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  1. Re:Polaroid Should Die? on Ask Slashdot: High-Tech Ways To Manage a Home Library? · · Score: 1

    Why a physical copy? Just put it in the database.

    Physical copies. sheesh.

    also:
    Just because the technology is old doesn't mean that it is good

    Just because the technology is new doesn't mean that it is bad.

    I can make fortune cookie level statements too!

  2. Re:Books on Ask Slashdot: High-Tech Ways To Manage a Home Library? · · Score: 1

    sigh.
    Just take a picture of the book cover, note it's title and copyright date, give it an id in the database.
    The just do an image match.
    No need to doctor the books.

  3. Re:KISS on Ask Slashdot: High-Tech Ways To Manage a Home Library? · · Score: 1

    then when you lend one. just put a 3x5 card with the person name on it sticking out in the place where the book would go.

    I mean:
    Use 1000 dollars worth of technology and give yourself another maintenance chore~

  4. Re:RFIDs? What? on Ask Slashdot: High-Tech Ways To Manage a Home Library? · · Score: 1

    Then you have bad luck. The bar code reader I use read every barcode nearly instantaneously.
    And I use mine many times a week.

    I used mine to demo an inventory system back end becasue the actual barcode reader was broken. It was a second to read a 2 d barcode. It does all the adjusting.

    And I don't know what's up with your library, but we can do the barcode checkout in seconds.

    hmm
    No phone you use works right.
    The library system doesn't work right when you use is.
    odd.
    On a completely unrelated note, when everyone around you is always crazy, you are probably the crazy one. I'[m not sure why the popped into my head.

  5. Re:Gift books on Ask Slashdot: High-Tech Ways To Manage a Home Library? · · Score: 1

    But how else will I compensate for my penis size?

    I mean [INSERT VAGUE MEANING EXCUSE HERE].

  6. Re:Digitize The Collection! on Ask Slashdot: High-Tech Ways To Manage a Home Library? · · Score: 1

    Much better then just downloading from a torrent~

  7. I thought on Ask Slashdot: High-Tech Ways To Manage a Home Library? · · Score: 3, Funny

    we were still using cue cats!

  8. Re:It is about not lettting ideas be silenced on The First Amendment and Software Speech · · Score: 1

    haha. How..cute.

    EITC influenced the world through government 'lobbying'.
    Corporation used massive monopolies to dictate culture.
    Churches control governments to enforce church approved rules.

    The founding father new the perfectly well. Its one reason the was a debate on whether or not corporation should be allowed.

  9. Re:It is about not lettting ideas be silenced on The First Amendment and Software Speech · · Score: 1

    "thinking genuine original creative"
    You mean like no human has ever done?

    " an algorithm that just combines words according to preset rules."
    you mean like the human brain?

  10. Re:It is about not lettting ideas be silenced on The First Amendment and Software Speech · · Score: 1

    *facepalm*

    Sigh

  11. Re:It is about not lettting ideas be silenced on The First Amendment and Software Speech · · Score: 2

    Incorrect:
    " If the 1st Amendment is truly about ensuring that ideas cannot be censored, then free speech is not about permitting anyone to say purposely offensive things "
    yes, it does.
    Many people find speech against them is offensive.
    Church's always find any speech that doesn't agree with them to be offensive.

    You should read the federalist papers, and other documents the founding fathers wrote. Also understand formal written speech of the time. It's enlightening and give the Constitution context.

  12. Re:It is about not lettting ideas be silenced on The First Amendment and Software Speech · · Score: 1

    " I'll accept that when machines start having original ideas."
    already happening. Emergent behavior, software that rights books and poems.

    If that isn't generating ideas, then you need to define 'idea' a lot better.

  13. Re:[shrug] on NASA To Encrypt All of Its Laptops · · Score: 1

    I look forward in getting your keys and password out of your swap file.

  14. Re:*face palm* on NASA To Encrypt All of Its Laptops · · Score: 1

    great, now do it for 10,000 people, not all of whom are using the same OS version, across the world. Plan the maintenance for that. the history, roll out time. and so on.

    400 people, how...quaint

  15. Re:what about laptops on the ISS? on NASA To Encrypt All of Its Laptops · · Score: 1

    Do you now the send electronic signals to the Space Station? I know, amazing, right?
    Did you know electronic signals can be used to get into a computer by a person who isn't even in the same room? I know,. shocking!

  16. Re:When you have a billion hammers, flies ARE nail on NASA To Encrypt All of Its Laptops · · Score: 2

    depends.
    Do you define 'Geologic time' as the time it takes to beat a password out of someone? Or the time it takes to ask the corporation to turn the key over?

  17. Re:Space age? on NASA To Encrypt All of Its Laptops · · Score: 1

    You may have made Geoffroy Tory turn over in his grave`

  18. Re:truecrypt on NASA To Encrypt All of Its Laptops · · Score: 1

    Becasue they don't pay people to set it up? run it? maintain it?

    Clue: Software is almost ALWAYS the cheapest part of a solution. Manpower is expensive. SO, yeah that software is free, and that's cute and all but that is a minor part of the cost.

  19. Re:i don't understand... on NASA To Encrypt All of Its Laptops · · Score: 1

    Yeah, there is a ton if good signals in a hurricane.
    Or in the middle of no where.

    And sometime the data is extremely large, making cell based network pretty useless.
    Yes all the engineers or IT engineers and experts.
    Protip: 'Engineer' covers MANY disciplines. I wouldn't want the engineer that works on robots building a bridge and visa versa.

    The issue isn't NASA, it's your lack of experiences and over inflated ego.

  20. Re:They waited this long because? on NASA To Encrypt All of Its Laptops · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They have a finite pool of money. Putting something in IT takes money from the finite pool.
    The poster is correct, ti's about priorities.
    Since that vast majority of information NASA has is useless to anyone not in a space agency, it seems this was a good priority of limited funds.

  21. Re:Unforgivable on Hacker Grabs 150k Adobe User Accounts Via SQL Injection · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is a common attack, and it's still an unforgivable error on the developer side. They should be fired and move into a field they are more qualified for. I'm thinking something in the service industry.

  22. Re:Naturally on US Air Force Scraps ERP Project After $1 Billion Spent · · Score: 1

    well.. it isn't that easy. Sometime it should be don at once, sometime not.
    Whats the interface cost in money and time? Are the old rules still valid? are the compatible with the new rules?

    and about 100 other things to look at.

  23. Re:Someone care to explain what this is exactly? on US Air Force Scraps ERP Project After $1 Billion Spent · · Score: 1

    Whats an ERP? why that's as simple question my friend!
    ERP is what you need my friend! Those broken down systems? Fix. old management way? thrown out. The ERP is here to save you.
    You don't want those other people with their shine ERP system to look down on you, so lucky for you we have one here.
    It's plug in, turn key, Turn over, automatic, automagic, money making machine my friend!

    You will have it in no time, why Are lawyers are the friendliest you will ever see!

  24. Re:This is wrong... on US Air Force Scraps ERP Project After $1 Billion Spent · · Score: 1

    wow, 8. Noob.

    How many of those involve organization with more the 1000 people and decades of history? 5000 people? 10,000 people?

    Didn't think so.

    "a Software Engineer and a Development Team Lead"
    so... nothing to do with actual contracts? Upper management decisions did you make? How many multi-million dollar decisions did you make?

    whats that? none?
    STFU

  25. Re:those billions on US Air Force Scraps ERP Project After $1 Billion Spent · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The only thing you proved is you don't know what a Ponzi scheme is.
    It's missing 3 crucial elements
    1) A 'undisclosed' way of making money
    2) A handful of people collecting the majority of the money.
    3) Unsustainable under any condition. Meaning no adjustment can be made without collapse the whole thing.

    In a Ponzi scheme, the people 'late' the the investment(which is everyone who didn't start it) won't get anything out of it.
    Social Security is running really well, it has minimal overhead, it's accountable, has money set aside, and is designed to allow for adjustments along the way.

    It should be held op up as one of Americans crowning achievements. Right there with the Hoover Dam, Golden Gate Bridge, the Interstate highway and putting a men on the moon.
    But republicans don't like it so they keep lying about it.