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  1. Re:Well... on Building an IT Infrastructure Today vs. 10 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    Scaling is now stable. To setup 100 PC's with Windows 2000 is nothing like doing Windows 7.

    Setting up 100 PCs with Windows 2000 was extremely easy. Windows 7 has become much harder because your can't edit the default user registry hive without Windows 7 freaking out. Microsoft still needs a good counterpart to /etc/skel/

  2. Zero Hulks were reported having been seen.

  3. Re:Debian?? on MATE To Make It Into Debian Repositories · · Score: 2

    We don't hate ubuntu for being mainstream, unless you mean mainstream like Lady Gaga is mainstream. I wouldn't invite ubuntu home to meet the folks these days (I did once when ubuntu and I were younger).

  4. Farmer on the moon on NASA's Next Frontier: Growing Plants On the Moon · · Score: 1

    I'm a farmer on the moon
    I till with a harpoon
    But there ain't water
    So I have my daughter
    Sing this jaunty tune!

    Take it Crushinator!

  5. Re:A mildly amusing anecdote. on Vint Cerf Thinks Privacy May Be an Anomaly · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem is the computer shouldn't be set up to accept a real DoB when a "did you verify the purchaser's age as over 21" would work instead (and make sure there's enough time between the scanning of the alcohol and the pressing of Y/N to have really checked the license and done the mental math).

  6. Re:Simple... on Vint Cerf Thinks Privacy May Be an Anomaly · · Score: 1

    when the Victorian prudes started digging around in Egypt, they uncovered and subsequently defaced a lot of murals of Boner

    The ancient Egyptians watched Growing Pains? Truly, they were a society advanced beyond measure!

  7. Re:World Domination on Warner Bros. Admits To Issuing Bogus Takedowns · · Score: 1

    I was hoping for a flashback episode where Brain took all of Pinky's ponderings from previous episodes and they fit together into a master plan of Goldbergian proportions. But alas.

  8. Re:it's a matter between him and the retailer on User Alleges LG TVs Phone Home With Your Viewing Habits · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The difference of course being the timing of the contract agreement and the value of the object being withheld. With EULAs, they are often after the purchase is completed. It would be like the seller of the house refusing to vacate the house even after you've taken possession of it until you agree to terms that weren't mentioned before the sale or in the original contract. To get your property, you either have to agree to their demands (which would not be binding) or involve the police. Police would care about a trespasser. A EULA preventing you from using the software you bought, not so much.

  9. Re:I used to think totalitarianism came from above on User Alleges LG TVs Phone Home With Your Viewing Habits · · Score: 1

    HOA's are entirely voluntary in that you don't have to buy a house in that area.

    The same could be said for city, county, state, and federal governments (in the USA). You can always move somewhere else. Doesn't make them any less of an organization with control of your property rights and ability to fine you. Some even have their own private security forces.

  10. Re:And LG paralyzes your tv when it wants to. on User Alleges LG TVs Phone Home With Your Viewing Habits · · Score: 1

    Essentially, you were forced to sign their agreement under duress, and it is thus invalid.

  11. Re:From the Ad to Advertisers... on User Alleges LG TVs Phone Home With Your Viewing Habits · · Score: 2

    Funny, that's why a lot of people started paying for cable and satellite TV decades ago. Ads will creep in to Netflix too. All it takes is a demand from shareholders for ever increasing profit.

  12. Zuckerberg to confuse 9,999,000 kids on Zuckerberg To Teach 10 Million Kids 0-Based Counting · · Score: 1

    Zuckerberg to confuse 9,999,000 kids to get 1000 kids who can correctly count starting with 0.

  13. Re:Not this time, Sony on PlayStation 4 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    At the time the ps3 debuted, there were not cheaper options (better, yes) for muti-core processing. Even the US military used PS3s as nodes for a compute cluster (running Linux, btw).

  14. Re:Science is Inherently Destructive on Clam That Was Killed Determining Its Age Was Over 100 Years Older Than Estimated · · Score: 1

    Technically, in the Earth-616 universe, Henry Pym is the Scientist Supr...HULK SMASH!

  15. Re:Will users care? on HTTP 2.0 May Be SSL-Only · · Score: 1

    Well, if the browser puts up a big warning message saying "anybody can see this, are you sure?"

    people will look over their shoulders, see no one else in the room and that the window blinds are closed, and they'll click yes. Or they click yes out of habit.

  16. Re:And people called Atlas Shrugged Fiction.... on Venezuela: Cheap Television Sets For All! · · Score: 1

    If I could fit my feet inside two dimensional cardboard socks, I'd figure some way to make money off it or maybe fight crime.

  17. LHC didn't make a black hole on Physicists Plan to Build a Bigger LHC · · Score: 1

    "So we'll just have to try again." -Mad Scientists

  18. Re:Next TV model on Venezuela: Cheap Television Sets For All! · · Score: 1

    You joke, but Westinghouse already is selling TVs that require an activation code before they will receive over the air broadcasts. The codes are currently free. http://westinghousedigital.com/support/tunercode/

    OTA broadcast reception is the primary purpose of a TV.

  19. Re:Needless? on Ask Slashdot: Communication Skills For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    He also told me to limit emails to one topic, even dealing with technical issues, so that people could not confuse issues. [...]

    Something else I do

    Whoa, now I'm getting confused.

  20. they are still spinning

    Other than the novelty, why would anyone waste the electricity for 4.3GB of storage space (or even multiples of 4.3GB)?

  21. Re:Thor? on Thor: The Dark World — What Did You Think? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, all of the Justice Friends shorts were excellent superhero parodies. They might actually be in full on either YouTube or Cartoon Network's website.

  22. Re:Thor? on Thor: The Dark World — What Did You Think? · · Score: 1

    The Viking god of RagnaRockNRoll is ValHallen, with his mighty Axe! Google him if ye dare!

  23. Re: @slashdot: use https per default! on British Intelligence Responds To Slashdot About Man-in-Middle Attack · · Score: 2

    make the CA and its fingerprint known to everyone.

    What out of band method do you propose to do that? Word of mouth? TV? Radio? Postcards? Flashing circuit boards magnetically attached around Boston? Facebook?

  24. Re:not a bad way of controlling population growth on China's "Singles Day" Is the World's Biggest Online Shopping Blitz · · Score: 1

    appealing to single people with discounts and goods in order to stay single year by year is pretty damned efficient use of psychology rather than blunt opression.

    I think you misspelled "in addition to".

  25. Re:How long before on Seattle PD Mum On Tracking By Its New Wi-Fi Mesh Network · · Score: 1

    If you don't want to receive incoming calls, that would work.