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  • On the post: An Actual D&D Effect: Inspiring Kids To Become Writers

    Jay Lahto ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2014 @ 11:50am

    D&D

    Nothing like a group of fringe kids staggering to 7-Eleven at 3am to refuel on caffeine and carbs. Challenging ourselves to play 24 or even 36 hours straight during summer vacations. Going through PTSD because you rolled 00 on 2x20 sided dice when you only need a 4 or more to save.

    And having to hide the whole thing because several of you were members of an evangelical church youth group.

    You just can't do those things now with mmorgs or even lan parties.

  • On the post: Supreme Court Uses The Bizarre 'Looks Like A Cable Duck' Test To Outlaw Aereo

    Jay Lahto ( profile ), 25 Jun, 2014 @ 01:09pm

    Sacred Bovines! I can't believe I actually agree with Justice Scalia.

    Hell, I might as well go subscribe to redstate now...

  • On the post: City Of London Police Claim That 'The Tor' Is 90% Of The Internet, And Is A Risk To Society

    Jay Lahto ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2014 @ 09:57pm

    Huh

    I always thought "Def" Leppard was a typo. Now I know it's a contraction for Adrian "Definitely off his rocker" Leppard.

  • On the post: IRS Claims Two Years Of Emails Were Destroyed In A 'Computer Crash;' Congressman Asks The NSA To Supply 'Missing' Email Metadata

    Jay Lahto ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2014 @ 02:55pm

    Re: Convenient partitioning

    I've seen this in real life.
    Imagine a corporate executive who feels the need to store all of his Exchange email in a .pst file, expressly against IT policy but he insists that he needs more than IT has allocated per mailbox...
    Now further imagine this nameless executive knows just enough about Windows and Outlook to be dangerous to himself and those around him. One night he's doing personal folder maintenance. He thinks he's archiving a certain account's emails with drag&drop operations to a pst file on a thumb drive. Then Mr. Wonderful deletes his junk mail, empties the Deleted Mail folder and runs the compact datafile tool. Several weeks later, he discovers,(duh) those emails never copied over and they're no longer recoverable. Now horrified exec even offers to pay out of pocket for DriveSavers, to no avail.

    Moral of the story: Never put anything beyond the ability of a human to mess up. They will prove you wrong, everytime.

  • On the post: Appeals Court Says Using Open WiFi May Be A Crime

    Jay Lahto ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2014 @ 09:32am

    Make Comcast Last?

    So, does this mean that all of Comcast's Xfinity WiFi customers are now committing a crime if they connect to another subscriber's WiFi through their Comcast provided equipment?
    Guess I'd better turn myself in; I connected to a neighbor's Xfinity AP (I don't know who)with my android phone using my Xfinity ID just to see if it worked.
    I hope they have internet access in the big house.

  • On the post: High School Principal Cancels Entire Reading Program To Stop Students From Reading Cory Doctorow's 'Little Brother'

    Jay Lahto ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2014 @ 02:41pm

    Re: Wait...

    You better be careful.

    This is Florida after all. The principal is allowed to stand his ground.

  • On the post: California City Achieves New Lows In Anti-Bullying Laws, Makes Public Entirely Subject To Other People's 'Feelings'

    Jay Lahto ( profile ), 05 May, 2014 @ 12:57pm

    Bullying Bad, Sex Good?

    So this is the same Carson, California that had a Child Development Center sued for allowing it's young charges to perform oral sex on each other?
    http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/07/health/church-preschool-child-development/
    So add this to what Bell did and I can't wait to see if Diamond Bar shows up next.