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  1. Zoneminder HCL on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Open and Affordable IPCams? · · Score: 0

    There is a fairly large amount of documentation on hardware compatibility on the zoneminder forum, if that's the route you're going for capture and control of your cameras: http://www.zoneminder.com/foru...

    There was also a rather nice camera that was kickstarted a while back, but I forgot the name of it.

  2. Oh please, c'mon on Are Plastic Bag Bans Making People Sick? · · Score: 0

    All you have to do is spray the inside of the bag with lysol, or even a dilute bleach solution, once a week. IT'S NOT THAT HARD PEOPLE.
    Luckily I don't have to deal with this threat of illness, because I have an immune system.

  3. Re:Turduckenenduckenen on Ask Slashdot: Geekiest Way To Cook a Turkey? · · Score: 0

    I heard Vi Hart is married to Ed Hart

  4. Re:Evil technology on Saudi Arabia Implements Electronic Tracking System For Women · · Score: 0

    The trouble is that the Saudi government is an ally.

    America doesn't have allies, only interests

  5. Re:Why change the interface at all on Are Windows XP/7 Users Smarter Than a 3-Year-Old? · · Score: 0

    Yanno, I feel the same way about Unity for gnome3.

  6. Romney's voice is extremely annoying on US Presidential Debate #2 Tonight: Discuss Here · · Score: 0

    It sounds like he actually cares about people. It's very grating.

  7. LILO vs GRUB2 on Slackware 14.0 Arrives · · Score: 0

    Does anybody know what inspired the architectural choice of LILO as a bootloader as opposed to GRUB2, in a nutshell?

    I am neutral as far as any political choice between my two favorite bootloader candidates are concerned, but I am a little weary of a bootloader I haven't elected to use within the past 4 years.

    Should I be afraid of LILO?

  8. Re:There's more to this story. on Linux Forcibly Installed On Congressman's Computer In Act of Terrorism · · Score: 0

    Proper analysis, exactly. The news has none of that.

  9. Not the only .*camp for hackers! on ToorCamp: Adventures In an American Hacker Camp · · Score: 0

    I recently attended a givecamp (http://givecamp.org/) and it was quite a satisfying experience.
    It was great to get out and be a part of a greater good, especially on centered around programming.
    In fact, it was probably the hardest i've ever worked on a computer in a 60 hour period in my life
    Couldn't say I learned much though, just got really frustrated at Drupal!:)

  10. michio kaku discusses this thread on Ask Slashdot: Reasonable Immigration Policy For Highly-Trained Workers? · · Score: 0

    This video is highly relevant to this discussion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK0Y9j_CGgM

  11. Means of communication on No Intelligent Aliens Detected In Gliese 581 · · Score: 0

    What makes the researchers think that aliens would even be using radio signals to communicate? And if they were intelligent, what's not to say that they were simply smart enough not to make as much noise as us humans? What, do you think every intelligent creature thinks of itself as an interplanetary HAM operator or something?

  12. Counterstrike as alternative to WW III on 'Legitimized' Cyberwar Opens Pandora's Box of Dirty Tricks · · Score: 0

    Just send computers overseas to those who don't have them, along with high speed internet and a Steam subscription. The warring nations can battle it out in virtual games and the rest of the bystanders can live in peace. Genocide and war solved by computers! I've been saying this ever since high school, when Bush was pushing for the invasion of Iraq ! :: ... oh wait... they're going to learn those computers to 'cyberattack our infrastructure' Yeah right. What ever 'they' and 'our' is.

  13. Free beer! on Engineered Stomach Microbe Converts Seaweed Into Ethanol · · Score: 0

    So here's how it goes, this microbe is transplanted back into a human stomach like mine, right, and then I eat kombu and get wayyyyystteeed. Whatever about fuel, this thing is making free* moonshine.

    *I bet seaweed's pretty cheap

  14. expert programmers organically visualize... on Researcher's Tool Maps Malware In Elegant 3D Model · · Score: 1

    ... in their own heads, its what makes them expert programmers

  15. All malaysians must register their printers anyway on Malaysia Mulls Compulsory Registration of Tech Workers · · Score: 0
  16. Could you imagine if this happened in Louisiana on PC Makers Run Short of Popular Drives · · Score: 0

    Because the pictures look to me like Katrina hit, except there were no hard drive factories there in New Orleans that got this much press.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhumibol_Adulyadej



    There shoulda been though. It's too bad countries still don't know how to build proper flood levees, media conglomerates, reps from major hardware manufacturers, governments (shit I didn't say Thailand is run by an autocrat did I?

    Too bad that more hard drive manufacturers don't exist in the United States. I guess they all exist in Thailand. (sarcasm, sorry)

    What really needs to be addressed in this thread is an entirely two-fold problem: overseas labor taking jobs from the US, and the participation of multinational corporations in the creation of the consumerism which powers those jobs in not sourcing the used hard drive market to the public in a cost effective manner leading to a falsely inflated sense of demand and general market insecurity about the price of hard disk drives, as well as about better storage alternatives than local hard drives.

    To me, although the news about hard times in Thailand is upsetting, there have been far worse disasters on the human population in our lifetime. (especially in that part of the world -- the tsunami)

    What really should be questioned is what will the storage capacity of hard drives be 5 years from now? 50 years from now? And also, how much does the human brain ACTUALLY store?

    http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=yro+thailand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Nagin ~ ~ ~ ~

  17. Write a program on Ask Slashdot: Handling and Cleaning Up a Large Personal Email Archive? · · Score: 0

    That takes the subject of any email with an attachment and moves it out of the .mbox into a photo archive (my guess is that your attachments are mostly photos with some videos) After you strip the photos from the mbox, gzip it and you should be fine. You'll have a compressed archive of correspondence, and an easily browsed directory of photographs. For extra points, use the program ``touch'' to date the attachment files to their original received-by date.

  18. Not so great on Twitter Buys Moxie Marlinspike's Crypto Startup · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I really don't agree with him selling his software to such a large corporation, on moral grounds. Will the software stay free and open? That's my concern. Hopefully they gave him a large chunk for it and he's going to use it buy a really nice sailboat.

  19. Re:What is the goal? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    No I wear nice clothes, love suits, hate joints, and free love has fucked me over. Let's write software that allows us to get rid of this silly 'peoples mic' phenomenon.

  20. Re:What is the goal? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    I'll just gratuitously paraphrase Zizek. Let me tell you a wonderful old joke from communist times.

    A guy was sent from East Germany to work in Siberia. He knew his mail would be read by censors. So he told his friends: Let’s establish a code. If the letter you get from me is written in blue ink, what I wrote is true. If it is written in red ink, it is false. After a month his friends get the first letter. Everything is in blue. It says: Everything is wonderful here! Stores are full of good food. Movie theaters show good films from the West. Apartments are large and luxurious. The only thing you cannot buy is red ink.

    This is how we live. We have all the freedoms we want. But what we are missing is red ink. The language to articulate our non-freedom. The way we are taught to speak about freedom, war and terrorism and so on, falsifies freedom. And this is what the occupiers all over this country, and allies around the world, are doing here, in Wall Street: giving all of us red ink.

    Communism failed absolutely. But the problems of the commons are here, now, where you are and where I am. They are telling you we are not Americans here. But the conservative fundamentalists who claim they are really American have to be reminded of something. What is Christianity? It’s the Holy Spirit. What’s the Holy Spirit? It’s an egalitarian community of believers who are linked by love for each other. And who only have their own freedom and responsibility to do it. In this sense the Holy Spirit is here now. And down there on Wall Street there are pagans who are worshipping blasphemous idols. So all we need is patience. The only thing I’m afraid of is that we will someday just go home and then we will meet once a year, drinking beer, and nostalgically remembering what a nice time we had here. Promise ourselves that this will not be the case.

    We know that people often desire something but do not really want it. Don’t be afraid to really want what you desire.

  21. Re:What is the goal? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    These protests lack a specific and/or measurable goal.

    Protests? Protest is a tactic and generally its effects are limited to raising public awareness on a topic. Protests are the reason everybody knows about these occupations. But to call the entire occupy movement simply a "protest" is going to gloss over the real meaning of it.

    the lack of focus could be a deal breaker for the occupy movement.

    The intensive form of direct democracy introduced via working groups is about the furthest thing from a "lack of focus" I have seen amongst strangers communicating in a public forum, ever.

  22. Re:Jolly. on Big Brother Calls 'Shotgun' In Illinois · · Score: 1

    Who ever mentioned it was a video camera?

  23. I do not like the new layout on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    Specifically, the spacing between elements is too big, and the new icons are oversized and ugly! Old icons in a downloadable archive plzthx?!

  24. Non-aggression on Ubuntu Won't Moan To EU About Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Non-aggressive strategies tend to be mutually beneficial. Hence the meaning behind ubuntu being put into action,

  25. against cp on Wikimedia Confusion Swirls In Wake of Porn Charges · · Score: 2

    Deal with child pornographers by kicking them out of your community and make sure they're not welcome back. Do everything you can to make sure their actions and their viewpoints are totally unwelcome. Child porn is a hideous crime. But the internet wasn't the start and deleting it from there won't be the end of it. Some people abuse the service. It's not the service, it's the users. It's obvious this wasn't Sanger's or wikipedia's fault, or for that matter FOX. The internet routes around faults, after all. IMHO, Wikipedia and Wiki Media Commons are still not /open/ enough. 3 all the language translations, and open knowledge will still have its faults, but this sort of thing is really old. AT was taken down. Be glad for that!