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  1. Re:Enough with the cloud crap already!! on Dropbox Wants To Replace Your Hard Disk · · Score: 2

    Yes you do. Well, maybe not *you*, but most people do. Let me present you the future of computing. One day, you won't own a computer. Period. You will walk up to any obsidian black glass table and activate a screen session from anywhere on it. Doesn't matter if it's in your friends house, the hotel, wall, kitchen table. Doesn't matter. From this screen session, you will put in your user credentials and process data via thin-client activity. Everything will be in the cloud.

    THE WORLD WILL BE A GIANT IPAD!!! There, I said it!

    Marketing departments and hipsters around the world erupt in applause lasting -hours-! Paramedics are on scene to assist with dehydration due to all the tears of joy draining people of precious water. "It's the second coming of Christ" they all say. One person was reported to have said "I was once an atheist, now I found God everywhere." He even tweets back and posts on my Facebook *crying more from joy*. Quick! someone get her some water!

    That's the future alright. Yup.

  2. Re:Fuck 'em on Police, Copyright Industry Raid Movie Subtitle Fansite · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's the entire point. The don't want a master DVD with all languages. They profit by keeping regional copies separate. They're pissed that this fan site undermines their profit margins by making this all open on the Internet.

  3. Re:Really?!? on Orson Scott Card Pleads 'Tolerance' For Ender's Game Movie · · Score: 1

    Marriage in is one of the oldest traditions in human history. Long before Christ. Civilization is rather recent concept by the standards of our species age. The problem with polygamy is that it puts many of the females into the hands of the view men. It's no longer a 1 to 1 ratio. This is a dangerous in that it foments cultural jealousy among men. This doesn't happen over night. It takes a generation or two eventually leading to war and the breakdown of modern civilization.

    Basically, the way I see it you can really only pick between the two. Advanced civilization, or polygamy. Do we want to go back to our natural urges, or pave a new path to societal prosperity?

  4. Re:We need a new class of 'ultralight' cars on Volkswagen Concept Car Averages 262 MPG · · Score: 2

    Formula 1 race cars are designed to shatter upon major impact. It take the energy and throw it away from the driver. At the very least, the carbon-fiber monocoque (tub) that the driver sits in will be the last line of defense .

    Did you know that during his high-speed crash at the Canadian Grand Prix in 2007, Robert Kubica was subjected to more than 28 times the acceleration of gravity? This meant that his body effectively weighed two tons instead of 73 kilograms. Millions of spectators expected the worst, but thanks to the strict safety precautions in Formula One racing Kubica suffered only minor bruises. formula1.com

  5. Re:Then windows is well and truly dead... on The Black Underbelly of Windows 8.1 'Blue' · · Score: 1

    Ya, right up until Windows rolls out a security update that bans all 3rd party program from modifying the UI in this way. Basically, you don't want an enterprise deployment of Windows 8 with Classic Shell installed. One day, employees may walk in the office only to find it's no longer working. It's a problem because they've become dependent on this behavior as though it's normal. It's not. It's Windows 8 native behavior.

    If you want a native Start Menu, stick with Windows 7 or below. Otherwise, look to change platforms all together. Above all, make sure it's supported end-to-end for your working environment or you will be walking the plank and out into the unemployment line.

  6. Re: Corporate executives are smart. on America's Second-largest Employer Is a Temp Agency · · Score: 1

    But Obama said it wasn't a tax. Yet, that was the argument put forth by SCOTUS. So Obamacare is constitutional now because it's a tax.

    Obama is the Teflon Man. Nothing will stick to this guy. "He can do no wrong" is his motto. He's the only man who financially rapes an entire nation and gets praised for doing so.

  7. Re: lack of unions and workers rights on America's Second-largest Employer Is a Temp Agency · · Score: 1

    I've worked both blue collar and white collar jobs. Both bring their own set of problems. Both can also pay out big.

    With white collar, you face a more sedentary lifestyle, long hours, and high level of stress. Both social and emotional. This leads to all sorts of cardiovascular problems later in life. Stoke, heart attack, etc.

    With blue collar, the pay is usually lower with exceptions depending on skill level and responsibilities. Most of the time you work just 40 hours and can take pleasure not having to take work home with you. While physically exhausted, your mind is free and happy from all ties to work related BS after hours. Unfortunately it can take a physical toll on the body. One mistake and you could be out of the job or lose your life.

    As a sysadmin, I'm gray collar. Worst of both worlds (for me). The work is steady and the pay is good however.

  8. Re:Absolutely Nothing on MIT Project Reveals What PRISM Knows About You · · Score: 2

    I thought places like Google and Yahoo retain e-mail for several years in order to facilitate all future subpoenas. Who's to say the NSA doesn't have access to a shadowcopy of these e-mails directly on the server/s?

  9. Re:CompuTrace on Ask Slashdot: Good Tracking Solutions For Linux Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's my understanding as well. But I'm going to guess a strong possibility of the drive being replaced and reinstalled with some variant of Windows anyways. If it's a Dell, they'll just use the OEM reinstallation media that matches the COA label to bring it back to OOBE (factory) prior to selling it online. Once it connects to the Internet, it phones home.

  10. CompuTrace on Ask Slashdot: Good Tracking Solutions For Linux Laptop? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Depending on the laptop (in BIOS), you can use CompuTrace with Dell laptops.

    http://www.absolute.com/en/products/absolute-computrace

  11. Re:More important than using recycled stuff on Improving 3-D Printing By Copying Nature · · Score: 1

    A lot of stuff is already designed to be recycled. The problem is the separation process. It's extremely labor and time intensive to do this. More so than making the actual product to begin with.

    Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. In that order. Burning the trash to reclaim thermal energy (power generation) would fall under "Recycle".

  12. Re:These come out every month on Critical Security Updates Coming To Windows XP, 8, RT & Server · · Score: 1

    Correction: Patch Tuesday is the 2nd Tuesday of every month, not the first. As a sysadmin, it's in my Outlook calendar as a reoccurring scheduled event.

  13. Re:The America I believed in never existed on Lincoln's Surveillance State · · Score: 1

    Narcism, hubris, decadence, greed, violence, corruption. That's what "The Left" has been pushing for. Absolute moral depravity so as to not be personally judged or persecuted. Well, the left is winning for now. It's all cyclical. Eventually it all come crashing down and thus a cultural reboot will occur. Sooner or later.

  14. Re:Expected on Detroit's Emergency Dispatch System Fails · · Score: 2

    You don't have a clue. Sorry, but you don't. Unions no longer serve this nation in a global economy. They did when we didn't have OSHA standards, but that's about it. It's now swung so far the other direction as to become parasitic. Unions are nothing more than a protection racket with their pimp-lords funneling money into politics.

    Also, we are headed out of stagflation and into inflation just as it happened in the 1980s. It's inflation that causes a rift in wealth inequality. But idiots on both sides of the isle want to spend money we don't have. Republicans spend on defense policing the world while Democrats spend domestically on stupid-ass projects and programs that don't do anything constructive or cohesive for our own national self-interests; only theirs (the Democrat party). But what the hell, they can just print more money and push the hot potato of debt further down the line. Why not? They get first spending rights to all new wealth created thus diminishing your own savings. That's assuming you even have any. It's like a sideband form of taxation in effectiveness without actually being a "tax" in the true meaning of the word.

    In theory, both "trickle down" and "trickle up" policies will work in so much as they move money. It's the momentum that drives the economic engine. Now personally, I subscribe to the "trickle down" approach. However, even I will settle for "trickle up" rather then complete gridlock. Again, so long as it's based on sound policies (which they rarely are). The problem we face is a "trickle out". This nation is hemorrhaging wealth and opportunity. That's globalism. That's what happens and will continue to happen until a certain equilibrium is reached. Normally this kind pace happens at a steady rate. As you should know, the Internet changed all that. It was a shock to America's status quo of spending, taxing, and inflation. Now we are arguably in a financial death spiral with the BRIC nations so desperate to leave the US Dollar as the worlds reserve currency.

    So what's the solution? There is none. Just watch it burn. Germany and Argentina have a lot to say about hyperinflation. Just ask them!

  15. Re:Expected on Detroit's Emergency Dispatch System Fails · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Globalism. This is what happens when it's cheaper to move automotive manufacturing overseas only to be compounded further by the unions squeezing out all the profits and stonewalling the change that's necessary to survive. It's one giant death spiral that was enviable. We've had ghost towns in the past, there's no reason to think we wont have them again in the future. Hell, Midland TX (currently a boomtown) might be the next one should all the fracking stop via legislation.

  16. Re:War! on Mystery Intergalactic Radio Bursts Detected · · Score: 1

    Does plutonium naturally occur in such concentrated amounts as to go super-critical (boom)? If not, it might give off a unique signature in that it represents intelligence via advanced detection methods. Such a explosive device from plutonium can only be created by intelligent life, right? The fact it wasn't a wise idea is an entirely different thing however.

  17. Re:lol on Oracle Quietly Switches BerkeleyDB To AGPL · · Score: 1

    So basically, AGPL is just poisoning the well waters here intentionally?

  18. Re:War! on Mystery Intergalactic Radio Bursts Detected · · Score: 1

    Until we can actually leave the solar system if not the entire galaxy (physics not withstanding), perhaps it would be best to keep a low profile; as in don't announce our presence. If aliens can reach Earth, it would be easy for them to track down other colonies nearby and commence with the extermination.

  19. Re:Out of curiosity... on Launch of India's First Navigation Satellite Successful · · Score: 1

    Which phones support multiple forms of global navigation? I was under the impression that both the iPhone and Android supported only GPS along with a non-documented list of local WiFi SSID as backup for when GPS fails.

  20. Re: This is mostly outdated service on Microsoft To Shut Down TechNet Subscription Service · · Score: 1

    No, just the SMB market...for now. They already shit-canned their SBS lineup and replaced it with Server 2012 Essentials. Basically an amped up version of home server that hosts AD. And unlike SBS 2011, there is a 25 user CAL limit with no built-in Exchange. You can add one as another physical server or VM, but Exchange can't be installed directly on the same 2012 Essentials installation. MS wants the SMB market shoved to Office 365.

    By the way, Office 365 hosted Exchange is nice. It's had some teething problem at launched (even after extensive BPOS experience), but it's a nice service.

    Anyways, there you go. That's the future for SMBs and a giant middle-finger to small managed service providers.

  21. Re:Yet another great argument... on D.C. Awards Obamacare IT Work To Offshore Outsourcer · · Score: 0

    Free market capitalism works great - when you're not depending on government and/or how much they spend of your tax dollars.

  22. Re:Weekly/Monthly Salary on Employers Switching From Payroll Checks To Prepaid Cards With Fees · · Score: 1

    Your employer may also not offer healthcare and pay the fine (it's cheaper for them) and stick you with Obamacare. That's if they don't already make you a "contractor" and shift all the liability to your ass too. All the risk, none of the reward. That's the future of corporate america for the majority of Americans.

  23. Re:And how do we know these are legit? on WA Post Publishes 4 More Slides On Data Collection From Google, Et Al · · Score: 1

    I doubt anyone on this forum will have the balls to say it and stand by my statement. But I honestly believe that the world is living in a time of great evil not unlike just prior to WW1. It's spooky. And not all the geeky technology in the world is going to save us from our own wrath and oppression.

  24. Re:As a concerned Canadian on WA Post Publishes 4 More Slides On Data Collection From Google, Et Al · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In Soviet Russia, Google searches YOU!

  25. Re: we ditched vmware for xenserver 2 years back.. on XenServer 6.2 Is Now Fully Open Source · · Score: 1

    Fuck you! You fascist Nazi fuck! This is Slashdot. Learn to take the good with the bad. Being able to post AC is necessary regardless who abuses it.