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  1. Re:Worth the cost? on What Happens When You Reply To ALL of Your Spam · · Score: 1

    I think you could easily hit an hour or more per day just replying to spam emails, for 365 days a year!

    RTFSummary if not the article. It was a month not a year. Spammed Persistently All Month (S.P.A.M.)

  2. Re:BSA on Boy Scouts Ask Open Source Community For Help · · Score: 1

    They also hate jocks. They forbid us from doing sports and scouts together because most kids would rather go to practice/games/camp than Scouts. So the local troop gave an ultimatum. Well enough kids chose sports over scouting to force the troop to shut down. Not in the cub scout pack my kids belong. We have kids show up late from practice/game in athletic uniform and get encouraged and helped to catch up. Discussion of altering meeting times/days to accommodate them have happened more than once.

    Having a lot of scouts out at different times can be troubling but there are groups that will work with you. Try a few others and see how it goes.
  3. Wrong state blamed on Singapore Firm Claims Patent Breach By Virtually All Websites · · Score: 1

    "First, Senator Sessions (R-MS)"

    I am sad to say that he if from my current state of residence Alabama.

  4. Couple of thoughts on Post-Suicide Account Cracking? · · Score: 1

    0. You didn't ask for technical help, so I won't offer.

    1. The funeral payment help could be a relative that doesn't want to have anything to do with a suicide. That was the case with the one similar event I am familiar with. If there is no insurance that is being denied, or a murderer/negligent party, then legal issues of proof aren't necessary.

    2. I would take the advice that several offered to ask the family what they would want to know and what they wouldn't, before you start.

    3. Most importantly: Even if you believe that there is no afterlife and that therefor there is no privacy to intrude. Funeral rites are at least partially if not all for the living. We feel better that we will be treated properly if we see others being treated properly.

  5. Solved with three words on Laser Pointers Classed as Weapons in Australia · · Score: 1

    Laser Guided Bombs.

  6. Re:Another way to avoid tickets on New Service Maps Speed Traps By Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    ...I yield at yield signs,
    stopping if necessary at red yield signs. What other color yield signs do you see? The yellow one was phased out in the US more that 30 years ago.
  7. Re:If getting drivers to slow down was the point.. on New Service Maps Speed Traps By Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    Mine was similar. Based out of a library the state trouper had the four rights around the block and park in angled parking down pat. Everyone had no trouble and I was last for my group, but half way around I was asked to stop right in the middle of the street. I knew it wasn't routine as I had just watched several complete the test in under two minutes. I couldn't figure out what was wrong until he rolled down the window and asked the guy with his head under the dash of a car if it was his.

    The guy started stammering and I knew he would be cuffed in the back seat when we came back. The guy finally said that it was his car. The trouper puts one hand on the door handle and the other on his gun and asked if he could prove it. Silence, then he said that he didn't have it registered yet. Strike two. "Do you have keys to the car?" "Um, yeah." Pulls out keys from pocket. "Show me they are for the car." Five seconds of silence with the guy not moving. "It won't start." Trouper starts to open the door. "Will it unlock the door?" BIG GRIN. "Yes!" and he demonstrates. Trouper rolls up the window and tells me to take the next right. No further mention of the event.

    So I learned a few things on my driver test.

  8. Re:I'd Rather Pay... on Should Wikipedia Sell Advertising? · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't mind paying such a price when I was researching/browsing. But I do back end contributing, disambiguation etc. I certainly wouldn't want to pay to contribute. And if you give people free access for edits, you are going to get even more vandalism than they already deal with.

  9. More Google Bomb Damage on US Virtual Border Fence Doesn't Work · · Score: 1

    a miserable failure If Google hadn't fixed it, this would have damaged the Google bomb. Think about the consequences of your actions.
  10. Re:shhh.... on Hans Reiser and the "Geek Defense" Strategy · · Score: 1

    if you let slip about the enormous penises of all slashdotters (except the women; they have awe-inspiring badonkadonks), the IT industry will fall apart.
    You have it backwards. It may disturb several but it is quite likely that the slashdot women own large penises, and the men have large chests/bellies and the like.
  11. Re:All geeks are the same on Hans Reiser and the "Geek Defense" Strategy · · Score: 1

    Of course if you want a Ford with a wet floorboard, get one of the ones that ran the brake line to the rear wheels through the passenger compartment under the back seat carpet and wait for it to spring a leak.

    I went through 2 bottles of brake fluid looking for my leak in my '81 Zephyr before I started tracing the lines. I couldn't believe that that much fluid could get out of the system with no evidence of it being apparent. No wet carpet, drips, pools, even smell. Started at the front and followed the line back. Pulled up carpet, thresholds, trim panels, until I got to the back seat. I took it off and was overwhelmed by the odor. Bingo. One brake pump to localize the actual leak and off to the parts store.
  12. Re:Tin foil bushes. on Comcast Cheating On Bandwidth Testing? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'd think you'd burnout. I've worked with quite a few conspiracists and finding a new one seems to invigorate them. It is a positive feedback loop that can be quite entertaining if you don't get as invested in making them see the truth as they are for you.
  13. Re:Minimum wage? on Has Ron Paul Quit? · · Score: 1

    It took less work in 1965 to buy a house. That's going backwards. It took less hours of work in 1965 to buy a car. That's going backwards. Not to dispute you argument, but I do want to comment that many of the products that are used in these comparisons are not equivalent. The average house in 1965 doesn't look much like the average house of today. Size, features, materials all are greatly improved. Cars are even more improved: Computer system controls, power everything, AC standard, materials upgraded, durable.

    I don't know how best to value these changes, but they are at least a mitigating factor in the increase.
  14. Three words on Bizarre Self-Destructing Palm Tree Found · · Score: 1

    Niven's stage trees.

  15. Re:Well... on The 10 Worst PC Keyboards of All Time · · Score: 3, Insightful
    As a coder and DBA, I often type out long strings of capitalized text, and without capslock, I'd likely shoot myself in the head.
    • You can do this easily enough in Vim and any other decent text editor.

    I agree that it is easy to shoot yourself in the head with Vim.
  16. Re:"Windows Key" anyone? on The 10 Worst PC Keyboards of All Time · · Score: 1

    I use the right Windows key with L to screen lock. Windows-E for Win Explorer is a favorite of mine. I have had several people hop on my system and can't find out how I launch Win Explorer. It isn't in the recently launched list from start and there isn't a desktop or quick start shortcut. They end up either trying to remember how to navigate to it through accessories or start minimizing windows to find a desktop shortcut. No-one has every accused me of being a MS fan.

  17. Re:Have fun with it on FTC Announces Crackdown on Do Not Call Violators · · Score: 1

    I kept a vinyl siding telemarketer on the phone for almost a half hour once. It was before Tivo and there was nothing on. He told me that a representative of their company had been in my neighborhood and noticed the wood siding on my house. I thought that was strange as I lived in a large brick apartment building with vinyl eaves etc. I asked about durability, colors, cost, etc. He wanted to schedule an appointment but I kept asking another question and he would follow his long script about that issue. I ended it by telling him that it all sounded great and I will recommend that the owner of the complex look into covering his brick building.

  18. Re:Box Of Truth on Polyethylene Bulletproof Vests Better Than Kevlar · · Score: 1

    Speaking as someone who has taken a beating while wearing chain mail, no. Chain mail is designed to stop the cutting of a blade. Impact pretty much goes right through. That is why they wore padding under it.

  19. EPO fell into the wall on Big Red Button Disasters? · · Score: 1

    No one is going to read this but I had to share. I was a Co-op at a large TLA company mentioned here. EPO BRS had a fairly strong looking safety cover. One of the infrequent visitors to the machine room decided to tye his shoe standing up and lost his balance onto the BRS. Cover breaks, EPO triggers, switch is pressed into the wall, and then falls down inside the wall. After moving some equipment out of the way and a crow bar to rip open the wallboard the switch is turned back on.

    He didn't visit as often anymore, and always kept away from it when he did.

    The sound of the drives spinning down is pretty neat if you can focus on it instead of all the work you are about to have to do. . .

  20. Re:Libertarians and tollroads on Comcast Accused of Blocking VoIP · · Score: 1

    The last mile of road is likely built with private funds anyway. In the US most local governments require the developer to build the roads to their standards and allow them to give the roads to the government to maintain.