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  1. OK, I don't care who you are, that's funny right there.
    Mod++

  2. Re:Path for Mint users? on Multiple Linux Distributions Affected By Crippling Bug In Systemd (agwa.name) · · Score: 1

    Download Slackware 14.2 iso
    boot dvd of Slackware 14.2 iso
    install Slackware 14.2
    edit host file, change default host name to "Linux Mint"
    sit back, enjoy your secure, stable OS install

  3. Re: civil unrest, war, etc. on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazingly correct. We will discover a race that has manual labor and guidelines contained in "How to Serve Man".

  4. Re:Not about fear on Slashdot Asks: Do You Support Nuclear Energy? (gallup.com) · · Score: 1

    " I haven't heard (yet) of a working industrial scale system, though as a geologist who has been working underground pressures for nearly 30 years, I'd be interested to hear of one. "

    me thinks perhaps this:

    http://www.powersouth.com/mcin...

  5. Re:Not about fear on Slashdot Asks: Do You Support Nuclear Energy? (gallup.com) · · Score: 1

    You'll find it all over the net, 1982 was the final straw for the plant.
    Most people shrug at references from Wikipedia, but I'll let you have that and feel free to try to debunk it via any means you feel necessary.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  6. Re:Better question on Slashdot Asks: Do You Support Nuclear Energy? (gallup.com) · · Score: 1

    France is a pretty darned good model of how to nuclear power correctly. Thank you for adding to the conversation!

  7. Re:Not about fear on Slashdot Asks: Do You Support Nuclear Energy? (gallup.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah! Look at that Homer Simpson guy!

  8. Re:Not about fear on Slashdot Asks: Do You Support Nuclear Energy? (gallup.com) · · Score: 1

    Black Fox plant was a dropped project during time when people had 3 Mile Island reminders daily.The lack of public support was directly responsible for its demise.
    The current administrations attacks on coal and then expiration of the nuke plant licenses will be interesting, to say the least. What we need is a nuke/hydrogren answer, with possibly fresh water as a byproduct. Going back to caves and candles is not an answer - I like my A/C, I like my computer, I like fresh water being pumped to my house. Wind and solar are coming along, with my state in the top 4 for wind production. It doesn't even get close to the demand on a windy day.

  9. Re:I'm not so sure you're right on Even With Telemetry Disabled, Windows 10 Talks To Dozens of Microsoft Servers (voat.co) · · Score: 1

    I wish you were running for POTUS, kheldan.

  10. Re:China on China Arrests Hackers At Behest of US Government (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup, get accused of state sponsored hacking, pick out a few undesirables that have protested, arrest them as hackers. Even if they never saw a keyboard. win-win!

  11. Re:just stick to real water on How 'Virtual Water' Can Help Ease California's Drought · · Score: 1

    So true. Introducing Policy for Technical problems is always a winner.
    One only need to look at cyber security these days, we have dictionaries full of policies,
    yet last year was full of high level breaches.

  12. Re: I don't understand all I know about this ... on Recipe For Building a Cheap Raspberry Pi Honeypot Network · · Score: 1

    Throw up new box on the internet. How long is it safe these days?
    "They shouldn't try to break into" != (They won't || They can't)
    Counter-intelligence deserves a place in a security kit these days.
    Not only can it waste their time, you should get logging of who is
    knocking on the door.

    Of course, denial has always been a great security tool.

  13. as a long time abuser on Why It's So Hard To Predict How Caffeine Will Affect Your Body · · Score: 1

    I have never come close to the minimum lethal dose (injected) of 3.2 grams, but I have done as much as 1.2 grams in a 24 hour period. It's great for focusing on 1 project. A few jitters, but not horrible - compared to the time when I went cold turkey on sugar for 2 months and had a 44 ounce unnamed citrus soda. It was hell trying to play Duke Nukem.

    I'm a bit aware that my ordering a pound of white powder and having it sent through the mail may raise some eyebrows, but they'll just have to find their own. It's MINE, all mine, I tell ya!

  14. Re:Reduce gun violence? on Federal Gun Control Requires IT Overhaul · · Score: 1

    "GUNS DON'T MAKE THE INDIVIDUAL SAFER. THEY INCREASE THE RISK OF DEATH AND GUNSHOT WOUNDS FOR EVERYONE AROUND."

    cars don't make the individual safer. they increase the risk of death and injury for everyone around.

    knives don't make the individual safer. they increase the risk of death and slashing wounds for everyone around.

    ex_wives don't make the individual safer. they increase the risk of financial ruin for everyone around.

    where would you like to stop?

        welcome to life. play nice with the others, as best you can, and remember, no one gets out alive.

  15. Re:Reduce gun violence? on Federal Gun Control Requires IT Overhaul · · Score: 1

    Nice post, grantspassalan.

          I would only add that the first 10 amendments are called "The Bill of Rights" and have additional weight of a promise to the People when they were accepted. Changing them shouldn't be as easy as, say, the 18th amendment was. For just reasons.

  16. Re:Reduce gun violence? on Federal Gun Control Requires IT Overhaul · · Score: 1

    The only one of the 23 executive orders that bear public scrutiny is allowing the CDC to study gun violence. Why fund this through the CDC when there is an agency with FIREARMS in it's name. I'd imagine it's to come up with some bullshit laws like OSHA has been involved with. IMHO

    -dec

  17. Re:F*ck off, gun haters on New York Pistol Permit Owner List Leaked · · Score: 1

    Hell I don't get why this hasn't been modded up. I was taught to shoot by an neighbor in the Air Force. My father was busy doing something in Vietnam, so he didn't get the opportunity. I was 8. The lady who commented above is bang on, there were guns. We respected guns, but humans even more so. Why should she be penalized for the criminal actions of others? I hope you get to enjoy shooting those targets forever - it was promised to you.

  18. Re:So.. on World's First Linux Powered Rifle Announced · · Score: 1

    +1 too funny

  19. Re:killer app? on Worldwide IPv6 Adoption: Where Do We Stand Today? · · Score: 1

    Are you counting before or after filtering? My point is that certain filtering schemes are going to be hindered by ip6.

  20. killer app? on Worldwide IPv6 Adoption: Where Do We Stand Today? · · Score: 2

    Unless we come up with a viable DNS RBL for ipv6, the killer app for ipv6 is going to be spam. Hey mister, wanna buy a Rolex?
    I hope someone is working on services like this. I can also imagine one heckofa bot net once we get all those soda machines and
    refrigerators online.
     

  21. hardware vs software on Raspberry Pi vs. Cheap Android Dongle: Embarrassment of (Cheap) Riches · · Score: 5, Insightful

        you are missing a critical point. break out the IO on the USB dongle. Make it turn lights on
        and off. sure, you can slave it to other USB devices, but there is a nice IO header on the
        PI for those who wish to play with it. it's comparing apples to oranges.
        The PI was made with hardware tinkering in mind, the USB dongles - not so much.

  22. lemme guess on IQ 'a Myth,' Study Says · · Score: 5, Funny

    "If there is something in the brain that is IQ, we should be able to find it by scanning."

    The test group consisted entirely of politicians and the control group was Slashdot readers?

  23. Re:In my days we called them whitehats on How Red Teams Hack Your Site To Save It · · Score: 1

    It's from the military side of cyberspace:

    http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/042508-red-team-blue-team-how.html

  24. Re:anyone else curious on Google Outage Shows Risk of Doing Business In China · · Score: 1

    So you did catch that the Pakistani company's upstream was PCCW?

  25. anyone else curious on Google Outage Shows Risk of Doing Business In China · · Score: 1

    if this could be related to the BGP routes issue last week
    http://blog.cloudflare.com/why-google-went-offline-today-and-a-bit-about

    seriously, there should be a 1 strike rule on announcing prefixes that are
    not in control of the announcing entity.