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Comment Good backups and minimal access elevation (Score 1) 219

The best thing you can do is plan to mitigate any damage done. Of course this is easiest by not giving anyone any rights at all, but when you do have to give someone any kind of power try to wall them in as much as possible, so what damage they can do is very limited. Offsite backups that they dont have access to is best for recovery, especially if they have physical access to the site. I know some people will complain that treating everyone like a criminal will encourage destructive behaviour, but at the same time using smart/sane security precautions shouldnt scare away any reasonable people, and those who do react badly to being walled in probably arent the people you want on your site to begin with...

Comment Quality control? (Score 4, Insightful) 117

I was seriously considering picking one of these up as i tend to do a lot of low level fabrication (right up to casting noble and non-noble metals) and have yet to find a reasonable and quick method to fab plastics. However looking on the website and reading the review the quality of this product seems extremely questionable, not only did this one unit have 2 major issues within the first day of running (with a complex system like this not exactly a horrid start) but the company itself has a blog post on the front page about how its favorite customer service interaction was one in which the customer decided to fix all the problems on their unit themselves. So my first two impressions are that this unit will most likely be in a state of disrepair in between quick burts of usefulness? I'd rather just submit my renderings to online stores and pay the shipping, etc. simply for the lack of frustration. Now if they got these problems under control i'd have one tomorrow.

The Mathletes and the Miley Photoshop 555

Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton's essay this week is about "A Tennessee man is arrested for possessing a picture of Miley Cyrus's face superimposed on a nude woman's body. In a survey that I posted on the Web, a majority of respondents said the man violated the law -- except for respondents who say they were good at math in school, who as a group answered the survey differently from everyone else." Continue on to see how.

Comment Re:It's about time (Score 1) 289

Unfortunately the crowns you have gotten probably cost the same for the actual prep, but lab costs have gone way up. The majority of crowns have a large portion of and/or are completely gold. Look at the cost of gold in the last couple years and you'll see why lab costs have gone way way up.

Comment Politics... meh (Score 3, Informative) 338

I've done a lot of work out at chalk river with neutron diffraction, and talking to some of the people there apparently a lot of the "issues" are petty little things like signage for hot pipes, etc. The largest issue is back up generators for 2 key pumps, but in reality there are back up pumps with seperate power supplies that could take over in a worst case senario (not likely though). It all appears to be political gesturing as usual but unfortunately this time peoples lives are truly at stake. But then again considering the previous actions of the liberal party i'm truly not that suprised, just saddened that a grab for political power is so negatively affecting peoples lives world wide
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Hehe, life is funny sometimes... I just got into medschool, after finishing my BSc Hons. Chemistry, and being halfway done my PhD. This is on top of my Comp Sci degree. I think i'll have one of the most eclectic educations of anyone i've ever met, and at the same time its really sad because i wont use 1/100th of my education.

Comment Re:Consider the source: Louderbeck (Score 1) 610

Check out the last paragraph:

"In fact, I'm blaming the AAF for a wide-range of habits espoused by supposedly "creative people." I'll bet it's responsible for tattoos, piercings, and the wide-spread adoption of the phrase "no worries." In fact, I believe that most of today's societal ills can be either indirectly or directly attributed to Apple. Widespread hearing loss? Blame the iPod. Carpal tunnel? Blame the Newton. Upswing in hernias? That Infinite Loop idiot who decided to put a handle on the first iMac--and started the whole luggable trend. No, Boot Camp is just the latest diabolical piece of Steve Jobs's grand plan to dumb us down and mangle our bodies.
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So go ahead and Boot Camp if you must. But don't come running to me when your mind and body prematurely degenerate. I'll be smart, fit, and enjoying my real Windows computers, while you ooze slowly into the Pixar-Disney-ABC swamp of mindlessness. Chump."

I assume that he's trying to be funny here, but come on. How can anyone take this guy seriously?

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