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  1. Re:Pointless addendum on Could PayPal Be an In-Store Option? · · Score: 2

    That pretty much sums up everything I was going to say. My wife has an account that's tied up in the Paypal dispute system with just under $1000 in it. We're going on around 6 months now with no resolution in sight. If we were dealing with a bank we'd have been done long before now.

  2. Re:He's innocent? on Thomas Drake Innocent of All Ten Original Charges · · Score: 1

    Stop poking holes in everyone's conspiracy theories with your truth and logic!

  3. Re:Broken images on iOS 5 Jailbroken · · Score: 2

    Forbidden, forbidden, and forbidden.

  4. Re:Serious question; on Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022 · · Score: 1

    I currently work in a coal plant. Not all plants collect fly ash in the manner provided in your link.

    You missed a portion of the text when you copied it from Wikipedia.

    Toxic constituents depend upon the specific coal bed makeup, but may include one or more of the following elements or substances in quantities from trace amounts to several percent: arsenic, beryllium, boron, cadmium, chromium, chromium VI, cobalt, lead, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, selenium, strontium, thallium, and vanadium, along with dioxins and PAH compounds.

    The truth is that you don't have all of those compounds in every load of coal. It depends on the makeup of the coal (where it's from, the type). Every load of coal that is used is tested before use. If it doesn't meet EPA guidelines, we actually send it back. The regulations vary by area and are based on total air quality. The more industrial stuff around, the lower the limits become.

  5. Re:How About ... on Amazon and Barnes & Noble Jostle Over Battery Life Figures for Nook, Kindle · · Score: 1

    It is hard when the number you'd have to put on the box is lower than the last generation you produced.

    Marketing speak at its finest.

  6. Re:Wow! on Cleaning Up Japan's Radioactive Mess With Blue Goo · · Score: 1

    I was about to correct this as well!

    Contamination contains radiation. Radiation comes from contamination when it decays. You can clean contamination to reduce/eliminate the radiation that the contamination would have caused.

    There are a lot of ways to say it! I don't think I've heard it put quite like the first line in your post. It's perfect!

  7. Re:The Security Dance on Duplicate RSA Keys Enable Lockheed Martin Network Intrusion · · Score: 2

    The usual way that press inquiries are handled is to have all personnel direct any inquiries to the PR officer or group. It is usually someone who has no real knowledge of what happened and only gives scripted responses to inquiries.

    Since they have real information on how the breach occured, I'd bet it really was someone who was unauthorized to speak spilling the beans.

  8. Re:only one? on Draft Horses Used To Lay Fiber-Optic Cable · · Score: 1

    Yea, pretty soon fiber optic cable's going to be as cheap as shit...

    Of course, that still doesn't mean that ISPs will not implement data

    Fixed that.

  9. Re:A fiasco in every way but one important one. on Rooted Devices Blocked From Android Movie Market · · Score: 1

    I find the best choice is: none of the above.

  10. Setup a fake login on Ask Slashdot: FTP Server Honeypots? · · Score: 1

    Setup a fake login with a separate file structure. Fill it with Goatse and gay porn.

    Alternately (or in addition to) add some random viruses that you know they'll click on.

  11. Oblig XKCD on Windows 8 ARM Will Not Support Legacy Software · · Score: 0

    http://xkcd.com/303/
    There will be much sword fighting.

  12. Re:Not A Virus on Apple Support Forums Suggest Malware Explosion · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Stupidity is platform independent.

  13. Re:hrmmmm on Confessions of a Computer Repairman · · Score: 1

    So instead of just blindly doing what people ask for, teach them about it. You can still get paid accordingly. Unfortunately those of us who do know what's going on get to deal with the aftermath of the disreputable.

    I find that if you take the time to explain things that people are more likely to come back to you anyways (if that's what you want).

  14. So... on Poisoned Google Image Searches Becoming a Problem · · Score: 1

    Since they're detecting Google, Bing is safe? Wouldn't Bing pretty much slurp the same data while crawling and display pretty much the same result?

  15. Re:Many months ago on Sony Online Entertainment Services Follow PSN Down · · Score: 1

    Well...in an interesting turn of events...

    Today I had someone login to my Gmail account that I used when I reset my SoE account information. Thanks for that one too Sony!

    FYI: It was from South Korea.

  16. Re:again? on Ask Slashdot: How To Monitor Your Own Bandwidth Usage? · · Score: 1

    I'm running DD-WRT on a Netgear WGR614L. I've run both Tomato and DD-WRT on it. Be aware that not all WGR614 models can run Tomato or DD-WRT. Always check the supported router listings!

    See http://www.myopenrouter.com/ for a listing of supported routers.

  17. Many months ago on Sony Online Entertainment Services Follow PSN Down · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A few months ago my Station account was hacked. I had not used it in around 5 years. On that day my SWG account was reactivated with a monthly subscription using a credit card with my name on the account. The credit card had an address listed in a state I've never lived in. I saw the same story in forum threads when I was looking for information on how this happened.

    I'm betting that they've been testing the water with the accounts they scraped for months.

  18. Re:for certain values of truth on NSA Advises Upgrade To Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Ah, so Windows is now behind Linux for driver support.

    Lay off the Peyote brother.

  19. Re:Easy on Nintendo Announces Wii Successor for 2012 · · Score: 1

    No I don't want to come play with your WiiWii.

    *Bows head in shame for the lame joke*

    Sign me up for one of these.

  20. Re:OR, don't buy? on Apple: "We must Have Comprehensive Location Data" · · Score: 1

    I might as well take this opportunity to thank all those folks that are buying all this stuff. I'm still using an old CDMA phone. I don't have any use for the "new" features that these phones come with. By the time I get around to buying one of these phones I'm sure that all these issues will be taken care of! *sarcasm*

  21. Switch my wife to Suse 11.4kde this week on German Company To Install Linux On 10,000 PCs · · Score: 2

    She's been on XP on an older machine and had been playing a few games that kept her there. She just recently started complaining about WinXP acting "weird" and having firefox hanging up. I slapped Suse 11.4 KDE on her machine and told her to let me know if something didn't work.

    First day in and her words were: "I don't see what's different" and "It looks the same".

    I was away at work. She installed Quicken via Wine and didn't even realize that it was any different than being in WinXP. But then came some coupon printer she's been using. That doesn't work. I'm looking at running a virtual machine just for that purpose.

    As I'm typing this, she just plugged in our camera for the first time.
    "This won't work in here huh?"
    "Plug it in, you'll see"
    Up pops the camera application and away she goes without further prompting.

    She's not very tech savvy. But she's not on the job either and can wait for me to show her how to get stuff done.

    Posted from my Win7 machine in Pale Moon
    *ducks*.

  22. Baby Steps on Greenpeace Says the Internet Emits Too Much CO2 · · Score: 1

    Step 1: Nobody buys any more computers to help reduce CO2 emmissions

    Step 2: Scientists finish quantum computing in the dark

    Step 3: Everyone buys quantum computers

    Step 4: PETA (that's People for the Ethical Treatment of Atoms, not the other one) gets upset about the enslavement of atoms for our purposes.

    Step 5: Apocalypse

  23. Re:Organic vs processed (toxic) sugar. on Is Sugar Toxic? · · Score: 2

    This is something that has been known in the diabetes circles for a long time.

    http://www.joslin.org/info/how_does_fiber_affect_blood_glucose_levels.html

    It's one of the basic tenants in diabetic diets and in weight training. When my (now ex) wife had some serious medical problems I had to look into some different diet programs. What Lustig is advocating is what is spelled out in the Schwartzbien Principle.
    http://www.everydiet.org/diet/schwarzbein-principle

    I can only say that I followed the diet and lost 60 lbs (while she remained fat until she started doing coke and I don't know whatever else but that's a different story). This shit works and it's backed by research other than Lustigs.

  24. Re:Language on Wind Power Firm Sees No Evidence of Hack · · Score: 1

    Sinamic is a Siemens product. Siemens is one of the larger producers of controls for industry. I use a number of their products at my job. It's not uncommon for these types of controls to offer multi-language support. I wonder if that wasn't part of this guys hack.
    I don't know much about the Siemens "front end" though, as the plant I work for uses a different control interface.

  25. Re:Now there are two gaps .. on New Dinosaur Species Is a Missing Link · · Score: 1

    Understanding our evolutionary path gives us insight into our behaviors. Our continued success is a trait that was molded upon the past success of our evolutionary path. The windfall you speak of is the consciousness raising understanding of everything that encompasses our evolutionary heritage.

    Your bets are wrong. Don't worry though, you're not the only one.