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  1. Re:Don't cut it on Ask Slashdot: How To Safely Saw Up Motherboards? · · Score: 1

    Just remove anything that is in the way. A sharp wood chisel works quite well if desoldering isn't feasible. If the components are in the way of scoring and snapping, they will be in the way of cutting and you will have partial chips left or at worst, the saw blade will snag a component and send it flying. If having chips in place wasn't a must, I'd try to find some bare boards at an electronics surplus house, as you said, unpopulated boards are much easier to score & snap. Cutting through fiberglass and all the wierd substances that components are made of, wet or dry seems creepily hazardous to ones health.

  2. Don't cut it on Ask Slashdot: How To Safely Saw Up Motherboards? · · Score: 2

    Can you maybe score one or even both sides with a razor knife, then snap it ?

  3. Re:Closed source irrelevant, paper ballot not on E-Voting Reform In an Out Year? · · Score: 1

    Here in the USA we don't say 'I agree with this person's principles, I will vote for him', we say "I kinda think that maybe this one sucks a bit less than that one, so I'll vote for this one" or we say "I vote for this party no matter what" - I still want a "None of the above" choice as Al Shugart tried and tried to have added.

  4. Gonna start my own on Best Buy Releases Their Own Music Cloud · · Score: 1

    I think I'll call it GeekMP3Squad.com

  5. Too many goddamn trees in Alaska, this will at least get rid of a few.

  6. Re:Go FBI! on Daily Sony Hacking Occurs On Schedule · · Score: 1

    Mark Russinovich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Russinovich) seemed to think it was a rootkit.
    Here is his detailed analysis - http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2005/10/31/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights-management-gone-too-far.aspx

  7. Re:Best password practices on A Brief Sony Password Analysis · · Score: 1

    I sometimes use dictionary words but I misspell them badly.

  8. SHA on Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't changing to SHA-512 from MD5 make this a moot point ? What if the stored hash was the MD5 hash of the SHA-512 hash of the actual password ? Or, the Md5 of the SHA-512 of the MD5 and so on.......

  9. Re:Location, location, location on Lodsys Sues 7 iPhone Devs Over Patent Infringement Claims · · Score: 1

    From the scribd link of the suit:
    "Lodsys is a Texas limited liability company with its principal place of business in Marshall, Texas". which is, of all things, in Eastern Texas. What a coincidence!

  10. Re:How could this possibly be binding? on Doctors To Patients: First, Do No Yelp Harm · · Score: 1

    My wifes doctor has had his office call us before the appt and tell us that due to an emergency, he will be very very late, did we want to reschedule ? I have also been told while waiting that the doctor had to leave due to an emergency. Common courtesy is what I call that.

  11. Re:The Generation of Faux Connoisseurs on Doctors To Patients: First, Do No Yelp Harm · · Score: 1

    No, typically it is because they overbook and don't give a rats ass if you sit there for an hour or two.

  12. Re:How could this possibly be binding? on Doctors To Patients: First, Do No Yelp Harm · · Score: 1

    "Preferably without wasting the doctor's time so he can keep all his appointments with minimal wait, and without legal fees so that the practice's fees can be kept low." Are you serious, have you ever been to a Doctor and been seen at or near your appointment time ? Have you ever gotten the bill and thought "Gee, thats certainly a fair price for the services rendered" - If so, please furnish names, I don't care where they are, I'll see them .

  13. Jimmy Who ? on The Petition to Classify Wikipedia a "World Wonder" · · Score: 1

    From the linked article - "Founder Jimmy Page tells the New York Times"
    The next sentence therefore should read “The basic idea is to recognise that Led Zepplin is this amazing global cultural phenomena that has transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.”

  14. Re:Random chance on Volcano Erupts In Iceland · · Score: 1

    Note the link to the "Local coverage in Icelandic" - there is actually this sentence in it:
    "Hjörleifur sagði að búið væri að virkja viðbúnaðarkerfi. að er allt farið í gang eins og um gos sé að ræða. að er búið að senda viðvörun út til Englands annig að flugrekendur geti breytt flugi"
    "Vatnajokull" seems pretty ordinary now.

  15. Reporting the perps on Ask Slashdot: FTP Server Honeypots? · · Score: 2

    I have had good results when the attacking IP is from a provider such as Comcast, AT&T, Amazon Cloud, etc.
    When it's from "China Unicom Hebei Province Network", like the IP's that hit my router all day long every day scanning port 27977, no reason to even send an abuse message.

    No offense meant to anyone from that part of the world.

  16. The sample size leaves a bit to be desired on Apple Causes Religious Reaction In Brains of Fans · · Score: 1

    From the linked article
    "the editor of World of Apple, Alex Brooks, an Apple worshipper who claims to think about Apple 24 hours a day"
    That one person was their test subject..........

  17. Re:One question they did not answer on Lodsys Responds To In-App Purchasing Patent Controversy · · Score: 1

    In another action, they are going up against Brother, Canon, HP, Hulu, Lenovo, Lexmark, Samsung, and others:
    http://www.scribd.com/doc/48672587/Lodsys-v-Brother-International-et-al

    Seems to me they will take on anyone they think will pay them

  18. Re:Here we go with idiocy again on Small Devs Attacked Over In-App Purchase Button Patent · · Score: 1

    It might fly in East Texas where many patent suits are filed. :(

    Guess where that same company (Lodsys, LLC) has already filed another suit against a boatload of others (Brother, Canon,HP, Hulu, Lenovo, Lexmark, Motorola, Novell, Samsung, and Trend Micro) ? If you answered "United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas" - bingo! "On February 11, Lodsys LLC, a Marshall, TX-based company, filed a patent-infringement lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas." Where is Marshall, TX ? around 30 miles from the Texas-Louisiana border Refs: http://www.action-intell.com/2011/02/16/lodsys-launches-patent-infringement-suit-against-brother-canon-hp-samsung-and-others/ http://www.action-intell.com/2011/05/12/brother-canon-hp-and-lexmark-respond-to-lodsys-patent-infringement-lawsuit/ Incredible......

  19. Re:Not so bad to have different systems. on Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements? · · Score: 1

    Studs are 400mm center to center and plywood/drywall is 1200x2400mm, seems simple to me.

  20. Fond memories on Today Is Record Store Day 2011 · · Score: 1

    I have, going into NYC to spend a few hours looking through the old stuff at Colony Records, hoping to find a keeper or something to trade with Slim at Times Square Records. Moonglows, Flamingos, Orioles, colored vinyl 45s'

  21. Re:Enhanced Harddrive on Self-Wiping Hard Drives From Toshiba · · Score: 1

    "Enter e-mail address to be notified when the Enhanced Hard Drive is released."

  22. Re:Law enforcement... on Self-Wiping Hard Drives From Toshiba · · Score: 1

    The drives are self-encrypting also, so moving the platters still leaves you with no useful data.

  23. Re:mixed feelings and abstract hate. on Apple Removes Gay Cure App From App Store · · Score: 1

    Assuming that there actually are gay people that want to be "cured" - a phone app hardly seems like the solution. Just using "cured" seems a bit pejorative.

  24. Re:Negligent Homicide, Open And Shut on Driver Sued For Updating Facebook In Fatal Crash · · Score: 1

    I'm not seeing where she admitted anything except that she stated that the sun blinded her. From the Chicago Tribune article: "Police cited Beas for failure to avoid striking a pedestrian. Beas and the driver involved in the minor collision with Veloz told officers at the time that they had been temporarily blinded by the sun." The police maybe asked her "Is this your vehicle?" or "Were you driving it at the time it struck that man" The subject was Negligent Homicide, seems to me there is a difference between Negligent Homicide and an accident that cost a life. Why not let the facts unfold first ?

  25. Facebook on Driver Sued For Updating Facebook In Fatal Crash · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering how the subject of Updating Facebook ever came up. If anyone has a posting to explain that, I'd love to see it.