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  1. Re:Needs to be Linux? on Ask Slashdot: Linux-Based Home Security · · Score: 1

    It is a crime that this has not been modded up yet.

  2. Re:100% Consensus among scientific organizations on Congressional Testimony: A Surprising Consensus On Climate · · Score: 1

    The problem with markets is that their motivations are not often in line with scientifically determined needs.

  3. Re:Painless upgrade on FreeBSD 10.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Are you running VMs on FreeBSD? Is there a good management system for this? I'm running Proxmox VE at home and have been really happy with it; curious if you've had a better experience on BSD.

  4. Re:How is FreeBSD as a VMware/KVM guest? on FreeBSD 10.2 Released · · Score: 1

    It's really bad as a guest on Linux. Unusably slow.

  5. Re: The embargo is not why they are poor on Can Cuba Skip Cell Phone Connectivity? · · Score: 1

    My kingdom for points to mod you up.

  6. This is far too simplistic. on Can Cuba Skip Cell Phone Connectivity? · · Score: 1

    What is the difference between Cuba's "Communism" and Scandinavian "socialism?" What is the difference in these two places' qualities of life? "Markets" are not the whole story here. Cuba is poor because its "leadership" has been abusing its people for decades. Their economic system has to do with that only tangentially.

  7. Re:Pedantic, but... on Google Just Made It Easier To Run Linux On Your Chromebook · · Score: 1

    It's like I'm really in 2002!

  8. Re: Cryptowall prevention on Ask Slashdot: Best Anti-Virus Software In 2015? Free Or Paid? · · Score: 1

    This is why you make cold backups.

  9. Re: In after somebody says don't run Windows. on Ask Slashdot: Best Anti-Virus Software In 2015? Free Or Paid? · · Score: 1

    What do you like for a dedicated pfSense box that runs 24/7 without chewing up too much juice?

  10. Re:Hmmm ... on Android 5.0 Makes SD Cards Great Again · · Score: 1

    You're right, but at least there's still USB-OTG: For When You Absolutely, Positively, Have to Dump Files to External Storage or Something Is Going to Dump Core.

  11. Re:Ugh, God, there's one in every ARC on Amateur Radio In the Backcountry? · · Score: 1

    Thanks much from my family and everyone else touched by your help on those days.

    I did get licensed and briefly met with a Staten Island ARC before moving out to the Midwest, which is fun whenever I call CQ and somebody goes "KC two?! Huh?" :)

  12. Ugh, God, there's one in every ARC on Amateur Radio In the Backcountry? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "Don't do it." FUCK you, chief. Who are you to discourage a potential future Ham based on what YOU say the Amateur service is "for?" People become Hams for all sorts of reasons. The FCC specifies what we may NOT do on amateur bands, and gives reasons for establishing them in the first place, but EVERY use permissible is entirely valid and should be encouraged to further the hobby.

    So this guy starts out with a backpack HF rig to make sure he has a way to get messages out of the wild, and then what? You should know how this goes if you've been in the hobby as long as you say you have. You start out with a specific purpose, and then one thing or another starts interesting you, and before you know it you're watching the waterfall for PSK31 on HF and trying to DX with Zimbabwe a couple months later.

    I became a Ham BECAUSE of the service's emergency provisions. I watched a plane fly into the North Tower of the WTC and kill my cousin and her coworkers in Cantor-Fitzgerald, and then heard about ARES and RACES volunteers stitching Manhattan's emergency services together so they could communicate in the wake of having their repeaters turned to ash. I heard those stories and said "I want to be on that team. THAT'S how I'm going to contribute." So I got a license, and got elmered by some of the guys who volunteered on Wall Street, and eventually started learning about how huge the hobby is and how much you can do with it. I found out about MARS and Skywarn and EchoLink and IRLP, and all the incredible things you can do with just a little dual-band HT, and I was hooked. Now my friends and I talk on a number of the local repeaters in town (I've since moved) on a regular basis.

    But according to you, I never should have started, because emergency services are not the "primary purpose" of the Amateur Service. Kill yourself. I can't stand curmudgeonly old fucks like you who think if you didn't start on CW on 10m you're somehow illegitimate. Get over yourself.

  13. He could be a genius AND an asshole. on Perelman Urged To Accept $1m Prize · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I wonder why no one seems to have thought of this possibility.

    "I don't want the burden of righting wrongs." Go to Hell, you self-important shit. Take the goddamn money, give it to charity and stop being such a goddamn Aspie.

    Fucking hell. This isn't THAT hard to figure out. Use it to feed the hungry. Use it to build a school. Stop being such a fucking antisocial douchebag.

  14. iPhones work beautifully with Exchange. on Microsoft Employees Love Their iPhones · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Better in some ways than Windows Mobile phones.

    This really shouldn't be surprising.

  15. Dear Editors: on iPhone 3.1 Spotted In Field Testing · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That should be a comma in ("iPhone %d,%d",majorversionnumber,minorversionnumber), not a period.

  16. Gentlemen, start your start-ups on Taking Showers Can Be Harmful To Your Health · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Creation of showerhead disinfection industry in 3...2...1...

  17. I might not have been clear on Of Science and Choice In Online Dating · · Score: 1

    I don't crouch in my house. I am involved in a LOT of stuff and am actually pretty extroverted. I have a ton of friends, am out every weekend, and am currently in a relationship with a woman that is giving me fantastic sex but that I know isn't going anywhere (she's 9 years older than me, I'm 30, and she has two kids, one of whom is 19). Right now I am applying to go into the military as an officer, participating in local civic theater, and assisting with the creation of a hackerspace. I'm out there. My point was that all of that still isn't enough. You still have to just get lucky, and you may never, ever get lucky.

    And in my case, that means that some portion of my life may always feel empty and incomplete, because I've known I wanted to be a father since I was 16 years old.

  18. I'm 30, and I know these things. on Of Science and Choice In Online Dating · · Score: 1

    My life is dizzyingly active. I'm involved in all sorts of things, have a ton of friends and a girlfriend who is fantastic in the sack (but we're over in two weeks because she's moving).

    My point was that enjoying all life has to offer and putting yourself out there and "living" is still no guarantor of anything. It all comes down to luck, and some of us simply don't have it.

    "Facile" seemed to work better in that sentence than "easy" to me. Note that I used "easy" in the subject line. If you don't like it, you are free to edit it out with your internal mental sed. :p

  19. For the record on Of Science and Choice In Online Dating · · Score: 1

    I'm in a relationship with someone right now. The problem is that I know it can't last. She's 9 years older than me (still a fantastic lay) and has two kids, one of whom is 19. But she's way, way too clingy and manipulative. It's going to be over soon.

    My point was that you can go out and be an extrovert and have a fantastic social life and STILL be alone your entire life. Being in a successful romantic relationship is far, far more about luck than self-help books care to admit.

  20. Enjoy your church mice. on Of Science and Choice In Online Dating · · Score: 1

    Also the public health insurance option we're about to get.

  21. From VERIZON??? It is to fucking laugh! on The Irksome Cellphone Industry · · Score: 1

    Wow. You have rural coverage. Congratulations, guys. How about the fact that you've ADMITTED your business model orbit around fleecing customers by crippling handsets such that everything customers do has to go through your "nation's most reliable network," thereby incurring pay-to-play fees over and over for simple operations that could otherwise take place over WiFi or Bluetooth?

    FUCK Verizon. Fuck them right in the ear. Sideways.

  22. Easy for you to say on Of Science and Choice In Online Dating · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe people should just stop dating and learn how to experience life and just get out and do things. My friends that try the hardest to meet someone are the ones that are the least successful at it.

    This is a very facile thing for someone in your position to say. For many of the rest of us "experiencing life" all by itself simply means interminable years of crushing loneliness.

    I have started to come to the following realization:

    Happiness is guaranteed to no one. The best one can expect out of life is that you can always find some way to respect yourself and say "I did something with my life that I can look myself in the mirror and approve of." That status of self-respect is prerequisite for happiness, but it is by no means a guarantor. There is every chance that you'll just get out there and do your thing and live your life and be alone and lonely right up until the day you die.

  23. Why online "dating" is useful on Of Science and Choice In Online Dating · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not "dating" so much as it is being efficient by running the population through a filter. If I filter out all women under the age of 22, all political conservatives, and all evangelical Christians, I'm probably not missing out on the love of my life an it let's me focus on people I might actually be compatible with.

    The reality is that the vast majority of people in the US seem to have gotten married because they figured "it was about time for that" or something similar. If you have anything resembling standards, dating is really, really fucking hard.

    Hope that marrying someone wonderful and having a family isn't part of what you need to be really happy, because it sure as hell isn't guaranteed.

  24. Interesting way you phrase that on Lucky Thirteen On the ISS · · Score: 1

    I'd wager the people who wouldn't identify themselves as "European" come from/live in backwater towns, and the ones who would are from big cities.

    Also, that would be "a US-American," firstly, as the phoneme that starts the pronunciation of "US" in this context is a "y" sound, considered a consonant in this case, and secondly, no one says "US-American" or "United Statesian" other than idiots.

    It is commonly understood outside the context of formal geographical discussion that "American" means "of or having to do with the United States of America." No one else in either of the Americas lays claim to the term "American," and so it is completely absurd to insist on pedantry like that found in the tags of this article.

  25. Cute, but engaged, obviously. on Linux To Be First OS To Support USB 3.0 · · Score: 1

    Come on, haven't you figured out the way this works yet?

    • Physically attractive
    • Intelligent
    • Sane
    • Single

    Pick any three.