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  1. Rubber enclosure on Ask Slashdot: Building a Home Media Center/Small Server In a Crawlspace? · · Score: 1

    I recommend a rubber enclosure such as a very large Rubermaid tub or 55 gallon plastic drum, adjust the top so it fits to the floor line where you will have to put a low cost venting system to keep the temp consistent with dry air. You can use a modified vent fan and just have it watch the enclosure if needed pump air in from the house.
    I recommend a rubber/plastic tub because I've had basements flood a few times now, and everything stored in that type of tub was untouched by the water line and moisture. I've even had them float one time, oddest thing ever.
    55 gallon blue plastic tub modified for access to the top would be best I think.
    I'd have mirrored USB-3 based drive sets or a raid5 soho storage device for the dvd's/media.
    I would also suggest a 3rd set of drives/mirrored that you can take offsite every so often in case of housefire/massive issues where you lose all your work, 300$ bucks is chump change compared to losing all the family pictures/movies. This you would bring back to the network, resync, then take back to the bank or grandma's house for safe keeping, off prem.
    Otherwise, good cabling and UPS with network management is the final part and your all set.

  2. Re:meanwhile on UK Chancellor Confirms Introduction of 'Google Tax' · · Score: 5, Informative

    Because my kids goto war and die to protect the rich persons money. You know the one that has an untaxed Trust fund, no tax on inherited wealth, hidden accounts around the world, and never really pay's their fair share while telling me, I didn't pay enough.

    Flat tax is a fail, consumption tax is a fail, not taxing inherited wealth is a fail. When you get drafted to protect their money, let me know how you feel in the trenches, and when you get out and can't find a job.
    Perhaps your one of the many that believe you will be filthy rich someday so you dont want to be taxed. Good luck, go back and learn some math in school, because you forgot how to do percentage chances.

  3. I expect these 2 quotes fall into line on this on $7.4 Million Blurred Lines Verdict Likely To Alter Music Business · · Score: 2

    Food for Thought: Oh, dear me, how unspeakably funny and owlishly idiotic and grotesque was that "plagiarism" farce! As if there was much of anything in any human utterance, oral or written, except plagiarism! The kernal, the soul - let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances'- is plagiarism. For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing. When a great orator makes a great speech you are listening to ten centuries and ten thousand men - but we call it his speech, and really some exceedingly smail portion of it is his. But not enough to signify. It is merely a Waterloo. It is Wellington's battle, in some degree, and we call it his; but there are others that contributed. It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.

    Letter to Helen Keller, after she had been accused of plagiarism for one of her early stories (17 March 1903), published in Mark Twain's Letters, Vol. 1 (1917) edited by Albert Bigelow Paine, p. 731.
    Mark Twain 1903-03-17

    or

    The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein

    Einstein is more humorous of the 2 once you consider this in-depth look at it which infers Einstein plagiarized by rewording the quote.

  4. Re:If Xorg would fix... on Steam On Linux Now Has Over a Thousand Games Available · · Score: 1

    I had to remove optimus on my laptop to make the graphics work. I hard set 2 monitors, the laptop and one external on the replicator. Optimus has never worked correctly in X with GL enabled. KDE did make the non xrandx version work for me, I can undock and use the gl parts with very little problem.
    Now if vmware player would quit going to 365% cpu load I'd be happy.

  5. Wheel of time was written this way.. on Some of the Greatest Science Fiction Novels Are Fix-Ups · · Score: 1

    If you look at the Wheel of time, it generally had 3-5 story lines running along the same time line. Just like Game of Thrones does now. This is not a new idea and its already improved on and successful for authors. The issue is how many authors can do a complex time lined parallel story without making crap?

  6. Re:Planted? on New Evidence Strengthens NSA Ties To Equation Group Malware · · Score: 1

    I personally liked the kronos amiga virus that installed itself in the clockbios, so it survived reboots.

  7. Re:Hahahahaha. What a joke. on New Evidence Strengthens NSA Ties To Equation Group Malware · · Score: 2

    Kind of like a PHD student security programmer, accidentally putting in heartbleed in the middle of Xmas when it was automagically accepted in to ssh code, because we do not teach bounds checking to PHD students.
    Hope and Belief.

  8. Re:Kaspersky Lab on New Evidence Strengthens NSA Ties To Equation Group Malware · · Score: 1

    No, just hope a believe. HOPE you know this guy, documented here; Belief is just the nicest of fellows. Just like I hope and believe the NSA isn't doing something they shouldn't, until someone outed them we had never heard of before.

    I do not think bringing Snowden into the example really works on this one, as he did actually steal classified info and post it to the internet/news, no belief needed. I do hope he gets a fair and public trial though, but I believe he will never make it to court.

  9. Re:A few embedded strings and timestamps? on New Evidence Strengthens NSA Ties To Equation Group Malware · · Score: 1

    I expect some chechen rebels to confess to helping the NSA very soon. Smoking gun, a snow plow, and a pretty girl.

  10. Kaspersky Lab on New Evidence Strengthens NSA Ties To Equation Group Malware · · Score: -1, Troll

    Because we believe Putin does not own that company in Moscow or is using it to own anyone running the antivirus tools on their machines. Lets hear it for the Belief and hope system.

  11. Re:Clear to me on Clinton Regrets, But Defends, Use of Family Email Server · · Score: 1

    You forgot Gonzalas and the preescutors, and people being labeled enemy combatants in new york then jailed 5 years. Or the 18,000 americans, the injuries, blackwater, people dead going to testify, and the patriot act itself.

    Please go on about a person that didn't know terrorists were going to attack an consulate in a foreign country, then blame them for email.
    Wait its just a political attack, people hate to much, and think their team is better than the other team every time.
    It is football for grown-ups that didn't realize the NFL doesn't pay taxes, and the home owner get the 2k a year bill for the stadiums. Football makes you smarter after a few blows to the head you'll follow anyone, its the perfect tool afterall.

  12. Re:It's not a "moral dilemma" to a Clinton on Clinton Regrets, But Defends, Use of Family Email Server · · Score: 1

    What law are you referring too?

  13. Re:As if SMTP were ever secure... on Clinton Regrets, But Defends, Use of Family Email Server · · Score: 1

    I thought bush had them erase the tapes, or his favorite fellows in the govt IT business did. That is a huge difference here, one is willfully deleting/losing/breaking server and backups so you can't see it, the other just never used it. Intent is different, implementation is different.

  14. Re:As if SMTP were ever secure... on Clinton Regrets, But Defends, Use of Family Email Server · · Score: 2, Informative

    What story? Its about hammering her potential as the next president, its simple. I wont vote for her, but this is that simple. These are the same asshats that didn't go after WMD Bush. So please lets drop moral from the conversation.

  15. Re:As if SMTP were ever secure... on Clinton Regrets, But Defends, Use of Family Email Server · · Score: 0

    This isn't about bad guys cracking a server, its about handing a political party something they will just try to use against her. I do not agree with the idea, but look at the environment the Tea Bagging Inherited wealth has created in Washington. If its against the law, then prosecute her. If its not and its just a guideline, then its using the rules.

  16. Re:In other news on Clinton Regrets, But Defends, Use of Family Email Server · · Score: -1

    Given the state of politics, the huge hate fest going on, and rancid attacks on the sitting president because our tea baggers backers do not like him. If its not directly against the law and had a precedent, I'd take any avenue not to give someone they do not need underlaw. Btw, I believe Colon Powell had private email which was cited.
    57 Republicans goto Iran and try to undermine any deal limiting anything, anyway, anyhow. Bohner invites a head of state over to defame the president so more people of that religious background give his party more money.
    I wish we had done this to WMD Bush before he killed 200,000 Iraqis, perhaps he would not have looked into a maniac's eyes and saw an honest man.

  17. Re: never heard of this jMonkeyEngine on In the Age of Free AAA Game Engines, Where Does Our Open Source Engine Stand? · · Score: 1

    I have a 130,000 linux desktops where I work here, I've also used it at home for almost 20 years now. The issues are tough to solve on Linux. It makes a good desktop but not for gaming, its an adventure or struggle depending on the person for gaming. Linux users are cheap, or demand value depending on how you look at it.

  18. Its amazing!!! on State Employees Say Rules Prevent Open "Climate Change" Discussion In Florida · · Score: 1

    Its amazing the effect of Untaxed Inherited wealth in this country. Koch, DeVos, Walton, etc. etc.

  19. Re:Hmmmm! on White House Threatens Veto Over EPA "Secret Science" Bills · · Score: 2

    The options are old dumb angry white people or young dumb angry white people? Each party has a platform and a support group, what they do to sway the middle ground is how they win elections. Their party members usually vote party line anyway, go team!!! Great yet another team that doesn't have to pay taxes on their winnings.

  20. Re:Lots of weird crap coming out of Congress latel on White House Threatens Veto Over EPA "Secret Science" Bills · · Score: 1

    I read somewhere the Koch brothers save 300mil on a 30mil investment to think tanks each year. That 300 mil is EPA fines. Quite a return really on for a couple guys whose company's gas line leaked so bad it blew up 2 kids driving through the emissions near their home. I'll see if I can find the article again.
    In essence many companies know they are going to be fined it is in their budget, they save money by making the EPA and other agencies ineffectual. They believe because people buy their products that this justifies the terrible things they can do for money.

  21. You know if you just start putting fining... on Drones Cost $28,000 Per Arrest, On Average · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If we(all of us) stop employing the illegal immigrants they will stop jump, tunneling, bussing, boating, and swimming to the US. How about instead of buying guns and drones we set up databases and fine the companies and people employing folks illegally. Its simple.

    I lived in Nevada and the landlord used to complain every day about all the illegals in the area. I got frustrated with her one day and stated if you stop employing them to paint, do yard work, and cook they would all leave or at least stop coming here.
    Farmers need some method to get folks willing to help to the farms, that system has to be in place along side the other ones.
    Once the Nancy pelosi's and others employing them as maids and gardeners get fined and put in prison this will end. You will never stop this with drones or guns. Stop the Money and you stop the problem. At this point in time, I'd jump the fence and take the chance just like they are in their positions.
    Taking a vacation to america to have a baby has to end also. Its an archaic method that has to stop.

  22. Re:Breaking news! on Artificial Intelligence Bests Humans At Classic Arcade Games · · Score: 2

    Yes, it has a great language/text codex, and the training process for watson is a scheduled batch job oddly enough. But once its trained its good at finding answers. I was disappointed they didn't have a good voice to text system running for the game.
    I've seen it in the lab at ibm and asked a lot of questions. Its a language codex which is quite good, sitting infront of a ranking database of information.
    The demo they had was medical journal based, and seemed quite useful for doctors that are looking for answers which are current.

  23. Re:Patent reform will never happen on Jury Tells Apple To Pay $532.9 Million In Patent Suit · · Score: 2

    I think Apple could get its big boy pants on and fix the patent system. Problem is they used it against Samsung, they do not want if fixed. So its just the cost of doing business for them.

  24. Re:Sounds good on Republicans Back Down, FCC To Enforce Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    Wow that sounds like Fox news, the FOX News Services for your personal enjoyment and entertainment.

  25. Re:Question In Headline on Is Sega the Next Atari? · · Score: 1

    It was also used for the DnD IP in computer games.