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  1. Re:I'll need to tell that to my employer on What Beer Can Teach Us About Emerging Technologies · · Score: 2

    No reason to sanitize the kettle. You are going to be boiling stuff in it for at least an hour. That will make it plenty sanitized.

    I have a big bucket I fill with no-rise, food safe, sanitization solution (starsan), I clean everything before I put it away, so I just rise out any dust and drop it all in the bucket. I then fill a spray bottle with solution from the bucket (for spot sanitation). I leave everything in the bucket while not in use. When the boil is done, I pull the immersion cooler out of the solution and cool down the wort, then I transfer all the solution from the bucket it is in to the bottling bucket. This frees up a bucket for fermentation. I transfer the wort to the bucket, pitch my yeast and stick a lid and blow-off tube on it.

    While I do that, anything that touches anything "unclean" gets spot sanitized with the spray bottle (starsan has a 10 second contact sanitation).

  2. Re:Grow Up on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With University Firewalls? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's all fun and games to think that way. Until other people who are paying for that access bitch. Before we filtered content, we would get almost daily complaints from students about people watching porn in the library, or at a kiosk, or the guy who sat in our public area running a business (not a student, but he did pay for a gym membership so he is a paying customer....).

    We would never have enough information to find and catch these people, so we would have to run around with our little "acceptable use policy" trying to find them and get them to sign it. Then hope that if they did it again, we would get enough notice to find them again and get them to sign it... again(you know the administration isn't going to expel a student over it...).

    Then one day a big shot had his kid with him and she saw a student watching some really bad porn. Now we have content filters. (At least that's the story I'm told when I was told to implement the filters). The best part was that big shot thought we always had the filters. They were really mad that IT didn't take it on ourselves to filter content.

  3. Re:It's their bandwidth ... on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With University Firewalls? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I don't want to block websites. It's an extra thing for me to keep up and maintain, I'm called constantly each time some stick in the mud finds a site they find objectionable that the service we use hasn't filtered yet or doesn't think is objectionable. I even personally recommended that we not filter the internet.

    But I'm getting paid to do what I'm told to do, not to do what I think is the best thing for the company.

  4. Re:It's their bandwidth ... on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With University Firewalls? · · Score: 0, Troll

    We sign contracts now for 4 years to go to college?

    So here's some advice.

    1) Do your research before you go to college.
    2) If you don't like your current school, you can *gasp* change schools.

  5. Re:No Refund Terms of Sale on The Dark Side of Digital Distribution · · Score: 1

    When apple removed the google voice apps from itunes I was able to get full refunds for those apps. So they will do refunds.

    When they do a refund, they also screw the developer. The developer eats the full cost of the refund and apple keeps the money they made.

  6. Re:The lesson here isn't about free speech on Man Ordered To Apologize To Wife On Facebook · · Score: 1

    IC 35-47-1-7
    "Proper person"
            35-47-1-7 Sec. 7. "Proper person" means a person who:
                    (1) does not have a conviction for resisting law enforcement under IC 35-44-3-3 within five (5) years before the person applies for a license or permit under this chapter;
                    (2) does not have a conviction for a crime for which the person could have been sentenced for more than one (1) year;
                    (3) does not have a conviction for a crime of domestic violence (as defined in IC 35-41-1-6.3), unless a court has restored the person's right to possess a firearm under IC 3-7-13-5;
                    (4) is not prohibited by a court order from possessing a handgun;
                    (5) does not have a record of being an alcohol or drug abuser as defined in this chapter;
        ----> (6) does not have documented evidence which would give rise to a reasonable belief that the person has a propensity for violent or emotionally unstable conduct;
                    (7) does not make a false statement of material fact on the person's application;
                    (8) does not have a conviction for any crime involving an inability to safely handle a handgun;
                    (9) does not have a conviction for violation of the provisions of this article within five (5) years of the person's application; or
                    (10) does not have an adjudication as a delinquent child for an act that would be a felony if committed by an adult, if the person applying for a license or permit under this chapter is less than twenty-three (23) years of age.

  7. Re:The lesson here isn't about free speech on Man Ordered To Apologize To Wife On Facebook · · Score: 1

    In the state of indiana, just be charged with domestic violence, not even found guilty, but just arrested is enough to never be allowed to carry a firearm in the state again.

  8. Re:This is hardly surprising on Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group · · Score: 2

    Lions have teeth and claws. Humans have brains and engineering.

    That is how evolution worked for us. By your standards we would still be pre-stone age.

  9. Re:Go see the video of the event on Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group · · Score: 1

    In my state you would first need to create gun permits.

  10. Re:If they hadn't brought their drone on Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group · · Score: 1

    Honestly, if the hunters were smart, they would wait them out. I would schedule a pidgin shoot every day. You just show up, leave your guns at home, kick up a nice campfire and drink some beers. Maybe have a sober guy act like he's about ready to get the shoot started and let them waste their time and money trying to get the media to show up and report.

    Eventually they will catch on and not show up, then you actually have a pidgin shoot.

  11. Re:If they hadn't brought their drone on Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group · · Score: 1

    And now I understand why some cultures eat dogs. Pets cause way too many child fatalities due to revenge killings.

  12. Re:What does work? on Antibiotics Are Useless In Treating Most Sinus Infections · · Score: 1

    If you can feel the capsicum then it's not homeopathic.

    Homeopathic = water as medicine. So if it was homeopathic you would be spraying water up your nose.

  13. Re:How many Amendments are left ? on Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You also assume that the police will always be on the side of the government. I don't care who pays me, I'm not killing my grandma!

  14. Re:Inside my HD there are two very important files on Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password · · Score: 1

    Isn't the whole point of whole disk encryption to randomize all free space so you can't tell what is the file and what is the free space?

  15. Re:Inside my HD there are two very important files on Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password · · Score: 5, Informative

    We encrypted our employee laptops with truecrypt. The passwords where 10 character and phonetic. I wrote a small database program that allowed us to keep the recovery iso and the password stored for every laptop in case of a problem. We also required them to physically see us to get their password if it was lost.

    After about 6 months of constant streams of people coming in to get their password, suddenly people stopped asking. A week later we started finding passwords taped to the bottom of every laptop we were servicing.

    So in a nut shell 300 people can't remember passwords that are not their wives names, birth dates, or the name of a pet.

  16. Re:Aluminum Foil in the Wallet on Shmoocon Demo Shows Easy, Wireless Credit Card Fraud · · Score: 1

    my wife bought it for me, but a quick google shows me it looks exactly like http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/8cdd/?srp=1

  17. Re:Dying from lack of surprise... on White House Refuses To Comment On Petition To Investigate Chris Dodd · · Score: 1

    Is the bridge on fire?

  18. Re:Aluminum Foil in the Wallet on Shmoocon Demo Shows Easy, Wireless Credit Card Fraud · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have a RFID blocking wallet. My security badge for work will not scan when inside the wallet (but it will scan inside all my co-workers wallets and my old wallet).

    Same price as a normal wallet and not a bad investment.

  19. Re:No such animal? on Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source Answer to Dreamweaver? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I couldn't imagine how you could keep your code to any real standard and keep it readable while using WYSIWYG product. On top of that, modern websites use javascript and dynamic content all of which those editors just don't handle.

    A better solution is a nice theme and a nice CMS system.

  20. Re:Ugh on Rackspace: SOPA "Is a Deeply Flawed Piece of Legislation" · · Score: 1

    If a government is not allowed to control anything, why do you need a government at all?

  21. Re:U.S. is established on religion, so on America's Turn From Science, a Danger For Democracy · · Score: 1

    So I assume you worship only the oldest surviving religion then?

  22. Re:U.S. is established on religion, so on America's Turn From Science, a Danger For Democracy · · Score: 1

    Actually, in my experience it is?

    Me after reading a science article: "Wow, look what they found, these things show that this may have happend this way, this evidence shares new light on how X might have happened, so exciting."

    Religious Guy: "I can't believe you fall for that Satan trap. All the answers are in the bible, ALL OF THEM! Why do we fund this crap."

  23. Re:U.S. is established on religion, so on America's Turn From Science, a Danger For Democracy · · Score: 2

    Why does something have to be real to have an impact on your life? My life outlook has been changed for the better by many works of fiction. I learned about morals, honor, integrity, what it means to be human, etc from works of fiction. I am not a buddhist nor do I believe buddha was a living person, but my life has been directly changed for the better by thinking about buddhist koans.

    Even if the bible is all a made up story, would it really change any differences made by your belief in it? This is why I do not understand the out right need for religious people to shut down fields of science that come up with findings that contradict the bible. It is not that they are trying to make you atheists, instead they are trying to understand our world and their evidence is just not matching up.

    I think many Christians fight against science because it forces them to face their own doubts. I also think many atheists do the same thing. I am a atheist and I only argue about religion when I see religion holding back progress (trying to ban research because it's ungodly, or not caring about this planet because god will take care of it, etc). I personally do not see any conflict between anything science discovers (evolution, big bang, whatever) and religion. The bible does not say how anything is done, it just says that it was done by god. This also only seems to be a new problem developed by this resurgence of bible literalists, we didn't have this problem in the past because most people understood that the bible is not (especially old testament) to be taken literally. On an aside, isn't it strange that most bible literalists pick and choose what is gods word and what can be ignored based on what would cause them to face this fact?

  24. Re:whatever you do.... on Ask Slashdot: Tools For Teaching High School Kids How To Make Games? · · Score: 1

    I all but scream this at the people where I work. We have two intro to web design classes. One art based with dreamweaver, and one IT based that teaches the exact same thing, only explains some of the HTML. The problem is they both count as the pre-req for the later IT classes. Nothing like someone thinking they know the basics of web design from an art class.

  25. Corona SDK on Ask Slashdot: Tools For Teaching High School Kids How To Make Games? · · Score: 1

    I suggest the Corona SDK. It uses LUA, supports Box2d Physics and it's easy to work with a tilemap editor like tiled to put everything together. Plus, you only need to buy it if you want to publish or sell your app.