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  1. Re:version control on Ask Slashdot: What To Do When Another Dev Steals Your Work and Adds Their Name? · · Score: 1

    Why would it be more difficult. Create the git repository locally, change the dates on all the files (or run your machine at an earlier date). Then push to Github, github then takes the dates of the original git repo that you had locally. Not hard to fake at all.

  2. Robot? on Inside Mantis: a 2-Ton Hexapod Robot With a Linux Brain · · Score: 3, Informative

    So er it has a driver... That makes it not a robot!

  3. Re:Why do you want to combine them? on Ask Slashdot: Linux Mountable Storage Pool For All the Cloud Systems? · · Score: 1

    OK say your a hobby photographer at $10 a month backing up 1TB of images is VERY cos prohibitive. $100/month for cloud storage is terribly high.

  4. Re:Its not your packets on Anonymous Files Petition To Make DDoS Legal Form of Protest · · Score: 3

    I paid for the damn internet connection better believe they're my property....

  5. Re:U.S. is crazy on Hacker Behind Leaked Nude Celebrity Photos Gets 10 Years · · Score: 2

    Each hack is a different crime. Each crime has a minimum sentence. The rest is math. Most countries are no different.

  6. Re:Hey Guys on Ask Slashdot: How To Make a DVD-Rental Store More Relevant? · · Score: 1

    Depends which country you live in. Sure in the US DVD rental stores are dying, but in Japan they thrive.

  7. Re:rms is right on Sony DVR Useless After Rovi Stops TV Guide OnScreen · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Proprietary software isn't the problem here, proprietary APIs are. If there was an open API that could be switched too this wouldn't be an issue.

  8. Re:As a classic car enthusiast... on Massachusetts "Right To Repair" Initiative On Ballot, May Override Compromise · · Score: 1

    For some reason I thought it was comprehensive. My mistake.

  9. Re:As a classic car enthusiast... on Massachusetts "Right To Repair" Initiative On Ballot, May Override Compromise · · Score: 1

    There was a towtruck in front of me. Their was a 1/2 brick in the middle of a interstate highway. His tire hit the 1/2 brick which then launched into the air, and luckily hit the passenger side corner of my windshield. At the time my only thoughts were "OMG I'm gonna die" no quick let me get his plate number so I can get his insurance to cover it. I'm glad I didn't have to pay out of pocket for it.

  10. Re:As a classic car enthusiast... on Massachusetts "Right To Repair" Initiative On Ballot, May Override Compromise · · Score: 1

    move to Massachusetts, it's covered by comprehensive auto insurance (ie the minimal insurance required to register a car).

  11. Re:Owners shouldn't work on their cars on Massachusetts "Right To Repair" Initiative On Ballot, May Override Compromise · · Score: 2

    This is about getting error codes not tools. There's this diagnostics device you can buy at Autozone. You plug it in to the outlet under the dash, and start your car. It spits out an error code, and if you're lucky it spits out the problem, if you're lucky. More often than not that problem is something like a Oxygen Sensor. Something which takes 5 minutes to replace, and requires little or no tools, as it just clips onto a wire harness, and into the air filter. Cars (other than hybrids) haven't changed much, and neither has fixing them. If you're computer is bad, you get a new computer, and plug it in. It's not rocket science.

    This is about having the information you need to go to the local parts dealer and buy the right part. Without the codes the local auto mechanics who own businesses can't fix the cars either, and end up guessing at what's wrong and wasting your precious money.

  12. Re:What's the point? on Massachusetts "Right To Repair" Initiative On Ballot, May Override Compromise · · Score: 2

    There is no state law preventing you from working on your car in your driveway. If there was then I know people who break it all the time, myself included. Their may be some town ordinances, but those are rare.

    That said this is NOT about you fixing your car in the driveway. This is about giving local repair shops the information they need to repair your car. Dealer charge $65/hr local places usually around $45/hr. If the local guy can't fix it then you're strung up for another $20/hr.

  13. Re:Don't Panic! on Massachusetts "Right To Repair" Initiative On Ballot, May Override Compromise · · Score: 4, Informative

    "See, the Supreme Court just held up that "first sale" doesn't count if the *thing* was intended to be sold to a segregated market"

    NO they didn't. They just heard the arguments. A conclusion isn't expected for several months. Stop glancing at articles and actually read them.

  14. Re:Well... on Massachusetts May Soon Change How the Nation Dies · · Score: 1

    "Participation under the proposed law would be voluntary. An unwilling health care provider could prohibit or sanction another health care provider for participating while on the premises of, or while acting as an employee of or contractor for, the unwilling provider."

  15. Re:life insurance on Massachusetts May Soon Change How the Nation Dies · · Score: 1

    I would hope anyone seriously considering that would weigh all the options and outcomes.

  16. Re:Don't use ATM/Debit cards for purchases on Criminals Crack and Steal Customer Data From Barnes & Noble Keypads · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Great, so what happens when you are denied a credit card. Seriously that is not a solution.

    I have 2 checking accounts and a savings account. All money is direct deposited into my savings account. All bills go into checking account #1 which does not have a debit card. Account #2 has a debit card and a minimal balance of $1 to keep it open. If I know I need to buy something with the debit card I move the money to savings. You 1) never bounce a check ever again because you're purposefully put the money in an account that you use for bills, and you have 0 risk if your debit card # is stolen.

    Problem solved,

  17. Re:When you're nearing maximum write limit on Ask Slashdot: How Do SSDs Die? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So by reason of thinking, if you have a RAID of 15 drives for storage of images, these images never change, they are written and never over written, then the SSDs should theoretically never die because they are only reading these bits now?

  18. Re:Make it illegal on Hiring Smokers Banned In South Florida City · · Score: 1

    not everyone who smokes has a child. And that is a different conversation entirely

  19. Re:Make it illegal on Hiring Smokers Banned In South Florida City · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm asthmatic. The smell of cigarettes makes me want to hack out a lung. But....

    As long as what a person does does not hinder my personal space or health I don't see a need to make smoking illegal. I am tired of Mr Man making everything someone does illegal or more restrictive. If someone wants to smoke a pack at home let them. Make it against the rules to smoke on work time. Make them eligible to lose their job if they smoke from the time they walk in the door until the time they walk out the door. Don't take away their freedom to do something they enjoy.

  20. Re:Try again on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 0

    It's called EVOLUTION.

  21. Re:Not that bad. on One Company's Week-Long Interview Process · · Score: 2

    Yeah just what I want to use my vacation pay for. Screw that.

  22. scanners on Judge Rules Sniffing Open Wi-Fi Networks Is Not Wiretapping · · Score: 2

    If it's wiretapping than anyone in the last 20 years who owned a scanner should be fined for listening in on their neighbors telephone calls because their wireless household phones weren't encrypted.

  23. Re:Hand code or no code. on Ask Slashdot: Value of Website Design Tools vs. Hand Coding? · · Score: 1

    Homesite was a great app for it's time. Made a lot of global search and replace things easy as pie back in the day!

  24. Hand code or no code. on Ask Slashdot: Value of Website Design Tools vs. Hand Coding? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    WYSIWYG like Dreamweaver always write code that is hard to read so when you have to edit something manually it's a PITA. Also Dreamweaver tries to fix what you edit manually. Also DW etc all aren't always 100% compliant in their browser view, so things look great there and crappy elsewhere.

  25. Re:Stupid, stupid, *stupid* on USB 3.0 100W Power Standard Seeks To End Proprietary Chargers · · Score: 1

    Uh yes different countries use different AC voltages, but they all convert down to a DC voltage between 0-20VDC depending on manufacturer. What would be in the USB cable would be that DC voltage, not the AC house voltage. The idea is you would have adapter in the house capable of supporting USB3 from whatever your house voltage is to the DC standard, and then you would just plug it in. I personally just want a big DC power supply in the basement and run USB ports all over the house.