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  1. "And they're all made out of ticky-tacky" on Ask Slashdot: Little Boxes Around the Edge of the Data Center? · · Score: 1

    "And they all look just the same"

  2. Re:April fools? on EFF And Others Push For Open Wifi APs Everywhere · · Score: 2

    Ever hear of "Stare Decisis"? Rulings by idiot judges *are* the law until you get a law passed to overrule them or manage to convict a judge in a superior court that it's so idiotic that it needs to be overridden.

  3. Re:The fact that they won't work? on Ask Slashdot: What Stands In the Way of a Truly Solar-Powered Airliner? · · Score: 1

    I should amend that to say "No airliner could support...". If you build what is a essentially a powered glider, yeah, you can make that work. Just barely. But a replacement for the modern jet airliner? No.

  4. The fact that they won't work? on Ask Slashdot: What Stands In the Way of a Truly Solar-Powered Airliner? · · Score: 1

    No airplane could support enough collector area to take in enough energy to fly, even at 100% efficiency. Not to mention the problem of flying at night, in cloudy weather, etc.

  5. Re:Marijuana/Drug Laws on Want a Security Pro? Get Politically Incorrect and Learn Geek Culture · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I haven't met a too many good hackers who haven't, at least at one time, engaged in some drug use -- whether it be smoking weed (usually), tripping on mushrooms/acid, or cocaine etc..it seems to permeate the culture quite a bit.

    Now, is that because good hackers tend to be drug users--or is it because *you* are a drug user and thus a larger percentage of the people you meet are drug users?

  6. Re:On the one hand... on Showdown Set On Bid To Give UN Control of Internet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The truth is that NO ONE WANTS ANY COUNTRY TO CONTROL THE INTERNET. PERIOD.

    Wrong! Every government wants *their* country to control the internet.

    Period.

  7. Re:Do nothing on Ask Slashdot: What To Do When Finding a Security Breach On Shared Hosting? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Which is great, until you find out the Somebody Else regards it as Not His Problem.

  8. It's quite simple on Why Can't Industry Design an Affordable Hearing Aid? · · Score: 1

    Thanks to insurance, the person choosing the hearing aid is very rarely the person paying for it.

  9. What data centers did these guys look at? on Green Grid Argues That Data Centers Can Lose the Chillers · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've been an operator and sysadmin for many years now, and I've seen this experiment done involuntarily a lot of times, in several different data centers. Trust me, even if you accept 35 C, the temperature goes well beyond that in a big hurry when the chillers cut out.

  10. "Why, a 4-year old child could understand this." on Are Windows XP/7 Users Smarter Than a 3-Year-Old? · · Score: 1

    "Run out and find me a 4-year old child, I can't make head or tail of this."

  11. Re:Very true, for many reasons. on System Admins Should Know How To Code · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You missed the OP's point. The point isn't that you'll necessarily be coded for the system you have. The point is that knowing how to code provides critical understanding of how a computer operates that a sysadmin needs regardless of whether or not he's actually coding.

  12. Re:More Importantly? on No Microbes In First Sample From Lake Vostok · · Score: 1

    Did they find water on Antarctica?

    Nah, just all this white stuff.

  13. Re:Off-topic: today's logo on Newsweek To Go Digital-Only In 2013 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Tolkien was an Oxford professor of linguistics. Calling him a "language nerd" is like calling Stephen Hawking a "physics nerd." He was a language *professional*.

  14. Re:And why weren't the Whigs represented?!? on Democracy Now Asks Third Party Candidates Questions From Last Night's Debate · · Score: 1

    Will no gentleman stand forward to represent the people on the slavery issue?!?

    Certainly nobody from the Whig party will. It was an inability to take stand on slavery that caused the Whig party's dissolution and replacement by the Republican party.

  15. Re:Grad School on Faculty To Grad Students: Go Work 80-Hour Weeks! · · Score: 1

    We're going to take the apprentice ship to the Bahamas! Woohoo!

  16. Re:Too little, too late on Microsoft Surface Pricing Goes Toe-to-Toe With Apple iPad · · Score: 1

    Dent? Dent? Almost everybody I know has an iPhone as their company phone (I have an Android myself). Many have iPads as a company tablet. We have Microsoft laptops, but phones? Tablets? Businesses aren't getting those from Microsoft.

  17. Re:Too little, too late on Microsoft Surface Pricing Goes Toe-to-Toe With Apple iPad · · Score: 1

    Can't do domains on it. Business are going to react to this like Dracula to garlic.

  18. Re:I just crossed the Surface off my Xmas list. on Microsoft Surface Pricing Goes Toe-to-Toe With Apple iPad · · Score: 1

    Why would you ever expect the surface to be $200?

    Some of us thought Microsoft just might be realizing just how far behind they are at this point. Silly, I know.

  19. Re:This is a good idea with countless benefits. on Kaspersky To Build Secure OS For SCADA Systems · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It all requires policy, of course. The PaX stuff is policy: no write/execute and no !execute to execute. If that crashes the program, you need to fix the program or remove that policy restriction.

    And right there you've put your finger precisely on the problem. Fixing the program is hard--if you got it from a vendor, it might well be impossible. Removing the policy, on the other hand, is easy.

  20. Re:Just take them off the internet on Kaspersky To Build Secure OS For SCADA Systems · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Make the client OS use DNS SEC and encrypted traffic for a secure network that is not physically connected to the internet or any network with a gateway to the internet. Why is this so hard?

    Because management wants the real-time reports on their desks. What do mean it's not secure? Everybody else does it. You're the only one who seems to have trouble doing this!

  21. Doesn't matter. According to the law, it is "electronic storage" only if it is temporary buffers or backups. Another poster has quoted the law verbatim, and it is quite clear, even if it is also amazingly stupid.

  22. Re:Bad law, not bad judge. on S. Carolina Supreme Court: Leaving Email In the Cloud Isn't Electronic Storage · · Score: 2

    But long-term hosted data are not necessarily backups, and this case, they aren't. Google mail isn't "backing up" anything.

  23. Re:What Cox is saying... on Alan Cox to NVIDIA: You Can't Use DMA-BUF · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually, he's telling them that they can use DMA-BUF in their video drivers. And so can anyone else, provided those drivers are released under GPL.

    Which requires that everything *else* in the driver be compatible with the GPL. Which...they aren't. So they can't.

  24. Re:The challenge of getting past c on Mathematicians Extend Einstein's Special Relativity Beyond Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    At one time Einsteins theories weren't testable either and were just neat thought experiments.

    Although Einstein himself did mostly "thought experiments", predictions of his theories were immediately testable, particularly those covering the bending of light by gravity, which were confirmed during a solar eclipse in 1919, four years after the theory was formulated.

  25. Re:Hard time reading train wreck stories on Post Mortem of GunnAllen IT Meltdown · · Score: 1

    In that case it was Microsoft doing the hosting so good luck in getting anywhere with blaming them, a customer with twenty-five thousand email accounts is ignorable small fry and legal action is pointless.

    Having someone to *blame* doesn't necessarily mean having someone to *sue*. It's about keeping your job, not getting legal recompense.