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  1. Re:Shouldn't be a big shock on How a 3-Year-Old Can Open a Gun Safe · · Score: 1

    You gun proof your kid. Which is cheaper and lasts them the rest of their life. If you try to kid proof your gun it had better be Nerf when you're done.

    There has been a program addressing this since 1988.

    http://www.nrahq.org/safety/eddie/

  2. Re:They don't explode in the video on "Exploding" Termite Species Discovered · · Score: 1

    A) Does it cure cancer
    B) Does it get me high

    All other answers will bore me to tears.

  3. Re:QNAP was my choice.... on Ask Slashdot: Stepping Down From an Office Server To NAS-Only? · · Score: 1

    It would bolster your claim if you're post a link to a discussion of this.

  4. The only storage medium proven to last 100 years on Ask Slashdot: Storing Items In a Sealed Chest For 25 Years? · · Score: 1

    Paper.
    I suggest acid free paper. If you're familiar with high density 2D barcodes you can store digital on it but most inks in inkjets will degrade fast. Laser printers are even worse as the pages will stick together.

    Pick a good India ink and acid free paper and learn to write. ;)

  5. Re:That is no prediction on Asimov's Psychohistory Becoming a Reality? · · Score: 1

    Slavery and involuntary servitude are still legal in the United States if it is punishment for a crime.

    I suppose driving while black counts as a crime in some places.

  6. Re:Seems like a funny choice on Google's Marissa Mayer Becomes Yahoo! CEO · · Score: 0

    She's a rat jumping a ship caught in a maelstrom of it's own inebriation for one that's just caught in a whirlpool. If she makes careful yet bloody use of the ax of benevolent love and righteousness she will do ok.

  7. Re:IAU? Haste? No way. on Is Pluto a Binary Planet? · · Score: 1

    It's all about consensual science. It's what the majority believe. Pluto is not a planet, all that junk is just debris. It is also a shifting science in that if you can change consensus you can change the facts.

  8. Re:Recommended Reading on FBI To Review Use of Forensic Evidence In Thousands of Cases · · Score: 1

    The FBI policing itself doesn't wash. If they're going after states it's in their interests to find something but not if they go after their own. But who would police the FBI?

  9. Re:Not a planet on Hubble Discovers 5th Moon of Pluto · · Score: 0

    It's not a planet by scientific consensus so it can't have moons. Nasa is wrong, that's just debris.

  10. Re:No kidding on Google Releases Android 4.1 Source Code · · Score: 1

    I've not seen any indication that the original Galaxy S will get a version above 2.2 Froyo which will have working 911. I will never buy a phone I cannot get complete source code for all drivers. I might as well have bought an iphone.

  11. Re:Other options? on Mozilla Downshifting Development of Thunderbird E-Mail Client · · Score: 2

    Yea that one where the devs slam "wontfix" on it and it gets perpetually reopened. Since mozilla is going the way of ms/ubuntu/gnome and that bug caters to MS why am I not surprised.

  12. Re:Not with Amazon's EC2 on Keeping Your Cloud Costs Under Control · · Score: 1

    I just wanted to host an instance for a low storage, low bandwidth website and I could not trust that calculator. I could not trust the drone I spoke with on the phone. Since I didn't need the alleged power I now have a virtual server with capped cpu, memory and bandwidth on a host at a fixed price per month. I can't be charged more but the website could go dark during the month unless I approve the continuing charges for bandwidth. I feel good in avoiding the clowd clowns. It's cheaper than the price I was getting from Amazon by a large margin.

  13. Re:Cisco Routers? on Cisco Pushing 'Cloud Connect' Router Firmware, Allows Web History Tracking · · Score: 1

    Good, then they can release the source code to their enterprise products and let us decide.

    They've done an unethical act. That taints everything they are doing or will do. If they want trust restored it will take far longer and cost more than this will ever garner them.

  14. Re:lol hilarious ignorance on Has the Command Line Outstayed Its Welcome? · · Score: 1

    We used a version of Access that came with Office. As time progressed the employee who created it went away. The company has grown fast so the system was stressed. Even then it took being forced to upgrade Windows to get the company to change. We did plan on upgrading to XP for all and Office for some but the owner balked at what the new Access would cost along with reimplementing the database.

    Due to some rather good politicking we went with a LAMP solution offered by a company that gave it away for free but would support it with a maintenance agreement. We implemented it with some customization and hired a support person for it. The UI is browser based. This is a one owner company. The owner listened to us. He knows that should the need arise we can load a stable Linux distro on a PC, setup an email client and firefox and be done with it.

  15. The end point should be run by the military on Ask Slashdot: VPN Service For a Deployed US Navy Ship? · · Score: 5, Informative

    The NSA is tasked with securing such communication and you should regardless of classification of data be using their equipment or at least an approved system. In that way you know that you at least are protected from your provider.

    Your users shouldn't even know you'd doing jack to their connection except to show as a US IP address. There should be no identifying information that points that IP to any military activity.

  16. Re:there's a middle ground too on Gmail Takes Largest Webmail Service Crown · · Score: 1

    If I could have paid a reasonable annual cost for email-only when I left their service area I would have but the ISP did not offer and would not accept a contract for one. They wanted the standard rate and they'd leave remote mail up.

    I was able to keep using it but fortunately had switched all recovery emails to one of my few remaining 'eternal' email addresses. It didn't go dark until they were absorbed by some megacorp a year or so later.

    Many places but not all let you enter two email addresses which helps if one of the 'eternal' ones die.

    Google wants my phone but that's not any more eternal and it's privacy invading.

  17. Re:Anyone watch TV anymore? on Targeted TV Ads: Silver Bullet Or Privacy Nightmare? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I can't even watch the shows I'm interested in due to the shit slide ups taking up half the screen in the middle of a critical moment. On screen fuck smudge animations that take up two fifths of the screen and block all of the action kill the show. Both of these lasted for 3 minutes and as annoying as possible. On a different shit slide up they lowered the shows audio once to blare out at distorted volume an ad. Couple this with the cable company injecting their vomitous banner at the bottom and inserting their own ads between the ads already inserted and I just quit.

    Movies are no alternative I can't even go see a movie without being bombarded by ads and now those are, by contract, timed to never quite be the same amount of time consistently so you can't wait and avoid them. Then there's the propaganda, such as was in the 2nd ghost rider where N cage gives verbal fellatio to the MPAA

    Should I care to watch some show I'll wait for the DVD but I'll first make sure the contemptible fucks didn't stick an ad in the middle of it as I just had happen on a DVD that did not indicate it was a repackage, looked authentic and was available in a reputable store.

    I finally got to the point local and network television became a time wasting sickening thing in the late 90s from the propaganda and ads that I just turned it off.

    I'll stick with live theater, indie music, books, web comics and the like.

  18. Re:Age on Two UK Lulzsec Suspects Plead Guilty To DDoS Charges · · Score: 1

    Or they were low hanging fruit. Someone they had a blizzard of info on who they could make some feeble connection to the group.

    In the US the ATF sets up stooges all the time.

  19. Re:Age on Two UK Lulzsec Suspects Plead Guilty To DDoS Charges · · Score: 1

    Damn what utter and contemptible trade craft. They got...caught. *snicker*

    At least they should have gone up in a pyre of thermite, hard drives and silicon.

    Now they need more silicone to survive jail.

    Not a troll, I'm just damned to pseudo-poetic babbling when disappointed.

     

  20. Re:United States playing the role of 1941 Japan on While the U.S. and Iran Negotiate, War Commences In Cyberspace · · Score: 1

    And the unshriven and damned proclaim, "Oh my deity give me a Pearl Harbor to inflame the American people to that tipping point even 9/11 could not tip."

    Seriously. I don't know what that point is. I don't know how much it will take. I do know that should the US go freaky dark we're all damned and I'm a US citizen and would most likely not survive it.

  21. Re:Maybe on U.S. Gas Prices Continue To Fall · · Score: 1

    The US had 40 MPG cars back then they're just now able to reproduce that level of efficiency. The body shape and weight are about the same though now the crash survivability and emissions are much better. I disagree that some of the land yachts and trucks were fuel efficient back then.

  22. Re:Poetic Justice on Georgia Apple Store Refuses To Sell iPad To Iranian-American Teen · · Score: 1

    It does not matter you'll still get the fine and maybe go to jail. I'm not sure why someone at the employee level would even know about such a restriction.

    Were they harassed/trained by corprat who has been harassed by some federal agency or other?

    The US is the only country who has used nuclear weapons during war. I'd like to keep it that way.

  23. Re:Interesting timing... on AMD To Open-Source Its Linux Execution & Compilation Stack · · Score: 2

    I did. I bought a Sony camera that at the time filled a need. Then the CCD failed and I find I'm fucked because Sony won't fix the known defect. It could make my dick hard, my body 20 and my eyesight 20/5 in each eye and I'd not touch if if it's know to be an evil company that is of questionable moral or ethical character.

    Shopping the market without intelligence is for fools.

  24. Re:well, duh on Bloomberg, WSJ: Student Aid Increases Tuition · · Score: 1

    You need to think to the future, you raise the price 10 percent higher than the gov't will support so that next year they raise the support.

    Then you fiddle with book, lodging, support materials, technology licensing "value added" fess and so on.

    It's a negative entrepreneurial enterprise where there is little risk for the gain maker and all the risk is born by the student product.

    If a school only could get paid a percentage of what the student would make over 20 years they'd be a tad more productive and would want as many fabulous or evil students to graduate as possible.

  25. Idée fixe on Android 4.0 Upgrade For Sony Xperia Smartphones Opens a Pandora Box · · Score: 1

    I would say the people still buying Sony have an Idée fixe about them.
    Like religious nutjobs, fanbois, conspiracy theorists, stalkers, etc

    "An idée fixe is a preoccupation of mind held so firmly as to resist any attempt to modify it, a fixation. "

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id%C3%A9e_fixe_(psychology)

    It's not an official term in case someone has an idée fixe that terms describing psychological conditions Must Be Official.