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  1. Re:Don't do personal shit at work on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Take On HTTPS Snooping? · · Score: 1

    I don't usually have time to screw around with phone/text/internet at work. I despise receiving or having to make phone call at work. Corprat email is bad enough.

    I will however have the means to receive communications my employer does not control. If my employer cannot trust the people they hired to work maybe they should look into fixing their incompetence at that. If the company goes down the rathole of excess control I'll walk. I'm getting vibes they're going that way and I don't have to put up with it.

  2. Re:Darwin in action. on Black Death Discovered In Oregon · · Score: 1

    Two decades before Clarke, George O. Smith had that idea. Clarke acknowledged this in the forward to the one edition of the the book "Venus Equilateral"

  3. Re:Don't do personal shit at work on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Take On HTTPS Snooping? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Bullshit. I have my own cell phone and laptop. I can get connectivity at work outside of my bosses snooping. If they try and ban that I'll work around it as I've done in the past.

    If you want it for free go beg government to give it to you. I'm sure that will work out just fine.

  4. Organic processing device on Chords To 1300 Songs Analyzed Statistically For Patterns · · Score: 1

    I prefer organic processing devices. The music sounds so much better. I hate when they crash. *sobs*

  5. Re:So much for definitions... on Adopt the Cloud, Kill Your IT Career · · Score: 1

    I like it. I was using clowd now I can have foggy clowds. :)

  6. Re:Easy - RIM on Which Fading Smartphone Company Is More Valuable To Microsoft, RIM Or Nokia? · · Score: 1

    Both but just buy the IP and gut the rest. Neither company is worth squat in todays market but the portfolio will protect MS while they build up a windows handset. They can get fresh talent and start a company from scratch to their specifications.

    fumbles for hysterically ridiculous font

  7. Re:Stallman is against that and so is the OSS peop on Linux For Navy Drone Ground Stations · · Score: 1

    And hear I thought Linux was a penguin in a nice Che hat. Damn you for spoiling my delusions.

  8. Re:What if? on Linux For Navy Drone Ground Stations · · Score: 1

    I would argue that is only applicable to paying or authorized distributees, throwing them at someone ... I am ambivalent.

  9. What if? on Linux For Navy Drone Ground Stations · · Score: 1

    Will the GPL allow any code changes to be classified? If the end user is the DOD or other entity with access to that level of classified material and they get the source code I believe that is correct.

  10. Re:and you won't get the cheapest. on Google To Require Retailers To Pay To Be In Google Shopping Results · · Score: 1

    Add -site:ebay.com for now this still works but they'd taken away almost every other useful decrapping filter.

    http://www.google.com/search?q=crucial%20memory%20-site%3Aebay.com

  11. Re:not sure on Windows 8: More EULA, Fewer Rights. · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure that's rational. Class action law suits force a whole bunch of people to get 'justice' all at once and in most cases they get squat with the lions share going to the attorneys. I just got a settlement from a bank for over draft gouging for $21 which is about $300 short of the con game they played. If I'd opted out of that and took them to small claims I would have likely gotten a better deal. I of course find this out after I'd applied.

  12. Re:Android != Pi on Another Raspberry Pi? $49 ARM Single-Board Computer With Android · · Score: 1

    Is the hardware completely open?

  13. Re:btrfs needed the work on Linux 3.4 Released · · Score: 1

    Online volume resizing rocks!. For some reason Fedora had sized my root partition too small. After adding a physical volume and resizing the volume group I easily resized the ext4 root partition without rebooting. This was for my desktop.

  14. Re:Wrong on Ron Paul Effectively Ending Presidential Campaign · · Score: 1

    Their called Ronulans, it's not a put down it's just what is. I like Ron but I think he'd get eaten by sharks pretty quickly. It would be in the Lincoln bathroom.

  15. Cat did have my tongue, thank you for pointing tha on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Printing Digital Photos? · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dye-sublimation_printer

    If you want to do it yourself a dye sublimation printer that uses CMYO (Cyan Magenta Yellow Overcoating) on specialty acid free paper is probably your best option. The overcoat makes that face water proof and the overcoat has stabilizers and UV blockers in it. I have been impressed with the quality of the ones I've printed. They are expensive, the supplies are expensive so unless you're going to do thousands of prints they're probably not economical.

  16. Re:No bubble. on How Long Before the Kickstarter Bubble Bursts? · · Score: 1

    Consider them a narcissistic macrodouche who hates it like they hate themselves.

  17. Re:It's a foregone conclusion on How Romanian Fortune Tellers Used Google To Fleece Victims · · Score: 1, Troll

    No it's only a foregone conclusion for inebriated halfwits who'd choose their doctor from a police line up of serial killers.

    The better ones are the ones that you get to know usually through a network of acquaintances. They've been practicing for at least a decade after apprenticing that long. They will have a business license. They have a fixed place of business and fixed prices.They will do standard horoscope and can do the base 12 math. They work with you on interpretation and the results get better as you learn to do the interpretations yourself though they are there to teach and advise. They are professionals and will have solid certificates in what is obtainable for most laypeople such as licensed physical therapist, licensed reflexologist and other certifications that may or may not have state licensing. Some will have counseling degrees and/or psychology degree. There are no formal requirements.

    Having your fortune read is as much a journey as picking a psychologist or other doctor. The 'fortune teller' has as much ability to do you harm as any medical practitioner so chose them as wisely as you choose your doctors.

    I would not have said that a few years ago. They were lumped in with all the other huckers, grifters and frauds. I've met a few people who are not that. I've run out of words.

  18. Re:Of course on Hulu To Require Viewers To Have Cable Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    The part that came before that is monotonous sex sex sex all the damned time sex. Then amazingly there were kids but no sex, no money and no life.

    No one understands *sobs*

  19. Re:Of course on Hulu To Require Viewers To Have Cable Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    THINK of the Kitties!

    Monday: Pet kitties, feed kitties, play with kitties, do something else and be pestered by kitties. All other activities are not important to the kitties even so you should work and make money for the kitties food, toys and elimination needs.

    Repeat daily until they both die and you bury them in their own plot with tombstones.

    Acquire kitties on Monday and repeat...

  20. Re:Two birds with one stoned on Researchers Model Pluto's Atmosphere, Find 225 Mph Winds · · Score: 1

    It's not a planet so you can't get any grants or loans for those windmills. ;)

    You see Pluto is not a planet because of consensus among scientists that it's not a planet. I've yet to see solid proof it's not a planet and there is a dearth of peer reviewed articles which show it's not a planet. It is also very difficult to get these consensual scientists to release the raw data that lead to their consensual conclusion that Pluto is not a planet.

    I say we rid ourselves of these consensual scientists so that Pluto can again be a planet and we can get the grants and use that wind for a good purpose. We have a very good electrical conduit, an artificial astronomical terawatt microwave laser that can pump the entire output of those wind mills in a pulse lasting less than a second. We'd just need to catch that here on Earth and it's all gravy.

  21. Re:Of course on Hulu To Require Viewers To Have Cable Subscriptions · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Have your child play what they've rehearsed over the weekend on Monday, have a nice dinner, then help the kids with the homework then read them a book off gutenburg (well now that they've *ked downloading ebooks, go to one of the scabsites).

    On Tuesday you play a card game the copyright died on a millennium ago or one you just made up, have a nice dinner, help the kids wash the cat/dog or rats to much squealing, dinner is pizza, homework if any.

    On Wednesday you play a board game, maybe one you bought at a garage sale when Gygax was still alive, dinner, homework

    On Thursday you have music appreciation played off of digitized no longer copyrighted works, dinner and homework

    On Friday take the kids out bowling and a little fast food.

    On Sat relax and rehearse for Monday

    On Sunday rest

  22. The same thing you do at work for maintainability on Ask Slashdot: Building A Server Rack Into a New Home? · · Score: 1

    You need to keep the wires and crap out of the way, you need to be able to get to all sides of the unit regardless of what it is. It needs to stay clean.

    While you're building that also integrate the A/V system in and set it up the same way in the same clean room. Have AC, humidity control and filtering preferably HEPA filtering on the incoming AC since it should never have heat you'll want a unit just for that and a temperature control that will keep it at the right temp. It doesn't take much and even if it's a small room it's worth it in the long run. Insulate the room from the rest of the house no sense spending money cooling the house in the winter.

    I've set them up before so they're easy to maintain and easy to rip the hell out and start over. The systems I've installed start and $25,000 as a base with four rooms covered.

    Your TVs should be able to accept streaming video if not trash it and start over.

  23. I called tech support. on U.S. Suspends JEEP Aid · · Score: 4, Funny

    I called tech support for black box router #5. I ended up talking to someone in a call center in the Bronx.

    After about 5 minutes of not being able to understand them I asked to be transfered to India so I could understand them better and get my problem resolved.

    Thank you I'll be here all this century.

  24. Re:a first on TSA Tests Automated ID Authentication · · Score: 1

    No, it's a sign of institutional stupidity they're trying to compensate for. What is different between ID in the US and in Israel?

    What the goal will become is biometrics regardless of how flawed that is.

    TSA is more about terror than what they claim to be preventing.

  25. Re:If you use AnonPaste you're one of them on Anonymous, People's Liberation Front Build Anonymous Data-Sharing Site · · Score: 1

    Not posting that up front is disingenuous at best and why should I work to find it when it's something you're pushing?