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  1. Re:If it's IKG and therefore no use to the restaur on Biofuel Thieves Steal Restaurant Grease · · Score: 1

    A couple of decades ago, we would collect and sell the grease from the deepfryers - if it was worth money back then, and useful as fuel today, I'm pretty sure its STILL worth money.

  2. Re:Operating systems stats? on FBI Takes Out $14M DNS Malware Operation · · Score: 1

    Nothing like this on the App Store ....

  3. Re:As a beekeper on Gadget Allows You to Keep Bees In Your Apartment · · Score: 1

    nono - is called self-service machines at MacDonalds.

  4. Re:As a beekeper on Gadget Allows You to Keep Bees In Your Apartment · · Score: 1

    Not a bee-keeper at all, but backside of the thing (orange-bit) comes off, and seems large enough that you can physically access the hive, for tending the hive, or for inserting a number of bees (+ queen I assume).

    Yes, it does appear to be smaller that other man-made bee-hives I've seen, but not all that much, and looks more accessible. The integrated smoke-thingy also seems cool (until a kid decides to pull the cord constantly).

  5. Re:As a beekeper on Gadget Allows You to Keep Bees In Your Apartment · · Score: 1

    Pull string, release smoke, open container, manually separate honey-filled bits from hive (and bees), centrifuge-at-will.

    At least, thats what I gathered from reading about this thing.

    so no, not just pull string, get fresh honey...

  6. Re:It shook the shit out of my house on Oklahoma Hit By Its Strongest-Ever Recorded Quake · · Score: 1

    Post Hoc Ergo Proctor Hoc

  7. Re:Are the sheep finally waking? on Fee Increase Attempt Inspires 'Dump Your Bank Day' · · Score: 1

    Yeah, what is it with interest-rates on credit cards?
    If you don't pay them out, sure, but I usually have 1-1.5 month to pay any charges and during this time, there is no interest-rate. Combined with automated payment, and it is a non-issue*.

    *: Unless you use your credit card as a medium-to-long-term loan, in which case you're an idiot.

  8. Re:I always wondered why nerds don't exercise on The Physics of Jump Rope · · Score: 1

    Weighted handles (metal bars) and a 4mm steel-wire for rope does wonders on exercising - just wear shoes, or learning will cost you a toe or two.

  9. Re:Patents etc. on New Algorithm Could Substantially Speed Up MRI Scans · · Score: 1

    Interesting thank you... ...and yes - I've asked and been told that the stuff on the CD is closed format and only available in this 1 way - going to website of the manufacturer confirmed this, so your post is most certainly interesting!

  10. Re:Patents etc. on New Algorithm Could Substantially Speed Up MRI Scans · · Score: 1

    Call me when I can get my MRI images in an open format, readable on something else that Windows.

  11. Re:in other news, on Belgium To Give Up Nuclear Power · · Score: 2

    Honest question: How come Slashdot seems to be the only outlet recognizing Ron Paul's candidacy?
    When looking to news, or debates or whatever, they present O'Romney, Parry, Whats-her-name, and pizza-dude, but I hardly every hear Ron Paul being mentioned, even when he is right there on the screen.

  12. Re:A little slow... on Belgium To Give Up Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    We have a government, that works fast and efficient, here in Belgium .. uhm .... wait ...

  13. Re:It's not at all addictive on The White House Responds To We the People Petition · · Score: 1

    I'm sure there is more to it than just "pot" - just as there is more to it with alcohol, with E, with coke etc. I've drunk my liver to pieces, yet never beat up my wife, abused my kids etc, as is the case with literally millions of people: It is possible to drink without it ending in violence/abuse. Ergo, it must be more than just alcohol resulting in aaaaallllll the problems cited in dusins of posts above.
    But is this an excuse to legalize things? "Oh, people will do shit anyways, lets make it EASIER for them" - NO!
    (Note: My sister cleaned up, and once she got out of the stupor, she turned out to be an oki parent)

    Call it indoctrination from doctors who came to our school (in vain) to explain why we should stay away from cannabis/hash/pot, or call it experiencing too many people who ended up being sat on a sofa in a cloud of smoke instead of going to school or whatever. I think that it being prohibited is currently the right thing, despite not KNOWING it has the various suggested issues: physical dependency, mental dependency, being a gateway drug, etc..

    One thing that I'm am quite certain of, is that it isn't a wonder-substance with no biological or societal impact, despite every F'ing post on slashdot. I've seen too much shit to believe that.
    (Note: Someone said I extrapolated from a single incident - not really, not even close...)

  14. Re:It's not at all addictive on The White House Responds To We the People Petition · · Score: 1

    See below

  15. Re:It's not at all addictive on The White House Responds To We the People Petition · · Score: 0

    Fuck You!
    I've seen my niece's life being messed up from growing up with parents that spent their life in a stupor instead of going to work, or taking care of her!

    So Shut your yap about "think of the children" - I've seen the children, no-body gave a flying fuck about them, and they are lucky they got out in time.

  16. Re:It's not at all addictive on The White House Responds To We the People Petition · · Score: 1

    Currently its easier to maintain a ban than to add to it - alcohol prohibition has been tried in the US, Iran and a plethora of other places, with little luck, and even the ban on cannabis isn't quite working, but perhaps it is a step. Perhaps it is as "good as it is going to get".
    And comparing impact from a legalized, over-abused substance with an illegal substance is a bit silly - we'd have to have a level playingfield I think, before comparing them.

    Finally, you ask about my opinion. I can tell you that I support the idea of behavior-modification through taxation (I just made Ron Paul cry), where e.g. alcohol is taxed highly to keep people from over-abusing it. Yes, it doesn't work perfectly, but again, perhaps it is a step.

  17. Re:It's not at all addictive on The White House Responds To We the People Petition · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Having seen regular users of cannabis, having seen the impact on their life, their kids, the people arround them, I wholeheartedly support a general ban on the use of it outside of medical purposes.

    The hell with withdrawal symptoms, when use of it fucks up people's lives, and that of their kids.

  18. Re:Mine it. on Asteroid Lutetia Revealed As a Protoplanet · · Score: 1

    Note description - is miles long and wide, but seeming very thin. Not practical for mining.

  19. Re:Women on Making a Learning Thermostat · · Score: 1

    Don't let women use this thing. It will only learn two settings: the maximum temperature setting and the lowest temperature setting. At least that's how the females in my life use them.

    Can one of your females come and teach mine how to use the lowest temperature setting, please?

  20. Re:6/kWh on US Funds Aggressive Tech To Cut Solar Power Costs · · Score: 1

    I was thinking Mexicans.

    But 6 Mexicans per kWh is not a particularly effective conversion rate I think - them can be pretty hard working compared to others I've seen.

  21. Re:inducement? on PROTECT IP Renamed To the E-PARASITE Act · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking that combining Microsoft's statements that Linux infringes on their IP with the /. crowd's love of OSS, will get /. taken down for inducement .... and quite a few other sites as well!

  22. Re:time date & location on Mastercard, Visa To Help Target Ads · · Score: 1

    It isn't the data that 1 host holds - its the aggregate of what is available.
    All hold different data, but if you add them up, you tend to get enough data to pinpoint an exact person, at an exact location (down to 1-2 blocks) with exact possessions. This is dangerous.

    Example (not thought through, so bare with me):
    Your CC details shows you buying stuff from local stores - gives us an area
    Your G+/Facebook account shows us your name
    Your Picassa/blog account shows us a picture - gives us ca year of birth, and idea of whats in your home
    .
    .
    Collect all of the data, and you're no longer anonymous, hidden, private ...

    Paranoia, yes, but only because they are all out to get me!

  23. Re:Exactly . . . on Ask Slashdot: Radiation Detection For Tokyo Resident? · · Score: 1

    People don' t eat mud, right!?

    Grown-ups, usually not...
    Kids on the other hand...

  24. Re:Yeah... on Flooding Takes Major Hard Drive Plant Offline; Shortages Predicted · · Score: 1

    Alignment of partitions might not have been a linux-specific issue, but instead common across all OS (from memory).

  25. Re:Yeah... on Flooding Takes Major Hard Drive Plant Offline; Shortages Predicted · · Score: 1

    No idea about the details, but going to WD's support pages to find out why my disks can transfer a LOT of data and then suddenly come to a full stop for 2-5 seconds, only to resume transferring data, gave me a pile of posts about this, that it was limited to Linux (or Non-Windows) and that WD was not supporting Linux and didn't want to do anything about it.

    Is pretty fun running a virtual machine off the WDs - every so (quite) often, it freezes completely... ..and yes, I thought the same: How the heck can you manage to create a spec-compliant drive with a severe bias towards a specific OS ??

    Note: Poster below mentions block-alignment quirks - I did note quite a few posts saying that partitioning had to be done in a specific way (partitions sized as a multiple of ) to ensure reasonable performance - never did check if I got that right.