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  1. Re: Great... on Satellite Images Show Russians Shelling Ukraine · · Score: 1

    from over the horizon.

  2. Re: If they say so on Microsoft Promises Not To Snoop Through Email · · Score: 2

    ignorance is no excuse.

  3. Re: ipconfig /flushdns on Report: Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) Scans Your DNS History · · Score: 1

    most operating systems boot with a clean cache, and steam typically runs at startup/login. an empty or near empty DNS cache would not be an uncommon finding.

  4. Re:It's a status thing on Your 60-Hour Work Week Is Not a Badge of Honor · · Score: 1

    The shareholders in his example would be the taxpaying citizenry.

    Clearly the employees are the one who generate the profits.

  5. Re: Government Regulation?? on HP To Charge For Service Packs and Firmware For Out-of-Warranty Customers · · Score: 1

    ever priced updating the firmware in your car outside of the warranty period?

  6. Re:Stupid people prevent us from having secure thi on Developer Loses Single-Letter Twitter Handle Through Extortion · · Score: 1

    This is only an issue of semantics - You don't offer your users a choice of "more" or "less" security, you have something along the lines of the following options:

    (*) Allow account recovery if I forget my password (Default)
    ( ) Do not allow account recovery if I forget my password (This option is more secure, but makes your account unrecoverable if you forget your password!)

    In other words, not "less or more" but "standard or more."

  7. Re: It's not about which technology on Ask Slashdot: It's 2014 -- Which New Technologies Should I Learn? · · Score: 3, Funny

    there's always sex-work.

    you dirty whore.

  8. Re:Sensational! on Police Raid Home of 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay User, Seize "Winnie the Pooh" Laptop · · Score: 1

    Well, these things do happen...

    http://rt.com/usa/news/public-urination-warden-police-367/

    Though the officer in question was fired yesterday

  9. Re:Field Sobriety Test on With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers · · Score: 1

    Thank you, though in my defense, the article had it right - and the main point, two states did make recreational use legal.

  10. Re:Field Sobriety Test on With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers · · Score: 1

    http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE8A602D20121107?irpc=932

    Washington and Oregon have legalized recreational use as well.

  11. Re:food sources distort results on How Hair Can be Used To Track Where You've Been · · Score: 2

    Most of the Pepsi bottles I've ever seen were bottled in Mississauga, Ontario... That's not exactly local to where I lived, in Boston, MA. That's the wrong country, entirely. I assume it's the same all over New England, at least.

  12. Re:Someone wants something? on Former Australian Cop Wants Jail For Internet Trolls · · Score: 1

    Is this woman running for public office? She has my vote, if so!

  13. Re:It's All About Incentives on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Paid For Open-Sourcing Your Work? · · Score: 2

    In the case of a contractor or a comissioned work (in the US), a work qualifies as a work for hire only if all the following 3 conditions are met:

    1. The work must be specially ordered or commissioned
    2. The work must fall under one of 9 categories defined by 17 U.S.C. 101: contribution to a collective work, translation, supplementary work, compilation, instructional text, test, answer material for a test, atlas, or part of a motion picture or audiovisual work.
    3. There must be a written agreement between the parties that the work is a work made for hire.

    If these conditions are not met, the work is not a work made for hire and the ownership of the copyright remains with the creator of the work.

    In any case, consulting a lawyer to understand your particular case (and review your contracts) is always a good idea. If you're in the position of propsoing that contract, you should have a lawyer draft the standard framework you then customize for the client.

  14. Re:Chatr = anti competition "crime" on Telco Company Claims Freedom of Speech Includes Misleading Ads · · Score: 1

    Bell was offering 6gb for $30 recently, should still be on (or negotiable). Mention Rogers is currently running the same promotion if they aren't - they'll likely price match, or some other special-offer magic which makes it work out the same.

  15. Re:Huh? on Store Offers Kinect Body Scanner To Help You Find Jeans That Fit · · Score: 1

    Tape measures are expensive, minimum wage is somewhere between $20-30k/year. That cost increases quickly as you add locations or expand to a larger space, and require more expensive humans to operate these seemingly inexpensive tape measures. Now throw in the cost of management, hr, benefits, and so on.

    The same $20-30k could see these deployed across a chain of stores. Turnover is limited to devices which break down and can be replaced for less than $200. There are fewer teenagers being irresponsible on the job or pissing off customers, and less need for management to play the role of babysitter.

    It probably has its drawbacks, but cost is not one of them.

  16. Re:Slashdot has gone batsh*t crazy on SUSE Slowly Shows UEFI Secure Boot Plan · · Score: 1

    Yet it is possible, which was the question that was asked. The repercussions (legal and otherwise) would be swift, currently.

  17. Re:Slashdot has gone batsh*t crazy on SUSE Slowly Shows UEFI Secure Boot Plan · · Score: 1

    They could refuse to certify their hardware, which would likely cost them any discounts on licensing. They would not be able to use windows update to update drivers. See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/hh924782

    Windows could be changed in such a way as not to allow installation on uncertified hardware. Likely not insurmountable, but not trivial for the average user.

    The tinfoil hat could be screwed on too tight, but then again..

  18. Re:The UK has some lead time on this on Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing), Gun Control, and Patent Law · · Score: 1

    I was making the same point that it was simple, but still not nearly as simple as hitting someone with a heavy object. You'll notice that in places where guns are less convenient, weapons of more convenience tend to win out. A trip to the hardware store for a length of pipe and then to the sporting goods store for ammunition takes time and planning, while bashing someone with a tire iron requires that it hasn't been inadvertently left out of the trunk the last time you needed to use your spare.

    The time and planning bit is likely still the reason you don't see more of this. The task may not be complex or difficult, but it is still time-consuming.

  19. Re:The UK has some lead time on this on Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing), Gun Control, and Patent Law · · Score: 2

    in such places, ammunition is typically regulated as well. that same length of pipe needed to serve as the barrel is far easier to simply club someone with.

    it truly is dead simple. in fact, you can likely find a zip gun of sorts and ammunition at your local hardware store in the form of a .22 nail gun. modified slightly, it would be rather intimidating at close range.

  20. Re:under the DMCA any antivirus software can get s on Ubisoft Uplay DRM Found To Include a Rootkit · · Score: 2

    This is Slashdot, and you lacked a car analogy. He thought you did well and was trying to protect you from later complaints.

  21. Re:All Really Good - its about the Freshness on Google Outs 3D Maps For iOS Ahead of Apple · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It could simply be that the images for Canada are newer. Google tends to start projects in the US first and then expand them later - and later comes better cameras, faster and denser storage, and so on.

  22. Re:Goodbye, useful metadata on Google Applies For Dot-LOL Domain · · Score: 1

    That's a problem with a solution, URIs (and usually, context as well) manage to differentiate perfectly there. Otherwise, COMMAND.COM would be a much bigger problem than AUTOEXEC.BAT.

  23. Re:U R A troll that uses 2 /. registered accounts on Documentation As a Bug-Finding Tool · · Score: 1

    If this is the case, then you add nothing useful to the conversation, simply more noise. And despite, the opinion expressed by GP seems entirely valid, so you seem to be the only one not providing anything of value.

  24. Re:So.. How Does it Record Calls? on SMS-Controlled Malware Hijacking Android Phones · · Score: 1

    Oh, and so you're aware, Google Voice (alone) cannot record outbound calls. Page linked in my previous post explains that as well. Apps such as sipdroid do not have this limitation.

  25. Re:So.. How Does it Record Calls? on SMS-Controlled Malware Hijacking Android Phones · · Score: 1

    Using sipdroid with Google Voice or any SIP provider you can record calls locally, silently and if wanted, automatically. I assume other similar apps (like csipsimple) behave similarly, but I've only used sipdroid personally.

    Google Voice alone will record calls if you press 4 during the call, but does not record locally and announces that you are recording to both sides of the call. You have to enable this feature first. See: http://support.google.com/voice/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=115082

    As always, be familiar with the laws about recording telephone calls in your jurisdiction. If unsure, don't. ;)