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  1. Why not use HTML tags? on Has the Internet Killed Curly Quotes? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why not use HTML tags? Then if you wish, you can style them in CSS if you wish, to appear as curly quotes.

  2. Re:Pointless on Facing Layoff, An IT Employee Makes A Bold Counteroffer (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, the better response is to start your own company. Unions just put different hands on your leash.

  3. And then, there's this ... on Weather Channel To Breitbart: Stop Citing Us To Spread Climate Skepticism (weather.com) · · Score: 1
  4. Firewalls on Ask Slashdot: Could A 'Smart Firewall' Protect IoT Devices? · · Score: 1

    We have the Cujo appliance, which seems to catch bad network traffic, and Fing has a Kickstarter/Indiegogo hardware project in the works to go with the Fing software.

  5. Re:Cue the oil trolls in 3...2...1 on Tesla Unveils Residential 'Solar Roof' With Updated Battery Storage System (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm certain the government will figure out some way to sink money into this, but the better way to piss off the Global Warming deniers is to actually have some Global Warming. http://realclimatescience.com/

  6. Re:Not just Southern Spain on Climate Change Rate To Turn Southern Spain To Desert By 2100, Report Warns (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    And glaciers everywhere, just like in 1904. https://weathernewsblog.wordpr...

  7. Catastrophe for birds on Renewables Overtake Coal As World's Largest Source of Power Capacity (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    So this is why China has so few birds.

  8. Excess nuclear power? You're kidding, right? First, only one new nuclear power plant has been opened in the United States in decades, the rest are so old they're falling to pieces. And speaking of old, I'm old enough to remember when they proposed putting in nuclear power plants all over -- the promise was that electricity would be so cheap they wouldn't even charge for it. Guess that will hold true for eDiesel, too, huh?

  9. Re:Searchable database of attackers? on Dyn Executive Responds To Friday's DDOS Attack (dyn.com) · · Score: 1

    I would welcome the ability to see if any of our devices is involved. We got the Cujo appliance for this a couple months back, and it hasn't alerted us to anything, but our DVR was running like mad (you could hear the hard drive from across the room) roughly during the time of the attack.

  10. The climate scientists who see man-made global warming in every move of the thermometer or barometer claim those who disagree are denying science. Yet they deny fire science. As others have pointed out, allowing smaller fires to clean out undergrowth makes the possibility of mega-fires much less likely.

  11. Flaws of the free market? on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    How would anyone under the age of 110 or so know the flaws of free market capitalism? No one younger than that has experienced it in this country.

  12. Free speech for Muslims? on Egypt Cuts the Net, Net Fights Back · · Score: 1

    I don't understand why "netizens" are so concerned about making certain that a bunch of Muslims in Egypt have access to the Internet. Granted, the regime in Egypt has its flaws, but considering the country is 90 percent Muslim, it's actions have been pretty benign. What happens if the moderates currently in power in Egypt are replaced by radical Islamics? Are we to fight reflexively for freedom of speech for those who hate freedom of speech? It seems a much better use of our energies would be to fight the Obama administration's current attempts to implement an "Internet kill switch" here in the United States.

  13. Politics of envy on How to Heartlessly Arbitrage Used Books With a PDA · · Score: 1

    I don't understand the objection to this. If a library puts a book out to be sold, why would it be happier to sell the book to one person than to another? Just because someone doesn't use a scanner to determine whether or not to buy a book, doesn't mean that he wants the book for the "right" reasons. So what if the purchaser may make money reselling the book later? If the original seller wanted, he could offer the book at that higher price himself. The fact is, he's satisified receiving the lower amount, except in cases where the buyer scans the book. This is envy, pure and simple. You get the feeling that the objecting sellers would be happier if the buyer was planning on burning the book, or using it to plan or commit a crime, than simply reselling it at a profit. Geesh.

  14. Use it all the time on Google To Shut Down 411 Service · · Score: 3, Informative

    I had a bad feeling about Google 411. It used to be one of the options when you called your own Google Voice account -- you pressed 2 to find the number you wanted. Then Google deleted it out of Google Voice without any notification that I ever saw. I use it all the time with my old "dumb" cell phone. It's a great service, and I'll be sad to see it go.

  15. Re:CENTRALIZATION on Computer Failure Causes Gridlock In MD County · · Score: 1

    Amen. Just as bad as the initial centralization is that each failure of centralization results in more calls for increased centralization! D'oh!

  16. Re:What is the net effect? on ICE Satellite Maps Profound Polar Thinning · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I, too, am curious that this story appeared the day after a story entitled, "Antarctic Ice Is Growing, Not Melting Away." http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25348657-401,00.html

  17. Re:Do they on Scientists Deliver Bee Toxin To Tumors Via "Nanobees" · · Score: 1

    Arghh, you just beat me. (singing) "Eric, the nano bee."

  18. Re:"Protest"? on Adbusters Suggests Click Fraud As Protest · · Score: 1

    Not only is the AdBusters premise stupid, AdBusters are fascists. They somehow got one of my e-mail addresses, and no combination of unsubscribe requests or bounces will convince them to stop sending me their moronic screeds.

  19. cron plus rsync equals survival on Why Mirroring Is Not a Backup Solution · · Score: 1

    An account with rsync.net and a couple of cron jobs would have saved their butts.

  20. Re:Truth: on The Electronic Bastille · · Score: 1

    Many things are antithetical to democracy, which is why democracy doesn't work. Never has, never will. That's why the founding fathers didn't set up the U.S. as a democracy. The situation in France is pretty bad, with nearly daily riots by "youths" -- immigrants from other countries -- claiming that the government isn't doing enough for them. These are not traditional Europeans, if you haven't guessed. Because France has committed to allowing the third world to pour across its borders (as have the U.S. elite), the only way they can respond in a PC fashion is to restrict freedoms. This is not about domestic spying: This is about Western Civilization committing suicide.

  21. Ditto for rsync.net on Online Website Backup Options? · · Score: 1

    I've been using rsync.net for more than a year, and it works great. I back up four websites from one server -- files and MySQL databases -- each night, each week, and each month, and only once did the backup not work as planned. Good tech support, too.

  22. No speed demon on Google Earth Beaten By Autorendering From Photos · · Score: 1

    Could it run any slower?

  23. Re:W3C on NYTimes.com Hand-Codes HTML & CSS · · Score: 1

    I was going to give TextMate a try, but if this is the best they can do with TextMate, I'm sticking with BBEdit. By the way, the awful formatting of the HTML files on the NYT site tells me that there is a machine involved somewhere. No human is going to "hand code" a page that's formatted this poorly. Well, at least I wouldn't.

  24. Re:PKB on Congressional Commitee Rips Yahoo Execs · · Score: 2, Funny

    If Tom Lantos' morals turned to gasoline, there wouldn't be enough of it to power a piss-ant's go-cart around the inside of a Cheerio.

  25. Re:Why godaddy? on 850K RegisterFly Domains Moved To GoDaddy · · Score: 1

    "Win-win-win" -- except for the millions of new e-mails that GoDaddy will be sending those 850,000 new customers. Haven't they suffered enough already?