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  1. Re:Public school teachers on Uber Drivers Are Independent Contractors, Not Employees, Judge Rules (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Or establishments that graduate students who talk like Porky Pig.

  2. Re:San Jose on Why Airports Rename Runways When the Magnetic Poles Move (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the correction.

  3. Re:San Jose on Why Airports Rename Runways When the Magnetic Poles Move (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    ORD (Chicago O'Hare) is a case in point. After the latest round of runway-building, they wound up with FIVE east-west runways, all of which are parallel to within a couple tenths of a degree. The northernmost two are 09L/27R and 09R/27L, with the others being 10L/C/R / 27R/C/L.

  4. "Edited" with... on First Human Embryos Edited In US (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    ... vi, emacs, dd or notepad?

  5. Re: Xray bikes on Tour de France To Use Thermal Cameras To Spot Cheats (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Do you know why they were using steel instead of 531 aluminum?

    Huh? Reynolds 531 is a steel alloy.

  6. If I hadn't seen a similar link in Hackaday yesterday, I might be more receptive to this product.

    To quote Peter Gabriel, "I'll tell you straight in the eye, D.I.Y."

  7. Re:Counterfit Sex Toys on Amazon.com Now Bans USB Type-C Cables That Aren't Up To Spec (google.com) · · Score: 2

    Now Amazon needs to deal with their entire counterfeit sex toy problem. If you're not aware, never buy sex toys off Amazon. Most of their products are low quality, counterfeits of more respectable brands.

    So stop buying refurbs, fer crissakes.

  8. Re:I wonder? on US Gov't Seeks To Keep Megaupload Assets Because Kim Dotcom Is a Fugitive · · Score: 1

    If you get 'em from the DOD outlet store, five.

  9. The only purpose of ham radio is broadcasting publicly.

    You have this 100% wrong.

    The amateur radio service is intended for station-to-station communications; amateur radio operators are in fact required to keep a log indicating the date and time of each contact and the callsign of the station contacted. "Broadcasting" is explicitly prohibited on the ham bands.

  10. Re:Quite interesting on Astronomers Solve Puzzle of the Mountains That Fell From Space · · Score: 1

    we normally do not see 1300 km long objects in space that are just 10 to 15 km in diameter.

    Space-whale turds?

  11. Re:Keuring coffee? No thanks. on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 1

    Do you take it rich black or process black?

  12. Re:Force them to warrenty whole unit.. on Customer: Dell Denies Speaker Repair Under Warranty, Blames VLC · · Score: 1

    [While] VLC cannot send more than 100% power, it can cause the speaker to operate in such a fashion that is unintended and dangerous to the life of the speaker.

    You could make the same statement about Windows Media Player, or any other audio source.

    In order for Dell to successfully claim that VLC is a warranty-breaker, Dell would have to prove that given the same input data, VLC causes Dell's on-board audio hardware to generate signals that damage speakers in such a way that WMP, iTunes, Winamp, etc. do not.

    Dell still doesn't escape liability, because the actual signal claimed to damage the speaker came from hardware spec'ed and installed by Dell -- they would have to claim that their audio chip was not designed to accept for all foreseeable digital inputs.

  13. Re:Tough luck.. on Thieves Who Stole Cobalt-60 Will Soon Be Dead · · Score: 1

    The dirty bomb, as a weapon of mass destruction, is a myth. Disperse the radioactive material far enough to affect a large number of people, and you disperse the radiation as well. The concentration of radioactive material decreases as the square of the radius of the area of dispersal.

    Forget the bomb part. Think, instead, of some alternative dispersal method, such as the dust in Robert Heinlein's "Solution Unsatisfactory". In that story, radioactive material was dispersed by bombers. Consider a more selective dispersal, like spreading it in the concourses of, say, Penn Station in Manhattan.

  14. Re:They will, without a doubt, die... on Thieves Who Stole Cobalt-60 Will Soon Be Dead · · Score: 2

    You are going to need to combine that with ... something else to kick off the process.

    Tequila?

  15. Re: What's wrong with Tokens? on Chicago Transit System Fooled By Federal ID Cards · · Score: 1

    The Chicago Card Plus let you auto-replenish -- once the balance dropped below $10, it would automatically bill a replenishment amount of your choice to the credit card of your choice.

    Ventra lets you do this -- at least all but the actual billing, at which it is horribly inconsistent. (Among my family members, I have four Ventra cards set to bill to a credit card -- two haven't gotten enough usage to trigger a reload, one auto-reloads fine, and one [mine, of course] has run dry twice, forcing me to go online, turn auto-reload off and back on to trigger the replenishment. Bite me very much, Ventra.)

    CC+ worked without a glitch, and also sent me emails when the auto-reloads occurred. Ventra, *pfft*.

  16. Re:Don't really see the market on Not All USB Power Is Created Equal · · Score: 1

    If you plug in a stock micro USB connector, even if it's jacked into a 2A power converter, the Nook will say "Not Charging". But come back in an hour or 2 and it will be back up to full power.

    Interesting. I (or my wife) will have to try this; thanks for your observations.

  17. Re:Don't really see the market on Not All USB Power Is Created Equal · · Score: 1

    [Nook Color/Tablet charging cables] ... (blankety-blank-censored-blank) is no longer available. And since the cables are no longer made or sold and since they were notoriously prone to fail means that I've been trickle-charging my unit for about a year now.

    Better hurry over onto B&N's site and stock up on them, maybe.

    Re trickle-charging, my experience is that the Nook Tablet wouldn't show any indication that it was charging at all if a standard uUSB cable was connected. I never left mine connected that way for any extended period to see if the battery charge actually went up. I might borrow it back from my wife and try it (if I can pry it away from her that long).

  18. Re:amused that they talk about the DT environs on Slackware Linux 14.1 Released · · Score: 1

    We not only know how to use it, we customize it so that other users on the same machine have a hard time time using it!

    You let OTHER USERS on YOUR MACHINE? They should get their OWN machine!

  19. Re:The real question on USB "Condom" Allows You To Practice Safe Charging · · Score: 1

    ... or any unusual discharge from your unit.

  20. Re:ThinkPenguin.com's against trusted computing... on Ask Slashdot: Best/Newest Hardware Without "Trusted Computing"? · · Score: 1

    At least with a major manufacturer, I know I can still buy a replacement powerswitch or cover hinge when I need one, years after the products is no longer being sold.

    Good luck with getting manufacturer parts for that five-year-old major-label laptop. Chances are that your machine was EOL'ed after two years. I've been in the position of trying to keep old Dell and HP laptops alive, and the manufacturers have been of no help at all in terms of trying to obtain small/spare parts. Usually it's easier and cheaper to locate a donor machine on eBay.

  21. Re:As someone who HASN'T on Google Argues Against Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    If all you're doing is running a little mail server for a handful of users, I doubt if Google could give a fuck.

    Until Google gently reminds you of the no-server clause in your AUP and blocks incoming tcp/25 to your mail server.

    (today's captcha: patents)

  22. Re:Need Clarity on Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 Released · · Score: 2

    Debian Wheezy - Linux kernel, GNU tools, 100% of software compiled for i386/64.
    Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 - Hurd kernel, GNU tools, 75% of software compiled for i386/64 (I'm ready to assume it doesn't have support for other platforms but might be wrong).

    i386 != x86_64. Hurd is 32-bit only, according to the FAQ.

  23. Re:I'm tellin ya... on Larry Page's Vocal Cords Are Partially Paralyzed · · Score: 1

    "It is worth remembering that the only treatments for Pancreatic Cancer are: Surgery, Radiation Therapy or Chemotherapy."

    You forgot bacon, raising puppies, chocolate, Monty Python, sex, and Irish whiskey. Those are all great ways of dealing with pancreatic cancer, most of them don't require extensive periods of hospitalization, and the long-term outlook after these regimes is similar to the long-term outlook after the three quoted above (i.e., you're gonna die anyway).

  24. Let's get this one out of the way. on 2001: a Space Odyssey's Dave Returns To Sci-fi In New Film · · Score: 1

    "My God, it's full of hype!"

  25. can I get RHEL on floppies? on Ask Slashdot: What Distros Have You Used, In What Order? · · Score: 1

    SLS -> Redhat -> Fedora -> Ubuntu -> Kubuntu desktops and Debian servers with forays into CentOS, UbuntuStudio, Gentoo and DamnSmall.