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  1. Non-repairable devices are fine... on Surface Pro: 'Virtually Unrepairable' · · Score: 1

    ...as long as they don't ever break.

  2. Re:Die Flash, Die on New Adobe Flash Vulnerabilities Being Actively Exploited On Windows and OS X · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually no. Although the term shares its origin with the ethnonym "Deutsch", in the local dialect of English spoken there, it's "Pennsylvania Dutch". Not idiots. Just not speaking your idiolect.

  3. Re:I have a better name for that... on UK Researchers Build Micron LED Light Based Wireless Network · · Score: 1

    Correspondingly the best name for this would be "FLAN" ("Fiberless LAN").

    So early adopters will be Mexican restaurants?

  4. Re:Need for speed! on Mozilla To Enable Click-To-Play For All Firefox Plugins By Default · · Score: 1

    Let me guess, your need for speed is so you can get first posts...

  5. Obligatory... Re:Brilliant idea on Google Declares War On the Password · · Score: 1

    The best feature of the password is that it's in your head.

    Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/538/

  6. Re:Seriously? on Dad Hires In-Game 'Assassins' To Get His Son To Stop Gaming · · Score: 1

    I think I did get your initial point. I should have guessed that there was more going on than just preoccupation with a Facebook game. Sorry if my humor was offensive.

  7. Lake Michigan... on Slashdot Asks: What would you like to see at CES? · · Score: 1

    ...through the windows of McCormick Place. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Show#History

  8. Re:Seriously? on Dad Hires In-Game 'Assassins' To Get His Son To Stop Gaming · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think you and your wife should prepare for the eventuality of your daughter kicking you both out. She sounds like the responsible adult in the house (though she probably could use a cooking course).

  9. Re:You don't on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Explain To a Coworker That He Writes Bad Code? · · Score: 1

    Probably, unfortunately correct. Also incomplete. After S-ing the FU as suggested, dust off your resume and start looking elsewhere. If The company's existing management and quality procedures haven't detected and addressed this issue, they probably won't ever. You'll be better off at a different job.

  10. Re:These are tech schools?? on Best Tech Colleges Are Harder Than Ever To Get In · · Score: 1

    Hard to decide whether to mod up insightful or reply... I notice that among your list, all but Cornell are public; among the list in the article, all but Georgia Tech are private.

  11. So when we do discover life on Mars... on Mars-Like Conditions Sufficient to Sustain Earth-Bound Microbes · · Score: 1

    It might just be the descendents of a Russian Sneeze: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1109488/

  12. Re:Wasnt there supposed to be some law passed... on Apple Kills a Kickstarter Project - Updated · · Score: 1

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there going to be some sort of legislature dictating that cell phone makers use a universal charging standard by this point? Everyone else has managed micro usb, why is it so hard for apple?

    I remember hearing about a law like that being passed... IN CHINA.

  13. Re:What about YouTube? on Why The Hobbit's 48fps Is a Good Thing · · Score: 1

    right now everything gets transcoded to 24fps which is absolutely terrible if you're uploading gaming footage with single frame flash effects

    Don't worry. Nobody actually watches the gaming footage posted to YouTube.

  14. Re:Metric system, please on Cassini Discovers First River On Another World · · Score: 1

    This is a press release intended for the general public.

    Ordinarily I would agree with you. Fahrenheit was intended to relate to the physical realm that humans experience: 0 is about the temperature of freezing seawater and 100 is about the temperature of the human body. In this case though, the temperature is well below what the general public has direct knowledge of. It should have been listed in K first, with F in parentheses just so the US general public reader would get that it's way colder than anything ever measured on Earth.

  15. Re:Terrorist! on NCTC Gets Vast Powers To Spy On U.S. Citizens · · Score: 1

    Look up NCTC on Wikipedia? Terrorist!!! The first rule of counterterrorism is...

  16. Re:And? on Chinese Firm Wins Bid For US-Backed Battery Maker · · Score: 4, Insightful

    all the IP will go to the Chinese.

    At least this time we got them to pay for it.

    But who receives payment of the auction proceeds? I'm guessing it won't be the people who put up the $249 recovery funds.

  17. Real reason for the rule? on FCC Chief Urges FAA To Ease Airplane Electronics Ban · · Score: 1

    I always figured the idea was that enforcing a silly rule would agitate the people who were generally likely to make trouble, and get them thrown off the plane before it was in the air.

  18. Re:and then again how long are US bills and laws? on Adobe EULA Demands 7000 Years a Day From Humankind · · Score: 1
    I guess there is Cheek v. United states:

    The Court held that an actual good-faith belief that one is not violating the tax law, based on a misunderstanding caused by the complexity of the tax law, negates willfulness, even if that belief is irrational or unreasonable.

  19. Re:and then again how long are US bills and laws? on Adobe EULA Demands 7000 Years a Day From Humankind · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ignorantia juris non excusat

  20. Re:AAARRRRGHHH on NASA To Encrypt All of Its Laptops · · Score: 1

    Planning is great and rules are great, but you need to be ready for the inevitable cases when plans are not followed and rules are broken.

  21. Re:Herp Derp... why wait so long?! on NASA To Encrypt All of Its Laptops · · Score: 1

    At my 6,000-person employer, all laptops have required endpoint encryption for several years now. The reason it became necessary? To comply with federal regulations for contractors. We couldn't work on NASA (or FEMA or EPA) projects without it.

  22. Silophone on Mike Storey and His Plate Reverb (Video) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    For free, you can send your sounds into a grain silo in Quebec for reverberation: http://www.silophone.net/ Unfortunately, this project is so old it uses RealAudio.

  23. Re:What a fuckup on Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System · · Score: 1

    Healthcare is always strapped for cash...

    Huh, must be a British thing.

    That's what I was thinking. Around here, healthcare spends as much as possible to keep their "non-profit" status.

  24. Re:1000 times bigger than Mega? on Gabon Suspends Me.ga Domain, Dotcom Says "We Have Alternative Domain" · · Score: 1

    We just need some civil war somewhere in the world to result in a new country whose TLD is .ra (for te.ra), .ta (for pe.ta, zet.ta or yot.ta), or .xa (for e.xa). Of course PETA might register pe.ta sooner.

  25. Redundancy (Re:Find someone to help) on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Become a Rural ISP? · · Score: 1

    I think the "get help" concept should framed in terms of redundancy. All the people involved need to be "good enough" at all the tasks to make do in a pinch, since people get sick, take vacation, and (according to the question) work other jobs.