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  1. Re:Let this be a message to the unpatriotic on Waterboarding Whistleblower Indicted Under Espionage Act · · Score: 1

    Yah - right! Being an US citizen is not just a plain citizenship as in most other countries, one needs to have a religious believe system fully embodied to become really part of it and get the full benefit of feeling outrageously great - most of the time...

  2. Total BS on Science Reveals Why Airplane Food Tastes So Bad · · Score: 1

    Corporate greed is the reason.

    - ahem, it's the system people live under.. continuing accumulated linear growth leads to exponential increase in a limited space.
    That's what's happening - scrambling for continuous ROI with decreasing value delivery.

    One can fly different airlines under the same booking airline by choosing a codeshared flight and experience different service (and food quality) of other airlines, example below, when booking under codeshared airlines the flight happens under the operating carrier.
    Flying codeshared and non-codeshared identical routes allows 1:1 comparison - UA food sucks!

    (UA) United Airlines 8826
    Operated by (LH) Lufthansa 419

    This flight marketed as a codeshare flight by the following airlines:

    (UA) United Airlines 8826
                (AI) Air India 8644
                (TG) Thai Airways International 7711
                (AC) Air Canada 9450

  3. Re:Bite the bullet on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Manage Your Personal Data? · · Score: 1

    Interesting points, taking images from a live system I would not do though - tar example.
    But hard disks as you describe would not work for me, not enough disk to hold all images and disks die as well, then what?

    Different story as the original poster wrote, though.

    Tapes are great - can be stored easily off-site and several generations of history can be kept.
    Locate tape, plug into machine, restore chunks on disk - put other machine to be loaded back on network, start under a RIP disk, reload, put incremental backup on top and you're back in business.

  4. Bite the bullet on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Manage Your Personal Data? · · Score: 1

    Get older version LTO drive, get identical harddisks with spares and do full drive image backups with incremental backups in-between.
    Mirroring disks (Raid 0+1) is good too.

    All that other stuff - DVD/Blue Ray, cloud is chickenshit. Drives die or act up.

    Run Linux on one drive and do image backups from there.

    Zerofill the empty space,
    dd if=/dev/zero | split --verbose -b 2000m -d - ZERO

    compress the image:
    dd if=$DEVICE | gzip -v | split --verbose -b 2000m -d - NAME

    and write the chunks to tape.

  5. I wonder on Teacher Suspended For Reading Ender's Game To Students · · Score: 1

    what people have repressed in their minds to initiate this

    - anger
    - joy
    - lust
    - sensuality ...
    every creature has it - plants included - or they would not exist.
    This basic fact is highly suppressed and controlled by every entity in power (allowed by other's succumbing) on this planet.

    And what are they going through? Oh - she has shown a nipple or gosh, there is some pubic hair to see and ghee, somebody used a nasty word - one of seven, is it???
    Then there is perversion coming out of all of this repression.

    Puritans - holy fucking puritans!

    Get a life!

  6. Do I get this right? on Why the 'Six Strikes' Copyright Alert System Needs Antitrust Scrutiny · · Score: 1

    Seems to be equivalent that you get your drivers license suspended when you did not pay a private parking house fee - or some toll fee while driving on a toll-road owned by some foreign (?) company....

    Should be illegal - two unrelated entities colluding to coerce actions and cause harm.

    Do people have too much time and money available to think out those schemes?

  7. Reason: on Australian Govt Censors Notes From Secret Anti-Piracy Talks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They are chicken - afraid that people find out what they are up to.

    Any public servant doing this kind of stuff should be penalized.

    William Binney: ...after he realized that the NSA is now openly trampling the constitution, says as he holds his thumb and forefinger close together. "We are, like, that far from a turnkey totalitarian state."

  8. The Problem on Belgian Rightsholders Group Wants To Charge Libraries For Reading Books To Kids · · Score: 4, Insightful

    with all those sensational messages is that the individuals making the decisions are unknown. It's an organization of some kind with some capital letters as abbreviated name.

    Who are those persons?
    Spokesperson - Jerome Van Win - http://www.facebook.com/jvanwin ??

    SABAM headquarters is located at 75-77 rue d'Arlon in Brussels

    Christophe DEPRETER has been the Managing Director of SABAM since 1 July 2009.
    http://www.sabam.be/en/sabam/management
    http://www.raaskalderij.be/2012/03/sabam-noemt-uitbreiding-activiteit-logische-stap/

    Carine Libert, Department of Legal Affairs and International Affairs http://www.facebook.com/people/Carine-Libert/100002967307348

    Luc Van Oycke, Director of Administration and Finance http://kopimiuk.wordpress.com/tag/luc-van-oycke/

    Willy Heyns, Director of ICT http://www.facebook.com/people/Willy-Heyns/100000541173703

    Jac Cuypers, COO http://www.facebook.com/jac.cuypers

    Serge Vloeberghs, Director of Sales http://www.facebook.com/people/Serge-Vloeberghs/1171478165

    Sandrine Evenepoel, Director of Human Resources http://www.facebook.com/sandrine.evenepoel

    E-mail : contact@sabam.be - yaaawn!

    Shame them!

  9. That on Pay the TSA $100 and Bypass Airport Security · · Score: 1

    really stinks!

    And - I never go through them radiation things.

  10. Re:It's about time on Pentagon Wants Disposable War Satellites · · Score: 1

    On one hand, I agree with you. On another hand, it seems like the only way we're capable of going into space as a nation is to spend the money through the military. If it leads to more space development then I'm more in favor of it than a new fighter jet.

    That's yet another strategy to distract from current burning issues:

    - project into the future
    - propose totally unproven technologies

    burning issues:

    - overpopulation (no politician is actually touching it - quite the opposite, look at US)
    - sustainable human adequate economic systems - capitalism is failing 100 % and so are other's - dictatorships, monarchy and what else have you. To say, it's the least evil (capitalism) is a mediocre idea, why not pursue something which is adequate, how would it look and what would be hindering it?
    - depletion of biodiversity on this planet ...

    As for your longing to space - human bodies need gravity to function. Bone-density loss in space has not been solved nor radiation exposure or travel times in relation to human life spans. Totally unproven technology and unsustainable to be applied to any relevant number of individuals. Great smoke-screen though. So is the nonsense of people needing a new gadget every two years. Keeps folks happy so it seems....

    Good luck! The planet itself won't mind, not the first civilization vanishing nor mass-extinction either...
    If you don't see it that way, it won't matter at all

  11. It's about time on Pentagon Wants Disposable War Satellites · · Score: 1

    That the whole military BS gets defunded !

    Won't happen in gung-ho US.

    So, learn it the hard way - get extinct!

  12. Re:It's not enough... on Paypal Forces E-Book Publisher To Censor Erotic Content · · Score: 1

    Doesn't this depend on the bank and type of bank account?
    If there is an overdraft credit line on the account, clear - no protection, charges go through.
    What's the term? NSF or ISF non-sufficient funds or insufficient? That's when a check bounces. Wouldn't this be the same as drafting from an account with not enough funds. And - being non-authorized, it should be rejected.

    Or - does PP have a "special" relationship with banks? Who knows...

    Well, lately only credit unions seem to be offering free checking accounts with low balance or I have seen senior accounts.

    Anyway... paypalsucks.org/com ??? seems to be a place to let steam off.

  13. Re:It's not enough... on Paypal Forces E-Book Publisher To Censor Erotic Content · · Score: 4, Informative

    PayPal had in it's Acceptable Use Policy since ages forbidding any use of its services for erotics and some other stuff - no weapon "parts"...

    https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=ua/AcceptableUse_full&locale.x=en_US

    Nothing new, actually.

    Not trying to defend PayPal, but the underlying reason may be to avoid becoming part of something illegal somewhere. The erotic thing may have other reasons.

    If you are using a functional bank account with any reasonable amount on it with PayPal, your own problem.
    A - open account with bank
    B - use it to open PayPal account
    C - close bank account
    D - always chose payments from Credit Cards @ PayPal

    If you need to use PayPal to receive payments and a bank account - just keep your funds low on that account.

  14. Ah - no problem on France's Bold Drunk-Driving Legislation - Every Car To Carry a Breathalyzer · · Score: 1

    China or Poland will soon have "functional" replacement breathalyzers becoming ready.

    Some folks just don't get it - the more pressure and control is put on, the more resistance and counter measures happen.
    Shows on global and micro scale - even bacterias go by that number - fight them and they come back stronger.
    Seems to be a very basic principle of survival.

  15. Bah on RIM Trying To Woo Customers With Porn, Gambling Apps? · · Score: 2

    Article smacks right into the tormented relationship of people with sex (power and money).

    Got nothing else to worry about?

    Good that the page has a thumb-down button.

    RIM is a Canadian company - people may not be as burdened there

  16. I like on New Avenue For MRSA 'Superbug': Pigs · · Score: 1

    the "keeping healthy" phrase in connection with animal feed.

    Story is that continuous small amounts of antibiotics in animal feed are causing increased growth in animals.
    (told verbally by a farmer relative I know) Internet search comes up with:

    Quote from: http://www.udel.edu/chem/C465/senior/fall97/feed/present.html

    "Antibiotics have been used in animal feed for about 50 years ever since the discovery not only as an anti-microbial agent, but also as a growth-promoting agent and improvement in performance. Tetracyclines, penicillin, streptomycin and bactrican soon began to be common additives in feed for livestock and poultry."

    and:

    " In chicken feed, for example, tetracycline and penicillin show substantial improvement in egg production, feed efficiency and hatchability, but no significant effect on mortality."

    And yeah, the loosing jobs argument again further down in that. Reverse the argument, do something unwise, create jobs and buy medical services stock.

  17. Something else on Comparing Today's Computers To 1995's · · Score: 1

    Comparing one of today's desktop boxes with a mainframe from way back, IBM 360

    30 M disk packs a room filling 1 M core memory rack and - 8" floppies

    Performance data compare would be interesting.

  18. Re:T-Mobile Pay as you go on Ask Slashdot: Best Mobile Phone Solution With No Data Plan? · · Score: 1

    T-Mobile is good but...

    Their minutes expire at one point and you have to buy more so you don't loose your money.
    Cheapest is the 1000 minutes/$100 for one year - gets you gold status and something like 15 % extra.
    If you buy less, charges/minute are higher and expire earlier.

  19. Re:Trying to figure out who the good guys are on European Parliament To Exclude Free Software With FRAND · · Score: 0

    The alternative would be, "All governments are assholes."

    How about religions - any good ideas there?

  20. Re:Trying to figure out who the good guys are on European Parliament To Exclude Free Software With FRAND · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's easy. All governments are bad guys.

    OK - so what's your alternative?

  21. Re:Censorship on Arizona Ponders FCC Decency Standards For the Classroom · · Score: 2

    RTFS, it is a state bill, not federal. Trying to use the FCC standard not put the FCC into the school. Looks like the Arizona reps are ceding classroom decorum standards to the state, how's them apples.

    You are using the "F" letter in an inappropriate way - you are being watched!

  22. Re:You are going to be the one who knows the softw on What Does a Software Tester's Job Constitute? · · Score: 1

    Very interesting what synapses got switched on in your system. Please have all the breaks you need.
     

  23. Re:You are going to be the one who knows the softw on What Does a Software Tester's Job Constitute? · · Score: 1

    ...

    The job of a tester is to put together a meaningful plan - understand how the software is going to correspond to the business needs and test the main logical paths as well as some optional and failure paths and find out what the software really does as opposed to what people think it should do....

    That's incorrect - a tester follows a test plan and performs the test steps. This can be a program and the tester will evaluate the program output if it conforms to specs.

    A test plan is part of the design process and should run parallel to development.

    What you describe is ad-hoc testing - finding additional defects by going outside a structured, predefined test plan.
    There is no way that more complex systems - banking, Internet, manufacturing etc. would function without a highly structured approach including testing.

    The term "Engineer" is undefined - can mean anything.

  24. not sure on Fracture Putty Can Heal a Broken Bone In Days · · Score: 4, Funny

    what bone fracture has to do with ssh....
    anyway - weird things exist nowadays

  25. That's similar: on Fracture Putty Can Heal a Broken Bone In Days · · Score: 3, Informative

    Using stem cells for skin healing:

    http://www.thatvideosite.com/video/the_skin_gun