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  1. Re:Arcosanti II, anyone? on Bill Gates Just Bought 25,000 Acres in the Arizona Desert (kgw.com) · · Score: 1

    There's already a Bellemont, AZ. No one will be confused by a slightly different spelling,

  2. I've seen this specious argument posted many times. It is just that, however: specious. The Public has no ownership interest in government property.

    This came up in a different discussion I was having this week. Arizona has what's called Trust Land. It belongs to the state (people) and is fenced off with no trespassing signs.

  3. Re:Law was clear that Americans shouldn't be spied on The Law Is Clear: the FBI Cannot Make Apple Rewrite Its OS (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    But can Apple break the laws of physics (or math)? A judge can order me to levitate but, at least for now, this is not possible due to the laws of physics.

  4. Re:These are good points, but on The Law Is Clear: the FBI Cannot Make Apple Rewrite Its OS (backchannel.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh, I thought we were bashing Obama here. Instead you started talking about Trump

  5. Re:Another reason to ban rifles on Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it's another reason to relax gun laws. Making it easier for non-criminals to own and carry firearms would make the country a safer place.

    People who intend to commit crimes with guns would think twice or scrap their plan entirely if they knew that everyone else had guns too. Nobody is going to pull a gun when they know that by doing so they'll have a hundred guns pointed at their head.

    Sounds like they wouldn't have worried about it in this case, they shot up a bunch of special needs adults who would never own guns anyway.

  6. Re:Maybe botnet members should be held responsible on Webmail Services Struggling Against DDoS Attacks (fastmail.com) · · Score: 1

    Centurylink - a company with plenty of reasons to hate it - will restrict internet access from machines deemed to be running malware until you talk to them and fix it.

  7. Re:Will it tunnel applications? on Microsoft Publishes OpenSSH For Windows Code (msdn.com) · · Score: 0

    This is how I do it.

  8. Re:This one thing is unlike the other on Why All Boards Need a Technology Expert · · Score: 1

    Boards themselves are elected by the shareholders. That in and of itself is probably enough to guarantee that a board member is not a techie. The IT expert is probably going to be hired on person - who may conflict with the CTO...

  9. Re:Consider TeamViewer instead. on Ask Slashdot: VPN Solution To Connect Mixed-Environment Households? · · Score: 1

    I had trouble getting TeamViewer running on a Debian box. It wasn't worth the time to figure out what was wrong as it worked on a Windows machine.

  10. Re:No on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 1

    But we want to control it at the router, by setting a password. Maybe it's indirect, but anytime someone gets close they get the password if some other person clicked (or left checked) the box sharing the password.

  11. Re:No on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 1

    It's like asking how to keep people you didn't invite out of your house. Really, you are unqualified to admin any network.

    It's more like asking how do I keep people out of my house when they all have a copy of the key that I gave to one person.

  12. Re:Not a bad price on The US Navy's Warfare Systems Command Just Paid Millions To Stay On Windows XP · · Score: 1

    With the pool of XP users dropping dramatically who is researching and finding the bugs for MS to fix? Do we (now) have to wait for breaches before anyone knows there's a bug?

  13. Re:Maybe, but you won't make it past HR on The Tools Don't Get You the Job · · Score: 1

    Excel is pretty good at doing a quick sanity check on a CSV before handing it to an importer. These tools would not have survived as long as they have or be considered as indispensable as they are without being at least marginally useful.

    Only if you only use the comma to separate your fields. I use an export from a database that has commas in the fields so I use the pipe (|) as my delimiter. Excel will not properly open that csv file and will only split the fields on the commas. Open/Libre Office let me select the delimiter - best feature ever.

    Untrue. Excel will open a text file using any symbol of your choice as a delimiter. Maybe old versions didn't use to be able to or something.

    2010 doesn't and doesn't give you the options that I can tell. And I don't control the version.

  14. Re:Zombies or fail over? on 1 In 3 Data Center Servers Is a Zombie · · Score: 2

    I've been in IT Management for 15+ and I can assure you it is a good thing you are not in management. I would lose my job in a heartbeat if production server decided to take a dump and I had shut off all our fail-over servers.

    It's not just a matter of what those fail-over servers costs. It's the question "Can we afford (financially) to NOT have fail-over servers?". If you stand to lose more due to a production server failure than the cost of running a fail-over for a year then you will not EVER wish to be caught without one.

    How is it a failover server if no data has traveled into or out of the machine in six months? Wouldn't you want to keep a failover server up to date (data and software updates) so you don't notice the failover? What good is a failover server if you have to load six months of data from tape? The machine could be off until you need it in that case.

  15. Re:Maybe, but you won't make it past HR on The Tools Don't Get You the Job · · Score: 1

    Excel is pretty good at doing a quick sanity check on a CSV before handing it to an importer. These tools would not have survived as long as they have or be considered as indispensable as they are without being at least marginally useful.

    Only if you only use the comma to separate your fields. I use an export from a database that has commas in the fields so I use the pipe (|) as my delimiter. Excel will not properly open that csv file and will only split the fields on the commas. Open/Libre Office let me select the delimiter - best feature ever.

  16. Re:Purpose slowing down of packets on First Net Neutrality Lawsuit Will Target Time Warner Cable · · Score: 1

    I think that certain traffic is slowed/delayed to give people the impression they need a faster link.

    The traffic that takes the longest to get to me is the 47 pages of included javascript someone convinced a web site creator to use. My page load times would be greatly reduced without all that extra garbage.

  17. Re: Which OS has yet to be compromised? on Unnoticed For Years, Malware Turned Linux Servers Into Spamming Machines · · Score: 2

    When is the +1 button :-)

    It's just a jump to the left.

  18. Re: Not even going to consider it on Internet Explorer's Successor, Project Spartan, Is Called Microsoft Edge · · Score: 1

    Dammit - post to undo improper mod

  19. Re:So? on Futures Trader Arrested For Causing 2010 'Flash Crash' · · Score: 1

    This is just smart trading. I know 100 guys that COULD do this, assuming they had the requisite margin. As long as you place trades on the book that you're willing to fill based on the rules of that market there's no reason why you should be called a 'crook' for that.

    I don't think he was actually willing to fill the trade.

  20. Re:it could have been an accident on Germanwings Plane Crash Was No Accident · · Score: 1

    Protocol, according to some of the talking heads, is that a flight attendant enter the cockpit. This is so that in the rare case of a medical issue with the lone co pilot doesn't in and of itself cause a crash.

  21. Re:So They Must Be Good? on Microsoft Asks US Court To Ban Kyocera's Android Phones · · Score: 1

    Kyocera doesn't have an unlocked bootloader (at least on the Hydro, assume it's pretty much the same across the board) so good luck with CM anything.

  22. Re:One has to wonder on IRS Warns of Downtime Risk As Congress Makes Cuts · · Score: 1

    But the work doesn't lessen with a bad economy. There is still case work to be done and offers to be considered. Most case work is a three to five year or longer look back period. And when the ten year statute is close to closing they tend to really step up enforcement and collections efforts. The year you don't file your own return is the year someone claims your kids on their return or a sleazy preparer convinces you to file return that somehow gets you a much better refund. The year someone is on mostly unemployment income is the year they try to get whatever is coming that much faster - more returns and more fraud.

  23. Re:One has to wonder on IRS Warns of Downtime Risk As Congress Makes Cuts · · Score: 2

    The problem is that IRS is not following the law, none of these organizations have any right claiming tax exempt status under the law: From uscode.house.gov 501c (4)(A) Civic leagues or organizations not organized for profit but operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare, or local associations of employees, the membership of which is limited to the employees of a designated person or persons in a particular municipality, and the net earnings of which are devoted exclusively to charitable, educational, or recreational purposes. But from the IRS pages the wording is changed to To be operated exclusively to promote social welfare, an organization must operate primarily to further the common good and general welfare of the people of the community (emphasis mine)

  24. Re:One has to wonder on IRS Warns of Downtime Risk As Congress Makes Cuts · · Score: 1

    The IRS computer systems upgrades are years in the making. Hell, on the linked article is another article about how much IRS had to pay as they hadn't gotten XP upgraded across the agency. And anything that takes longer than a year will by default spread across filing season, which is actually through Oct 15 or longer as they now accept prior year returns electronically.

  25. Re:One has to wonder on IRS Warns of Downtime Risk As Congress Makes Cuts · · Score: 1

    Technically yes. Fewer people working means fewer people paying income tax, and fewer refunds. It may be a negligible amount though.

    No. They have far more cases of fraud than anyone wants to believe. Cut the IRS budget but don't cry when your refund goes into someone else's account and it takes years to straighten out your identity mess.