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  1. Re:No thanks. on Battery-Powered Plasma Flashlight Makes Short Work of Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Exactly, I specified "dissinfectant" and you replied with an "antibiotic" which happens to not also be a dissinfectant.

  2. Re:analogs on How To Share a Cake Over the Internet · · Score: 1

    Gravity is VERY finite. Once you reach the center of the earth, gravity's no longer going to do any work for you! *

    * Yes, yes, yes, I know there's still the Sun's gravity, the Moon's gravity, your mom's gravity and many other cellestial bodies' gravities pulling on you.

  3. Re:Pie in the sky on How To Share a Cake Over the Internet · · Score: 1

    Fair doesn not necessarily mean Equal. For instance, you have a 2 person team working on a racing game. 1 person writes the top-down 2d view of the cars racing around. The other writes a complex AI for the computer-controlled cars. Do you think giving them equal portions of the profit would be fair?

  4. Re:Pie in the sky on How To Share a Cake Over the Internet · · Score: 1

    there are only two real solutions: remove the cake from the equation or kill everyone else involved.

    Hey, I still want MY piece!

  5. Re:Right.. on How To Share a Cake Over the Internet · · Score: 1

    Not me, but Mutt did!

  6. Re:No thanks. on Battery-Powered Plasma Flashlight Makes Short Work of Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Dissinfectants and Antibiotics are different things.

  7. Re:No thanks. on Battery-Powered Plasma Flashlight Makes Short Work of Bacteria · · Score: 1

    You should also be wearing a medic alert bracelet/necklace if those are used in your country. That way your doctor will know even if you are unconcious.

  8. Re:thoughts on Update On Wayland and X11 Support · · Score: 1

    The big reason remote X is useful (which will be 100% impossible with wayland) is that you can install an X11-compatible application WITHOUT installing X11 and still run that application via remote X. This means that headless servers that don't even *have* a graphics card can still have gui tools installed and all you need is a client with an X server that can run "ssh -X".

  9. Re:We're NOT talking on Update On Wayland and X11 Support · · Score: 3, Informative

    Except that it requires the x server (or wayland/etc) to be RUNNING on the remote machine. With remote X, I can cold-boot a machine that doesn't even have x11 *installed*, and then ssh -X into it and run any gui application I want, without EVER having to install OR RUN x11 on the remote machine. THAT is the true power of remote X.

  10. Re:Haptens on Battery-Powered Plasma Flashlight Makes Short Work of Bacteria · · Score: 1

    I've definitely heard of the iodine issues, but is that the iodine itself, or the stuff they add *to* it to make it do other fun stuff (like the dyes, etc)? As for Penicillin, that is not the kind of thing I was talking about (as WCLPeter so graciously explained).

  11. Re:No thanks. on Battery-Powered Plasma Flashlight Makes Short Work of Bacteria · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I've never heard of anyone being allergic to an anti-bacterial agent. I've heard of latex allergies (from gloves) and allergies to some *perfumes* that are *added* to dissinfectants, but none regarding dissinfectants themselves. I do quite a bit of first aid stuff, so if you have any links to a source where I could find out if this is true (and specifically which chemicals are an issue), please post them.

  12. Re:Absolute crap article on The Story Behind Australia's CSIRO Wi-Fi Claims · · Score: 1

    I don't know about CSIRO, but many companies do that because it's nearly impossible to get a technology into a standard if people are worried about licensing fees.

    Come forward at the beginning: get paid by the 10% that use it, for 20 years
    Come forward later: miss 10 years of fees, then get paid by the 90% that use it for 10 years.

    I think you can do the rest of the math on your own.

  13. Re:Absolute crap article on The Story Behind Australia's CSIRO Wi-Fi Claims · · Score: 1

    And by visiting the flamebait articles you are creating pagehits for slashdot and making them money through the adds. Slashdot doesn't give a crap if you read the article or not.

  14. Re:Companies are obsessed with VPNs on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Linux Telecommuting Tools? · · Score: 1

    If your corporate SSH server accepts usernames and passwords, somebody is doing it wrong.

  15. Re:Can you be more specific? on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Linux Telecommuting Tools? · · Score: 0

    Your server uses RDP? Go get a real server.

  16. Re:Usual rule on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Linux Telecommuting Tools? · · Score: 2
    Completely Agree.
    OP:
    • What is your *job*? (sysadmin, secretary, manager, etc)
    • What do you need to have to *do* that job?
    • What does your *company* use already? (skype, sip, google-chat, etc)
    • What infrastructure does your company already have in place? (VPN, external IMAP/SMTP, SSH, RDP, etc)
    • What have you already tried?
    • Why were those tools insufficient?
  17. Re:Good on Best Buy Closing 50 Stores · · Score: 1

    Yes, I am from Canada.

  18. Re:Sink it on Japanese Tsunami Ghost Ship Spotted Off Canadian Coast · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pfff, that may be true on the east coast, but over here in BC we have war canoes armed to the teeth with rabid beaver catapults. Attack at your own risk!

  19. Re:Gun -- ? on Ask Slashdot: A Cheap, DIY Home Security and Surveillance System? · · Score: 1

    Not to mention they're also useless when nobody is home to use it...

  20. Re:Reputation on Ask Slashdot: A Cheap, DIY Home Security and Surveillance System? · · Score: 2

    It make a big difference as to WHO is robbing you. If it's some homeless person or regular thief, a dog is more than enough to convince them to find another target. If it's the guy/teenager/etc from down the block, they probably know your dog and it won't be a deterent at all.

  21. Re:Good on Best Buy Closing 50 Stores · · Score: 2

    I remember back when they were still Radio Shack. We were working on a high school robot for a competition and needed a limit switch (competition was next day, no time to contact mouser/etc). They said (over the phone) they didn't sell them, we didn't believe them so we sent one of our guys to check. He walks in and is told (after he explained what it was) that they don NOT sell those. He then walked over to the shelf, picked one up and said *This* is a limit switch. This was back when they advertised themselves as an electronics *parts* store. Now they sell standard red LED's for $5 a piece!

  22. Re:When there is not a superior commercial product on Ask Slashdot: What Defines Success In an Open Source Project? · · Score: 1

    That's not entirely true. Sure windows may have 50-100 times as many users, but they sure as hell don't have 50-100 times as many developers willing to donate their time for free, otherwise windows would have a decent audio player by now!

  23. They have to chose? on Ask Slashdot: How To Feed Africa? · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is a stupid question. Why can't they do all 3? Did Africa recently shrink to the point where they can only try 1 type of farming? This is like asking what type of electrical generation the US should switch to!

  24. Re:"did not result in a single disciplinary action on Counterterrorism Agents Were Told They Could Suspend the Law · · Score: 1

    As a Candian (west coast), I can confirm that the majority of Canadians DO say "eh" quite often (1-2 times a day on average). As for aboot, I only hear that when someone's looking for their *other* boot.

  25. Re:"did not result in a single disciplinary action on Counterterrorism Agents Were Told They Could Suspend the Law · · Score: 1

    And now they just drag everyone else into wars with everyone around Europe.