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  1. 10 years, No Computers Sufficient on Life Sentences For Serious Cyberattacks Proposed In Britain · · Score: 1

    10 years and no computer access should be sufficient, they would be mostly harmless by then with technology advancing

    But other crimes for injury and death could be added on instead of just a blank life sentence.

  2. A Tax Professional's Dream on MIT Bitcoin Project To Create Cryptocurrency Ecosystem, Give $100 Per Student · · Score: 1

    Well just make sure to save all your receipts for that $3 latte or whatever else you buy for 7 years along with hire a tax professional to figure everything out since you are paying with property that will have capitol gains/losses.

  3. Pennsylvania's wiretapping laws does not cover oral communications when the speakers do not have an "expectation that such communication is not subject to interception under circumstances justifying such expectation."

    So this is just an abusive school district and local police department along with a Magistrate.

  4. Smart Cars = HiTech ??? on Smart Car Tipping Trending In San Francisco · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Considering a Smart Car is like 12k, gets good gas mileage, and is easy to street park in the city how in the world does this equal HiTech? HiTech workers definitely make enough to afford more spacious and expensive cars along with garage parking.

    Is this another example of terrible Slashdot editorial comments distorting original story to "make news" as this alternative theory is not in the original source?
    http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/...

  5. Re:Why not put them out in schools ? on Stanford Bioengineer Develops a 50-cent Paper Microscope · · Score: 5, Informative

    but what about the potential benefit in schools ?

    The kids do love them. And can assemble them by themselves.

    I'm a Stanford PhD student and for an outreach organization Science Bus we actually worked with 2-5th graders locally to each build their own microscope to keep. The Foldscope works well and actually found the projection ability great in the classroom so that multiple students can see the same thing at once.

  6. Slashdot (Beta)* Nuke Option - Email CEO on Customer: Dell Denies Speaker Repair Under Warranty, Blames VLC · · Score: 0

    1. Email CEO of Dell, Michael Dell (Michael@dell.com) with your problems with customer service. Link to Slashdot articles

    2. Have Slashdot email CEO, crash email server?

    * Mention beta to get troll comments and/or everyone's attention

  7. Re:Small Claims + Other Options on Customer: Dell Denies Speaker Repair Under Warranty, Blames VLC · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ask Dell what the cost of the repairs are then fill in small claims court for that amount.

    Some other things you might do are:
    1. Complain to BBB
    2. Talk to your credit card company you have have additional warranty service under them.
    3. Email CEO. michael@dell.com & link to Slashdot story

    4. Nuke option. Have Slashdot email CEO michael@dell.com
    (Would we crash their email server?)

  8. Flash Cards on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Improve My Memory For Study? · · Score: 1

    I found using flash cards can be really helpful both for memory and for speed. Also because each unit is small it forces you to keep on task which might help for the time dilation. For the mac I like iFlash, bit dated but works well.

  9. Storage Non-Problem - Sequences Compresses to MBs on The DNA Data Deluge · · Score: 5, Informative

    Storage is not the problem. Computational power is.

    Each genetic sequence is ~3GB but since sequences between individuals are very similar it is possible to compress them by only recording the differences from a reference sequences making each genome ~20 MB. This means you could store a sequences for everybody in the world in ~132 PB or 0.05% or total worldwide data storage (295 exabytes)

    Now the real challenge is more in having enough computational power to read and process the 3 billion letters genetic sequence and designing effective algorithms to process this data.

    More info on compression of genomic sequences
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3074166/

  10. Do Not Track Fashion Line on Google Glass Will Identify People By Clothing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Do not track option for clothing. Coming soon

  11. Re:Amazon is Giving Refunds to Opened/Installed Ga on In Wake of Poor Reviews, Amazon Yanks SimCity Download · · Score: 5, Informative

    EA ruins game. Amazon saves day.

    I did this. Amazon was great. Return/refund is the only way EA will ever take a hint.

    I suggest:
    1. If you bought from Amazon return it. Amazon made it painless for full refund of my opened game.
    2. If bought from Orgin ask for refund. EA says in press release you can do this. Though I hear problems from customer service
    3. If you cannot get refund from Orgin/EA call credit card company and have them stop payment for defective product.

    Maybe EA will fix if this hurts their bottom line?

    If problems get fixed in a month or so you can always buy the game again. Otherwise not worth my time now to play with so many problems

  12. Apple=Evil on HTC Defeats Apple In Slide-To-Unlock Patent Dispute · · Score: 0

    Everybody knows it.
    Apple evangelist only qualify it as less* evil.

    Most of Apples Patents are hogwash in that most individual features were already present somewhere else before they put together in a device by apple. Don't take me wrong taking the best parts from a wide array of devices and assembling them into a single product takes a lot of skill.

    And really most of apples cutting edge features are invented by others but solely available from apple because they have the capital to buy an entire supply chain for a new product to delay others from making use of the new technology.

    So now that other companies have caught up and are turning out products that bet apple to market on new technology all Apple can do it go to court with their bogus patents to keep their monopoly.

  13. Easy enough fixed on Don't Forget: "Six Strikes" Starts This Weekend · · Score: 1

    1. Download legal stuff that trips their sensors and keep logs of all your files
    2. Sue for them cutting your access and as a monopolistic company being unfairly hurting consumers.
    3. Profit and open way for everybody else to sue so they cannot afford to ban people

  14. Why not face unlock plus pin on Samsung Galaxy S3 Face Unlock Tricked By Photograph · · Score: 1

    Since most pin/swipe patterns are limited in security why not combine face unlock with a pin. Add a little security without much hassle for user.

  15. Get a Mac - Use VoiceOver on Adjusting Your PC Set-Up To Cope With Sudden Sight Loss · · Score: 1

    OS X has a built in screen reader for those with visual impairments VoiceOver. The quality of this built-in software is better then expensive commercial software that needs to be added into Windows OS.

    I iPhones have the the same VoiceOver visual impairment feature. Heard it works well but no personal experience here.

  16. Physical Backup? on Ask Slashdot: Syncing Files With Remote Server While On the Road? · · Score: 1

    You never said why you wanted to upload the photos but I'm assuming its for backup.

    Why not go with physical backup. For 2 weeks at ~ 500 MB (2.5 MB/pic 200 pics) a day that a total of 7GB of photos. Easy to fit on a single memory card and just backup to your computer. If you are worried about loosing them memory cards are small enough to carry on person.

    If it is to share your photos with people I would say stop and only upload your good shoots for the day.

  17. The best defense I forgot on US Judge Rules Defendant Can Be Forced To Decrypt Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Judge it has been so long since I had to use my password to log in I cannot remember what it is.

  18. Anybody can Make an App and a Million Dollars... on "Learn To Code, Get a Job" According To CNN · · Score: 1

    ...with as much predictability as winning the lotto.

  19. True Use of Patent ... Where's my Drugs on Microsoft Patents Bad Neighborhood Detection · · Score: 1

    If you can avoid the neighborhood might just allow you to find them easier.

  20. XBOX 360 Name Reason... Why not XBOX 1080 on What Microsoft Should and Shouldn't Do For the Xbox 720 · · Score: 1

    So XBOX 360 is 360 since it is a revolution.

    The next XBOX should be XBOX 1080 since consumers are dumb and know 1080 is good from TVs

  21. Cheating is Prevalent at Stanford on Survey Finds Cheating Among Students At All GPA Levels · · Score: 1

    I can speak from my experience as a graduate student at Stanford who has TAed. Cheating among the undergrads is very prevalent and essentially impossible to prove. Stanford has a honor code and part of it is that during exams professors and TAs cannot be in the room to monitor the exam. The one person I know who has gotten caught cheating by resubmitting an exam for regrade and replacing several pages of the exam only got one quarter suspension (over the summer) and was still allowed to finish the class and receive a grade as if he never cheated.

  22. Now Just Waiting for the Precogs on Kinect For PCs Early Next Year, Microsoft Eyeing Business Apps · · Score: 1

    (Finally a test coming for my tin foil hat)

  23. Wrong Use of the Word Efficiency on Highly Efficient Oxygen Catalyst Found · · Score: 1

    The catalyst is highly active but not to be confused with efficiency.

    Ideally water oxidization would occur at 1.23 V vs RHE (higher is inefficient)
    IrO2 operates at low potentials but is less active
    (i.e. it requires more catalyst for the same amount of current)
    This is not a bad thing more efficient but less active.

  24. Re:What's the fixation with Carbon Dioxide? on Researchers Create Renewable Carbon Dioxide Sponge · · Score: 1

    everyone and their dog are all so fixated with carbon dioxide

    Oh the pun in killing me!

  25. Carbon Neutral* excluding waste streams on Researchers Create Renewable Carbon Dioxide Sponge · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I always love how processes that claim to be carbon neutral exclude the largest sources of waste such as reagents and solvents used in processing which are in excess to 1000x the product achieved.

    And yes while some of these can be recovered somewhat on an industrial scale their recovery is highly energy intensive process.