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  1. Buyer ordered to destory Yahoo on Yahoo Names PayPal Executive New CEO · · Score: 5, Funny

    In related news, Yahoo was sold through Paypal. The buyer claimed Yahoo is defective and asked for a refund. Paypal then ordered the buyer to destroy Yahoo.

  2. Re:High school doesn't prepare you for college on Why Do So Many College Science Majors Drop Out? · · Score: 1

    As an American graduate student, I am well aware of the meaning. In this case, "graduation" refers to high school.

  3. Re:STEM requires intelligence. Lots of it. on Why Do So Many College Science Majors Drop Out? · · Score: 1

    A PhD in CS seems to actually be a negative predictor of effectiveness.

    Conditioned on applying for the job you are offering.

  4. Re:High school doesn't prepare you for college on Why Do So Many College Science Majors Drop Out? · · Score: 1

    In principle, Calculus should be a graduation requirement. But you're right, simply mandating it would be the wrong course of action. First you'd have to fix math education before senior year.

  5. Re:Incentives, not challenge on Why Do So Many College Science Majors Drop Out? · · Score: 1

    This is more or less the system in India. Software developers have relatively high pay. That yields two kinds of workers: competent people who would do it anyway and incompetent people solely after money. It doesn't actually have much impact on people who would have been competent were they to stay in the field.

  6. A Good Patent on Apple Patents Tech to Stop iPhones Filming in Venues · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is dumb. Patenting it will prevent others from being dumb in a similar way.

  7. Attack ad on Senator Releases First Senate Mobile App · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Does it come with free Cleland attack ads?

  8. Facebook's response on Google Should Be Logging In To Facebook · · Score: 1

    Facebook's response was to ask Google users for their passwords in order to scrape e-mail contacts in violation of Google's TOS. Oh wait.

  9. Notify Customers on Legislation In the Works To Require Companies To Report Privacy Breaches · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How about instead of notifying the government, they have to notify their customers, like California requires? Maybe require signup forms to list past breaches?

  10. Mod parent down on Splinternet, Or How We Broke the Good Old Web · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is an advertisement for some lame web sharing startup and nothing more.

  11. Continental OnePass on Google Announces One Pass Payment System · · Score: 1

    Great, now I can spend my Continental OnePass miles to buy content.

  12. Simple: encrypt a bunch of stuff on Distinguishing Encrypted Data From Random Data? · · Score: 1

    LUKS has a header. When I run cryptsetup on an uninitialized volume
    # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 foo
    Device /dev/sdb1 is not a valid LUKS device.

    That means it can tell if the header is valid without a password. So now every offset needs valid LUKS header. Once you've done that, just make a bunch of perfectly valid encrypted volumes. Put real data in them. Install a working operating system that looks used.

  13. Re:It's *my* CPU you're using on Ars Technica Inveighs Against Ad Blocking · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Slashdot gave me a checkbox to disable ads. They're not making money from showing me ads. They're making money from my comments which apparently draw people here who don't use AdBlock.

  14. Re:I have ad block in because of facebook on Ars Technica Inveighs Against Ad Blocking · · Score: 1

    The problem with facebook is it allows ads that look exactly like facebook apps.

    The problem here is that the vast majority of facebook apps are advertisements.

  15. Re:Why not on Finding Someone To Manage Selling a Software Company? · · Score: 1

    It's opt-out on a per-application basis. There isn't a way to block all applications.

  16. Re:Do any of you know how they survived? on Lightning Strikes Amazon's Cloud (Really) · · Score: 1

    I thought the point was software fault tolerance so that the hardware is cheap and lacks the fancy features you describe.

  17. Re:Impossible to enforce on Download Taxes As a Weapon Against File-Sharing · · Score: 5, Informative

    No. According to line 33 of page 4 in the bill, computer software is not a digital good. Perhaps not the reason you were hoping for, but it does answer your question.

  18. Re:No different from sales tax evasion on Download Taxes As a Weapon Against File-Sharing · · Score: 0, Redundant

    [citation needed]

  19. Re:Appeal to His Original Priorities on How To Help a Friend With an MMO Addiction? · · Score: 1

    Those priorities were in increasing order of reaction, right?

  20. Re:True AI on Looking To Spammers To Solve Hard AI Problems · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is a reasonably accurate description of the stock market.

  21. Re:what happens if google folds on Google Unofficially Announces GDrive By Leaked Code · · Score: 1

    More to the point, Google can cancel or limit services at will. This has or will happen with premium Google Video (issuing a double refund), Dodgeball, Notebook, Mashup editor, and Catalog Search. To be fair, in the event of a cancellation they will probably provide notice and a grace period.

  22. Re:Amtrak Police!?! on Amtrak Photo Contestant Arrested By Amtrak Police · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Um Amtrak is part of the federal government.

  23. Re:Word of the Day: Patent-squatting on Startup Seeks To Preempt Patent Trolls · · Score: 1

    When was patent squatting not illegal?

  24. Re:EECS career fair "busier than ever before" on Wall Street's Collapse Is Computer Science's Gain · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the recruiters from Lehman passing their resumes around.

  25. Re:Problems... on Wall Street's Collapse Is Computer Science's Gain · · Score: 1

    When is the last time you went to a university career fair? The first question most recruiters ask is "computer science?" In fact, the school newspaper ran an editorial "Career fair? More like CS fair."