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  1. Re:Why are we not disscussion the Ohio 'software'? on Ask Slashdot: How To Become Informed In Judicial Elections? · · Score: 1
  2. Re:So no dispute of any facts on Ask Slashdot: How To Become Informed In Judicial Elections? · · Score: 1

    It's actually very easy to dispute everything you have said.

    The Software you talk about being installed in Ohio has been approved by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. No problems detected with the software AT ALL. Since everything else you are talking about is loose conspiracy theories, the rest of your rant is invalid.

    I could make the same complaint about Maryland, where the state legislature gerrymandered the congressional districts and put up a misleading ballot measure to approve the new districts. It's politics, that's what they do. Mislead the ignorant masses to retain control.

  3. Personally on Ask Slashdot: How To Become Informed In Judicial Elections? · · Score: 0

    I am voting for Bender in my judicial elections. He is equally harsh on all humans. Although I do not know if he can be on the DC Board of Elections and be a judge.

  4. Please on Software Uses Almost 1/2 the Storage On 32GB Surface Tablet · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you can spend $700 on a tablet computer, you can spend $50 on a 64 GB thumb drive.

  5. Re:Easy solution on Federal Judge Approves Warrantless, Covert Video Surveillance · · Score: 1

    What a defeatist attitude.

    So let's get more specific. I would argue that anything left on my property, which I did not have ownership, would fall under the "lost" or "abandoned" definition of Common Law. Under that law, I would have to perform my due diligence to find the owner of said "lost" items. So I would call the police or walk up to their surveillance van and ask them if they are missing their wireless camera. If the police refuse to take their camera back, I would document it and send an certified letter stating that I offered to return their property and have no taken ownership of the item, as their officers did not accept the item. Under the "abandoned" definition, it would be easier because I could claim ownership outright and skip the notification process.

    Also, obstruction of justice only applies to someone who is NOT a suspect. Therefore, if the alleged criminal crippled the wireless surveillance cameras, it could not be obstruction as they are the suspect.

  6. Easy solution on Federal Judge Approves Warrantless, Covert Video Surveillance · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wi-fi signal detector - $200
    Scanning your property once a week for signals - 1 Hour
    Finding a warrantless wi-fi camera and placing it in front of a continuous loop of hardcore German scat porn. - Priceless

    Some things money can't buy. For everything else, there is the smug satisfaction of sticking it to the cops.

  7. Re:"Radio location system" on More Drones Set To Use US Air Space · · Score: 1

    5 months before the ADS-B detector is added in to every radar detector and police scanner on the market.

  8. Re:Spy Handler on South Carolina Department of Revenue Hacked, 3.6 Million SSNs Taken · · Score: 1

    First to run his mouth, last in 20th century American History

  9. Icing on the cake on South Carolina Department of Revenue Hacked, 3.6 Million SSNs Taken · · Score: 0

    In other news, Cybersecurity consultants have seen a 18% increase in their hourly rates in the South Carolina area.

  10. Re:IT job from hell? on Living Computer Museum Opens To Public In Seattle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Good, because I would LOVE to be the IT guy who gets to fix these computers. You have to know your roots!

  11. Re:Personally on Would You Put a Tracking Device On Your Child? · · Score: 1

    Wasn't expecting to meet the drama llama today.

    However, all I said was that I would have no problem with it. In all honesty, it depends on the child. Responsible kids would have no need for such a thing. I would base my decision off of my child's actions and behavior, not as a one-size fits all approach to parenting. When I was a kid, the worst thing I ever did was TP someone's house (although I paid the price by falling flat on my face running from an incoming car). If my kids were like me, I would skip the tracker and monitor their internet use.

    It depends on the child, the area, their friends, and the parents. Tracking would not be for everyone.

  12. Personally on Would You Put a Tracking Device On Your Child? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I would have no issue whatsoever with putting a tracker on my child. For anyone under the age of 18, the parent is ultimately liable for their actions. If my kid gets in a car crash and it is their fault, I have to pay for it. If they break a store window for fun, I have to pay for it.

    However, such a tool should not be a "why is my kid 5 minutes late?" type of tool. I would only use it in emergencies. For example, curfew is 11 pm and by 7am the next morning, they are still not home. Or my child walks home from school and usually gets home about 3pm, I call them multiple times and the school does not know where they are, I would use such a device. Also, I would love a feature that let me know when they left a certain radius or approached a certain area. Certain areas being the known criminal enterprise areas.

    There is a difference between being "big brother" and using technology to enhance your parenting.

  13. New buzz phrases on Crowdsourcing Concerts — the Future of Live Music? · · Score: 2

    I believe "crowdsourcing" is quickly overtaking "the cloud" as the new and cool buzzphrase.

  14. oh noes! on Amazon EBS Failure Brings Down Reddit, Imgur, Others · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ehrmagawd!

    Now all those little kids on Reddit will have to get their news elsewhere.

    In other news, the amount of -1 Troll comments on /. just increased by a factor of 18.

  15. Kinda like on Microsoft Urges Businesses To Get Off XP · · Score: 2, Funny

    So it's like saying "Stop driving that 1965 VW Bug, you should upgrade to the brand new Pinto!"

  16. Re:Tell me Professor on Faculty To Grad Students: Go Work 80-Hour Weeks! · · Score: 1

    Tenured professors in the University of California system make $180,000. And every 10 years, they can take a 2 year sabbatical. The first year of the sabbatical they receive 100% of their pay. The second year, they receive 85% of their pay.

  17. Tell me Professor on Faculty To Grad Students: Go Work 80-Hour Weeks! · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So, Mr(s). Tenured Professor, how many hours a week do you work for that $200,000 salary?

  18. Re:Umm on Ask Slashdot: How Do SSDs Die? · · Score: 1

    I skipped over a sentence there....

    I use two drives for metadata controller. With 14 drives left, I use 6 drives set up in RAID 6 for the two volumes I create. The RAID units that I use (no free advertisement here folks) have a global hot-swap option, so I set two drives for that. Technically that means I could loose 4 drives, depending on what drives are actually lost.

  19. Re:Umm on Ask Slashdot: How Do SSDs Die? · · Score: 2

    Also useful to set up your RAID with hot-swap drives. In a 16-drive array, I like to set up with RAID 6 and one hot-swap drive. That way, I can actually loose 2 drives, then one more drive once the hot swap has been populated.

  20. Re:special request on Cancer-Detecting Bra Could One Day Surpass Mammograms In Accuracy · · Score: 1

    My bad, I forgot to put the "Bazinga!" at the end of my comment. Sorry for the confusion.

  21. special request on Cancer-Detecting Bra Could One Day Surpass Mammograms In Accuracy · · Score: 2

    Please add Bluetooth connectivity. That way, I can figure out my date's cup size without staring at her chest all night.

  22. Cross your fingers on Precision Espionage MiniFlame Malware Tied To Flame · · Score: 5, Funny

    I sure hope that an actual person wrote this MiniFlame. Otherwise the virus has become self-aware and is now reproducing autonomously.

  23. Re:Easy list on Ask Slashdot: What Books Have Had a Significant Impact On Your Life? · · Score: 1

    The Mule was present throughout the second half of Foundation and Empire and the first half of Second Foundation. Meaning the Mule took up 1/3 of the original series. 33% of the series != "short-lived" You must have been reading Hello Kitty Island Adventure on accident.

  24. Re:Easy list on Ask Slashdot: What Books Have Had a Significant Impact On Your Life? · · Score: 1

    You must have missed that whole thing about the Mule.

  25. Easy list on Ask Slashdot: What Books Have Had a Significant Impact On Your Life? · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov is and will always be my favorite series of books. Those are the first real science fiction books I read, they were welcome reprieve from those terrible books I had to read in high school.

    Dune by Frank Herbert. The sheer scope of events which take place in this sage showed me how insignificant daily events really were. While it was fictional, the way the Shaddam, the Baron Harkonnen, and Muad'Dib feel about their subjects/followers/slaves gave me a hard dose of reality. There are a lot of people out there, and most of them have no idea that you just got picked on walking to class, dropped some spaghetti on your shirt, or had a really crappy day.