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  1. Re:Easy Switchover on Death Hovers Politely For Americans' Swipe-and-Sign Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    Just microwave it: to kill the chip.

  2. Re:Maybe people don't care on Yep, People Are Still Using '123456' and 'Password' As Passwords In 2014 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He used iso date format - arguably the best and most universal way to represent a date. Get over yourself.

  3. I was recently burned by a keyboard layout on Stop Trying To 'Innovate' Keyboards, You're Just Making Them Worse · · Score: 1

    Accidentally hit enter instead of backslash on an old keyboard. It had an L shaped enter instead of rectangular. That accident meant deleting all of my logical volumes on a big storage array instead of just the one I was trying to. I was very grateful for the automatic backups Linux LVM makes when you delete volumes as I had not yet made my own backup since adding a couple new logical volumes.

  4. Hideous website - tabtimes on Are Tablets Replacing Notebook Computers? (Video) · · Score: 2

    I tried checking out the tabtimes website but immediately closed it. It looks like 1 giant ad.

  5. Re:Maybe this corn can be used for food again? on Lawmakers Out To Kill the Corn-Based Ethanol Mandate · · Score: 1

    No, sunset clauses are easy to deal with; it goes down like this:

    Senator Bob: Hey, this law is in sunset phase. Was it a good idea, and do we want to keep it, yea or nay?

    Except it ends up not just being a yes/no vote to renew. People end up arguing about what to change, or what to tack on (raises!).

  6. Re:Will never work with modern drives on SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work · · Score: 1

    I didn't, I just moved the chip from the failed board to the working one.

  7. Re:Will never work with modern drives on SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work · · Score: 1

    A $15 radio shack soldering iron is all you need. I've done this and it worked to recover 4 drives that all had controller board failures (customer system) from a fried power supply.

  8. Re:Plus secure parcel delivery on Door-To-Door Mail Delivery To End Under New Plan · · Score: 1

    Never bought anything on ebay? Most stuff there is shipped USPS. It's cheaper for small stuff.

  9. Re:Fingerprint it! on Ask Slashdot: How To Deliver a Print Magazine Online, While Avoiding Piracy? · · Score: 1

    You should be held responsible for being negligent enough to get the virus.

  10. Re:Perfect is the enemy of good. on Employers Switching From Payroll Checks To Prepaid Cards With Fees · · Score: 1

    No, it's not legal to do that. An issueing bank is REQUIRED to cash their own checks for no fee.

  11. Re:Perfect is the enemy of good. on Employers Switching From Payroll Checks To Prepaid Cards With Fees · · Score: 1

    It's always free to cash a check at the issuing bank. Problem solved.

  12. Re:The good thing is... on Solar Impulse Airplane To Launch First Sun-Powered Flight Across America · · Score: 1

    Apparently you haven't learned the important life lessons from Family Guy. Even an amish wagon can explode when it crashes. The horses too.

  13. Re:Nope. on The Pirate Bay Claims It Is Now Hosting From North Korea · · Score: 1

    With NK, you are directly giving money to a dictator who is creating a nuclear weapons program. How is that so difficult to understand?

  14. Re:Nope. on The Pirate Bay Claims It Is Now Hosting From North Korea · · Score: 2

    Let me know when Zimbabwe starts doing nuclear weapons testing...

  15. Re:It's called the key on Driver Trapped In Speeding Car At 125 Mph · · Score: 1

    And who, pray tell, would be paying for these modifications?

    It is one thing to put forth a requirement on future vehicles but it is another thing to expect that all existing vehicles be modified.

    Car manufacturers already have to pay for safety recalls. This would be a safety recall.

    A mechanism to solve this would be very simple anyway - a nice big relay on the power input for the computer connected to a switch installed on the dashboard anywhere near the driver. Have a cover over it to make sure it can't be hit accidentally maybe too. That would solve the problem with very minimal changes.

  16. Re:It's called the key on Driver Trapped In Speeding Car At 125 Mph · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not all cars have a kill switch you can just shut things down.

    And that's the problem right there then.

  17. Re:Dvorak bad on Ask Slashdot: Typing Advice For a Guinness World Record Attempt? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He already said his native language was dutch. Overall his English was very good. It was much better than the majority of native English speakers.

    Don't be a dick.

  18. Re:Bad place to ask on Ask Slashdot: Typing Advice For a Guinness World Record Attempt? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or you could be polite and realize it takes a minute to figure something out sometimes, and not demand immediate responses. You should expect a delay in many situations.

  19. Re:Can't we just 3D print it? on Bee Venom Has "Botox-Like Effect," Is Worth 7 Times As Much As Gold · · Score: 0

    Processors with traces measured in nanometers ftw. That's what enables small technology, and very high performance tech too.

  20. Re:Can't we just 3D print it? on Bee Venom Has "Botox-Like Effect," Is Worth 7 Times As Much As Gold · · Score: 2

    I mean just look at what nanotechnology has brought us so far! Um, oh wait...

    You mean something like a handheld computer that can make phone calls, surf the internet, play games, and all weighs less than a pound? Oh, and is so ubiquitous that even your grandma might have one?

    If only that had happened we could say nanotechnology was a success :(

  21. Re:Systemd. Still the root of all ... Stupidity on Gentoo Developers Fork udev · · Score: 2

    You're WRONG, there's always a rootfs in initramfs (it's mandatory since 2.6). The root dir on NFS you're talking about is the "user"'s root. The early init will switch-root to the user's one. You can always have firmware in initramfs. In fact, most embedded linux system never bother to switch-root to an "user"'s one.

    Nope, not at all.

    The Gentoo system I'm typing this from is running 3.4.9, and does not have an initrd/initramfs. I have support for my sata controller and filesystem compiled straight into the kernel, and /dev/sda5 is directly mounted as root. NFS can be used as the actual root with appropriate kernel parameters to set that up basically the same way.

    @Carnildo - For a diskless system, unless very limited in memory, you're much better off making a custom initrd that contains the basic root filesystem, and then use nfs for just /usr, /home, and similar. It's much better performance and is worth the ~150MB of memory.

  22. Re:No smiles in Ohio -objecting on privacy grounds on No Smiles At NJ Motor Vehicle Commission · · Score: 1

    You don't have a right to a license. It is a priviledge granted by the government, hence it can have restrictions imposed on it. That now appears to include submitting your photo to facial recognition databases. Don't like it? Don't get a license, passport, or anything else like it.

    Whether or not that is "right" is another question, but that's the way the laws work regarding it.

  23. I just found another of her sites that uses a family picture of the Christensens from a photographer in Utah.

    Do you think she got permission for that?

  24. Re:Typical RV park on Ask Slashdot: Updating a Difficult Campground Wi-Fi Design? · · Score: 2

    You forgot to include the hotel costs in your calculation. I'm not really sure of costs, but I'm going to assume $30 / night for an RV park compared to your $65/night for a motel room.

    RV+fuel cost of $80,812 + park cost of (30*5*365) $54,750 = $135,562
    car+fuel cost of $32,564 + motel cost of (65*5*365) $118,625 = $151,189

    For our fictional ballpark numbers, that makes the RV solution about $15k cheaper.

  25. Re:Typical RV park on Ask Slashdot: Updating a Difficult Campground Wi-Fi Design? · · Score: 1

    A double room is $80-100 a night. I'm very certain there's a point (factoring in the cost of the RV) where you do way better. I mean, say an RV is $80,000 - that's 100 nights in a motel. People have certainly taken RV trips for much longer than 100 days. And even when you factor in the maintenance costs (cars, usually around $3 -$20 a day) and fuel, RVs will probably still come out on top in the long run.

    $80000 / $80 a night = 1000 nights, not 100 However, that number does drop when you factor in the resale value of the RV.