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Anti-Speed Camera Activist Buys Police Department's Web Domain 680

Brian McCrary just bought a website to complain about a $90 speeding ticket he received from the Bluff City PD — the Bluff City Police Department site. The department let its domain expire and McCrary was quick to pick it up. From the article: "Brian McCrary found the perfect venue to gripe about a $90 speeding ticket when he went to the Bluff City Police Department's website, saw that its domain name was about to expire, and bought it right out from under the city's nose. Now that McCrary is the proud owner of the site, bluffcitypd.com, the Gray, Tenn., computer network designer has been using it to post links about speed cameras — like the one on US Highway 11E that caught him — and how people don't like them."

Comment Wow, fine contaminate. (Score 1) 249

This is tricky, really. Ultra fine contaminate is basically beyond the scope of most rugged gear. The problem I see here is that in these types of environments it will be very difficult to operate any type of machine requiring ventilation. If an air current can penetrate the gear, it is more than likely that fine contaminates will penetrate the gear. I'm not aware of any surfaces that are permeable by gas but not microscopic contaminate without a dramatic filter system. I think the solution(long term) that you might look at will be to use a portable "safe room" on the cheap. Setting up a safe environment will take extra time, and training, but what you might save in hardware and productivity may justify the cost. I guess it might largely depend on the steps to interface with machines(stairs, narrow walkways, tarzan ropes) however I could envision a reusable portable sterile room. I imagine that hardware users are probably a HUGE part of why micro contaminates enter the hardware, since they are on every inch of a user long before they penetrate the hardware, the more a "dirty" user touches of interfaces with hardware components, the worse it gets. This seems deeper than a simple manufactured solution.
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DragonFly 2.4 Released 73

electrostaticcarrot writes "DragonFly — that fourth major BSD — has had its 2.4 release. The 'most invasive change' is the addition and usage of a DevFS for /dev; building on this, drives are now also recognized by serial number (along with /etc/devtab for aliases) as listed in /dev/serno. This is also the first release with a x86-64 ISO, stable but with limited pkgsrc support. Other larger changes include a ported and feature-extended (with full hotplug and port multiplier support) AHCI driver (and SILI driver based on it) originally taken from OpenBSD, major NFS changes, and HAMMER updates. A pkgsrc GIT mirror has also been set up and put in use to make future pkgsrc updates quicker and smoother. Here are two of the mirrors."

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