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  1. Re:Not really unusual, but... on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Most Unusual Hardware Hack? · · Score: 1

    That might have been stiction. Seagate had the worst problems with stiction, but Maxtor also had significant problems, and no doubt every manufacturer until they changed lubricants. Moving from larger to smaller platters and running at higher temps were the factors leading to lubricant breakdown and essentially gluing the heads to the platters.

    I also had some Seagate drives that wouldn't start, or would stop seeking reliably, and cooling them would prevent the failure mode at higher temps. I had some wicked long IDE and power cables to let me put a failing drive in a freezer and copy data. Fun times.

  2. Re: Shooter Kills Random Woman. on Common Medications Sway Moral Judgment · · Score: 1

    Solving more than one problem there, eh?

    I'm betting if it were legal to grow, He would STILL BE SHOOTING AT POTENTIAL THIEVES, dumass.

  3. Re: Shooter Kills Random Woman. on Common Medications Sway Moral Judgment · · Score: 1

    Yup. You're more likely to be at shot at by the crazy guy in the red house growing weed in the basement while you ski past his backyard than by his end users.

    Oh, wait...

  4. Re: Psychoactive drugs may affect your thinking? on Common Medications Sway Moral Judgment · · Score: 1

    No, you were always those things. Tequila just enhanced your abilities, it did not create them.

  5. I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you. on Common Medications Sway Moral Judgment · · Score: -1, Troll

    So, lay me get this straight...

    These mood enhancers, psychotropics, antidepressants, etc., they also affect our decision making, so they change our social behavior, sometimes in interesting or even difficult-to-accept-readily ways.

    And they could be used to make people more socially tolerant, or acceptable, or just kinder, easier to get along with.

    And we're well along in the process of nationalizing healthcare in America.

    So it's not unreasonable to expect that if things keep going the way they seem to be going, we will one day rely on a government hired and paid physician or practitioner for our primary care provider, and they will be advising us on which medications we may or may not need, or would be beneficial.

    And that government provider would be just as likely to favor treatments that their employer recommended as our current provider may, since our current provider is essentially paid by our insurer.

    So in the future we could be getting government-recommended healthcare.

    What could go wrong with that?

  6. Re:Privacy? on North America Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    So LAAs are nearly standard in IPv6 land?

    Token-Ring rules again. Bow and be humbled.

  7. Re:It's the end of the world as we know it! on North America Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    "Almost none, except for companies that have been grandfathered in from the beginning of the Internet."

    Almost one is an actual value. Better expressed as 'some'.

    I'm guessing that at least some of the 20+ owners of /8 blocks could part with them entirely and manage, but who will pay that expense? A few are actually selling off space. Some have complex ownership structures now due to spinoffs and divestitures. Some will be deaf to the requests.

    And some thoroughly enjoy the cachet of a /8 address space, even if no one ever really knows it.

    But if you want to push this and recover some /8s, call Dick Cheney, Xerox, HP, and MI5. Let me know how that works out for ya, I'm up for a good chuckle..

  8. Re:This it perhaps the first severe accident. NO!` on Volkswagen Factory Worker Killed By a Robot · · Score: 1

    And has no one ever heard of accidents in paper mills? Since like forever?

  9. Re:Industrial accidents happen on Volkswagen Factory Worker Killed By a Robot · · Score: 1

    Sad that there is no Sarah O'Connor character in the Terminator series. Fanbois world over will go insane ignoring the two characters that differ, and this reporter will wonder what the heck is the big deal about? But she's already getting that, some people never learn.

    I dated a girl named Maggie for a while, sweet girl. I never, never played anything by Rod Stewart within her hearing. Nothing. Ever.

  10. Re: Sounds Like A Scumbag Company on Lawsuit Filed Over Domain Name Registered 16 Years Before Plaintiff's Use · · Score: 1

    Wasn't it Alan Hunter, MTV VJ, that registered mtv.com and fit into a bit of a fight over it with the network?

  11. Re:The guy is a squatter on Lawsuit Filed Over Domain Name Registered 16 Years Before Plaintiff's Use · · Score: 1

    So defining cybersquatting as owning domain names that you don't use is ok?

    What about domains you have sites up for, though no one visits them? Or domains that you even maintain sites for, but no one visits?

    How about very few visits, of family and friends?

    You don't want to go down that road, or contested domain names will go to the 'best use', inevitably being whoever or whatever can get the most 'value'. Or has some claim that is unenforceable otherwise. Or tells a better story.

    Nope.

  12. Re:Sounds Like A Scumbag Company on Lawsuit Filed Over Domain Name Registered 16 Years Before Plaintiff's Use · · Score: 1

    Some people consider that 'farsighted''.

  13. Re:Sounds Like A Scumbag Company on Lawsuit Filed Over Domain Name Registered 16 Years Before Plaintiff's Use · · Score: 1

    "apparently the company tried to transfer the domain to themselves without his authorization."

    That's the basis for *one* of his countersuits.

    I've been involved in similar situations, where a corporation tried to transfer a domain name, got caught, made an offer to purchase, and simultaneously sued for infringement. In one case the complainant settled for a fair purchase price with the previous owner, my service client at the time, and they got enough time to make a transition. In the other, my client actually had the suit dismissed, then auctioned the domain name off and never told me who bought it.

    In both instances the court was really intrigued by the attempt to hijack the domain name. Even in the 90s judges were understanding this 'Internet thing' was real, and had tangible value.

    I hope this guy sues them for the attempted theft, though a criminal case would be more appropriate.

  14. Re:He will lose the domain... on Lawsuit Filed Over Domain Name Registered 16 Years Before Plaintiff's Use · · Score: 1

    Once they are appointed, they rarely care who backed their ascension to the bench. Unless the judge is a Democrat, they never forget.

  15. Re:yeah yeah on RFC 7568 Deprecates SSLv3 As Insecure · · Score: 2

    All that 'utility' stuff shouldn't be exposed to public nets anyways, maybe not even to your intranet.

    Since your threats are both external (DDOS, botnets, intrusion) and internal (malware, bots, id10ts), you need to protect your management systems from both, and segregate your networks.

    Yes, a huge nuisance to be using portals, multiple authentications, etc, but the choice, for some, is having to explain how they crooks got into your corp net and picked it clean, or how they got into EVERYTHING and you can't get them out of all that, 'cause your management tools are also compromised, and they keep respawning internally, and you just can't, and they just keep, and it's so haaaarrd...

    Because you can't, probably, 'just reimage' all your servers, VMs, firewalls and appliances, even the damned UPS stuff. At least not without a total shutdown, and probably without a specific ETA...

    Arg.

  16. Re: For What Are You Using 3D Printing For? on Ask Slashdot: For What Are You Using 3-D Printing? · · Score: 1

    Now you have a reason to get a 3D Printer.

    And make a home furnace as well...

  17. Re: what is interesting is not that it won on Supreme Court Upholds Key Obamacare Subsidies · · Score: 1

    The context is obvious and uncontested except for those who wish to abolish the amendment, or neuter it.

    Old argument, still invalid.

  18. Re: what is interesting is not that it won on Supreme Court Upholds Key Obamacare Subsidies · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But the language of the law is clear. 'State'...

    If that doesn't mean 'state' then the court has set precedent to let lower courts decide what laws mean.

    And that is not how this nation is intended to work.

    The revolution is winning.

  19. Re: There Are More Rooms than People on The Vicious Circle That Is Sending Rents Spiraling Higher · · Score: 1

    Good. At least one of those rooms is likely a kitchen.

  20. Re: I'm spending 60% of my monthly income on rent on The Vicious Circle That Is Sending Rents Spiraling Higher · · Score: 1

    Whoosh...

  21. Re:There Are More Rooms than People on The Vicious Circle That Is Sending Rents Spiraling Higher · · Score: 2, Funny

    SO the solution to homelessness is to house people in these homes with 3-4 strangers.

    What could go wrong with that plan?

  22. Re:Not me, not in California on The Vicious Circle That Is Sending Rents Spiraling Higher · · Score: 1

    So taking the risk inherent in renting in California is being a parasite?

    Get a bad tenant, and you could lose more than your investment, and the income you were hoping for. The definition of risk. In fact, you could be facing legal penalties in excess of your losses if you're not careful.

    All while your tenant, leveraging the law, sits happy and safe on your dime. They have the municipal government backing them. You have nothing. And their lawyers are going to be bigger than yours.

    You have a strange concept of 'parasite'.

  23. Re:I'm spending 60% of my monthly income on rent on The Vicious Circle That Is Sending Rents Spiraling Higher · · Score: 1

    You give tacit approval for the government to tell you how to spend your income. Then you complain they don't manage the economy so you can actually follow their advice.

    Maybe you should start exercising some personal initiative, or move where the government meets your expectations???

  24. Not a new problem at the Navy on The US Navy's Warfare Systems Command Just Paid Millions To Stay On Windows XP · · Score: 1

    The NMCI was supposed to be a manageable intranet, with the Initiative back in 2000 the first step, identifying apps, updating systems, blah blah blah.

    Sort of got done. Sort of. The history of the NMCI is a study in vendor management, high expectations, and bureaucracy.

  25. Re:No it doesn't on YouTube Algorithm Can Decide Your Channel URL Now Belongs To Someone Else · · Score: 1

    How long has the person 'Lush' been around? You wanna start that war?