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  1. Re:Boo hoo... on Google, Apple, and Others Remove Content Related To the Confederate Flag · · Score: 2

    In May 1862, Abraham Lincoln overturned an order issued by General David Hunter that would have freed every slave across vast swaths of the southern Atlantic coast.

    That was after he was made president and 1 year into the civil war.

    He is not the man you think he is and revising history to make him some grand savior is BS.

  2. Re:Those evil enemy oppressors on Google, Apple, and Others Remove Content Related To the Confederate Flag · · Score: -1, Troll

    You may want to read up on the subject. The Civil was did not start because of slavery and was not because of slavery.

  3. Re:Boo hoo... on Google, Apple, and Others Remove Content Related To the Confederate Flag · · Score: 5, Informative

    Enemy oppressor?

    Every slave ship sailing from Africa to the USA sailed under the US flag.
    For over 100 years of slavery, it was all done under the US flag.

    Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election, His name was not even on the ballot in 10 states. There were only 33 states at the time so close to 1/3 of the states did not have him on the ballot and he still won. That was the key that started the whole civil war! An election that even today would cause riots, to have a candidate win when he was not even on the ballot in 1/3 of the states!

    Yes racial tensions were high and yes the south decided to make slavery a key point of there cause, but when the Civil war broke out it was not all about slavery. Abraham Lincoln himself was "Anti-Slavery" meaning against slavery's expansion, however he was not calling for immediate emancipation.

    "I say that we must not interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists, because the constitution forbids it, and the general welfare does not require us to do so." -- Abraham Lincoln September 17, 1859: Speech at Cincinnati, Ohio

  4. Re:What an amazing surprise! on Study: Major ISPs Slowing Traffic Across the US · · Score: 2

    You must be a young kid. Im guessing you dont remember when Ma-Bell ran all the phones in the US and you paid $0.25 a min to call someone that was less than 30 miles away.

    Tell me, how much does it cost to call someone 30, 50, or 100 miles away now? Oh wait, it is $0 a min. All from regulating Ma-Bell and having the markets opened.

    Kind of killed Phreaking with $0 a min long distance. lol

  5. Tomorrow on slashdot on IMAX Tries To Censor Ars Technica Over SteamVR Comparison · · Score: 1

    Slahdot Censored by IMAX!

  6. Re:Say Good By to the Rainforests .... on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Take 2 tbl spoons of that bacon fat and put it in a pot. Heat it up and add dry rice to it then stir and cook tell the rice goes from white to a kind of translucent.

    Add the water, bring to a boil, drop to a simmer, and simmer for 20 min.

    Rice turns out flaky and perfect with a hint of bacon flavor. Personally I love it for breakfast. 1cup of the rice and two eggs over easy on top. Great bacon flavor with my eggs and a whole lot less fat and calories.
     

  7. Re:Free Speech on Anti-TPP Website Being Blacklisted · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You may want to re-think your position.

    The FCC redefined common Carrier to INCLUDE ISP's.

    ISP's are defined as "an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet."

    I am sure Google and Google mail qualify under that definition, as would Facebook and Twitter.

  8. Governments of the World Agree: Encryption Must Di on US Office of Personnel Management Hacked Again · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Government: Crap, we got hacked again. How are we supposed to protect our lists of security clearances and employee records? Its so confusing.

    IT people of the wold collectively reply: ID10T Errors, you have to solve them first! Then you can protect your data.

  9. You really think a small fraction of executives have IT Skills?

    If there is a small fraction then it is so small as to be non-existent. The last executive I met who claimed IT skills kept coming down to the IT department and asking us to answer lists of questions, sometimes it was "Can I get someone to write a C++ program to do XYZ?" where XYZ had nothing to do with the job. Come to find out, he was working on a degree in CS and was having the IT group do his homework.

    25 years in the field and I have yet to meet an executive with anything more than the basic windows user skills. The bulk of them consider dual core systems with 2gig of ram and 500g of hard drive space as "Top of the line Desktops"

  10. Re:Get rid of it on Obama Asks Congress To Renew 'Patriot Act' Snooping · · Score: 1

    I remember that memo

    "MEMO: Politicians should only be trusted as far as you can comfortably spit out a dead rat."

  11. Re:32MB on Google Developing 'Brillo' OS For Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    Im doing it on the enc28j60. It does not contain the tcp stack on the unit, you have to handle it in the CPU.

    The current code uses 27,626 bytes (89%) of program storage space and 1,543 bytes (75%) of dynamic memory.

    Handles web interfacing for the switch, network config, rebooting the unit, and offers a json API call for pulling current state.

    That is a wired connection version. I am also working on one that uses the ESP8266 wifi unit which does have the TCP stack on it. That one is much smaller code.

  12. Re:32MB on Google Developing 'Brillo' OS For Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    32k, Im working on an Arduino (328p) with 2k of SRAM and 32k of flash storage.

    So far, I have a webserver running on it that controls a light switch up to 10A.

  13. Re:Sudafed on Genetically Engineered Yeast Makes It Possible To Brew Morphine · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Someone should read history.

    Drug laws in the US are less than 100 years old. It was the late 1930's for most of them. I would suggest you read the arguments in congress while debating the law. It seems that the group FOR the law was arguing that these substances empowered the lesser races. (Im making it polite and not using the slang they used)

    Drug laws in the US had more to due with racial control than they did with helping the addicts.

    Just to make a point stoners are considered "lazy, irresponsible, thieves, untrustworthy, etc" All the same stereotypes used to describe blacks in the 30's, 40's, and 50's.

  14. This is just a problem waiting to happen on Microsoft Releases PowerShell DSC For Linux · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I only see this causing issues.

    1) Windows Admins writing power shell scripts to do stuff on linux boxes
          a) setting permissions to 777 because they got in the way.
          b) why will it not write the file to c:\?
          c) A power shell script developed and tested on Windows, then pushed out to all the servers and crashing the Linux boxes.
          c) Do you really believe that a Linux admin would allow a windows Admin to run a Power Shell script as root?
    2) Linux Admins being asked to manage windows servers because "You know Power Shell" (If they can get the Linux admin to manage the 300 windows servers on top of the existing 500 Linux servers he manages, it saves them headcount and $$$)

    Personally I see it going the way all the other Microsoft products have gone when they release a Linux version. It gets adopted by a few windows admins that are forced to work on linux. However the Linux admins and the bulk of Linux systems will never see it or use it. It will eventually get dropped because of the bugs, memory leaks, and issues that are found in it. Those that are never fixed because they concentrate on the Windows version and ignore the Linux version.

    Judging from history it is another Embrace, Extend, Extinguish attempt. Microsoft is just pulling from it's old bag of tricks.

  15. Re:Yeah that will work on Europe Vows To Get Rid of Geo-Blocking · · Score: 2

    Right, it is not like the BBC geo-blocks. I am sure everyone in the US can get to the BBC streams without issue.

    Not just US companies doing it.

  16. Re:oh the fun on USBKill Transforms a Thumb Drive Into an "Anti-Forensic" Device · · Score: 1

    Now I feel left out, the Commodore PET's we had in school did not have mice, or hard drives, or usb. Just a keyboard and a 5.25" floppy drive. :(

  17. Re:25% deflation? Amateurs, I tell you! on Bitcoin Is Disrupting the Argentine Economy · · Score: 1

    Wow, way to cherry pick your data. How about we look at 4/15/20xx over more than a year
    04/15/2011 $2.98
    04/15/2012 $4.96
    04/15/2013 $91.79
    04/15/2014 $452.14
    04/15/2015 $216.95

  18. Re:leave open a Skype channel on IBM CIO Thinks Agile Development Might Save Company · · Score: 2

    Some IT departments automatically reboot WINDOWS PCs at a set time EVERY DAY

    FIFY

  19. Re:Progressive Fix 101 on Cheap Gas Fuels Switch From Electric Cars To SUVs · · Score: 1

    What I prove is that they do serve a purpose other than a fashion accessory and a symbol of conspicuous consumption.

    The original poster claimed that they had no other purpose.

  20. Re:1000 times on Cheap Gas Fuels Switch From Electric Cars To SUVs · · Score: 1

    I do agree but TBO, my SUV is 21 years old now so some of us keep our vehicles running for a long time.

  21. Re:Progressive Fix 101 on Cheap Gas Fuels Switch From Electric Cars To SUVs · · Score: 1

    >> They serve no other purpose than a fashion accessory and a symbol of conspicuous consumption. They're a glaring example of everything wrong with our country, and if you willingly purchase one it reflects poorly on you as a moral and thinking person.

    OMG Really?

    I have 12 acres that is 2 miles off the end of the last dirt road. The nearest paved road is 5 miles away. I use my 4x4 SUV getting in and out of the property. It works wonderfully getting myself + family/firends, my camping equipment, and my rifles into the property and works great getting all that plus a deer or hog out.

    Besides, I guess I am now carbon negative considering I own enough land to offset my carbon usage plus that of several other families. Before anyone says anything about that, the concept of carbon credits it to balance the green land with the CO2 output. In most schemes the credit it leasing enough unoccupied green land to offset your usage.

  22. Re:state of the science on Scientists Close To Solving the Mystery of Where Dogs Came From · · Score: 1

    My wife named the dog Kat.

    Now when the dog gets into something and you holler at her the two cats pop there heads up and have a "What? I wasn't doing anything" look on there faces.

  23. Re:Paper trail on The Voting Machine Anyone Can Hack · · Score: 1

    Thats easy, we first take a bunch of old people who still have VCR's with the clock blinking 12:00 and we ask them to evaluate the new fangled electronic voting system.

    They then set the criteria of what is needed.

    1) Does it power on?
    2) Can I figure out how to enter my voter?
    3) Can my grandson tell me how to change the votes so the "Right" people win?

  24. Re:3D printed guns are no different to any other g on 3D Printed Guns Might Lead To Law Changes In Australia · · Score: 0

    The issue with this is that you are only looking at firearm death's.

    First, there are close to 2.2million guns in private ownership in Australia.

    The numbers you should look at are overall crime rates. Something that I cant seem to find a number on. Guns in private hands reduce overall crime, not deaths by firearm or just violent crime. From the Armed lady that stops a rape to the armed grandma that stops a robbery, all crime is effected.

  25. Re:And how much to launch it? on Build Your Own Satellite For Less Than $30K · · Score: 1

    There was an article a couple of years ago on /. about a company that would launch something the size of a coke can for $300.

    I think there should be an open source project to design a satellite that is the size of a coke can. Could be fun, maybe some arduino's, a few solar cells, maybe a miniature ion engine that runs on a CO2 canister from a pellet gun. It could be a lot of fun to see just how much you can fit inside a coke can.