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  1. Re:Fax machine on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Stop a Debt Collection Scam From Targeting You? · · Score: 1

    So he should us Special Information Tones Tones?

  2. Are you sure that wasn't just coax gain?

  3. Re:How do you like midnight? on A Plan To Fix Daylight Savings Time By Creating Two National Time Zones · · Score: 2

    Volvo. 'nuff said.

  4. Re:What? Nexus 5 released, Nexus 10 already releas on Android KitKat Released · · Score: 1

    "...the app itself uses over 2GB of ram after it caches all of its data."

    And this is why we can't have nice things.

  5. Good riddance! on Panasonic Announces an End To Plasma TVs In March · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Plasma sets put out so much RFI that it makes working HF hell if one is in your neighborhood.

  6. Re:Being prepared on A Year After Sandy, Do You Approach Disaster Differently? · · Score: 1

    Nope, operate under State authority for the tribal EOC. Wouldn't want to lose my ham ticket or radio-telephone license. I'm also good with my county radio officer. I just don't play the vest & badges game. When the shit hits the fan, they know who I am.

    It's not like I don't have my ICS-400 and shit.Hell, I even put up a D-Star box on the tribal tower so we can go digital with the county EOC. You just won't find any laminated card around my neck or me checking in each week on the net. When you've built broadcast stations, radio becomes just a tool.

    I haven't talked on the radio for months. But I still know how to pass traffic.

  7. Re:Throw down. on Welcome to the Goodwill Computer Museum (Video) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, mine's mostly floppy these days, too.

  8. Re:Throw down. on Welcome to the Goodwill Computer Museum (Video) · · Score: 1

    I have Turbo Pascal for CP/M on an 8" floppy if you need it.

  9. Re:Being prepared on A Year After Sandy, Do You Approach Disaster Differently? · · Score: 1

    You are incorrect, uninformed, and perpetuating misinformation.
    And you, sir, are what we call an ECommie. Get your reflective vest and callsign hat, and jog off. We don't need no stinkin' badges. Your radio ain't going to dig you out of a fallen house. What you need is a good set of demolition tools, food, water, first aid and tarps. Get to know your neighbors and help them when the shit hits the fan. CERT training can help but just don't go all happy with it and make it your whole life. Enjoy the now.

    If you want a radio for emergencies, then get one on your state EOC frequency so you can bypass all the ECommie wannabes.

    I've got a VHF-low Maxtrac channeled up for Washington State CEMNET and the Red Cross. I'll be grabbing that before I grab my 2m.

  10. Apple hardware only on Torvalds: Free OS X Is No Threat To Linux · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that it won't be free for my Franklin Ace?

  11. Very Cool! on Ford Showcases Self-Parking Car Technology · · Score: 1

    Now can I get this for my motorcycle?

  12. Re:It's a feature not a bug on Apple Maps Flaw Sends Drivers Across Airport Runway · · Score: 1

    I'm still waiting for the Lynnwood to Anchorage plans to show up on the ST website.

  13. I hope this fails on Join the Efforts of a Manned Mission To Jovian Moon Europa · · Score: 1

    The last thing we need is a bunch of humans spewing bacteria on a planet/moon that we're trying to examine for extraterrestrial life. One small slip and they could fuck things up for the rest of time.

    Clarke had it right. Attempt no landings.

  14. Re:No! on Flash Memory Won't Get Cheaper Any Time Soon · · Score: 1

    Tried that. This software seems to directly address the floppy drive.

  15. Re:No! on Flash Memory Won't Get Cheaper Any Time Soon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I just bought an old Toughbook about a month ago with only a floppy in it. See, there's this software to program the cabin lights on a 747 that runs only on 95 or earlier and needs to produce a single-sided 3.5" floppy to insert in the aircraft. We have teams that travel the world overseeing cabin upgrades and I got tired of trying to get old Dells to live long enough to last more than one trip.

  16. Re:No need for cameras. on EU Proposes To Fit Cars With Speed Limiters · · Score: 1

    Come to Washington State. We have a 20 trooper task force out right now on a 10 mile stretch of I-5 looking for distracted or raging drivers. Yes, they will ticket you for texting or following too close.

    I'm glad they are out there.

  17. Re:Misleading Headline on Synchronized Virtual Reality Heartbeat Triggers Out-of-Body Experiences · · Score: 1

    It definitely needs more study. Who knows maybe you'll be the first to properly document it?

    Why don't you and get a million dollars?

  18. Re:Misleading Headline on Synchronized Virtual Reality Heartbeat Triggers Out-of-Body Experiences · · Score: 1

    This was the early 80s. Trust me, I've been drug free for a couple of decades now.

    And you lost me at "etheric body." What is one of them?

  19. Re:Misleading Headline on Synchronized Virtual Reality Heartbeat Triggers Out-of-Body Experiences · · Score: 1

    Oh, I have. Granted it was at a Dead concert and LSD was involved. But I distinctly recall thinking/feeling that I was floating above the crowd. My mind presented me with the POV of that position. It was fun. I'd love to do it again but Jerry's dead and I'm too old to drop again.

    But it's just all software running on meatware. Nothing has gone anywhere.

  20. Re:Blame the IT guy on Goldman Suspends 4 Senior Tech Specialists After Trading Glitch · · Score: 1

    Tell me about it. At our 200 person aerospace company the facilities and IT are one two-man department. Our trouble ticket system tracks both bad keyboards and toilet issues.

    The call I hate to get starts off with, "do you know where a plunger is?" I know what the next question is going to be.

  21. Re:Misleading Headline on Synchronized Virtual Reality Heartbeat Triggers Out-of-Body Experiences · · Score: 1

    What do you mean by "real thing?"

    There is nothing that goes out of the body during an OBE. It's just an incorrect positional assumption, which is what this causes.

  22. Re:Huh? What? on The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever · · Score: 1

    I think it was mid-afternoon, west coast time.

    Indeed a while. I was hosting images.slashdot.org on a Pent 120 running Slackware at the ISP I worked for. Rob's T1 was saturated and our T3 had a lot of bandwidth left.

  23. Re:How did this pass moderation? on The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever · · Score: 1

    Yes sir. Sorry sir.

  24. Re:Huh? What? on The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever · · Score: 5, Funny

    No. Go back to bed.

  25. Re:How did this pass moderation? on The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever · · Score: 1

    Yeah.