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  1. Re:Come again? on The Personal Genome Project Hits the Web · · Score: 1

    Maybe GP lives in Canada, or France, or Cuba, or...

  2. Re:Government sanctioned theft. on TSA Employee Caught With $200K Worth of Stolen Property · · Score: 1

    Close, actually the network that broadcasts the pictures to millions of people is the "WMD".

  3. Re:Government sanctioned theft. on TSA Employee Caught With $200K Worth of Stolen Property · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How appropriate. Cameras ARE weapons. The pen being mightier than the sword and the picture worth 1000 words.

  4. Re:CAPTCHAs kick-start Singularity on Now Even Photo CAPTCHAs Have Been Cracked · · Score: 1
  5. Re:tsk tsk on Online Community For a Call Center? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So a good angle to pitch to upper management might be that it will help with retention.

  6. Re:"Search engine"? on YouTube Passes Yahoo As #2 Search Engine · · Score: 1

    The point thus stands that this is pretty damn spectacular that Youtube which is only searching a small subset of data is being used more than Yahoo which is used to access in theory the same or a similar scope to Google, ie the internet.

    Well said.

  7. Re:The dark side (tm) on Getting Paid To Abandon an Open Source Project? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Or his negotiation strategy could be to simply point them here and say, "You'll have to come up with a better offer."

  8. Re:Sell out if you want but don't sell out cheap on Getting Paid To Abandon an Open Source Project? · · Score: 1

    Did they go and change the timeline on me? I thought the world was scheduled to end in 2012.

  9. Re:Biased view of the world have we? on Report Says China Will Demand Source Code · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Biased view of the world have we? on Report Says China Will Demand Source Code · · Score: 1

    try adding "high seas" to your search terms

  11. Re:I disagree on IT Workers Cushioned From US Economic Downturn · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the trust issues involved with keeping your data on other people's servers.

  12. Re:Convenience is the key on Mozilla Nixes Firefox EULA Requirement · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Convenience is just one factor among many. Convenience does not explain why anyone would switch to Firefox over from Internet Explorer.

  13. Re:Seriously? on 10 Percent of Colleges Check Applicants' Social Profiles · · Score: 1

    If the people who control who gets in were the same people who teach the classes you would have a point there.

  14. Re:So... on 10 Percent of Colleges Check Applicants' Social Profiles · · Score: 1

    or 12% benefited and 50% were not affected. or maybe 0% benefited and 62% were not affected.

  15. Re:I'd turn the college down on 10 Percent of Colleges Check Applicants' Social Profiles · · Score: 1

    That's easy enough to say when it's a small portion of schools that are doing it. The problem is things like this tend to become standard practice after a while. I wouldn't want to work for a company that collects social security numbers prior to extending a job offer. Just go elsewhere if you don't like it can leave you with no place to go.

  16. Re:Maybe I'm just old... on 10 Percent of Colleges Check Applicants' Social Profiles · · Score: 1

    A lot of people who write open source code put their real names on it.

  17. Re:Google & guns on Google's Floating Datahaven · · Score: 1

    cuz y'know being attacked by pirates isn't at all dangerous

  18. Re:Off-Topic on Why Is the Internet So Infuriatingly Slow? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I don't consider the submitters homepage to be part of the submission. Anti Globalism's relationship to corrupt.org has nothing to do with why the internet is so slow. Ad hominem = off-topic.

    Your post made it seem as if the fine editors here at slashdot were routinely posting stories linked to articles on corrupt.org. So what you're actually advocating is blanket censorship of an individual because they belong to a group that you don't approve of? Good show sir! Lets go down that road.

    From corrupt.org

    Ethnic self-determination Each local culture is tied to a group by heritage, and no two groups can exist in the same place. For this reason, local cultures can decide who or who not to accept on any basis they desire, including heritage and culture. We believe this will prevent the crass and destructive racism that is a consequence of two or more populations competing for cultural and economic dominance in the same area.

  19. P2P always gets blamed but... on Why Is the Internet So Infuriatingly Slow? · · Score: 1

    someone please explain to me the difference in bandwidth usage between downloading an mp3 from a p2p network and downloading an mp3 from iTunes. It seems to me either one would use less bandwidth than streaming the same song many times from an internet radio station.

  20. Off-Topic on Why Is the Internet So Infuriatingly Slow? · · Score: 1

    In this case the submission links to slate.com. I think you should check your facts before posting boilerplate personal attacks.

  21. Re:How much more of this until browsers adapt? on Russia and Georgia Engaged In a Cyberwar · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at here. If you know the IP address you're trying to reach, you can just type the IP into the address bar.

  22. Re:Propaganda? on Russia and Georgia Engaged In a Cyberwar · · Score: 1

    You need to be more specific on step 3 there Mr. AC. Sure Blackwater/KBR/Haliburton have profited. America as a whole has not profited.

  23. Re:Convenience vs security vs stupidity ... on Moving Beyond Passwords For Security · · Score: 1

    What is your mother's maiden name?
    A: Smith
    B: Jones
    C: 1
    D: Hernandez

  24. Re:Yes, we know. on Moving Beyond Passwords For Security · · Score: 1

    Single point of failure does not mean there is only one place where anything could possibly go wrong, it means if something goes wrong in that place your entire organization is completely hosed.

  25. Re:A more interesting study on Medical Consultations With Webcams Extremely Successful · · Score: 1

    overall my guess is that patients who do a fairly decent search on the Internet AND have some sort of defineable symptom or problem (rather than "I don't feel so good") is about 50-75%.

    so is that better or worse than the doctors' success rate under similar conditions?