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  1. Re:Tag all guns and owner on UCSD Lecturer Releases Geotagging Application For "Dangerous Guns and Owners" · · Score: 1

    But how many of the things I don't need can so easily be used to kill? if you own a gun you have the power to easily tkae the life of a human, so you should be tracked to make sure you never use that ability. Guns have no reason purpose in today's society, in fact the only real reason for owning one is to give yourself the ability to take life.

  2. Re:Tag all guns and owner on UCSD Lecturer Releases Geotagging Application For "Dangerous Guns and Owners" · · Score: 1

    People do not need guns, name three things that people NEED guns for, by NEED I mean they can't do by other means. I'm having an extremely difficult time coming up with a list.

  3. Tag all guns and owner on UCSD Lecturer Releases Geotagging Application For "Dangerous Guns and Owners" · · Score: 0

    If you own a gun you should be tagged and tracked period!

  4. Long, ugly, over worked control structures. on Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers · · Score: 1

    I've seen some truly mouth dropping feats of loop control and loop management which should be one with a simple and beautiful goto statement. I hate when a developer is to smug and to overly sure of him / her self to admit that sometimes a goto is the correct solution and if used correctly is a very clean and safe code construct. After all if you going to argue me, write a full ASM program without using JMP ( or a similar code ).

  5. Re:Human evolution could also work on Student Project Could Kill Digital Ad Targeting · · Score: 1

    Hence the problem is the users and not the ad companies. You can't keep blaming everyone else when you can't do something, if your weak your weak and deal with it, don't always cry for your mommy to come over and deal with it.

  6. Human evolution could also work on Student Project Could Kill Digital Ad Targeting · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I would like to think in this day and age people are mature enough to ignore targeted ads.

  7. Re:What? on The Security Risks of HTML5 Development · · Score: 1

    Drafting is fine, as long as the draft contains no secure or sensitive information.

  8. Re:What? on The Security Risks of HTML5 Development · · Score: 1

    And lets give away the concept of security like we're the NSA.

  9. Re:Stop it. on The Security Risks of HTML5 Development · · Score: 1

    Security, which is something the client side can't give you.

  10. What? on The Security Risks of HTML5 Development · · Score: 2

    Why are you using client side code to store data? Bad overall concept from the get go. If you really need to store "large" amounts of data for a web session then store a session flag in the client and use encrypted sockets to transport the data to a secure server and flush the temp storage when your done.

  11. And good hard driver support is still missing! on Happy 20th Birthday, FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    I've attempted to use FreeBSD over the last 10 years and every single time I attempt to, I run into the exact same issue with hard drives. Simply the fact that my chipsets are never supported, IDE and Sata. I've been in the chatrooms on IRC, I've been on the forums and no one was ever able to answer me. So FreeBSD might be 20 years old but they still don't have hard drive support.

  12. Turn the table on Why Your Sysadmin Hates You · · Score: 1

    How about why we hate them! As an experienced Admin I can comment on both sides of the issue. Lets start with the Admin looking at the user:

    User:
    1) Usually describes the wrong issue in a ticket.
    2) Asks for things that don't make sense / are impossible.
    3) Wants to configure / install software that they have no idea how it works.
    3) Blames the Admin when an update broke Office and Windows.
    4) Wants 0 down time even when the down time is needed.
    5) Doesn't want to wait when they need a hardware of software fix.
    6) Assumes we know everything about every piece of software, like Soildworks.
    6) Thinks Windows / Mac are the only operating systems and that everything needs a GUI.
    7) Breaks the Preforce and doesn't know why.

    Users can be very frustrating and very annoying to work with, a fair amount of users have no idea what they need / want 1/2 the time and don't really know what to ask for. However a good Admin already knows that and is more then willing / ready to clearly explain what they need / want from them. A good Admin won't talk down to a user and won't expect a user to operate at the Admin level.

    Lets examine a bad Admin, the kind a user HATES to work with because the Admin is unreasonable / has a complex!

    Admin:
    1) Can't explain anything properly and acts like the bees knees.
    2) Imposes policies that make no sense and refuses to buge on them.
    3) Wont entertain user requests that aren't needs, such as making a VM for a user to "play" around in.
    4) Won't ask the users what they need!
    5) Doesn't listen to managers in meetings when important updates are coming out for software!
    5) Thinks that downtime is a right and they don't have to explain it.
    6) Hijacks network resources at an unreasonable level slowing the users down with out explaining it before hand.
    7) Wont allow discussion between the IT Department and the Users.
    8) Won't allow exceptions, even when the exception makes sense and is accepted by managers.

    Bad Admin's are more at fault then bad users. I hate when bad Admin's complain about users when in fact the root cause of the user being an asshole is because of the Admin. Your an Admin not a god, you don't have some amazing power that can't be taken away, your a man of the people and not the mayor of awesome town. Face it a bad Admin is more at fault then a bad User and from my experience there are more bad Admins then users. NEVER lie to user when you're an Admin, I've seen so many cases where the Admin will tell a bold face lie and just move on. If you can lie to a user then a user can lie to you and you need to accept it.

    I think this submission needs to be flipped, I think the bad Admin should be looked at and not the users, a good Admin will instill trust and corporation between the users and the IT Department, a bad Admin will close the connection and leave both parties upset and ready to leave.

  13. Re:Rights for the innocent on Supreme Court Decides Your Silence May Be Used Against You · · Score: 1

    I'm saying it in a factual tone because it's a fact.

  14. Fanboys and Trolls on KWin Maintainer: Fanboys and Trolls Are the Cancer Killing Free Software · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The amount of people who don't actually know what a troll is, is mind blowing. Having a completely different opinion does not make you a troll. A troll has to without any attempt at valid point formation for his / her side, argue with the attempt to instil negative feelings or total false hood on the given topic. I hate trolls but I also hate people who don't know how to recognize a troll, having been modded down on this side many times for making good and logical arguments, I'm actually worried that people have lost the ability to distinguish a troll from someone who has a valid differing opinion.

    As for Fanboys, well if you can make me a good set of points on why your product is better and if you can properly discuss them all with me and make me see that your not just a Fanboy without reason then your okay! The Fanboys I can't stand are the ones who talk about product X like it's the coming of Jesus but then can't talk about why they don't actually like Y, Z and T without saying they just suck.

    The best part is, this works with everything! I don't care if your a software developer, home baker, car mechanic or just a noodle enthusiast, you need to be able to form proper reasons behind the things you do and why you do them. I'm not a musical fan but if you can sit down and explain all the reasons you like musicals then I'm not going to argue, we might differ entirely in opinion but at least you have good reasons and I can respect that.

  15. Re:Rights for the innocent on Supreme Court Decides Your Silence May Be Used Against You · · Score: 1

    So your suggesting I act like a complete idiot to that person, hide behind silence, cloak my self in badly answered questions and make no attempt to defend my innocents ..... I fail to see how that would work better then just proving beyond all doubt I didn't do it.

  16. Rights for the innocent on Supreme Court Decides Your Silence May Be Used Against You · · Score: 0

    `If your innocent just don't hide behind silence, I've stated how I feel about stuff like this a few times and been chewed out for it. I'm going to say my feelings again, innocent people who want to appear innocent don't act guilty and silence just like refusing DNA is a guilty act.

  17. Wow on Canadian Couple Charged $5k For Finding 400-Year-Old Skeleton · · Score: -1, Troll

    I would push back saying no way in hell I'm going to pay for that. The land should of already been known to be "sacred" native ground, that should of been dealt with when the government "stole" the land from the native people, push back and tell them to deal with it. This couple shouldn't care about the land, the land was stolen from the native people, development by the government and then sold to the couple, if the government didn't do the work in the first place they should still be held accountable and hence this couple is off the hook. I would just refuse and give the government 6 months, after that the couple can keep building.

  18. I support this on Google Aims To Cull Child Porn By Algorithm, Not Human Review · · Score: 1

    This is a really good idea.

  19. Simply Put on NSA Surveillance May Have Dealt Major Blow To Global Internet Freedom Efforts · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you actually thought that no one was looking into what you did then you deserved it. I've said it a hundred times and I'll say it again, privacy is dead! If you want privacy then give up the internet, give you your cell phone, give up you credit cards and basically fall off the grid. The NSA didn't deal the blow, the blow was dealt long before the big whistle was blown, it was every person who thought they have privacy on the internet. So how about now people listen and believe me when I say, YOU DON'T HAVE PRIVACY ON THE INTERNET!!! SO deal with it.

  20. Get rid of it on Ask Slashdot: How To Bypass Gov't Spying On Cellphones? · · Score: 1

    If your that concerned with your privacy then leave the grid. Go cash only and NEVER appear on camera or leave a network footprint. It's possibly if your careful to effectively disappear from the watchers but you have to tip toe like your in an active mine field.

    If you want privacy just don't get a cell phone, they are pretty much the most track-able device that people carry day to day.

  21. Better Idea on German Parliament Tells Government To Strictly Limit Patents On Software · · Score: -1, Troll

    How about all software must be released under an open source license / free software license, except where the security of the code is paramount to a system functioning or working correctly and in that case all security modules must be designed to hide a minimal amount of code.

  22. I know exactly how it works, but it just so happens it works using a broken set of rules.

  23. I know what the law says but I think it's broken. The law needs to be updated so that once you've been proven guilty by physical evidence, hence CP, you can no longer maintain the rights of an innocent individual. In this case it's not a question if he broke the law, he did, they have proof, it's a question of how bad the law has been broken and to what level he needs to be considered a guilty man. Innocent at this point is impossible.

  24. Re:It doesn't need to on Will PCIe Flash Become Common In Laptops, Desktops? · · Score: 1

    Well that is also a fair statement, it seems with every new "rev" of the mac books you lose valuable components and gain expensive and over powered options, for instance losing an ethernet port and an optical drive and getting a retina display.

  25. Re:It doesn't need to on Will PCIe Flash Become Common In Laptops, Desktops? · · Score: 1

    Fair enough but the post is able running PCIe in laptops and desktops. I can see a use for it in the desktop, it's in the laptop I fail to see the use of it.