User: goffster

malware's bad ok?

On: Ask Slashdot: What To Tell Non-Tech Savvy Family About Malware?

Mom, pop, don't do malware. It's the opposite of goodware. So just say no.

Perhaps the best way to prevent such foolishness

On: Movie Studios Ask Google To Censor Links To Legal Copies of Their Own Films

Is simply to take it down as requested. Allow "Big Content" to face the real consequences of their actions.

Re:go right ahead as long as...

On: Supreme Court Blocks Illinois Law Against Recording Police

I did not say "don't do it". I did state the known likely consequences.

Re:go right ahead as long as...

On: Supreme Court Blocks Illinois Law Against Recording Police

I did not say "don't do it". I did state the known likely consequences.

go right ahead as long as...

On: Supreme Court Blocks Illinois Law Against Recording Police

You don't mind getting roughed up a little and sitting in jail for an
evening on trumped up charges and then paying for a lawyer to
eventually dismiss your charges for which you file a complaint that
is ultimately ignored.

Re:Here's the best bit in the article right here;

On: Texas Schools Using Electronic Chips To Track Students; Parents In Uproar

"i.e" is latin for "in other words"
"e.g." is latin for "for example"
So, I misused the term. I meant to use "e.g."

What i am trying to say is that
religious beliefs do not supersede the law
and could not be used as a defense in
a trial.

depends on what you want

On: Faculty To Grad Students: Go Work 80-Hour Weeks!

Great discoveries rarely come from those who do not
live for their work.

Re:Here's the best bit in the article right here;

On: Texas Schools Using Electronic Chips To Track Students; Parents In Uproar

what?

"i.e." Roughly means "for example"

When i said "My mom ...." it was an example of
someone using a non-legal argument for not having to
go to school. I am not saying my mom, personally,
has forbidden me to go to school.

Re:Here's the best bit in the article right here;

On: Texas Schools Using Electronic Chips To Track Students; Parents In Uproar

Religious rights end when they violate the law.

i.e. My mom says I can't go to school since
my family's religion is base on the Taliban.

while this may sound ludricous...

On: The Text Message Typo That Landed a Man In Jail

If I was cleaning my gun, and it went off and killed someone,
I can expect harsh consequences.
I should have exercised more care.

If you are asking for sex, you better well be double/triple checking
that To: field.

Better yet, a phone call or flowers would have been better for any
number of reasons. :)

this was, of course, a stupid clause

On: Microsoft Pollutes To Avoid Fines

Simply stating "Your minimum electric bill shall be x" would have made everyone happy.

example exchange

On: Spoken Commands Crash Bank Phone Lines

are em minus f slash root
Permission Denied
sudo are em minus f slash root
no home directory

Re:Can someone explain...

On: Solid State Quantum Computer Finds 15=3x5 — 48% of the Time

An algorithm that could factor a 4096 bit number even 10%
of the time would be enough to consider 4096 key as completely unsafe
for cryptography.

It is easy enough to verify the result.

Seriously?

On: DOJ Says iPhone Is So Secure They Can't Crack It

If you wanted to snoop on cell phones, would you advertise which cell phones
you really could not crack?

The ipad mini too heavy?

On: How Will Amazon, Barnes & Noble Survive the iPad Mini?

The ipad mini will have to be a *lot* lighter.
If they are to compete with kindle they will have to sacrifice much
of the ipad experience unless they have some slam dunk
power consumption strategies/hardware that allow for a much lighter battery.

it must have a *really* fast boot time

On: World's Most Powerful x86 Supercomputer Boots Up in Germany

with all those cpus. :)

You are all adults

On: Ask Slashdot: Preempting Sexual Harassment In the Workplace?

How about simply laying down the law. Dressing it in funny stuff cheapens the message.

Re:but it's never been seen in the wild

On: New Mac Trojan Installs Silently, No Password Required

This is Microsoft's stock answer.

This was Nikolai Tesla's dream

On: Wireless Car Charger Test Starts In London

He wanted to supply household current via tesla coils.
But Westinghouse asked "Where do you put the electric meters" ?

i might be asking the obvious, but here goes....

On: Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids?

If the child's education is suffering at home, why is he being home educated ?

Re:Assuming this is correct, how'd she die?

On: New Evidence Indicates Amelia Earhart Survived For a Time on Pacific Atoll

The particular island she landed is noted for an extremely poor supply of freshwater.
People have tried to live on this island but failed because water was not at all reliable.

Well, uh, that's the point.

On: Cost of Pre-Screening All YouTube Content: US$37 Billion

RIAA/MPAA already know full well this is prohibitively expensive.
They simply want public digital dissemination to be gone.

risk of death still 100%

On: NIH Study Finds That Coffee Drinkers Have Lower Risk of Death

last i checked

Hence, test was done in Mexico?

On: Discovery Channel Crashes a Boeing 727 For Science Documentary (latimes.com)

No FAA there.

Are you sure?

On: China Plans National, Unified CPU Architecture

Back when we had all sorts of different screws and nuts and bolts with no standardization,
there was always some reason why one particular brand was superior in one way.

But if they never standardized, we would likely now be paying $5/screw
instead of 5 cents/screw.