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  1. The answer is too simple. on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Wireless Catch-and-Release · · Score: 1

    Most routers already give you access/restriction options very similar to what you want, right in the administration settings.

  2. Re:What a tragic loss on Programming Prodigy Arfa Karim Passes Away At 16 · · Score: 1

    "The only epileptics I've ever known have a GENETIC disorder, inherited and suffered from birth. There is no way to "treat the underlying problem" as you suggest. "

    Lady I took care of used to be on all sorts of NASTY anti-seizure medication. She was epileptic.

    I gave her herb to smoke, and she hasn't needed the medication since. It's been almost 7 years.

    And she can actually function. The medication kept her from functioning normally.

    Some people just need a brain reset.

  3. Re:The first four comments are disgusting. on Programming Prodigy Arfa Karim Passes Away At 16 · · Score: 1

    "easy, if a parent takes his kid to build fireplaces at random places at that age the cops will show up."

    Uh, no? As a kid, I worked with my father on roofing jobs all the time in the summer. I was better at it than him since I could get to places his larger self couldn't easily go and had better hand-eye coordination. I think we worked on a couple of police officer's houses in our neighborhood, as well. Never had any issues.

  4. Re:They can say they oppose it, on White House Opposes Key SOPA Provisions · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nope, not one single one, and even then, several of those got answered not at all, but merely 'set aside.'

  5. Re:Used by hams for decades on New Cable Designed To Deter Copper Thieves · · Score: 1

    Steel (iron) is lighter than copper.

  6. Re:LOL on Music Industry Sues Irish Government For Piracy · · Score: 1

    "Has it occurred to you that "bad genes" is awfully convenient?"

    Except pretty much everything about us is controlled by genes, either by presence or lack thereof.

  7. Re:Hmm, not just a bit on Windows Admins Need To Prepare For GUI-Less Server · · Score: 1

    You have demonstrated that you do not understand why this isn't possible.

    The feedback is coming from LIVING ORGANISMS. This has to be monitored realtime from input to output to the plants. No piece of hardware in existence right now is even capable of doing what is happening inside my research laboratory. It's impossible, until we can give it realtime OCR for multiple simultaneous waveforms emanating from a single analog source, THEN have it look for any unfavorable variation (even a slight variance in overlapping harmonics can cause very detrimental effect to plant life) and control that immediately, then also be able to observe the plants to find out things like leaf turgidity, analyze by sight the cellular structure and tissue development, THEN try to figure out how to get more reaction while fine-tuning emanated sounds and praying you don't play a 'death note' (Harmonics of D are pretty bad for plant respiration/transpiration) by accident because you let a waveform get out of sync.

    Sorry, we're not in the age of Star Trek, yet.

  8. Re:Sorry, but you've got it mixed up a bit on Windows Admins Need To Prepare For GUI-Less Server · · Score: 1

    No, you don't even know what I'm attempting to accomplish, you cannot say what you propose is even REMOTELY usable.

    The workstations take the sounds made and do some complex things to create as imperceivable a loop point as possible from what is arguably multiple waveforms mixed together (even one string plucked produces about five or six characteristic acoustical waveforms.) You have to be able to analyze each one visually in realtime on the server itself to determine whether or not it's a clean sampling that's going over to the workstations. There's a very complex process behind this, plus separation of the actual waveforms before going into the workstation's buffer (and those individual forms must be monitored to ensure clean separation from the others,) and the final results are employed in the horticultural field, not sound or entertainment or anything of similar nature.

    Your solution was tried and abandoned as impractical about three years ago. Too many stages need to be handled via separate pieces of equipment.

  9. Re:Then you are doing it wrong. on Windows Admins Need To Prepare For GUI-Less Server · · Score: 1

    Because the workstation is too busy actually building sound files from the waveform analysis that realtime anythign else is impossible. Hence, a master server to capture and store all the data, for workstations to process.

  10. Re:Then you are doing it wrong. on Windows Admins Need To Prepare For GUI-Less Server · · Score: 1

    Because same server also captures that information for sending out to soundfont making software on the actual workstation itself that makes the music. The server is where all sources get captured, first.

  11. Re:Don't kid yourselves people. on Righthaven's Lawyers Target of State Bar Investigation · · Score: 1

    The addition of 'Federal' kinda destroys that antecedent, sir. Read the sentence again.

  12. Re:I'm surprised it took so long on Righthaven's Lawyers Target of State Bar Investigation · · Score: 1

    So how do you disbar a no-lawyer organization?

  13. Re:Human failure on Viruses Stole City College of S.F. Data For Years · · Score: 4, Funny

    No! It's a GREAT layer of security! You can't load into memory what you can't read!

  14. Re:Don't kid yourselves people. on Righthaven's Lawyers Target of State Bar Investigation · · Score: 1

    "Neither our state or federal judges have much tolerance for trying to game the system with technicalities."

    Except out in Texas. East Texas, specifically.

  15. Re:3k??? on Victorinox Makes 1TB Swiss Army Knife · · Score: 1

    No, I made a valid point, one which your brain obviously can't understand, hence why you posted as AC, to avoid the obvious embarrassment.

  16. Re:Then you are doing it wrong. on Windows Admins Need To Prepare For GUI-Less Server · · Score: 1

    "If you are running a GUI application on a server that is not just wrong but down right silly."

    Okay, let me see you do realtime waveform analysis in plain text.

    That's what I thought.

  17. Re:Who still pays for antivirus? on Symantec Sued For Running Fake "Scareware" Scans · · Score: 1

    A bit off-topic, but I think I see more issues now days with hardware than I do malware. Most of these people forget these things could use a little cleaning every now and then. Just today, had a customer from my porn shop give me a computer to look at. IGP's fried. Remove fans atop heat sinks, every heat sink has about 1cm thick dust. No airflow, no cooling besides the case fan - even the PSU vents were clogged up. No wonder it burned out. He doesn't even smoke, it was just dust from living out on a major street with the windows open all the time.

  18. Re:Who still pays for antivirus? on Symantec Sued For Running Fake "Scareware" Scans · · Score: 1

    I find it endlessly hilarious that you think these are for growing dope.

    That look like cannabis to you?

    How about that?

    How about that one?

    Anything in there look like dope to you?

    The ignorance is quite astounding.

  19. Re:Who still pays for antivirus? on Symantec Sued For Running Fake "Scareware" Scans · · Score: 1

    It isn't when you're running diff on resource usage on a known static system :D

  20. Re:How about chemical representations? on IBM Shrinks Bit Size To 12 Atoms · · Score: 1

    That would require tons of power to make bonds. Also, where would you get the extra oxygen?

    We have something better - Phase CHange memory. Made from the same stuff CD-RWs are made of.

  21. Re:LOL on Music Industry Sues Irish Government For Piracy · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'm going to sound pretty heartless, but, survival of the fittest. Thanks for allowing your gene pool to be even further contaminated.

  22. Re:LOL on Music Industry Sues Irish Government For Piracy · · Score: 1

    "biggest difference is maybe that alcohol users don't generally force others to suffer from the poison as well"

    Such bullshit. Such utter, ill-educated, ill-informed bullshit.

    Speaking as one of those suffering from effects of someone under the influence of said poison FOUR YEARS AFTER THE FACT.

  23. Re:Who still pays for antivirus? on Symantec Sued For Running Fake "Scareware" Scans · · Score: 1

    >After your infected your done. I reformat my system as I do banking and student loans on it and can't risk infection.

    This is my face when people apparently can't get some cheap $25 older computer to use for secure projects.

    I've got a Pentium 3 sitting in the corner JUST for banking, everything BUT the bank blacklisted. I have an old crap laptop for research and development. Again, everything BUT my research facility is blacklisted, IP and DNS-wise.

    Then I have my main desktop for screwing around, which still hasn't been infected, and only runs Common Sense 2012.

    If you're getting infected, you're doing something wrong.

  24. Re:Who still pays for antivirus? on Symantec Sued For Running Fake "Scareware" Scans · · Score: 1

    I guess you have no clue how to tell if certain behaviors change in your system, eh? Don't use process explorer like you should, either, I'd wager.

    I've been infection-free for over half a decade. Why, yes, there are ways to determine if something unknown has hit your system.

    >mfw you don't bother with system state diffs, nor obviously know how to obtain and analyze them.

  25. Re:MSE vs. Avast on Symantec Sued For Running Fake "Scareware" Scans · · Score: 2

    MSE doesn't have that shitty announcer that Avast has.