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  1. Re:Hire a truck.. on Don't Want a Phonebook? Give Up Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    And at this point, you can be fined for littering. The difference between free speech and littering here is how the distributor views the item left behind. Gathering them all and dumping them seems less like speech and more like dumping trash. What you could do is leave a YP once a day. Of course good luck getting past their gates in the first place.

  2. Re:!DRM on DRM Chair Self-Destructs After 8 Uses · · Score: 1

    Except this isn't a management of digital rights, but physical rights.

  3. Raiders of the Lost Ark on DRM Chair Self-Destructs After 8 Uses · · Score: 1

    Now all those carnival weight estimators can find lucrative work acting like Indy in the opening scenes of Raiders. Get a few sandbags and switch the out quickly. Your chair will see hundreds of uses!

  4. Re:No surprise then that the uncivalised hate them on New Research Sheds Light On the Evolution of Dogs · · Score: 1

    Presumably their "cleaning water" is reused several times, and thus contains more harmful bacteria than earth (sand?). And dogs' mouths are not super-clean either; they eat vomit and poop.

  5. Re:I'd think it takes two on New Research Sheds Light On the Evolution of Dogs · · Score: 2

    Or nomadic settlements. Rotate through the same areas and you may notice new plants on the old garbage piles.

  6. Re:On another front, "new research" corroboates on New Research Sheds Light On the Evolution of Dogs · · Score: 1

    I know you're at -1:troll, but I'm curious where the research is too. Everything in the summary is conjecture.

  7. Re:DIY Fuel Air explosive on 'Download This Gun' — 3-D Printed Gun Reliable Up To 600 Rounds · · Score: 1

    Just be glad it's not gun on gun crime. That's when you know the gun community has degenerated into barbarism.

  8. Re:Mini-RAID enclosures on Seagate To Stop Making 7200rpm Laptop HDDs · · Score: 1

    Meh; once you have enough spindles, rotational speed is nice, but doesn't mean as much.

  9. Re:Just what we need right now... on 'Download This Gun' — 3-D Printed Gun Reliable Up To 600 Rounds · · Score: 1

    "Need is irrelevent. I have a natural right to own them.

    You were born with a gun instead of a hand? Poor you...
    Puberty must have been a really difficult age for you.

    You were graduated from high school without basic knowledge of natural rights versus legal rights? Poor you...
    Natural rights are those rights -- such as ownership -- which are inalienable. The specific right in question in this thread is recognized (not granted) by the second amendment of the founding document of our country. Even if it weren't recognized in some other divirgent reality where the founding fathers simply forgot to write it down, the right would still exist.

  10. Re:Just what we need right now... on 'Download This Gun' — 3-D Printed Gun Reliable Up To 600 Rounds · · Score: 1

    But you have a right to own that rock just like someone has the right to own that coconut. Use of objects is not the same as ownership of objects.

  11. Re:Just what we need right now... on 'Download This Gun' — 3-D Printed Gun Reliable Up To 600 Rounds · · Score: 1

    Why do [you] need these guns?

    The correct answer to this question is "Need is irrelevent. I have a natural right to own them. Just because your government oppressively restricts your rights doesn't mean my government should oppressively restrict mine."

  12. Re: No redundant power on Among Servers, Apple's Mac Mini Quietly Gains Ground · · Score: 1

    I think the moral of the story is that there are lots of individuals and small businesses that don't need a "serious machine room server".

    But this is a story about colocated mac minis, so we're talking about machine room use. Each of these mac minis needs an extra video and USB cable for KVM. Combine that with power and network, and you've got four cables per machine. Now you've got 24 cables per U (well, maybe only 16 since those cables are eating up space you might only get 4 minis per U), and they all need slack because those mac minis will need to be on a slide-out drawer for replacements (unless you want to waste a lot of space depth-wise). The only real solution I could see would involve a KVM at the front of each drawer where a crash cart could hook up, and altered power supplies to cover the redundant power needs (because if a Mac Mini blows, your "one customer" may have downtime, but they may have a lot of people using whatever service was being hosted, so each "one customer" won't be happy when they've got downtime). Of course, that still doesn't cover memory hiccups.

  13. No redundant power on Among Servers, Apple's Mac Mini Quietly Gains Ground · · Score: 1

    No raid. No ecc reg ram. No ipmi*. No thanks. What happened to Xserves? Everybody switched to Linux.

    *not that I use ipmi, but its presence marks a serious machine room server

  14. Build a CEC YT-1300 on Ask Slashdot: Projects For a Heap of Tech Junk? · · Score: 1

    What a piece of junk!

  15. Re:Total BS on How the U.S. Sequester Will Hurt Science and Tech · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Obama got his tax increase....we all saw it in our paychecks in January. Why can't they start cutting...but in an INTELLIGENT manner?

    Because they want to make spending cuts as painful as possible so that they're the stalwart heroes fending them off. It's the Munchausen Sydrome by Proxy school of political thought.

  16. Re:So What's The Point on HTML5 Storage Bug Can Fill Your Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Another annoying part is that it will be millions of small files, so it will take a while to finish. And even if the files aren't filling the drive, they may fill the inode tables.

  17. Re:Interconnected brains? on Intercontinental Mind-Meld Unites Two Rats · · Score: 1
  18. Re:So What's The Point on HTML5 Storage Bug Can Fill Your Hard Drive · · Score: 2

    Reminds me of the gif of death, a blank PB sized image LZW compressed. It would crash browsers back in the day. Today it would probably wreak havok with thumbnail file managers.

  19. "military websites" on China Says It Is the Target of US Hack Attacks · · Score: 5, Insightful

    hackers from the U.S. have been attacking Chinese military websites.

    Wake me up when the U.S. military is hacking Chinese civilian/banking computers or trying to SSH into everything.

  20. Reflections on Spinning Black Hole's Edge Rotates At Nearly the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    Are they sure they're not seeing the light-speed reflections of another source? If I shine a laser at the moon and wiggle it, I can make the dot "move" really fast.

  21. Re:He put the S in RSA on Cryptography 'Becoming Less Important,' Adi Shamir Says · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did he say that, or did he write it? The difference is important.

  22. Re:The Target Wii U market is happy on Is the Wii U Already Dead? · · Score: 1

    These are *casual* gamers. Not the crack-head gamers who always need the next fix.

  23. The Target Wii U market is happy on Is the Wii U Already Dead? · · Score: 2

    The Target Wii U market is happy with their current Wiis. That's all there is to it. They've got enough games to last a long while. Unless/Until Nintendo sends a kill message to current Wiis, casual gamers won't trade up. And if Nintendo does send a kill message to current Wiis, casual gamers aren't crack heads who will run out and buy a Wii U. They'll go buy something without a kill switch like a jump-rope or hula-hoop.

  24. Re:Everyone was thinking it, I Just said it. on Long-Lost Continent Found Under the Indian Ocean · · Score: 2

    Um, to pedantic, that would be a Zero Point Module, a Zee Pee Em, or a Zed Pee Em.

  25. Re:At you desk! on Mayer Terminates Yahoo's Remote Employee Policy · · Score: 1

    Unless you're dictating to someone or coding in binary, you'll have to spell at some point, and sloppy spellers will probably mistake equality for assignment in C a few times too, and the compiler doesn't throw a syntax error or undeclared variable on that.