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  1. Re:Easier way to fix it on Craigslist Drops Exclusive License To Your Posts · · Score: 1

    Crazedlist would have been to your liking. The aggregator function worked great, and there was no extra bullshit.

  2. Possible Firefox Add-on? on Craigslist Drops Exclusive License To Your Posts · · Score: 1

    Would it be practical to make an add-on to Firefox which opens (selected site whose URLs must be typed in during setup by the user!)
    then displays aggregated content?

    That would beat opening a tab for each local then punching in search term and category.

  3. Re:Easier way to fix it on Craigslist Drops Exclusive License To Your Posts · · Score: 2

    No shit.

    "Crazedlist" had a superior format and great layout. They should throw the author (not me, don't know him) a few bucks and do likewise.

    Are there any Craigslist aggregator applications which are as good?

  4. New State-Sponsored WINDOWS Malware. on New State-Sponsored Malware "Gauss" Making the Rounds · · Score: 0

    Yes, it matters.

    Would an article about a new APPICATION not reference what OS it runs on?

  5. Re:Fisher Price Ebook Reader on Ask Slashdot: Rugged E-book Reader? · · Score: 1

    "If it can withstand the brutal torture of a 3 year old"

    Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

  6. Re:Nasty stuff that Agent orange? on US Is Finally Cleaning Up Agent Orange In Vietnam · · Score: 1

    The Ranch Hand guys didn't wear such things, but they should have had exposure suits or at least mask and gloves. A cape/poncho wouldn't have helped.

    Scroll down to the unfortunate Airman working without protective gear:

    http://www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/Operation-Ranch-Hand18oct97.htm

    Agent Orange doesn't have an antidote. (You can look up its components, 2 4-D, 2,4,5-T, online.)

    Atropine is specifically an antidote to either nerve agent or pesticides containing similar compounds. Those autoinjectors have been standard issue for many years and are still stocked today!

    A rubber "poncho/cape" isn't great chem protection but it's better than nothing. Odd the overboots and gloves weren't in the same conex.

  7. Re:Now at a supermarket near you... on US Is Finally Cleaning Up Agent Orange In Vietnam · · Score: 1

    While you are trolling, plenty of the same chemicals have been sprayed in the US.

    The reason they were used is that (at the time) their hazards weren't widely known.

  8. Re:No, you are not on US Is Finally Cleaning Up Agent Orange In Vietnam · · Score: 1

    China is Viet Nam's HISTORIC enemy.

    Vietnamese, not being stupid, UNDERSTAND this, and China does things to remind them:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War

    The French, Japanese, French post-WWII, then the US are just blips on the radar. Americans need to "grow the fuck up" re: the Viet Nam war. We supposedly fought it to help Viet Nam, and should retain the same goal for _mutual_ benefit.

    It's OVER. So is WWII, and this many years out the US and West Germany and Japan were staunch ALLIES.

  9. Re:expendable on War By Remote Control, With Military Robots Set To Self Destruct · · Score: 1

    Mines don't discriminate and linger decades after war is finished.

    Precision weapons discriminate and don't "pollute" areas after the battle.

    Enemy humans are "expendable" in war. Tech has made things BETTER for most in that respect. Instead of "thousand bomber raids" WWII-style, a factory or command center may be destroyed surgically without obliterating the neighbourhoods around it

  10. Re:bombs with non-traditional locomotion... on War By Remote Control, With Military Robots Set To Self Destruct · · Score: 1

    The purpose of war is to have as little skin in the game as possible.

    The purpose of traditional "duelling" is ritual combat.

    One thing is not like the other.

  11. Re:What's old is new? on War By Remote Control, With Military Robots Set To Self Destruct · · Score: 1

    Cannon balls called, citing prior art.

  12. Re:Biggest issue is support infrastructure on Could a Category 5 Hurricane Take Down East Coast Data Centers? · · Score: 1

    Building a datacenter like a HAS (Hardened Aircraft Shelter) is practical, as is mounting heat exchangers in steel boxes or enclosures with large doors. HAS typically have steel liners with reinforced concrete poured over them.

    ISO container data centers could easily be joined with genset and fuel storage containers then potted in concrete. Large fuel tanks are easy to do, underground and out of harms way.

    It's not about limits of protective tech, but how much is considered worth spending on one installation. If something is sufficiently worth protecting, make your structure look like the WWII sub pens in France.

  13. Re:good riddance on SCO Group Files For Chapter 7 · · Score: 2

    "Hopefully this will be a lesson to other companies who compete using lawsuits rather than customer service."

    Companies are expendable paper constructs which can be and are blithely created and destroyed. They are "game characters".

  14. Re:And in countries where it's legal? on Bitcoin-Based Drug Market Silk Road Thriving With $2 Million In Monthly Sales · · Score: 1

    "No drug, not even alcohol, can bring out of a person something that was not already in that person."

    Smoke some PCP and let us know how that works out. (Once, in the 1970s, was enough for me!)

    NUANCED drug MANAGEMENT is IMO appropriate based on normal effects of each drug.

    Weed isn't booze isn't dust isn't crank isn't coffee.

  15. Re:Talk about... on Iranian State Goes Offline To Avoid Cyber-Attacks · · Score: 1

    Pahlevi's great failing was trying to change Iran, not merely being a strongman.

    The impulse toward theocracy is strong in Islam (and Christianity), and Pahlevi was mild compared to the mullocracy.

  16. Re:He's right on Wozniak Predicts Horrible Problems With the Cloud · · Score: 1

    I use Thunderbird Portable for webmail download (and doing Portable migrations from Outlook). It's a kickass tool.

    http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/thunderbird_portable/

    Thunderbird Portable allows Windows users to sync and have both the stored messages and program files in one folder. Archive folder to CD or DVD and a future sync can't destroy them. Copy folder to desktop (or wherever) when migrating and you are good to go. Runs fine from USB keys.

  17. Re:Talk about... on Iranian State Goes Offline To Avoid Cyber-Attacks · · Score: 1

    " but are stuck with a crap theocratic government through little fault of their own."

    Inaction is consent. Syrians resist their government The vast majority of Iranians do not.

    The way to be rid of such a toxic government is revolution. Syrians are killing Assadists, killing their supporters, and bravely taking on tanks and AFVs in urban street fighting. Syrians figured out the solution to government thugs is to kill them, so they do.

    Ongoing thread at militaryphotos:

    http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?204322-Syrian-Uprising-Photos-and-Videos-Thread-Read-First-post-Excessive-graphic-warn

  18. Re:Giveaway on What Happens To Your Used Games? · · Score: 1

    "And my old Civilization, original box, 4 3.5" dd floppies and a manual, I'm not giving up on that. Ever! Got that sometime in the early 90s and even this year I have played a couple of games, it's still that awesome."

    Do yourself a favor and image those floppies (dd, Winimage, whatever) so when they fail you can easily write a new set.

  19. Re:Forced Upgrades? on Why We Love Firefox, and Why We Hate It · · Score: 1

    "Firefox has been taken over by the same kinds of people that have poisoned GNOME for years. They think dictating to users what they do and do not like and what they will and will not do is the correct way to design software. They are dead wrong, something the failure of GNOME 3 should have taught them, but just hasn't managed to sink in yet (if it ever does)."

    You forgot to add:
    "They don't give a fuck about this being pointed out, because they now have enough money to not care about users"

    I use FF on Linux, but when a reload a Winbox for customers it gets Chrome. Easier on Joe Sixpack.

  20. Re:What is the "best" small linux distro , and why on Damn Small Linux Rises From the Dead With a 4.11 RC1 Release · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Try both Puppy and Damn Small. I keep a copy of Damn Small in my CD wallet (not every PC boots reliably off USB) for troubleshooting since it's light and fast even on weak systems.

  21. Re:Great on Researchers Turn Home Wi-Fi Router Into Spy Device · · Score: 1

    Cool! Do a functional RC model of this:

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

  22. Re:But ... on The World's First 3D-Printed Gun · · Score: 1

    "But personally, I'd be willing to have stricter licensing requirements, gun registration, background checks, and limits on clip size to save tens of thousands of lives a year."

    Why do you assume they would do that?

    Demographic differences are the politically incorrect elephant in the room. The US isn't Switzerland and disarming good citizens would only let the hood rats have free reign.

    The US, Canada, and England are not culturally comparable.

  23. Re:3D Printers on MIT Students Reveal PopFab, a 3D Printer That Fits Inside a Briefcase · · Score: 1

    That's a brilliant choice of application!

    For those not aware, it gets around having to make complex metal molds for plastic parts, and it ALSO can be used to produce lost wax castings if you want the same part out of brass! (The change of some dimensions and the addition of sprues would be required for that, but it's easy enough and being done elsewhere.)

    http://www.protocam.com/html/investment-castings.html

  24. Governments are corrupt, which makes the UN... on US Resists UN Push For Control Over Internet · · Score: 1

    ... the sum of many corrupt entities.

    Consider that befor you YIELD YOUR FREEDOMS to the United Nations.

  25. Re:Visual walkthrough and commentary of the mayhem on Algorithmic Trading Glitch Costs Firm $440 Million · · Score: 1

    "The world economy takes on an appearance of a club where the superrich bilk regular imvestors and tilt the playing field in their own favor."

    Fixed it for you.