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  1. Re:Darwin awards on Australian Police Warn That Apple Maps Could Get Someone Killed · · Score: 1

    I live not too far from there. Those are some great riding roads but I never take more than a bottle of water (unless I plan to picnic) and quite often, I will *deliberately* get lost just to find some new curves. Definitely not wilderness.

  2. Re:Darwin awards on Australian Police Warn That Apple Maps Could Get Someone Killed · · Score: 1

    I was actually a little disappointed when I went to Australia. I went for a long walk and didn't see a single spider or snake. And we drove for thousands of miles and the only kangaroo we saw was in a zoo. I did think the Tasmanian Devil was pretty cool though.

  3. Re:Apple bashing on Australian Police Warn That Apple Maps Could Get Someone Killed · · Score: 3, Funny

    Slashdot reader warns that Slashdot's inability to edit posts could get someone killed.

  4. Memphis on US Nuclear Industry Plans "Rescue Wagon" To Avert Meltdowns · · Score: 1

    New Madrid fault, anyone?

  5. Re:The most entrenched know the most on Strong Climate Change Opinions Are Self-Reinforcing · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure either but I think Apple has a patent on rounded ones.

  6. Re:Who cares? on Strong Climate Change Opinions Are Self-Reinforcing · · Score: 1

    I think what you mean is "I need to buy more cold weather gear"

  7. Re:What are sick days? on Stay Home When You're Sick! · · Score: 1

    The paid thing doesn't even come into it. For a couple of jobs now, I've attempted to negotiate extra leave up-front for a corresponding (or even greater) reduction in compensation. Just couldn't get them to go for it. Current plan is just to let them know I'm going to be taking some unpaid leave when the time comes (request won't enter into it).

  8. Re:more likely... on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 1

    Pft. You're kidding, right. Many poor people would prefer a crappy MacDonalds meal (more like $15 or more when all's said and done) to a simple home-cooked meat-and-potatoes meal costing $6. Poor decisions are often why people are poor in the first place.

  9. Re:Congress Sucks on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 1

    Haha. No. The initial protocols and infrastructure were created by the government but much, if not the majority of the current infrastructure is privately owned.

  10. Re:Congress Sucks on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 1

    And governments get to build huge unaccountable bureaucracies that exist for their own sake and well beyond their useful lifetime and their workers get the benefits and bonuses even with piss-poor performance (often encouraged in certain government enclaves).

  11. Re:Congress Sucks on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 1

    Is it entitlement to make sure that our elders, after working their whole lives, are not just cast out onto the street to starve and die of disease?

    Yes it is. You might argue that it's justified but that's entitlement nonetheless.

  12. Re:Password Resets on Cops To Congress: We Need Logs of Americans' Text Messages · · Score: 1

    It is quite possibly encrypted point-to-point these days but likely goes through several points. End-to-end encryption is the only way to truly be secure (or as secure as that gets you).

    Seriously, I'm surprised that standard email hasn't been consigned to the museum by now. It was fantastic what it achieved in its time but the lack of the end-to-end encryption is simply unacceptable. I know several schemes have been implemented but they are either proprietary or too complex. Even if a valid scheme is found, you know Outlook/Exchange will be a big roadblock in implementation (just look at what they did to hobble their IMAP implementation).

  13. Re:I'm sure K'Breel had something to do with it. on Mars Rover Finds Complex Chemicals But No Organic Compounds · · Score: 1

    I think Patrician K'Breel may no longer be with us.

    http://billiongraves.com/pages/record/PatkBreel/514255

  14. Re:How to treat a loyal customer on Microsoft Steeply Raising Enterprise Licensing Fees · · Score: 1

    Exchange is both more and less than a mail server. The amount of things it's just impossible to get it to do compared to most Linux servers is astounding. If they didn't have the vendor-lock-in, and the closed-standard calendaring, they'd be laughed out of the room every time.

  15. Re:How to treat a loyal customer on Microsoft Steeply Raising Enterprise Licensing Fees · · Score: 1

    At a previous place, calendaring was the feature that the execs were always clamoring over. Even that wasn't enough to get them to spend the big bucks that Microsoft wanted. What finally got them to stroke a check with six zero's at the end? BES support.

    Oops.

  16. Re:For those of us alive when this was launched, on Voyager 1, So Close To Interstellar Space That We Can Taste It! · · Score: 1

    Turbo boost.

  17. Re:For those of us alive when this was launched, on Voyager 1, So Close To Interstellar Space That We Can Taste It! · · Score: 1

    Maybe search out some private space research companies and buy some shares. I understand there's some quite exciting things going on in the field right now.

  18. Re:For those of us alive when this was launched, on Voyager 1, So Close To Interstellar Space That We Can Taste It! · · Score: 1

    The nuclear bunker worked well then?

  19. Re:Can't keep this up on Mars Rover Finds Complex Chemicals But No Organic Compounds · · Score: 2

    Or that the chances of anything coming from Mars actually are a million to one.

  20. Re:Valve has a winner on Valve Officially Launches TV-Friendly Steam Big Picture Mode · · Score: 1

    You have to sit around for 15 minutes waiting for updates anytime you want to use it?

  21. Re:Without the use of a loop!? on How Does a Single Line of BASIC Make an Intricate Maze? · · Score: 1

    Hah, true enough, I guess.

  22. Re:Without the use of a loop!? on How Does a Single Line of BASIC Make an Intricate Maze? · · Score: 1

    A loop is a flow control structure. Goto may be used to implement that or not.

  23. Re:Enterprise Java Version on How Does a Single Line of BASIC Make an Intricate Maze? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Perl version: Search CPAN, someone's bound to have written a maze module.

  24. Re:Some minor deficiencies on How Does a Single Line of BASIC Make an Intricate Maze? · · Score: 1

    Or can generate a random number equal to the code difference (i.e. all of them)

  25. Re:Without the use of a loop!? on How Does a Single Line of BASIC Make an Intricate Maze? · · Score: 1

    That there is a loop is defined by the structure of the code, not by what happens when it runs. if(0)while(1); also contains a loop.