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  1. Re:I name them after girls on Server Names For a New Generation · · Score: 1

    You could name the racks and base the server name off the rack it's in.

    DollyParton1..DollyParton20
    JenniferLoveHewitt1..JenniferLoveHewitt20
    SalmaHayek1..SalmaHayek20

  2. Re:Religion is not fraudulent on James Randi's Latest Debunking Operation · · Score: 1

    I think you're seeing people confusing homeopathy with natural/herbal medicine, because they tend to appeal to the same people.

    Besides, do you see any "like cures like" effect described there? Tea Tree Oil has an actual active ingredient with antibacterial properties.

  3. Re:Religion is not fraudulent on James Randi's Latest Debunking Operation · · Score: 1

    It is also trivial to find products listed as "Homeopathy" that in no way imply that their benifits come from dilution

    Why not list a few, then? I know I've never heard of any.

  4. Re:Religion is not fraudulent on James Randi's Latest Debunking Operation · · Score: 1

    I put in diluting because that's what homeopathy is.

    Unless you're saying that the ones that dilute with water are crazy and the ones that dilute with some other inert substance are not crazy.

  5. Re:Religion is not fraudulent on James Randi's Latest Debunking Operation · · Score: 1

    The basic premise of homeopathy is immunization.

    So when you mix water with something bad and then dilute it with more water, the water's immune system creates antibodies to the toxin? You know water doesn't have an immune system, right?

  6. Re:Remember kids on Journalist Arrested For Tweet Deported to Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    The whole point of moving to America (in those days, the colonies) was to do your own type of religious persecution.

    Not for everyone. Pennsylvania is so much bigger than all the New England states because the Quakers who founded it left everyone alone about their religion. There was no reason for them to break up on religious lines.

  7. Re:Back in the old days... on Study: Online Dating Makes People "Picky" and "Unrealistic" · · Score: 1

    I meant a week each. That's still moving fast seven different times.

    Now, I have no problem with moving fast, but I also don't judge someone for it. My wife and I were at third base before our first date, 16 years ago.

  8. Re:Back in the old days... on Study: Online Dating Makes People "Picky" and "Unrealistic" · · Score: 1

    So there were seven different women you had sex with within a week, and you're complaining that *they* went too fast?

    There may have been some who were just looking for a hookup, but some people just want to verify sex isn't going to be a problem before they waste a lot of time on a relationship that isn't going to work.

  9. Re:how about stuff I want to buy ? on Retail Chains To Strike Back Against Online Vendors · · Score: 1

    With my old bag vacuum, I went around on my hands and knees picking up anything big enough to grab, so it didn't fill up the bag. With the bagless, I just suck it up and don't worry about it.

  10. Re:30 Years of VGA on VGA and DVI Ports To Be Phased Out Over Next 5 Years · · Score: 1

    A bunch of phones were using mini-USB, including the RAZR, which is pretty small. There was really no reason to muddy the waters further with micro.

  11. Re:ABSOLUTELY !! on Ask Slashdot: Is Your Data Safe In the Cloud? · · Score: 1

    That could just be an application service provider.

    I'm not sure how the cloud databases are supposed to work, but for simpler file storage, you tell the provider "Here, keep this for me", and it will make copies of it on several of it's many servers. When you ask for the file back, it will return whichever was most convenient, and you don't have to worry about the details.

    It's probably being kept on $300 PCs, but if it's kept on ten of them in four different cities, that's fine. That data could get lost from a software problem, but hardware failure won't take it down.

  12. Re:Area 51 Syndrome on White House Responds to ET/UFO Petitions · · Score: 1

    Nobody denies Area 51 exists. It's famous for reasons other than the alien business; it's usually known in the Air Force as Groom Lake or Dreamland, and it's where they test all the new and experimental aircraft.

    The F-117 was flying there for ten years or so before the Air Force actually admitted its existence. They never denied that they had things they weren't telling us about, though.

  13. Re:GNU/Linux on The RMS Tour Rider · · Score: 1

    there are very few things I find more difficult to pronounce in English than "GNU"

    Try being a fan of Opeth.

  14. Re:suicide on 1 MW Cold Fusion Plant Supposedly To Come Online · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Delp#Death

    Barbeque grill in the bathroom, and a nice considerate note on the door to be careful of the carbon monoxide.

  15. Re:OH, Goodie! on Northeast Passage Becomes Viable Trade Route · · Score: 1

    150 years ago people mostly burned whale oil in their lanterns. Technology moves an awful lot in that sort of time.

  16. Re:The rate hike remains, of course on Netflix Kills Qwikster · · Score: 1

    I always assumed the pricing they had was temporary.

    3 DVD's at a time was something like $15-$20 per month (I lose track with the Blu-Ray fee), and then streaming was added without a rate increase and without reducing the available DVDs. That's just too good to be true, except as a promotion.

  17. Re:rewrite swing from scratch or stop right now on Oracle's Ambitious Plan For Client-Side Java · · Score: 2

    Eclipse doesn't use Swing. Eclipse is the premier SWT app.

  18. Re:How come older people can't code but can manage on Age Bias In IT: the Reality Behind the Rumors · · Score: 1

    I don't think it's job description, but that culturally, jobs where you are likely to earn more than your boss are very unusual. Pharmacist might be the only well-known job where it's common.

  19. Re:"Hype and Cringe" on Environmental Enforcement Agents Targeting Guitars · · Score: 0

    Have you ever picked up a Les Paul? You can club damn near anything with one of those.

  20. Re:RPN calculators on Ex-Board Member Says HP Is Committing 'Corporate Suicide' · · Score: 1

    "With RPN, your parents can't understand what you're calculating!"

    "RPN calculation parents understand not"
    (leaves true on the stack)

  21. Re:and so they learn on Mass. Court Says Constitution Protects Filming On-Duty Police · · Score: 1

    Engineers would use formal symbolic logic, plus an informal summary. Yes, that would be easier to understand.

  22. Re:Fiorina's personality is irrelevant to me. on HP Spinning Off WebOS and Exiting Hardware Business · · Score: 1

    Both come from marketing backgrounds; when both assumed leadership of their respective companies engineers took a distant back seat

    When Balmer took over Microsoft was roughly when Microsoft started making good products. Windows XP, .Net, and SQL Server 2000.

    It was under Gates that MS had nothing going for them except marketing.

  23. Re:No rage, just a lost customer. on Netflix Deflects Rage Over Price Increase · · Score: 2

    That is, the studios thought that MOST people bought DVDs and saw movies in theaters and Netflix was just there to "mop up" the small fraction of the market that didn't pay through the other channels.

    That was true for me for a long time, but they stopped that themselves when they came out with Blu-Ray at much higher prices. I didn't want to buy Blu-Rays for twice as much, but I also didn't want to buy DVDs when there was a Blu-Ray, so I turned my NetFlix account back on.

  24. Re:Shitty code can come up with the right answer on Are You Too Good For Code Reviews? · · Score: 1

    they understood the need to have an agreed upon coding standard to make things more readable to the group

    I've taken over maintenance of an awful lot of old programs, and I've never had a case where I thought I would have been helped by anything I've ever seen in any coding standards.

    Reviews, on the other hand, might catch things like variable names that clash with what's actually going on, not trusting error or transaction systems, writing code that duplicates database constraints, wrong comments, etc.

  25. Re:Fitness Site Accidentally Shows Sexual Activity on Fitness Site Accidentally Shows Sexual Activity · · Score: 1

    If you experience a boner lasting more than four hours, call more ladies.