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  1. Re:The problem isn't the currency on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    Capital has become the means of production, few businesses can work without it so you effective would have the government picking what companies get a chance and which ones do not.

  2. Re:A little perspective here, please.. on California Governor Vetoes Ban On Warrantless Phone Searches · · Score: 1

    Yes because intravenous drug users have no other choice. Those idiots chose to engage is highly risky behaviors. Why I am no fan of the idiotic drug war and prohibition I still find using said substances to show a great deal of stupidity. They could I do not know quit?

  3. Re:The problem isn't the currency on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    So your advocating socialism/communism?

  4. Re:Two points on Looking Beyond Detroit For Engine Innovation · · Score: 1

    There are always trade offs, but from my perspective they change cars just to change them and that keeps costs up. Take taillights they are a couple stock sizes and layouts for trunks and buses and they are dirt cheap as they have not changed in forever. We need a different taillight for everything? Want light weight somebody will be putting leds in air gel. Alternators again 3 million models all similar sizes and capacities. Car manufactures change things not to refine them and make them better. A new incompatible unit has to be bough from them at huge margins vs the aftermarket part. Cars in particular it's function follows form to often I accept that sexy sells, oddly a high mpg vehicle with a 200k+ expected lifetime would as well. If were going to cram MPG standards down there throats why not minimum expected lifetime without major service?

    Specifically to machining, we have come a long way, in simplifying change. A simple bit can be standardized manipulating ears to avoid that wee need a custom holder for each robot. Detroit is saddled with a huge union overhead and like most companies is looking no further than the next quarter.

  5. Re:Two points on Looking Beyond Detroit For Engine Innovation · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they should invest in tooling that does not require a massive investment to make a simple change?

  6. Re:So in EU, consumers have rights, creators don't on EU Parliament Group Opposes Long Copyrights and Oppressive DRM · · Score: 1

    Do your creative endeavors require eternal copyright to be profitable? I would love if people could use my 20 year old code, for me that was a mix of perl and c with a lot of assembler for odd processors/platforms. Creators have the rights they were artificially given by copyright law pre printing press there were no real protections. You always have the choice to not publish or only publish to a select clientele. It's not property it was artificially made into something resembling property by act of law. DRM is poised to destroy our common culture, were unable to run applications from 25 years ago in some cases already. None of this is going to particularly impact revenue. If anything a shorter length of copyright is a reason to create more rather than sitting on ones laurels.

  7. Re:duh on US Drone Fleet Hit By Computer Virus · · Score: 1

    Lol my backup system takes care of that. I want to see a virus that can infect the system and a san at the same time though a VM barrier. A real hacker sure but some script kiddie not so much.

  8. Re:Chose builder that gives you the lowest quote.. on Ohio Supreme Court Drawn Into Magnetic Homes Case · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately few people care about the beauty of a well finished old growth wood floor course they also think pergo looks nice. Houses used to be something you passed down from generation to generation, and people wonder why these idiots got us into sub prime mortgages.

  9. Re:Chose builder that gives you the lowest quote.. on Ohio Supreme Court Drawn Into Magnetic Homes Case · · Score: 1

    Whats wrong with each breaker controlling exactly one thing? 14 Gauge is the minim for 15 amp circuits 12 for 20 (if you do not live in the us you might have 30 amp regular circuits and need 10 gauge). I like having one outlet per breaker my electrical inspector did not care for it to much but he still passed it. I do have all the smoke/co2 alarms on one breaker but they have battery backup and needed an extra wire to communicate between themselves and the home security system. It also make it much easier when I put in the sub pannel for the gen's transfer switch.

  10. Re:How does your model deal with piracy? on Movie Industry: Loss of Control Worse Than Piracy · · Score: 1

    Mono audio not black and white picture.

  11. Re:How does your model deal with piracy? on Movie Industry: Loss of Control Worse Than Piracy · · Score: 1

    I'll watch the movie on a 20 inch mono with bad contract and the color out of wack before I pay to see it with uncivilized trash. I'll drive an extra 20 miles to see movies in a very poor but proud neighborhood. Kid or adult starts disturbing people and they will be told to leave but it does not happen as it's a close knit abit poor area where a relative will find out about misbehavior and hand to ass/social stigma will motivate them to not do it again.

  12. Re:Chose builder that gives you the lowest quote.. on Ohio Supreme Court Drawn Into Magnetic Homes Case · · Score: 2

    Hard to sue the builders when it's a corp formed just to build the one development then closed down there are no assets. Things have gotten better with them requiring an insurance company to cover that warranty.

  13. Re:Chose builder that gives you the lowest quote.. on Ohio Supreme Court Drawn Into Magnetic Homes Case · · Score: 2

    I didn't say buy and old house and leave it as it is. The price of the house plus a full interior remodel can be similar to building new. I live in a 109 year old house, first thing I did was replace the electrical with a two story house with open attic and basement it's pretty straight forward. Had electrical well above code in a weekend on a 3k square foot home. Cat 6, rg6 and speaker wiring in another couple weekends nearly up to full structured wiring specs (speakers were matched length straight runs). Hell I had fiber out the the garage in another weekend and a ditch witch rental. Figure a thousand in wire etc (those new ground fault bits are expensive).

  14. Re:Chose builder that gives you the lowest quote.. on Ohio Supreme Court Drawn Into Magnetic Homes Case · · Score: 1

    Why home buyers figure out that a brand new home in a band new subdivision is nothing but a great big PITA for the next 20 years. Get a nice old home if it's been standing for 100 years it's probably going to continue to do so if make sure the roof gutters and siding are in good order.

  15. Re:They've already done it, and I'm already using on Microsoft To Bring Cable TV To 360 · · Score: 1

    Get a HD Homerun Prime 3 tuners that are shared to every WMC box on your network. 250 is not that bad a silent atom PC that I already had, a used xbox360 and a VM on the home server for the main recoding box. Wish I knew about the idiotic you have to pay Microsoft for the privilege of streaming netflix though. Replaces 2 tivo's at 25 a month and a cable card rental payback is about a year. Also gives me the ability to watch live TV on every windows box in the house (7 at last count) even can watch some live tv on linux. You can strip the MWC DRM if you need to and convert for ipod and droid use. Best upgrade from tivo's is automated commercial deletion. With DRM stripping all my content is available to any UPnP/DLNA device in the house.

  16. Re:Cmon on 175 MPH Student-Built EV Smashes Speed Record · · Score: 1

    Owning a 70's lead sled and having owned a 3.8 liter supercharged v6 sedan there is no comparison. The sedan cornered better than the 70's stock suspension but driving performance on highways and get up and go I'll take the big block (502 chevy with a blower and nos in a TA BTW). It's not easy to get a big heavy car to corner well it's just that much more inertia to overcome, but there is a lot that can be done to either cars suspension.

    The premise of the safety bits is funny, it's always assuming the accident. We have systems to automatically brake now, but few cars have decent brakes since it's cheaper to not put them on and the safety tests do not take this into account. Drop 20 or 30 feet of the 60-0 braking distance and I wonder how many read endings you will stop? We would be better off with stricter drivers ed Sweden seems to know how to do it with a skid pad as part of the testing and training.

  17. Re:I'm on the fence here... on Sony Bringing PSN Pass To All First-Party Games · · Score: 2

    Because they are entitled to get paid? This is basic first sale doctrine they are entitled to get paid when they sell the copy. By your logic when I sell my car the new owner should have to pay GM for the privilege of using the vehicle they made?

  18. Re:oven on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Sledgehammer works wonders, when the platters are broken down into large sand grains I would call that unrecoverable. Replace sledgehammer with whatever you have around that's fairly solid. I know an IT guy who is also a gun guy he uses them for target pratice at his gun club.

  19. Re:Bad idea on Ask Slashdot: Best Long-Term Video/Picture Storage? · · Score: 1

    I have 3 copies of this sort of data, a primary NAS that runs my home, it backs up to two remote sites with full versioning so they have every versions of every file since they started backing up (other docs like resume and other personal writings also go in there but expect to be changed). Since it's pictures it should never change, on the odd chance that it does I'm not overwriting them. One remote site I run a reciprocal service for there precious data a simple firewall box with some USB attached drives. My worst case would be my nas crashing I could loose 24 hours or so of new/changed content. You are correct though anything you can do as a raid level is not a backup.

  20. Re:The current law is already too weak on Congress May Permit Robot Calls To Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    This is why if you want these sort of laws to have any teeth they need some form of insurance requirements. Those need to be backed by personal civil and criminal consequences.

  21. Re:All you need is a jury of your PEERS. on Science Manual For US Judges · · Score: 2

    As apposed to the current system where anybody that might have an understanding of an applicable technical subject is removed from the jury pool. Having all doctors is a pretty bad idea, so is removing anybody that can see through an expert witnesses BS.

  22. Re:Expected Police Violence on Conflict Between Occupy Wall Street Protestors and NYPD Escalating · · Score: 1

    If those "good" officers are in a position of authority over those other officers they are just as responsible for letting it happen. They don't make it to "good" unless they are at least filing complaints to there internal affairs as much of a joke that is. We need to get rid of the shield laws for officers if a DA wants to change them and a grand jury goes for it not this review board BS. We also need a way for person to get this up to a grand jury.

  23. Re:Not have to comply? on Borders Bust Means B&N May Get Your Shopping History · · Score: 2

    It's bankruptcy, judges can get rid of contract classes as they see fit. Want it fixed you need a federal law (or patchwork of state laws) precluding the sale, lease or otherwise transfer of all personally identifying information without the consent of that person at the time of transfer (aka no fine print you allow this forever BS). Might want to tack on a company must expunge that same info opon request, or after n years of inactivity.

  24. Re:Double-gotcha on Ask Slashdot: Best ccTLD To Avoid Confiscation? · · Score: 1

    And .cn all ready has more USD than it realy wants. Right now it's your best bet for not caring what the US wants.

  25. Re:SSH? on Intel Shows RealVNC Embedded In the BIOS · · Score: 1

    Yes you do that's the point. You can connect at any point and see whatever is on the primary screen, This could be the text bios, a full gui desktop or various installers. You can mount ISO's remotely all without help from the OS network stack. There is a serial connection as well that uses a bit funky protocol (it's all wrapped in udp packets and encrypted) but there are proxies to convert that to straight ssh/telnet. It's nearly what IPMI is for servers.