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  1. Re:Local chain here... on Amazon Offers Whole Foods Discounts To Prime Members (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Right, "organic" is "free of non-natural pesticides, chemical fertilizers, glyphosate, etc." and only uses all natural chemical fertilizers, pesticides and such.

  2. Stock and Bond Investment Brokers are Biased on Get Ready For Most Cryptocurrencies to Hit Zero, Goldman Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't they have a vested interest in seeing cryptocurrency fail? Since they don't manage a portfolio of crypto, they will do and say whatever to keep the money supply from shifting from their investments to crypto investments.

  3. Angle of Declination on Why Airports Rename Runways When the Magnetic Poles Move (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Magnetic North vs True North is actually a thing. Since compasses are all magnetic (except for GPS-based compasses), you have to keep track of the angle of declination or you will be truly lost. And this number changes a lot, especially if you are looking at how much it changes "over decades." It's a thing, ask you backpacking friend who actually knows a thing or two about orienteering.

  4. Re:If you thought enterprise IT was just software on Ask Slashdot: What Are The Lesser-Known Roles Of The IT Department? · · Score: 1

    As a friend of mine would remind you: You just used the "s" word.

  5. Grammar alert - word use on IT Worker Who Trained H-1B-Visa-Holding Replacement Aims For Congress (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    "But Diangelo has no illusions" - allusions is the correct word

  6. Wi-Fi and other Electromagnetic Waves on The Town That Banned Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    So, does the town distribute a tinfoil hat to every man, woman, child and dog that live there?

  7. Re:I think we can do precisely that! on Road To Mars: Solving the Isolation Problem · · Score: 1

    Agreed that we should simple send them. There will be a huge number of people, qualified and otherwise, standing in line to be the first to Mars.

  8. Pot calling the kettle on Sony Leaks Reveal Hollywood Is Trying To Break DNS · · Score: 1

    So Sony is holier than thou? Probably not. Does anyone remember the CD Player Rootkit? http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Son...

  9. Re:Give up the keys on Ask Slashdot: Intelligently Moving From IT Into Management? · · Score: 1

    Agreed. You hire the admin and hand over the keys. You are probably being asked to be more strategic and that should not include owning superuser. I would encourage a process which does not allow steady state administration using root/administrator. Those should be special cases (even when you owned the privileges). More restores are because a user made an administrative mistake in an over-privileged sessions than because of hardware errors.

  10. Charge for Talking Section of Plane on Senators Propose Bill Prohibiting Phone Calls On Planes · · Score: 1

    Charge extra for those wanting to TALK on the phone. Make them all sit in the back.

  11. DR would have been nice to have in the first place on How One Drunk Driver Sent My Company To the Cloud · · Score: 1

    Had they had DR in the first place, the exposure would have been less traumatic. HA, of course, doesn't buy them anything in a disaster.

  12. Re:What about Google driverless car? on Software Bug Caused Qantas Airbus A330 To Nose-Dive · · Score: 1

    People seem to want to have their front left tire next to my back right tire all the time. Since I drive an SUV, that makes them virtually invisible.

  13. Re:Was Microsoft Riight? on Apple's Secret Weapon To Win the Tablet Wars · · Score: 1

    "Making a good tablet" includes providing a platform and a market for apps, correct? So far, with only a single Honeycomb tablet on the market (with limited distribution), that part of the model has failed. Apple is unique in that they have a market following that is both immediate and sustaining. The rest of the vendors need to be part of a big wave, no one vendor has the legs to stand on their own. If (when?) everyone else finally pulls the trigger on getting their tablets out there, we may finally see a sustainable overall market open up. But if the rest of the Honeycomb vendors don't get off the dime soon, patience will clearly run out.

  14. Uh, HIPAA - ever heard of that? on Recourse For Draconian Encryption Requirements? · · Score: 1

    Let's see if I get this right: you've chosen to use your own computer, at your expense, for the benefit of a company for whom you work, when the provide you with computer(s) to use without said investment. But, when they say you have to secure your machine to comply with regulations (probably HIPAA) by installing whole-disk encryption on it, you complain. Get over it. Either install the same software at your own expense (probably the PGP WDE) or let them install it. Since you back up your computer you should have no issue. The problem of slow compute after WDE is installed was true with older releases but no issues that I know of recently. Here is the problem: HIPAA requires certain things and your employer's legal staff has set standards for compliance that they are satisfied will fit into the regulations. In their mind, until you have all the t's crossed and i's dotted, you are creating a legal problem for them. Legal problems typically become employment problems, particularly for the employee. In the Federal government space, they won't let anyone, even contractors who have NO government provided computer, to plug into a Fed Government network (physical wire and Feds do not allow wi-fi). Every contractor runs around with a broadband card sticking out of their laptops. Even then, contractors, from clearances for SBU data and up (that would be practically all Federal data BTW), have to have WDE. Healthcare has similar requirements and it's just a battle to lose to try and fight it. You are not even on moral ground here, you just need to suck up and either fix the encryption problem or stop trying to use your personal equipment for work.

  15. Re:Indeed on The Trousers of Reality · · Score: 1

    Haggar wasn't a big fan of the term "trousers" either, so he invented the term "slacks" for his product.

  16. Re:So the bible says the devil is a christian? on Holy See Declares a "Unique Copyright" On the Pope · · Score: 1

    Some issues with the logic here. Being Christian (and I am of the Roman Catholic variety - although pretty ecumenical), the concept is not JUST that you believe in the Son of God but that you also follow his teachings. Someone mentioned the Nicene Creed. I think that sums up the components to be considered Christian, as well. It's not 1 single statement (such as "I believe Jesus Christ to be the Son of God"). It covers quite a bit more territory than that. So Satan did, in fact, believe in the Son of God but he did not, obviously, prescribe to or follow His teachings.

  17. Re:Wine on Best Open Source Business Tools? · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't his accountant be taking care of this? And if he's in business for himself with no accountant, maybe he should consider another line of work. Kind of like managing your own legal dealings (what, he used S Corp for Dummies to incorporate?).

  18. Re:The last SGI isn't the SGI of old... on SGI Lives On, In Name At Least · · Score: 1

    Well, arguably, SGI didn't innovate in CPUs - that was MIPS which they bought and then sold again. No, their real innovation was in graphics and system architecture, IMO.

    Correct. Specifically, they were phenomenal in terms of their "backplane." ccNUMA, later NUMAFlex was an incredibly scalable way to communicate between nodes and is how they scaled Origin and Altix. Crazy scalable.

  19. Road Warriors may have problems on Engine On a Chip May Beat the Battery · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they will be allowed on planes?

  20. Re:The smoking gun is in Rick Belluzzo's hand... on Is the Game Finally up for SGI? · · Score: 1

    100% correct. Purchasing Cray was brilliant. Selling Cray's SPARC technology to Sun, moronic (was that a Belluzzo decision?). Then the lack of focus on seriously cool software like MineSet (visual data mining tool) developed by the brilliant engineers and then run into the ground because the hired engineers as Biz Dev guys. The day they started the Business Intelligence division, they fired the VP that was leading the charge (that WAS a Belluzzo decision). Micro$oft got smart and fired him after they realized what a brilliant guy he wasn't.

  21. Smallville, Aquaman (boy), Superboy on Navy Sued for Sonar-Blasting Whales · · Score: 1

    Wasn't this an episode on last week's Smallville?? ...Lex Luthor creates sonic weapon for submarine destruction, oh by the way, it kills fish too...

  22. Re:case in point on Google Might Disappear in Five Years · · Score: 1

    Seriously, and only for a moment at that, Google is only a free service to the general population. In actuality, Google charges to advertisers and to companies that want to license the technology. That's where the big bucks come from. It's another media company really, not unlike radio, TV, and to some extent, newspapers where advertisers pay for the lion's share and where all the real revenue comes from.

  23. Re:Small buisness on Microsoft to Release a Thin-Client Windows XP · · Score: 1

    This looks to me like competition for Citrix. We pay for Windows clients, then we also pay for Citrix licenses in order for the user to get an application, running on the server, to be presented on the client (remote) system. If it works, it will probably be a benefit for us in peeling away a layer of the onion that can be a sticky integration issue.

  24. Re:All That Glitters on Roger McNamee On Video on the Internet · · Score: 1

    How does that differentiate him from other "luminaries", such as B. Gates?

  25. Linux Kernel Versioning on Linux Kernel Release Numbering Revisited · · Score: 1

    I think it makes sense to provide a plan that can set expectations, particularly one that is easily explained. Version numers should rarely change, implying a leap of technology that cannot be represented in the release number. The release number should represent significant changes to the sub-functions, but not on the level that would be considered a technology leap. The modification number would be exactly for patches and incidental changes. The template for this looks like v.rr.mm and mirrors versioning used by other OS developerment companies, including those with TLA's for a name. I like the odd/even paradigm as it gives me the insight I need when I am making a decision as to which kernel to go with. If it's a critical path system, then I'm staying with stable release code, otherwise, maybe I can go with the more forward moving code.