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  1. History on Why Onagawa Nuclear Power Station Survived the Tsunami · · Score: 1

    If you do not learn from history you are doomed to repeat it's failures. Hirai new this
    after he examined this historical tsunami data. Good on him for prevailing.

  2. Re:Duh on Ship Anchor Damages African Undersea Cables · · Score: 0

    Sounds just like the current GOP.

    Ducks and runs.

  3. Re:How else they gonna do it? on Nuclear Truckers Haul Warheads Across US · · Score: 1

    Oh please! Cheese in a can is a far distant second. You should know by now that our greatest contribution to cuisine is high fructose corn syrup.

  4. Meanwhile in the board room... on AT&T and Verizon LTE Networks Compared · · Score: 2

    Smithers fire the engineer that made this possible and the person who let it slip out.
    The masses will be demanding this type of thing now and well be hard pressed to come up
    with a plausible reason that we have to price it just out of their reach.

  5. Re:Who still remembers on Why Aren't There More Civilians In Military Video Games? · · Score: 1

    I remember that game and as I recall the highest score for a single run down was the granny with the walker
    and she was fast too.

  6. Barney meets the bullet. on Why Aren't There More Civilians In Military Video Games? · · Score: 1

    I don't think I can count the number of times I killed Barney or a professor
    in Half-Life.

  7. Re:postscript on Patent Applications Hint Apple Wants To Eliminate Printer Drivers · · Score: 1

    The biggest problem with postscript is that there was a little known
    binary hook api built into the PPD system. This allowed printer manufactures to create drivers
    that were operating system dependent or even machine architecture dependent.
    This locked out many users of "other systems" from using advanced features of
    those printers/copiers. Sure you could throw a page at it and get it to print but if say you
    wanted a two sided book collated and stapled you were out of luck unless you
    had the correct system running in front of the printer/copier.

    Free doesn't mean crap if someone can shoehorn proprietary binary
    code into something that makes it useless to a segment of users.

     

  8. VOIP and Mobile apps. on Are Google's Best Days Behind It? · · Score: 1

    Google has the tech already to become a force in VOIP phone usage.
    They have the capacity on all the dark fiber they own
    to use it with google voice.
    It has the 1st or 2nd, depending on who you talk too, mobile phone
    operating system on the market. Now they just have to leverage those
    two and they are on their way to being the biggest player in those
    segments. Of course they also are the number one search engine and
    ad generator on the net. They have no where to go but up if they play
    their cards right.

  9. Edit one simple file. on Security Consultants Warn About PROTECT-IP Act · · Score: 1

    Find ip of banned server. edit /etc/hosts to include it. Done. /etc/hosts is far more permanent than having to change
    the DNS server several times. Because as sure as shit the Government would
    cow most of them into complying.

    Whether your in Linux or Windows or Mac OSX /etc/hosts is searched first before
    DNS is consulted.

    FYI in Windows it's... C:\WIndows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
    In Mac OSX its ... /private/etc/hosts

  10. Polly wants a green cracker. on Have We Reached Maximum Sustainable Population Size? · · Score: 1

    No we have not. Why? Solyent green that's why.

  11. Red Hat certification classes cost a small fortune on Red Hat Nears $1 Billion In Revenues, Closing Door On Clones · · Score: 1

    I'm sure most of their revenue is from support contracts but...
    I wonder how much of their revenue is from their rather sky high pricing of
    classes to get a cert. To a small business or an individual their prices
    seem a bit out of line for actual value received. They sure do seem to
    have some really nice and costly mailers for those classes too. Last one
    I got was 42 pages. Their class track structure seems to have more
    tiers than a Chinese rice paddy.

    To get decent grounding in RHEL to get a cert or two for it you could spend upwards
    of 5 grand and that's without the cost of travel/hotel.

    If you went full bore and took all the classes and exams one after the other your
    costs would top 20 grand easily. Each class is only 5 days (with cert testing).

    Seems a might steep don't ya think?

  12. Re:Not much to do on Ask Slashdot: Is There a War Against Small Mail Servers? · · Score: 1

    The problem with this is that no matter if you have a consumer (dynamic IP) or commercial account (static IP) with Comcast or Time Warner/Brighthouse your IP address will look like a dynamic IP because they all come from each companies address pool and reverse DNS looks like a dynamic IP in either case. A lot of other Email providers do not take this into account so basically your screwed unless you do as I did and call them all up and state your case.

    I have made numerous phone calls to outside email providers techs like Yahoo, AOL and few dozen other outfits that ban dynamic IP email servers. It's a game you have to play if you want your email server to work with everyone. Just like making sure your email server does not become a spam bot so it stays off email server black lists. In this case you have to be extremely vigilant that no internal computers that may share the email servers IP address become infected spam senders. We are after all talking small business here and it is not uncommon to have the web server, email server and firewall on the same box.

  13. Re:Wait... on USCG Sues Copyright Defense Lawyer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    QFTFA
    "The majority of state courts strike a balance between these extremes, holding that: providing forms, or performing notary or "scrivener" services (as directed by the "client") is lawful, even helpful; but a non-lawyer may not add instructions or advice --- even on how to choose, fill out or file the form. In these states, a do it yourself "kit" that contains something more than blank forms or templates would typically be found unlawful."

    Also they may present general examples of filled out forms or motions. They just can't give detailed information on how you have to fill out the form for your court case. Quite legal in many states and at the Federal level.

  14. It's worse than that because as we all know.. on $200B Lost To Counterfeiting? Back It Up · · Score: 1

    95% of all statistics are made up on the spot with no corroborating evidence.

     

  15. The damn price thats whats wrong... on What's Wrong With the American University System · · Score: 2, Insightful

    These Universities are awash in cash spending like crazy and still charging an arm and a leg for attending. Have you seen some of the figures for how much money large Universities have stashed in various different endowment funds. Some of the figures I read from wikipedia are that most large Universities have endowments in the billions of dollars. Some of which draw huge interest yet only a very small part of them are used for scholarships each year. I smell a rat. Not sure which breed yet but a rat none the less.

  16. Re:What? on Apple Hires Antenna Engineers. Really. · · Score: 1

    We're in the land of the greedy corporation. They use the cheapest equipment money can buy (low bid wins). Dropped calls? We don't care. Stand closer to the cell tower.

  17. Well.. on Texas Schools Board Rewriting US History · · Score: 1

    Because old news is sooooo exciting. This was news about 3 or 4 months ago. Where was the submitter at that time. You really should poke your head out of the basement more often. Or at the least check the news more than once every few months or so.

  18. Cool hand Luke... on The Parking Meter Turns 75 Today · · Score: 1

    sneers at your money grubbing parking meter.

    In other news man eats 52 eggs.

  19. Sometimes the color blind can be funny. on Could Colorblindness Cure Be Morally Wrong? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Quite a number of years ago my brother in law had a car that was getting small rust spots all over it so he decided it needed to be fixed. He called me up to come help him as there were a lot of rust spots. I went over and it took us nearly all day to sand them down and prime them up. He said he would handle the final painting of them. It was a dark brown car. What I did not know was that he has green/brown color blindness. He called me up a couple of days later to say he had it all done. So I went over to take a look at the finished handy work. I damn near busted a gut from laughing because he now had a dark brown car with dark green spots all over it. At first he would not believe me so he called my sister out (she had not seen the car since we started the repairs) and the look on her face and the question "How come there are dark green spots all over it?" started me laughing all over again.

  20. Critical thinking. on Police Called Over 11-Year-Old's Science Project · · Score: 1

    All that for a photo detector. And in a school that prides itself on
    technology education. I find it laughable that a school that promotes
    areas of education that require a critical thought process has
    administrators that seem to be exempt from the same.
    Fear has taken over our educational system to the detriment of
    it's original purpose which is to educate our children not imprison
    them for 7 hours a day.

  21. Re:Fun at the Olympics in 20 years. on Super Strength Substance Approaching Human Trials · · Score: 1

    er German women swimmers.

  22. Fun at the Olympics in 20 years. on Super Strength Substance Approaching Human Trials · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you thought the German swimmers looked like men during the 80's and 90's just wait till this kicks for human use.

     

  23. Re:Is it even *possible* to remove BASIC from a C6 on Apple Pulls C64 Emulator From the App Store · · Score: 1

    "Assembler" code. IE the 6502 machine code.

  24. Re:Is it even *possible* to remove BASIC from a C6 on Apple Pulls C64 Emulator From the App Store · · Score: 1

    If you had a C64 and did any sort of programming on it you would know that the basic interpreter was just a rom mapped to a section of the under lying ram space. You could flip the basic interpreter rom image in or out as you saw fit by using assember code.

  25. Sure I'm addicted but... on First American Internet Addiction Treatment Center · · Score: 1

    at least I can ignore stupid crap without hurting peoples feelings like I would have to do if I were in a live setting with them.

    Blah Blah Blah!

    Oh sorry I wasn't listening to your wharrgarbl once you mentioned [insert random irrelevant event here].

    Own my own house, hate cheetos, do not have a basement.

    Feel free to ignore this. I know I would.