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Comment: Re:Air-Condition Compressors (Score 1) 249

by Jaktar (#43765475) Attached to: Electronics-Loving 'Crazy Ants' Invading Southern US

I had to replace the contactor in my air conditioner. The little bastards turned it into an ant crematorium. I noticed the problem when the air conditioner was humming very loudly when it was supposed to be off.

Lucky for me, I found a replacement that is completely enclosed, instead of the partially open design that the original was.

Comment: Re:Educate the users, Avoiding reuse is easy (Score 1) 211

by Jaktar (#43573321) Attached to: Mitigating Password Re-Use From the Other End

What you suggest is already available via add-in password hashers on the users end. Passwords are automatically generated and salted with the URL. You can "bump" a password to change the salt. The main problems I've come across are:

1) The algorithm differs by browser, even those that say they are compatible.

2) Some password entry points don't have a hasher function built in, requiring me to either write down the password or switch to the browser to get it.

All of my password hashing efforts are moot if the server end loses their password database, though I'll only have that one password compromised.

Even with these hurdles, it's worth using the hasher.

Comment: Re:There's always two sides to a coin (Score 5, Informative) 931

by Jaktar (#43563535) Attached to: Belief In God Correlates With Better Mental Health Treatment Outcomes

Well fuck me. I hate replying to myself bit I didn't expect it to be so easy to track down.

See here:
http://www.jpsych.com/pdfs/david.hillel.rosmarin.cv.pdf

Prepared: November, 2012
David H. Rosmarin, Ph.D.

GRANT REVIEW ACTIVITIES
2012 John Templeton Foundation

The Templeton Foundation Strikes again.

Comment: There's always two sides to a coin (Score 4, Insightful) 931

by Jaktar (#43563511) Attached to: Belief In God Correlates With Better Mental Health Treatment Outcomes

Another way to look at their results is that there needs to be an improvement in the psychological treatment of atheists because there may be some bias in the treatment that tends to push people to appeal to the spiritual. Maybe a bit like AA.

There is a distinct lack of research in the area of atheist vs theist rates of psychological problems. Of the available research, here is one such study that suggests that atheists are less likely to suffer from depression:
http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/buggle_20_4.html

I haven't done the digging yet but the submitted article smells like the Templeton Foundation may have had an influence.

Comment: Re:Oy. (Score 1) 408

by Jaktar (#43439855) Attached to: Google Fiber: Why Traditional ISPs Are Officially On Notice

Is this handle perhaps Adam Orth in disguise?

Only 27% of the USA has access to >256kbps . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_broadband_Internet_users

How do you propose we move 73% of the population?

There may be an easier way.....perhaps we could build out the infrastructure?

Comment: Re:One driver eh? (Score 2) 154

by Jaktar (#43433425) Attached to: Microsoft Telling Users To Uninstall Bad Patch

The original knowledge base article which is linked to the fix contains the kernel mode drivers. It makes sense in the context of the linked articles, so the fault with the confusion lies with threatpost.com for not providing all the relevant information.

This link is the knowledge base article in question:
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2829996

The kernel mode drivers are: ntfs.sys and win32k.sys.

I guess that's what happens when you use a summary of a bugfix to write an article.

Comment: Re:So? (Score 3, Insightful) 599

by Jaktar (#43342347) Attached to: Nuclear Power Prevents More Deaths Than It Causes

I'll try this a few ways:
First:
http://www.ted.com/talks/debate_does_the_world_need_nuclear_energy.html

Second:
http://xkcd.com/1162/

Third:
I worked nuclear power for 10 years (ops/maint), coal for the last 5 years(maint), and and converting the plant to biomass from waste wood currently. As the TED talk suggests, the right answer is to build nuclear now to replace the aging plants that we currently have while we figure out how to fit the renewable sources in.

Comment: Re:Idiocracy! (Score 2) 502

by Jaktar (#43266575) Attached to: Windows Blue 9364 Screenshots Show Feature Enhancements

because now you have to go back to a full screen menu every time you want to start another application.

And this is why you should not believe what you read and actually go and try it yourself. That's wrong, and so is the rest of what you wrote.

You can still pin applications to the task bar and create shortcuts on your desktop if you so choose. Because of the way the taskbar handles multiple instances, you don't get the 20 window stack clutter like you had in XP. Once I go to the 'desktop' mode, I don't have to go back to the ModernUI as I already have everything pinned. Even when I do go back to the ModernUI to launch a program, it's the same as it was in Win7 - windows key and start typing the name then press enter or click it.

Comment: Re:What about mitochondrial DNA? (Score 3, Informative) 154

by Jaktar (#43204211) Attached to: "Lazarus Project" Clones Extinct Frog

http://www.ted.com/talks/stewart_brand_the_dawn_of_de_extinction_are_you_ready.html

There was a TED talk filmed in February that discusses what they are doing, who is doing it, and why. He does briefly mention what you're talking about. In short: Nature doesn't do things exactly the same way every time either, so don't worry about it.*

* I'm summing up quite a bit. Just watch the video (~20 mins).

Comment: Re:Windows 7 (Score 1) 965

by Jaktar (#43166057) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Mac To Linux Return Flow?

NT (Good) -> 2000 (Good) -> XP (Good) -> Vista (Sucks) -> Win7 (Good) -> Win8 (Sucks).

Sucks is a pretty relative term. On this very machine I've had Vista, Win7, and now Win 8 with various Linux distros spiced in. All were solid. During their time periods, they all served their purpose well.

The problem is largely PEBKAC.

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