I am mostly inactive here. I stopped reading the front page some time ago. As to JEs, "I sometimes write them to write. I many times write them for replies."/A>

It's come up before, how to backup JE posts. Maybe i should do that now. Do you have a script you are willing to share?

Backup, good point, i ought to do that.

Slashdot has been around almost two decades now. While it isn't what it was, it is something. A major change will likely hurt, but i don't think will kill it. Nerds are younger and different, maybe they need the change.

I never did that reddit thing. Didn't really check out the beta either.

Does http://slashdot.org/journal.pl... not work either?

1) You can't (safely) use the same password in more than one context.

It all depends on how much security you need for a particular application. As an example, do you really need a separate password for each and every blog you follow, and do they all need to be as strong as the one protecting your financial records? Probably not. Yes, knowing how to create, remember and use strong passwords is a Very Good Idea, but not every account you use needs one. My suggestion is to have simple, in-obvious but easy to remember passwords for accounts like that, and save the strong ones for places where you really care about security.

They should make the appeal nonetheless and at worse shame Russia. The fact that they failed to live up to their end of the bargain is shameful.

The agreement in question dealt exclusively with Lebanese territory. Not Syrian, Jordanian, Egyptian or any other country. There are plenty of countries in the Middle-East that make up conflicts on a monthly basis that have no grounding in fact. So long as Arabs are slaughtering Arabs in the Middle-East, even within their own countries, I think it is safe to say the probability of an Muslim-Jewish peace is very low (if they can't even get along with themselves, how can we expect them to play nice with others?)

Hezbollah is a Lebanese organization, not Syrian. As such, they have no legitimacy in demanding the return of the Sheba Farms region to Lebanon. This territory was never part of Lebanon and Israel is fully in the right according to international law in that it withdrew 100% from Lebanon. Syria is more than welcome to restart peace negotiations with Israel if it so wishes. Please don't open up this discussion to other conflicts, as this is a separate discussion.

The fact of the matter is: the International Community made political and military guarantees with respect to Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon, and it failed to adhere to them. The same is true in the case of Ukraine. Had Ukraine kept their nuclear weapons you can be sure Russia would not have invaded.

Power and heat. In a large server farm, those are king.

2.5s are less power hungry and generate less heat than 3.5s or 5.25s.

Hell, back around 1990 or so, I was working on a touchscreen interface for the Army, and we had to test with arctic gloves.

For POC on the algorithms, I brought in some ski gloves, then we used the real arctic gloves for QA.

This isn't the first time that international bodies have promised to protect a country's borders in return for it withdrawing from some territory, or giving up arms... but when it is time for those same international bodies to act they do not.

Another recent example is when Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000 to UN sanctioned, internationally-recognized borders. A short while later, Hezbollah started threatening Israel again, claiming it was occupying some fictitious piece of land that was never part of Lebanon. Instead of the UN and international bodies backing Israel's claim that it had fully withdrawn from all of Lebanon, they publicly referred to this piece of land as "disputed territory". This taught us two things:

1. All it takes is one idiot to claim ownership of some land, and regardless of the facts that land becomes "disputed".
2. International guarantees are utterly meaningless.

Countries are better off retaining their weapons and enforcing the peace themselves. Regardless of how much political pressure you're under, ignore it, because at the end of the day you cannot outsource your citizens security.

And on the flip side: the international community should shut the !#@ up until they gain a record of walking the walk instead of talking the talk. It's criminal to play with other people's lives in this way.

Note to the press: "Hackers" doesn't mean what you think is means.

They check all that stuff before you're cleared, and every time your clearance is renewed. I find it hard to believe that this isn't already at least partially true already.

I don't see it as very creative, but otherwise I agree ;-)

Like most things Reagan, that works right up to the point where you actually have to implement it. Increasing water resources means increasing energy usage. Which is great when you have plentiful energy, except that we don't. Energy costs money, and clean energy (the kind that doesn't pollute the "free" clean water sources we have) costs even more money and takes even more energy to get moving.

Not using a resource always costs less than converting a non-usable resource into a usable one.

Ronald Reagan was a nice old man, a great people person, and a charismatic leader. And that counts for a lot when you're dealing with people and leaders. But he was dumber than a brick when it came to economics and technology.

I though most of it came from snow melt on the western half of the continental divide.

Exporting 100 billion gallons, is, of course, utter bullshit. The only water that gets actually exported is the water weight of the exports. There is additional water lost through evaporation due to agricultural irrigation, which exceeds the non-irrigated evaporation rate. That last one is the real target, and the concern of this veginazi.