of Federal agents will start to climb drastically.

  9. And they are back..... on FCC Approves AT&T's DirecTV Purchase · · Score: 2

    AT&T is back in the cable TV biz.... and they almost destroyed it the last time they tried this.

  10. Yeah Bullcrap. on Remote Control of a Car, With No Phone Or Network Connection Required · · Score: 1

    Details or it's fake. Too many of these claims lately have nothing, not even a glimmer of details to prove they did anything, and all the demos are with a car that has been prepped for the demonstration.

    Even the Jeep one was a very scripted demo with a LOT of work done before hand to the vehicle. A lot of the ECM programming forums were calling shenanigans on the claims and the reporting was so bad that it is not clear that the car did not have something fitted to make it possible.

    These guys need to release details or it's all just theatrics.

  11. Dear Universal.... on Universal Pictures Wants To Remove Localhost and IMDB Pages From Google Results · · Score: 1

    That 127.0.0.1 address is coming from INSIDE YOUR COMPANY!

  12. FAKE! on Studies Find Genetic Signature of Native Australians In the Americas · · Score: -1, Troll

    Everyone knows that nobody was here until Columbus discovered it. The indians were simply Communists from the future trying to undermine the creation of the United States!

  13. Re:It's the facility's responsibility on Ask Slashdot: Do You Use a Smartphone At Work, Contrary to Policy? · · Score: 1

    That response is exactly what they want to encourage. Just dont bring it. But there were a few that did need a smartphone (Palm Treo at that time) as they used specialized applications for their medical needs and had to record information about themselves during the day.

  14. Why dont they do what they ususally do? on Police Not Issuing Charges For Handgun-Firing Drone -- Feds Undecided · · Score: 3, Insightful

    and just make something up to arrest him for? Cops are good at that. Disorderly conduct is vague enough to stick.

  15. Re:If race doesn't exist, how is this possible? on Genetic Access Control Code Uses 23andMe DNA Data For Internet Racism · · Score: 2

    Exactly. as humans we love to hate others.

    Damn those people that live by the river, they are inferior to us mountian dwellers!

  16. Re:It's the facility's responsibility on Ask Slashdot: Do You Use a Smartphone At Work, Contrary to Policy? · · Score: 1

    If you have wifi inside the cage, your security and IT directors need to be fired.
    A single security sticker over the phone cameras solve the phone recording problem, That's what we did when I worked in a high security area. if your sticker was not perfectly intact when you checked out you lost your phone. Security took it and you never got it back. and you are lucky if you are not arrested.

  17. Re:Two caveats on NASA Funded Study States People Could Be On the Moon By 2021 For $10 Billion · · Score: 1

    "Water on the moon is a non-renewable resource. "

    huh? It is absolutely a renewable resource. unless you do a bonehead design and spray all used water into space. simply put water through treatment systems and renew it forever.

    You pee from last week is the beer you drink today.

  18. So basically.... on NASA Funded Study States People Could Be On the Moon By 2021 For $10 Billion · · Score: 1

    1 year of costs for our war on terror we could build a moon base?

    Dear god, as a species we just dont have our priorities straight. Let's let the middle east eat it's self and watch from the moon.

  19. Re:It's the facility's responsibility on Ask Slashdot: Do You Use a Smartphone At Work, Contrary to Policy? · · Score: 1

    It is not hard to faraday cage security areas. The problem is when management are too damn cheap to actually put in place real security.

    Hell I have been to places that had "high security" and actually had installed FAKE security cameras because the real stuff was too expensive.

  20. Of course I do. on Ask Slashdot: Do You Use a Smartphone At Work, Contrary to Policy? · · Score: 1

    How else can I send photos of the secret prototypes back to mother Russia?

  21. Re:"privacy of North Koreans" on Red Star Linux Adds Secret Watermarks To Files · · Score: 1

    if details on the tags are revealed, then it will be trivial to write a patch that randomizes the tag making the government furious.

  22. Re:Mercedes already has this... on Ford's New Smart Headlights For Tracking Objects At Night · · Score: 1

    But it's still there just disabled. you can easily re-enable it with coding.

  23. Re: older cars on Ford's New Smart Headlights For Tracking Objects At Night · · Score: 2

    that increase is not because of technology. It's because car makers are forced to do corrosion control on the body and important parts. I wish the feds forced the car makers to use stainless on the brake lines. #1 failure of any northern car is rusted brake lines because they use the cheapest soft steel they can get .

  24. Re:Pass on Ford's New Smart Headlights For Tracking Objects At Night · · Score: 1

    "If the smart headlights' computer guesses wrong, doesn't illuminate a bike rider on the side of the road, and I hit them because I couldn't see them, whose fault is it?"

    Your fault because you are driving on the side of the road. Try looking down the road and keeping your car in the lane.

  25. Re:Umm on Ford's New Smart Headlights For Tracking Objects At Night · · Score: 1

    Slow down? Are you insane? At night you go faster faster FASTER! OMG I am soooo important I need to do 90!

    Even at 70mph you are outdriving your low beam headlights on a modern car. High beams are required for speeds above 50. Yet 90% of the drivers on the road do not understand this and fly into the night at 80-90mph with low beams on and they get all pissy at the smart drivers that use their high beams.