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  1. Re:This is not your father's Thinkpad Lenevo! on Does Your PC Really Need a SysRq Button Anymore? · · Score: 1

    Swap the capslock and ctrl keys and I'm golden. Oh wait, I already do this via software on both Linux and Windows. Nevermind.

  2. Re:Glare screens on Does Your PC Really Need a SysRq Button Anymore? · · Score: 1

    In my experience they tend to look clearer, but as I can't see anything through the glare anyway I could be completely wrong.

  3. Re:ADA? on US DOJ Says Kindle In Classroom Hurts Blind Students · · Score: 1

    There's a difference between faking sick and actually having a disability.

  4. ADA? on US DOJ Says Kindle In Classroom Hurts Blind Students · · Score: 1

    Has anyone else's universities been forcing ADA notices on their class syllabi? All of my classes have a little ADA Notice at the bottom stating that if one has any known and accepted disabilities they should contact the professor to make any sort of arrangements necessary. I'm thinking my school got in some sort of crap legal trouble and that's why the message is there.

  5. Re:not convinced on Comcast Launches Broadband Meter · · Score: 1

    Similar situation here (south side of chicago, comcast, etc.). My roomates over the summer torrented far too much, but I was never throttled, charged more, or even talked to. I mean, I don't mind.. but it is kinda weird.

  6. Re:No real scarcity yet on At Current Rates, Only a Few More Years' Worth of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    In that list in the second paragraph, the only real "need" (it's still a want, but it would benefit the most, probably; maybe) for a public IP would be the game console, as they're likely the least hackable thing (potentially the blu-ray or TV, too, but that just seems excessive to give those public IPs). And even then not really. Everything in that list can be NAT'd, and in fact most of it SHOULD be. I can understand wanting a media server or NAS publically available while you're not at home, but keeping it behind your router would be loads safer while still allowing you to get at it while away from home.

  7. Re:Age and quality. on Slashdot Turns 100,000 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is what I do as well. I've learned far more from you guys here in the comments than I have from the maybe five articles I've actually read since I joined this place.

  8. Re:Really good ideas... on New Zealander Invents Segway Alternative · · Score: 1

    That's only because it's nearly impossible to drive in downtown traffic and get anywhere on time / in one piece.

  9. Re:Cool, but... on Adjustable-Focus Glasses Can Replace Bifocals · · Score: 1

    Not any that you can notice at first glance, I bet. I looked really close at my lenses today and I found minscule scratches all over them. I always use water and soap to clean them but, depending on how lazy I am, I will sometimes substitute my shirt instead of my towel. I've had this pair since only December. I used to use kleenex on my old pair, and never noticed any big scratches, but I'm willing to bet the same small ones were still there (after four years time, how could they NOT be).

  10. Re:Linus', not Linus's. on A Short History of Btrfs · · Score: 1

    I was taught in my American schools (grade school, even) that you drop the second S on names that end in S. "Linus'"is how I was taught.

  11. Re:It's not news that fat is harmful on Swine Flu Kills Obese People Disproportionately · · Score: 1

    News for nerds. Stuff that Matters.

  12. Re:1960's? on On the Humble Default · · Score: 1

    Not at my school... I was under that impression as well, but most of the courses here ended up being algorithms and math related...

  13. Re:Difficult to Define a "Good" Teacher on Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers? · · Score: 1

    I am curious as to why your getting was good for your career? Was it more of a thing where you realized the kind of school you wanted to teach in and started applying at those schools, or what?

  14. Re:he's faking it over embarassment... on Stephen Hawking Is "Very Ill" In Hospital · · Score: 1

    Nothing wrong with being proven wrong in the field of SCIENCE. That's the whole point behind science and the scientific process. We've discovered many things because of Hawking, whether he was right about it to begin with or not.

  15. Re:Experiance on IT Job Without a Degree? · · Score: 1

    Not probably is taught, he just wasn't thinking. From what I'm reading here, a lot of degree-types tend to constantly try to reinvent the wheel.

  16. Re:Experiance on IT Job Without a Degree? · · Score: 1

    If he was a Computer Science major, that's probably all he was taught was theory and such. I switched out of Computer Science into Computer Information Systems. My school requires that a CIS major have a minor, so I am taking a minor in Information and Technology Management (unsure as to what specialization yet), and this has opened up a LOT more practical computer classes as opposed to the theory and math that (I think) plagued the CS degree. Since what I intend to do is more hands on (systems admin, etc.), this is far more fitting for me, as I am currently taking a Data Networks class that details how and why data transfers across various types of networks as it does as well as a Unix shell scripting class that has very greatly broadened my abilities in Unix (which says a fair amount, I think, since I've been messing with Unix and Linux for about the past six years or so... which would be about.. 8th or 9th grade.). ..Enough rambling about me. What I MEANT to say was that it just sounds like the guy you worked with went into the wrong job given his degree.

  17. Re:Do you live in a van down by the river? on IT Job Without a Degree? · · Score: 1

    How, praytell, do you get stuck at a phone support company? I realize there's not much moving UP, but can't you just look around for another job and simply leave?

  18. Re:The largest human outpost in space... on The ISS Marks 10 Years In Space · · Score: 1

    But they did reside in space at one point in time, hence their inclusion in the comparison.

  19. Re:don't remember anything of the sort on Ender in Exile · · Score: 3, Funny

    That means we need to develop robots that vote on which books are good or not. Though I'm sure that if there were a SF book dealing with robots rights or whatever, even the robots would be biased... :/

  20. Re:It doesn't matter.... on Google Adopts, Forks OpenID 1.0 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I use my site as a provider and every site that I've come across asking me to log in with my OpenID (LiveJournal included) accepts it just fine. That's the idea behind OpenID, you can get your ID anywhere, you can even provide it yourself, and every site claiming to be OpenID compatible MUST accept it when you try to log in with it.

  21. Re:Age of Consent on Linux Turns 17 Today · · Score: 1

    Whoosh.

  22. Re:Ugh. Kill it. on Shuttle Retirement In 2010 Under Review · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I still fail to see how going back to a capsule instead of an actual vehicle will help improve space travel... It just seems like a step backwards. Surely there's some way to combine the capsule and shuttle designs to come up with something truly reusable that will also allow planetary/satellite(ary?) landings? I dunno, I hate to admit it, but I have not kept up with the space program nearly as much as I wish I would have.

  23. Re:Is this allowed in the US? on Mayor Orders Mandatory Evacuation of New Orleans · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, think about it this way: How many people will be upset at the governor/government if NO evacuation is ordered? A TON of people will be because this country is full of idiots who can't think for themsleves and NEED the government to think for them.

  24. Re:wow FUDSTER on Official Support For PHP 4 Ends · · Score: 0, Troll

    What the hell kind of point are you trying to make?

  25. Re:Colour me confused on White House Briefed On "Potential For Life" On Mars · · Score: 1

    Didn't the Pope himself just recently state that it is possible that aliens could exist? That it is foolish to think that God created only one planet with life? (That second part may have been someone else, but they do go hand in hand).