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  1. throwaways are easy with gmail on Jerry Yang Resigns From Yahoo · · Score: 4, Informative

    username+throwawaypart@gmail.com will be redirected to username@gmail.com.

  2. John Cage is going to sue! on SOPA and PIPA So Far · · Score: 1

    Blacked out websites are clearly a derivative work of 4:33.

  3. How are you going to power that? on New CO2 Harvester Could Help Scrub the Air · · Score: 2

    Extracting the carbon out of CO2 is going to require more energy than you'll ever be able to get from burning the products. You don't want to use fossil fuels to power that or else you're going to end up with a net increase in CO2 emissions.

  4. I tried it for IBS on Gut Bacteria Can Control Diabetes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Like almost all of the "natural" remedies, it didn't work at all. I've heard the same story from 3 other people. I wouldn't be surprised if the only people that reported it to work weren't just experiencing the placebo effect. Double blind studies seem to confirm that it doesn't help at all for cholesterol: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15841092

    My prescription medicine for IBS started out as a "natural" medicine made from a plant, except that it works and is now western medicine instead of alternative medicine.

    If you have diabetes, you should consult your doctor before you go experimenting with natural remedies. Some of them, like St. John's Wort, can interfere with the action of the medication that's actually doing something. "Natural" substances aren't inherently safe.

  5. Everything since 1794 is wrong on Lawmakers Intent On Approving SOPA, PIPA · · Score: 1

    You're starting far too late in our history. This started in 1794. Sovereign immunity, removal of the federal government's eminent domain privileges, giving railroads greater rights than citizens through eminent domain, abolishing slavery, US government defining what citizenship is, suffrage, banning alcohol, civil rights, the federal government overstepping its bounds and creating voting rights, corporate welfare...

    In short, everything ever was a bad idea and has encroached on the rights of citizens.

  6. Re:Get a Lumix on Ask Slashdot: Mirrorless, Interchangeable Lens Camera Advice? · · Score: 2

    The author has a good point, but the fact that all of his example photos are either really noisy or overcompressed doesn't help.

  7. Get a digital rangefinder on Ask Slashdot: Mirrorless, Interchangeable Lens Camera Advice? · · Score: 1

    Such as the Leica M9. Or if you can't afford that, just learn how to use a DSLR in auto mode. It's really hard (for me at least) to take a good picture without an optical viewfinder.

  8. Only block the SOPA supporters on Net Companies Consider the "Nuclear Option" To Combat SOPA · · Score: 1

    Block the congress, house of representatives, RIAA, and any supporting ISPs and businesses.
    143.228.0.0/16 is the house
    156.33.0.0/16 is the senate
    76.74.24.0/24 is RIAA

  9. Not comcast on The 'Cable Guy' Now a Network Specialist · · Score: 5, Funny

    Last time I had a comcast tech out to fix my cable modem, I had to show them how to use ping.

  10. They were paid to spy on Warrantless Wiretapping Decisions Issued By Ninth Circuit Court · · Score: 1

    AT&T was paid for their time. They have an interest in making money.

  11. Land of no crappers on Progressive Era Hacker Griefed Marconi Demonstration · · Score: 1

    Many cities simply just stopped having public restrooms entirely, thanks to CEPTA.

  12. Short circuit on Liquid Metal Capsules Used To Make Self-Healing Electronics · · Score: 1

    How do they prevent this from creating short circuits under stress?

  13. Why is the emergency oxygen manually triggered? on Fatal Problems Continue To Plague F-22 Raptor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It seems like this should have been automatically switched on.

  14. Re:ESR on SOPA opponents on SOPA Creator In TV/Film/Music Industry's Pocket · · Score: 2

    How about if my neighbors mind their own business while I dump mercury into my land? It's not my problem if they have to spend money to clean their well water.

    I don't agree with SOPA, but I hardly see how citing examples of government taking action to avoid a tragedy of commons and declaring it a slippery slope helps the argument against it.

  15. Re:ESR on SOPA opponents on SOPA Creator In TV/Film/Music Industry's Pocket · · Score: 1

    When were incandescent bulbs banned? I thought they only banned inefficient bulbs.

  16. Trap exceptions on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Non-Developers To Send Meaningful Bug Reports? · · Score: 1

    Web apps make it easy to trap and log exceptions in your framework, which you can then use to display your error form. Send a URL, browser data, and last 5 pages along with post/get data for them.

  17. You're right on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Non-Developers To Send Meaningful Bug Reports? · · Score: 2

    We do this and it works great. We additionally send along some system data, such as last 5 actions, a URL (we're web based), and some other debug data.

    It has saved us endless hours in finding the exact conditions needed to replicate a problem so we can fix it.

  18. One of the reasons I stopped using windows on Download.com Bundling Adware With Free Software · · Score: 1

    This has been going on for over 10 years. It became nearly impossible to find crapware free utilities, and that's one of the reasons I stopped using windows as an OS.

  19. Your 486 wasn't dealing with RAW files or flash on Using a Tablet As Your Primary Computer · · Score: 1

    You were editing a lot less data in those days and your processor didn't have to deal with the overhead of an interface built in flash. Lightroom is nice and powerful, but it is absurdly slow on my i5/8GB ram laptop for things like browsing thumbnails of my 5000 or so images. My 486 with 8MB of ram wasn't much slower at browsing pages of thumbnails.

  20. Net equipment is not as reliable on USPS Ending Overnight First-Class Letter Service · · Score: 1

    The networking equipment at the CO is less reliable than the phone equipment, probably due to the fact that the phone network hardware is far more mature.

    You do have a valid point though, using POTS lines for both puts the parent at non-zero risk for having simultaneous failures. We use both cable internet and T1s at our office. That didn't help us one day when one of the 4 telephone poles carrying both wires caught on fire, leaving us without internet for about 36 hours.

  21. Re:Fix: add a random delay for reporting time to l on Browser History Sniffing Is Back · · Score: 1

    Yes, it definitely would. You could certainly limit the scope to only apply to cross domain queries for out of viewport/small/hidden iframes, but that still might cause slowness issues for legitimate uses.

  22. Fix: add a random delay for reporting time to load on Browser History Sniffing Is Back · · Score: 1

    It seems like you could add a random delay of up to a couple hundred milliseconds before the browser reports that an iframe has successfully loaded, making it harder to tell by the timing.

  23. You'd need much larger conductors on Are Data Centers Finally Ready For DC Power? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Lower voltages require larger conductors to carry the same current. Copper isn't that cheap.

  24. conversion on the motherboard? on Are Data Centers Finally Ready For DC Power? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't you just end up putting a switching power supplies elsewhere and create heat problems, then?

  25. Re:Early macs were very locked down on Why Was Hypercard Killed? · · Score: 1

    Except for the person I responded to: "This was way before Apple got their reputation for wanting to control everything."