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  1. Re:Expert. on U2 and Apple Collaborate On 'Non-Piratable, Interactive Format For Music' · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Bono is rich and famous and a leader of his music/concert/marketing industry, and for many people, that's what counts. Whether or not his new digital music format can or cannot be pirated is something that remains to be seen, and is so far away in the future, that you can ignore the rest of his words that the media is propagating today. (And history, regarding piracy in a technical sense, is not on Bono's side. I'll bet against Sir Bono).

  2. Re:Small setup on Slashdot Asks: What's In Your Home Datacenter? · · Score: 1

    This is the technical explanation that has eluded me for years. Thank you. I hope you get modded up.

  3. Re: I never thought I'd say this... on FCC Chairman: Americans Shouldn't Subsidize Internet Service Under 10Mbps · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should consider living somewhere else than if you want a career in IT. Through all of history the characteristics and features of a geographic location have dictated the type of economic activity that goes on there.

    Umm, I am not so sure I agree with what you have just written. Isn't the very industry of Information Technology based upon the predicate of a solution in response to a requirement?

  4. Re:Hmmm .... on A DC-10 Passenger Plane Is Perfect At Fighting Wildfires · · Score: 1

    That's a fascinating wikipedia article you cited. Off-topic, but I was impressed by the caption underneath the FedEx aircraft that reads, "FedEx became the first U.S. carrier to equip its aircraft with an anti-missile defense system in 2006. The gray oval Northrop Grumman Guardian pod can be seen on the belly of this FedEx MD-10 between and just aft of the main landing gear."

    Wow. If only Flight MH-17 had that stuff; really makes one think about airliners in 2014.

  5. Re:Why should programmers help Apple make billions on Why Apple Should Open-Source Swift -- But Won't · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but why as a developer would you want to limit yourself to a single OS, never-mind that this one has an evil overlord with its own interests at heart? And FWIW, how come no one in their right mind uses Active X web extensions either?

    -"A man has got to know his limitations." -Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry, mocking the guy who said it to him first.

  6. Re:Uber Fresh? on Uber CEO: We'll Run Your Errands · · Score: 1

    I'll put in a vote for a Wexler's deli O.G., to compete for best sandwich in LA, simply based on a photo (and review) in the LA Times, (as I've never been able try it).
    http://www.latimes.com/food/la...

  7. Re:Who is buried on Who Is Buried In the Largest Tomb Ever Found In Northern Greece? · · Score: 1

    That's known as 'being underwater', and there's a lot of people walking around in that condition now.

  8. Re:Who is buried on Who Is Buried In the Largest Tomb Ever Found In Northern Greece? · · Score: 1, Informative

    No one is 'buried' in this tomb, or even Grant's tomb. A tomb by definition is an above ground structure, and to be buried one must be beneath the ground.

  9. Re:Sorry guys, but you are full of shit on AT&T Says 10Mbps Is Too Fast For "Broadband," 4Mbps Is Enough · · Score: 1

    That's freaking awesome!

  10. Re:With Tor you have expectation of anonymity... on Feds Say NSA "Bogeyman" Did Not Find Silk Road's Servers · · Score: 2

    That's how the Harvard kid got busted classically calling in a bomb threat on test day. The feds looked for outgoing Tor traffic from the Harvard LAN, which requires a MAC address BTW.

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/ru...

  11. Better Links on Restoring Salmon To Their Original Habitat -- With a Cannon · · Score: 3, Informative
  12. Re:South Lake Union vs Redmond Headquarters on Protesters Blockade Microsoft's Seattle Headquarters Over Tax Breaks · · Score: 1

    My understanding is because the tax-free 'HQ' , oops, I meant the Operations Center in question is located in Nevada of course, and that would obviously present a financial hardship on these common Washingtonians whose means to earn a living have been diminished.

  13. Look at the ELK Stack on Ask Slashdot: Remote Server Support and Monitoring Solution? · · Score: 1

    The ELK Stack (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana) are great tools for capturing logs from *anything*, indexing and massaging of the data captured, and then offering up visualization, searches, and dashboards (that refresh). Built with Angular.js so the speed happens.

    We could be talkin' web server logs of the NY Times servers, centralized and displaying dashboards in real-time, or maybe 24/7 sensor data streaming from the ocean floor. The ELK Stack can do it.

    First googled citation, and there's plenty more where this came from: http://thepracticalsysadmin.co...

  14. Re:Around or on top of millitary bases? on Mysterious, Phony Cell Towers Found Throughout US · · Score: 2

    This is a good article, as before I had no idea such sophisticated rogue towers were such a threat all over the US.

    So when Goldsmith and his team drove by the government facility in July, he also took a standard Samsung Galaxy S4 and an iPhone to serve as a control group for his own device.

    ”As we drove by, the iPhone showed no difference whatsoever. The Samsung Galaxy S4, the call went from 4G to 3G and back to 4G. The CryptoPhone lit up like a Christmas tree.”

    Though the standard Apple and Android phones showed nothing wrong, the baseband firewall on the Cryptophone set off alerts showing that the phone’s encryption had been turned off, and that the cell tower had no name – a telltale sign of a rogue base station. Standard towers, run by say, Verizon or T-Mobile, will have a name, whereas interceptors often do not.

  15. Re:From the linked article... on Deputy Who Fatally Struck Cyclist While Answering Email Will Face No Charges · · Score: 1

    Only replying to myself rhetorically, but who on Earth would want their children to ride bicycles if safety was such a grave concern? Is this the society we want to develop?

  16. Re:The deputy initially claimed... on Deputy Who Fatally Struck Cyclist While Answering Email Will Face No Charges · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...from Witnesses, (page 3 of the Police PDF Report):

    Andrew McCown was the driver of a vehicle that was traveling eastbound on Mulholland Highway approximately 60 feet behind Wood's patrol vehicle when the collision occurred. He indicated he did not see Olin until he "flew into the air" after being struck by the patrol vehicle. He did not see the patrol vehicle swerve or the brake lights activate until after a collision occurred. McCown is an emergency medical technician and stopped to render aid to Olin. Olin had no pulse and had a severe injury to his head.

    Ashely McCown was the passenger in that vehicle. She stated that she also noticed Olin in the bicycle lane prior to the collision.

  17. Re:From the linked article... on Deputy Who Fatally Struck Cyclist While Answering Email Will Face No Charges · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I like bicycles so much I don't have a driver's license. But who on Earth would risk their life riding a bike, (for whatever sensible reason), when professional idiots kill bicyclists riding peacefully and safely?

  18. Re: As much as I hate Apple on Apple Said To Team With Visa, MasterCard On iPhone Wallet · · Score: 1

    From a user POV, using a VISA card outside of the USA is far more secure then using a VISA card within the USA, in 2014; or at least within the EU. You're correct in that the ownership of The VISA Corporation is irrelevant.

  19. Nokia Handsets Can Rise Again on Post-Microsoft Nokia Offering Mapping Services To Samsung · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nokia did not sell the name 'Nokia' to Microsoft, and from January 1, 2016, is free from Microsoft's shackles to sell mobile phones again. Microsoft can't sell "Nokia Lumias", only Microsoft Lumias.

    The option remains open to, for example, purchase Jolla and in doing so, regain much of the former Nokia team and (and their funky Linux from Finland, where it all started...) and use the modern version that's available to them of the OS that once was Harmatten/Meego, that drives the awesome N9/N950.

    In fact some of the funding to start Jolla came from severance packages to the team that was laid of by Elop, having delivered the N9, in spite of Elop's interference and obstacles on the way to enriching himself and his masters.

  20. Re:Simple on Ask Slashdot: What Old Technology Can't You Give Up? · · Score: 2

    Nothing, I say nothing can beat Reel to Reel. They don't call it reel for nothing.

    (And don't use no double-negatives, never!)

  21. Re:Simple on Ask Slashdot: What Old Technology Can't You Give Up? · · Score: 1

    What Pico, are you mad? You have failed to provide even the slightest mention whatsoever to Nano; dammit all to Hell!

  22. Re:Obvious Reason on Why Women Have No Time For Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    I am a man, and I completely agree with your female friend. Wikipedia doesn't seem worth much investment of my own time and energy, especially given my experience contributing to technical topics like round-robin DNS . Hell, I've got the Slashdots for that! (Plus the other stuff, all of which is usually taking place, when I can turn my attention to the Slashdots; where my karma is what it is).

  23. Stakeholders vs. Customers on How Big Telecom Smothers Municipal Broadband · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Seems to me that stakeholders in municipal broadband are a more satisfied lot than the customers of the Telcos (with their paid lobbyists so nicely donating money to the boy/girls scouts to enlist their 'support' for crazy-ass mergers and what-not; nevermind that The Public has Clearly Told The 3 (is it?) commissioners at the FCC to take a flying leap).

  24. Re:Remember the Sochi Olympics on Russian Military Forces Have Now Invaded Ukraine · · Score: 1

    Sarcasm? Who, me?

  25. Remember the Sochi Olympics on Russian Military Forces Have Now Invaded Ukraine · · Score: 2

    Wasn't it a wonderful, peaceful time, so long ago? Ah, those were the days.