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  1. Re:maybe its not the kids on Professor: Young People Are "Lost Generation" Who Can No Longer Fix Gadgets · · Score: 1

    Mostly as tough as you want. Just fixed a current washing machine yesterday. Youtube helped, but just to get the doors off. Many things are still made of consituent parts, and the interconnects then are most likely to fail. I took apart a top-rated AA-AAA battery charger, that had some crud buillt up on/in it. A mystical clear plastic rectangle did me in, as it had some sort of invisible trace thru it, so that re-assembly was impossible. Contacted the Mfr (chinese) and they said disassembly was not possible. (what?). our culture is in love with "getting above it".. things like the Cloud (we dont hire IT now, its contracted), the Internet (experience things or gather globally), food (Buy food out of a paper bag, not hunt/kill). Started with the Ice Machine, eh? My John Deere started making some whizzing in the mower deck. Hoping it goes away, but I figure I'll need to replace somehing soon!

  2. Basics are waning...or .. the new "relevant" on Professor: Young People Are "Lost Generation" Who Can No Longer Fix Gadgets · · Score: 1

    I'd seen some young uns asking what time it was with a standard dial clock nearby. I learned that the new kids can't tell time from a clock with Dials, Digital only. This would at least result it now knowing clockwise , from counter clockwise. This seems disconcerting, Chirality starts with Right Hand, left hand... But... are we to only know what a Business Informatics tells us? Is symmetry part of the toolbox for a critical thinker these days? THats a tough one to lose. Took apart the washing machine to clean out the rubber boot/sump in the Frigidaire front loader. Eek... stinky work. No kids wanted to see.No more self sufficiency. Does anyone gage our success in WWII as being due to out-producing tools of War? Is the notion of a sovereign nation antiquated itself?

  3. Re:Stand back while he does real medicine on Meet the Doctor Trying To Use the Blood of Ebola Survivors To Create a Cure · · Score: 1

    Perhaps altruism is not the right word (... benefits another at its own expense...), perhaps the focus on better survival of society as we know it. It could have been much worse, not to diminish the awful toll already taken. Good point about profit. The growth in capability is still profit .... been distracted by the incessant justification by financial return. Now.. lets turn this around and look at superbugs before those get nastier yet. Lets characterize profit then as advancement in medical methods to target our adversaries and tune our adaptive immune systems to tolerate these nasty critters! How to motivate to that end, though...

  4. Stand back while he does real medicine on Meet the Doctor Trying To Use the Blood of Ebola Survivors To Create a Cure · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is awesome. Real medicine. Not treatment, not a profit motive. Just building on what protected one patient with the hope of helping others be rid of the disease. Go Dr Crowe, Go Mapp! We need less focus on monetization and more on misery.

  5. Opt has thousands of hotspots too.. is mine? on Comcast Sued For Turning Home Wi-Fi Routers Into Public Hotspots · · Score: 1

    When we see the ads, who is not impressed by the thousands of hotspots advertised? Their website boasts https://www.optimum.net/pages/... "the easiest way to enable it is to take it to any one of our thousands of hotspots and follow the steps outlined below" But thats almost as evil as adding a set top box thats plugged in / running 24/7, (make that one set top box per TV). At 40W, it adds up.. But.. you say it has an off button??? Not really. The annoying Blue LED goes off but the power consumption stays at 40W. Whats up with that? But.. I digress... Time for some choice in this market.

  6. Re:simple - the value is outside the device. on Chromebooks Overtake iPads In US Education Market · · Score: 1

    What we are now realizing is that the value is largely OUTSIDE the device, and is based on what it can find on the Interweb, as well as from any IT resources at the school. Think about it. Now a school can autonomously decide what and how to create and post information, rather than waiting for some company to decide what its allowed to do and how it can be used. Decommoditizing information is a great thing for capitalist (a la MP3 / iPod etc) but not for unrestricted educational environments. I can see kids will gravitate to all aspects of the device. Creating, sharing, repairing, upgrading, protecting understanding. Sounds like a great match for a school system. A closed system would be ho-hum, and turn those eager, unrestricted minds off.

  7. Remember the Y0K Fiasco? on Is LTO Tape On Its Way Out? · · Score: 2

    Didn't you get that papyrus-memo? Everyone wanted to require a Negative number on all the clay tablets. The scribes were looking forward to the overtime, the Donkey cart guys were in favor of shipping em from Helios mountain DR site, but Ceasar said no and settled on AD for Go-Forward only.

  8. Have a big protein blast for breakfast on Doubling Saturated Fat In Diet Does Not Increase It In Blood · · Score: 1

    Want a good morning? protein load for breakfast, and you will not want more food. Seems that eating carbs (and not burning them off) leads to bad stuff in your blood. Not news: http://articles.mercola.com/si...

  9. Re:Microsoft APS(formerly PDW) on Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Data Warehouse Server System? · · Score: 1

    "Those are a little easier to set up because you don't need to get your organizations IT server team involved" Your IT bretheren might be a little non-plussed being skipped in the process.

  10. Nature of the load makes one thing simple... on Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Data Warehouse Server System? · · Score: 1

    Use SSD based storage for the data, so you don't have to wait for spindles. Seems that Pure Storage does it best of late, whereas other vendors have optimized the spindle based storage. PS did it from ground up. Best part is the documentation, Its ALL written on a single 3x5 card. No matter what software you use, skip the spindles.

  11. Broken processes? Wiki time. Reinvent Politics &am on US Midterm Elections Discussion · · Score: 1

    The whole red vs blue + blue vs red mess is not leading us to better governance. Its broken. So is money. If the objective were just to -have- the office, the current ad campaigns would be suitable so many political ads are about why the other guy sucks... not why they are the suitable candidate. Then, there is no accountability after being elected. To lead and govern the people, to protect them from each other, and from outside entities (etc). To enjoy life as we all see fit, without destroying the enviroment, or keeping anyone else from enjoying theirs. Legislating on facts, and not on beliefs...you know, by and for the people. Sure, there is a huge $$$ divide in our nation, one would hope that those "with" would have earned it thru supporting the culture, the people and society by doing something relevant. Like elected office, its not about having money, its a medium of exchange. Who else thinks both processes are broken (money and politics), and we need to be lead/governed by those that want more consituents to enjoy a better life as interpreted in the changing world we are in. Do we need a rehash of our consitution to get back on track? Lets create a wikipedia page set for candidates, so candidates can be understood, elected and held accountable. Another Wiki page for the role of money as we evolve off barbaric mediums like bills/coinage.

  12. Re: Hey Verizon, can you hear us NOW! on 32 Cities Want To Challenge Big Telecom, Build Their Own Gigabit Networks · · Score: 2

    And now we all trail the civilized world in the available products, competition and pay the most for it. Lets make this an election year campaign.

  13. Do you have a name? Putting a face on this might help.

  14. Re:Boston on 32 Cities Want To Challenge Big Telecom, Build Their Own Gigabit Networks · · Score: 3, Informative

    Verizon stopped in North Jersey too, despite promising to get broadband to the whole state in 1993 by 2010, and tacking on a surcharge to EVERY bill they send out. For some reason the jokers that run the show decided to let em off the hook : http://www.dslreports.com/show... This is just wrong.. These little monopolies are not justifiable.

  15. Re:Some Sense Restored? on Debian Talks About Systemd Once Again · · Score: 1

    What we face losing is the buy-in from the majority of users. Perhaps a surveymonkey would be good to pick out the good from the bad, and start anew on improving the boot process. While Linus is a benevolant dictator, he had many good choices and built a stellar product that inspired a global assemblage of workers thru trust and inspiration. Systemd (how ever its spun now) seems to have revoked that trust, and switched passion for frustration. $.02. Redhat 6 is good. I predict a long life there.

  16. Re:Hope! on Debian Talks About Systemd Once Again · · Score: 1

    Great point... everyone feels slighted by the belevolant dicatator thats very self assured. Its really a philosophical change marketed as a technological update. From the Wiki page: The name systemd adheres to the Unix convention of making daemons easier to distinguish by having the letter d as the last letter of the filename. Thats about as far as it adheres to any Unix Convention. This is where we all leap over the beast, pick out the good bits and revisit how the objectives are met. in the long run, this may be a very healthy thing for the Open Source movement, in that we all get to decide where it goes, right?

  17. Re:Some Sense Restored? on Debian Talks About Systemd Once Again · · Score: 1

    Should SystemD then be a fork, and leave other init managers to fight it out? If all the things that rely on systemd had published hooks, then there could be some co-opetition. Then the most popular solution would (in theory) be adopted most probably, and the others would wither away?

  18. Good point... on Ask Slashdot: Stop PulseAudio From Changing Sound Settings? · · Score: 1

    Very interesting that you note sound devices being a userspace issue, when it really has to do with hardware, device, kernel drivers etc. Sure.. USB brings this devices to userland as well, but if its handled properly in kernel land, hooks could provide some control into Userland. I used to compile (2.4) kernels and work in bttv, tda, emu10k and so for TV and sound cards and it just worked (a lot of it, but it was predictable!). Then I stopped compiling my own kernels and tried to do it in /etc/modprobe.conf, but that got crazy between kernel updates and Pulse and Alsa and OSS getting all blurry. So much for history. Where are we now, years later? Does a lInux desktop user have to dabble in /etc/modprobe.conf ? Doesnt make much sense to me. From working with Udev under RH6 at work, udev is working predictably with ethernet devices, seems a valid model. How about we start with a soundconfig utility that captures a systems setup at that moment, and spits out a consistent lattice work of device configurations. Users dont care about /dev/dsp01, or incomplete mixer apps, we just want sound to work.

  19. Re:Critics should take positive action on Lennart Poettering: Open Source Community "Quite a Sick Place To Be In" · · Score: 1

    What admin wants the clarity of /etc/init.d/* to disappear, and how clear is the difference between "telinit 3" and "systemctl isolate graphical.target"? Systemd needs to be more intuitive? Annexing Cron and Syslog seems heavy handed. Most admins value the control and the clarity of how it works. The new approach doesn't really match a consistent language pattern. This should be a system fork, instead of feeling like a hijack.

  20. Re:Nautral HIV Immunity on How Did the 'Berlin Patient' Rid Himself of HIV? · · Score: 1

    Is there a way to see if his immune system has developed something that could be useful to innoculate others? Thought go back to the first innoculations. http://amhistory.si.edu/polio/... - maybe this is the guy that hosts the solution? Adaptive immunity is very useful.

  21. Why purchase service from provider in US then? on Proposed Law Would Limit US Search Warrants For Data Stored Abroad · · Score: 1

    Say a friend sets up a Google Drive account in Albania, and I add content there.Would that data be subject to seizure? Would a customer, then, be more likely to buy a service from a Non-US service provider, as the privacy laws in the US are so porous? Sounds like a slippery slope to me.

  22. Iphone6 - preferred phone of terrorists everywhere on Apple Will No Longer Unlock Most iPhones, iPads For Police · · Score: 1

    Cmon.. who should really be afraid of the big bad wolf? Are you really doing anything that private? I can see some things like a password repository or CC numbers being so protected, but, seriously ... what are we hiding? While I don't want to pay for a whole class of society to collect and review the contents of my phone, but, why would someone -need- complete protection - to break the law? Watergate stuff? Texting while driving?

  23. Re:How does MS get away with it in the US? on Windows Tax Shot Down In Italy · · Score: 1

    Because the monopoly is already sustained when someone buys the system, and therefore is forced to pay the Tax. Thats the Idea. The wild crazy thought that you -might- buy ONLY hardware is whats new here. This is not going to force everyone to use Linux or OS2 or ... (insert favorite OS here).... rather make some competition possible. Did any one see or feel the pressure dumped on OS2 Warp when it was pushed off the table by MS? I tried to purchase my Intel/Zappa P100 board with OS2 instead of WinXX, but the terms changed.. Only WinXX was allowed to be installed. It was then I smelled the rotten fish. Miss my Zappa. Music and Motherboard.

  24. Will ISV's fill er up? Hard/firmware is ready! on IBM Gearing Up Mega Power 8 Servers For October Launch · · Score: 1

    This has huge legs if enterprise level software vendors complie everything for PPC (ahh like Oracle!?!?!). The hardware is great in that its monitored to the deepest levels. Low level checks confirm that the platform is stable for the OS.. Who has had to try to debug a low level Whitebox issue with a memory error, or even main-stream box with a spurious power supply issue? The Benefit of the SMT 2-4-8 will be interesting to head of when coupled with a low latency storage like SSD or flash arrays. Anyway, its great to have options! The cost value will be interesting when you skip the VMWare layer, and bundle in the OS. Should be a great platform if the ISV's pick it up. Can anyone comment on the completeness of PPC vs x86 OS distributions?

  25. So ...you are justifying creation of pandemic? on How to Maintain Lab Safety While Making Viruses Deadlier · · Score: 1

    You are certainly the fool who thinks that we should do something just for the sake of doing it...: "The entire point of gain-of-function studies is that you need to do them in order to confirm a hypothesis" Ok so, you hypothesize that people will drop like flies if I do 'THIS' DON'T DO IT, And don't put thoughts in other peoples heads that its so great or easy to do it. A meaner idiot will do this and send you a copy. Hey.. its ok.. it just had to be done. This is truly the worst case of pandoras box.