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  1. Re:Oracle vs Facebook? on Facebook Trapped In MySQL a 'Fate Worse Than Death' · · Score: 1

    Seconded.

  2. Re:No Privacy == No Security on Ex-NSA Chief Supports Separate Secure Internet · · Score: 3, Informative

    It doesn't take a separate TLD to require signed TLS client certificates, and that is not the same as having separate wires.

    Canada has separate wires for military, RCMP, and federal cabinet. Probably requires TLS client certs too, but I don't know for sure about that one.

    Many banks run some variant of the "electronic body cavity search" before your computer can connect. It really only works if everyone who needs to connect has exactly the same hardware and software... not a problem for mortgage brokers who are issued a standard kit, but big problem for people from multiple different beaurocracies at different levels of government.

  3. Re:Fusor, not reactor on Teen Builds Nuclear Bomb Detector · · Score: 0

    Same applies for clothing too probably.

    Especially edible panties.

  4. Re:Environmentalists on Osage Oppose Wind Power At Tallgrass Prairie · · Score: 2

    I don't get the objection to seeing windmills either, but I do get the objection to making access roads for windmills through endangered habitat. It should be the same argument against oil drilling though if that is the argument.

  5. Re:Polish on Tom's Hardware Dissects Ubuntu 11.4's Interface and Performance · · Score: 0

    You might want to look a little deeper... There are many (ethnic and linguistic) Swedes in Finland.

    Link

  6. Re:Not Exactly Earthshaking on FitBot Lets You Try Clothes Before You Buy · · Score: 2

    It doesn't appear to be adjusting torso length though... Which often seems to be considered to be proportional to the other dimensions, but it's not nescesarily.

    Also, it's only set up for shirts, not for pants.

  7. Re:Striesand Effect on State of Alaska Prints Out Palin's E-Mails; Online Distribution 'Impractical' · · Score: 1

    Or set up a torrent and take the seed offline as soon as there's a full copy (or two) in the wild.

  8. Re:UPS Rings Doorbells? on English Teenager Invents a Better Doorbell · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In our neighbourhood, they stop looking about a block away because there is not a house with the right address where the GPS coordinates say it is (but all the houses on the street are clearly marked).

  9. Re:Hire a professional... on Ask Slashdot: Uses For a Small Office Server? · · Score: 1

    Better to decide what stay online in the event of a drive crash , what only needs to be recoverable in the event of a drive crash or complete failure, and what is disposeable, and set up your filesystems, shares, and backup schemes appropriately. IE in my case:

    1) Base system + IMAP folders should stay online and available (if this were a business server, accounting data too). They live on RAID1, are backed up via rdiff-backup to a drive in a hotplug cradle which is rotated offsite.

    2) Aperture vault and workstation backups (sparse file iSCSI shares), and stable fileshare need to be recoverable. They live on RAID0 and are also backed up to the cradle drive. iSCSI shares are backed up via "cp --sparse=allways".

    3) Scratch files, testing VMs, downloaded movies, etc are disposable. They live on RAID0 but are not backed up in any way.

    4) /tmp lives in tmpfs and /var/log lives on a USB stick. This reduces disk writes.

    This is a Linux server, but all of this except possibly #4 and sharing iSCSI should be doable on a mac mini server (with firewire drives instead of eSATA cradle)

  10. Re:Hire a professional... on Ask Slashdot: Uses For a Small Office Server? · · Score: 1

    Also, the on-demand sorts see a wider variety of stuff than direct employee IT workers, so they are likely to know a variety of ways of solving a problem.

  11. Re:Does your role give you time to be the IT guy? on Ask Slashdot: Uses For a Small Office Server? · · Score: 1

    I have done dead-drive recovery from time machine... Replace the drive, Attach the time machine disk, boot from the OSX DVD that came with the computer, tell it to restore from the time machine, and a couple hours later you're back to where you were one hour before the drive died. Hardest part was opening the case.

    Works for me.

  12. Re:Picture not so smart... on Experimental "Smart Town" To Be Built In Japan · · Score: 1

    uhhh. could also be a reference to nobody ever walking anywhere in California. I recently visited Cupertino from a city of 80,000 in Canada where we have 1-2 acre lots in my neighbourhood, and the streets felt empty there compared to the number of people out walking on our dead-end street.

  13. Picture not so smart... on Experimental "Smart Town" To Be Built In Japan · · Score: 1

    It seems to be all single family detatched houses... no multi-family, no multi-use, relatively low density, no jobs in town.

  14. Re:Not all good... on Canadian Music Industry Copyright Class Action Settled · · Score: 1

    We have a majority government. They only have to lobby the Heritage Minister.

  15. Re:Only a few left.... on Marking 125 Years Since the Great Gauge Change · · Score: 2

    Houses are already wired for 240v, just not most appliances so not most outlets. Few residential applications use synchronous motors, so the frequency doesn't matter much (beyond higher frequencies allowing smaller transformers). And at least mainland North American countries all use the same plug.

  16. Re:And still shortsighted on Marking 125 Years Since the Great Gauge Change · · Score: 1

    There's not much rail traffic between the americas and Russia, nor will there be in the forseable future... For cargo we have intermodal containers, which are compatible with almost any guage.

  17. Re:is he naming it on Students Invent Revolutionary Solar Sterilizer · · Score: 1

    Looks to me like a concave mirror focussed on a heat-pipe leading to a heat-transfer plate.

  18. Re:Not solved just yet on Students Invent Revolutionary Solar Sterilizer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Also need to convince people that this is better and cheaper than a pressure cooker, liquid-fuel camp stove, and jerry-can of gasoline.

  19. Re:Vote NDP! on Wikileaks Says Public Forced Canadian DMCA Delay · · Score: 1

    Actually, each NDP riding association has a nomination meeting where every member in good standing who shows up gets to vote for who they want to be the candidate.

  20. Re:Well on Wikileaks Says Public Forced Canadian DMCA Delay · · Score: 2

    On the anti-circumvention clause issue I spoke in person with Jack Layton and my MP (NDP critic for First Nations) at an event and both were well aware of the issue. Jack asked me to send him an email to his non-Parliamentary email address, which I did. I also sent emails to the Parliamentary email addresses of my MP, the NDP and Liberal heritage critics, and several members of the heritage committee. Stuff like this is why it's GOOD to have a minority government... In a minority, committees have much more clout, which means your MP has to (if in the governing party) and has the ability to (if in opposition) actually represent the constituents.

    I have always made a point of getting to know my MPs and MLAs (even when they're not the same party as me). It's a very good way of getting issues heard (as long as you're not a wingnut).

    Also re: a post further down... Before we met, my wife was getting jerked around by citizenship and immigration because she moved here at 6 months old but didn't get citizenship and had been working for >15 years. One letter to our MP and the issue was resolved in two weeks. She now votes for that MP.

    I don't know about the other parties, but each NDP member has one staffer specifically dedicated to helping constituents (of any party) with beurocratic situations.

  21. Re:OSS - Bad Idea on Army Develops Android-Based Framework For Battlefield Ops · · Score: 1

    If and only if the military is distributing software based on GPL they must distribute the source to the same people/organizations they're distributing to.

    1) if they keep it internal, they do not need to distribute source.

    2)If they share with other branches (ie a marines app gets shared with the army) then they'd need to share source with the other branch. The two branches can then collaborate.

    3) If they share with allies (ie the US DoD sharing with the Canadian Forces), they would need to share source with the ally. The ally is then able to verify there is no backdoor and also tailor it to their own needs. For example, the Canadian Rangers may want to mark non-military hazards or resources like thin ice, polar bear sightings, or Caribou herds, which are unlikely to be a concern in most of the theaters the developing force operates in. If the app in question is of military use only (calling in air strikes, for example), neither ally is likely to share further.

    4) If they publish publicly, only then must they publicly release the source. Such an app is not likely to be secret.

  22. Re:Just some of the stuff available on Army Develops Android-Based Framework For Battlefield Ops · · Score: 1

    One of these things is not like the others... The Small Catechism? Strange thing for a military app maker to produce... Also strange that anyone would want it in an app... most copies are smaller than a phone.

    (Small Catechism is a book written by Martin Luther for Confirmation students (basically early-teen Sunday school))

  23. Re:Doing all your banking online on White House Releases Trusted Internet ID Plan · · Score: 1

    People who pay rent.

  24. Re:Oh no! on Google Videos Going Offline; Time To Grab What You Want · · Score: 1

    Good thing they provide a download link.

  25. Re:Oh no! on Google Videos Going Offline; Time To Grab What You Want · · Score: 1

    Youtube has a high-quality version.

    I also got the content removal email, but my content was a promo video for an event that is long past, so it's OK by me.