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  1. Re:Why did this do it this way? on DNSChanger Shut-Down Means Internet Blackout Coming For Hundreds of Thousands · · Score: 1

    "need banned"? We don't use the verb "to be" anymore?

  2. Re:Here's a crazy thought... on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Securely Store Private Information For Posterity? · · Score: 1

    Why would anyone need to check those things? You get a statement every month/quarter. Do I really need to know the payoff amount for the house the day daddy kicks the bucket?

  3. Re:Book of the Dead on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Securely Store Private Information For Posterity? · · Score: 1

    That's not a bad point: our survivors will get their hands on the important stuff one way or another. How do we stop them from getting at the stuff we don't want them seeing??

  4. Re:Commercial Solution: Death Switch on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Securely Store Private Information For Posterity? · · Score: 1

    I can't think of a more miserable (or narcissistic?) way to live life than having to confirm those kinds of emails.

  5. Re:Punched Cards on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Securely Store Private Information For Posterity? · · Score: 1

    How is that better than just using a Sharpie?

  6. Re:financial accounts' passwords on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Securely Store Private Information For Posterity? · · Score: 1

    "real murder statistics"? What does that mean?

  7. Re:Mod parent up. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Securely Store Private Information For Posterity? · · Score: 1

    Let them have their fun...

  8. Re:Nothing new on Forensic Investigator Outlines BitTorrent Detection Technology · · Score: 1

    "transverses across"? Ugh.

  9. Re:Does double-hung window trick work? on Slashdot Asks: Beating the Summer Heat? · · Score: 1

    This does work, but only with old school almost floor to ceiling windows. Or a door transom if you have one. My old grammar school has these and they worked really well. The windows you get in houses built in the last 70 years or so won't cut it.

  10. Re:Infrastructure robbing by the Banks on Slashdot Asks: Beating the Summer Heat? · · Score: 1

    Have you ever seen a neighborhood full of downed lines? It is an absolute nightmare to get everything straightened out. You can't power up a section of the grid until you know everything is safe.

  11. Re:toss n turn on Slashdot Asks: Beating the Summer Heat? · · Score: 1

    Have to foresight to build a sleeping porch. Best idea ever.

  12. Re:lack of air conditioners at Lowes on Slashdot Asks: Beating the Summer Heat? · · Score: 1

    People ask for them, then see the price/performance ratio and then they buy window units.

  13. Re:Simple answer on Slashdot Asks: Beating the Summer Heat? · · Score: 1

    For the math impaired, that's -28C to 46C.

  14. Re:Cotton Clothing is Bad on Slashdot Asks: Beating the Summer Heat? · · Score: 1

    The wicking fabrics increase the surface area so more sweat can evaporate. Most cotton weaves are terrible in hot/humid areas. They get wet and insulate your body from the airflow that is supposed to cool it off. You are an idiot.

  15. Re:Frequency is troubling on After Recent US Storms, Why Are Millions Still Without Power? · · Score: 1

    Illinois, for one. Just three 2cm cables twisted and buried about half a meter deep. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-buried_cable

  16. Re:Dilapidated infrastructure? on After Recent US Storms, Why Are Millions Still Without Power? · · Score: 1

    It's hard bury cables in rock, and that's what the East coast is built on.

  17. Re:Found at 125 GeV on LHC Discovers New Particle That Looks Like the Higgs Boson · · Score: 1

    The only superficial difference is that the aether was "stuff" and spacetime isn't. Other than that, the concept is pretty much the same.

  18. Re:What a waste of time on Charles Carreon Drops Case Against the Oatmeal · · Score: 1

    The lawyer only does what the client wants.

  19. Re:What instead of monetize? on Cisco's Cloud Vision: Mandatory, and Killed At Their Discretion · · Score: 1

    No.

  20. Re:Voting with wallet on Cisco's Cloud Vision: Mandatory, and Killed At Their Discretion · · Score: 1

    Not a wrt54g v2. Mine would bog down if I had the temerity to use wireless AND routing at the same time.

  21. Re:Voting with wallet on Cisco's Cloud Vision: Mandatory, and Killed At Their Discretion · · Score: 1

    Not a PIII, which is just fine for a cable connection. I've got an old Compaq SFF unit with everything unplugged, running off a CF card, and it is rock stable, silent and just as fast as plugging into the raw cable connection. It's a thing of beauty.

  22. Re:really?? on Has the Command Line Outstayed Its Welcome? · · Score: -1, Troll

    Try editing a photo with the command line. Sure, you can do it, but why would you?

  23. Re:How is this an issue? on The Leap Second Is Here! Are Your Systems Ready? · · Score: 4, Informative

    When NTP tries to say that it is 12:34:61 and the computer only expects 1-60.

  24. Re:What is the problem? on Full Upgrades To Windows 8 Only From Windows 7? · · Score: 1

    If you are still running Windows XP, the odds are that your hardware is too old to comfortably run Win 8.

  25. Re:Wired distorts it on How a Lone Grad Student Scooped the FTC On Privacy Issue · · Score: 1

    It's not the fact that someone buys scent free stuff. It's the fact that someone changes their behavior. They have figured that in some high percentage of cases, if a customer starts buying scent free detergent, more fruit, and stops buying booze, that person is pregnant.