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  1. Re:My solution on Ask Slashdot: Using Company Laptop For Personal Use · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Just get your own net book man.

  2. Re:My solution on Ask Slashdot: Using Company Laptop For Personal Use · · Score: 1

    This drive isn't USB 3.0, although not a killer, there's no good reason for it not to be, especially if the company laptop has one. I would look for a drive that has it.

  3. Re:I know, I know, pick me! on Why Did It Take So Long To Invent the Wheel? · · Score: 1

    I think it was becuase they used PowerPoint to present the idea to the tribal cheiftans. Nothing like flashy slides to completely lose the point of the idea.

  4. Re:Another reason on Eric Schmidt: UN Treaty a 'Disaster' For the Internet · · Score: 1

    Two? If by "two" you mean uncountable, you're correct.

  5. Re:I knew it was too good to be true. on LightSquared CEO Resigns Amid Appearance of Bribery · · Score: 1

    I am confusored. Say this guy actually bought Obama, or was some how able to push his technology through, and thier product/service did infact mess up everyone's gps. Did he think the problem would eventually disappear? I mean, wtf kind of long term thinkingis that? There is no way that would have been left alone. I don't see the LT strategy here.

  6. Re:AT&T Investigated on AT&T Should Be Investigated For 'Fraudulent' Data Policies, Says PK · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_Act_for_Fiscal_Year_2012: "The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012 was signed into United States law on December 31, 2011 by President Barack Obama... In a signing statement, President Obama described the Act as addressing national security programs, Department of Defense health care costs, counter-terrorism within the U.S. and abroad, and military modernization.[" He endorsed this little gem.

  7. Re:AT&T Investigated on AT&T Should Be Investigated For 'Fraudulent' Data Policies, Says PK · · Score: 0, Troll

    Direct quote from him during the election: "Mine will be the most transparent administration in history."

    The administration clearly is not. That is evil.

  8. Re:Will this kill Twilight? on Paypal Forces E-Book Publisher To Censor Erotic Content · · Score: 1

    The obvious answer here is to just ban all discussion of sex (1st amendment be damned) and continue to be the laughing stock of Europe and the rest of world who have all grown up and beyond dealing with sex as some kind of weird act that weird people do that normal people need to feel ashamed about (yet continue to buy pornography in record numbers.)

    I love my country but we have some serious problems here.

  9. Re:AT&T Investigated on AT&T Should Be Investigated For 'Fraudulent' Data Policies, Says PK · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, no, no!

    Yeah, he kinda is. Direct quote from him during the election: "Mine will be the most transparent administration in history." We now have back room deals with record labels and the Department of Homeland Security search and seizure of laptops at border crossings and the wonderful National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 which is a direct violation of the fourth amendment. Yeah, he's a real charmer.

    That's something the retarded American public (especially Fox News viewers and Talk Radio listeners) don't get.

    No, of course not. Anyone opposing this guy is obviously evil. Freedom of speech is a gift, until you get into power. Then its a real problem.

  10. Re:What are you waiting for if you're an US citize on Publisher Pulls Supports; 'Research Works Act' Killed · · Score: 1

    Done.

  11. This'll work on France's Bold Drunk-Driving Legislation - Every Car To Carry a Breathalyzer · · Score: 1

    That won't be a mod vector, nooo.... no one will ever think of hacking/modifying the set-set, figuring it out, and selling kits to override the thing, noooooo....

  12. Re:Obviously on Police Find Apple Branded Stoves In China · · Score: 1

    Brings new meaning to the term firewall.

  13. He said he needed to return the underlying OS to its original state. The easiest way to do this is run Linux as a vm, and simply delete the vm image and engine when he's done. Ergo: legitimate reason. So GTFO.

  14. @OP: Erm, why not just VM the Linux environment? No need to change drive geometry, a vm image can be deployed effortlessly to all the machines, and the clean up will be a snap. Is there some reason you need to install a native linux slice on each machine?

  15. Re:"Not a major overhaul"? on Stroustrup Reveals What's New In C++ 11 · · Score: 1

    The biggest addition for me is a fix finally for the smart pointer class. Seems like unique_ptr was a long time in coming.

  16. Re:Good Idea on Microsoft Killing Off Zune, Windows Live Brands? · · Score: 1

    Yes. I consign you to multiple gadget hell for ever and ever.

  17. Re:Good Idea on Microsoft Killing Off Zune, Windows Live Brands? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    That was the difference. Branding. Apple had a thousand brilliant marketing campaigns that sold millions of iPods. The Zune came in shit bown. Never hire the marketing geniuses behind the Zune. Soon it won't matter any more. Anyone who is still buying a device separate from their phone to listen to music needs to have their head examined.

  18. Re:Supremacy Clause on State Legislatures Attempt To Limit TSA Searches · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Thomas Jefferson said that the people should trash the constitution every 50 years ago and re-write it. I believe he's spinning in his grave right now. He was a big believer in states rights. He was a Virginian, and his loyalty always lied with his state, the Fed was just a way to bring unity to the existing 13 to fight off British rule. The Fed has become a monstrous parody of the original vision of the founders. I agree that we can't be a great nation without a strong Fed, but what they have done is a mockery of the constitution, especially with the 2012 National Defence Authorisation Act. This act pretty much trashes the 4th Amendment. And the Fed Bank, nowhere in the Constitution is there any mention or rule that allows for the Federal Reserve Bank system. Next will there will be some "simple, pressing" need for posse comitatus? Perhaps the next occupy walll st. or some other national level demonstration? We've had every president since Carter conduct an undeclared war. That's by design. If you don't believe me refer back to Orwell.

  19. Re:Supremacy Clause on State Legislatures Attempt To Limit TSA Searches · · Score: 1

    Texas has been ready to bolt from the union for years. Reps from many states are hearing from their reps about all kinds of extensive Fed over-reach. Maybe this is the straw that begins a huge Fed reign-in. I for one would like to see that.

  20. Re:Wow! That's some neat Progress! on Is It Time For NoSQL 2.0? · · Score: 1

    Uh, nope. Not kidding, Cassandra

  21. Re:Great for Perl aficionado... on Is It Time For NoSQL 2.0? · · Score: 1

    Many of the key-value pair DBs supply a Perl library...

    Did somebody say MongoDB + PERL?

  22. Re:Wow! That's some neat Progress! on Is It Time For NoSQL 2.0? · · Score: 1

    I think the big deal w/NoSQL is scalability. SQL cannot beat NoSQL in this arena. Not even close.

  23. Re:Wow! That's some neat Progress! on Is It Time For NoSQL 2.0? · · Score: 1

    I can't wait to use SQL with NoSQL 3.0!

    Or to paraphrase Vortex: "I can't wait to build a hammer with a hypersonic toothbrush!"

  24. Re:All HPs fault? Really? on The webOS Features Other OSes Should Steal · · Score: 1

    Creepy huh? Well, we all have our own ideas regarding beauty. But that sprint deal, yeah, that was not a good one for hp.

  25. Re:All HPs fault? Really? on The webOS Features Other OSes Should Steal · · Score: 1

    The Pre had a huge (well, fairly huge) press thing when it came out, and most everyone in the media who had reviewed that I had read/heard said it was a pretty great OS. I still remember the tv ads with that beautiful ginger model caressing the phone. So I d/l'd the sdk and took a quick look, and I liked what I saw. But pretty shortly after HP bought Palm and then went into schizo mode. I think the only real problem was a lot of people complained the Pre seemed slow. Run WebOS on a faster proc and I think you'd have something there. The API and internals really did make a lot of sense, from what I saw of them.