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  1. This is normal. on Ham Radio Fills Communication Gaps In Nepal Rescue Effort · · Score: 2

    Ham radio fills in the gaps for ALL natural disasters. Katrina it was a huge aspect of communications.

    This is not new, this is what ham radio does.

  2. Dear Doctors and Hospitals.... on Researchers Mount Cyberattacks Against Surgery Robot · · Score: 1

    Pay for real IT security staff. $250,000 a year each is a starting wage for Good ones. Until you do so you will have problems.

    WE need to stop with this bullshit of trying to get security without paying for it. Tell these morons, DUH! you refuse to pay for it. until they understand.

  3. Re:Cool world on US Successfully Tests Self-Steering Bullets · · Score: 2

    You are 100% incorrect. Buddy of mine spent 6 years in Afghanistan with a M60 issued to him and never had any of that happen to him.

  4. Re:Cool world on US Successfully Tests Self-Steering Bullets · · Score: 2

    "Good luck getting one of those for yourself unless its an antique."

    Not a problem at all In fact they are rather easy to get.

    Step 1 join army.
    Step 2 Pass basic
    Step 3 Get M60 issued to you.
    Step 4 PROFIT!

  5. His standard are far too high. on University Overrules Professor Who Failed Entire Management Class · · Score: 1

    Honestly, people have the right to be drooling morons and have a degree.

    Expecting people to have an IQ or education is not normal today. Let them be dumb, and accept it. They have a god given right to be dumb.

  6. Re:Incorrect. on Pandora Paying Artists $0.0001 More Per Stream Than It Was Last Year · · Score: 1

    And many do. Cake for example started as a bar band, and never really changed their lifestyle much.

    No bathing in pools full of CrySTAL or snorting coke of the backs of $2000 a night hookers.

  7. They found a temple! on Signs of Subsurface 'Alien' Life Found In Antarctica · · Score: 1

    They even already have a documentary about it out.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt03...

  8. Re:This is about money on Feds Say It's Time To Cut Back On Fluoride In Drinking Water · · Score: 2

    Handling of the HYDROFLUOROSILICIC ACID is difficult. It eats through everything, even glass eventually. Tanks need replacement regularly, you have to wear hazmat suits when working around it... Go ahead get a little bit on you... it burns like hell and cant be neutralized.

    This is the primary reason coupled with the fact that most kids have easy access to fluoride rinses and toothpaste. No reason to go with a preventative dones and scale back to a maintenance dosage.

    Plus the crap is getting expensive to buy and truck. When I worked at a water filtration plant a semi truck load delivery was an expensive event, and that was 15 years ago. Today it's worse with the OMG WE ALL GONNA DIE OSHA standards for safety.

  9. Re:It's finally time on Feds Say It's Time To Cut Back On Fluoride In Drinking Water · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Here in the USA Dental health is looked at as a luxury. Dentists fight like hell to keep costs high and insurance crappy.

    It's a crime that most americans have almost no dental care they can afford. Yes most. you have to count the 90% that make less than $65,000 a year.

  10. Re:Least common denominator on Has the Native Vs. HTML5 Mobile Debate Changed? · · Score: 1

    Unless you are ok with that app not working at times.

    Web based is 105% crap when connectivity is flakey.

    If you are making "free" apps, go for it, but if you are charging a customer $29.95 for the app, it had damn well better be a native app that works even with all radios turned off.

    And I have a couple of $29.95 apps. Hell I have one for room audio tuning that was $59.95

  11. Awesome! on Pepsi To Stop Using Aspartame · · Score: 0

    When is pepsi going to make their cola taste good?

  12. Too bad the screens break easily on Google Officially Discontinues Nexus 7 Tablet · · Score: 1

    I have had 10 Nexus 7's given to me, every one with broken screens.

    They needed to stop making the screen with potato chips. They need gorilla glass that is 2X as thick.

  13. Re:"although not with bug-free results" on Google Officially Discontinues Nexus 7 Tablet · · Score: 2

    It does work just fine, you have to do a full wipe on it. Many users whined and refused to. they suffer bugs.

    Wipe it, then go along re installing apps. DO NOT restore it, just let things come back from the holy google cloud.

  14. Re:KDBus - another systemd brick on the wall on Linux 4.1 Bringing Many Changes, But No KDBUS · · Score: 1

    I love those free coffee breaks that windows give me!

  15. Incorrect. on Pandora Paying Artists $0.0001 More Per Stream Than It Was Last Year · · Score: 5, Informative

    Pandora is paying record labels via ASCAP and BMI that much more. Artists are probably getting less because the record labels and ASCAP/BMI are charging an extra processing fee.

    The artists only lose because of the leeches that grab onto them and suck them dry.

  16. Re:Is it the phone or the stupid stuff installed o on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Most Stable Smartphones These Days? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nope. I find that Cisco Enterprise Wireless Accesspoints are complete crap in regards to phones if your IT department doesn't update their firmware regularly.

    Work recently ripped out all the Cisco junk and installed UniFi and all wireless problems, mobile and other went away.

  17. Re:Nice idea but... on Tesla To Announce Battery-Based Energy Storage For Homes · · Score: 2

    I do understand the solar industry, that's why I fliped two big middle fingers to them and bought and imported all china solar panels and installed a 5Kwh setup for drastically cheaper than any of the overpriced US crap.

    Spent 1/2 the price got the same panels all monocrystalline and of very good quality build. It's been in operation for 3 years now with no problems. I use grid intertie and drive the meter backwards. No local storage.

    Electrical bill is $14.95 a month because you have to pay the "fees" and the scumbag leaders in my states government passed a law that allows the power company to not pay for any surplus I generate above my own use.

  18. Dear Musk. on Tesla To Announce Battery-Based Energy Storage For Homes · · Score: 1

    Offer a package with solar panels so we can get off the grid with no maintenance that a typical solar+wind offgrid setup requires.

    Most people can barely change the batteries in their TV remote, they cant handle the work involved in taking care of an offgrid power system. Been there done that.

  19. Re:systemd, eh? on Ubuntu 15.04 Released, First Version To Feature systemd · · Score: 1

    Actually better than normal. a slackware install is at least two orders of magnitude faster than Ubuntu.

    I've moved back to slackware for ham radio use, I got tired of fighting with the 6 different audio systems, 40 different places to put config files, etc...

    OSS and /etc with a custom kernel. Boot time on my field Ham radio PSK31 CF-18 toughbook is 6 seconds (Yes to an Xf86 login). with Xubuntu it was 45 seconds.

  20. Re:Phone Home on Ubuntu 15.04 Released, First Version To Feature systemd · · Score: 1

    Or an even more novel concept, use a Distro that doesnt shovel all that crap into it. If you really like Ubuntu, go to Debian. All the goodness and none of the ads or phone home junk.

  21. What about speed? on Ubuntu 15.04 Released, First Version To Feature systemd · · Score: 1

    Will systemd increase or reduce performance? I cant get any straight answers out of the gigantic whinefest that is the systemd controversy.

  22. Re:image lightning? you mean seed lightning on Cosmic Rays Could Reveal Secrets of Lightning On Earth · · Score: 1

    It's all static electricity. nothing more.

    how it builds as pockets, that is the part they are trying to figure out.

  23. Re:How can it crash even in Airplane Mode? on iOS WiFi Bug Allows Remote Reboot of All Devices In Area · · Score: 0

    It cant, it's a complete fake claim that it can do it in airplane mode

  24. Re:Specced too low, weird form factor on Intel 'Compute Stick' PC-Over-HDMI Dongle Launched, Tested · · Score: 2

    Yep and it's worse for a media center than a Raspberry Pi 2.

    More expensive, lower horsepower, goofy and limited. It's a failstick.

  25. Will not work... on Microsoft Announces Device Guard For Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    a lot of the malware out there is "trusted" crap from "partners"

    So now we will have Microsoft certified SAFE malware....