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  1. Re:What's the deal with the rush of TSA stories re on TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    Sure it is. The goverment has an obligation to enable/regulate interstate commerce. By mandating that you have to drive where someone else may fly, they are impeding in that.

  2. Re:What's the deal with the rush of TSA stories re on TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    But (at least in the US) if California decided to put up cameras everywhere, people could have a choice and move to another state without needing a passport, etc.

  3. Re:What's the deal with the rush of TSA stories re on TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It still makes me wonder how this is not a violation of the warrant-less search and seizure clause.

    I mean, innocent until proven guilty, probably cause does not exist (does it?) so searching someone in an airport would (IMO) be a warrant-less search unless there's a judge standing at the gates and the TSA agent is asked to swear by oath that the person that just walked through the door has committed a crime.

  4. Re:Online applications on An Illustrated Version Control Timeline · · Score: 1

    Ah, I've been dealing with this extensively recently.

    Web development is sometimes not done locally as application development. Without a file synchronization utility you practically have to work on the dev server if you want to see your changes immediately (edit file, save, refresh page.) There is a plugin for Eclipse that that will sync files on save, but it's a one way copy and if anything changes on the server (from another team member) your file sync will copy your version of that file up overwriting their changes. Needless to say, this irritates some people.

    We are currently "given" Serena PVCS to use because "we have licenses for that already" and the Eclipse plugin stores all change information in the same folders as the source code (on the development server.) Most other versioning solutions I've seen do as well. As you can guess, this tremendously slows down development because Serena goes out and updates the status of all the files on the remote server and with a ~1000 page site it takes literally 30-45 minutes just to start Eclipse using the plugin.

    There are no (that I have found) version management solutions that store versioning information locally and synchronize that versioning information transparently among the team. DVCS systems would require that the "main" trunk be on the dev server and literally every file edit would have to be merged from your local VCS to the trunk and that just doesn't work.

    We literally use our VM as an "every so often" check in and cannot use the IDE tools because of the "version information in the same location as source" model that VCS programs use.

  5. Re:Embarassing? on Internet Explorer 9 Caught Cheating In SunSpider · · Score: 1

    We're not... true libertarians (small "L") believe people should be responsible for themselves and their own actions. Fiscal conservatism is a means to the end... where people can pay their own bills and take care of their own kids.

  6. Re:Good. Hope this keeps up on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    Use their own weapons against them.

  7. Re:Good. Hope this keeps up on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    I was always curious about that. Why not have the pilots board through another door with a security barrier between the cabin and the passengers. They can squeeze another toilet in there and they can make a small secure food tray as well (maybe even have the pilots bring along their own food.)

  8. Re:Good. Hope this keeps up on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    I was scanned in Columbus, OH and my boss who was traveling with me was not. I had to stand with my hands above my head with my thumb and forefingers in a diamond shape. I felt like putting them on my forehead in an "L." The scanners are freaking huge but I didn't realize it was a body scanner until I had to stand in it so I can see how someone might have missed it. They can look like part of the building or some sort of locker if you don't pay attention.

  9. Re:Just goes to show... on Canada To Mandate ISP Deep Packet Inspection · · Score: 1

    They'll just slowly adjust the fuel prices on gasoline and subsidize air fuel until it's cheaper to fly and people will start doing it again.

  10. Re:traffic analysis on Canada To Mandate ISP Deep Packet Inspection · · Score: 1

    Personally, I think it's would be easier to just default sunset a law if it's over "n" years old. If they don't reinstate the law, it wasn't important.

  11. Re:But what if the "heavy background task" has bee on The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders · · Score: 1

    Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but a TTY includes the separate terminal sessions and particular X Windows session(S) you are in. IE: CTRL+ALT+F1 - CTRL+ALT+Fn

    Not "in window" terminal sessions alone.

  12. Re:Isn't it awesome on The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You should clarify that you also don't have to do a full reformat, re-install, and get used to the "new" methods for getting to your files.

  13. Re:You know why? on The Story of My As-Yet-Unverified Impact Crater · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's been my experience that science is pretty sucky. If we called the news media every time we found a chunk of metal and predetermined it to be alien artifacts, we'd all be Scientologists.

    It has nothing to do with being "close minded" as much as it has to be about finding the truth before making up what you want it to be.

  14. Re:obvious on Google Preparing To Launch G-Town · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember a certain part of US history where a steel company had company housing and would evict fired workers as well. Of course, it's been about 20 years since that class so I don't remember all the details.

  15. Re:Really? on Which Language To Learn? · · Score: 1

    There are more and more jobs available for skilled .NET coders.

    ... due to how many shitty ones are there now...

    That's the problem. .NET has seemingly replaced VB as the RAD tool and most of those "jobs for skilled" developers will go to the person who can cut and paste code. I've had more people approach me working on .NET apps asking why something is null or why some FileInfo element is not updating that it's not even funny anymore. It's like these people don't think. They follow the little hints in the intellisense dialog and don't read any further.

  16. Re:Suck it up Zuck. on Google Asks Users To Complain Against Facebook · · Score: 1

    I think he's referring to the different category icons (the Gates Borg, etc.) which (maybe he doesn't know) you can turn off in your profile.

  17. Re:End users hate the registry? on Should Being Competitive With Windows Matter For Linux? · · Score: 1

    Well, you would be able to specify the convention for these config files if you want them in a non-hidden folder, but I tend to use my home folder for a specific set of folders and would like to have the configurations in a special hidden folder. We all prefer different methods... that's why I specified by user/distro preference. Since we all have different preferences, the developers put the files in their own preferred folder which is where the problem originates. I'd rather take the "control" of where those config files are placed away from the developer and put it in the hands of the user.

    It would/should make developing for Linux easier since you wouldn't have to know where Ubuntu and Fedora keep their files. They'd give each app a basic file structure and handle where those files are placed individually.

    Setting that basic "app template" sandbox up is the where I'm stuck. You'd have to give them a basic set of folders like: ./globalconfig (where machine specific settings are retained) ./userconfig (where user specific settings are retained) ./userdata (I imagine this would work like libraries in Windows... the user should be able to link folders to apps. I could give Gimp access to my ~/Pictures folder for instance.)

  18. Re:End users hate the registry? on Should Being Competitive With Windows Matter For Linux? · · Score: 1

    Except your home folder...

  19. Re:End users hate the registry? on Should Being Competitive With Windows Matter For Linux? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I love Linux... but apps dumping config files willy-nilly in my home is annoying as hell. They'll all come up with their own half ass directory convention in my ~/. Sometimes I wish applications were forced to put their config files in specific folders based on user/distro preference like ~/.config/appname/ so I can retain some sanity in my home folder.

    The only way I know of to do this would be to have the OS run all apps in a sandbox and map folders for them. ./userconfig and ./globalconfig spring to mind but there are other methods. Of course, this is something that would have to be designed in from the start... I don't know of a good way to get old apps to follow that convention "easily." I guess you could create a virtual /home for each app that points to the user's /home/.config/appname

  20. Re:So, how long before... on Will Netflix Destroy the Internet? · · Score: 1

    I know some electric companies here in the US charge less the more you use. Last time I ran into this was when I was in college housing on electric baseboard heat. The price would be higher per kwh for the first 400kw and anything beyond that was charged at a lower rate.

  21. Re:So, how long before... on Will Netflix Destroy the Internet? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't they maximize the amount their hosted clients pay by letting the customers pull more data off them? Seems logical to me.

    So, you say... Google doesn't pay Comcast for upstream because they are on so-and-so provider. Sounds to me like they need to start charging each other for bandwidth.

  22. Re:Picky, picky, picky on Facebook Knows When You'll Get Dumped · · Score: 1

    Why does she need anything? The one part that always bugs me about holidays is the "need" for gifts. I don't need a gift to know I'm appreciated, cared about, or even loved... why do other people? Heck, I'm going home for Christmas even though I don't believe in the whole religious aspect of it. That should be enough to know that I appreciate being around them. When I stop coming around is when I stop caring about you.

  23. Re:Picky, picky, picky on Facebook Knows When You'll Get Dumped · · Score: 1

    Did you even read the post or just the beginning and end?

  24. Re:So do I... on Facebook Knows When You'll Get Dumped · · Score: 1

    Does the Tacosexual come with sour cream?

  25. Re:I read slashdot on Facebook Knows When You'll Get Dumped · · Score: 1

    It would be interesting to see the chart further broken down by sex. (IE: who breaks up most after V-Day? Men or Women?)