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  1. Re:It'll be short-lived on Free (Gratis) Version of Windows Could Be a Reality Soon · · Score: 1

    Amazon sells it as well

  2. Re:Cotton and wool are agricultural items on US Customs Destroys Virtuoso's Flutes Because They Were "Agricultural Items" · · Score: 1

    I don't think I would wear anything into the US made of hemp

  3. Re:This is just a stupid idea. on Most Drivers Would Hand Keys Over To Computer If It Meant Lower Insurance Rates · · Score: 1

    What I am most worried about is that it would look at the road with 1/2 an inch of snow on it and decide that driving is not safe today. Or worse, we are driving in winter weather and it pulls off to the shoulder and parks because the snow is too thick.

    Yes, many people can not drive in winter conditions, but I don't want to wait on the side of the road for two days for the road surface to clear

  4. Re:Hangings on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    No the court recently declared that unless waved by the defendant, a jury must be involved in sentences of capital punishment. That does not mean that the judge/prosecution can not prevent the death penalty from being considered.

  5. Re:So.. I doubt you're actually,really getting DOS on Ask Slashdot: Mitigating DoS Attacks On Home Network? · · Score: 1

    I am not sure about DSL networks but there is another possibility I have seen on other types of networks. Is it possible there is a broken/infected computer/hardware on the same subnet at the ISP?

    The user changes the mac address and gets a new DHCP assignment from the ISP. which changes the IP address each time but is in the same subnet because it is in the same local geographical area . Whenever the router wakes up it finds out that everything on the subnet is getting slammed. The ISP should be able to figure this out.

    Wireshark also should help but I would be tempted to do a live boot from CD to a machine that is only connected to the DSL modem then run it from there. Get everything else know off the system.

    lots of DSL modems now have wireless access built in. if that is being abused by a neighbor that could also be the problem. Check that out and clamp it down if there is wireless there.

    it could also just be a bad modem,

  6. Re:The Blame Game on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 2

    there were more total votes for democrats in the house than total votes for republicans. Both sides use gerrymanders to protect seats of incumbents, I used to live in a district that was essentially broken into two large pieces connected by a strip that ran down the center of an interstate highway. the strip was only about 10 feet wide and at least a couple of miles long,

  7. The problem is political on Technologies Like Google's Self-Driving Car: Destroying Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Since the Luddites were first in vogue the number of hours has gone down, the retirement age began to mean something, and we could afford social welfare programs. Employment back then was miserable.

    If you lost your job and did not get work again decades ago it was because you were not willing to do some types of work.

    Now we have all this Ayn Rand crap being spouted all over the place and anyone who wants to see continued progress is being labeled a communist.

    Most of the jobs that practically anyone could do now do not provide a living wage. You are expected to work 2+ jobs if your skills are not unique.

    People who are older than 50 are particularly being damaged by this. Extending Social Security to older and older ages can not continue. It is causing many more valid disability claims.

    Listen to the Tea Party people carefully. They want to return to a feudal society.

    The problem will eventually solve itself with protests, strikes and perhaps violence. I hope it does not go that far, but I don't see much hope in the short term.
     

  8. Re:The Jetsons on Technologies Like Google's Self-Driving Car: Destroying Jobs? · · Score: 1

    it was in "The Door Into Summer" and perhaps "By His Bootstraps" most of the cars crushed did not even have working engines

  9. writing a book and need screen shots? on Devs Flay Microsoft For Withholding Windows 8.1 RTM · · Score: 1

    If the screens and features do not change, why call it a new release? Screen shots in a book that may be incorrect or that say "preview" on them don't impress publishers.

    People who do support work for a living and can not play with the real thing before it goes out to the real world look really dumb.

  10. Still available on amazon from dell on Dell Dumps Keyboardless Windows RT Tablets · · Score: 1

    I see it available on amazon from dell at less than 300 with free shipping under prime if anyone is still interested. I did not order one as i can not afford to throw money away like that and the reviews on the Dell website are mostly horrible for a 2 month old product.

  11. bulk ink jet printers may work on Ask Slashdot: Printing Options For Low-Resource Environments? · · Score: 1

    you can get ink jet printers that have external tanks for the ink. the consumable costs for these can be quite low, before committing to any ink jet system please be aware that the inks can usually be smeared with damp fingers even after they are dry

  12. Re:These numbers are not the true numbers on Xerox Photocopiers Randomly Alter Numbers, Says German Researcher · · Score: 1

    So it has come to this!

  13. Re:Sure... on Have eBooks Peaked? · · Score: 1

    With Amazon you can have 5 family members sharing one account I believe. We share 5 devices

  14. Re:FCC on FCC Rural Phone Subsidies Reach As High As $3,000 Per Line · · Score: 1

    Or trees can block signals. Some of these locations have had houses and unreliable land lines for over 45 years

  15. Lack of the 5th would make the following possible on Seeking Fifth Amendment Defenders · · Score: 1

    Police officers stop everyone on the road tonight and ask the following question:

    When and where did you last drive over the speed limit? OK, here is your traffic ticket.

    Have a nice day and thanks for supporting your police department and city government with your fines.

  16. Re:lock it down on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    go to your local 2nd hand store and buy 10 barely working routers and configure them randomly with as tight security as you can. Do not hook any of them to the internet but hook them to some of those timers they sell for people who go on vacation but want there lamps to turn on and off. but with the same MAC address (if possible) and same hidden SSID They will all be POS routers that in addition to power cycling randomly will be crashing every so often. you might be able to set them up with MAC filtering on all mac addresses if you really want to have fun. Or install a version of an open source wireless router OS but edit the code first so that it is deliberately broken and install on a router.

    If you have a spare computer you can set up a web server that only serves a copy of the Google home page. Or perhaps the FBI computer fraud page to any http request on these routers.

    Ideally though, you need to stop this guy before he attracts the authorities to you through your service provider by doing some thing illegal. even if that means shutting down all wireless networks or setting up shielding.

  17. True Source Certified (TM) ? on Laser Intended For Mars Used To Detect "Honey Laundering" · · Score: 2

    I was aware of problems with imported honey being adulterated. I know it is not an absolute guarantee but is this label a good idea for now?

  18. Malware? on Surface Pro: 'Virtually Unrepairable' · · Score: 1

    If a virus or other malware were to come along, lots of these machines could be bricked all in a single week, If you can't get inside to repair them you are basically SOL.

  19. Re:Do you use the start menu often? on Ask Slashdot: Buying a Laptop That Doesn't Have Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    you can quickly build shortcut buttons for the desktop to do reboot and shutdown (google is your friend) then you can add them to the start screen as well by browsing to the shortcut and selecting pin to start (or something close to that).

    Should this be in a standard install, of course, but it is easy to fix.

  20. ncsa mosaic on What Early Software Was Influential Enough To Deserve Acclaim? · · Score: 2

    First real browser

    then Netscape

  21. Re:In general it doesnt matter on Cisco Exits the Consumer Market, Sells Linksys To Belkin · · Score: 1

    I will not buy netgear because of requiring a internet connection to configure it. I should be able to configure it before I hook it up to any network.

  22. continuity be damned on J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars VII · · Score: 1

    Who ever does continuity and science consistency checks for Abrams should be banned from all future creative work. I think he should be voted most likely to reboot the script and not reshoot what is already in the can.

    I can see it now: people dying after getting sucked into the vacuum of space but others without spacesuits saving them by doing mouth to mouth while waiting for the airlock to cycle.

  23. Re:What does it say.... on Microsoft Surface Pro Arrives Feb. 9 · · Score: 1

    Microsoft marketing likes a term and seems to feel that they invested in the invention of the word and have to keep using it for other things when the original use goes out of favor.

    Besides the table, they also used the term for touch screen applications on Windows 7 and Vista.

  24. Re:The Luddite Fallacy on Robot Serves Up 360 Hamburgers Per Hour · · Score: 2

    As time goes by we see more and more pressure by the 1 % to make sure that the unemployed do not continue to be able to eat regularly

  25. Re:Randomized passwords are the best on Bad Grammar Make Bestest Password, Research Say · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't have a different phone number for every person I call. People I call do not make up rules like my phone number must be at least x characters long, must have a special character in it, can not have a special character in it, must not begin with an upper case letter, must begin with a character, must begin with an emoticon ;-)
    and I don't know what other crap they are about to come up with...