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  1. Re:A Clockwork Orange on Using Classical Music As a Form of Social Control · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It is a human melody played on the flesh of the incompetent. Those too feeble to know good from evil, right from wrong. Graphitist and rapists alongside murderers and thieves. I shall enjoy you trogs being ground to dust. Defilers of space and wisdom that you are.

  2. Re:Orange and purple are more professional? on Ubuntu Gets a New Visual Identity · · Score: 1

    It was bovine and now it's big bird. It now matches it's dumbed down to pablum functionality with emacs prophet hacks.

  3. Re:bzip2 on Long-Term Storage of Moderately Large Datasets? · · Score: 1

    It depends on the plastic. Cockroaches eat the epoxy out of printed circuit boards. Matushita service center rep told me that and gave me the bulletin which is alas long gone.

    It could be useful. I keep laying on the restriction that it must be reasonably trivial for this years average citizen to decode and a concerted effort for earlier. They would probably not have easy access to a microfiche to computer device. At one time I considered film negatives that could be scanned into a computer but film is dying and doing so faster than I thought it would.

    I'd love it if the storage medium could be stored with instructions that could guide a post disaster civilization into decoding them. A Matroska format that tells you how to open the first layer which tells you how to open the second..etc

  4. Re:bzip2 on Long-Term Storage of Moderately Large Datasets? · · Score: 1

    It would take approximately 5242.88 pages to store 1 gigabyte. This comes up from time to time. Laser printed pages will not store well over time. The toner degrades and if the pages are stacked together you lose all the sheets. Some inkjets have ink that will not glue the pages together but some ink will migrate and some is nutrient source for bacteria.

    One of the better printed codes I've seen uses this http://microglyphs.com/english/html/dataglyphs.shtml As an added bonus this coding can be printed with varying widths so that the data is encoded yet what is displayed is a photo. This is a form of stegonography.

    So you could get your local news paper to print the data and yet still have data for people to view and your data would be stored for how ever long that newspaper edition would be archived.

  5. Hardened Desktop - SELinux? on Aurora Attack — Resistance Is Futile, Pretty Much · · Score: 1

    Currently I've been attempting to convert my Fedora system from SELinux working in targeted mode to strict mode. I found that numerous programs I'd like to run and that are provided will not work with SELinux without giving them permission to do insecure functions. So far several programs violate SELinux execmem rules when enforced. There is no way for a non-coder to fix this. One problem for a VLSI IDE I want to run is the TK interpreter 'wish'. Most of the others are 3D tools or games.

    I will at some point weed out that garbage and run this in strict mode. This is a slow process.

  6. Re:Why? on Repo Men Using New Technology To Track Cars · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You stink like a grammar gNazi.

  7. Re:Why? on Repo Men Using New Technology To Track Cars · · Score: 1

    Public records must be public. if you don't want a government record to be public don't allow them to make it. Get rid of the licensing scheme and license drivers.

  8. Re:Don't let the States hear about this on eBay Urges Rethink On EU Plan's "Brick and Mortar" Vendor Requirement · · Score: 1

    Indiana has a state, county and city tax. And we have an innkeepers tax which screws our visitors who stay at hotels/motels. Stay OUT of this grubby little town and you'll be better off.

    http://www.in.gov/dor/index.htm
    Marion County Innkeepers' Tax -- Effective Sept. 1, 2009, the Marion County Innkeepers' Tax, which includes the city of Indianapolis, will increase from 9 percent to 10 percent for the rental of accommodations provided for less than 30 days in Marion County.

    7% sales and 1% or 2% 'beverage' tax. RV/boat/car/commercial vehicle tax which varies widely and vary if new or used.
    Buried where I can't find it counties can add sales tax of some amount. Utility sales tax. Vehicle rental sales tax. Gasoline sales tax.
    http://www.in.gov/dor/3504.htm

    Then there's the random driving tax.
    http://www.speedtrap.org/

  9. Re:But better than not finding out at all. on Microsoft Confirms Update-Linked BSODs Required Compromised Machines · · Score: 1

    That seems a harsh way to find out that your Windows machine has been rooted.

    I wish every update had such a botnet killer in it. Damn that would be sweet. I'm tired of the spam and the bandwidth killing. Failing that we could enact a government tax of 25cents an email. HA!

    Q: Would it be possible to run a hypervisor as part of an OS so that the OS maintainer be it the evil empire or ahbuntu could detect and eradicate malware and virii? I've done similar with ghost in the past but I am not up to speed on virtual machines yet.

  10. Re:On OS X... on Next Flash Version Will Support Private Browsing · · Score: 1

    Is this like the immutable bit?

    I'm to the point of spawning a bunch of ram drives when I start firefox which are destroyed when I close it.

  11. Re:Have you tested the UPS lately? on UPS Setup For a Small/Mid-Size Company? · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.apcupsd.com/

    Apcupsd can be used for power mangement and controlling most of APC's UPS models on Unix and Windows machines. Apcupsd works with most of APC's Smart-UPS models as well as most simple signalling models such a Back-UPS, and BackUPS-Office. During a power failure, apcupsd will inform the users about the power failure and that a shutdown may occur. If power is not restored, a system shutdown will follow when the battery is exhausted, a timeout (seconds) expires, or runtime expires based on internal APC calculations determined by power consumption rates. Apcupsd is licensed under the GPL version 2.

    The developers system
    http://matou.sibbald.com/cgi-bin/multimon.cgi

  12. Re:This might explain why he was working with AES: on Ex-Pirate Bay Admin Launches Micropayment Service · · Score: 1

    Kind of sad performance but maybe someone can fix it.
    http://math.ut.ee/~uraes/openssl-gpu/

    18.5Gbps?
    http://developer.amd.com/gpu_assets/AES.pdf

  13. Can someone write a ranomization app for that? on Google Buzz — First Reactions · · Score: 1

    How about a plugin to Firefox that randomly searches innocent words and phrases in the background. Maybe issue a click that goes to a various websites but aborts the page load without being considered a dos. Maybe someone can come up with a click pattern that smooths out your information so you look as bland as a Midwestern housewife.

  14. Re:Simple Search on Paypal Reverses Payments Made To Indians · · Score: 2, Informative

    We gave to the indians and then took it back. We are the indian giver.

  15. Re:I could be stupid on Israeli Scientists Freeze Water By Warming It · · Score: 1

    Defects in the container can help it to freeze. It can also help to prevent superheated water in the microwave. I've come close to being burned by this effect.

    I remember one time when younger smashing the ice in a puddle with my foot while running and the water underneath making a cracking sound after a second. It was odd enough for me to stop and look. It had frozen solid in an instant. It had a odd pattern to it but I was more interested in getting to some place warm so I didn't really stay and examine it.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeWQ72X-YnM

  16. Yes, currently running in 2D... on Red Hat Exchange Is Dead · · Score: 1, Informative

    I am running Fedora 11 and did a normal update. Now I can't get into X. I had to rip out all the ATI drives I'm getting from rpmfusion because they did an update but neglected to provide the proprietary ATI drivers. This is an ongoing problem with them being stupid gits. Yes I've turned them off and I'll run 2D until I can scam a college license for windows 7

    Tell me what good is open source if it doesn't work? If audio stutters and dies? If I cannot depend that long term features will not be ripped out in a fury of religious (emacs) righteousness?

    I don't want to fuck with fixing shit anymore I have shit to do.

  17. Re:My Personal War: on USPTO Won't Accept Upside Down Faxes · · Score: 1

    Just use faxattax and send them an infinite length black page. It won't be upside down now will it.

  18. The Audi 5000S had such an issue on Toyota Pedal Issue Highlights Move To Electronics · · Score: 1

    They company claimed user error and installed all the assinine interlocks which are only enablers for muggers and rapists and not a safety feature. During this 'upgrade' there is a software modification but it's undocumented. They got away with it even though several people were killed.

    We still need a death penalty for corporations that kill and there is any reason to suspect malice or coverup.

  19. Re:Marbling good. Greasy bad on Using Infrared Cameras To Find Tastiness of Beef · · Score: 2, Funny

    The bacterial steak recipe sounds like some ant-meatist trying to kill stupid people. I salute them for trying to get the stupid out of our collective gene pool.

    Maayte Maayte Maayte it's Whot we want to aayte.

  20. Re:Oleic acid. on Using Infrared Cameras To Find Tastiness of Beef · · Score: 1

    Perfect! Why can't we just do a Cajun injection of it? :)

  21. H&K hated me for so long. on Gun With Wireless Arming Signal Goes On Sale Soon · · Score: 1

    Why should I buy their crappy black rifle now? There are SO many. Hell S&W, the darling British compan that bled itself so white less cerebrally challenged people took it over have a black rifle for under 800. That is pretty amazing since you couldn't get a screw from them for under 50 bucks.

    Monster Hunter speaks
    http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2007/10/09/hk-because-you-suck-and-we-hate-you/
    He's pretty good and a good author. http://www.amazon.com/Monster-Hunter-International-Larry-Correia/dp/1439132852

    H&K can bite me the same as Ruger.

  22. If the person is disarmed on Gun With Wireless Arming Signal Goes On Sale Soon · · Score: 1

    They can be beaten and maimed or killed with the brick pistol. Stabbed with a poorly sharpened thrift store knife. Doused with lighter fluid and burned. Flayed. Blinded, raped etc and etc and etc. Having that gizmo on it accomplishes nothing but 'security theater'.

    You can mitigate most assaults. I've done so with pretty good voice acting skills that convinced the suspected bad guy I was not an easy target. In only a few cases have I had to do anything more. I know where everyone was around me when I am not in a protected place. I never let them get too close. I was not doing my nails, bullshitting on the phone, texting, whining on the phone to my GF/BF that my pussy/cock hurt or other Darwin award winning activities.

    Why this is considered technically newsworthy is beyond me it's more of a troll. For 14,000 dollars I can buy more guns than my home town rural police department.

    FWIW you can buy a rather awesome Russian target pistol for under 400 or a Beretta Neos for under 300, they quit making the 7.5 inch barrelled one. http://www.gunblast.com/Paco_Beretta-NEOS.htm

    If you want to be good enough to carry a pistol and not be beaten to death with it train more than the cops. Read Massad Ayoob and Col. Jeff Coopers books and articles to know some of what a rational adult needs to know to carry a pistol. This is not something where a technical solution is viable unless it's something that has been beaten on for a century. Hell name me something electronic that lasts a year. I can still fire a WWII 1911A1 that has only been maintained and have it just work.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Cooper
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massad_Ayoob

    One feeble benefit of this gadget might be to keep your kid or others kids from using it. IMAO if your kid is old enough to pick it up you should have already been training them on how to use it. It is a significant right of adulthood in the United States and not teaching them is an abrogation of your duty to the. Knowing some precocious 7 year olds that gizmo would stop them for under an hour.

  23. Re:Great news on Gates Foundation Plans To Invest $10B Into Vaccines · · Score: 1

    If I come and defraud you and your family out of the money and give it to the puur is it good or evil. If I do this several million times and manage to avoid prosecution is it good or evil?

    Even if the money was snow clean he's doing missionary work and missionaries are the greatest tool of evil ever devised.

  24. Re:Google on 2 Displays and 2 Workspaces With Linux and X? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes but sometimes it devolves into a 9mm vs .45acp debates which never ends.

  25. Re:It's what's for dinner. on Darwinian Evolution Considered As a Phase · · Score: 1

    And they tug on the wrong tube.