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Comment Re:Anyone who knows street parking in San Francisc (Score 1) 404

Ok, then the city should implement it and maintain a queue. Then they just need to install a sensor on all the spots which only allows the correct user to plug the meter (or simply activates a sign marking as "Occupied" if cost free) when the correct cell phone is identified to be proximal to it.

Comment Re:Why are his opinions on guns or... (Score 1) 224

I would say you are mainly right. However important the issue might be, the question probably shouldn't have been included in the first place. Probably just /. wanting to stoke up its follower-base.

Though the topic was "ask anything", he is not an authority of any kind on that subject, though, on the other hand, perhaps he is about as much of one as anyone, and /. does encompass other issues than tech, such as politics and guns (e.g. 3-D printing of), and, certainly, regulartion and (legal/govt) controls seem to be a mainstay.

Comment Re:Why are his opinions on guns or... (Score 1) 224

Your point is certainly arguable, but I would say that gun ownership and open source are highly related concepts in the abstract. Both fundamentally involve empowerment. I think the only arguable downside to gun ownership (which by no means outweights its advantages) is guns' unfortunate empowerment of wimps and nutcases.

Comment I don't know why /. keeps posting this tripe. (Score 2) 1198

And I am really not in the mood to exhaust myself (to some measureable extent) (once more) (is that the actual intent???) refuting A, B, C, and D,..., in such as this standard, packaged doggerel. Perhaps I will at least read the thing (first line or two) at some point, given some level of boredom.

All I can say, is learn to think for yourself, see what makes sense to you, do your best to comport yourself in a reasonable way, all things considered.

Heraclitus: Latent structure is master of obvious structure.

Neil Young: There's more to the picture, than meets the eye, hey-hey, my-my.

Andersen: The Emperor has no clothes!

Comment Most importantly, you've got be strong for her, (Score 1) 552

And that might necessitate your chilling her out a bit. I would say that would be first. Then, you might want to try to see if she feels up to establish some basic communication methods. What someone said about a board with letters that are pointed to sounds good. First think I thought of was blinking for morse code. She needs to be able to tell you anything she might need to. Then some rest and monitoring are probably in order. What someone else said about establishing a baseline for responsiveness (e.g. via digital camera/software) might also be useful.

Hopefully, you've got good medical support, but always rely on your own judgement first and foremost. Stay chill and hang in!

Comment Air pressure is necessary, because... (Score 2) 360

it holds the water column together (so gravity can act on it), but to say that it is driven by air pressure makes no sense, because if I am not mistaken (?) air pressure should be greater at lower altitudes (no?), so that it should push it up the hose, which it presumably does to a minor extent.

Comment Re:CloneZilla (Score 1) 423

I'm mainly concerned with java and adobe/flash updates, which I believe I should still get. I'll give it a try for a while and if I run into trouble I'll probably go to linux and possibly wait for a better, new Windows release to come out. F- 8, and 7 is halfway in the ground itself.

My main concern was using my personal desktop to connect to my work VPN, which I prefer to the company laptop. They (Fortune "mongo") screen your hardware for eligibility, but I was surprised to recently learn that they won't curtail access for XP users. As long as that persists, I'm gonna let er ride!

Btw, that's a good idea what almity said about saving an image. That way you can reinstall with all the final updates. I think this should be fairly practical (???)since I finally wised up and moved all my user data off my main drive. WE SHALL SEE!!! :)

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