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  1. Re:Round vs (Roughly) Spherical on Seattle City Council Unanimously Approves Income Tax For the Rich (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Oblate spheroid is the term.

  2. Shorewall on Ask Slashdot: What's the Biggest Open Source Project of 2015? · · Score: 1

    In terms of benefit to the community, Shorewall ranks pretty high.

  3. That isn't what science is.

  4. Your hyperbole has convinced that in response to this impending disaster we really should gnash our teeth and wring our hands.

  5. I don't see power mentioned in the paper.

  6. Re:Dirty Little Secret on Intuit Charges More For Previously Offered TurboTax Features, Users Livid · · Score: 0

    Sorry, we were raised to take care of ourselves after we left our parent's homes. But if you need your hand held, be glad you live somewhere where that is possible.

  7. Re:Not just self-employed.. on Intuit Charges More For Previously Offered TurboTax Features, Users Livid · · Score: 2

    Not if they keep believing people like you.

  8. Re:Not just self-employed.. on Intuit Charges More For Previously Offered TurboTax Features, Users Livid · · Score: 1

    Most people have at least some money they could be saving, but many just do not bother.

  9. Re:Probably going to be a rant: on Canada Tops List of Most Science-Literate Countries · · Score: 0

    >Canadians understand science to be the truth. Canadians probably need a better understanding of science then. Science merely predicts, based on past observations. It does not seek "truth."

  10. Re:So how many of them are actually qualified on 93 Harvard Faculty Members Call On the University To Divest From Fossil Fuels · · Score: 1

    Why is reducing how much oil we burn such a bad thing? I don't fucking get it.

    It isn't, however Harvard divesting investments pertaining to the use of fossil fuels will not decrease fossil fuels burnt a whit. Net result: Harvard will have a different mix of assets in their fund, market for companies currently held by Harvard will be (slightly?) affected as these shares are made available, and the use of fossil fuels will continue as before. So good on you Harvard, for not really doing anything.

  11. Re:BYO on Secret Security Questions Are a Joke · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Exactly. I make up ridiculous answers and store them in my password manager.

  12. Re:Remote Desktop on Ask Slashdot: No-Install Programming At Work? · · Score: 1

    If they see an encrypted connection on 3389 they'll know what it is. If doing this and trying to hide it, run it on an alternate port and clear your mstsc.exe history (HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\Servers).

  13. Re:I'll buy that property!!! on Canadians Protest Wind Turbines · · Score: 1

    You better think twice about that. Purchase price is only one cost involved in owning property. It is very possible for property to be worth 0 or less....

  14. Rush Link on The Binary Code In Canada's Gov-Gen Coat of Arms · · Score: 1

    The sequence 1001001 from Rush's "The Body Electric" appears twice. Obviously a plea to Neil Peart for assistance.

  15. Re:Recommendations for reputable registrars? on GoDaddy VP Caught Bidding Against Customers · · Score: 1

    I'd like the same info. I'd prefer a registrar that is happy to make money doing what they are supposed to do and not $#^*&^ over their customers at the first opportunity.

  16. Re:Can you say "better than being tasered?" on Homemade Robot Patrols Atlanta Streets · · Score: 1

    Yes, the something wrong is you staying next to the smoker.

    Smokers on the street are not the ones you should worry about.

    Non-smoker, btw.

  17. Re:OpenDNS Guide on RoadRunner Intercepting Domain Typos · · Score: 1

    >RoadRunner DNS servers have always been just shit.

    Truer words have never been spoken.

  18. Re:I believe on Western Digital Service Restricts Use of Network Drives · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Due to unverifiable media license authentication"

    Read: guilty until proven innocent.

    Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.

  19. Re:I don't buy this writer's "back story" one bit. on Vista Vs. Gutsy Gibbon · · Score: 1

    A lot of folks using NT 4 and 2000 were supporting Win95 etc...

  20. Re:Truecrypt on Protected Memory Stick Easily Cracked · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yep, traveler mode + solid password + key files = oops I lost the USB stick with my password list on it, oh well.

  21. Re:MVP on Microsoft Gives MVP Award to Adware Pusher · · Score: 1

    They do it for the same kinds of reasons that those who write code and share it with the world do. They may enjoy helping others, sharing their knowledge, or bask in the appreciation of those they help. Don't rag on them merely for associating with Microsoft.

  22. Re:I can already see it... on Amazon Betas 'Elastic' Grid Computing Service · · Score: 1

    I'm sure monitoring internet traffic, if it is even allowed, is something they are already doing.

  23. Re:Up to four? on The Next Round in the Virtualization Wars · · Score: 1

    No, you are correct. That concept is insane.

  24. Re:VMware's great and all on VMWare Eats Microsoft's Lunch · · Score: 1

    Actually VMWare does help with BSODs in some respects, because the supported hardware selection is a small subset of what you can run on bare metal. You can choose from two (stable) NICs, but just about the rest of the local "hardware" supported under VMWare is known, stable, and the drivers won't blue screen your VM.

    Of course, you start throwing printer drivers into the mix, and there goes that...

  25. Don't get too used to the name... on EMI Launches Advertising-Supported P2P Service · · Score: 1