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  1. Re: Worse: Disposal of drugs on The Myth of Drug Expiration Dates (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    Your nearest full service VA hospital will have one. Your local PD may have one that they claim is anonymous. Nobody will write your name down, and there probably aren't cameras, at the VA. They won't even ask if your a vet.

  2. Re: $765 billion a year is misleading on The Myth of Drug Expiration Dates (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    Your father committed a criminal offense. I am not saying that I agree, I am just letting you know. With a few small changes, it could even be a federal offense. That is unlikely, but it could be possible if there were something that legally qualified it as a conspiracy, or over State borders. Those would potentially make it a federal offense. That's unlikely, but it is almost certainly a State level criminal offense, regardless of number or motivation.

    Yeah. Shit sucks. It is almost certainly a felony, even just for a single pill that was given away. It was a narcotic. It is a scheduled drug. It's jail time, potentially.

  3. Re: Original sealed container on The Myth of Drug Expiration Dates (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    Lots of birth control does. This being Slashdot, I can understand your overlooking it. It is pretty common.

  4. Re: This is the sort of testing the Feds should d on The Myth of Drug Expiration Dates (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    In the US courts, it is not 'beyond all doubt.' It is 'beyond reasonable doubt.' The distinction in question is important. I believe the same level of assurance can be used. Yes, it means some die without much more than making them as comfortable as possible. This may need a shift in public perspective... We can do that.

  5. Re: Who Knew ;) on Long Working Days Can Cause Heart Problems, Study Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If I get the chance on my deathbed, I'm going to think that exact thought. I'm even going to tell someone that I'm thinking it - assuming I'm able. We'll nip this stupid expression, right in the bud.

  6. Re: Microsoft Windows' history on 'Windows 10 Is Failing Us' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Ha! I did some looking around - you couldn't restore from an unbootable state - UNLESS you have a third party method (if you can't get into the OS by any means, including safe mode). I'm thinking that it may have been a feature on the Acer recovery disks, at this point. I know, beyond all doubt, that I restored from outside the OS - I'm 100% certain of this.

    I know, because I also know the damned thing did not, back then, preserve *my* files - only system files and settings, meaning not needing to update all over again.

    (I also checked online to confirm much of this. Winternals offered such a restore method, as well as a few other proprietary means.)

    Anyhow, I don't use my phone for anything but calling, texting, taking a few pictures, and browsing. I have zero apps installed - but there are apps available. I do no banking, no secure anything, and use it just as a pacifier when needed. For me, Windows is perfect. There's not a lot of choices, however. My phone can update to 10. I should probably do that. It runs well. It does what I need. It has GPS, but I have dedicated devices and there's GPS in my daily driver.

    I should add that I'm *REALLY* remotely located. If I go about 20 minutes up the road, it's another 1.5 hours before I get cell service again. So, I don't actually rely on my phone very much. In fact, I frequently don't take it with me and don't have it powered on.

  7. LOL My neighbor hays a few of my fields. In theory, I get paid for this. However, I actually just get free, or very well priced, meat. Pretty much all my meat (and many of my veggies) are not from a grocery store. I hunt, fish, and garden. The rest comes from them, unless I am on the road or gone out to eat. Also, I got my moose permit. That will fill a freezer by itself. (I have multiple chest freezers in the basement.)

    I lived in cities my whole life, until retirement. I love it, here.

  8. They used the clusters for to make the claim about 50% now living in urban areas. I should have been a bit more clear.

  9. If they trot out the line about most Americans live in an urban area, keep in mind that the definition for that requires only 2500 people. They changed the formal definition a while back, specifically for the census.

  10. I'm fine, thanks for asking.

  11. Re: Voluntary Contract on California Lawsuit Wants To Weaken Noncompetes (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Libertarians are quite fond of civil courts and contracts, as a general rule. You can read Wikipedia and learn what libertarianism is, if you want. I promise, none of them are hiding under your bed.

  12. Re: Microsoft Windows' history on 'Windows 10 Is Failing Us' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    IIRC - and it has been a lot of years - you booted with the floppy that ME made - the boot disk/DOS. In that, there was a restore command - I believe. I'm not 100% positive, but there may have been a way to do so by pressing one of the function keys (F8, probably - perhaps?) during the boot, after the POST, but before the OS loaded. There (perhaps as well) was a restore option by CLI.

    Again, that was so many years ago. I haven't used Windows in years, I was a Unix user, then some Windows, and have long since sorta returned to my roots and use Linux. Err... Except my phone. My phone is Windows. Yes, I know my shame. However, I kinda like it.

  13. Re: Censorship in the U.S. on China's Censors Can Now Erase Images Mid-Transmission (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fair, I see the original post. I browse at -1, of course.

  14. Re: Liberals on China's Censors Can Now Erase Images Mid-Transmission (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe the discussion is about current events.

  15. Re: No it won't on Facial Recognition Could Be Coming To Police Body Cameras (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    You may wish to read their post again. Selective editing, or just poor reading comprehension?

  16. Re: Who Knew ;) on Long Working Days Can Cause Heart Problems, Study Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the more I think about this, the more I'm sure someone has. Picture a person who didn't tend their crops, or someone who was convinced they could have worked their way out of the potato blight. Yeah, I bet lots of people died wishing that they had worked more.

    Some dude plummeting to their death when their chute didn't open? Probably wishing they had worked more to learn how to pack their chute better. Industrial accident? Probably wishing they'd worked harder in school and had a white collar job.

  17. Re: Who Knew ;) on Long Working Days Can Cause Heart Problems, Study Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I dunno. Surely someone has thought that. Perhaps their death was due to obesity or atrophy? Maybe they were leaving their family in debt?

  18. Re: Microsoft Windows' history on 'Windows 10 Is Failing Us' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    NO!!! I loved Restore - you could actually restore from *outside* the OS. I had surprisingly good success with that.

    The funny thing is, the hardware was just an inexpensive Acer. Well, inexpensive for the time. It had an AMD K6-2 350, OCed to a bit under 500 mhz. It was stable as a rock, comparatively speaking. Well, until I did stupid things that hosed it and then the above mentioned restoration came in handy.

  19. Re: What a bunch of Bullocks on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Developer Secrets That Could Sink Your Business? · · Score: 1

    If you want a blast from the past, I went and found the link.

    Link.

  20. Re: What a bunch of Bullocks on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Developer Secrets That Could Sink Your Business? · · Score: 2

    Maybe - but I think you may have rose colored glasses.

    I am on the full site. Read the comments on this thread:

    Link.

    You can pretty much skim them. I can also find a whole lot more threads, just like that. Hell, it's threads like that which have kept me coming back for years.

  21. Re: If you thought enterprise IT was just software on Ask Slashdot: What Are The Lesser-Known Roles Of The IT Department? · · Score: 1

    It's all good. I played professionally, for way too many years.

    No, no... I didn't actually achieve any fame or fortune from playing. I played to make extra money, played to pay for expenses while at school, and did a bit of studio work for pay.

    I *can* play the guitar like a motherfucking riot, however. I'm classically trained. I played mostly classic rock (which was not so classic at the time I played it), all the way through the 90s and earliest of 00s.

    Here is me doing Caprici di Diablo, from Malmsteen.

    Link.

    LOL I'm just showing off with that one, but it's fun to play. This is what I'm actually trained to play:

    Link.

    That's Astrurias, composed a long time ago by a fella by the name of Albeniz. I'm not sure if you like that kinda of music, but it's fun to play. Got anything recorded to share? I love to hear other players! (It's a valid, if rarely checked.,email listed.)

  22. Re: Lenders Hate This One Weird Trick! on $12 Billion In Private Student Loan Debt May Be Wiped Away By Missing Paperwork (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You responded to a post about the most publican of republican States, where they didn't just take the word of the corporation...

    Sheesh...

  23. Re: Sounds like... on Windows 10 Creators Upgrade Cuts Support For Some Intel PCs Early (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait... You'd be angry just because of the verbiage?

  24. Re: What a bunch of Bullocks on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Developer Secrets That Could Sink Your Business? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have been on /., for a long time. This is actually my second account, as I lost the email associated with the first one and forgot my password.

    Why do I mention that? Slashdot has never been good. No, it really hasn't. That's kinda why I like it. Hell, we don't even get much goatse spam anymore.

    I am on mobile, so search for 'VMware' on here. Go back and read the comments in the first article. Yup... We've never, ever, been good. If you don't want to search, the comments declared virtualization would never work, catch on, and that it was easier to dual boot. Keep in mind that these same people are the same people who submit articles to the firehose.

    No, we've never been good.

  25. Re: The libraries we choose on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Developer Secrets That Could Sink Your Business? · · Score: 2

    I was expecting the first post to be something like, "If I told you, it wouldn't be a secret!"