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  1. Lazy-man's encryption on Ask Slashdot: Tools For Linux Disk Encryption and Integrity? · · Score: 1

    I've been using the eCryptFS built into Ubuntu & touching /fsckcheck in either a recovery or single-user shell every time power gets cut but I'm sure you want something a bit more fancy...

  2. You young whippersnappers on HP Sues Oracle For Dropping Itanium Support · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why in my day Oracle had to support my UNIVAC for fifteen miles in the snow barefoot uphill both ways!

  3. Re:Solution on Obama: 'We Don't Have Enough Engineers' · · Score: 1

    I already tried that thread, everybody called me a libertarian conspiracy theorist.

  4. Solution on Obama: 'We Don't Have Enough Engineers' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    REGULATE WALLSTREET. You'll get JFK'd in the process but that's where they're all going...

  5. This just in on China Blocks Web Searches About Protests · · Score: 1

    China uses a giant national proxy infrastructure to censor information about the 1989 protests! News at 11.

  6. Re:longest journey / Grin Fandango on Ask Slashdot: Best Adventure Game To Start With? · · Score: 1

    Just played TLJ for the 10th-ish time, first time in about 5 years. I was actually surprised about the amount of sex, cussing, drug use in the game!

  7. Syberia I & II on Ask Slashdot: Best Adventure Game To Start With? · · Score: 2

    Beautiful artwork, music, compelling story, etc. You really can't go wrong!

  8. Quiet you on How To Succeed In IT Without Really Trying · · Score: 1

    We have a good thing going here, don't fuck it up!

  9. Are they still using OSX Server? on Hackers Attack Nintendo, But Company Claims Data Safe · · Score: 2

    I once found out by chance & server fault they where using it when I was like 12 or something, & back then OS X was still a 'thing'. Since they've gone through at least 2 major web design revisions...

  10. Perhaps a bad idea on Ask Slashdot: Compensating Technical People For Contributing to Sales? · · Score: 1

    Once they learn the slease of the businessman they have the option of going rogue & making much more money on their own terms. Just starting up a servicing business here in CA & I have to say, the assholinness of pushing "system optimization" for another $50 is the hardest part.

  11. Re:Don't tell Jaque Fresco on Experimental "Smart Town" To Be Built In Japan · · Score: 1

    *Jacque Fresco...derp

  12. Don't tell Jaque Fresco on Experimental "Smart Town" To Be Built In Japan · · Score: 1

    He thinks he has the scientific method patented or something...

  13. Why on Project Icarus: the Gas Mines of Uranus · · Score: 1

    Why travel a gigameters or even petameters when we can travel less than a megameter to get our fuel?

  14. Experiment in process on Ask Slashdot: Best Certifications To Get? · · Score: 1

    Toss the certs & the 'job' out the door, start your own business. Ask me again in 2 years & I'll let you know if it works.

  15. Too late on RadioShack Trying To Return To Its DIY Roots · · Score: 1

    You broke our hearts TRS, I don't think we can trust you yet again, not now...

  16. Re:Ping me back when it's at 16mm on Lego Super-8 Video Projector · · Score: 1

    *18" reels derp

  17. Ping me back when it's at 16mm on Lego Super-8 Video Projector · · Score: 1

    I actually have a school's old library of 16mm educational films, & a few movies, so I'm biased towards 16mm but the larger 18mm reels are heavy, it might not even be physically possible on Legos without turntables, but then you need to have angled rollers for the threading to get the picture up-right & all that...it'd take up the whole table :P

  18. Let's get retarded on Should a Web Startup Go Straight To the Cloud? · · Score: 1

    A cloud infrastructure will only work even remotely affordably if you ARE the cloud, & you can't do that on windows (at least not easily). You'll need a shitload of rackmounts, switches, a highly expensive dedicated line, & you can forget about getting in bed with Windows; you'll need Ubuntu Server as a MINIMUM, say goodbye to your pretty little GUI & your .NET. Seriously, a Win2008 VM? It's like you're a kid banging 2 sticks together to get teamspeak to work.

  19. Sauce? on North Korean 3G Mobile Subscriptions Hit Half a Million · · Score: 2

    I follow KCNA's official news proxy on twitter & I see no mention of it. Did someone pick it up via a television broadcast or something?

  20. No. on Ask Slashdot: FTP Server Honeypots? · · Score: 1

    Unless you're being fiscally damaged this isn't even news, just everyday IT whereabouts.

  21. Re:Well, of course on Windows 8 ARM Will Not Support Legacy Software · · Score: 1

    While their multitouch / slate support is shoddy at best, I believe their business model is what kills it. If Microsoft only volume-licensed & driver-signed OEMs with the explicit intent of not pre-packaging bloatware (or at least offering an option to auto-remove it once it's out of the box), Windows would suck a lot less ESPECIALLY on low-powered devices. (but it still won't be great until they get proper package management & a real file system :P)

  22. Derp? on Windows 8 ARM Will Not Support Legacy Software · · Score: 0

    Really, did anyone expect Microsoft to be the company to write a machine-language interpreter for legacy support? This isn't news.

  23. So? on 8 of China's Top 9 Govt. Officials Are Engineers · · Score: 1

    This is more or less how most of the world is; the US is one of the few places where being a scientist isn't synonymous with being respected.

  24. Kinda on Ask Slashdot: DOSBox, or DOS Box? · · Score: 1

    You'll be missing out on the sharp glow of an EGA/CGA CRT& perhaps the static sound of an original SB16 but that's about it. Only thing I haven't seen DOSBox run is Windows 1.01, & that was a while back when I checked.

  25. Re:Big news on Fukushima Meltdown Might Have Come With Earthquake, Not Tsunami · · Score: 2

    Wait this report says nothing of the sort kinda what the fuck.