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  1. User Perspective. on Ask Slashdot: Giving Users Extra-Firewall Access For Sites Normally Blocked? · · Score: 1

    It is the Company's network connection, block whatever you like.
     
    But, and this is important, have an easy mechanism where a user can submit an url, an admin can verify it is a legitimate business related site, and have the site whitelisted immediately. That way you can block "Big Butt Russian Teens" or whatever, but when the SmartFilter(tm) randomly decides that Fairchildsemi.com contains "adult content, sports, gambling and lotteries" (happened to me) the legit business use is not impeded.

  2. Re:Higher prices for more discomfort on Simple Geometry = More Seats In an Airline · · Score: 1

    Many years ago my regular airline stopped supplying free meals on cross country flights. Since I didn't want to pay $17 for a ham sandich (we like to call it banquet on a bun), and as a mild form of protest, I started bringing my own lunch. Pickled herring and hungarian farmer sausage are ever so yummy, and the garlic, smoked meat and fish smells would fill the nearest third of the aircraft. I got a few dirty looks (thank goodness, or what's the point), but there were no rules against. Since the airline didn't gve a damn, and I was mostly annoying fellow passengers, I eventually toned it down to a less aromtic lunch. (I'm still not going to pay $17 for a ham sandwich).

  3. Re:WoW? on First Games Inducted Into the World Video Game Hall of Fame · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's not how I remember it. There were arcades everywhere and video games in every bar back in the 80's and everybody (not just nerds) dropped quarters in them. Pac man and even more so ms pac man, pole position, galaga, sinistar, tempest, defender, asteroids and a pile of other games being played non-stop by all sorts of people, not just so called nerds.

  4. Re:Private Profiles on Orange County Public Schools To Monitor Students On Social Media · · Score: 1

    Citation Needed

  5. Re:Back in my day, we all died on Is IT Work Getting More Stressful, Or Is It the Millennials? · · Score: 2

    Post of the week! You win the internet.

  6. Good Luck with That on UK's Tories Promise To Enact Age Limits For Viewing Online Porn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do any of your politicians have even the smallest clue how the internet works? Trying to age restrict porn will be as effective as a law banning the sun from rising tomorrow,

  7. Re:talk to me when you lose 100 and keep it off on Hacking Weight Loss: What I Learned Losing 30 Pounds · · Score: 1

    What kind of injuries? Curious to know what would prevent you from doing any sort of exercise. When my feet were f-ed up with plantar fascitis I couldn't run, but I could still do a rowing machine. When I broke my wrist I stopped biking for a few months and used an elliptical instead.

  8. Re:National Museum of the American Indian on A Software Project Full of "Male Anatomy" Jokes Causes Controversy · · Score: 1

    Another Americanism. The term "Indian" is much more common in the USA, in Canada we would say First Nations or Aboriginal. Indians come from India.

  9. Re:I am offended over a lot of things. on A Software Project Full of "Male Anatomy" Jokes Causes Controversy · · Score: 1

    I think that it's an Americanism. In Canada the native people of the high Arctic call themselves Innuit. (I think it means people). Eskimo is considered mildly derogatory (or at least clueless) here - maybe not like calling a black person a nigger, more like calling a Chinese person a Chinaman.

  10. My Dog has No Nose - You Insensitive Clods on Dog Sniffs Out Cancer In Human Urine · · Score: 1

    My dog has no nose.

    How does he smell?

    Terrible!

  11. Re:Dial *666 on FTC Announces $50k In Prizes For Robocaller Trap Software · · Score: 4, Funny

    "That last bit might be a tad extreme..."- Saturation kinetic bombardment from orbit, followed by mop-up squads with flamethrowers and nerve gas. It might cost a little more, but it sends a message.

  12. Re:It is just pay back man! Karma is a bitch or wh on Smoking Is Even Deadlier Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    No need for tinfoil hat. No need for additives. Forty years of straight up selective breeding, cultivation and hybridization have yielded a huge variety of diiferent marijuana strains with all different effects.Check out leafly some time. No chemistry, no secret additives, just 19th century agriculture producing "better" plants.

  13. He better not Pull a Jordan on George R. R. Martin's "The Winds of Winter" Wiill Not Be Published In 2015 · · Score: 2

    If he dies before finishing the series, I swear, by all that is holy and all that is not, that I will find his soul wherever it lands and drag him back to this vale of tears. And then, when his undead shade has finished the series I will kill him myself for being such a dick.

  14. Re:just put a motor on the elevator itself on Engineers Develop 'Ultrarope' For World's Highest Elevator · · Score: 1

    Why do you suppose they generally never do that?

  15. Re:just put a motor on the elevator itself on Engineers Develop 'Ultrarope' For World's Highest Elevator · · Score: 4, Informative

    He has it exactly right. The tension on the cable pulls on the elevator brake to release them. If there is no tension on the cable, ie pulley or cable fails, the cable looses tension and the brakes apply.

  16. Re:Internet Explorer on In Addition To Project Spartan, Windows 10 Will Include Internet Explorer · · Score: 3

    Thats right, dredged. First in buttermilk, then in flour, then one more time in the buttermilk, then in panko crumbs. Dredged.

  17. Re:Left Hander Doesn't Care About Your Problem on Ask Slashdot: Where Can You Get a Good 3-Button Mouse Today? · · Score: 1

    I use a Microsoft Wireless Mouse 5000. Completely symetrical, so it works left exactly the same a right. I mouse left, but I got used to the "left click" on the left. It works fine with the buttons remapped (ie left click on right button) I just don't use it that way. It's nothing special otherwise, and I'm sure gamerz will laugh at it, but it works ok for me.

  18. Re:Cognitive Dissonance on What Will Google Glass 2.0 Need To Actually Succeed? · · Score: 1

    You diidn't answer the question. Are you just going to punch anyone near you who holds up a phone, when you don't know if they are filming you or not?

  19. Re:Beyond borders on Elon Musk's Proposed Internet-by-Satellite System Could Link With Mars Colonies · · Score: 1

    Space is infinite, it is dark
    Space is neutral, it is cold
    Stars occupy minute areas of space
    They are clustered a few billion here
    And a few billion there
    As if seeking consolation in numbers
    Space does not care, space does not threaten
    Space does not comfort
    It does not speak, it does not wake
    It does not dream
    It does not know, it does not fear
    It does not love, it does not hate
    It does not encourage any of these qualities
    Space cannot be measured, it cannot be
    Angered, it cannot be placated
    It cannot be summed up, space is there
    Space is not large and it is not small
    It does not live and it does not die
    It does not offer truth and neither does it lie
    Space is a remorseless, senseless, impersonal fact
    Space is the absence of time and of matter

  20. Re:Memory on Hibernation Protein May Halt Alzheimer's · · Score: 3, Informative

    Very emotional post. Sorry to bring logic into it. Care homes cost a lot of money. $3 - 5 k a month isn't unusual for basic nursing care. If I wanted my relatives money, the very last thing I would do is put them in a home, where they might live another 5 years and burn through every dime they have.

  21. Re:Encouraging quality on How Amazon's Ebook Subscriptions Are Changing the Writing Industry · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Fair enough. However, lets say I just bulk downloaded 25 books by Mr. Hack Writer, and I read enough of the first book to determine it is, for me, crap. I'm still going to delete all 25 books, and one read is all he will score from me. On the other hand, if I like an author I tend to plow through a bunch of their books. Good military sci-fi (don't judge) seems to come in series and I will often read a dozen books by one author. The bad writer will not get zero, but the good writer will still get a much greater reward.

  22. Re:Needless religion bashing. on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 1

    Well, yes, and Lemmy too.

  23. Re:Encouraging quality on How Amazon's Ebook Subscriptions Are Changing the Writing Industry · · Score: 2

    I know we don't RTFA arounf here, but authors don't get paid when the book is downloaded, they get paid when someone reads at least 10% of the book.

  24. Loved it. on Facebook Apologizes For 'Year In Review' Photos · · Score: 1

    I quite liked my year in review. The pictures were from some of my favorite events of the year. Whatever algorithm they used came up with a very nice collection of pictures.

  25. Re:What does this mean...? on Scientists Discover That Exercise Changes Your DNA · · Score: 1

    1. Your balls are not hollow containers, and they are not emptied no matter how many times in a row you masturbate. Sperm are produced in the testes, but are stored in the prostate. 2. Men produce new sperm constantly, but the genetic mutations increase with age, as do the rates of things like schizophrenia or autism in children of older men,