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  1. Re: It's the last gasp at a browser. on Google, Mozilla, and Opera React To Microsoft's Embrace of Chromium (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I think surface is your problem. I use firefox daily on ubuntu at work and at home and am very happy with it.

  2. Re: Local electronics recycling says on Printer Makers Are Crippling Cheap Ink Cartridges Via Bogus 'Security Updates' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I think printing for you must be more complicated than it is for me. I have a roll of photo plotter paper and I cut off whatever size I want to print. It is pretty much an unlimited supply of cheap, high quality paper. My printer pretty much "just works". Also, I don't remember the last picture I printed that would have been worth the expense of overnight shipping.

  3. Re: Horrifying? on Microsoft Tackles 'Horrifying' Bing Search Results (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Bingo

  4. Where I live, you cannot use small claims court if the company has more than 3 shareholders. You have to start in circuit court.

  5. Where I live you cannot take a company with more than 3 shareholders to small claims court. I guess it is different where you live?

  6. Re: Foo say on Do Businesses Really Need to Hire CS Majors? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    THANK YOU! Now I want to go read "The Cathedral and the bazaar".

  7. Re: It's not decentralized on PeerTube, the 'Decentralized YouTube,' Succeeds In Crowdfunding (quariety.com) · · Score: 1

    That retard is my homey...

  8. Re: Good on ICANN: We Won't Pass Judgment On Pirate Sites (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    One big difference is that you will never own that domain you use today. You have the expectation you will someday own your car.

  9. Re:Dansguardian on Ask Slashdot: Parental Content Control For Free OSs? · · Score: 1

    We have 8 kids (12 - 23) and homeschool. Dansguardian is the best tool I have used so far. We have been using it since at least 2007. Just need a pc with 2 nic cards. It lets you score specific words so that when someone goes to a web page, if the score adds up to your preset limit, they get a blocked page instead. I am quick to open up pages whenever someone asks to be able to go to a page. My wife and I are not usually hindered by the filter. Adding the dns would be a good idea and I have not done that yet. Also, while none of my kids have a smart phone with a plan, they do have smart phones they have purchased on ebay and use it as a wifi only device. That means that anything in the appstore is fair game. And Dansguardian does not process that. It only processes port 80 traffic. So while you can "keep and honest man honest", it is still necessary to teach them that bad stuff is bad and why. I am so glad the internet was not around when I was a kid. Curious and liking girls are two things the internet is glad to fulfill.

  10. Re: It's a vast field.... on Ask Slashdot: What Portion of Developers Are Bad At What They Do? · · Score: 1

    This is exactly the premise of one of my all time fav Asimov stories "Profession". Do you hire someone who already knows and discard him later or hire someone who can learn and stay with him...

  11. Re: NSA on Security Researchers Threatened With US Cybercrime Laws · · Score: 2

    That was my initial reaction. It is not a secret the NSA has a database of ready made exploits that would be thwarted if people fixed their broken gear.

  12. dansguardian on Ask Slashdot: Good Low Cost Free Software For Protecting Kids Online? · · Score: 1

    Even though I am a CENTOS guy normally, get a copy of debian and install dansguardian. I have 8 kids and it works great. My wife and I love it too. Peace of mind is priceless. It is highly configurable.

  13. Re:Gee... old news? on Researchers To Climb Ararat To Seek Noah's Ark · · Score: 1

    Actually, Ron Wyatt had pictures several years ago.
    Ron is dead now but he found what is left of the ark.
    You can see pictures at http://wyattmuseum.com.
    If you were not expecting to find a ship there, you would not know what you are looking at.
    It is pretty disintegrated.
    I will let you decide.

    DanH

  14. Am I the only one who remembers "global cooling"? on Global Warming To Leave North Pole Ice-Free · · Score: 1

    I am 39 and remember all of the hoopla in the early 70's (yes I wore bell bottoms) about the coming "ice age".
    There were lot's of "facts" to prove it.
    Since we only had about 20 years of oil left in the ground, and burning petroleum products contributed to "global cooling", we decided to lower the speed limits in the U.S.
    Some things are just cyclical, natural things.
    I am doing some minor googling and not coming up with much about global cooling.
    That is not surprising since most of it occured prior to a widely used internet.
    And since the groups that were behind the global cooling fad had an agenda which has now changed to global warming, they don't want to be seen as hypocritical.
    I remember some widely circulated magazines carrying prominent articles about it like Time and Newsweek.
    All I am saying is this may be like the ozone thing where we find out that man contributes 2% to the problem and it is natural and cyclical.

    A couple of sites that I found without too much trouble are this one with a Newseek article from 1975 The Cooling World
    And this one from 2002 The New Ice Age

    DanH

    "If we aren't supposed to eat animals, then why are they made out of meat?" - Steven Wright

  15. Re:Who trusts the US Mail anyway? on Internet Based Attacks in a Physical World · · Score: 1

    I completely agree. At 39, I cannot remember the last time I lost anything in the mail.

    DanH