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  1. Re:What they are actually reporting an Issue. on Stubborn Intel Graphics Bug Haunts Ubuntu 12.04 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    +5 informative.

    Everything here goes into git (etckeeper), since then nothing has mysteriously stopped working on a restart because we know exactly who and when "nobody" touched something and screwed it up and how to undo it.

  2. Re:Actually it is a problem on Verizon Offers Free Tethering Because It Has To · · Score: 1

    You're an idiot

    Very well, since you haven't got a clue how networks work, let's try a car analogy:

    If two people are riding in a car, why do you believe they should pay more per gallon for gas than one person driving by himself?

  3. Re:Note to TSA on TSA Spending $245 Million On "Second Generation" Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that after killing the first three or four, all he's managed to do is block the walkway. What now, Mr. Smarty-Highjacker?

  4. Re:Actually it is a problem on Verizon Offers Free Tethering Because It Has To · · Score: 1

    hwere you say 2 devices should pay the same as 1?

    What two devices? Either the request came from the cellphone or it came from his laptop. Either way, http://slashdot.org/ takes the same amount of bandwidth to retrieve.

    If he requests it from both the laptop and the cellphone then he's used (and paid for) twice the bandwidth.

  5. Re:Oh no! Regulation! on Verizon Offers Free Tethering Because It Has To · · Score: 2

    Apply the Chodorov Principle of abolishing the actual source of the problem rather than trying to fix it over and over again.

    The problem with that post is that [nearly] every government program X was created in response to problem B. Kill X, problem A caused by X goes away, problem B comes back.

    In this case, how long will cellphones work before radio interference makes broadcast anything unusable?

  6. Re:PROPOSAL: fines' profit = traffic flow analysis on Cameras To Watch Cameras In Maryland · · Score: 1

    Better signage (tell people what lane they need!)

    From my observation, the only way to make signs better would be to have them smack drivers in the face, and even then they probably still wouldn't keep idiots from driving over the shoulder when the exit only lane (with turn arrows painted on the ground, white signs marked right lane must exit, yellow "exit only" markers on the sign over their lane, and the short/square lane dashes) exits and they didn't want to.

    Construction to better rework an intersection or ramp, etc. (Funds from fines won't be enough here)

    Good lord, no amount of fines will fix some of the stupid near where I work, which is right off an interstate. The exit from the interstate (fortunately going the OTHER way from the way I go) is about 5 car lengths from the stop light, maybe 6 bumper to bumper. The exit is also a left-turn only lane at that intersection, so of course roughly 2/3 of the cars getting off the freeway there don't want to turn left (assuming equal distribution of left, right, and through) so traffic rapidly backs up onto the freeway blocking a couple of lanes (the exit lane, and the lane for all the kindergarten failures who never figured out how to wait in line and therefore stop in the next lane over and hold up traffic while they try to cut in). Citing congestion, they went through and ripped everything out and widened everything (the frontage road, the freeway) and then they put the exit ramp in the same damn spot (bonus: they added a concrete curb to make sure nobody crosses the double white line at the bottom of the ramp), and it all backs up exactly the same way.

  7. Re:Oo, let me have a go! on Look-Alike Web Sites Hoodwink Republican Donors · · Score: 1

    If that's what you thought I meant when I referred to "corporate policy"

    Of course, of course, it's not corporate policy to overlook those rusty barrels lined up along the fenceline, they're just low on the budget totem and disposal is planned for 5Qnever. Totally the government's fault, if it weren't for the government they could've just tipped the things into the reservoir and been done with it.

    Corporate policy is about more than just decisions regarding what color to paint your bulldozer so people will buy them.

  8. Re:Oo, let me have a go! on Look-Alike Web Sites Hoodwink Republican Donors · · Score: 2

    If you do not like a corporate policy, you have two options. Live with it and buy stuff from them, or object and not deal with them. Notice that the second option here is not available to you when dealing with governments.

    So when Caterpillar's manufacturing plant dumps its waste oil in my lawn, my choice is to suck it up or cancel my order of 50 bulldozers? Oh wait, I'm a programmer, I don't buy bulldozers. Not everything can be rendered into a financial transaction. At some point you're going to have to have a third party stronger than either of the first two to force problems to get fixed.

  9. Re:Guilty until proven innocent, as usual on MediaFire Restores Virus Researcher's Account But Not Individual Files · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please understand, LeakID is working on figuring it out, but every time they try and open the PDF to see if it's actually infringing or not, it erases their entire computer.

  10. Re:Odd... on Judge Rules Sniffing Open Wi-Fi Networks Is Not Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    Funny, I read your link but all I saw was instructions for granting the government permission to read my email.

  11. Re:Not defending them, on Google Patents Profit-Maximizing Dynamic Pricing · · Score: 1

    Soo.... basically socialism.

    Thanks, I had a rough day and needed a laugh. For your next one, try

    "This apple costs 1.83% of your adjusted daily income, please provide all relevant tax forms for validation so you can have breakfast" is "basically capitalism".

  12. Re:Interesting, very interesting +1 on First Impressions of Windows 8 Powered Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 · · Score: 1

    Did they ever fix WP7 to not require registry hacks to mount as a drive in Windows? As of 2009 the bleeding edge of mtpfs's support for ZuneFS was getting the directory listing to work. I think after that people quit caring about Zunes.

  13. Re:And the use of a UDID? on Anonymous Leaks 1M Apple Device UDIDs · · Score: 1

    The UDID is used by developers to provision an app for a phone so it can be installed without going through the app store (see here.)

  14. Re:Its kind of really sad on What The Apollo 11 Crew Did For Life Insurance · · Score: 1

    not just government-ineptitude resulting in slow processing of a family's due payment, but willful disregard of the government's contractual obligations?

    Never ascribe to malice what can be attributed to government incompetence?

    Of course he can't show "willful disregard". The paperwork for disregarding the paperwork was misfiled and he's still waiting on the request for disregarding disregarded paperwork to be processed, but that's because it's his own fault for following the instructions printed on the paper that said to fill it out in duplicate and keep one copy, when clearly he was supposed to fill it out in triplicate and burn two copies.

    runs into financial difficulty because of a failure to plan or a series of bad decisions

    Yes, obviously its the family's fault, their bad decision was failing to plan for the VA to sit on claims for a year.

  15. Re:What is the problem here? on Ask Slashdot: IT Contractors, How's Your Health Insurance? · · Score: 1

    Running a close second is malpractice liability and the host of "cover my butt" testing now done by doctors.

    When someone asks a doctor why they ran all these tests, which do you think sounds better?

    "I did all these tests because otherwise if I missed some obscure disease that only hits 0.0005% of the population I could be sued!"

    or

    "I did all these tests because I get paid $25 for the ultrasound, $25 for the X-Ray, $750 for the MRI, $250 for the cat scan, $..."

  16. Re:Same price as insurance. Nope on Ask Slashdot: IT Contractors, How's Your Health Insurance? · · Score: 1

    and doctors don't want to say either.

    Doctors don't have a damned clue, and the insurance companies like it that way. After all, if the insurance company's discount says the doctor is supposed to get $100 for that office visit, if the doctor doesn't know they're being ripped off they can pay $99.

  17. Re:It's generally a conscious effect on The Worst Job At Google: a Year of Watching Terrible Things On the Internet · · Score: 1

    Damn, that finally explains why I've got a closet full of feminine hygene products here... wait, sorry, gotta go, a tampax commercial came on.

  18. Re:Ok, let's see you died in the wool capitalists on OnLive Acquires OnLive · · Score: 1

    free of the encumbrances of their original contracts

    So when I decide my mortgage is too much of an "encumberance" I should just buy the house from myself at pennies on the dollar, give the bank pennies, then go on my merry way?

  19. Re:What could possibly .... on Blood Cells Converted Into Chemical Sensors · · Score: 1

    Also, if the blood cells live for 90 days with the dye in them, you just need one injection of the dye-filled cells instead of injections of the dye every few days or so.

  20. Re:AMTRAK on When Flying Was a Thrill · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Non-stop routes

    Not going to happen. Since Amtrak is government underfunded and mismanaged it uses freight rails and has to pull over for any freight traffic, and every congressdick in the country makes sure that it stops in their district so they can tell their constituents that they're bringing home the tax dollars.

    Aside from that, rail will probably never be fixable. The environmentalists pushing it live in abject terror of cars, and the people they want to use it live in abject terror of having to walk 10 feet unaided. Despite the fact that the Chunnel seems to operate just fine, the two groups won't meet in the middle with drive-on carriages, because of course that would come from them evil european socialists.

  21. Re:Does anyone realize the consequences? on Birth Control For Men Edges Closer · · Score: 1

    Not to worry, women will point out that men on this pill won't have sperm that can be tested for DNA and therefore will be impossible to track down when they rape people. It won't make it to market.

  22. Re:Don't be so naive on Genetically Engineering Babies a Moral Obligation, Says Ethicist · · Score: 1

    The hilarious part will be once it's discovered that Monsanto-brand children have terminator genes and cannot breed.

  23. Re:inconsistent rulings on Police Don't Need a Warrant To Track Your Disposable Cellphone · · Score: 1

    In that one, the Supreme Court ruled that because infrared cameras aren't in widespread public use, people don't expect them to be used.

    In this one, the court is saying "Well, anyone can call up the phone company and pretend to be a cop without having to produce any kind of papers or paper trail and find out where you are"

  24. Re:Vs. Diskless boot? on Google Granted Cloud OS Patent · · Score: 1

    Could you provide list of the specific things that this does that RFC 906 doesn't do?

    What makes it different (although geekoid and rgbrenner appear to be too busy trolling to actually stop and figure it out, so they are incapable of answering your question) is that the claims declare that the images themselves are served to the client, consumed locally, then changes to the image are uploaded incrementally (which I assume means "as they are made" rather than just a diff on shutdown).

    In other words, the closest thing I can think of is what Amazon looks like (from outside the black box) they have been doing with their AMIs since at least early 2009 (which is when someone felt like it should get its own wiki page). It's still not quite right since the persistent storage (user data) portion is still a remote filesystem (S3) rather than an image downloaded to the VM, and configuration (changes to the AMI) have to be repackaged as your own personal AMI manually (changes to your local copy of the AMI image are otherwise lost when the instance is stopped).

  25. Re:specific claim on Google Granted Cloud OS Patent · · Score: 1

    NFS over IPSEC would do everything you claimed, with the linux kernel acting as the "combiner" between a / filesystem and a /home filesystem.

    Technically though, the claim says that the image itself is transferred to the client, which means it would be mounted on the local system then changes uploaded "incrementally" as diffs to the image as the changes are made, which makes all y'all wrong.