A priest in Pakistan is trying to use crowdfunding to build an orphanage by Christmas.

For some reason I don't understand, Facebook has already labeled this adventure as being "Against Community Standards"

Just finished my 30th high school reunion, and realized....I haven't seen anybody in the slashdot journals in like forever.

Now true, the advertising on this site (when viewed without adblock) has become horrible- with that quarter-of-your-screen banner advert at the top- but I used to use you guys for tech sounding boards.

I don't remember the last time I did that.

and there you are

I started off 2018 by finally getting my Amateur Radio license. I went in with nothing and came out with General class.

I finished the year by going for Amateur Extra, and I passed. I was a little surprised, but it took a lot of work to learn what I needed to know for the exam.

What's that got to do with the title? Simple: The tests prove that I know a certain amount of a few topics. That's "the more you know". The rest of it is demonstrated by a common phrase in Radio: "Now, the real learning begins."

I'd like to get involved with emergency communication (look up "ARES" if you're curious) and try my hand at building antennas. I have a few in the queue and one in progress for the 2m band, so we'll see how it goes.

To remember passwords?

There is one on my laptop now, because I have to change my passwords every 90 days and that isn't enough time to build muscle memory for me anymore.

It says:
1. HR[q]
2. HRFC[q]
3. CR[q]

I want to put it out to the most brilliant people I know, thus my slashdot journal circle. Can any of you guess to at least the category what these encryptions refer to? Because if you can, then my sticky note encryption methodology which is a combination of acronyms, personal knowledge, and arrays is not secure.

It's been since 2010 or so, at least -- if not longer.

This is going to seem downright blasphemous to some data scientists, but it is what I'm being asked to do in support of a Power BI Report and some weird behavior on the part of the business.

Basically, I have a list of results from tests, and am being asked to invent a new category of results for estimated number of tests when the total number of tests is less than the recorded estimate.

I already have two recordsets- the list of real results, and the categorized list of the difference between Real and Estimate.

I'm sure I could, with a double while loop and a cursor, simply loop through the recordset and then run a while loop

But there has to be a way to do this with set operations.

Basically, what I need is something like:
Insert Into Results (Result, EndDate-1hour, category, subcategory) Select Result, Enddate-1hour, category, subcategory for records loop NumberofRecords=EstimateDelta

But even with 21 years of experience in SQL, I don't know quite how to do that.

Simple new rule:

IF Title ends in NUMBER, and Title ending in Number+1 exists, then Up Next should be Number+1.

On second thought, maybe they already do that, but RedGreenTV named all their episodes wrong for Binge Watching (I keep having to search for the next episode, and I'm only 1/6th of the way through the 300 episodes). As I was typing this, I noticed the current video I'm on is "The Red Green Show Ep 50 "Car Pool"". Knowing this show, that's probably the Handyman Corner- turning a K-Car into a hot tub.

There are webcomics that I read daily, and for years now I've had a set of tabs that open things like dilbert and sluggy freelance when my browser opens.

Sometime in the past week, while I was concentrating on my job, userfriendly.org seems to have gone offline.

Anybody know when or why?

Take that however you wish.

I was given a Yaesu FT-450D as an early birthday/Christmas gift. (My dad and step mom can be cool that way, though I do admit that this was a bit much.)

That means I have to figure out a scheme for an antenna that works for my property, that I can get put into place with a minimum of hassle. I have just shy of a half acre, but it's the layout of the buldings, trees, and a buried (but filled-in) septic tank I have to deal with.

What Trump needs to do to retain his voters, retain the House Republicans in November, and get Kim Jung Un to the negotiating table in one fell swoop:
1. Have the State Department transfer diplomatic funds to Department of Agriculture to buy up all produce unable to be sold due to tariff war with China.
2., Hire the best snack companies in America to process that produce into addictive and long shelf life snacks.
3. Ship Snacks to North Korea for free as a gesture of goodwill from the American People.
4. Include trade deals in the negotiations for more snacks.

America's snack food industry creates more diabetes and addiction than anything else in the world. Supposedly, free markets will keep peace and break communism. Let's addict the starving masses of North Korea with a flood of food into their market, then reap the benefits of more food in return for denuclearlization of the peninsula.

Socialism is economics for people who have never been taught morality.

I really need to start reporting these people for calling my cell phone on the Federal Do Not Call List.

Why would I want to replace a 6.4% credit card with a 6.9% credit card?

Eugenio Scalfari is Satanic. His existence is the best reason to bring back burning heretics at the stake.