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  1. Re:good luck enforcing this on Illinois Politician Wants a Kill Switch For Anonymous Speech Online · · Score: 1

    I like this idea, though I offer one suggestion. Just like many doctors and nurses are required to take continuing education courses to continue practicing the best medicine, I would suggest a more on-going set of yearly continuing education on constitutional rights, American history, and ethics.

  2. Re:"Huge"?? on ATLAS Meteor Tracking System Gets $5M NASA Funding · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, are your statements by chance a euphemism for something?

  3. When will it end? on Tax Peculiarities Mean Facebook Paid No Net Taxes For 2012 · · Score: 1

    When are people going to finally stand up for themselves and stop ridiculously wealthy CEOs from building their wealth off the backs of everyone else? I'm tired of hearing our politicians simply shift money around rather than going after the very people and companies not paying their fair share.

  4. Re:Code breaking on Ask Slashdot: Really Short Time Wasters? · · Score: 1

    Dude! Learn to gist.

  5. That's what Kim Jong-il said on The Battle of Hoth: Vader the Invader · · Score: 0

    US=Empire
    North Koreans=Rebels
    South Korea=Echo Base
    Harry S. Truman=Darth Vader

  6. Eucalyptus openness on Which Cloud System Is the Most Open? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    One of the reasons I went with OpenNebula a while back instead of Eucalyptus is the third-party modules (i.e. VMWare) were open source in OpenNebula and proprietary in Eucalyptus. Granted it's been over a year since I looked so they may have changed that.

  7. Re:Craigslist on Ask Slashdot: Making Side-Money As a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Either your friend is better looking than me or just luckier. I posted in the m4w section and the only replies were girls wanting ME to pay money to join their website so they can "verify me" and a couple of trannies.

  8. What ferocious act? on North Korea Conducts Third Nuclear Test · · Score: 1

    What ferocious act is NK claiming the US did against it? Are they claiming we shot down their satellite?

  9. Looking for life back in time on No Transmitting Aliens Detected In Kepler SETI Search · · Score: 1

    One thing to take in to consideration is which of the 86 stars they pointed at and their distances from us. As long as they stuck to star systems in the Milky Way galaxy, all this really says is that other planet didn't have the capability to transmit radio frequencies up to 75,000 years ago (considerably longer for systems outside our galaxy). Considering we just got the capability only 107 years ago, if any alien race is roughly on par with our origins, speed of evolution, and technology advancement, we won't know if they exist for another several thousand years. That is if they haven't figured out how to break the light barrier and then we figure out how to detect it.

  10. Re:It's like an MBA for Aerospace Engr Dropout on Embry-Riddle To Offer Degree In Space Operations · · Score: 1

    Although I agree in some respects to your statement, I think sometimes having a manager just acts as a crutch. When "smart" people are given the latitude to determine the requirements rather than having them spoon fed to them, they won't be standing around and they might actually be interacting positively with the rest of the company. Of course, mileage may vary based on the maturity level and business sense of the "smart" person.

  11. Nice debugging on Intel Gigabit NIC Packet of Death · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I for one definitely appreciate the diligence of Kristian Kielhofner. Many years ago I was supporting a medium-sized hospital whose flat network kept having intermittent issues (and we all know intermittent issues are the worst to hunt down and resolve). Fortunately I was on-site that day and at the top of my game and after doing some ethereal sleuthing (what wireshark was called at the time), I happened to discover a NIC that was spitting out bad LLC frames. Doing some port tracking in the switches we were able to isolate which port it was on which happened to be at their campus across the street. Of all possible systems, the offending NIC was in their PACS. After pulling the PACS off the network for a while the problem went away and we had to get the vendor to replace the hardware.

  12. Other NIC models on Intel Gigabit NIC Packet of Death · · Score: 1

    I would be curious to know if other versions like the Intel 82576 have the same vulnerability. Maybe we should crowd source this and people can post what they've tested with and received the same behavior.

  13. Wrong language on Python Gets a Big Data Boost From DARPA · · Score: 4, Funny

    The put the money in the wrong place. They should have put it in to R which very popularly interfaces with Python.

  14. Re:/. must be filled with engineers on Updated Model Puts Earth On the Edge of the Habitable Zone · · Score: 1

    Slight corrections, getting in closer to and better tracking of the earth in Celestia yields 0.98314 between Jan 03 - 06 2013 and 1.0169 between Jul 02 - 09 2013.

  15. /. must be filled with engineers on Updated Model Puts Earth On the Edge of the Habitable Zone · · Score: 2

    While everyone debates how many nukes it would take to adjust earth's orbit, I decided to see if our current solar distance under the new guidelines was actually a problem. I fired up Celestia and although I'm not sure what kind of factors it takes in to effect at both a macro and micro level, I figured it would give a decent representation of our solar orbit trends for the next 10 millennium at least.

    It looks like around Jul 16, 2013 we're at our farthest solar orbit of around 1.0164au and around December 31, 2013 we're out our closest solar orbit at around 0.98333au. Fast forward 11970 years and around June 30, 13983 we are at our furthest solar orbit of around 1.0151au and around December 30, 13983 we're at our closest solar orbit of around .98390au. And if you advance even further to over a million years in Celestia we're still looking at solar distances right around the same range.

    Sure, the close range may mean that we're too close to the sun by only 0.00667au and our saving grace is that it won't stay at .98333au all year round, but somebody may want to inform the researchers that we are outside of their range and the earth appears to be quite habitable. And for the rest of you, let's not try to solve a problem that doesn't exist and won't exist for a very, very, VERY long time.

  16. Why is it so hard? on Why It's So Hard To Predict How Caffeine Will Affect Your Body · · Score: 1

    Why doesn't the FDA do like any other governmental or lawmaking entity does and write the laws to the weakest denominator and make everybody else suffer?

  17. Re:It's not racist it's marketing 101 on Racism In Online Ad Targeting · · Score: 2

    Yeah, Google doesn't really have anything to do with this. Advertisers are purchasing on certain keywords and then choosing what to display for those ads, not Google.

  18. Please remind me again on OnLive's Epic Plan For a New Type of Video Game · · Score: 1

    Why would I want a cloud game streaming service?

  19. I third this question.

  20. Somebody needs to tell Iran on Iran Says It Sent Monkey Into Space and Back · · Score: 1

    that launching a rocket via the Kerbal Space Program doesn't really count.

  21. Re:Pirates will still run rampant on WotC Releases Old Dungeons & Dragons Catalog As PDFs · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Pirates will still run rampant on WotC Releases Old Dungeons & Dragons Catalog As PDFs · · Score: 1

    It is if 1 person can buy the high quality digital content for $5 and distribute it to the rest of the world and cause significant drop in profits in their published books market. Of course, ultimately that ends up signifying which format most people prefer or at least the delta in cost to benefit ratio.

  23. I already warned people weeks ago on You've Got 25 Years Until UNIX Time Overflows · · Score: 1

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3356429&cid=42468505

    But thanks for pointing it out again. Don't forget to stock up on Spam and Treet.

  24. Re:MS's gaming strategy has been weird for years on Will Microsoft Sell Off Its Entertainment Division? · · Score: 3, Informative

    but I've never understood why MS would choose to move into the console market

    It was always Microsoft's goal to have a computer in every home. The Xbox has allowed Microsoft to continue in that vein.

  25. Re:What does it say on VIA Unveils $79 Rock and $99 Paper ARM PCs · · Score: 1

    My post's font was larger. Do you really expect people to be able to read that tiny print in the title?