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  1. Re:This is just the tip of the iceberg, John. on Senate Passes 4-Year Re-Up of Patriot Act Provisions · · Score: 1

    Isn't that like saying that something is a bit less moist than the Pacific Ocean?

  2. Re:Restricted airspace and other curiosities on Under Soviet Satellites, How Area 51 Hid (And Invented) Secret Craft · · Score: 4, Informative

    In case you're wondering, that restricted airspace at Tooele Army Depot is likely because of the incinerators that are torching hundreds of tons of nerve gas stored there. I wouldn't be surprised if such a restriction is imposed over the Umatilla Army Depot in eastern Oregon for the same reason.

  3. Re:Why 51? on Under Soviet Satellites, How Area 51 Hid (And Invented) Secret Craft · · Score: 1

    Because that's how the US Government labels stuff per site. For example, the Hanford Site in Washington where plutonium was made for nuclear weapons has a "100 Area", "200 Area", and "300 Area" which designate where the reactors are (100), chemical separation complexes (200) and the various support facilities (300).

    Area 51 is part of the Nevada Test Site. That "area" designation is usually pointing towards a specific function - in this case, spy plane R&D, and hiding aliens.

  4. Re:I agree on Mandatory Automotive Black Boxes May Be On the Way · · Score: 1

    I'd be very surprised if "slower yields to faster" is actually written ANYWHERE in the US Highway Code.

    Here: http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1566&bih=867&q=slower+traffic+keep+right+sign&gbv=2&aq=2&aqi=g1g-sx1g1g-sx2g1&aql=&oq=slower+traffi

    You'll find those signs in all 50 states. Pretty sure that is part of the US Highway Code.

  5. Re:Collateral success vs indication of support nee on Corporate Mac Sales Surge 66% · · Score: 2

    Apple's AD support is a finicky beast to be sure, but usually these issues come from either not having Sites and Services set up. Without that, you're talking to a domain controller on a congested line somewhere in West Nowhere, Oklahoma. Also, Apple doesn't yet support DCs that are read-only, and if you don't have top-level SRV records for your DCs, that can cause issues too.

    Here's the example given to me regarding the SRV records, by an SE at Apple specializing in AD:

    Say you have a DC in the FUJI site:

    $ host -t SRV _ldap._tcp.FUJI._sites.dc._msdcs.ads.apple.com dc02.ads.apple.com
    Using domain server:
    Name: dc02.ads.apple.com
    Address: 17.219.201.81#53
    Aliases:

    _ldap._tcp.FUJI._sites.dc._msdcs.ads.apple.com has SRV record 0 100 389 dc03.ads.apple.com.
    _ldap._tcp.FUJI._sites.dc._msdcs.ads.apple.com has SRV record 0 100 389 dc02.ads.apple.com.

    You have to have top level SRV records for ldap, kerberos, and kpasswd:

    $ host -t SRV _ldap._tcp.ads.apple.com dc02.ads.apple.com
    Using domain server:
    Name: dc02.ads.apple.com
    Address: 17.219.201.81#53
    Aliases:

    _ldap._tcp.ads.apple.com has SRV record 0 100 389 dc03.ads.apple.com.
    _ldap._tcp.ads.apple.com has SRV record 0 100 389 dc02.ads.apple.com.

    $ host -t SRV _kpasswd._tcp.ads.apple.com dc02.ads.apple.com
    Using domain server:
    Name: dc02.ads.apple.com
    Address: 17.219.201.81#53
    Aliases:

    _kpasswd._tcp.ads.apple.com has SRV record 0 100 464 dc03.ads.apple.com.
    _kpasswd._tcp.ads.apple.com has SRV record 0 100 464 dc02.ads.apple.com.

    $ host -t SRV _kerberos._tcp.ads.apple.com dc02.ads.apple.com
    Using domain server:
    Name: dc02.ads.apple.com
    Address: 17.219.201.81#53
    Aliases:

    _kerberos._tcp.ads.apple.com has SRV record 0 100 88 dc02.ads.apple.com.
    _kerberos._tcp.ads.apple.com has SRV record 0 100 88 dc03.ads.apple.com.

  6. Re:Collateral success vs indication of support nee on Corporate Mac Sales Surge 66% · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Hello,

    I work at a Fortune-20 company, where I am currently writing our internal standards for the Mac OS X platform, and developing the infrastructure necessary to support Mac OS X in any of the 3000+ business locations we maintain across North America.

    We've had no problem getting support from Apple for all things related to Mac OS X and iOS, for the low cost of $nothing. If we run into a problem, I send our Apple Strategic Accounts representative an email about it, and an Apple systems engineer gets back to me with the answer, or asking for more information in order to get me the answer. Many things require no contact, such as the ease of scriptability in order to configure the Mac in a location-aware way using the Active Directory sites and services information we already have, join the AD domain and participate in Kerberos single sign-on, maintain accurate inventory and asset information using systems already in place for Windows XP and Windows 7, and deploy applications dynamically based upon user needs without killing our WAN.

    I assure you that there has been no 'rude awakening' throughout the process.

    Thanks.

  7. Re:Save yourself the trouble.... on Can Computers Be Used To Optimize the US Tax Code? · · Score: 1

    Oh, I'm incorrect, am I?

    Adjusted Gross Income of the top 1% in 2005: $1.591 trillion (http://www.econdataus.com/avgtax05.html)
    Federal Budget for 2005: $2.4 trillion (http://www.truthandpolitics.org/budget-numbers.php)

    So after you tax the top 1% at 100% which would just make that top 1% move to a different country, you still have 809 billion to come up with. In 2005 numbers.

    Care to try again?

  8. Re:One question they did not answer on Lodsys Responds To In-App Purchasing Patent Controversy · · Score: 1

    Are you sure they didn't just buy a rubber stamping machine? That sounds awfully labor-intensive to rubber stamp everything in sight.

    Wait, let me guess - someone patented a method for rubber stamping patents, and is suing the maker of the rubber stamping machine into oblivion...

  9. Re:Excellent on US Congress Tries To Cut Body Scanner Funding · · Score: 1

    Yeah, who cares about the 4th amendment anyway. Laws were made to be broken!

  10. Re:Excellent on US Congress Tries To Cut Body Scanner Funding · · Score: 1

    Locally loved politician panders to national electorate. Dog bites man. Water is wet. All these stories, plus Andy Rooney. NEXT. On 60 Minutes.

  11. Re:Canadian units? on Tunnel Boring Machine Completes Hole Under Niagara Falls · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's a group that the USA wants to identify with - "we use the same measurement system as Burma and Liberia! Wait, they're too busy shooting each other to learn metric? What's our excuse again? U S A!! U S A!!"

  12. Re:It's a drug smuggling tunnel! on Tunnel Boring Machine Completes Hole Under Niagara Falls · · Score: 1

    Nah, this is just phase 1 of the Trans-American Maple Syrup Pipeline.

    Phase 2 involves overland steel piping and pumping stations to bring the syrup to New Jersey.

  13. Re:| Dream on Valve's Newell: One-Price-For-Everyone Business Model 'Broken' · · Score: 1

    That's an interesting thought at least in the MMO universe - what's to keep all the assholes and griefers from making their own group in order to self-sustain? Even in Valve's world of small discrete servers you could have 7 or 8 guys that are all on an external voice chat app that join a server and act like shitbirds in order to confuse the system.

    Oh, and how do you not punish the guy who just happens to be really good, and people leave the server because they're tired of getting owned? I know I've left servers because a guy joined and completely unbalanced everything and made it less fun...

  14. Re:| Dream on Valve's Newell: One-Price-For-Everyone Business Model 'Broken' · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You've got to love the irony of posting this reply to a post detailing the issue of karma whoring, only to have it modded flamebait.

    Well done, moderators. Once again, you completely miss the mark.

  15. Re:Too Easy on Can Computers Be Used To Optimize the US Tax Code? · · Score: 1

    Oliver Wendell Holmes, a Republican, once said that "Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society." If the rich are paying a few times more than they receive in services, they can be thankful that they are paying for someone else that, without those services, might try to steal their car or take their wallet.

  16. Re:Better solution on Can Computers Be Used To Optimize the US Tax Code? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh come on, don't you like spending a springtime evening every year telling a computer that you aren't collecting a railroad pension, and that you weren't paid to not grow corn?

  17. Re:Well then, who does create jobs? on Can Computers Be Used To Optimize the US Tax Code? · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that just using the term "far right talking points" outed him as a liberal long before you even had to think about the incompleteness of his argument.

  18. Re:Save yourself the trouble.... on Can Computers Be Used To Optimize the US Tax Code? · · Score: 1

    You do realize that even if you tax the top 1% at a rate of 100%, that would only get the federal government to sometime in May, right?

    Now that they have finally pulled their own weight (and about 27 other people's weight), where you going to get your next 7 months of revenue in a collapsed economy?

  19. Re:Nuclear power arguments on Engineers Find Nuclear Meltdown At Fukushima Plant · · Score: 1

    Oh, only twice the cost?

    The economy undergoes complete catastrophe when the price of oil goes up 20%. Doubling the cost of energy is not something that is politically expedient.

  20. Re:Nuclear power arguments on Engineers Find Nuclear Meltdown At Fukushima Plant · · Score: 1

    That would be a great argument, if nuclear power worked by burning uranium and passing the resulting effluent up a smoke stack.

    Too bad that it doesn't.

  21. Re:So coal is safe then on Engineers Find Nuclear Meltdown At Fukushima Plant · · Score: 1

    When a coal plant has an accident it's much more localized and non-radioactive.

    Yes, but during the normal course of operation, it spews poisons into the air for hundreds of miles. Constantly.

    Then there it the production of plutonium in nuclear, which is extremely toxic and does not occur naturally on earth.

    And it's also known as 'nuclear fuel' which can be used to generate more electricity, especially since it's unsuitable for bomb making unless you use an uneconomically short fuel cycle and reactor design specifically to breed a particular isotope of it.

    Much of our nuclear waste is sitting around in swimming pools on-site waiting to be the next fukushima.

    Which correlates directly to the politically forbidden practice of reprocessing out the 1% waste from the 99% fuel, and loading it back into the damn reactor to produce more electricity.

    Just think - in the east coast blackout, many nuclear plants in the US went into emergency shutdown and had the spent fuel pools cooling systems running on generators.

    Working as designed? Your point?

    There was no grid for external power, and fuel was somewhat hard to get due to the widespread outage.

    'Somewhat hard,' huh? I doubt they were waiting in line at the local Shell station with a couple jerry cans. I have a feeling that the plant operator could pick up the phone and have a diesel truck on-site within an hour if it was necessary under any condition short of total military invasion, strategic nuclear attack, or a Japan-scale natural disaster. Have any actual proof of this particular claim, or just talking out your ass?

  22. Re:Got a ways to go before he catches John Edwards on Newt Gingrich's Amazon Book Reviews · · Score: 1

    It would also be an act of war, since he'd be invading Cuba; but that's neither here nor there.

  23. Re:Yes on Alabama Nuclear Reactor Gets 'F' Grade · · Score: 1

    Never underestimate the power of scaremongering, and the money of the anti-nuke crowd to back him up. It's been done before.

  24. Re:You can never rule out risks completely on Alabama Nuclear Reactor Gets 'F' Grade · · Score: 1

    Fusion has never been achieved, eh? 1952 would like a word with you. Or perhaps 1960. Or maybe the '70s, 80s and 90s. Or this thing which is just getting started. Or this other thing that is being built.

    Maybe you should pay attention yourself.

  25. Re:Yes on Alabama Nuclear Reactor Gets 'F' Grade · · Score: 1

    hmm, comment got butchered. Should read "while undergoing neutron flux, for 50 years"

    Whatever.