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  1. Re:An educated workforce on Is Montana the Next Big Data Hub? · · Score: 1

    Modern cattle ranching actually requires a ton of education if you want to be at all successful at it.

  2. Re:It can be a good thing too on Ask Slashdot: Can Commercial Hardware Routers Be Trusted? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Like RSA or Microsoft?

  3. Re:So he was clever enough ... on Harvard Bomb Hoax Perpetrator Caught Despite Tor Use · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He called in a bomb threat to delay taking a final. This is a dude that has already shown that he has poor decision making skills.

  4. Re:Word unlocked. on North Korea Erases Executed Official From the Internet · · Score: 1

    Hell, there's YouTube videos showing this. They had to have a bell ring to let people know it was safe to stop clapping.

  5. Re:This gets funding on NuScale Power Awarded $226 Million To Deploy Small Nuclear Reactor Design · · Score: 0

    citation needed

  6. Re:Attention Citizen on Open Source Beehives Designed To Help Save Honeybee Colonies · · Score: 2

    Yes, because light, temperature and humidity values are highly valued by the intelligence community.

  7. Re:What a Luddite on Moore's Law Blowout Sale Is Ending, Says Broadcom CTO · · Score: 2

    Let me guess, you're a huge Ray Kurzweil fan.

  8. 3.. 2.. 1.. on Indian Mars Probe Successfully Enters Sun-Centric Orbit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Countdown to a flood of unfunny, racist Indian call center jokes...

  9. Re:Branding matters, both for consumers and for on Microsoft May Finally Put Windows RT Out To Pasture · · Score: 5, Funny

    Congrats, I think you've come up with more solid ideas than the MS marketing department has in the last 5 years.

  10. Get rid of spam? on Glut In Stolen Identities Forces Price Cut · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, if I'm to follow the reasoning of this article, if we all use weak passwords , the market gets flooded and they all go out of buisness?
    SWEET
    password:password, here I come!

  11. Re:Brother PT65 label maker on Ask Slashdot: What's On Your Hardware Lab Bench? · · Score: 1

    Personally, I go with a roll of masking tape and a sharpie.
    No typing, no wrangling with menus to get special characters or to switch fonts. No vendor consumables lock-in.

  12. Re:Coming soon: on 2-D MMOG Glitch Released Completely Into the Public Domain · · Score: 1

    Pr0n edition....Glitchen were rather sexless, so I fail to see the allure of that.

    You must be new to the Internet. Do you need the services of a guide?

  13. The official went on to say that he totally heard that the Justice department has a big basket of puppies waiting in the office to give to Julian [Assange] if he just drops by by next week.

  14. Re:Why? on Google Chrome 31 Is Out: Web Payments, Portable Native Client · · Score: 1

    Browsers have been slowly becoming self-contained OSs for a decade now.

  15. Re:Btsync on Ask Slashdot: Simple Backups To a Neighbor? · · Score: 1

    That's an overly narrow view. Yeah, if you're dealing with sensitive data then btsync probably isn't for you. But for making sure that you've got backups of your music, photos, etc it's by far and away the simplest and most headache-free backup system I've ever used. But frankly, if your data is that sensitive, you shouldn't be storing it on a 3rd party server anyway.

    As for losing access to your data, there is no centralized server - it's all P2P. BtSync could get hit by an asteroid tomorrow and I'll still be able to get to my data just fine. Sync is purely a synchronization protocol. All your data is in the native directories on the respective machines. Encryption is something you have to handle seperately. (BT is planing integrated encrpytion in future Sync releases but I'm not sure I would trust a closed source security system for any data)

    Also, there is an OSS effort to reverse engineer the Sync protocol and to release an open source client. When that comes out, I'll probably switch over but in the meantime, Sync is a great way to keep files backed up.

  16. Btsync on Ask Slashdot: Simple Backups To a Neighbor? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Bitorrent sync is a very simple way to go if you don't want to be too worried about backup administration. Just set up a read-only share for directories on the remote machine and put password protected encryption on the remote share.

    That will give you at least some measure of protection from the remote server owner reading your files and they won't be able to nuke your local copies. Btsync is the most no-fuss, transparent backup solution I've used so far. I've got 4 personal machines that it's syncing right now and aside from a couple minor issues in earlier releases, it's been reliable, fast and has a minimal amount of administration you have to deal with.

  17. Sweet... on Kepler-78b: The Earth-Like Planet That Shouldn't Exist · · Score: 1

    ...That's one rainbow world down, we'll be swimming in sweet, sweet Melnorme trade credits in no time now.

  18. Re:The old days on The Chip That Changed the World: AMD's 64-bit FX-51, Ten Years Later · · Score: 2

    I'll second that. You haven't known pain until you try to get Ultima 7 to run on a system with a Proaudio Spectrum 16 sound card.

  19. Re:Don't mess with America on Trans-Pacific Cable Plans Mired In US-China Geopolitical Rivalry · · Score: 2

    I'm pretty sure the parent was being sarcastic, man.

  20. Re:Next year's news... on CubeSats Spurring Satellite Revolution · · Score: 2

    There are currently almost 20,000 pieces of space debris at least 5 cm in diameter that we are tracking. The addition of a few hundred CubeSats which generally have a short lifetime in orbit is not a significant increase in the orbital space debris load.

  21. Re:it would be easy to gather the evidence on Security Researcher Attacked While At Conference · · Score: 4, Informative

    RTFA, dumbass. She did report it but the Polish police declined to file a report.

  22. Re:Orbital pickup truck on Helium Depleted, Herschel Space Telescope Mission Ends · · Score: 1

    Look up Project Orion. It turns out that making that kind of shock absorber is actually quite technically feasible. Somewhat ironically, riding to orbit on a stream of nuclear fireballs is a lot simpler than how we're doing it now. One big advantage is that you are no longer mass-limited and so you don't need to make as many compromises to the system design to keep things light.

  23. Re:What the hell on Will Donglegate Affect Your Decision To Attend PyCon? · · Score: 2

    Political correctness is the worst travesty to ever have been foisted on western thought Ever.

    Huh. So colonialism and fascism got bumped from the top by annoying busy-bodies that occasionally result in people losing their jobs...

    Sit down and take a damn chill pill man. Passive aggressive people getting offended over stupid shit is nothing new and isn't going to go away. Deal.

  24. Nothing to add to scientific misconduct discussion on Male Scientists More Prone To Misconduct · · Score: 1

    I just wanted to say that I fervently hope that Ferric Fang goes by the nickname 'Iron'.

  25. Re:Finally... on Anonymous Helps Find Evidence In Gang Rape Case · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wow, I've gotten used to running into worthless shitpiles on the internet but I honestly hope you go die in a fire.