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  1. Re:Better Idea on Seigniorage Hack Could Resolve Debt Limit Crisis · · Score: 0

    Bingo! It's a sad commentary on /. that someone who said this felt the need to be anonymous.

  2. Re:Who taught them how to negotiate? on Hillary Clinton Takes Data.gov Overseas · · Score: 1

    Wait... wouldn't you want them to be exempt? So that after working for a while they don't have the amount they've paid into SS sitting there, and they have lees of an incentive to become citizens.

  3. Only lawyers and IP? No MBAs? on DisplayPort-To-HDMI Cables May Be Recalled Over Licensing · · Score: 1

    How fitting this is posted the same day as the post about MBAs being the scourge of industry. None of these disciplines have any engineering knowledge, yet they are vested with the authority to build business models around technology. And so, this sort of thing becomes a great way of doing business - not actually making anything or adding value that people will pay for (that whole invisible hand of the market thing).

  4. Re:This was from some B movie? any have a name? on Don't Fly If You Just Had Surgery! · · Score: 1

    Didn't "Hurt Locker" have it (the kid the hero is soft on)?

  5. Re:Finally! on Don't Fly If You Just Had Surgery! · · Score: 2

    Ya got to wonder how competent these people are. They should've realized this even before they deployed the back-scatter machines. On the other hand, if they were aware of it, and they're doing likelihoods - figuring that the back-scatter machines just increased the level of difficulty for terrorists, meaning they're being smarter about it, then they've no reason to have grandmas remove their diapers (as they did last week), because again, they operating on likelihoods.

    Either way, all is not right in the upper stories.

  6. Re:Who do you want reading your docs? on Microsoft Launches Office 365 Cloud Suite · · Score: 1

    When you go to Google Apps (paid), there's a contract, and it covers your data. Just like the contract with your ISP assures the privacy of your traffic (short of the feds wanting it, of course).

  7. Re:We use it here on Microsoft Launches Office 365 Cloud Suite · · Score: 1

    I don't know about calendar entries, etc. but to move from Exchange/Outlook to Google Apps you add Google as an IMAP account, and simply copy email between accounts.

    There's also an tool in the paid GApps, but it doesn't always (as of 2 years ago) work right. And I don't remember exactly, but once you manually create a top-level folder, sub-folders get copied OK (as labels in GApps, of course).

    This is for GApps of course, not MS 365, but the question was how to get data out of Exchange.

  8. Re:Told You So on Military Drone Attacks Are Not 'Hostile' · · Score: 1

    No, the majority of Congress will emphatically support military action on Libya.

    The reason he isn't going to Congress is that if he does, it will establish a precedent and dilute presidential authority. It's the same reason Bush went well beyond what the authorization for military action that Congress passed authorized him to do, but did so without going back to Congress; even though no one in Congress was about to vote against any action against Al Q.

  9. Pogo Plug? on Open Source Alternative To Dropbox? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I thought of this when I read the posting, because B*y.com sent me junk mail today about a sale on Pogo Plug Black. There's a Linux distribution for these - http://plugapps.com/index.php5/Main_Page.

    Your own cloud.

  10. Re:$39,000,000,000 on T-Mobile stilfles LTE expans on AT&T To Launch LTE Network In 5 Cities This Summer · · Score: 1

    Moreover, maybe ATT thinks the T-Mobile acquisition may not get approved (has this happened already?). Because T-Mo just announced a boost in speeds in many of the same markets (http://gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/05/24/6707146-t-mobile-doubles-4g-network-speeds) in ATT's LTE announcement. T-Mo's tech is not LTE, it's HSPA.

  11. Re:Good! on Muon Suite To Be Kubuntu's Software Center · · Score: 1

    From what I've read about Muon, it should eliminate having to worry about how to skin Synaptic to integrate with the rest of the KDE desktop. It always seemed odd that it was such a hard to thing to code up a graphical dselect (yes, I know dselect and apt are different).

    Now if they make a good replacement for nm-applet, I can have an all-KDE system.

  12. Re:guilty eh? on Bizarre Porn Raid Underscores Wi-Fi Privacy Risks · · Score: 1

    The first 2 paragraphs of your posting, I agree with. The part about having an AR-15 (which you take pains to note, can shoot "through schools") is basically setting up an arms race with the police.

  13. Re:Surprising on 5 Out of 11 Crashed Unity In Canonical's Study · · Score: 1

    Tried installing KDE desktop on a running Ubuntu machine the other day, it wouldn't start up from kdm. Do they have a QT-based Synpatic and a NetworkManager interface that works as well as nm-applet yet?

  14. Re:It better be big on Taking Radioactive Contaminants From Water With Shells · · Score: 1

    It isn't even clear, from the article, how much is needed.

    "... each gram of polymer will remove about 1.3 to 1.7 grams of contaminants... wants to get the material to a 100-to-1 ratio, in which a single gram of it can filter 100 grams of water."

    Pick a unit guys, either use # grams of water/ # grams of polymer, or use # g contaminants/# g water. As it is, it isn't clear what they're aiming for relative to where they are.

  15. Re:Incompetence on Crack In Fukushima Structure May Be Leaking Radiation · · Score: 1
  16. Re:April Fools on Debian, OpenSUSE, Arch, Gentoo and Grml Merge · · Score: 1

    All very good points... yes, I agree. Maybe instead of refreshing my gmail, I should be refreshing by /. Or add a pre-bedtime viewing.

  17. Re:April Fools on Debian, OpenSUSE, Arch, Gentoo and Grml Merge · · Score: 2

    It's so hard to moderate on April Fool's Day. "Case closed on Jerusalem UFO"? "World Backup Day"? Are the jokes just getting more subtle, or is the world getting ridiculous? Maybe everything should get "+1 Funny" - could be funny 'cause it was a joke and the poster didn't get it, or got it but played it straight for fun, or it could be a true story, and all the serious postings show that the posters can keep a cool head in the midst of a mad day, and the non-serious ones, such as the funnies, trolls, and the flame-baiters are trying to lighten up a serious story on a fun day.

    This is too hard, I'll just go back to hitting refresh in my gmail.

  18. Re:Time for a serious effort on renewables on Americans Favor Moratorium On New Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    The NIMBYs are going "I told you so" around Tokyo right about now.

    The reason nuke power should go through a lengthy approval process is (well, aside from Fukushima) that the taxpayer insures them, and major costs are externalized. For example, disposal of fuel, security of the plant, evacuations in case of small or large disasters, etc.

    Nukes are the pinnacle of "socialize the costs, privatize the profits".

  19. BTDT on Turning Your E-Reader Into a Cheap Tablet · · Score: 2

    Overat Slatedroid.com, they've been turning the Pandigital Novel Reader into a full Android tablet for over a year now. During this past holiday season, discounts brought the price to around $70 - for this 7" color tablet.

  20. Re:Descent into idiocracy on Apple Removes Gay Cure App From App Store · · Score: 1

    Yes, they are. They're very advanced when it comes to politics.

  21. Descent into idiocracy on Apple Removes Gay Cure App From App Store · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The modus operandi of the nut-jobs is becoming very effective. They create a "gay cure" app. Thousands of sane people get indignant, sign petitions, etc. and get it taken down. So now a portion of indignation, enthusiasm to participate in causes, proclivity to donate to causes - such as say 'stop bullying of gay school kids' - has been used up in protesting an app. The app is much cheaper to produce than say, an anti-gay-marriage ballot initiative.

    By the time the nut-jobs get around to ballot initiatives on gay marriage (yes, I know California's already had one), on teaching creationism in public schools, abolishing minimum wage, etc., the sane people are too jaded from fighting all these little battles, or they're too preoccupied with defending attacks on one thing to pay attention to something else, such as say, net neutrality.

  22. Re:yeah.. on Undersea Cables Damaged By Earthquake · · Score: 0

    You said: " When I went through boot camp, they tried to drill it into our heads that the Japanese were these terrible, warlike beasts who would eat our children and pillage our women if they could. They kept harping on the Bataan Death March and other atrocities."

    They still do that. Now it isn't the Japanese, but there's always someone. I think they don't think they can motivate soldiers unless there are sub-human "bad guys" that we have to save someone else from.

    For whatever reason...

  23. Re:Violent revolutions create Dictatorships on Internet-Spreading American Gets 15-Year Sentence In Cuba · · Score: 1

    The constitution is clear about which parts apply to citizens and which to anyone in the country. Since the constitution was written initially by people who revolted because (in part) they were taxed without representation, they would have been equally clear about it if the intent was to allow non-citizen residents to be exempt from taxation.

    Since the constitution itself doesn't define a definition and process of immigration, or of taxation, things get unclear. But if someone argues that taxing non-citizens goes against the principle of "no taxation w/o representation," they should equally well consider that except for clearly stated things (such as political office), the constitution confers the same rights & responsibilities to citizens and non-citizens alike; so why should taxation be special?

  24. Re:almost tempted to buy some shares on Nokia Shareholders Fight Back · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Indeed. I was impressed with the lack of silly metaphors, such as "burning oil platforms."

  25. How new can this be? on Pumpkin Pie increases Male Sex Drive · · Score: 1

    How new can this news be, is there's already a pumpkin pie & lavender perfume on sale on EBay?