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  1. Signature not required on Credit Card Chips Have Failed to Halt Fraud (So Far) (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    It appears that none of the major cards are requiring signatures any more:
    https://www.creditcards.com/cr...

    So instead of Chip+Signature, it's just Chip vs. Chip+PIN.

  2. Obligatory reference on Tiny Twitter Thumbnail Tweaked To Transport Different File Types (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 0
  3. Re:Paint over on New Scanning Technique Reveals Secrets Behind Great Paintings (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Other sources, like this article
    https://news.nationalgeographi...
    have more images.

  4. Re:They should be called something else on San Diego Comic-Con Wins Trademark Suit Against 'Salt Lake Comic Con' (deseretnews.com) · · Score: 2

    You're off by a few decades. Per Wikipedia, Def Con started in 1993. The San Diego Comic Con goes back to 1970, but didn't use "Con" initially.

    Dictionary.com indicates that using "con" for convention dates to 1940-45.
    Possibly Phillycon (1940), a science fiction convention.

  5. Re:Smeg on 28 Years A Smeghead: Red Dwarf Is Coming Back (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    We want no muffins, no toast, no tea cakes, no buns, baps, baguettes, or bagels, no croissants, no crumpets, no pancakes, no potato cakes, and no hot cross buns, and definetely, no smeggin' flapjacks!

  6. Re:Wrong case for 4th amend, Customs can search on Homeland Security Border Agents Can Seize Your Phone (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The cited article is a little ambiguous. The author refers to a "DHS officer". At no point is "TSA" mentioned.
    The DHS includes both the TSA and US Customs, so it may very well have been a customs agent doing the searching.
    The photo in the article is of a US Customs document and refers to "CBP officers" (Customs & Border Protection).

  7. It's possible to create an AppleID without a credit card.
    https://support.apple.com/en-u...

  8. Re:Profit on FCC Fines Verizon For Failing To Investigate Rural Phone Problems · · Score: 1
    So actually, they have to do more than just cut a check. FCC Press release
    In its consent decree with the Enforcement Bureau, Verizon has agreed to:
    • Pay a fine of $2 million to the U.S. Treasury;
    • Commit an additional $3 million over the next three years to address the problem of rural call completion on a company and industry-wide basis;
    • Appoint a Rural Call Completion Ombudsman within Verizon to centralize analysis of rural call completion problems;
    • Develop a system to automatically identify customer complaints that may be related to rural call completion issues;
    • Limit its use of intermediate providers, i.e., telecommunications providers between the Verizon network and the local rural provider, that are often the source of call completion problems;
    • Monitor its call answer rates to individual rural areas and conduct an investigation when rates to an area fall below a set threshold in any month;
    • Host industry workshops and sponsor an academic study on methods to detect and resolve rural call completion problems;
    • Provide quarterly summaries of its investigations to the FCC and meet periodically with Commission staff to identify lessons learned; and
    • Prepare a report to be publicly filed with the Commission at the end of the three-year compliance period.
  9. Re:"Tastes about average for West Texas" on Texas Town Turns To Treated Sewage For Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    Agreed. It's sort of like saying "The water in NYC tatested about average for West Virginia"

  10. Re:36 million gallons? on Why Portland Should Have Kept Its Water, Urine and All · · Score: 2

    About 0.0000000000002 Pacific Oceans.
    Hope that helps.

  11. Re:Hmm on It Takes 2.99 Gigajoules To Vaporize a Human Body · · Score: 2

    Nonsense. 2.99GJ is simply 1.21GW over 2.47 seconds.

  12. Doxygen on Ask Slashdot: How To Start Reading Other's Code? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Even without Doxygen's specific format for comments, you can use it to graph object relationships, call-trees, etc.

    You can generate docs limited to a few files or classes if you just want to focus on them.

    www.doxygen.org

  13. Re:I'll be the first to say... on Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? · · Score: 1

    Dollar coins have been in circulation since 1794, predating the Carter administration.

  14. Not completely anonymous on EFF Challenges National Security Letter · · Score: 2
    In the Government's Reply in Support of Motion to Compel, it states that

    ... petitioner is a telephone company ...

  15. Marijuana vs. lung cancer on Testing for Many Designer Drugs At Once · · Score: 1, Troll

    Google results like this one?
    http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-teenage-mind/201102/does-marijuana-cause-cancer

    or this?
    http://lungcancer.about.com/od/causesoflungcance1/f/marijuana.htm

    At best, you can say that there are no definitive studies linking the two, but it appears that most combustibles emit carcinogens when burned.

    I'm not saying that's a reason to ban marijuana, but, like with tobacco, users should really make informed choices.

  16. The new math on Facebook Co-Founder Saverin Gives Up U.S. Citizenship Before IPO · · Score: 1

    In which 3.84 is 4% of 11.8.

  17. Re:DPI comparison? on iPad 3 Confirmed To Have 2048x1536 Screen Resolution · · Score: 2

    I'm not sure how you did your math, but I think 264 is the number you're looking for.

  18. Re:Expanding? on New Mexico Is Stretching, GPS Reveals · · Score: 1

    And by parallels, of course, I mean meridians.
    What is it with these 503 errors?

  19. Expanding? on New Mexico Is Stretching, GPS Reveals · · Score: 0

    the state is unquestionably expanding

    By definition, New Mexico lies between the 103 W and the 109 03' parallels (mostly). The only way New Mexico could be getting wider is if the earth's radius is increasing, pushing the meridians apart. Since Arizona is bounded on the west by primarily by rivers, maybe it's the one getting wider (or Arkansas!)

  20. This just in... on Taliban Seizes and Burns PCs, Cell Phones To Stop Obscenity · · Score: 1

    Leaflets used to spread obscenity.
    Burn all leaflets.

  21. Re:No, no, no on Hard Drive Prices Up 150% In Less Than Two Months · · Score: 1

    I bought a 3TB Deskstar for $130 on Sept 28. Current price is now $250.

    The current price is 192% of the old price.
    That's a price increase of 92%. Colloquially, the price is up 92%.

  22. Re:oh shit! on The Register Hacked · · Score: 1

    No â" just missing punctuation.
    So there. Credibility is lost.

  23. Re:Except That Is Completely Incorrect on Samsung Ordered To Hand Over Unreleased Designs To Apple · · Score: 1

    Shut your festering gob, you tit! Your type really makes me puke, you vacuous, coffee-nosed, maloderous, pervert!!!

  24. Re:Wanted: fake location info app on Share Your iPhone Location Data Like You Mean It · · Score: 1

    To what end? Maybe you want the Maps app to always locate you at the South Pole perhaps?

    What restaurants are nearby? None. Sounds like loads of fun to me.

  25. Re:So what fuel is needed on Mazda Claims 70 mpg For New Engine, No Hybrid Needed · · Score: 1

    In the U.S., at least, premium is nowhere near twice the cost of regular. http://www.fuelgaugereport.com/
    It's actually pretty similar to the cost of diesel, currently.