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  1. Re: then why did some states succeed? on HealthCare.gov: What Went Wrong? · · Score: 1

    What planet do you live on? Republicans NEVER rubber stamp any bill proposed by a Democrats. And if anybody's mess needed cleaning up, it's is always the two wars on the credit card Republicans that fit this description. Amazing how you fit so much misinformation or lack of understanding in two sentences.

  2. Re: Here is a thought..not much of one on HealthCare.gov: What Went Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Wow. Not equipped. I seem to recall a website called barackobama.com that came from behind to give Senator a Obama the presidency in 2008 and 2012. Maybe this should have been expanded to healthcare.gov. The campaign web site was admittedly less complex - it just had to record names, addresses, contributions, etc. but it did handle millions of small donations without crashing. Full disclosure, knocked on doors in Iowa in 2008, delegate to the DNC in Charlotte, NC in 2012, but damn! I would have thought that most /. users were a bit more liberal that what I am reading here. The AC's I can understand, but the rest? So you would prefer who - Rand "Wikipedia plagiarized" Paul? Yikes. Interested to hear intelligent feedback. That excludes conspiracy theories, ok?

  3. Google Translator compatible? on First New Top-Level Domains Added To the Root Zone · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    These new domains seem to split the internet, unless the pages can be read by the English speaking world. Maybe that's the idea, but it seems to move away from the intent of a universal internet.

  4. MMMMMM.... methane on Mystery of Missing Martian Methane Deepens · · Score: 1

    Homer's favorite byproduct.

  5. Satan! How Convenient! on SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work · · Score: 1
  6. Save me from bad drivers on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 2

    We are a long way from jumping in the car, saying "work," and then reading or taking a nap on the way. We accept about 30 thousand deaths a year in the USA as normal. If the real bugs could be worked out, this number would go down.

  7. Re: From a comment on the story - so this is bogus on Study Finds Fracking Chemicals Didn't Pollute Water · · Score: 1, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our paragraph overlords!

  8. Re: From a comment on the story - so this is bogus on Study Finds Fracking Chemicals Didn't Pollute Water · · Score: 1

    Yup,clearly labeled from a comment. I live in PA, where the Democratic Party just passed a resolution against fracking, thanks to my sister, a co-chair from Monroe County. Nice going sis!

  9. Re: Not enough on Study Finds Fracking Chemicals Didn't Pollute Water · · Score: 0, Troll

    And how do I know you're anything but a shill for the fabulous frackers, AC man or woman or just plain shill? You do know that tests for water generally show a laundry list of carcinogens which are never found in those amounts in non-fracking areas, right? Shill away, AC.

  10. From a comment on the story - so this is bogus on Study Finds Fracking Chemicals Didn't Pollute Water · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This segment of oil and gas propaganda was brought to you by the good ol' folks of the Marcellus Shale Coalition and its friends at ANGA. What a joke! I'm sure the American Natural Gas Association (ANGA) will advertise even more on your station now as a thank you for this puff piece you proffered as news. I live in SW PA. I sadly know many, many families whose lives have been destroyed by the onslaught of drilling and fracking. For them, this might be the most insulting study I have seen to date. Why not point out, CBS, that the state of PA never even had 1 cumulative impact study on human health or the environment before they allowed the takeover of our state and government by big oil and gas. No consideration whatsoever for what this would do to our health, our air, our water. We are here to be the guinea pigs and no one really seems to care thanks to a lack of media integrity and coverage about the reality of living in the gasfields. CBS should be embarrassed to even play along with this type of bought and paid for "journalism". Congratulations Duke! You found a company here that can drill and maintain a gas pad exactly as it should be without a single complication and did a study (like the 7 or 8% failure rate on the cement well casings. This is one of the major reasons we have had so much water contamination and methane migration in this state. Check the DEP numbers here in PA. That is failure of cement casing on just the completion of wells, not the overall failure rate, over time, that is much, much higher). It is terrifying to think about all of the damage that the fractures (1800 ft) themselves can or will do in addition to the failed casings. You seem there are hundreds of thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells, and coal mines in all corners of this state that are further complicating this type of migration and contamination. Why not investigate that? Looking at one well and saying "Hey, this is how it is supposed to work when it does. See, it can happen." is not any kind of science or research that helps those of us screaming "WHAT DO WE DO WHEN YOUR DRILL SITES FAIL; WHEN YOUR FRACK PITS LEAK TOXIC WASTE; WHEN YOUR TRUCKS SPILL AND YOUR WORKERS ILLEGALLY DUMP ON OUR ROADS AND IN OUR WATERWAYS? WHAT DO WE DO WHEN WE CAN'T BREATHE THE AIR OUTSIDE OF OUR HOMES AND ALL OF OUR POLITICIANS and REGULATORY AGENCIES ARE BEHOLDEN TO INDUSTRY AND NOT THE PEOPLE THEY WORK FOR?" Now there's a story we here in Gasland would love to see. I will take any honest journalist on a tour of what fracking really looks like when things go wrong, as they often do, from the view of the harmed, the sickened, the destroyed forests and farmland. I will show you the massive frackpits that sit behind people's houses and poison their air. I will show you what black, putrid water looks like where it used to run clean and water animals. I will let you smell the smell of flaring and burning of god knows what from giant cyrogenic plants next to the home of toddlers and daycare centers. I will show you where toxic waste is buried on farmland and where water catches fire and well after well is destroyed, thanks to all of the disruption of the earth below it. I could show you all of this and yet the sad truth is that you wouldn't even investigate or report on it, just like the media round these parts. You have an organization to run and that takes lots of advertising dollars, not honest reporting. Just keep spewing the BS about jobs, safety, doing it right, American independence from foreign oil, and every other lie and industry talking point that you tell to justify the plight of my neighbors and the destruction of our land and the profit of your news organization. I'll be here shaking my head at your fault, but fighting back. I'll watch as our resources are shipped to China and India, while more and more foreign companies drill and have more rights in our backyards than the citizens of this state. I'll watch with great sadness, your participation in the destruction of my democracy. And I will continue to speak truth to power. My eyes were opened a long time ago. I understand how the world works. I know what part in the coverup media outlets like you play. I only hope that many of your viewers wake up and take your news for what it is, good old American journaltizing at its best.

  11. They all seem to kill performance on Ask Slashdot: Light-Footprint Antivirus For Windows XP? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's not so much a memory issue as it is the nature of the beast. Active scanning hogs hard disk performance. I would ask these people if they might want to get a Chromebook or similar. The aging hardware might soon go to PC heaven so they will need to replace the system anyway.

  12. Re: MY ISP got hacked... on Wordpress Sites Under Wide-Scale Brute Force Attack · · Score: 1

    The part that bothered me was the hosting provider admitting that he thought this could not be done. To his credit, he seems to have updated everything and there have been no issues since. I think this was his wake up call, that could not assume that a Linux based server is invincible. Every time a patch is rolled out, unless servers are updated, the kiddie scripters load up and see who they can hack and wack.

  13. Re: Off topic on Wordpress Sites Under Wide-Scale Brute Force Attack · · Score: 1

    Nope. East Stroudsburg. Used to fix PC's on the side a while back. Hence the name.

  14. MY ISP got hacked... on Wordpress Sites Under Wide-Scale Brute Force Attack · · Score: 2

    And the blog I run is for my church. He said he did not know how this happened. Someone hacked a blog running an unpatched Drupal blog. This is what he said, anyway. Then used that breach to hack everything else. Since I could not determine what had been hacked/changed on the church blog, (user accounts wee created that I did not create!) I wiped it, deleted all the databases and started from scratch. So it isn't just crappy blogs - although if you happen to be a godless nerd you may think my church blog is crappy anyway.... B-) I support your right to be a godless nerd.

  15. Re:"Free" Trade, What Did You Expect? on Large Corporations Displacing Aging IT Workers With H-1B Visa Workers · · Score: 0

    I've been away from /. for along time - AC's are still posting GIGO. And yes, two wars, one based on lies, is Bush's fault as well as the debt load he lobbed to Obama as he helicoptered back to Texas. I was at the First Inauguration. People were cheering when the copter took off.

  16. Re:"Free" Trade, What Did You Expect? on Large Corporations Displacing Aging IT Workers With H-1B Visa Workers · · Score: 1

    This 60 year old Boomer voted for Obama twice - went to the DNC in Charlotte as a delegate from PA.. So no, that statistic you extrapolate into "want to be fired" is as true as Rubio/Rand's response Obama's SOTU speech.

  17. Re: "sequester"/Washington monument gambit on Large Corporations Displacing Aging IT Workers With H-1B Visa Workers · · Score: 1

    I sense the Ayn Randian in you. You do understand that the Pentagon will also be cut, right? This is slash and burn, crackhead right-wing politics by those who want to eliminate the rights of workers. Yes, and those public parks - such a waste of money. Who started them? Teddy Roosevelt - who deserved to be on Mount Rushmore. Yet the current crop of Republicans charged up two wars on the credit card - one based on complete lies, and now want to cut what they have termed "entitlements" but not increase tax rates back to the 1950's when this country was building the interstates, schools, and infrastructure - now who did that? Why another Republican - Dwight D. Eisenhower. So while I am a complete supporter of the Obama Administration, I can also see the good that can be done when a party puts country above itself. I consider it a privilege to pay taxes in this country, if you don't want to pay them, poor pitiful tax victim, then the IRS will come a knockin. Bet on it.

  18. Re:Use a real alarm clock on iPhone Alarms Hit By New Year's Bug · · Score: 1

    I have a iPhone with my corporate e-mail (Exchange) configured. The security policy locks the screen. My cool alarm clock app won't work due to the sec. policy. But, I fail to see how this iPhone "bug" becomes an issue - there are many other ways to wake up or be reminded and if you rely on your iPhone for everything, you have a single point of failure. Plan A. My iPhone wakes me up. Plan B. Not needed - see Plan A. Oops.

  19. Two sites I visit... on MS Issues Critical SQL Server Flaw Warning · · Score: 1

    FYI - My dentist's web site has been hijacked by a redirect to some site that tries to install trojans/viruses, and a local government website has been listed by google as an attack site... I called the county office, but with eggnog in the air, not much of a response. Luckily I was using my Mac when I browsed... Not sure if these two examples are linked to this SQL exploit, but it seems suspicious. YES WE DID! (not patch, or use Linux)

  20. Re:Your sig still s*cks on Obama Campaign Seeks LAMP Developers · · Score: 1

    Let me try again, as the first reply never got posted. Those damned clogged intertubes again! You think a man who assassinates presidents is a "hero." BTW, what "country" was he willing to die for? The one that fought to keep slavery alive? There never was a CSA, it was just a pipe dream of slave owners unwilling to give up slavery since it would mean losing their ability to farm and do every other thing deemed not fit work for the white race. But let's not get too serious here. I have a deal for you! If you think what you are saying or your horrible sig "happened a long time ago?" I'll buy you dinner at a great restaurant in Harlem. Maybe you've heard of it? Sylvia's. Great southern cooking! All you have to do is show up wearing a t-shirt that says "John Wilkes Booth Was A Patriot" on one side, and on the other side, that rag posing as a flag of enslavement aptly nicknamed the "stars and bars". A pointy white hat as well. Those ribs are SMOKIN! Let me know, okay?

  21. Re:Your sig still s*cks on Obama Campaign Seeks LAMP Developers · · Score: 1

    BTW, the Secret Service looks into all reports of possible threats to persons under their care. You might want to think about this. Just a thought from the guy who doesn't think.

  22. Re:Your sig still s*cks on Obama Campaign Seeks LAMP Developers · · Score: 1

    I'm not sad at all. I actually quite a happy and well-adjusted person. You are a violent person who condones assassinations of presidents and by your labeling this particular assassin a patriot a racist. BTW, what "country" are you referring to? It never existed except in the minds of slave holders willing to die to enslave others. Think I'm wrong? I'll buy dinner at Sylvia's in Harlem. All you have to do is show up with a t-shirt that says "John Wilkes Booth Was A Patriot on one side, and the aptly named slave-holder flag - the "stars and bars," on the other. Do we have a deal? I'm waiting, and the ribs at Sylvia's are out of this world!

  23. Re:Your sig still s*cks on Obama Campaign Seeks LAMP Developers · · Score: 1

    I don't really have time to guess. For the obvious reasons that Booth is not one of of my favorite historical figures. If you mean someone other than John W., and I hope you do, please let me know the why's and wherefores of the sig. Danke.

  24. Re:Wanted: Crack Programmers with DIEBOLD experien on Obama Campaign Seeks LAMP Developers · · Score: 1

    Yeah - got that right. Did you catch HBO's recount? Sad but NOT THIS TIME!

  25. I'm sure Slashdot is worried.... on Obama Campaign Seeks LAMP Developers · · Score: 1

    NOT! LOL OMG PONIES!