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  1. Re:Enough already! on Locating the Real MySQL · · Score: 1

    I think his whole point is:

    If MySQL added InnoDB to *be* ACID compliant (which as a casual MySQL user I assume they did), then it should DEFAULT to ACID (and I have no idea if this is or is not true). I think I'm just trying to make the GPP's post clearer.

    From what he's said, in 4.1 at least, the default ACID compliant engine in MySQL is NOT, by default.

  2. Re:Screwy laws... on Is That "Sexting" Pic Illegal? A Scientific Test · · Score: 1

    Except you can drink at 18 on military bases, if I've got my facts in order.

  3. Re:see sig... on 17 Million People Stopped Buying CDs In 2008 · · Score: 1

    I stopped buying CDs when they started suing grandmothers and twelve year olds. Five years and counting. I *DO* buy cds at concerts, but I mostly only patronize small-venue artists.

  4. Re:Use that waste heat! on The 100 Degree Data Center · · Score: 1

    extra revenue in gang bang porn

  5. Re:Corporate culture on Shell Ditches Wind, Solar, and Hydro · · Score: 1

    Sorry man, it's like pushing a car uphill. Lol. :-)

  6. Re:Corporate culture on Shell Ditches Wind, Solar, and Hydro · · Score: 1

    Except they could have taken all that money spent on the XBox, BRIBED Sony to build a device to their specs, with their OS, and still been ahead of the game.

  7. Re:Corporate culture on Shell Ditches Wind, Solar, and Hydro · · Score: 1

    Push.

  8. Re:The best things in life... on Linux Gaining Strength In Downturn · · Score: 1

    The economic largesse of the 90's and 00's was created by two bubbles, both of which have collapsed.

    I think trickle-down economics has much to say in defense of itself.

  9. Re:The best things in life... on Linux Gaining Strength In Downturn · · Score: 1

    But most Joe Blow admins who learned from the "for Dummies" series wouldn't know a GPO if it hit them in the head - that's real functionality for people who know WTF they're doing.

    And it's something the Unix world will need in the future.

  10. Re:Gaming the system on Data Mining Moves To Human Resources · · Score: 1

    Yah, I tried that once at a job.. my boss just gave credit to the senior guy for the stuff I came up with. Oh well.

  11. Re:Getting rid of Windows on DirectX 10 Coming To Linux and Mac · · Score: 1

    People have been calling Microsoft M$ since before there WAS a Slashdot.

    It was fairly common on Usenet back in the day. (Why does my brain think it was comp.os.programming.win32)?

  12. Re:Rumor has it.. on US Forgets How To Make Trident Missiles · · Score: 1

    Actually, we don't. Enough to make survival of the human species a serious question, yes, but destroy the earth? All the nuclear weapons invented in the history of mankind are as if a mosquito bite to the earth compared to what even a decent sized asteroid could do.

  13. Re:The competition will be missed on The Last Will and Testament of Circuit City · · Score: 1

    Home Depot? I'm starting to dislike them - becoming the Wal*Mart of the construction world with their cheap Chinese crap.

    Home Deport used to carry clear Rubbermaid storage totes that would take a shit-ton of abuse, and that I've had for 5+ years now. Just recently I needed more totes for a move, and they only had these craptastics ones, which almost all broke, all 16 of them.

    Instead of just keeping with inflation and charging a dollar or so more for quality, I was stuck buying shit. And it's unfortunate, because I would have paid twice the sticker price of the cheap shit to get the quality Rubbermaid.

    It's what's wrong with this country - we chase price and quality into the ground and wonder why we can't afford anything anymore when we're shipping 50% of our money to China, India, Pakistan, Korea and Vietnam.

    Who says communism lost? :-)

    </rant off>

  14. Re:CC closing is sad on The Last Will and Testament of Circuit City · · Score: 1

    Right up until the original owners cash out and the vultures move in looking to rape the place for short-term profits.

  15. Re:Never liked CC stores on The Last Will and Testament of Circuit City · · Score: 1

    Home Depot manages this just fine. When the plumbing guy sees me walking down the same aisle 14 times looking for something, he notices. Or someone looking up at the sky at the aisles for help finding which one has the weed-whackers.

    People give off vibes when they're frustrated. Just pay a little attention to the customers, and less to chatting with your buddies.

    Home Depot has some of the most amazingly helpful staff of any retailer I visit, and aren't ones to overly bother you. The downside is that sometimes there just aren't enough of them.

  16. Re:A 2nd cause. on The Last Will and Testament of Circuit City · · Score: 1

    I think history will show that this bailout was directly responsible for a 4000 point dive in the DJIA.

  17. Re:Was decent, once upon a time on The Last Will and Testament of Circuit City · · Score: 1

    Here's what's wrong with RAT-Shack today.

    I needed a 100' DB9 to DB25 serial cable for some industrial automation stuff. So when the guy's giving up on my needs, having only a 6' DB9 to DB9 cable, he COULD have taken me over to the parts drawer, gotten out some DB9 and DB25 pin kits, and 100' spool of Cat5 cable.

    If I'd been less on the ball I'd have been screwed (I needed the cable now, not next day, on a Sunday). For a place that "has the answers" their answer was "Sorry, you're fucked."

    In the 80's they probably would have taken the parts, made the cable in the back room, soldering it all together, put a snazzy connector on each end, and charged me a marginal fee for the effort.

  18. Re:Yup on The Last Will and Testament of Circuit City · · Score: 1

    Which bank is this?

    I loved Netbank for similar reasons when they first started, until they started bleeding money and the FDIC shut them down in 2007... :-/

  19. Re:Really? on The Last Will and Testament of Circuit City · · Score: 1

    But 1000' spool at home depot for $59, a set of connectors for $10, and be far ahead of the game.

    You can even ghetto crimp the connectors with a screwdrivers and a hammer if you're too cheap to buy a pair of telco crimps.

  20. Re:Why stop online? on Calif. Politican Thinks Blurred Online Maps Would Deter Terrorists · · Score: 1

    I suppose. Nevermind by the time the Germans started airdropping in, those breastworks would be armed by women, children and old codgers.

  21. Re:Why stop online? on Calif. Politican Thinks Blurred Online Maps Would Deter Terrorists · · Score: 1

    is it just me, or has the general quality of google imaging gone seriously downhill in the past six months?

    Crap, microsoft Live is better these days.

  22. Re:Why stop online? on Calif. Politican Thinks Blurred Online Maps Would Deter Terrorists · · Score: 1

    Until the invaders take some locals, put guns to their childrens heads and make them draw accurate maps. When you isolate 6 old codgers and they all come up with the same map, it's probably pretty accurate.

    Removing signs is a pointless exercise. Better spend your time training, building breastworks and diggin' in.

  23. Re:Infection on LEDs Lighting Up the African Darkness · · Score: 1

    Humans used to be nocturnal hunters, you know that right? :-)

  24. Re:Product Naming on LEDs Lighting Up the African Darkness · · Score: 1

    No "My Club" probably was his most important possession, because without "My Club" or "My Spear", "My Life" would have been over pretty quick, making possession of "My Dick" pretty useless.

  25. Re:Fishy on Red Hat Hit With Patent Suit Over JBoss · · Score: 5, Informative

    Disclaimer: I worked for ObjectStore for a while and for Progress (owner of ObjectStore) today.

    ObjectStore is NOT ORM. It is an OODBMS. Probably not quite what you want for prior art.