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  1. sounds like Oakland has no business doing this on Oakland Changes License Plate Reader Policy After Filling 80GB Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    insecure (XP.) outdated and unsupportable. no policies. what the heck good is knowing that 666-EVIL was parked at the courthouse 10 years ago, when the plate has been dead for 6 years?

    junk the whole operation.

  2. what we can do now to make a big difference on Group Seeks Test For Geoengineering Tool To Fight Climate Change · · Score: 3, Insightful

    is silence the deluded gasbags spewing lies on behalf of dirty energy, and move ahead on alternatives on a wartime basis. between coal spew and the denial industry's hot air, that's half the problem solved.

  3. I in fact have a Federal license on Do You Have a Right To Use Electrical Weapons? · · Score: 1

    touch my ham radio antennas with the key down, and you die.

  4. depends on who lost data in slack-write centers on Lightning Wipes Storage Disks At Google Data Center · · Score: 1

    if it's yours, I could give a shit.

    if it's mine, it's war.

  5. instead, check out polyphaser.com on Lightning Wipes Storage Disks At Google Data Center · · Score: 2

    you left out about 99-44/100 percent of the technology and art of lightning protection.

  6. you've never been near high places, then, son on Lightning Wipes Storage Disks At Google Data Center · · Score: 1

    at some point in your life, have you ever listened to AM radio or broadcast television? their stuff gets hit with lightning all the time. if a really good thunderstorm happens to float over their tower, AM radio tends to sound like "Weather Desk Radar shows the //SPLATbzzHummm// county, with //SPLATbzzHummm// t's the latest repor //SPLATbzzHummm//" with the transmitter knocked off the air every few seconds by a direct hit. in NTSC television, the return would be about 3-4 seconds of variable contrast and variable quality sound all over the place.

    many are the films and photos of multiple lightning hits on the Empire State Building, because it's tall enough and prominent enough that folks single it out for their photo assignments.

  7. first bump should have taken the center offline on Lightning Wipes Storage Disks At Google Data Center · · Score: 1

    and all data flushed to disk, and resources examined, before they opened for input again.

  8. no generators? on Lightning Wipes Storage Disks At Google Data Center · · Score: 1

    come ON, google eyes... slack-writing disks is always a danger. you don't have generator backup for the battery backup, and you're slopping data all over the floor as a result?

    losers.

  9. back to the software language used... on Air Traffic Snafu: FAA System Runs Out of Memory · · Score: 1

    it was F- , pronounced F minus , and it is an indicator of programmer skill and attention.

  10. you set up an ethicist. he finds issues. congrats on The NSA's Philosopher · · Score: 1

    you both achieved a goal. so don't investigate the guy because he tagged you. he did his job. you did your job, you found an ethical dilemna worth studying. win-win. I want a cookie.

  11. Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of CEOs on Internet's Deep Infrastructure Could Double As a Sensor Network For Earthquakes and More · · Score: 1

    who don't give a damn.

    oh, wait, we have one. it's called Congress. the CEOs are virtualized.

  12. you already have a good disaster detector on Internet's Deep Infrastructure Could Double As a Sensor Network For Earthquakes and More · · Score: 2

    the "missing bit" detector is in the architecture. if Area X stops moving traffic, for instance, there is stuff happening there that is overwhelming. might be the power's out. but it might be a flood, hurricane, alien landing, etc. if you can't ping anything in the area, start checking the ham bands and the visible satellites...

  13. they said that about radio, posters, bumper sticke on Internet Search Engines May Be Influencing Elections · · Score: 1

    and door knocks, too. and the answer is, heck yes, they damn well better influence elections, we're spending a tubload of money for it.

    something else that influences elections... if you see a candidate that is batwing insane babbling total bullshit, remember that. don't vote for them.

    there, now I'm evil, too. bwa-ha-haaaa, vote for tweedeldum.

  14. to paraphrase George Carlin on North Korea Is Switching To a New Time Zone · · Score: 1

    In Japan, it's 10:00. in Indonesia, it's 8:00. in Pyongyang, it's 3:42...

  15. 8.1 randomly decides to not open or shut down here on A Naysayer's Take On Windows 10: Potential Privacy Mess, and Worse · · Score: 1

    sack 'o' pus updates often don't say whether they are working, don't shut down. I have had to pull the battery out of my laptop to be able to eat supper or go to bed so many times the gold is probably rubbed off the contacts. there is no excuse for hijacking the computer and not saying a damn thing about it, Softies....

  16. you can crack anything with about 5 mins thought on Tools Coming To Def Con For Hacking RFID Access Doors · · Score: 1

    doesn't mean in most cases you will get to anything interesting. unless there are open computers glaring at you in cubes, all today's valuables are in servers in the cloud. and you might get snagged in the hallway and get a Karma thrashing... dragged to a conference room and put on The Recovery From Hell.

  17. frickin' useless POS that makes everything suck on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Caps Lock Key Still So Prominent On Keyboards? · · Score: 1

    its counterpart in the Apple world, the splat key, is extremely useful, however.

  18. hey, if you don't have to test it... on Scientists Identify Possible New Substance With Highest Melting Point · · Score: 1

    I posit that Unobtainium has a melting point of 15,775 Celsius, a freezing point of -500 Kelvin, and yo'Momma, there, dude. get back into the lab and prove me wrong.

  19. take down 208.73.211.70 on Universal Pictures Wants To Remove Localhost and IMDB Pages From Google Results · · Score: 1

    those guys are shamelessly using Universal content

  20. next step: asking questions will be a terrorist ac on US House Committee Approves Anti-GMO Labeling Law · · Score: 1

    and they'll bring back the noose for it.

  21. bah. we have a right to know who wants to hide on Google Accidentally Reveals Data On 'Right To Be Forgotten' Requests · · Score: 1

    that's what "data wants to be free like beer" is all about.

    used to be it took old spies and retired cops with shelves full of criss-cross phone books to do skip tracing. find the lost siblings from adoption situations.do background checks before hiring people claiming to be old spies and retired cops. that's the Internet's job now.

    don't break it.

  22. if England wants to get off the net, just say so on Snoopers' Charter Could Mean Trouble For UK Users of Encryption-Capable Apps · · Score: 1

    because their no-encryption stance will force it.

    oh, and internal communications in their corporations with encryption in the data centers... shut those boys down, they're criminals! GHCQ said so.

  23. weasels! trying to save money and fire people! on Iowa Makes a Bold Admission: We Need Fewer Roads · · Score: 1

    somebody is spending too much time after work shouting YOU SHALL NOT PASS !! it's starting to carry over into their real life.

  24. Dear Mr. America: on Senate Advances Plan To Make Email and Social Sites Report Terror Activity · · Score: 1

    We here at DaWeb are reporting a consistent national power attempting to eavesdrop on data moving across our network. we first noticed this when data was delayed and the far end detected stateful detection and attempts to break encryption. there is now evidence the command structure of this nation has been discussing requiring this activity.

    this is obviously state terrorism and we demand to be protected from it.

    sincerely,

    DaWeb

    PS: these weasels identify themselves with three-letter names.

  25. I killed three networks, but that was planned. on Ask Slashdot: How Much Did Your Biggest Tech Mistake Cost? · · Score: 2

    obsolescence, I got the task to shut 'em down. I also forced a worldwide recall of PC card disk drives in the switches that were the backbone of the Internet when we kept the vendor engineering on the phone all day for a failed switch... and read the duty cycle of the drives to them, like 5 minutes a shot, 10 minutes an hour, when they were running read/write continuously.

    but I got a haircut indeed when we had to get out stuff out of a colocate that was shutting down. built a mirror data system for that in the new place, had the trunks up, costed over the traffic. then it was time to demanage and power down the old shelf. telcordia assigned a code to the new unit that was one letter different than the old one.

    the good news is I got the new one back up in 20 minutes and they didn't stake me out over an anthill.