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  1. Re:Use your local ham radio club on Tracking Down Wi-Fi Interference? · · Score: 1

    i'd go with the spectrum analyzer... if it's a strong enough signal to desense the tuner in his AM radio, it should be pretty easy to find.

  2. Re:It could have been worse... on Obama Backs MPAA, RIAA, and ACTA · · Score: 1

    Look at a Nolan chart... it's really not left or right that matters, it's the up and down directions that are the most important.

  3. Re:some facts about nuclear energy. on US To Build Nuclear Power Plants · · Score: 1
  4. STFU on Nothing To Fear But Fearlessness Itself? · · Score: 1

    The "leadership class" is privileged because they had the millions of dollars it takes to run campaigns and win elections. I'm surprised you didn't figure this out while you were thumbing through your thesaurus.

  5. Dr. Laura on Navigating a Geek Marriage? · · Score: 1

    The Proper Care and Feeding of Marriage.

  6. Re:Software RAID on Building a Fully Encrypted NAS On OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    Software RAID is hardly a "real pain to rebuild". What is the real pain is finding accurate, up-to-date documentation on how to do it. But once you know how, rebuilding's not any harder than hardware raid (other than having to type a command to start it up).

  7. saline or silicon implants for hard drives.... on Sony Develops Fluid-Filled Bags For Hard Disks · · Score: 1

    Now if they'd only invent liposuction for Windows...

  8. Income tax isn't fraud... it's theft! on Congress to Revisit Virtual Goods Taxation · · Score: 1

    Play a game where you give a friend $100. He pays the IRS a tax on his "windfall" income. Then he gives the rest back to you. You then pay the IRS a tax on your "windfall" income. Keep playing until the IRS has taken it all.

  9. Re:Um... on Microsoft Pleads With Consumers to Adopt Vista Now · · Score: 1

    Hey, this is a funny LISP joke! I guess the rest of the /. geeks aren't as old as I am. I'd mod it funny if I had moderator points!

  10. Re:What's the problem? on Judge Orders TorrentSpy to Turn Over RAM · · Score: 1

    Here's the problem: Copying the entire contents of memory at every memory cycle would generate a simply HUGE amount of data. And it would all be meaningless without a record of the CPU registers and the instruction that was being executed at the time. I say print it all out and dump everything on the MPAA that they got the judge to order because they'll *never* be able to figure anything out that they can conclusively prove!

  11. News flash buddy... on Red Hat Boosts SELinux With RHEL 5 · · Score: 1

    SELinux isn't just for protecting server applications. It's a per-app set of rules for how the program is expected to operate so that it keeps the unexpected from happening. Now, I'll give you that the very nature of free software development will make keeping an external ruleset in sync with a project very difficult. So, it's very unlikely to happen (generating rulesets for the rest of the apps in RHEL, that is).

  12. That's not entirely true. on Red Hat Boosts SELinux With RHEL 5 · · Score: 1

    There is no 100% protection. There are only SELinux rulesets for less than two dozen server applications, which is a very small percentage of the over 1100 packages which make up RHEL5. Even so, there's a decent book from O'Reilly, and Linux Journal recently covered SELinux... so only ignorant, overpaid sysadmins would blindly disable SELinux in the datacenter!

  13. We have the government we deserve, I guess. on Daylight Saving Change Saved No Power · · Score: 1

    If the only way to get a farmer up at 4am is to tell him is 5am, then he's beyond the help of the Congress. Especially a Congress that calculates that businesses having more daylight requiring an additional hour of running central air conditioning is saving energy! Unbelievabla!!

    At least, if the law expires, my digital devices that "know" that DST is first Sunday of April to last Sunday of October will function correctly again.

  14. I guess Symantec will soon be out of a job. on Surprise, Windows Listed as Most Secure OS · · Score: 5, Insightful

    After all... who needs to buy security products for the most secure commercial OS available to mankind?

  15. the bleeding obvious... pointed out... on Using Java 5 Features in Older JDKs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Java 1.6 is out now. 1.5 is so, like, last year.

  16. Re:It means on Define - /etc? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, right. And EMACS stands for "escape, meta, alt, control, shift"...

  17. At what cost performance? on Microsoft OneCare Last in Antivirus Tests · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'd like to know which of the highly rated products won't "Norton" the performance of my system... My ideal AV would be lean as well as mean. Who in their right mind wants a 99% sol'n that halves the performance of their system?

  18. What the fuck happened to Full Faith and Credit?!? on Homeland Security Offers Details on Real ID · · Score: 1

    What do you mean my State's ID won't be accepted? I guess Article IV, Section 1 can be safely ignored from now on. Besides, I already have a National ID... it's called a Social Security Number. Why do I need two National ID's?

  19. Re:Fedora Responds on Raymond Knocks Fedora, Switches to Ubuntu · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The real reason a Fedora user learns to use --force or --nodeps is because RPM will create package dependencies on Perl for programs IN THE DOC DIRECTORY!!! It's always just sample code in a directory of example code. RPM's done this for years now, and Red Hat claimed that they wouldn't fix it (when I reported it as a bug in Bugzilla). Since, in all those years, Fedora still hasn't fixed this RPM "feature", chastizing users for having to use --force or --nodeps smacks of hypocrisy.

  20. Re:Classic... on Couple Who Catch Cop Speeding Could Face Charges · · Score: 1

    Yeah? Well, FYI, it's been a month since the Dems took control of Congress and I haven't seen Pelosi and her ilk accomplish *anything* yet. So much for the five day work week... even after they took the first week off for their political partying and general back slapping. I see a lot of time wasted passing non-binding resolutions and still see the Patriot Act as law of the land. We've already had a quarter century of Bush and Clinton, and we're mad as hell and not gonna do a damn thing to change that.

  21. Re:Did they ever name the brands? on Google Releases Paper on Disk Reliability · · Score: 1

    No shit! I bought four 250G OEM Maxtor SATA II drives and made a RAID0+1 array and when one died, I bought another 250G OEM drive from the same vendor and got the "ever so much smaller" version. I finally found out that the vendor had unboxed retail drives and sold them as OEM (could tell from the firmware version). The smaller drive I bought later was a batch the vendor had bought from Dell (again, could tell from the firmware version). The Dell drives were also 10x slower!! The "retail" drive took one hour to low level format, while the "Dell" drive took 10 hours to low level format (both on the same computer booted with the latest MaxBlast CD). Oh, and the vendor was Newegg.com. Let 'em come sue me for relating what was told to me by a Maxtor tier 2 support engineer who clued me to what the firmware version numbers actually mean.

  22. Re:Sale has already been completed on Amazon Adjusts Prices After Sales Error · · Score: 1

    Yeah, well I bought three cases of six boxes of tea recently from Amazon for $42. The numbnuts in their wearhouse opens up one case and ships me three boxes. It took two more tries and a lot of bitch pitching and an extra week and a half for me to get the additional two and a half cases that I paid for. Amazon must be trying to cut employee costs by hiring unskilled labor into positions that require some semblance of skill.

  23. Re:upgrading on Bill Gates Brags About Vista, Reacts to Apple's Latest Ads · · Score: 1

    Send it to me and I'll try it on my i486DX4/100 with 32M of ECC memory. If it won't work, I know I can just reload Debian 3.1 on it just fine.

  24. Re:Subject Icon on Scientists Hope To Settle "Hobbit" Debate · · Score: 1

    It's Einstein with a ring for a halo. It's very punny.

  25. Re:Talk to the person who offered the package on Dealing w/ Relocation Package Bait and Switch? · · Score: 1

    > Why don't they call it personnel anymore? Because then it wouldn't reflect the fact that the company considers it's employees to be human resources to be used up and tossed away. As a rule, I keep my stress level low by avoiding jobs that are 100% buzzword compliant.