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  1. Re:At least it's on our side! on Classified X-37B Space Plane Breaks Space Longevity Record · · Score: 1

    Interesting. You included Social Security in the expenses, and divide the time range up in 'before SS' and 'after SS'

    Also, look at health and life expectancy before 1930. Now realize that huge amounts of the federal budget is SS & Medical (Medicare & Medicaid). If we didn't care about the indigent old, or the fact that national health insurance is more efficient (see what we spend on medical vs other advanced countries and the outcomes), and we didn't feel the need to be the world's police and paid down our debt, we could probably get back to ~4-5%...

  2. Re:The government does give on Classified X-37B Space Plane Breaks Space Longevity Record · · Score: 1

    Anarchy is something you could use to describe what happens on the floor of a rainforest, or between the bacteria in your gut. I'd rather not live in a society like that. It's not just human nature, it's evolved nature due to limited resources and game theory.

  3. Re:Wait a moment on Classified X-37B Space Plane Breaks Space Longevity Record · · Score: 2

    Did you not see Star Trek? The voyagers will come back!

  4. Re:Awesome! on Tested: Asus Chromebox Based On Haswell Core i3 · · Score: 1

    Not if you flash the bios, or just put it in developer mode (at least that was true of the older chromeboxes)

  5. Re: Hmmm... on How Do You Backup 20TB of Data? · · Score: 1

    SSL to their servers prevents tampering in-route. Now they could have used their own wire protocol to ensure the data wasn't altered on the way, but why reinvent the wheel?

  6. Re:Stop on Crowdsourcing Confirms: Websites Inaccessible on Comcast · · Score: 1

    Oh hell no, don't run BIND. Run something that isn't full of suck and security holes.

  7. Re:USB and video but no terminal server on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 1

    Learn about terminal servers: http://blog.philippklaus.de/20...

    Serial ports have been gatewayed to telnet for years.

  8. Re:USB and video but no terminal server on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 1

    There's no reason why you can't use tramp over serial. I never have to leave emacs, it'll even transparently bounce thru a 'beachhead' system to get to systems "on the other side".

    Emacs is a pain to setup/learn for some things, but automation wins in the end.

  9. Re:Bled Alive? on Horseshoe Crabs Are Bled Alive To Create an Unparalleled Biomedical Technology · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised they don't just mark them with the date of last bleeding and release them where they caught them.

  10. Re: Your point of view means nothing. on South Carolina Education Committee Removes Evolution From Standards · · Score: 1

    "top ten list" ? I assume you mean the 10 commandments? Which 10, since there are multiple sets of 10 in the bible. Also, I get by just fine without many of them: "I am the lord your god", "no other god before me", etc.
    The few that are reasonable are, no to murder, no to false witness and no to stealing.

  11. Re:It's the devil on Massive New Cambrian-Era Fossil Bed Found · · Score: 0

    Well, if you buy the whole bullshit story, then it's the same thing, since god created satan and nothing happens in the universe without god's knowledge and consent.

  12. Re:SKU? on Asus Announces Small Form Factor 'Chromebox' PCs · · Score: 1

    Not at all like UUIDs. UUIDs are gobally unique, SKUs denote a class of items, of which there can be many items of each SKU/class.

  13. Re:Really? on Asus Announces Small Form Factor 'Chromebox' PCs · · Score: 1

    I picked up two Core i5 based Chromeboxes (from the Google Dev conf) on Craigslist for $200 each. Seemed like a bargain. One's running Crubuntu, and the other is awaiting me having time to flash a new bios so I can run straight Ubuntu.

  14. Re:I will never again buy seagate on Hard Drive Reliability Study Flawed? · · Score: 2

    The seagate 3TB that just failed on me was my backup drive.

    Now, I didn't lose any current data, but all my time-machine backups are gone, poof...

  15. Re:Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen on Developer Loses Single-Letter Twitter Handle Through Extortion · · Score: 1

    Wow. Just wow. I guess you could go with things like 'battery horse staple ...', which hopefully the guy at the other end of the phone would insist the user read out...

  16. Re:Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen on Developer Loses Single-Letter Twitter Handle Through Extortion · · Score: 1

    Secret questions make plenty of sense:

    What high school did you attend? ljdf1243097dsafnllsdfj12342341
    Who was your favorite teacher? 9f1301d6eab107a1d0bd

  17. Re:the moral of the story on Developer Loses Single-Letter Twitter Handle Through Extortion · · Score: 2

    I run my own email server, so adding Google into the mix lengthens the chain of trust, not shortens it.

    Of course, a registrar would probably be less likely to be socially engineered to changing the domain ownership of gmail.com than my domain, but I do use a good registrar (gandi.net) and do have two-factor auth turned on.

  18. Re:Ignorant to their own research on Who Makes the Best Hard Disk Drives? · · Score: 1

    IIRC, Backblaze was running all around the bay area (and farther afield) buying external drives at Costco and shucking the external cases.

  19. Re:Overwhelmingly Democrat in California on Senator Dianne Feinstein: NSA Metadata Program Here To Stay · · Score: 1

    Feinstein has been a fucktard for years. Somewhere I still have her letter back to me saying that while she likes hearing from her constituents she still had to support the "flag abuse amendment".

    She apparently confuses freedom and symbols of freedom...

  20. Re:The unseen enemy on Senator Dianne Feinstein: NSA Metadata Program Here To Stay · · Score: 1

    No, the problem is the "other side" is -even-more-evil...

  21. Re:The unseen enemy on Senator Dianne Feinstein: NSA Metadata Program Here To Stay · · Score: 1

    As opposed to just letting the rich do that...at least if enough people get pissed, the pols can be voted out. That can happen with the rich as well, but well violent revolution is so disruptive...

  22. Re:39" display for workstations? on 4K Is For Programmers · · Score: 1

    Ha Ha, you'd be really pissed if you were an investor in the company I work for. I've got 2x 27" Dell's, and the conference rooms have 70" Sharp displays.

  23. Re:Simple answer... on Ask Slashdot: State of the Art In DIY Security Systems? · · Score: 2
  24. Re:Umm no. on Ask Slashdot: State of the Art In DIY Security Systems? · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Amazing Apple engineering on Apple's New Mac Pro Gets High Repairability Score · · Score: 1

    For something like a server, 1 fan is a bad idea. Single point of failure.