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  1. Windows doesn't use .local by default, it's just become common practice over the years to set your domain up like that. But any Windows admin worth his salt knows .local domains creates tons of conflicts with Apple devices, and so anyone wishing to support Apple devices also knows not to use that tld.

  2. Re:We can help. on Oslo Needs Your Garbage · · Score: 2

    I'm not joking. We really do dump it into the ocean.

    According to the EPA, that stopped completely by 1992.

    That's about when they started splicing foreign elements into corn and soy, isn't it? I wonder where all that waste is going...

  3. Re:Reword on Oslo Needs Your Garbage · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Denmark doesn't have hydro power (no mountains) and it doesn't have nuclear (oooh, Chernobyl..!). It's primarily the burning of natural gas and coal, plus whatever the wind farms produce, that keeps the lights on.

  4. Re:Google glasses on Google Glass Is the Future — and the Future Has Awful Battery Life · · Score: 1

    Unless this all occurs inside your house, I can't see what the problem is?

  5. Re:Dream on. on Omnidirectional Treadmill: The Ultimate FPS Input Device? · · Score: 1

    Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization.

  6. Re:Dream on. on Omnidirectional Treadmill: The Ultimate FPS Input Device? · · Score: 2

    Good thing the world is circle shaped then. Imagine if it was an inside-out circle. Everywhere you'd go would be uphill.

  7. Re:natural selection on Low Levels of Toxic Gas Found To Encourage Plant Growth · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And then we have a rainforest full of trees that produce hydrogen sulfide. What could possibly go wrong?

  8. Sure but as the guy in the video says, simply overwriting the disk isn't NSA approved, and some places need to be NSA approved to stay in business.

  9. Re: Good Riddens on PayPal To Replace VMware With OpenStack · · Score: 2

    That's how you get when you are too big on your own for too long, feeding shareholders money. The shareholders take over and the company suffers as a result of having to sacrifice creativity for profit. Happens all the time.

  10. Re:Proportionate Response on Do Nations Have the Right To Kill Enemy Hackers? · · Score: 1

    Of course not. It's the other guys that need to die in the name of our righteous cause. Not us.

  11. Re:Thought Jailbreaking was legally allowed? on Apple Releases Patch For Evasi0n Jailbreak (After It's Used 18 Million Times) · · Score: 2

    It may be legal to jailbreak, but why should that stop Apple from patching security flaws in their software? If Apple doesn't provide a jailbreak feature built-in to their phones, jailbreakers have to rely on security flaws - flaws that may be patched at any given point in time.

  12. Re:I can slack off anywhere on The Data That Drove Yahoo's Telecommuting Ban · · Score: 1

    But if I go to work, I get disturbed by people who want to find me and ask me questions, which means I'm not concentrating on doing my job.

  13. Re:I can slack off anywhere on The Data That Drove Yahoo's Telecommuting Ban · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can't do that. They might start reading Slashdot and finding out just how unnecessary they are, which might prompt them to do something stupid, or worse, their job. And then how would we get to slack off?

  14. Re: that's what the job killing lines get you stuf on NASA Releases Orbital Photos of Beijing's Air Pollution · · Score: 1

    So because it doesnt matter, the US might as well not bother trying at all, is what you're saying, hm?

  15. My work routine on Ask Slashdot: How To Stay Fit In the Office? · · Score: 1

    I work 90 minute intervals followed by 10 minute breaks. Every break, I find an empty room and I do bending and stretching exercises, and do a couple of push-ups and squats and such. Not only do I keep reasonably fit from these activities alone, but I also find that it refills my energy far better than drinking coffee or coke.

  16. Re:Sigh... on EFnet Paralyzed By Vulnerability · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's retro cracking. Old is the new new, y'know?

  17. Re:Blasphemy in whose term ? on Pakistan Lifts YouTube Ban For 3 Minutes, Finds More Blasphemy · · Score: 2

    Seriously? You can't buy alcohol after 2 am? Wow.

  18. Re:this is stupid on Want a Job At Google? Better Know Microsoft Office! · · Score: 2

    If it were up to the IT people to write every single business critical application, nothing would ever get done. Let the finance guy write his spreadsheet and should said spreadsheet turn out to be a good investment of time, let the programmers take over and build it into a proper database-driven application.

  19. So... Question, on New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map · · Score: 2, Interesting

    All these people that shoot up eachother, are their guns legal or are they illegal?

  20. Re:Well color me shocked. on New Pirate Bay Proxies Spring Up · · Score: 2

    The lawyers, politicians and business CEOs seem consistently surprised every time something like this happens.

  21. And if you're unhappy... on Ubuntu 13.04 Will Allow Instant Purchasing, Right From the Dash · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... you can just download another distro. Because it's Linux and Linux comes in more flavors than ice cream. Heck if you don't like any of the flavors, make your own. No need to log on Slashdot and moan and cry about how terrible Ubuntu is and how much it reminds you of them terrible yanks uppin Micro$oft yonder, because you don't know anyway. You wouldn't come within 1000 feet of it, right? You despise it, you loathe it, yes? Good.

  22. Re:Speed at the cost of accuracy on Swedish Stock Exchange Hit By Programming Snafu · · Score: 2

    Why bother? If something gets fucked up, Mr. Street just rolls back all the bad, and gives us another chance. No problem.

  23. A long time ago on NASA Discovers Most Distant Galaxy In Known Universe · · Score: 2

    In a galaxy far, far away...

    You don't think... this could be...?

  24. Fair enough I suppose on UW Imposes 20-Tweet Limit On Live Events · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm assuming it's not their job to write tweets and drive traffic toward their personal twitter feed, but to write stories that the employer can sell. No?

  25. Re:state-owned = private sector???" on The Cyber Threat To the Global Oil Supply · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that depend on him being a programmer, not a mathematician?