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  1. Re:Don't panic! on Ask Slashdot: Protecting Data From a Carrington Event? · · Score: 1

    You do that while I grab several packs of sheer tights and a couple of gallons of unpurfumed bleach.

    Filter out the solids, add a dash of bleach and let it stand in the sun for a few hours. That's what the water company does in a nutshell.

  2. Re:Distance from the power supply on $50 Sound Cards Impress Versus Integrated Audio · · Score: 2

    One answer for your second question is that why add extra filter circuits that will attenuate the signal just because the drivers can handle the upper frequencies when you can make sure you get clean audio into the inputs and keep the amp as simple as possible.

    MOSFETs can switch flat at those frequencies, but they aren't used because of the frequency range, but because they are way cleaner and efficient at audible frequencies under high power than ye olde transistors. You get the 100KHz flat range as a happy side effect.

    (And yes, I know the T in MOSFET means transistor, but you know what I meant, didn't you)

  3. Re:Screen? on IT Support Pro Tells Why He Hates Live Chat · · Score: 1

    The problem usually isn't that I can miraculously see the screen over the phone, but that the user assumes because they are in chat, that I can see their screen. It's odd and annoying, but it happens more regularly than it should.

  4. Re:Everyone seems to have missed on Congressman Releases Draft of Legislation On Domestic Drones and Privacy · · Score: 1

    Well, the article is rather lean on how the standoff developed from a couple of cops coming there to respond to the neighbour's complaint to rolling SWAT out. I doubt SWAT responded to the call initially, nor did DHS give the drone at that time either.

    Events like these tend to escalate, sometimes out of control sometimes at a rather leisurely pace, but two cops with a gun being waved at them becomes four, then eight, then the chief gets involved and calls SWAT in, then everyone peers around fenders and over cars for a few hours. DHS hears about it, phones the chief and tells him they'll fly a drone around to make sure their man isn't running away out of sight.

    Felony charges, that I don't know. Certainly if he shot at someone, maybe if he was threatening to do so.

  5. Re:Simple Idea: on Congressman Releases Draft of Legislation On Domestic Drones and Privacy · · Score: 1

    Any offensive capability like guns and missiles would be the only capability that should not be available. SWAT doesn't have access to RPGs and breachers yet, nor do they have 50 cal machine guns.

    Otherwise, let them use them, but don't expect the rednecks not to shoot at them when naughtily drunk.

  6. Re:Depends on what you mean by using the range on The Problem With Metacritic · · Score: 1

    South Africa uses a different set of numbers, so the same grade letter means something different for us, and probably something else completely for other countries too.

    • A - 80% to 100%
    • B - 70% to 79%
    • C - 60% to 69%
    • D - 50% to 59%
    • E - 40% to 49%
    • F - 30% to 39%
    • G - 20% to 29%
    • H - 0% to 19%
  7. Re:identical? on High Security Handcuffs Opened With 3D-Printed and Laser-Cut Keys · · Score: 1

    Why does my eye patch have a cat? I know cats own you, but my possessions? Mwahahaha

  8. Re:Only in America... on When Art, Apple and the Secret Service Collide · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You can take pictures if you want, but to publish them in any way, be it a magazine, website or artistic display, you need to get permission from the individuals in the pictures to do so. It's called a model release and every ethical photographer knows about them.

    It's idiots like this that are screwing around that are causing the erosion of photographer's rights all over the planet.

    We've self-regulated for a long time, but now that arseholes like this are not even looking to see how they should behave, the authorities are starting to get involved.

  9. Re:He was surprised?! on When Art, Apple and the Secret Service Collide · · Score: 1

    On top of that, the law regarding photographing people in public is pretty clear. It's okay to do so, but you need to seek permission for most types of distribution of those photos. "Art" is not a "get out of jail free" card, and any real artist should know that when it comes to exhibiting their works if the people in them are identifiable.

    Precisely, ethical photographers carry model releases with them and they get clearance from the people in their photos if they are identifiable and often if not. And you agree to abide by their decision if they don't want to give clearance.

  10. Re:This is becoming boring on Judge Rules iDevice Speaker Docks Don't Infringe On Bose Patent · · Score: 1

    Did you actually RTFA, or even UTFS? Bose, not Apple, sued small manufacturers and LOST the case. This is a win for the small chaps!!!!

  11. Re:Grammar is Extremely Important! on Does Grammar Matter Anymore? · · Score: 1

    I acknowledge your image and assert my comment still stands.

  12. Re:Does grammar matter? on Does Grammar Matter Anymore? · · Score: 1

    Correct, which is why both sentances mean assisting his uncle Jack to dismount a donkey. What should really be happening is that jack off should be joined with a hyphen or merged to create a new verb, i.e. to jackoff

  13. Re:Grammar is Extremely Important! on Does Grammar Matter Anymore? · · Score: 1

    It's "morOn", you tweet.

  14. Re:Don't need Sherlock for this one on Samsung Blames Galaxy SIII Burn On "External Energy Source" · · Score: 1

    Go and watch Brainiac, they did this repeatedly with spectacular results.

  15. Good luck with that on British Airways Plans To Google Passengers · · Score: 4, Funny

    If I google myself, I find either a very large black NFL player, or an Airforce general. YAY, instant upgrade.

  16. How sweet the savour on Verizon Claims Net Neutrality Violates Their Free Speech Rights · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You can taste the desperation in their arguments and it is the taste of victory for the man in the street.

  17. Re:Don't Forget: "Six Strikes" Starts This Weekend on Don't Forget: "Six Strikes" Starts This Weekend · · Score: 0

    He is correctly using a 1000*1024 option since Mbps is 1000 and GB is 1024.

  18. Re:Recursive? on The PHP Singularity · · Score: 5, Informative

    PHP was originally Personal Home Page Toolkit, then backronymed into the new meaning.

  19. Re:Right, here's what you'll do. on Ask Slashdot: How To Add New Tech To Old Van? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't you just love it when a plan comes together?

  20. Re:i don't really like bill gates that much but... on Bill Gates Says Tablets Aren't Much Help In Education · · Score: 1

    Did you even read the article, or even the summary. That's exactly what Bill was saying.

  21. Re:Long range concealed gun detector on MIT Research Amplifies Invisible Detail In Video · · Score: 1

    Dude, if your sunglasses or cell phone weigh as much as a handgun, I'd suggest ditching the 1990 phone and not buying the depleted uranium shades again.

  22. Re:Wrong area of focus. on Fedora Introduces Offline Updates · · Score: 1

    IBM 3690 X5 with 4 onboard SAS, 2 onboard SSD and two QLogic fibre channel cards to a EMC SAN and running RHEL 5.8, time at 9 minutes 38 seconds to get the OS bootloader screen, then another 5 in-OS as it redoes all the damned SAS and fibre channel stuff.

    There are things I can tweak in UEFI on it, but with that long between reboots to see if the tweak speeds things up, the opportunity cost is too high to bother.

  23. Re:Would it *kill* you to read the article? on Fedora Introduces Offline Updates · · Score: 1

    Second this. Just without the dmcrypt bit.

  24. Re:Cannot open drivers source on NVIDIA Responds To Linus Torvalds · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think he means that there is no real difference between a Quadro GPU and the consumer GeForce GPU, only a PCI ID and some limits in the firmware.

  25. Re:Bring out your dead! on Black Death Discovered In Oregon · · Score: 1

    Rare, but still around. House MD had a case that turned out to be the Black Death caught from an adopted pet from Arizona about five years ago. Even rarer than lupus, and as you all know, "It's never lupus!"