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  1. Re:(do not mod) on Most Detailed Photos of an Atom Yet · · Score: 5, Funny

    MOD PARENT UP!

  2. Re:One simple rule on Trust an Insurance Company's "Drive-Cam?" · · Score: 1

    There's a flip side to this, too. I was given custody of my daughter (who was 16 at the time, and asked for the change) in part because her mother refused to ever go in her room, to the point where it bordered on neglect. I try to generally keep track of what she's doing; we look over the bank statements at the end of the month (her only income is allowance), we look over her cell phone bill (mostly just number of SMS messages), I have a proxy set up that logs web requests (for everyone in the house) and I use that to verify she's not wasting time online instead of doing homework, etc. She knows we do all these things.

    Does she lie to me? Sure, all the time, and it's my job to try to catch her if she does. I try to make the punishment fit the crime; she "found" money at her mother's house one time, and her punishment was to return the money and apologize, and donate the same amount of money to a charity of her choice. (And much more discussing the issue than she was interested in.)

    Is she out drinking and having sex? Probably not, but I don't know for sure. Like you said, you can't watch them every minute.

    One thing I've noticed is that most parents with teenagers seem to be tired of being parents by that time. I wasn't really a parent until recently, so I'm not really tired of it yet. Using technology to track driving habits, cell phone position or bank transactions in real time just seems like they're tired of doing it themselves so they farm the work out via technology.

  3. Re:You do realize... on A History of Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    You do realize, of course, that there are a wide variety of situations wherein a LEO is allowed by the law to enter a home without a warrant, I assume.

    How would a Low Earth Orbit enter my home, with or without a warrant? Unless I tied balloons to my house.

  4. Re:Please grow up, you're driving us away on Windows 7 Reintroduces Remote BSoD · · Score: 1

    4) For good measure try cutting out the xkcd worship and meme-spouting. We might be able to relate to you people if you acted as if you weren't cut from the same distasteful mold.

    All your ping are belong to us!

    Mmmm.... distasteful mold.

  5. Re:cheap drives too on Build Your Own $2.8M Petabyte Disk Array For $117k · · Score: 1

    Does the FAS 6040 allow the use of cheap off-the-shelf consumer drives? I don't think any filers do. You'll also have to buy shelves (unless you have a source for cheap SATA shelves with FC uplinks). A shelf of 14 1T SATA NetApp drives (10T usable after RAID-DP and two hot spares) is what, $35-40k?

  6. Re:A Very Shortsighted Article on Build Your Own $2.8M Petabyte Disk Array For $117k · · Score: 1

    That doesn't really answer his question... who custom-built the cases?

  7. Re:You know why Amazon charges that much? on Build Your Own $2.8M Petabyte Disk Array For $117k · · Score: 3, Funny

    For 2.683M, you can probably afford to outsource that part.

  8. Re:plugins? on Opera 10.0 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I hate using browsers without adblock/noscript. Are there equivalents for Opera?

  9. Re:no announcement? on Opera 10.0 Released · · Score: -1, Troll

    Bitter much?

  10. Re:So, what I read is.. on Making Babies In Space May Not Be Easy · · Score: 1

    The pope won't be.
    Look for Casti Conubbi II - no sex in space on pain of excommunication.

    Ex communication is always a pain when sex was involved. Especially when it was with the Pope.

  11. Re:The challenge on Making Babies In Space May Not Be Easy · · Score: 1

    I have a Clinostat at home, and no, it's not really accurate.

  12. Re:LEDs Magazine ??? on How To Build a 100,000-Port Ethernet Switch · · Score: 1

    It's like Rule 34, but with magazines.

  13. Re:Don't mix breastfeeding tinto this debate. on No Social Media In These College Stadiums · · Score: 2, Funny

    Besides, how else would Slashdotters get to see titties?

  14. Re:High-fat, but no carbs on Fatty Foods Affect Memory and Exercise Performance · · Score: 5, Funny

    We knew about the affects of a high-protein diet LONG before Atkins.

    Perhaps, but my wife still won't fall for it.

  15. Re:Who would have tought? on Amazon Confirms EC2/S3 Not PCI Level 1 Compliant · · Score: 1

    tl;dr

  16. Re:Sure, and a PCI audit costs nothing, right? on Amazon Confirms EC2/S3 Not PCI Level 1 Compliant · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And, sadly, cutting and pasting a Euro symbol into Slashdot doesn't work.

  17. Re:May I be the first to say... on Guitar, Studio Wizard Les Paul Dies At 94 · · Score: 1

    Why, just because there's one les paul in the world?

  18. Re:Control freak on Leaving the GPL Behind · · Score: 1

    GPL is dead. Appcelerator confirms it!

  19. Re:12" = normal machine on Is Intel Killing 12-Inch Displays On Netbooks? · · Score: 1

    What we have discovered is that 10" is actually too small.
    This is due to the fact that you look like a squinting hunched over idiot while using
    it, especially if you are over six feet tall

    We're not talking about computers any more, are we?

  20. Re:Awesome on HTML 5 Canvas Experiment Hints At Things To Come · · Score: 1

    No, you're just moving the risk from one part of the browser code to another. Since the same people will be writing the code, we'll probably get the same bugs.

  21. Re:How do I mute the audio? on HTML 5 Canvas Experiment Hints At Things To Come · · Score: 1

    I was going to put "hey everybody, i'm surfing porn!" ('90s joke program) in all caps but the filters stopped me.

  22. Re:bottom line on DIY CPU Thermal Grease, Using Diamond Dust · · Score: 1

    That man hates Pluto.

  23. Re:To be used in court cases how? on Psychopaths Have Brain Structure Abnormality · · Score: 1

    Do you know that 2% of the regular population has antisocial disorder? Do you know that 70% of prison inmates have it?

    So, you're saying that antisocial disorder causes people to get caught for drug offenses? Interesting.

  24. Re:Rating on Navigating a Geek Marriage? · · Score: 1

    LOL, modded +5 informative.

  25. Re:Just some generic advice from me. on Navigating a Geek Marriage? · · Score: 1

    Okay, count to 0x10 then.