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  1. Re:Citation needed? on Wikipedia Blocks 'Disruptive' Edits From US Congress · · Score: 1

    Now that it is mentioned here, slashdot can be cited as the reference for his culinary proclivities. Problem solved. Put the edit back with a citation.

  2. OK MS bashers. on Microsoft's CEO Says He Wants to Unify Windows · · Score: 1, Interesting
    I am no MS fanboi. I did not RFTA. However, windows 9 is already supposed to ship with both touch and classic interfaces.The default will be chosen by device type but presumably it will be changable. The big complaint here is WinRT - which is ARM not Intel.

    I would hope this unification means that there will be suffice emulation built into windows that it will pick the kernel/libs/drivers required by the CPU arch, and userland apps can run in emulation (even if slowly) if they are compiled for the wrong proc. This would be a unified windows, that allows x86 and 64 bit apps run on ARM and vice versa (although the other direction is likely not as useful). And have a usable interface. This may actually be a killer OS. It is the next version after a bad one!

  3. Re:America is Booming on Toads on 'Optical Fiber' Made Out of Thin Air · · Score: 1
  4. what about malware ads from legit ad servers? on Dealing With 'Advertising Pollution' · · Score: 1

    Case in point, from a customer last week. Legit local radio, click steaming button. Stream controls in pop up from 3rd party. Stream is broken, stars then stops. Ad in same window, from ad choices, plain white misleading ad, "you need to update your windows media player 11". What do people do? Oh I need to update. Boom adware or worse. There need to be laws and real penalties for this, it does real damag.

  5. Re:Um... on Mt. Fuji Volcano In 'Critical State' After Quakes · · Score: 2
    Okay. You have a full 2-liter soda bottle. You drop it from hip height to the floor. The shock releases dissolved gas, increasing the pressure in the bottle. Now pick it up and drop it again. And again.

    At some point the bottle will fail and the soda will erupt.

    Can you say on which drop? Can you say how it will fail (split seam, pinhole rupture that expands, cap failure?)

    No? But you can say that it likely will if the behavior continues.

    Lets take another example, say HDD failure. Any HDD will fail, at some point. Is it head failure? Bearing failure? Temperature damage to the media? You do not know, but you can say it WILL fail.

    So, nice troll attempt, but it falls flat.

  6. Re:Well here we go again. on The Last Three Months Were the Hottest Quarter On Record · · Score: 1

    You took my crappy little joke and made it into a thing of glory. Bravo!

  7. Re:Well here we go again. on The Last Three Months Were the Hottest Quarter On Record · · Score: 1
    Lazy bum.

    # wget popcorn-6.2.1.tgz
    # tar xvf popcorn-6.2.1.tgz
    # cd popcorn-6.2.1
    # ./configure --libs="-lbutter -lsalt"
    # make
    # make -install

    Please forgive errors, I don't eat popcorn anymore so my popping skills are rusty, but still better than that microwave apt-get popcorn.

  8. Re:Anyone have Cliff Notes? on With New Horizons Spacecraft a Year Away, What We Know About Pluto · · Score: 1

    The bottom line is that we know far more about Uranus than Pluto. Even given the wealth of knowledge and enjoyment Uranus has given generations of scientists and philosophers, the decision was made to explore strange (no not new worlds, just strange.) I think in part this is due to the fact that Uranus is massive and gassy, but what do I know?

  9. Murphy says no. on Ask Slashdot: Unattended Maintenance Windows? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You should always have a competent tech on hand for maintenance tasks. Period. If you do not, Murphy will bite you, and then, instead of having it back up by peak hours you are scrambling and looking dumb. In your current scenario, say the patch unexpectedly breaks another critical function of the server. It happens, if you have been in IT any time you have seen it happen. Bite the bullet and have a tech on hand to roll back the patch. Give them time off at another point, or pay them extra for night hours, but thems the breaks when dealing with critical services.

  10. Re:Crowd Sourcing ? on How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business · · Score: 1

    Not quite.. this is not everyone polluting. I think the meme you are looking for is "First world problems..."

  11. Re:It's already going on... on Here Comes the Panopticon: Insurance Companies · · Score: 1

    That's because elec vehicles do not have to comply with the OBD spec that gas vehicles do. Same is true of the device at www.automatic.com

  12. Security... on Wireless Contraception · · Score: 1
    Do you want to become pregnant because someone hacked your hormone implant?

    I do not see this ending well.

  13. Re:An that makes how many football fields? on How the NEPTUNE Project Wired the Ocean · · Score: 1

    I don't know, but the cable lies underneath about 9.62*10^12 Olympic swimming pools worth of ocean.

  14. Re:I dont see a problem here on NASA Approves Production of Most Powerful Rocket Ever · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In my opinion the problem is not reuse of existing tech. It allows reuse of manufacturing capability, it comes with well known maintenance and troubleshooting procedures, etc. The problem is handing the gov a huge bill for doing very little, and using existing tech to milk out a big payday, and not choosing the tech based on suitability, or using it to advance the science any. The latter is something Boeing has been very good at.

  15. Re:How to make an opinion a fact on Investor Tim Draper Announces He Won Silk Road Bitcoin Auction · · Score: 1

    Of course, you may be right.

  16. Re:News for not nerds, stuff that doesn't matter. on Baton Bob Strikes Back Against Police That Coerced Facebook Post From Him · · Score: 0

    Or go to a site with a better community. IE pipedot or soylentnews

  17. Re:One switch to rule them all? on Windows 9 To Win Over Windows 7 Users, Disables Start Screen For Desktop · · Score: 1

    I was typing on my phone. Blame android keyboard and my fat fingers, not MSO.

  18. Re:One switch to rule them all? on Windows 9 To Win Over Windows 7 Users, Disables Start Screen For Desktop · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I taught inmates with no past computer experience both versions of Office, 03 and 07. I hated 07, and the ribbons at first. It made my day to day tasks take much longer. However, I had to learn quickly as I was teaching it.

    I have to say that seeing people with no computer experience learn both. The ribbons are better. People grasped complex workflows easier, effecience was improved, and the learning curve was significantly reduced. Is this anecdotal? Yes. But I stand by it.

  19. Re:Some people would like to outlaw the Internet on Fox Moves To Use Aereo Ruling Against Dish Streaming Service · · Score: 1
    Yes, I use adblock. Not because I am opposed to ads, but because they have become overbearing, in the way of actual content, and oftentimes, infection vectors. I do not want content for free. I want a model where wealth and power are distributed more evenly, a model where I am FREE to choose what I want to watch. I am free no not watch, and that is what I currently do, but that is a false choice.

    In the current model, a select few fleece the users and call it the cost of buinsess, because we steal and they have to 'legally license' from EACH OTHER, essentially handing the money they get from us back and forth with a bunch of hand waving and doublespeak. They then use the excess to further monopolize and entrench this model.

  20. Re:Some people would like to outlaw the Internet on Fox Moves To Use Aereo Ruling Against Dish Streaming Service · · Score: 2
    The problem is, they are winning. I have no cable subscription (except business class data, as it is what I need, and all that is available to me).

    The more I look, the LESS content is available legally without having a cable sub and piping in valid creds.

    Pretty soon (if they haven't already) they will further limit such streaming to IP address known to be the same customers node. To prevent you from using your friends login and not having your own of course, even though it keeps legitimate customers from streaming abroad.

    Further, at least with Comcast, business class connections had been exempt from DMCA threat letters. No more. I received my first this month, and it is no mistake as it mentions home or business-class internet in the letter. It apparently does not matter to them that all sorts of random computers connect to my network. In this case, for repair, not as an open WiFi.

    Expect things to get worse as they squeeze other players like Netflix out of existence, and splinter different studios, and such into their own separate services. Expect them to get worse as they use their riches to bribe congress/FCC/courts into doing their bidding.

    In ye olden times, the buggy whip makers were a weak, splinters force. The media companies of today are the opposite. Financially and politically powerful, with unified goals, and fewer dissonant voices within their ranks (being only a few inbred corporations anymore, this is not hard to achieve).

  21. Re:This app is incompatible with all of your devic on Update Your Shelf: BitLit Offers Access To Ebook Versions of Books You Own · · Score: 1

    you may be able to get the apk.. look for it on alternative stores like slideme.

  22. Re:so how is Kickstarter not liable? on $500k "Energy-Harvesting" Kickstarter Scam Unfolding Right Now · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am just gonna start a kickstarter to pay a lawyer to sue kickstarter.

  23. Oh really? on New Sensors Will Scoop Up "Big Data" On Chicago · · Score: 1

    But computer scientist Charlie Catlett said the planners have taken precautions to design their sensors to observe mobile devices and count contact with the signal rather than record the digital address of every device.

    That may be how it is designed now, but without (actually enforced) laws about the data collected and the legal uses thereof, tracking phone addresses and individuals is only a firmware update away.

  24. Soundtrack to the stars on Draper Labs Develops Low Cost Probe To Orbit, Land On Europa For NASA · · Score: 1

    If this gets launched, it should be to "Europa - The Final Countdown". :P

  25. Re:1994-95 on X Window System Turns 30 Years Old · · Score: 1

    Wherever they be? The machines or the OS? The OS lives on an Mac Fanboi hearts as OS X.