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  1. Re:Oy Vey! on California Going Ahead With Bullet Train · · Score: 1

    He just hadn't learned how to make money off selling toll road contracts. Kay bitch Hutchison did the same thing. http://www.statesman.com/news/local/perrys-toll-road-sins-mostly-in-woulda-coulda-193585.html

  2. Re:What about Los Angeles to Las Vegas? on California Going Ahead With Bullet Train · · Score: 1

    Halliburtin doesn't use union labor and will be "the only company able to handle such a lofty job". Oh wait. Cheney isn't in office any longer. Nevermind.

  3. Re:The TSA will ruin this. on California Going Ahead With Bullet Train · · Score: 1

    TSA will expand to cover travel by car. And bus. And taxi. And limo. And motorcycle. And bicycle. And segway.

    Aha! This proves my theory. Skateboarders are terrorists!

  4. Re:Time on California Going Ahead With Bullet Train · · Score: 1

    The railbuilders had bounties on both natives and buffalo.

    O.K. So shooting the inhabitants and wildlife will be justifiable this time. When do we start? :D

  5. Re:The bond measure was for $98 billion on California Going Ahead With Bullet Train · · Score: 1

    All those government jobs Rick Perry created don't come free.

    I'm sure there is some connection between new jobs at WalMart and in the natural gas industry, and government jobs but I don't see it. Well, they are thankless and you work around a lot of explosive gas.

  6. Hells Yeah! on China To Cancel College Majors That Don't Pay · · Score: 1

    What if the U.S. government were to adopt China's approach?

    You mean pay someone's tuition if their major is on a list? It is a little late but, I'll go back if it is free this time around.

  7. Put it to good use on Palantir, the War On Terror's Secret Weapon · · Score: 1

    If they want to protect the shire they should implement a version of the software for the net so people can use it to determine the quality of people running for office.

  8. Re:Did I drop that? on Wounded Copyright Troll Still Alive and Kicking · · Score: 1

    If your the rogue, and your warrior, mage, and cleric are dead, have beaten the green slime to 1 health, then suddenly realize you dropped that fire whip scroll because it was only worth 3 coins, yes. :)

  9. Re:QT is fine on QT 5 Will Be Available For Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    allowing things like QML to set properties on C++ objects from javascript

    This is what confuses me about QT, and Android, and WebOS, and iOS. Why QML (javascript like language)? I mean everyone has essentially created a browser form that parses XHTML/CSS/ but instead of it interpreting javascript they add their own scripting language. This keeps people from reusing code. ie. If I don't like a platform, or get anywhere on a platform, or want to expand to another platform I have to completely rewrite all script code. I did a little work with QT back when it was pretty much the same thing as wxWidgets. I liked it but It just annoys me when API writers do this stuff.

  10. Did I drop that? on Wounded Copyright Troll Still Alive and Kicking · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is why zombie lawyers are the most feared D&D monsters. There is always something you should have been keeping in your inventory to kill them but didn't.

  11. High expections meet reality on Ubisoft Blames Piracy For Non-Release of PC Game · · Score: 1

    I bet if someone could go buy the game for $5 it wouldn't be worth the trouble to wait for a big ass download. They would just go buy it. Making millions of dollars on top of millions of dollars on top of millions of dollars on every game isn't possible. Buying a game for $60+, jumping through DRM hoops to get it installed, having to drag out DVD's to play it, and the game turning out to suck isn't sufficient incentive to buy games. Even if the game was the be all to end all it isn't worth it to kids who have less money than parents who are damn near broke these days too. Rumor has it cheap phone games are selling hot and heavy. Get a clue. People buy pirated goods because the originals are too expensive. Nobody is going to pirate something if they loose money. Nobody is going to by a knockoff if the original is affordable. Quit trying to be a billionaire off the backs of people with $2 in the bank.

    Now get off my lawn you DRM loving MAFIAA cock suckers!

  12. Re:ooh pick me pick me on Electronic Contact Lens Displays Pixels On the Eye · · Score: 1

    I hereby volunteer to participate in the study that (dis)proves that.

  13. You've been rooted. on Secure Syslog Replacement Proposed · · Score: 1

    If someone with technical skills sufficient to break into a machine and effect syslog data has gained root on a machine, how is an alternative syslogd going to make it more difficult for them? If they have root an alternative logging daemon is not going to prohibit them from replacing any binary on the machine. It isn't going to prohibit them from using disk tools to make changes to inodes. It isn't going to effect any of the 10 or so things I can think of off the top of my head that can be used to cover your tracks.

    1) Access machine.
    2) Gain root
    3) Stop the alternative logging daemon
    4) Replace this binary alternative with my own that reports disk sector errors at the inode location of the log if a log file is deleted or replaced.
    5) Replace the disk tools, in addition to the usual replacements -- cat, zcat, grep, zgrep, w, last... - dropped with a rootkit.
    6) Replace the log files with random binary data.

    Or! You can use a network detection software to log connections to ports not running known services. Or! You can use tripwire. Or! You can send log data to syslogd like almost everyone here has suggested.

    Fuckholio'ing one of Linux's greatest attributes is unacceptable.

  14. Re:I don't know... on Secure Syslog Replacement Proposed · · Score: 1

    With things like Unity and Wayland and Upstart, we really shouldn't expect anything less Microsofty.

    FTFY

  15. I got mesmerized on Smart Meters Wreaking Havoc With Home Electronics · · Score: 1

    I had QMPP up listening to music from the house and everything went p00f. I got home to find all my machines off. I was going to complain but a shiny new network showed up on kismet.

  16. Yikes! on Internet Water Army On the March · · Score: 1

    The Chinese are using 700 club tactics! Were screwed.

  17. Re:Yet Another Terrible Flamebait Slashdot Summary on 88-Year-Old Inventor Hassled By the DEA · · Score: 1

    Wallace can continue his business as long as he pays a $1,200 fee, secures state and federal permits, and surrenders a list of his customers to the federal government.

    I think it is awesome he is allowed to continue as long as the DEA get their cut and he gives up a list of people to shake down. The reason he is out of business is because, now, his wholesalers will not sell to him.

    But since his iodine distributor's been warned not to sell to him, it appears it's game over for the octogenarian inventor.

    http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Meth-Heads-Using-88-Year-Olds-Invention-134345733.html

  18. Novell the damned. on Bill Gates Takes the Stand In WordPerfect Trial · · Score: 1

    I feel for them. Unfortunately, no matter who won the OS war (IBM or Microsoft) they were screwed. IBM bought Ami, IMHO, making Lotus Suite the best of all worlds. It was definitely the siznit on Warp. People developing for Windows were getting fucked left and right which made me wonder why anybody bothered developing for them. It was no secret most secretaries lived, breathed, and loved WordPerfect. Most of the legal secretaries I worked with loved Apple too. Enough so I would bet that Apple and WordPerfect could have been the ipso facto standard of the Legal world. I guess the numbers were not big enough for Novell. Oh well. Hindsight, 20/20, and all that.

  19. Re:Do you actually need it? on Ask Slashdot: Tablet With Root Access By Default? · · Score: 1

    You can do X11 forwarding on Android devices?

  20. Re:Same ol BS benchmarks on Bulldozer Server Benchmarks Not Promising · · Score: 1

    If this is a serious production application, consider optimizing your software. Firstly, spawning endless threads is rarely an efficient use of resources.

    I should have pointed out the software was not the production software. The point of the software was to produce threads, look for areas that can be optimized, and test if a specific piece of hardware can help avoid additional optimizations.

    Finally, did you mean 65535*2*10k + 4*252*200?

    Yes. Right after submitting it I thought for sure my only reply would be, "Dear dumb ass, please learn math". Which would have been appropriate. :)

  21. Re:What's the attraction? on Ham Radio Licenses Top 700,000, An All-Time High · · Score: 1

    I made a post but after your post. The answer is HSMM

  22. HSMM it is the new freedom. on Ham Radio Licenses Top 700,000, An All-Time High · · Score: 1

    What do they expect. Everyone is getting screwed by ISP's and government laws. With radio all you need is friends.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_multimedia_radio

    http://www.febo.com/hamdocs/intronos.html

  23. doh! on Baker Has to Make 102,000 Cupcakes For Grouponers · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let them eat cupcake?

  24. Re:Let's bring some numbers into this... on Debt Reduction Super Committee Fails To Agree · · Score: 1

    Hells yeah! Numbers are cool! It is interesting how the amounts have doubled but the percentage of what is coming in and going out have changed little. Ask yourself how the numbers have doubled in 15 years but the population certainly hasn't doubled. 200% inflation much? Weren't we being told there was no inflation during the Reagan/Bush years and there was even the possibility of deflation during the early years of Obama? It is also interesting how the budget seemed to climb about .1B per year while giving tax cuts to the 1%. However, during the years with no tax cuts the budget didn't increase every year. It is also interesting how, during a near collapse of the banking system, there was only a .3B increase to the budget in 2010.

    1997 Social Security $536.2 in and $364.8 billion out
    US population 272,657,000 ~$145/person
    2012 Social Security $925 in and $761 billion out
    US population 312,651,335 ~$286/person

    1997
    $645.1 billion - Individual income taxes
    $536.2 billion - Social Security and other payroll tax
    $185 billion - Corporation income taxes
    2012
    $1.141 trillion - Individual income taxes
    $925 billion - Social Security and other payroll tax
    $329 billion - Corporation income taxes

            2012 United States federal budget - $3.7 trillion (submitted 2011 by President Obama)
            2011 United States federal budget - $3.8 trillion (submitted 2010 by President Obama)
            2010 United States federal budget - $3.6 trillion (submitted 2009 by President Obama)
            2009 United States federal budget - $3.1 trillion (submitted 2008 by President Bush)
            2008 United States federal budget - $2.9 trillion (submitted 2007 by President Bush)
            2007 United States federal budget - $2.8 trillion (submitted 2006 by President Bush)
            2006 United States federal budget - $2.7 trillion (submitted 2005 by President Bush)
            2005 United States federal budget - $2.4 trillion (submitted 2004 by President Bush)
            2004 United States federal budget - $2.3 trillion (submitted 2003 by President Bush)
            2003 United States federal budget - $2.2 trillion (submitted 2002 by President Bush)
            2002 United States federal budget - $2.0 trillion (submitted 2001 by President Bush)
            2001 United States federal budget - $1.9 trillion (submitted 2000 by President Clinton)
            2000 United States federal budget - $1.8 trillion (submitted 1999 by President Clinton)
            1999 United States federal budget - $1.7 trillion (submitted 1998 by President Clinton)
            1998 United States federal budget - $1.7 trillion (submitted 1997 by President Clinton)
            1997 United States federal budget - $1.6 trillion (submitted 1996 by President Clinton)
            1996 United States federal budget - $1.6 trillion (submitted 1995 by President Clinton)

  25. Same ol BS benchmarks on Bulldozer Server Benchmarks Not Promising · · Score: 1

    After clicking on links I finally found some benchmarks. As usual, they were bullshit. Can't these people think of a test that can put them through real hoops? I used to throw 60G pcap files (1 minute of traffic) at machines to determine if the hardware could run our IPS software. The machine with the fewest millions of threads not yet processed won. The application opened a thread for every packet that traversed a 1G nic. The content of each packet was then sent (branched) through the appropriate inspections simultaneously; one thread for each protocol check, one thread for each header check, one thread for each regular expression on the body, making a potential (65,535^2^10k + 4^252^200) new threads per second. No branch prediction can be used in this kind of test because the traffic is never predictable so every path for every packet must be traversed completely. Note: the 10k and 200 are the number of rules (regular expressions) applied to the packets.