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  1. I've done some minor projects on multiple houses from 10-30 years old, and I can tell you *nothing* was square. flooring I put in had to be cut at weird angles when I got to some corners. a bookshelf supposed to be flush to the wall assumed that the wall didn't bulge out.

    I know some of it was due to the house settling and/or foundation issues. But the beer can underneath the cabinet floor is more of a reason i think.

  2. Re:Far worse... on US Hacker Sets Off 156 Sirens At Midnight (dallasnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I have family there. They said no information on the TV, nothing on the radio. I think the time it started contributed, all of the newscasts had already ended.

  3. Re:PasswordSafe on Ask Slashdot: Should You Use Password Managers? · · Score: 1

    PasswordSafe has an overall policy, but you can override it per password to match a site's specific requirements.

  4. Re:"Sleeping with amber-tinted glasses..." on Can Blocking Blue Light Help Bipolar Disorder As Well as Sleep Issues? (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    i've heard you don't need to turn on that red light.

  5. Re:Why does this cause surprise or panic? on Facebook Threatens To Delete Users' Photos If They Don't Install Moments app (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Sweet Home is what I use. Works great, backs up from my kids, the wife, and mine.

  6. My Dad was obsessed on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Doom Story? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    with Doom. I remember him working through the levels on nightmare mode working his way down through the weapons. So the final games he played were only using his fists. He said the trick was to maximize the screen so he couldn't see his health, that way he didn't hesitate. Prior to that, we would play deathmatch over the two phone lines we had. Before long, I would only agree to play him if I got the "fast" 486SX and he played on the 386. And he couldn't use the damn rocket launcher.

  7. Re:Godwin's law anyone? on Microsoft's 'Teen Girl' AI Experiment Becomes a 'Neo-Nazi Sex Robot' · · Score: 1

    damnit, Internet! This is why we can't have nice things!

  8. By Grabthar's Hamme... on RIP Alan Rickman, AKA Hans Gruber, Severus Snape (variety.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    By Grabthar's Hammer, by the suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged

  9. Re:Flagrantly Dull on ABC's 'BattleBots' Reboot Will Come Back For a Second Season (thewrap.com) · · Score: 1

    or on another planet, like with the famous band Disaster Area, the engineers could control the robots from within the safety of a concrete bunker.

  10. Re:Maybe for urban areas... on Robots' Next Big Job: Trash Pickup · · Score: 1

    i'm all for it if they can stop running over my lawn in the alleyway. or at least alternate, they never seem to run over the lawn of my neighbor across the alley. ever.

  11. Re:This problem really shouldn't exist. on NFL Commentators Still Calling Microsoft's Surface Tablets "iPads" · · Score: 1

    Years ago I realized that while the members of the US version of The Office were using the same Cisco Phones I had at the office, except that the labels on all of them were ridiculously huge.

  12. Re:Be there for the kid! on Ask Slashdot: Storing Family Videos and Pictures For Posterity? · · Score: 1

    personally, i have trouble remembering stuff that happened recently, no matter how memorable it may seem at the time. for those moments, i'm glad i took copious amounts of photos. heck, looking back at pictures of when i was a teen, half of them i can't remember the actual event happening. so yeah, take as many photos as you can stand, *then* sit back and enjoy what's happening.

  13. Re:Well on T-Mobile Starts Going After Heavy Users of Tethered Data · · Score: 1

    inlimitless?

  14. taking them out of the loop... on Taking the Lawyers Out of the Loop · · Score: 1

    I don't know if you wanna trust the safety of my divorce proceedings to some... silicon diode...

  15. Re:This isn't even a problem unique to chess. on A Data-Driven Exploration of the Evolution of Chess · · Score: 1

    i play "words with friends" with a guy from work, we usually have two or three games going at once. at the start, i'd played for awhile before he started playing. i trounced him. after awhile, he picked up on most of the words, and we were almost even in wins. later, as we each developed new (to us) tricks and strategies, we would leapfrog ahead of the other. now, its really down to luck of the draw. we each use the same tricks and strategies, and its reflected when one of us has say a string of turns with no vowels present. or tons of high-point letters, but no where left to play them at the end of the game.

  16. Re:Task scheduling is not issue tracking on Ask Slashdot: Issue Tracker For Non-Engineers? · · Score: 1

    yeah, gotta agree. without the methodology, no one will use it. plus, if the users don't even have admin on their machine, good luck installing stuff and keeping it installed when the real IT department finds out.

    go for the offline solution like a whiteboard. put it in a location where everyone has to pass at least once a day, or in a meeting room where everyone goes to update it together on a regular basis.

    either way, make a point to use it and stick with it, but be flexible enough to make changes to the methodology if it isn't working.

  17. Re:Popular research subject on Debunking a Viral Internet Post About Breastfeeding Racism · · Score: 2

    this site has gone titsup.

  18. Re:The "paid Microsoft tax" bit, apparently on Major Performance Improvement Discovered For Intel's GPU Linux Driver · · Score: 2

    it's "turbo_bttn"

  19. Re:in favor of "space suits" on NY Doctor Recently Back From West Africa Tests Positive For Ebola · · Score: 1

    3 management that decides to muck about on the work site

    Can i get a hard hat for the office?

  20. Re:My porn collection on Delaware Enacts Law Allowing Heirs To Access Digital Assets of Deceased · · Score: 1

    several lies here.

    1) you have a wife. c'mon, this is slashdot.
    2) you have a girlfriend. see above.
    3) you bought porn. really?

  21. Re:Could be a different route involved for the VPN on Enraged Verizon FiOS Customer Seemingly Demonstrates Netflix Throttling · · Score: 1

    If I offer to sell you "unlimited" beers from my fridge for $50 a month,

    uh. that's not a car analogy. where's my freakin' car analogy?!

  22. Re:I take offense! on Wikipedia Blocks 'Disruptive' Edits From US Congress · · Score: 1

    ...without taking the color of their skin or their nationality into consideration...

    I think that's only because his species are color blind.

  23. Re:Don't. on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Theft Products For the Over-Equipped Household? · · Score: 1

    we..er..a friend of mine has a smaller dog who rolls over to get his belly rubbed for anyone. but if the front door is closed and he hears something outside, he goes nuts barking. he also barks at the wind blowing, his shadow, and when we open the door and wake him from his nap. and the A/C unit coming on. and when i move too suddenly when he's asleep on my lap.

  24. don't be afraid on Ask Slashdot: Beginner To Intermediate Programming Projects? · · Score: 1

    to start something you're not sure you can finish. i wrote a framework in perl to generate some pdf reports, complete with graphs and automated text. took me quite a while, and a lot of "i'll come back to this part later". i went from the script being used to piece together bash/shell commands, to it doing everything.

    but the point is, i kept at it. taking a little part at a time and futzing around with it till it worked a little better.

  25. Re:No. You do not get to pull this bullshit. on TSA Missed Boston Bomber Because His Name Was Misspelled In a Database · · Score: 1

    yeah, but whose head? if anyone, it'll be the guy who let him pass. the one earning $10 an hour. big deal. his supervisor (earning $12/hr), maybe gets written up. their manager? a stern talking to. that's it.