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  1. Phones too on Ruby on Rails Creator Supports After-Work Email Bans (signalvnoise.com) · · Score: 1

    So Hansson doesn't have any on his employees' phone numbers, because he could call them after hours? I would refuse to work for a boss that dumb. My e-mail sent to my boss this Sunday was "What day can I take the server computer to my house?" I assumed he would read it Monday morning.

  2. Is that thirty-one hours or thirty-one days?

  3. RETURN IT on Scientists Propose Biodiversity Lab To Redeem Guantanamo Prison Camp · · Score: 1

    Castro should tell Obama "Your lease is up. As of 00:00 AM January 1 2020, it reverts to Cuban internal territory. Being Cuba, INTERnational law does not count, only INTRAnatinal (Cuban) law counts. We will mortar the power plant, poison the ground water, sink tankers, put holes in the runway. Get all your junk out of here. Until the end of 2019 ships and planes LEAVING Guantanamo will not be interfered with."

    Quantanamo is one of the most shameful things in U.S. history. Why weren't those prisoners taken to Florida? Because the Pentagon didn't want them to have any legal rights.

  4. It seems reasonable to me that San Bernardino county could ask Apple, politely, to please break the encryption. No warrant, no lawsuit, no precedent. Just a customer request.

  5. Re:"If it ain't broke, don't fix it?" on Join the Hunt For the Government's Oldest Computer (muckrock.com) · · Score: 2

    Reminds me of my first marriage. One night, after twenty years, I discovered that it was indeed broke. A light tap, and the whole thing shattered. The most solid things are often the most fragile. It is wiser to periodically evaluate your universe.

  6. If the FBI wins, everyone in the USA will be insecure, and everyone else in the world will buy an iOrange phone from China.

    The constitution says "We the people,,,". not "We the paranoid cops...".

    I'd rather be free than safe.

  7. Re:16.04? on Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS Officially Released · · Score: 1

    I try to always run the same OS version on my laptop as on our server. I apt-get the laptop on Friday and the servers on Sunday, in case there are bugs in the upgrade.

  8. Re:16.04? on Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS Officially Released · · Score: 2

    We skipped 14.04; we're still running 12.04.

  9. Re:16.04? on Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS Officially Released · · Score: 1

    My guess would be the fourth month of 2016...

    A prototype / preliminary / pilot version is already up. When was the official 14.04 version posted? 2014/04/01? 2014/04/30? Or maybe 2016/02/19? When do we trust our servers to a '16.04' binary?

  10. 16.04? on Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS Officially Released · · Score: 2

    I will update to 16.04 LTS when it comes out. When? WHEN?????

  11. Bird? on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1

    Many of the stories, including this one, show a capital "T", then a bird, then "irfs", then a drawing of a little dummy. I live in rural Thailand. For those of us who do not live in Sunnyvale, you should label it better.

    FYI I hate icons. Icons are just another language to learn. I already know English. I don't wamt to see German or Chinese or Icons on Twitter. Thanks.

    Also, whi isn't a blank line good enough for a paragraph break? Like here: This is the last paragraph.

  12. The fact is that the United States government shit on these people. Whether it was 'legal' or not is irrelevant.

    Warning: your government is afraid of you.

  13. Re:Books on How Much Is That Click, Clack Worth? (failuremag.com) · · Score: 1

    If you love books, check out Project Gutengerg (www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page). They publish macine-readable texts of old books. I recently finished "The Wizard Of Oz" from them.

  14. Re:Books on How Much Is That Click, Clack Worth? (failuremag.com) · · Score: 1

    Right now I am am on page thirty of "The Hobbit". All books are paperbacks.

  15. Books on How Much Is That Click, Clack Worth? (failuremag.com) · · Score: 2

    I read constntly. As a child my mother would read to me. On the first day of school, I came home crying because they did not teach me how to read.

    I have two piles of books. I pick a book from the first pile, read it, and put it in the second pile. After 3-4 years the first pile is empty, the second is full, and I switch piles. It's hard to find good English language in Thailand. Mostly I read Louis L'Amour ("Guns Of The Timberlands"), also science fiction ("The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress"), Perry Mason ("The Girl With The Lucky Legs"), and John Grisham ("The Pelican Brief"). If you want to understand me, read "Ender's Game" (Andy's Geme).

  16. Your government is afraid of you. on Ask Slashdot: How To Determine If One Is On a Watchlist? · · Score: 1

    Not part of Thomas Jefferson's plan for democracy. Who is the enemy? YOU ARE!

  17. Re:âoeItâ(TM)s like drinking freaking vo on Massive Hacking Ring Stole Data From 100 Million Bank Customers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Chase sounds good. Most critical, I suppose, is this: if hackers steal your money, does Chase reimburse you? I live in rural Thailand. I don't even trust the Internet cables here. - www.andycanfield.com

  18. Re:âoeItâ(TM)s like drinking freaking vo on Massive Hacking Ring Stole Data From 100 Million Bank Customers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I have no credit card, ne Paypal. I live in a small town and pay cash for everything. "Where you keep your money determines who can steal from you."

  19. and Australia and Antarctica. Brazil?

  20. Safer on San Francisco Still Among Most Dangerous For Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    Thailand has two rules for pedestrians: #1 You can walk anywhere, anytime. #2 If you get hit it's your own fault. Amazingly, it's safer this way. Pedestrians are on the defensive. None of this crap about lying in a hospital bed while your lawyer sues the life out of the car's insurance company, Look both ways before crossing the sidewalk. No cops protect you, so you have to be careful for yourself. Defensive is safer.

  21. 124k? on In Praise of the Solo Programmer · · Score: 1

    The Apple ][ we had had a 64k address space, true. But it was bank switched. Main memory was 60k, as I recall, but the top 4k had an OS function to select an additional 60k that would map into the low-order 60k. So you had a high 4k permanent bank and two low switched banks of 60k each.

    If you stuck to BASIC you never knew this was going on, and maybe it was only the later machines that did this. But us 6502 hackers knew it. A total of 124k.

    It was many years ago; I think it was the top 4k but it might have been the top 8k. I thought it was so neat that Apple was using address lines to bank switch.

  22. Re:67 on Do Old Programmers Need To Keep Leaping Through New Hoops? · · Score: 1

    I attended various Mormon chuches in Thailand and Vientiane for ten years. They are good people - I like them. I respect them. But I could never commit to believing EVERYTHING that any man says, even their prophet, so I never actually joined. Because of this they finally told me to go away. The next time some Mormon missionary hits on you, ask him about "God The Mother".

  23. Re:67 on Do Old Programmers Need To Keep Leaping Through New Hoops? · · Score: 0

    I post under my real name. I gave my web site URL earlier. I am up front about who I am. I don't understand this stuff about 'Viol8'. Why is this a part of your culture? Who are you hiding from?

  24. Re:67 on Do Old Programmers Need To Keep Leaping Through New Hoops? · · Score: 0

    When I met her she was hired as a cleaning lady . but soon rose to waitress. Too fat and ugly to be a dancer.

    Why should I care what you think of me? I walked away from American culture. I would rather die in Thailand than live in the USA.

    I am a polygamist. I have a wonderful photo of three women; all three were my wives. If she wants me she can join the club. No 'excusive' option.

    I don't use birth control but I'm glad you do. People who don't like people shouldn't make more people. I love people. I love children.

    I am an ex-American living in Thailand. Why should I "stick to one woman at a time"? I say "No" maybe 90% of the time, but the ten percents add up.

    My Japanese-American ex-wife used to say that any man is fundamentally faithful - to whatever woman is standing in front of him right now. I'm not trying to make you happy; I'm trying to make her happy. Apparently I do.

    Probably feminists hate me. There are very few feminists in Thailsand.

  25. Re:67 on Do Old Programmers Need To Keep Leaping Through New Hoops? · · Score: 0

    othing mail order. She used to work on Soi Cowboy in Bangkok; I've known her for 15 years.

    For several years I had two wives. The wives and kids and I used to take up an entire row at the Mormon church. FYI I have fathered 7 children; my children have had 5 mothers.