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  1. Re:Boom. on "Home Batteries" Power Houses For a Week · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I remember another video where a firefighter was holding C-Spine traction (Holding the victims head still, to prevent spinal injuries from causing more damage) on a 2 seat BMW. One that had explosive actuated rollbars that came up only in the event of an accident (I assume to maintain the aesthetics of the car). Well, while they were freeing the victim from the wreckage, the rollbars were somehow triggered. When it came up, it hit him in the neck right below his jaw and killed him on the spot.

    [citation needed] /morbid curiosity

  2. Re:Do "Users" have a choice? on Microsoft Policies Help Virus Writers, Says Security Firm · · Score: 1

    That's why I keep a stack of livecds in my trunk, next to the jack, and an ISO on my keychain in case the CDs warped in the sun.

    Lately, most of my relatives have upgraded enough they can boot from USB.

  3. Re:Easier to block? on Malware and Botnet Operators Going ISP · · Score: 1

    Not anything step by step. If your anti-spam software or mailhost supports scripting(or is OSS) and pulls from a manipulable data source(sql, text, dns), you just need to set up a rule for each case that both drops the connection and inserts the IP & timestamp back into those lists.

    Then have a script in cron that deletes anything older than the max time for each list

    Spamassassin probably has a plugin for this already, but I can't be bothered to get with the future:)

    One easy thing you could do is to replace your first MX record with a bogus host and your last MX record with something like tarbaby.junkemailfilter.com

    Many spammers give up if the first is dead or jump straight to the last.

  4. Re:Easier to block? on Malware and Botnet Operators Going ISP · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's why your lists should have a time component.

    If you do something naughty, you're blacklisted for an amount of time, then greylisted for the next step up. If you do something naughty while greylisted, you get blacklisted for the remainder and greylisted the next step up again.

    Mine goes 15 minutes/1 day/2 weeks/3 months/1 year. I've yet to blacklist anyone for a year.

  5. Re:hope he switches to PETA members on OSU President Cans Anthrax Vaccine Research On Primates · · Score: 1

    I don't think that they have done anything that merits anything less than making sure as many people know about their high kill rate as possible.

    Indeed, they do kill 85%+ of the animals they take in. I wasn't seriously trying to defend them, just amusing myself with what else they might use it for. It isn't like they need to stock up for an upcoming fundraiser cook-out:)

    Although I suppose it could be for human bodies, I always suspected PETA had a cannibal cabal.

  6. Re:hope he switches to PETA members on OSU President Cans Anthrax Vaccine Research On Primates · · Score: 1

    He is a bit trollish. They did buy a $9370 freezer for their headquarters, but the purpose wasn't stated.

    They could be using it for cruelty-free ice-cream substitute or medical supplies not derived from animals... um...

    Hell, they only kill like 5 animals a day, they could just use a regular $600 freezer, unless it was all huskies or greyhounds.

  7. Re:An interesting way to summarize the data ... on Firefox 3.5 Now the Most Popular Browser Worldwide · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not to mention that IE8's growth seems to be exclusively at the expense of 6/7 so IE as a whole has declined greatly, or the market has grown while IE use has remained constant.

  8. Re:Just a thought..... on The First Robot To Cross the Atlantic Ocean Underwater · · Score: 1

    Heh, who hasn't used a large foam glider and a recent lesson on mapping thermals to smuggle onto a base.

  9. Re:other costs on Where Are the Cheap Thin Clients? · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Illogical? Ungrammatical? on Making Sense of the Cellphone Landscape · · Score: 1

    "There is no I in team."

    But there is a "me".

  11. Re:What a nightmare. on Carriers, Manufacturers Are Strangling Android · · Score: 1

    Mobile carriers are only interested in getting you to pay them as much per month as possible... Hence disabling most functionality of the phone unless you pay extra "service fees" to access those functions. My own case: Verizon only allows applications in a token way... If I get a new phone, I have to buy the apps that I want all over again if I get them out of their store.

    So very true, verizon just loves disabling everything that would make you want a phone.

    Unless you've got a newish blackberry, in which case you can give verizon the finger, although then RIM gives you a bit of a smack every now and then.

  12. Re:My heart goes out to him... on Alien Screenwriter Dan O'Bannon, Dead At 63 · · Score: 1

    You could instead take a trip to someplace that it is endemic and stomp around barefoot.

    I read a story about a guy that did that, then re-infected himself with a sandbox device. Since the eggs only hatch after exiting the body, it makes a self-limiting treatment as long as you work up to the effective dose and don't "OD" the first time around and take some iron supplements.

    http://www.asthmahookworm.com/

    If hanging around 3rd world latrines isn't your thing, maybe you could get the first go-around of the treatment, then "make your own".

  13. Re:Unfortunate on Alien Screenwriter Dan O'Bannon, Dead At 63 · · Score: 1

    More like "Winds of Altair" but with humanoids instead of 6-legged lions and magic rocks instead of living space.

  14. Re:Does this remind anyone of... on Google In Talks To Buy Yelp · · Score: 1

    Not really, because you can actually use the window codes while out & about. If the cuecat had been wireless with internal storage, or (like a phone) been entirely usable on its own, it might have survived.

    As it was, it made a decent contact barcode scanner(I still have a declawed USB model), but lousy for the intended use.

  15. Re:Burger King is still better on US McDonald's Wi-Fi Going Free In January · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I rather liked them as a kid when they were made with organ meat. They actually had taste then, unlike the "white meat, honest" ones of today.

  16. Re:Despecialization isn't an objective. on Revisiting the "Holy Trinity" of MMORPG Classes · · Score: 1

    The problem with providing the composite roles is that either the composites perform equally well as a single axis character, in which case nobody ever plays the single axis character, or the single axis character is much better at a given level, so nobody plays composites unless they like to solo or play with groups at a much lower experience level(and get less loot/experience)

    Perhaps if there was some reason to have less players, then composites would be useful because you would want to cover many roles with less players. Lots of games now, though, focus on larger groups(10+) and prefer specialists, unlike the small group focus of most of the MUDs I used to play where there was a point in being a generalist.

    If you had only, say, 4 characters, you might want (tank, healer/buff, DPS, DPS), but if either the tank or the healer got in a bad way, you'd be screwed. So you'd probably prefer (tank, healer/tank, DPS/buff, DPS/healer) or (tank/healer, DPS/tank, healer/DPS, DPS/buff/healer).

    Similarly if you only had one DPS, you'd want your tanks and healers to be /DPS as well.

  17. Re:Cue The Moral Outrage on Not Enough Women In Computing, Or Too Many Men? · · Score: 1

    More guys are getting alimony from better-earning spouses, these days.

    Yay for equality of the sexes:)

  18. Re:Good Riddance on UK Wants To Phase Out Checks By 2018 · · Score: 1

    Then they need to find a better gateway/merchant account.

    A while back, I locked myself out of my car and when the locksmith showed up, he said he took plastic. I handed him my card, he used his cell to call an automated line and type in the card and price, then it gave him a confirmation number that he put on his paperwork.

    Took less than two minutes and most of that was typing in my card. If somebody made a magstripe reader that emitted touchtones, it probably would've taken 30 seconds. He said it cost him less than dealing with checks.

    The only thing that could have been better is if the process went: I call my bank, type his info, then he got a text confirming. I like to pretend that deposit systems are safer than withdrawal systems.

  19. Re:A good life lesson for her on Student Banned From Minnesota Campus Over Facebook Comments · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Unless she was banging the professor, the statements were clearly aimed at her ex.

    She didn't say "jeez, life isn't worth it, I'll go on a killing spree monday", she said "I'm looking forward to embalming class"(subtext:because then I can pretend the corpse I'm exsanguinating is the bastard who dumped me)

  20. Re:Crazy on Student Banned From Minnesota Campus Over Facebook Comments · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You don't like puns, do you?

  21. Re:Power Glove on Using Hacked Wiimotes As Scientific Sensors · · Score: 2, Informative

    More specifically, a tuning fork gyroscope.

    Apparently it is easy to read with i2c as a standalone part, too.

  22. Re:Fired him first? on The Trial of Terry Childs Begins · · Score: 1

    Yup, that's obviously a general guideline, not to be taken too strictly. It's not like they are threatening to send you to jail if you don't follow it. Oh, wait...

    I'm sorry, I left off the next section:

    Violators of this policy may be subject to appropriate disciplinary action up to and including employment termination, termination of agreements, denial of service, and/or legal penalties, both criminal and civil.

  23. Re:Chain of Command on The Trial of Terry Childs Begins · · Score: 1

    At my last job, if my manager asked me for my password and I told him, his boss would have fired both of us because the only people I was allowed to tell was the company lawyer, or my replacement upon promotion or termination.

    Chain of command is not the same as chain of responsibility.

  24. Re:All admins on The Trial of Terry Childs Begins · · Score: 1

    Telling a password to your boss, saying a password on the phone, or saying a password in front of a group of people are all fireable offenses, according to city policy.

    He was obligated not to do so.

  25. Re:Fired him first? on The Trial of Terry Childs Begins · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just to quote their policy:

    All passwords are to be treated as sensitive, confidential County information.
    Here is a list of things to avoid:
    Giving your password over the phone to ANYONE.
    Telling your boss your password.
    Talking about a password in front of others.
    Telling your co-workers your password while on vacation.

    If someone demands a password, refer him or her to this document or have him or her call someone in Information Security