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  1. Re:Working on How Are You Celebrating National Sysadmin Day? · · Score: 1

    PETER
    Ok, will do. This isn't so bad, huh?
    Making bucks, getting exercise, working outside.

    LAWRENCE
    Fuckin' A.

  2. Re:Hmmm ... on How Are You Celebrating National Sysadmin Day? · · Score: 1

    This whole scenario is crazy anyway. I could understand the mistake of the doors remaining locked from the outside, but shouldn't some of the doors already have a release from the inside that people use when the building's locked after hours? Otherwise, people could be locked in all night just because they worked late.

  3. Re:Myes, myes... on Famed ATM Hacker Barnaby Jack Dies Days Before Black Hat Conference · · Score: 1

    Do people that age just drop dead?

    Suicide does the trick.

  4. Re:And people wonder... on Hackers Reveal Nasty New Car Attacks · · Score: 1

    Most cars sold in the USA in the 1980s did have onboard computers... they just weren't OBD-II yet. If you have EFI of any variety, it's guaranteed you have one.

  5. Re:This is why my car is airgapped on Hackers Reveal Nasty New Car Attacks · · Score: 1

    1980, in general, but I believe some luxury makes used rudimentary computers before then. Cars during the 1970s had no ECU, but electronic ignition replaced points. I bought a replacement electronic ignition module for my LTD at Kmart for $35. Those were the days!

  6. Re:High risk on Hackers Reveal Nasty New Car Attacks · · Score: 1

    Carburetors? Finicky, complicated beasts! I've made it a policy not to trust any newfangled internal combustion engine! *climbs into Doble*

  7. Re:First step on a long road on NTSB Calls For Wireless Tech To Enable Vehicles To Talk To Each Other · · Score: 1

    MTBE is being phased on in favor of... you guessed it... ethanol. We're getting 15% worse mileage because of the inferior energy density of ethanol, not MTBE. MTBE is being phased out because once or twice, some idiot allowed some to get into our drinking water and... birth defects? Cancer? Nope, the water tastes bad. No other ill effect has been proven. Because the water tastes bad when MTBE gets in it (apparently, filters and RO don't work anymore), we've sold out to Big Corn.

  8. Re:Because Congress' goal is to privatize the USPS on Door-To-Door Mail Delivery To End Under New Plan · · Score: 1

    What's the purpose of the regulations requiring a large minimum delivery charge on private letters to ensure that the post office can easily undercut them? How about the monopoly on mail box delivery?

  9. Re:Already happening on Door-To-Door Mail Delivery To End Under New Plan · · Score: 1

    The bulk mail envelope didn't earn them only 25 cents. They earned thousands, perhaps millions over time, from a business that elected to use the USPS bulk mail service for marketing. In return, the USPS promised to use its best effort to deliver the mail. Just like raising taxes, reducing services is not a purely profitable endeavor. If the post office decides it's not worth delivering your bulk mail to the residence, you might decide it's not worth using this method of marketing anymore.

    It's just business.

  10. Re:I don't know about the 'cluster' mailboxes. on Door-To-Door Mail Delivery To End Under New Plan · · Score: 1

    Your repeated ignorance and vulgarity really makes we wish I hadn't already posted in this discussion. Modding you down would have been more productive.

  11. Re:I don't know about the 'cluster' mailboxes. on Door-To-Door Mail Delivery To End Under New Plan · · Score: 1

    The budget was never balanced, unless you think counting Social Security tax receipts as part of the general fund is OK. It has been done since FDR, and it's sleazy accounting that would get a CFO fired.

    I suggest you stop being partisan and learn to have a healthy skepticism of all politicians. Carrying the water for any party encourages them to continue abusing us.

  12. Re:I don't know about the 'cluster' mailboxes. on Door-To-Door Mail Delivery To End Under New Plan · · Score: 1

    A Republican President signed it, but the bill was sponsored by more Dems than Rs and both houses were Dem controlled. We don't have a list of yeas and nays, so I can't say for sure but it looks like a bipartisan effort.

  13. Fixing the will on Psychopathic Criminals Have "Empathy Switch" · · Score: 1

    The team proposes that with the right training, it could be possible to help psychopaths activate their 'empathy switch', which could bring them a step closer to rehabilitation.

    But why would they want to? It's far more advantageous for them to continue pretending they care about others.

  14. Re:Legal on SEC Alleges 'Bitcoin Savings & Trust' Is a Ponzi Scheme · · Score: 1

    So you think there's more platinum used in catalytic converters than gold in jewelry, electronics, aerospace, and medicine? Gold reacts with damn near nothing. That has great value.

  15. Re:Legal on SEC Alleges 'Bitcoin Savings & Trust' Is a Ponzi Scheme · · Score: 1

    Just out of curiosity, when you "buy gold" do you actually get a chunk of yellow metal in the mail? Probably not, almost no one in the US does

    I do, because I'm not an idiot. I get real gold at auction. You can buy paper gold if you want, but only if you're treating it as any other commodity. There is no safety aspect unless you have physical control. Besides, it seems like very large companies are performing fraction-reserve-like scams by selling more gold than they have.

  16. Re:Filed a lawsuit, not arrested? on SEC Alleges 'Bitcoin Savings & Trust' Is a Ponzi Scheme · · Score: 1

    I choose Jessica. Mmmm...

  17. Re:What is 'Obsolete,' Anyway? on Ask Slashdot: Keeping Digital Media After Imaging? · · Score: 0

    however, you can tie a coded message to a bird's leg and be reasonably confident in the message reaching it's intended recipient without interception and decoding (international and relay flights notwithstanding).

    And drones... anyone for squab?

  18. Re:But why? on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up Non-Obnoxious Outdoor Lighting? · · Score: 1

    I have the same problem. It fires for a gentle breeze through a bush, but ignores cars until you're right underneath it.

  19. Re:But why? on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up Non-Obnoxious Outdoor Lighting? · · Score: 1

    Did you miss the "urban" part? Even empty shells will be "probable cause" to get your home searched in the average city.

  20. Re:It's about competition on We're Number 9! US Broadband Speeds Rise, But Slower Than Many Other Countries' · · Score: 1

    Find out how to get into your DSL modem interface and check the signal strength and S/N ratio.

  21. Re:The day human beings become rational ... on Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops · · Score: 0

    I can't wait for the sequel:

    Star Trek: Even More Lens Flare

  22. Re:No wonder ... on The Book That Is Making All Movies the Same · · Score: 1

    Great re-start? Virtually exterminating the most fascinating species in the universe doomed the series.

  23. That sounds like the best way to protect your computer from all malicious code, which is to turn it off.

  24. Re:Print to PDF on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Automatically Sanitize PDF Email Attachments? · · Score: 1

    You forgot:
    - PDF is no longer searchable

  25. Re:Personal firearms != personal liberties on Hardly Anyone Is Buying 'Smart Guns' · · Score: 1

    Well, the second amendment says "well-regulated militia", which the left likes to bring up as if it is a qualifying statement. Yet, when militia groups try to do the same thing-- maintain military weapons and perform regular drills, often commanded by ex-military officers-- they're labeled as dangerous crazies.