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  1. Re:For the most part on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Electrostatic Contamination? · · Score: 2

    What works for me is... I vacuum weekly or at least I try, I tend to grab the dust off the fronts of the air fan vents weekly while doing this, and then every once in a great while I'll dust the inside, the former activity extends the duration of not doing the latter, which involves me unplugging a ton of shit and going outside.

    I don't have time anymore, but I used to do stuff like take off the heatsink to run it under some water since dust likes to stick to it and not come off from air. I use an after market soft brush on my vacuum, never had any problems w static, and my carpet is stat-icky.

    My timeframe for internal dusting tends to be about once every 1/2 year or so, depending on what I see or don't inside.

  2. Hilarious on GoPro Issues DMCA Takedown Over Negative Review · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Issue BS DMCA notice, get negative PR and lose millions. Maybe the system works after all... though in my vision it has a reliance on the media.

  3. Re:shitty on Political Pressure Pushes NASA Technical Reports Offline · · Score: 1

    The lack of third party hosting probably implies nobody cared to begin with BUT possibly the Chinese... who we're supposed to have a good relationship with so they can keep making my nikeys.

  4. Re:I honestly think... on Internet Sales Tax Vote This Week In US Senate · · Score: 1

    It's tough to grasp, but sometimes there's a bigger picture:

    imagine being the states government, not only are you responsible for the well being of your people, but you're responsible for policing the world, ensuring foreign threats don't make it on shore, and trying to innovate something here and there as well as advance humanity through technology and space exploration. Bad decisions are bound to happen and your example is nothing compared to what they did w the F-35 fighter jet.

    And it would be nice to just tell all the idiots in the government to fuck off and replace them with competent people and they do try to do that, it's just insanely hard and there's more than one way to skin a cat, the idiot could be clever.

    Channeling more $ into the government may not be the best solution, but it's a solution... and I don't know anybody living off the bare essentials, do you? I'm sure there's some, but between me getting a 50" instead of a 55" TV, and the government investing that difference to cure cancer from each of us, I'd sleep better w the cancer cure, it's getting them to invest that money in cancer or a similar benevolent agenda that's hard I agree on that too.

  5. Re:I honestly think... on Internet Sales Tax Vote This Week In US Senate · · Score: 1

    I actually agree, whoever down modded you is a moron. Not only do I agree, but I know this for a fact, but lets consider the bigger picture: That gap shrinks slightly raising unit sales... increasing revenue... and assuming best buy wants to compete, which I think they do, they'd go after a competitive price w newegg, amazon, mono, etc...

    What you need to realize is that as things are that's not even feasible, they'd have to drop below par to compensate for the sales tax, so they don't even try. Those that go to them to buy electronics have a reason (instant gratification? :P) to and they milk them for it.

  6. Re:Corporate Taxes? on Internet Sales Tax Vote This Week In US Senate · · Score: 1

    The lobbyists duh.

  7. Re:I honestly think... on Internet Sales Tax Vote This Week In US Senate · · Score: 1

    Stop buying shit online if you can't buy the essentials.

  8. Re:I honestly think... on Internet Sales Tax Vote This Week In US Senate · · Score: 1

    it would be nice to see them get it internally, but that's idealism

    Would be nice if they invested some of the money they stand to gain from this tax into education, wouldn't it?

  9. Re:For the most part on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Electrostatic Contamination? · · Score: 1

    Nice play on the spelling error.

    Unfortunately, TFA is still moronic. The value of the component, monetary and sentimental, as well as frequency of use, should be suggestive of the level of care for it.

  10. Re:I honestly think... on Internet Sales Tax Vote This Week In US Senate · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Two words: instant gratification .

    If you're not saving money anymore, you'd be surprised how much more justifiable it becomes to get something today rather than in a week. Most people leave their homes for work / errands / social occasions, so swinging by a brick and mortar is less of a big deal for some than others.

  11. Re:Can somebody please explain... on Microsoft Releases 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report · · Score: 1

    Never knew Turkey was so heavy on being a police state. I always thought that region was at best a bit lawless. Numbers are numbers though, same # of requests as the states, 1/4 the people. Thanks for the answer, I feel like they've stayed off the radar in the internet censorship debate completely.

  12. I honestly think... on Internet Sales Tax Vote This Week In US Senate · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That we really need to close this loop hole. I'm not in favor of raising taxes or anything, but by making this law, we'd be going back to a revenue model that we know. The ripple effect would be we wouldn't get tax hikes in other places I'd imagine.

    And the government does need the money... it would be nice to see them get it internally, but that's idealism. We need pot holes fixed, bridges replaced, and maybe we could throw money at some of the issues we're behind the rest of the world on.

    Another ripple would be brick and mortar stores would regain some traction against online retailers, the argument used to be that shipping > tax, but that's dramatically changed over the last decade with free shipping being pretty easy to get as online firms compete against each other.

    The downside is of course less money for the savvy consumer, but history has taught us loop holes never end well, so I think the benefits outweigh the downside.

  13. Can somebody please explain... on Microsoft Releases 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report · · Score: 1

    I get that the US is up there, France & Germany have a surprising amount of requests, but I'm pretty sure at least France is a firewall country. But Turkey... what? They have 11k legit internet users?

    They are right up there w the states at 11k, there is no reference to Turkey anywhere in my knowledge of IT and how it applies to the world, so why would they have so many requests.

  14. Re:How about Intelligence Agncies on Microsoft Releases 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report · · Score: 1

    It mentions the NSA & that they're legally obligated not to disclose those.

  15. Re:There's only one company on that list... on Post "Good Google," Who Will Defend the Open Web? · · Score: 1

    The defense of the web will come not through corporate two-faced goons but through technologies like RSA, SSL, & PGP.

  16. Re:No giant rats? on Fukushima Cooling Knocked Offline By... a Rat · · Score: 1

    the zombie version of "???"

  17. Re:Of course.. on T-Mobile Wi-Fi Calling Was Vulnerable to Trivial MITM Attack · · Score: 1

    I take my previous comment back, somebody did understand that this is about the self-signed cert!

    I'll go ahead and simplify your post though... you can use a self-signed cert, so can I, so can a nigerian prince, the problem is nobody knows who's who and we can all authenticate against each other's certs leading to an authentication party!

  18. Re:Of course.. on T-Mobile Wi-Fi Calling Was Vulnerable to Trivial MITM Attack · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who read self-signed cert and assumed that was the problem? DNS & SSL couldn't have less to do with this. It even states this in the last line of the article.

  19. Re:Hard to define on Voyager 1 Officially Exits Our Solar System · · Score: 1

    Touche, nice analogy to how we got here.

  20. Re:Hard to define on Voyager 1 Officially Exits Our Solar System · · Score: 2

    u folks realize the Oort Cloud is a hypothesis right?

  21. Doesn't matter, shooting a laser into somebody's eye should carry a minimum penalty of getting your ass beat.

    Also, everytime I think of laser pointers I now think of this: http://www.wickedlasers.com.hk/ . The lasers in TFA have nothing on this.

  22. Nobody's banning lasers you jackass, stop implying mis-information. Also .gov is a TLD.

  23. Re:In other news, on Gov't Report: Laser Pointers Produce Too Much Energy, Pose Risk For the Careless · · Score: 1

    I'm telling you guys... air is bad for you too, all that CO2 & CO, only way to stay safe is to stop breathing.

  24. I believe it's called satire. How can you not tell???

  25. Re:nice link on Gov't Report: Laser Pointers Produce Too Much Energy, Pose Risk For the Careless · · Score: 1, Funny

    -1 TFA!