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  1. Re:Trello on Ask Slashdot: Best To-Do/Task List Software? · · Score: 1

    Why is this insightful? It is not self-hosting!

  2. Re:Self-hosting on Ask Slashdot: Best To-Do/Task List Software? · · Score: 2

    Is that self-hosting too hard to get understand? I too have a need for that

  3. Now if Microsoft would... on Senate Passes 'No Microsoft National Talent Strategy Goal Left Behind Act' · · Score: 1

    just lobby for "Leave No American Programmers Behind".

  4. Must make voting mandatory... on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 1

    So sayth the man who missed over 400 roll calls as "Senator Barack Obama."

  5. In NSA America, YouTube watches you! on NSA WhistleBlower Outs Himself · · Score: 1

    Enuf said.

  6. Is it PAE or isn't it? on Linux Nukes 386 Support · · Score: 0

    Woe is me who wants to determine whether the kernal is actually using PAE or not.

    And no, you cannot tell by solely by detecting for the pae flag in the /proc/cpuinfo virtual file.

  7. Johnny Got Hist Gun on Vegetative State Man 'Talks' By Brain Scan · · Score: 1

    (*in Morse code*) "Kill me....Kill me...Kill me...."

    Johnny Got His Gun

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun_(film)

  8. He is not who we think he is.... on Innocence of Muslims Filmmaker Arrested, Jailed · · Score: 1

    "Innocence of Muslims" was produced by Islamists.

    Nakoula Basseley Nakoula is Meth-dealer-Egyptian-Coptic-anti-Muslim-activist-fundamentalist-Christian. Then on the other hand, Eiad Salameh appears to be a Muslim-fundamentalist-Palestinian-scam-artist-terrorist.

    We're being duped again (and that includes me as well) by the ill-informed Media.

    Walid Shoebat has the drop on these guys on his blog.

  9. Until you're force to pay for not joining Army on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 1

    Wait until the next Congress pass an 'inactivity' tax for

    1. not joining the Army
    2. not seeing your proctologists for your annual checkup
    3. not owning a gun
    4. not buying an *exploding* electric car
    5. not buying a thingamajig.

  10. Re:Fine, I'll bite on Ask Slashdot: Why Not Linux For Security? · · Score: 1

    Agreed....

  11. Out with the old, in with the new.... on All-IP Network Produces $100B Real Estate Windfall · · Score: 1

    Out with the old hard-to-sniff network..

    Roll in the easy-to-sniff network.

    Profit!!! Oh, wait.....

  12. iCANN TLD on ICANN To Allow .brandname Top-Level Domains · · Score: 1

    Please put me down for the iCANN TLD.

    I intend to throw it open to the public, first-come, first-serve.

  13. Sound of .... on Facebook, Others Giving User Private Data To Advertisers · · Score: 1

    There's a sad sort of leaking
    From Facebook on your wall
    And the info on your profile, too
    And out to the advertise
    An absurd little Zuckerburg... See More
    Is popping out to say boo-hoo
    (boo-hoo, boo-hoo)

    boo-hoo Regretfully they tell us
    boo-hoo But firmly they compel us
    to be a dumb fuck
    boo-hoo
    To you

    So long, farewell
    Auf Wiedersehen, goodnight
    I hate to go and leave this pretty site

    (Children)
    So long, farewell
    Auf Wiedersehen, adieu
    (Zuckerburg)
    What's new, what's new
    To you and you and you

    (chorus)
    Who care, farewell
    Au revoir, Auf Weidersehen

    I'd like to stay
    And play my first farmville
    (talking to my boss) yes?
    (boss) no!

    (chorus)
    So long, farewell
    Auf Weidersehen, goodbye

    I leave and heave
    A sigh and say goodbye
    Goodbye

    I'm glad to go
    I cannot tell a lie

    I flit, I float
    I fleetly flee, I fly

    Your Privacy's gone
    Back to Reality, so must I

    (chorus)So long, farewell
    Auf Weidersehen, goodbye
    Goodbye
    Goodbye
    Goodbye

    Goodbye

  14. Re: brilliant and dangerous? on Are Quirky Developers Brilliant Or Dangerous? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Try hiring ANY decent coder that works with my former boss's highly impossible deadlines.

    I'm with previous parents. A good fire extinguisher (Asperger's) is handy to have. Deadline gets met, even though the end-result (support and maintenance) sucks.

    Most start-ups are in it for a quick and lucrative exit strategy (post IPO-sale).

  15. Re:Ask them two questions on Choosing a Replacement Email System For a University? · · Score: 1

    Ok, so it's very secured between the University and Google Data Center.. Big whoop.

    How secured is it when Google EULA states that sharing of your aggregates, University IP, patents, and relations with other GMail account holders (and god forbid, your personal) data with other nosey 3rd-party is very EXPECTED?

  16. Leadership: Gentoo-way on Gentoo in Crisis, Robbins Offers Solution · · Score: 2, Funny

    #
    # emerge -C gentoo-leaderships
    # emerge -uDv gentoo-leaderships
    # echo "Deep Leadership Upgrade: Done."
    Here's to hoping that its "package" dependencies don't break.
  17. Comcast: Re-Learn from your 'short' history on Vista Media Center Plus CableCard Equals No TV · · Score: 1

    Failed business models are dime-a-dozen and taught at business grad schools, specifically course MANU555 (Designing Flexible High-Tech Consumer Product).

    Basic Tenets:

          Rigid product = High Returns.

          Failed Head-Ends = Massive Modem Recall

          DRM = Excessive Customer Support = Loss of Interest

    No kidding. Some COMCAST/MS product research department personnel needs to go back to school. We, Slashdotter, would have design this better.

  18. Biggest Colossal Mistake on Driver's License to be the Next Debit Card · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The key to successful reduction of identity theft is the ability for revokation NOT only by grantor (state) or clearinghouse (credit bureaus), but most importantly, the grantee (the end-users).

    Without the end-user being able to revoke a stolen card, the whole system is worth squat, security-wise.

    And none of that clear-text personalized info on the magstrip, thank you very much, NO!

  19. One fact, two facts, red fact, blue fact.... on Microsoft Segments Linux "Personas" · · Score: 1

    First incursion using Linux-Firefox results in SWF-plugin required.
    Second incursion with Window-Firefox resulted in SWF-plugin required. (So? Shoot me! What good is Shockwave to ya?)
    Third incursion by IE-6 (enterprise-edition) resulted in popup blocks.
    Went home and tried it from my VMWare-insulated Windows XP/IE-6, viola!

    After a few human-spidering, about 5 broken or missing URLs (try SharePoint Server), a couple of goodie-but-oldies (2001-2004 trade studies), bragging rights on Level-C or Class 3 OS security integrity rating, PDF files that won't open directly into Acrobat 7.0 (save then open)...

    Fifteen minutes reading the droneful double-speak marketing chime-in is enough to put the browser (not to meantion, your eyelids) into ALT-F4 mode.

    I've resigned to the fact that this website is not current, has excessive marketspeaks and definitely retreading old FUD.

    How about getting the "new" facts (for a change?)

  20. Ultimate Firefox Add-Ons for Privacy/Security on NYT Security Tip - Choose Non-Microsoft Products · · Score: 4, Informative
    As someone who actually AM worried about impending javascript exploits carrying trojans, I have within my Firefox the following Add-Ons (which comes pretty close to perfect security), but still requires a modicum of user awareness during web surfing.... The following Add-Ons are good for Windows, Linux and supposedly MAC OSX.
    1. CookieSafe
    2. Adblock Plus
    3. Flashblock
    4. httpOnly
    5. SafeHistory
    6. SafeCache
    7. IDND
    8. Link Alert
    9. BlockSite
    10. Master Password Timeout
    11. no-referrer0
    12. NoScript
    Other useful support Add-Ons are:
    1. SwitchProxy Tool
    2. User Agent Switcher
    3. Adblock Filterset.G Updater
    For Linux users, I also have this useful add-on:
    1. MediaPlayerConnectivity
  21. Better Existing Alternatives on Vista's TCP/IP Promises and Perils · · Score: 1
    CTCP is like that 'finger' protocol. Useless, alone. You eventually get poked from and into unexpected places.

    To all home, business and corporate admins, you want control? Of which PC can connect to your LAN? Complete with OS versioning and all?
    Best existing methods are in combo:

    1. IEEE 802.1X (wlan_supplicant)
    2. VLAN (IEEE 802.1Q)
    3. IPSec (various IEEE RFCs)
    4. THEN finger protocol
    These options gives LAN administrator absolute power to allow which PC can join their own precious LAN or not.

    Every protocol "enhancement" that came out of Redmond has been demonstrably disruptive and rarely beneficial to the general network community (i.e., evil bit in MIT Kerberos), not to mention, highly inefficient. This stems largely because Microsoft repeatedly failed to engage or brusquely abuse the power of various standards community without proper and sufficient in-depth review of the professional network standard community.

    Vinton Cerf said it best.

    "Be liberal in what you receive and conservative in what you send."

    Use the standard, Luke.

  22. Hint: Check my user name, dude. on Are Background Checks Necessary For IT Workers? · · Score: 1

    Hell, no!

  23. Re:Just buy a domain. on Easy Throw-Away Email Addresses · · Score: 3, Insightful
    NOT SO!!!

    If the mail provider allows account holder to just only REJECT the localname having NO TAG (the beginning part of the email up to the '+' or '-' sign) so that only

    joe@doe.com

    gets rejected...

    BAM!

    Instant selective email address to the following:

    • joe+friends@doe.com
    • joe+family@doe.com
    • joe+slashdot@doe.com
    • joe+spammer@doe.com

    This forces the spammers to even perform MORE dictionary attacks against a SINGLE email address. The longer the +tag, the harder the guessing attack will succeed!.

  24. Video Phone now a preferred communication method on EU Considering Regulating Video Bloggers · · Score: 1

    Get that deaf finger out of your hearing ear! Deaf makes millions of video calls every day.

    Check out the following Video phones immediately available today:

    http://www.sorenson.com/
    http://www.packet8.net/about/video.asp

    Not to mention Gnumeeting, Netmeeting, and a bunch of other H.323/Video applications.

    Any tax on our personal video communication is an unfair one-sided tax to a specific group of people, especially if hearing people can already communicate MUCH cheaper (less than 10 cents per minutes) than deaf people can (tax at a more per minutes or more unfairly by bandwidth).

  25. Trend Forecasting on Interview Lawyers Who Defend Against RIAA Suits · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What current U.S. code, state or local laws are most alarmist or obfuscated with regards to the rights of the end-user using these RIAA-sanctioned distributed online music/medias?

    What area should our local congressperson focus on the most to clarifying the laws regarding distributed online medias?