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  1. Re:"So is her career dependent on lies?" on Actress Sues IMDb For Revealing Her Age · · Score: 1

    The fact that part of that labyrinth is very strict guidelines of what is a contractor and what is an employee*.

    * Note I *have* gone through the process of having the IRS look into this and insist that a (former) employer re-classify me as an employee and therefore become responsible for a large chunk of the taxes.

  2. Re:Prediction on Actress Sues IMDb For Revealing Her Age · · Score: 1

    Or even Barbra?

  3. ProxyDroid? on Ask Slashdot: Which Android Phone (and Carrier) For WiFi Proxy Support? · · Score: 2

    Well, lots of people have addressed tethering. If you mean using a wifi hotspot that requires a proxy to actually connect to the outside world (think corporate environment here), then I've had real good luck with ProxyDroid from the market. It requires root, but that wasn't an issue for me anyway.

  4. Re:Easy solution... on Calif. Appeals Court Approves Cell Phone Searches · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure the phrase "white guy" is a reference to race. I could be wrong. It might be a reference to a 90's hair-band, but I'd expect something about snakes then.

  5. Re:No more Windows upgrades? on How Microsoft Can Lock Linux Off Windows 8 PCs · · Score: 1

    No, probably the opposite. You won't be able to boot your old version once "they" have decided it should be upgraded*.

    *Order now! Only $99.

  6. Re:fuck on ToS Violations No Longer a Crime (On Their Own) · · Score: 1

    Um. Depends on what computer and the consequences of tampering. That is, after all, the point of the original, existing law that may be being amended here.

  7. Re:Problem on Details About Raspberry Pi Foundation's $25 PC · · Score: 1

    (I happen to have 2 GB of swap, can't remember why).

    Because you're on BSD and it can do that without puking?

  8. Re:Why is this surprising? on New USB 3.0 Flash Drive Has 2 TB of Storage · · Score: 1

    More likely a typo. The largest MicroSDs I've seen are at 64GB right now.

  9. Re:IR LED? on Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That is only a matter of time. States like this didn't outlaw radar-detectors before they impeded the revenue stream.

  10. Re:The actual location on Google Maps on Sheikh Carves His Name In Desert So It's Visible From Space · · Score: 1

    He really should have gone to the trouble to do it right-side-up.

    BTW, if you zoom out a few steps, you can see a work-in-progress version. It's a little clearer on the US version of gmaps.

  11. Re:2011 - 1991 = 20. on After a Decade, Mac Sales Again Top 10% · · Score: 1

    Well, that depends on when in 1991 they were at that level, now doesn't it. If that was 1Q1991, then it's been more than two decades.

    Further, in common usage, "after a decade" implies "ten years later", not "more than ten years later".

  12. Re:I like Cygwin better on PuTTY 0.61 Released · · Score: 1

    Why would they bother to port/package it?

    I've watched the Windows users at work deal with it, and it looks like it's a royal pain, compared to Cygwin+Cygwin-X that I use on the same platforms. It doesn't seem like it's very well integrated into the Windows clipboard, and, at least the version they're using doesn't work with the keyboard shortcuts neatly, either. Maybe they just don't use it well.

    For example, with Cygwin, I can highlight and paste with a middle-click, just as on X-Windows, if I'm using an xterm or other X client application; the highlight also populates the Windows clipboard, so I can paste into an Outlook email, for example, using either the Windows application menu edit-paste or the standard keyboard shortcut (CTRL-v).

    On a Linux box, I have at least one telnet client, an ssh client (and server, if I want it), various FTP client choices, and xterms, so what would PuTTY bring to the table? 'Bout the only thing missing on most modern distributions is a default xterm readily available in the menu-customization system.

    Actually, correct, UNIX-style handling of the clipboard is one of the single best features of PuTTY. Ctrl-V has had a very different meaning in the shell (and vi and ...) much longer than it has had any meaning on a "Pee-Cee". I'd be *very* annoyed if I lost the (in-context) correct meaning of Ctrl-V.

    Shift-Insert, copy-on-select. These make sense in a shell-context. I don't have a mouse cursor, and don't want one, within a shell. So, copy-on-select makes sense. I'd never select text and hit paste, like in a windowed environment.

  13. Re:Media Companies on Media Companies Create Copyright Enforcement Framework · · Score: 1

    Um, from your link "a leader in the entertainment and communications industry"

  14. Re:Make the best browser on Firefox Is For "Regular" Users, Not Businesses · · Score: 1

    +1

  15. Re:Make the best browser on Firefox Is For "Regular" Users, Not Businesses · · Score: 1

    You might want to look into the large-sized companies then. 15,000 users is mid-sized.

    Companies with 100,000 or more users, often have some very funky in-house applications that they rely on.

  16. How about QB64 on Learning Programming In a Post-BASIC World · · Score: 2

    A teenager I'm acquainted with has been geeking-out with http://www.qb64.net/ for several years. It seems to fill the niche that C-64 BASIC did for me and MS-BASIC and QBasic did for slightly younger geeks.

  17. Re:Please hurry on US House Takes Up Major Overhaul of Patent System · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that Asia already has this market wrapped-up pretty tightly.

  18. Re:Title on Android App Quality Pathetically Low Says Developer · · Score: 1

    Android App Quality Pathetically Low SaysDeveloper

    Title Quality Pathetically Low, SaysCommenter.

    FTFY

  19. Re:Statute of Limitations? on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Scrub Pirated Music From My Collection? · · Score: 1

    IANAL, nor do I play one anywhere, but it is my understanding that statute-of-limitations only applies to criminal charges. Most (all?) of the RIAA attacks have been civil suits.

  20. Re:The cloud is secure - if treated correctly on Open Source Alternative To Dropbox? · · Score: 1

    Dropbox is secure...

    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.... ...
    hahahhahahaahahahahahah
    If anyone here knew how unsecured your data is (unless it has been encrypted outside of their setup), no one would ever use it.

    Wow!!! That is a really impressive job at taking something out of context.

    For those too lazy to look, GP said:

    Dropbox is secure - just use PGP to encrypt everything you put up there, and decrypt it upon arrival at your host machine. I suppose that would require a jail-broken Android, but that's not all bad...

  21. Re:Who needs privacy when you've got PHP? on How To Write Like Mark Zuckerberg · · Score: 1

    He did specify that he was talking about groups that made money off their invasion of privacy. Lot's of people may make money off of the government's efforts at privacy-erosion, but they aren't the government itself.

  22. Re:first order of business on 35% Use Mobile Apps Before Getting Out of Bed · · Score: 1

    Nah! That feeling usually doesn't hit till after you get out from under the covers and the cold hits.

  23. Re:When infant children scream you out of bed... on 35% Use Mobile Apps Before Getting Out of Bed · · Score: 1

    A couple basic assumptions* and some simple arithmetic** says it's about 2.5%.

    * These are probably horrible assumptions, but hey I'm not even getting paid to do this analysis.
          Average lifespan: 80-years
          Duration a newborn is likely to do this: 1 year
          Average household size: 2

    ** (1/80) * 2

  24. Re:WTF on 35% Use Mobile Apps Before Getting Out of Bed · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing you're new here, despite the low ID.

  25. Re:yeah okay on I Like My IT Budget Tight and My Developers Stupid · · Score: 2

    Um. Do you not know where your iGadget was made?