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  1. Campground vs disaster on Spanish Company Tests 'Right To Be Forgotten' Against Google · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If the campground sues and wins, then we forget about the campground, but that won't affect the disaster. The campground does not own the disaster. To forget the disaster, then the disaster must sue.

    What about MY right to remember history the way it truly happened?

  2. Re:godaddy on Suggestions For Music Hosting? · · Score: 1

    Don't even recommend GoDaddy to your enemies. You don't one your enemies getting together.

  3. Re:Budget on Suggestions For Music Hosting? · · Score: 2

    But I'm getting 10 times that for less than 1/10 of that, and that includes the hosting space.

  4. Re:One word solution on Suggestions For Music Hosting? · · Score: 1

    But this is a good place to go if your intent is to entrap the MAFIAA for a good lawsuit against them. If it has music they WILL try to leach it (even if it is just due to their utter incompetence, though lots of people are fully convinced it is malice).

  5. Big corporations ... on Are Rich People Less Moral? · · Score: 1

    ... have been run by the rich for ... well ... ever since there were corporations. Now I know why the big corporations tend to be the most dishonest (compared to small businesses). Now I know that moving my money from a big bank to a small bank was a good move.

  6. Re:Scientist just not used to dealing with Lawyers on Lawyers For Mining Companies Threaten Scientific Journals · · Score: 2

    And also, lawyers get it wrong about 50% of the time, on average, while the average for scientists is better than 99%

  7. Dear Stupid Lawyers on Lawyers For Mining Companies Threaten Scientific Journals · · Score: 2

    I've read many scientific papers and have found that scientists are right well more than 99% of the time. Sure, errors, mistakes, and sometimes even fraud, take place. But the courts are NOT a place that is competent of scientific fact, and as such are not qualified to make scientific judgments. But, alas, there is a way that scientific publishing corrects itself. And that is by other scientists publishing opposing papers. Then the community sorts it out based on scientific facts (not on silly rules of civil procedure).

    Oh, BTW, I've attended court and read judicial rulings many times and have found that lawyers are only getting it right about 50% of the time. Scientists have you beat.

  8. Half way through that I branch off to rsync to populate the system. Then I SSH in via the IPv6 pre-configure link-local address and custom tweak. Reboot. Done.

    Oh, and there are alternatives to PXE, like USB memory sticks.

  9. Re:Parallel SSH on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Install Ubuntu On 30 Laptops and Keep Them In Sync? · · Score: 1

    I did that for a bank of 10 machines 12 years ago. They are still asking this question today?

  10. Re:Preseed + Config Management on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Install Ubuntu On 30 Laptops and Keep Them In Sync? · · Score: 1

    I just booted an in-RAM system via PXE and/or USB memory sticks on each machine, and populated the hard drive via rsync. I didn't even bother with DHCP and used IPv6 link local addresses to get started, and updated each machine's network config with a MAC to IPv4 map (only once, because sometimes I do need to replace NIC cards or motherboards and I don't want a machine's personality to be lost because of that).

  11. I'm sure configuring a different IP address for each machine would be important. That or just run your network DHCP'd. I'd at least use IPv6 link local addresses to login with (they actually are more reliable).

  12. Re:clusterssh on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Install Ubuntu On 30 Laptops and Keep Them In Sync? · · Score: 1

    How about the initial install that has to resize MS Windows first, then install Linux in the emptied space?

  13. Re:Bootable Customized LiveCD on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Install Ubuntu On 30 Laptops and Keep Them In Sync? · · Score: 1

    That's one way. I had to do this with a stack of netbooks. I just made a USB memory stick do the same thing. I've also read about people doing this with PXE. Ubuntu has packages to do this either way. No doubt Debian and Fedora could, too.

  14. Re:Use puppet to keep everything in sync! on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Install Ubuntu On 30 Laptops and Keep Them In Sync? · · Score: 1

    I see several people answering this Ask Slashdot have suggested it. But no one, not even the puppetlabs web site, explains either what it is doing, or why it is better than the old ways. It seems to all be oriented to PHBs that might see it before they realize their SA has just been doing it all along without any payware.

  15. Re:So Racknine is a push version of 4chan? on Canada's Conservatives Misled Voters With Massive Robocall Operation · · Score: 5

    All forms of robocalling should be outlawed in all countries. Penalties should be: 1st offense, 1001 slaps on the wrist by a robowristslapper ... 2nd offense, 1001 punches in the face by a robofacepuncher ... 3rd offense, 1001 knifestabs by a roboknifestabber.

  16. Re:As someone who voted Conservative. on Canada's Conservatives Misled Voters With Massive Robocall Operation · · Score: 0

    Even the conservatives of USA, aka Republicans, have been gradually invade by a bunch of dirtbag scums that want to destroy the country by disabling its ability to resist their criminal activities. It has destroyed the party. Probably the only reason they didn't try to take over the Democratic party is that a bunch of other dirtbag scums had already beat them to it.

  17. Re:Nothing motivates like Religion on Canada's Conservatives Misled Voters With Massive Robocall Operation · · Score: 1

    Eh? Canada shares North America with two other countries. And there's bunch down in Central America and South America. All of them are Americans of what kind or another. USA has no exclusive claim on "America".

    FYI, I'm NOT Canadian.

  18. Re:Torqued Headline? on Canada's Conservatives Misled Voters With Massive Robocall Operation · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Unless and until there is a conviction of who did this, no sanctions can be made against them (assuming Canada still operates as fairly as the USA used to). OTOH, it would only take proof that it happened (without knowing who did it) to invalidate the election, since it resulted in many people being unable to vote. But it seems it was at least narrowed down to a robocaller company.

    If the Conservative Party of Canada actually sanctioned this, they they should be decertified as a party (for at least 10 years). I doubt they would be that stupid. But maybe some higher-ups in the party did it. They should be imprisoned, if convicted. 10 years might be enough.

    There still may need to be a complete nullification of the laws passed, or at least a re-vote on them all with the correct members voting (after hearing again, all the debates). This depends on proof this happened. If this is all a news media lie, then never mind.

  19. Re:No legal standing to declare passport invalid on Damaged US Passport Chip Strands Travelers · · Score: 1

    I thought the chips added new information. If not, why add the chips? Why not just convert to Q-codes or something to satisfy those who want change?

  20. Re:Who didn't know this on Women More Likely To Unfriend Than Men · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thanks. Glad to know this. I've always wondered why so few men wear skirts. Now I know.

  21. Re:Logical evolution on New ZeuS Botnet No Longer Needs Central Command Servers · · Score: 0

    If there is nothing Microsoft can do (which I actually very seriously doubt), then no one should be using it. If a car manufacturer regularly made cars with brakes that did not work, people should not use those because they would typically lead to accidents that harm others, for which the driver has first and equal liability, under law. Same should go for a computer. Just because the maker doesn't know how to make it work right is not a valid excuse (it is a valid case for the buyer to sue the maker, if they claimed it would work).

  22. Re:Logical evolution on New ZeuS Botnet No Longer Needs Central Command Servers · · Score: 1

    I was not aware that Mac OS X 10.3.9 running on iMac G3 was vulnerable to botnets. But if it is, then you need to take that up with the maker who left you vulnerable to these legal liabilities. If you buy a car with no brakes and drive it out on the highway and crash into someone else, YOU are at least equally liable. Drivers on the road have the responsibility assigned by law to be sure they are operating a safe vehicle. Operating an unsafe computer on the internet should be just as much a responsibility.

  23. Re:They still need a C&C on New ZeuS Botnet No Longer Needs Central Command Servers · · Score: 1

    Probably ANY machine that sends a C&C message ... which is properly signed ... can control it. Instead of the botnet "phoning home", the C&C has to find them. They could probably be spraying their scent around at random, and C&C messages sprayed at random are likely to find an eventual target.

  24. Re:Reading good opinions is fun... on US Appeals Court Upholds Suspect's Right To Refuse Decryption · · Score: 1

    Just set up a key-rot system. This is a system where the key protected under the passphrase is worthless after a certain period of time. It depends on another system in an obscure location also protected under the passphrase, which generates additional key bits that are needed, but does so only for a finite time frame, then wipes them out forever. Of course, it would have a sliding window style set of keys so you can (and must, on a regular basis) update the key bits that decrypt the cipher blob used to encrypt and decrypt all the data. In order to beak this system, they would have to quickly find out where this site is (need the passphrase to do that) and capture the key bits from it before the time frame ends. If the time frame passes, trying to download it just gets a notice of DMCA takedown. A simple file upload site with automated removal (and secure scrubbing erasure) ought to accomplish it.

  25. Re:RFC 1149 on MIT Lecturer Defends His Standing As Email Inventor · · Score: 1

    At the time, that was a more reliable method.