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  1. Re:Er... IMAP perhaps? on Advocacy Group For the Blind Slams Google Apps · · Score: 1

    Look at the comments above about how schools are using single sign on so the students don't have a password to access the docs, calendar and mail through anything other than the browser.

  2. Re:Disabled people on Advocacy Group For the Blind Slams Google Apps · · Score: 4, Informative

    that sounds like the schools problem, not google's

    Hence the reason NFB has asked the DOJ to investigate New York University and Northwestern University.

  3. Re:tagging is fine on Court Rules It's Ok To Tag Pics On Facebook Without Permission · · Score: 1

    First of all, its not illegal to *take* the picture, except in a very few jurisdictions. Publishing the picture is a different story. But even then, only a few jurisdictions have taken the interpretation you suggest. They only rule it illegal if the photo is sold to a stock agency, or published directly in a for profit article. Facebook/youtube don't count.

  4. Re:ATM's??? on $30 GPS Jammer Can Wreak Havok · · Score: 1

    The GPS is used to determine the exact time of the transaction. If the time of the transaction at the ATM and the time of the transaction at the Bank differ, then the transaction is refused. I'm not exactly sure why NTP would not be enough, but ATMs using GPS don't use it to find their location.

  5. $30 box from evil empire on $30 GPS Jammer Can Wreak Havok · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you bothered to read past the first page, you would have found out that the $30 box from the evil empire was shutting down Newark Airport twice a day because a truck driver was using it to defeat the toll transponder on the NJ Turnpike next door.

  6. Re:Police confiscating evidence is not news on Meth Dealer Faces Loss of His Comic Book Collection · · Score: 1

    Not confiscating evidence, seizing property. And nothing really unusual about it, even though he has not been found guilty of a crime. The US is one of the few jurisdictions in the world that allows the gov't to seize proceeds of crime before the person has been found guilty of a crime.

  7. Yet again.. on Canadian Songwriters Propose $10/mo Internet Fee · · Score: 1

    They propose this every year, and every year they get shot down.

  8. Re:Are La Grange points safe for satellites? on How To Build a Telescope That Trumps Hubble · · Score: 1

    Its not going to be at the actual L2 point, it is going to orbit the L2 point. True, other objects may also be orbiting the L2 point, but its a little less crowded staying slightly away.

  9. Re:The Mac version doesn't seem to be affected on Security Patch Breaks VMware Users' Windows Desktops · · Score: 1

    There are toasters and knives that run VMware view? Cool. Where can I get one?

  10. not this tired old argument again on Senators Bash ISP and Push Extensive Net Neutrality · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Your point requires that the consumer has choice. In many areas, there is only one or (sometimes two high) speed providers. You have to have the alternate choice before you can vote with your wallet.

  11. Re:iPad in the Workplace? on Microsoft's Approach To Battling the iPad In the Workplace · · Score: 1

    There are all sorts of applications with portability and vertical integration. Lawyers, for example, are using them in courtrooms during Jury voire dire, looking up Jury members facebook pages. There are places that are still using clipboards and paper where the iPad is being adopted. I know of several places in labs where the ipad are being used.

  12. https doesn't necessarily solve this on How Facebook Responded To Tunisian Hacks · · Score: 1

    Most security certificate only specifies the domain name of host. A reverse proxy and a DNS record giving the proxy as the address of the server on the certificate is the basis of the Pharming attack. https/ssh/etc require that you have a trustworthy translation from name to ipaddress. A corrupt ISP defeats it.

  13. O_EXCL Microphone. on Soundminder Android Trojan Hears Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    So why isn't access to the microphone mutually exclusive? If the phone is using the microphone for an ongoing conversation, then apps shouldn't be able to use it at the same time. I can understand having the the OS accessibility routines having concurrent access with an app, but when you are on an actual voice connection, that should probably be exclusive access. Similarly, applications like skype should also be able to request exclusive access to the microphone.

  14. Re:Easy on Once-Darling Ethanol Losing Friends In High Places · · Score: 1

    Yea right. We only get small cars when we can't afford the big ones. And none of the hippy but Europe does this nonsense.

    1-4 apply equally to Canada. However, in the average size of cars in Canada is a lot smaller than in the US. A lot of the smaller cars are more than capable of meeting those demands. The only real reason is point 5, which says a lot about the american Psyche.

  15. Re:"Hacking" on Is Reading Spouse's E-Mail a Crime? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I am going to guess that either her password was easy to guess, or that he used a keystroke logging program to learn it.

    from the TFA, the wife kept the passwords written down in a book beside the computer.

  16. Re:For Realz, Player? on Crookes, RIAA, MPAA, ICE — 'Linking Is Publishing' · · Score: 1

    You have to take their sitcoms, reality TV and facebook(i.e. bread and circuses) away from them. Lets face it, most people really don't care. A friend of mine who is also a sys admin showed me one of his biggest privacy risks: his sister that has over 10,000 "friends" on facebook. Anyone who asks gets friended.

  17. Re:For all of us? on The Woman Who's Making Your Privacy Her Business · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You first have to pass some privacy laws with teeth before someone like Ms. Stoddart can do her job.

  18. Re:Also the huge phones on Gentlemen Prefer Androids, Ladies iOS · · Score: 1

    But which has the strongest vibrator?

  19. Re:More likely ... on Gentlemen Prefer Androids, Ladies iOS · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But 28.6 vs 32.6 probably does, meaning men don't really have much of a preference.

  20. Re:What do they have to hide? on UK Asks News Outlets Not To Publish WikiLeaks Bombshell, US Prepares For Fallout · · Score: 1

    The US always acts in its own best interests. It never acts in the best interests of others.

    So explain the invasion of Iraq.

    Haliburton.

  21. Re:If you can't invent it... on Tandberg Attempts To Patent Open Source Code · · Score: 1

    I think you missed the point. The point wasn't that GPL code was committed. The workers in question took GPL code and removed the GPL notice and then submitted the code as if they had written it themselves (instead of surfing slashdot). How does your process prevent that? My only comment for the GP is how do they know that a local worker (non H1B) hasn't done the same thing yet and just hasn't gotten caught?.

  22. Re:Apple's response? on Sony Adopts Objective-C and GNUstep Frameworks · · Score: 1

    What IP? A particular implementation of a compiler and a trademark. You can't copyright a language, just like you can't copyright a recipe. If I take the language spec and independently implement a new compiler (like the gnu folks did) then there is no problem. In the US, you can patent some parts of an implementation, but any such patents on Objective C ran out a long time ago.

  23. Re:Apple's response? on Sony Adopts Objective-C and GNUstep Frameworks · · Score: 2, Informative

    Apple also owns the rights to Obj-C

    ???? Obj-C was created by Brad Cox in the early 80s. Next licensed the trademark from StepStone. GCC has had an objective C compiler in it (as described by Cox) since the early 90s. As it is, the compiler used by Apple is the GCC compiler with some extra features such as properties (which have been released as gpl and are available for download from apples website). With the exception of trademarks and patents on an implementation, you can't own a language. Anyone can build a compiler for the same language with a different name (with exception of patented parts of implementation which is less certain with Bilski).

  24. See the light? on Kernel Tracing With LTTng On Ubuntu Maverick · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe I'm reading slashdot too early on a weekend morning, but I find the last statement of the summary particularly offensive. It seems like everyone who has some sort of kernel widget wants a PR campaign to get it included in the mainline. How about you finish your Ph. D. first and provide some convincing evidence as to why every single person running Linux has to have the tool? The trace tools are available as a package for anyone who wants them now. Why should the mainline be burdened with maintaining the package unless a significant number of users need it?

  25. Re:That's not typical on The Placebo Effect Not Just On Drugs · · Score: 1

    Actually it is typical. What I'm talking about is when the key is used. You will see that the key has several positions, and usually two of them are marked 'normal' and 'service'. In most elevators, especially those in apartment buildings, the key can be removed when turned to service or normal mode. When moving, you ask the super to put one of the elevators in service mode (he then takes the key with him). Then the elevator keeps the doors open so you can move furniture in and out of the elevator. You then have to hold the close button until the doors close the entire way. If you let go before the doors completely close, they open again. Once the doors are closed you can pick a destination floor. I've helped many friends move in and out of quite a few different apartment buildings in three different cities. They all work the same way.