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  1. Re:All for poisioning the well on AdNauseam Browser Extension Quietly Clicks On Blocked Ads · · Score: 1

    One downside would be that since it clicks on everything what is being told to advertisers is that you are interested in all that stuff.
    So your profile could look like you want hello kitty, mercedes cars and dating sites.

  2. Yes on Ask Slashdot: Are Any Certifications Worth Going For? · · Score: 1

    I try to take two certs or something of a similar level every year.
    The reasons are:
    1) Management likes them. Having certs increases your chance of getting that interview.
    2) They force you to learn parts of the product you normally don't use. This is the main thing for me, it gets me out of the items I normally admin and that the users primarily use and forces me to learn parts of the product I would not.

    The saying goes certs will get you interviewed, experience will get you the job.

  3. Re:Either way on Is Chernobyl Still Dangerous? Was 60 Minutes Pushing Propaganda? · · Score: 1

    Do it soon, the buildings are becoming more dangerous as they fall apart.
    It is well worth seeing, really neat.

  4. Re:Yes on Is Chernobyl Still Dangerous? Was 60 Minutes Pushing Propaganda? · · Score: 1

    Getting near the reactor building is not a problem and there are people who work there as monitors.
    Water is brought in, as is the food. There are people who have moved back who eat and drink locally sourced items.

  5. Re:Predatory? on Profanity-Laced Academic Paper Exposes Scam Journal · · Score: 1

    It does not sound like the prey are those that write the documents but those people the authors are using the published articles for some form of benefit.

  6. Re:But the case hasn't even started! on US Marshals Auctioning $20M Worth of Silk Road's Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    And then there are people who don't understand or want to understand what is happening.
    This sale was agreed upon by both parties. The proceeds from the sales will be placed in a fund and will go to whomever proves themselves in court.

  7. Good, get that Ms. Pacman on Sweden Considers Adding "Sexism" Ratings To Video Games · · Score: 4, Funny

    Time to get that dot eatting trollop. Running around with none thing else but a pink bow tie, not even strategically placed.
    Not to mention the various displays she allowed of herself on the arcade cabinet.

  8. Re:An Illiberal's solution to every problem - taxe on The Downside to Low Gas Prices · · Score: 1

    Based on facts you don't know why the USPS is broke.
    Congress want to protect the taxpayer from having to take over the duties that the USPS said they would do,back in the 70s, the postmaster general and the postal unions want to make the taxpayers pay for their poor management and keep things as they are.
    The postal accountability law,2006, requires the USPS to actually do some proper financial management and dropping it would not make them competitive again; even ignore the money they owe for this they would of lost money for the last couple of years. Without the money set aside they would not be able the meet the obligations they agreed to back in the 1970s and the people who retiring now would not have the monies that they are suppose to get. Privatization would solve nothing of this since the obligations would follow the company who purchased the USPS.
    BTW the 75 years is number of years that is for ACCOUNTING purposes they have to figure future liabilities. It is NOT how long they have to fund benefits. That 75 years of accounting is followed by the DoD, social security, department of Housing, etc.

  9. Re:You know they'll botch it on President Obama Backs Regulation of Broadband As a Utility · · Score: 1

    You are using a non-standard definition of net neutrality, one that is used by previous bills or what President Obama used.
    Net Neutrality was defined by Obama and would be under his proposal would treat VOIP the same as HTTP the same as video the same as QoS traffic from any source.

  10. Re:net neutrality isn't protocol agnosticism on Net Neutrality Alone Won't Solve ISP Throttling Abuse, Here's Why · · Score: 1

    No it does not! Read the various bills that have come out and you see that your definition does not apply.
    Net Neutrality would mean that my ISP can no longer setup a spam email filter, it would mean school ISP can no longer block access to various sites(reason why some groups have been supporting net neutrality), it would mean my ISP cannot block traffic on various ports know for various security attacks and with no common usage.
    What you are defining goes under the term application neutrality.

  11. Re:This is what the polls say on Statisticians Study Who Was Helped Most By Obamacare · · Score: 1

    So if you ask them about the item they know they hate it but if you hide it under a nice sounding name that everyone is trying to get they don't know about they like it? Sounds right to me.

  12. Interesting numbers. on Statisticians Study Who Was Helped Most By Obamacare · · Score: 1

    So we now have around 13% of people without insurance or around 1-2% below what we before. However around 70% of those have been into Medicaid; which has alot of problems because of the way that is paid for not to mention the increasly few doctors that are accepting it; it does give the liberals their single payer system.
    According to the numbers insurance for young men has gone up close to 80% yet they said it has gone down, they need to look at the numbers vs what they put in words; they do cover that by saving prices will go down in the future.
    This are still parts of the web sites that are not working or have been implemented, according to the governments own reports, yet according to the article everything is great.
    However at least with from the article insurance cost for company provide insurance plans have leveled off and not increased. Then you see they ignored the past couple of months, focusing only the times of economic recession and the costs that people will have to pay for insurance next year.
    How about some real number like the percent of people who got âoeif you like your policy, you can keep your policyâ or those on Obamacare who had "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." work for them?

  13. Re:Link to #1 on The Most Highly Cited Scientific Papers of All Time · · Score: 1

    That all well and good but what is Lowry ErdÅ's number?

  14. Re:Wishful thinking on A Library For Survival Knowledge · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of old mines load with raw materials that are easy to get to. The reason no one currently cares about them is that the amount of money and time it would take to extract can be invested into places that would yield a higher return.
    Switch the situation around and if you are back to hand tools and older style explosives and those mines are of use again.
    Looking at current problems with wild boars and deer, hunting would not be a problem, it might harder for the first couple of years (there goes the canned goods that you can find) but after that you would probably be killing just to protect your farming.

  15. Re:die by taser or gas? on Incapacitating Chemical Agents: Coming Soon To Local Law Enforcement? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In fact Foxnews uses the federal definition of terrorist. The exceptions are when they are quoting or taling with people who don't.
    However thanks for sharing your hate and ignorance.

  16. Re:Not a great loss... on Oracle Database Certifications Are No Longer Permanent · · Score: 3, Informative

    Oracle already has the version in the name of the certificaton.
    That certification is good for the lifeof the product what is changed with the time limit is that with an active Oracle certification you get access to software and some other services. If you don't keep the certification active you lose that access.
    So my old Oracle DBA certification of Oracle 7 (15+ years old???) will no longer give me access to the web site and software unless I upgrade the cert however I am still certificated as an Oracle 7 DBA for as long as I want to claim it.

  17. Re:Same as everyone else on Oracle Database Certifications Are No Longer Permanent · · Score: 1

    That is the case but I have been skating on my Oracle DBA certification from Oracle v7 for years now.

  18. Re:Robots? on Texas Health Worker Tests Positive For Ebola · · Score: 1

    Can we please drop the widow corpse washing it is something that had a very small following in Nigeria and has been made illegal years ago. And in the region it was known to be practiced the ebola spread has been stopped.

  19. Re:Am I the only one? on The CDC Is Carefully Controlling How Scared You Are About Ebola · · Score: 1

    This strain of ebola has not demonstrated transmitting through the air. Canada, USA and Russia have had scientist publish papers on strains that have.

  20. Re:So the Italians win the latest round ... on Maps Suggest Marco Polo May Have "Discovered" America · · Score: 1

    The problem with that is the indigenous population you are thinking of most likely killed off another group of people before Columbus got there.

  21. Re:It's like the metric system... on Maps Suggest Marco Polo May Have "Discovered" America · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You can always find a few flat world, even today, however the widespread myth of the Christians believing the earth was flat is a creation of two atheists (White and Draper) who pushed this.
    Easy way to see that Christians did not believe this is look at the art they created, from the 300s, you will find various art works of the Christ where he is holding a representation of the earth with a cross over it and that representation is a round sphere.

  22. Re:Native Americans anyone? on Maps Suggest Marco Polo May Have "Discovered" America · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If from that persons discovery set in motion a long string of event eventually ending with the people that the uneducated man informed, and if they did not know about America, being the predominate civilization then yes he would have a right to be proclaimed the discoverer.

  23. Re:No eating of species capable of tool use. on Is an Octopus Too Smart For Us To Eat? · · Score: 3, Informative
  24. evens out on Is an Octopus Too Smart For Us To Eat? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just eat with a marinara sauce and the stupidity of the tomato will even it out.

  25. Re:This is supposed to be the *WAY* they do their on Emails Cast Unflattering Light On Internal Politics of Healthcare.gov Rollout · · Score: 1

    That number of 12 million is totally wrong. On Aug 15 the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released the first set number and that was about 7.3 million people.