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  1. Re:Responsible enough to carry a loaded weapon, on TSA: Gun Discoveries In Baggage Up 20% In 2015 Over 2014 (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you seriously suggesting that a bottle of water is as dangerous as a loaded firearm?

    Hint - bottles of water do not (through accident, theft, opportunity, drunkenness or otherwise) magically become explosives.

    Please refer to my original post.

  2. Re:Responsible enough to carry a loaded weapon, on TSA: Gun Discoveries In Baggage Up 20% In 2015 Over 2014 (networkworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    a properly holstered pistol in the hands of a qualified carrier isn't any more dangerous [than a bottle of water].

    Please hand in your weapons. For the safety of your family and all those around you.

    Liquids are banned from planes because they may be liquid explosives. Not because water is dangerous. People have every right to forget they are carrying a bottle of water. A pistol is not the same.

    Maybe you're joking... i hope so.

  3. Re:Responsible enough to carry a loaded weapon, on TSA: Gun Discoveries In Baggage Up 20% In 2015 Over 2014 (networkworld.com) · · Score: 0

    I never travel with those boots. Until the one time that I did.

    Am I an irresponsible knife owner because I'm so accustomed to having that knife on me that I don't think about it?

    Obviously, yes. FFS. Listen to yourself.

  4. Re: Well deserved. on Kid Racks Up $5,900 Bill Playing Jurassic World On Dad's iPad (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    The question was "Can you imagine a gunman". The answer, in this country, is categorically no.

  5. Re: Well deserved. on Kid Racks Up $5,900 Bill Playing Jurassic World On Dad's iPad (pcmag.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Can you imagine a gunman breaking into your house

    No. Thank god i don't live in America.

  6. Re:Now only... on APT Speed For Incremental Updates Gets a Massive Performance Boost · · Score: 1

    So if this is actually a mission critical set up, 1) you will already be exporting logs to an actual log server which is still up, 2) you can turn on plain text logs to support your offline troubleshooting, but still have the superior logging with meta data while online and 3) if you're fixing production with bootable CD you really need to work on your version control and release procedures.

    So I'm guessing you've never managed a server making/losing thousands dollars and/or actually used or configured journald properly. I don't like systemd (as an init system), and there's no reason logging should be so tied up with it. But journald is fine.

  7. Re:Now only... on APT Speed For Incremental Updates Gets a Massive Performance Boost · · Score: 2

    Do try harder.

    http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/journal-files/

  8. Re:The UK is regressing to Victorian times... on UK Citizens May Soon Need License To Photograph Stuff They Already Own (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2
    Generally true, but

    I think the more immediate problem for the UK is that it still has a bizarre upper house and a far too cosy relationship between the monarchy (and its periphery) and parliament.

    The upper house is bizarre, and needs reform, but they proved their worth in one swoop and defended democracy when they blocked the tax credits bill.

    http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/29/manifesto-promise-broken-general-election-david-cameron-child-tax-credits

    The monarchy has little to no influence in politics- it's only there for tourism.

  9. Re:who gives a shit? on Wired Thinks It Knows Who Satoshi Nakamoto Is (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Monitor? You know the blockchain is public, right? One of us is missing something!

  10. Re:Anyone heard of multitasking priorities? on Sony Unlocks PlayStation 4's Previously Reserved Seventh CPU Core For Devs (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    System gets a higher priority than applications.

    Reserve cores for consistent real-time performance.

    Welcome to OS 101.

    Did you make it to OS201? ;)

  11. Re:Martin Thomson on HTTP/2.0 Opens Every New Connection It Makes With the Word 'PRISM' (jgc.org) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Just in case you're not trolling...

    It's a term mainly used during discussions of transgender issues, to avoid labelling people 'normal', and thereby calling trans people 'abnormal', as you delight in doing.

    It was used by the AC OP precisely to get the reaction it did. Well done.

    It is not used to claim cisgender people are 'born wrong'. You're the only one claiming such eugenics. Godwin.

  12. Re:No one ever lost their job for choosing Microso on Windows 10 Fall Update Uninstalls Desktop Software Without Informing Users (ghacks.net) · · Score: 2

    Because EULA

  13. Re:I think they need to decide on Internet Firms To Be Banned From Offering Unbreakable Encryption Under New UK Laws (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Not really. Saying 'all encryption is breakable' is like saying 'all messages are guessable'.

    If your scheme (think one time pad) has no authentication, you can decrypt it in as many different ways as you like- you'll never know which is the actual one.

    Ever 'given enough time' is invalid - our current understanding is that the heat death of the universe will come before guessing a 256 bit key correctly.

  14. Re:No the subject is the subject. on Linus Rants About C Programming Semantics (iu.edu) · · Score: 1

    ^ this.

    Cheers, AC

  15. The purose of comment subjects on Linus Rants About C Programming Semantics (iu.edu) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    the start of a thread IS the subject line.

    No. The subject is a summary, or 'subject' if you will, of the post/email/missive.

    That way, you can dismiss a thread based on it's subject, and not have to descend into a thread to see what it's actually about.

    Get a clue before ranting, low-id.

  16. Re:Drunks don't make the best decisions on Live-Streaming Florida Woman Charged With Drunken Driving · · Score: 1

    Question:

    How exactly do you 'know your limits'?

  17. Re:Drunks don't make the best decisions on Live-Streaming Florida Woman Charged With Drunken Driving · · Score: 1

    This is amazing. None of the things you list are drink driving!
    Yes, parking facilities facilitate drink driving. It's still your responsibly not to.

  18. Re:Drunks don't make the best decisions on Live-Streaming Florida Woman Charged With Drunken Driving · · Score: 1

    Could you please point out where OP said that bold part? Because it seems to me that you are trying to put words in their mouth.

    Sure:

    don't drive drunk, no exceptions

    Actually, there are.

    You're welcome. Actually, no you're not. That was a fucking pain in the arse to type on my phone and you've and idiot.

  19. Re:Slashdot? on US Toddlers Involved In Shootings On a Weekly Basis (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: -1
    Hmm. But guns are useless in an emergency anyway. How many of the 30k are good guys shooting bad guys cos they happened to be in the right place at the right time? Cops don't count.

    It doesn't happen. It's just macho bullshit. A gun in the house is most likey used to kill: its owner or their family.

  20. Re:As Kravindish would say: on Jamming Wi-Fi With a $15 Dongle · · Score: 1

    If you rtfa (i haven't, but based on comments above!), that's what this guy did, selective jamming through the protocol, not noise.

  21. Re: Facebook says it was just an honest mistake on Facebook UK Paid £35m In Staff Bonuses, But Only £4,327 In Corporation Tax (gu.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Whoosh..... Try again.

  22. Re:*facepalm* on Cloud DDoS Mitigation Services Can Be Easily Bypassed (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you know what DDOS is? Hint: they don't need to actually break it...

  23. Re:This is why you call your bank before tourism on When Fraud Detection Shuts Down Credit Cards Inappropriately · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They process billions of transactions a day. Thousands of them are fraudulent. Occasionally they get some wrong. But they do an amazing job - which is why you very rarely find out about fraud for the first time when it shows up on your bill. Most of the time, you never know about it at all. It is far from 'completely broken'.

  24. Re:Can we finally admit WinRAR is terrible? on 500 Million Users At Risk of Compromise Via Unpatched WinRAR Bug · · Score: 1
    File -> Add password...

    As I recall. HTH

  25. Re:Yeah, a test update... on Nerves Rattled By Highly Suspicious Windows Update Delivered Worldwide · · Score: 1

    TLS. No firmware will see these strings. Next!