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  1. Re:Perhaps some terminal commands should be locked on Running "rm -rf /" Is Now Bricking Linux Systems (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    I see your comment and see the umm wisdom in it, however, it's somewhat analagous (IT-wise) to 'Don't shoot your foot with a gun.'.

    If you don't understand why you shouldn't do this...you shouldn't have root access. It's as simple as that.

  2. Re:There's a couple of managers I know on Ant Behavior Significantly Altered By Injecting a Single Enzyme (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's fine...as long as no experimentation is performed on higher forms of life.

  3. Rule number 1 on The Crazy-Tiny Next Generation of Computers · · Score: 1

    Never never, undock your computer!

  4. Other considerations? on Ask Slashdot: What Would a Constructed Language Have To Be To Replace English? · · Score: 1

    Should it be a beautiful language to the ear to hear, but should it also take a long time to say anything worth saying (elvish, entish references)?

    In all seriousness, if it was easy to learn, quick to speak what's on your mind, and also delighted the ear, it might have a good chance of catching on.

  5. Re:If you hate Change so much...... on Users Decry New Icon Look In Windows 10 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think you're right...I also think they did a poor job of design. Todays video capabilities are so much more..that they shouldn't look so flat and boring.

  6. Now to read it? on Storing Data In Synthetic Fossils · · Score: 1

    Ok, so these spheres come with mini-USB connectors ? :)
    Two things to think about....how tiny/delicate is the connection matrix (subject to damage?). And, in the event of a widespread disaster that takes civilization to near zero, the ability to engineer something able to read them....does the civiization following ours have to evolve to our technological level to read it ? That somewhat would make it useless for someone trying to survive/rebuild in the aftermath.
    Maybe stone tablets WOULD be a better idea (seriously).

    Just some things that occurred to me.....

  7. Roomba Alert on Europol Predicts First Online Murder By End of This Year · · Score: 1

    So is that maybe what happened when the Roomba ate my parakeet ?
    Yep, that's it...the bird was hacked!

  8. Carrying? on China Worried About Terrorist Pigeons · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many were found to be carrying during the cavity search ?

  9. Get off my email! on Email Is Not Going Anywhere · · Score: 1

    You darn kids, get off my email! Don't step there! I'll call the e-police on ya, if you don't leave that email alone!

  10. Updated info periodically on Ask Slashdot: How To Bequeath Sensitive Information? · · Score: 1

    And...how are you going to handle updating information as you are forced to change your password for whatever reasons?

    I don't have a good solution...I wish I did. There's no reason you can't change your email password today and die before you can document it (which if you're like most people might be a week later).

  11. Re:A lot of bits on 'Curiosity' Lead Engineer Suggests Printing Humans On Other Planets · · Score: 1

    I think you might be surprised how compressible the pattern might be. There's a lot of duplication in them there waters.

  12. Invasive feral cats on Should We Eat Invasive Species? · · Score: 1

    I'm waiting for recipes....anyone ? :)

  13. Re:Motion from the outside not counted. on Even In the Wild Mice Run In Wheels · · Score: 1

    Did I know you when I was younger? I had a hamster that did this.

  14. Re:What's amazing is that... on Astronomers Identify the Sun's Long-Lost Sister · · Score: 1

    Ok, as I recall, hotter suns like blue and white, would increase his powers. Cooler, like red or brown would reduce them.

  15. Re:Ridiculous. on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    Perhaps some kind of burrowing parasitic worms?

  16. Re:Lat / Long? on The $100,000 Device That Could Have Solved Missing Plane Mystery · · Score: 1

    That's very doable and could probably be put in one or maybe a couple of packets of data. Given that I know nothing specifically about airplane systems, still one would expect you could install a stand alone black box that gathers and transmits this data w/o even integrating it into any systems besides onboard power. Relative compass heading and airspeed are easily derivable from last GPS positions. I can't understand why it would REQUIRE 100K per plane to do this.

  17. Re:The beetle is not a new species. on New Beetle Named After Charles Darwin and David Sedaris · · Score: 1

    However, what is important (to taxonomists) is it has a new name.

  18. Re: This is new? on Why Birds Fly In a V Formation · · Score: 1

    Do you suppose we could suggest house sparrows, grackles, or starlings as research birds in the wind tunnels? There are certainly enough of them in most major cities.

  19. Re:When we are extinct on Extinct Species of Early Human Survived On Grass Bulbs, Not Meat · · Score: 1

    Well, given the diet of the young in the last 20 or 30 years...I think HFCS is the correct analysis. The future beings will assume we were like hummingbirds.

  20. Re:Kinds? on UK Govt's Censorware Blocks Tech, Civil Liberties Websites · · Score: 1

    You don't want to know what 'kinds', it's censored.

  21. Re:Reason on 90 Percent of Businesses Say IP Is "Not Important" · · Score: 1

    However, if you asked the local baker for his recipes....I think you'd hear a different story.

  22. Navigation issues on Smart Cars: Too Distracting? · · Score: 1

    Yes, I know how that is...you try to get it to plot a course to nearest Best-Buy while you're out in an unfamiliar neighborhood, but you have to check or it'll route you to the Best Buy headquarters 4 states away (or something innane). I wouldn't want the navigational system to start giving me directions without confirming that it had locked on to the address that I REALLY wanted to go to.

  23. Holographic Display on Next-Gen GPU Progress Slowing As It Aims for 20 nm and Beyond · · Score: 1

    I'm ready for the next (or next-next) gen display, holographic display hovering in midair. Preferably with sensors that can detect my interactions with them. Wonder how far out THAT is now ?

  24. Re:Linus is just a mean old asshole... on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't say Linus is mean (at least in person). I don't know him closely, but I've met and talked with him a few times. I certainly don't find him offensive just because. And...it does seem his method works.

  25. Re:That's why I've always said.. on The Pope Criminalizes Leaks · · Score: 1

    I agree totally..and I also want to use a quote from Mary Poppins, (the church believes) 'A spoonfull of sugar makes the medicine go down'.