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  1. Re: And so it begins... on Babylon 5 May Finally Get a Big-Screen Debut · · Score: 1

    To each his own, the only episode I really like in the 5th season is night of the dead.

  2. Re: And so it begins... on Babylon 5 May Finally Get a Big-Screen Debut · · Score: 1

    It was written as a 5 series arc. After the 3rd season they thought the 4th would be the last so they combined the 4th and 5th into one season. When they didn't get canceled there was noting left of the arc for the 5th season so it is fluff.

  3. Re:Trust on TrueCrypt Website Says To Switch To BitLocker · · Score: 1

    Sorry I thought you was showing me where the Linux binaries were. I personally don't care what OS you trust to run your software.

  4. Re:Trust on TrueCrypt Website Says To Switch To BitLocker · · Score: 1

    I have the Linux release, I have used it for a long time. The update release is the new read only version. I will have to disable the repository so I don't update to this until I can find a replacement.

    That is if this isn't a hoax.

  5. Trust on TrueCrypt Website Says To Switch To BitLocker · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Personally I wouldn't trust any software writen for Microsoft windows. Any news on the nix releases?

  6. Re:Stronger? on The Brakes That Stop a 1,000 MPH Bloodhound SSC · · Score: 1

    "Steel rotors" is probably another typo. I have heard of stainless steel rotors and the commonly used cast iron rotors but a solid steel rotor that is used on a motorcycle sounds like it would heat up too fast in this application. My guess that it is a standard cast iron vented rotor.

  7. Re:Linux no longer wants to even look like Unix on Ask Slashdot: Practical Alternatives To Systemd? · · Score: 1

    Someone did restart Gnome 2. It is called mate.

  8. Re:Guard on Why Portland Should Have Kept Its Water, Urine and All · · Score: 1

    So all you would need is a microwave device big enough to vaporize the cities water supply.

  9. Re:McGuffey's 4th New Eclectic Reader:"The Colonis on Ask Slashdot: Are You Apocalypse-Useful? · · Score: 1

    If you click on "read the rest of this comment" and you will find barber is also a doctor.

  10. Re:Did Fluke request this? on $30K Worth of Multimeters Must Be Destroyed Because They're Yellow · · Score: 1

    Consitering that Fluke has recalled some of its Chinese made meters becouse they have been blowing up makes this point is moot.

  11. Re:Even mechanical throttle is no cure... on Stack Overflow Could Explain Toyota Vehicles' Unintended Acceleration · · Score: 1

    How can users protect themselves from sometimes life endangering software bugs?"

    Simple, with a car make sure it has a throttle cable and a clutch peddle.

    I know I can hear it now, you can't buy a car with a throttle cable and you can't drive standard in a city.

    If everyone stopped buying cars with throttle by wire, they would stop making them. The rest of the world drives standard in a city, you can too.

  12. Re:That's why I resisted as long as I could... on Routers Pose Biggest Security Threat To Home Networks · · Score: 1

    Don't forget to hard disable the microphone on the laptop if it has one. There is a malware that can communicate using high frequency sound, from a networked machine to un-networked one. Of course both machines have to be infected. Probably with a virus attached to a file of the networked box.

  13. Re:what price increases? on Time Warner Deal Is How Comcast Will Fight Cord Cutters · · Score: 1

    LOL I must have been really tired when I wrote that. Actually the type of Grammar mistakes I was talking about are the "they need to do way instain mother" types. In the car forums the "bad breaks" posts always make me cringe but at least I can understand what they are trying to say.

  14. Re:what price increases? on Time Warner Deal Is How Comcast Will Fight Cord Cutters · · Score: 1

    I don't normally reply to cowards and I never mod them up, even for a great post like this unless they have a real reason to be anonymous.

    I see your point about the mindless zombies in today’s world. At least in the USA in the area I live grammar is horrible and driving is worse. They run stop signs read lights, and if no lines on the road will drive on the wrong side. On line marked roads they have rumble strips on the middle line to stop the head on accidents from people crossing over.

    Personally I don't think this is because they are just driving and writing the way everyone else is, I think the problem is that people are lazy and don't want to expend the energy to do things correctly.

    Because you didn't bother to log in you will probably never read this reply, but since I am not lazy I thought I would write it anyway.

  15. Re:Hey theres a new beta slashdot? on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    Not being a coward I had to go to beta.slashdot.org (you will have to copy paste it, a link will send you to meta). When I get there it pretends to be Mork and says it can't give me any comments. Perhaps they decided to use an off site java source for the commets which I automatically block.

    If beta goes live with off site scripting then I will have to decide if it is worth the effort to enable the script it needs or just find somewhere else to go.

  16. Old news on Judge Says You Can Warn Others About Speed Traps · · Score: 1

    This was addressed in NY state in '94. The results was that flashing headlights was not a crime.

    The funny thing is people don't flash if they think your brights are on anymore. They keep their brights on for a few seconds. That is a crime.

  17. Re:Liking my old cars more and more. on Government To Require Vehicle-to-vehicle Communication · · Score: 1

    How can a head check result in you rear-ending another car?. The only way I see is if someone is not following the car in front at the legal 2 seconds or the recommended 3 to 4 seconds. I doubt this happens to tailgaters because I never see them driving using mirrors or head checking, just plow their own hole through.

  18. Re:and the TSA exists because... on Confessions Of an Ex-TSA Agent: Secrets Of the I.O. Room · · Score: 2

    get a free message

    HAHA! An awesome Freudian slip. I'd imagine the message you'll get is along the lines of "You gonna get raped." After that is where the massage comes in ;)

    Maybe he just likes the Pink Panther movies.

  19. Re:Why is he unkempt? on How Farming Reshaped Our Genomes · · Score: 1

    That's probably how Greek woman removed there pubic hair.

  20. Re:common and fun on Programmer Debunks Source Code Shown In Movies and TV Shows · · Score: 1

    My pet peeve is when the fire alarm sets off the sprinklers. I know the sprinklers set off the fire alarm and only melting metal will set off each individual sprinkler head. Almost every movie and TV show gets it wrong

  21. Re:Planned intimidation tactic on AMC Theaters Allegedly Calls FBI to Interrogate a Google Glass Wearer · · Score: 1

    It is so funny that nobody remember that he was impeached. Unfortunately it would have take him be removed for people to remember. On the other hand people think that Richard Nixon was impeached.

  22. I would go there even if they striped searched me. The large leather reclining seats are perfect for my back. The assigned seating makes it so you can buy the tickets before hand and get there just before the movie starts.

  23. Re:Not the sun on Solar Lull Could Cause Colder Winters In Europe · · Score: 1

    I don't think it was cap and trade, just cap.

  24. Re: Warranty Shouldn't Matter on GPUs Dropping Dead In 2011 MacBook Pro Models · · Score: 1

    Those failures were on Bosch anti-lock units. The failure was caused by ultrasonic joint going bad. The fix is to replace the joints with solder. I had it done to my failed unit and it has worked perfectly ever since.

  25. Don't compain do something on Google Removes "Search Nearby" Function From Updated Google Maps · · Score: 0

    Just write your own map application that does this for you, or wait until someone does.