I'm already pledged to Tappa Keg Aday :)

>>The measure is intended to curb violent crime in Venezuela, where 78% of homicides are linked to firearms

That may be what they say, but I'm sure the reality is they don't want citizens to be able to have armed revolts against the Venezuelan government.

I give my old but still useable equipment that I no longer want to others who need it. I don't cry, but I do tend to tell it what a good piece of hardware its been while I pack it up, and ask it to not be mad at me for giving it away.

And sadly, no, this isn't a joke. And it probably is why I don't have a girlfriend.

And I'll continue to rip my legitimately purchased DVDs and Blu-Rays to my hard drive, removing this (and all other) forced content and previews. And the MPAA and FBI, and ilk like them, can shove their heads up their asses. If I want to play my discs in my toaster oven I will do so, and I don't give even one single flying fuck what they think about it.

The only real issue I would have with what he did is the part where he fiddled with the switch in the wall. He does not own the building, and I doubt he's a certified electrician. If something electrical went wrong in his room, the insurance people would have a field day with that, whether his wiring caused the issue or not. And if the electrical problem caused injuries, many lawyers would become involved. If I were the school, I'd inquire over that too.

Other than that, it's a cool room...although a bit small for partying :)

I realize this quote is way overused these days, but its worth repeating here. Ol' Ben Franklin said it best..."Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Another reason that you won't see open source software that will fill out your forms is testing by the IRS. The IRS *requires* that all tax preparation software be tested by them. If there were open source software that you could recompile, *every* time it was recompiled it would have to be sent in to the IRS and tested anew. Even if all you did was corrected a spelling error in a comment.

It would be entirely possible to create free software, that runs on Linux even, to prepare your tax forms. It would simply have to remain closed source. But then almost the entire Linux community would rise up against it for being closed source.

Actually, no. The commonality between Democrats and Republicans is "screw the middle class". The Democrats take from the middle class and give it to the poor. The Republicans take from the middle class and give it to the rich.

And there are many Republicans who are truly embarrassed by what their party has become over the last 15 years or so. I happen to be one of them.

This attempt will go the way of other third party attempts. US law and public opinion is too geared for a two party system. The articled in the link sums it up great...even though H. Ross Perot won nearly 20 percent of the popular vote, he didn't win even one single electoral vote.

This idiot is obviously some troll with an axe to grind because IT wouldn't let him have his way. If someone puts a personal device on a network that I am responsible for the security on and doesn't talk to me first, I will see to it that they are severely reprimanded. The second time they do it without permission I'll see to it that they are severely unemployed. And there will be no exceptions or excuses. So long as you work with me and add your device in a secure manor, I'll help you do it and support you. But on networks I am responsible for, its my way or no way. Again, no exceptions. And I make sure all company powers that be are aware of my feelings on that before I accept any client, and if they have issues with that policy they do not become a client because I am then unwilling to accept the responsibility for their security.

Half of this is in fact possible, and is already being done and has been for decades...its called an "observation hive". Glass on at least one side, sits inside where it can be seen, a tube through a wall lets the bees get outside, so on and so forth. Google can tell you all about them.

The "pull a string for honey" part, however, and at least in my opinion, is total nonsense. Bees are not going to deposit the honey in a convenient comb-free location. And simply squeezing honey out of the comb would be a good way to also squeeze bees and larva.

Department of Fucking Idiots.

or

Department of Unpatriotic Mentality.

It takes a woefully naive person to use a service like Facebook for free and not expect that Facebook is collecting your data and somehow profiting from it.

The first day of Fall is the day my neighbors close their swimming pool for the season.

Slashdot would not be Slashdot without the crappy summaries and all the comments by people who obviously did not RTFA.

Horse shit. I use Mandriva on a number of critical systems, and I know many others who do the same. Mandriva is the one and only distribution I have ever used over the years that I have installed on dozens of systems without even one failure. Everyone's beloved Ubuntu won't even complete installation on a majority of the hardware I've tried it on, and I've had just as much trouble with Debian and Suse. Mageia has had one release. They're going to have to do way better than that for me to trust it for critical systems.

I've already downloaded the new Mandriva, will put it on my test system later tonight, and will most likely upgrade a dozen or more servers over the week.