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  1. Re:Invent your own exercises on Ask Slashdot: How To Catch Photoshop Plagiarism? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    On the grading machine, keep the history window open. It's stored as part of the file. File history should give a very good idea if the student is resorting to shenanigans. Yes, a student could delete the file's history, but the teacher could require 'showing your work' through the history.

  2. Re:It's like this. on Does Grammar Matter Anymore? · · Score: 1

    Never heard of collective nouns or the idea of notional agreement?

  3. Re:not sure on Windows 8: More EULA, Fewer Rights. · · Score: 1

    >>>Scalia is an asshole

    That may be but he has consistently applied the laws as written. (Unlike that other justice: Sotomayor who ignores that law & makes random decisions based on her beliefs.) If you don't like the laws don't blame the judges who merely enforce them. Blame the Congress for producing bad law.

    The judiciary doesn't enforce the law. The executive enforces the law. The judiciary interprets the law. In other words, the judiciary takes the law as written as well as an actual set of facts; then, based on belief, determines how the law applies to the set of facts. Thus, interprets. As justices, this is true of both Sotomayor and Scalia.

  4. Re:So what happens to the Concorde? on NASA Announces Final Homes of Shuttle Fleet · · Score: 1

    If you want to see both, the Udvar-Hazy Center currently has both. With the added bonus of an SR-71 and the Enola Gay. You don't even have to leave the airport, assuming you fly into Dulles that is.

  5. Re:It can beat Ken Jennings at Jeopardy, but... on Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest · · Score: 1

    But it may be able to answer a lot of questions asked by, say, a phone support caller.

    Or better yet, questions posed from a phone marketer. I would certainly consider purchasing a product that was able to engage a telemarketer for a non-trivial length of time without committing me to buy something from that telemarketer.

  6. Re:Would Slashdot reveal the IPs .. on Sony Lawyers Expand Dragnet, Targeting Anybody Posting PS3 Hack · · Score: 1

    Maybe CmdrTaco will only reveal the IPs of those criticizing slashdot

    We love CmdrTaco!

  7. Re:Don't get your panties in a wad ... on For Mac Developers, Armageddon Comes Tomorrow · · Score: 0

    Don't even need to get that far...

    kdawson writes

  8. Re:I'm sitting this one out on 'Cellphone Effect' Could Skew Polling Predictions · · Score: 1

    Show up to the polling place and take a ballot. Submit the blank. A vote for 'nobody' is still a vote, in the sense that you're marked as having voted in the election. The obligation that ties to the rights you (may or may not) enjoy is to show up on the first Tuesday in November and cast a ballot.

  9. Re:*yawn* on Are Games Getting Easier? · · Score: 5, Funny

    What I wouldn't have given to only have to walk up hills. Everything was mountains in my day. And the 'game' was called Getting Poked In the Eye With a Stick. And we were grateful.

  10. Re:Reality check on Can We Travel To That Exciting New Exoplanet? · · Score: 1

    Considering that the fastest space vehicles ever created took 3 months to travel a mere 8 light *minutes* (somewhere around one-16000th the speed of light), the assumption that we will ever reach even a significant fraction of the speed of light with a vehicle created anytime in the conceivable future is a bit of an overstretch to say the *least*.

    No problem... A quick application of Moore's Law and we should be ready for launch in about 30 years.

  11. Re:While on Xbox Head Proclaims Blu-ray Dead · · Score: 1

    it's not dead...

    It's pinin' for the fjords.

  12. Re:Hmmm on US Senate Passes 'Libel Tourism' Bill · · Score: 4, Informative

    Theo Van Gogh might disagree.

  13. Re:but... on Pumping Sunlight Into Homes · · Score: 2, Funny

    does it run Linux?

    More importantly, could you set up a sufficiently large Beowulf cluster of these things to light, say, 1/2 the earth at any given time?

  14. Hmmm on First Collisions At the LHC · · Score: 1

    My cellphone's gone missing...
    Stupid blackholes.

  15. Re:No magic on Has Apple Created the Perfect Board Game Platform? · · Score: 1

    Part of the magic of meatspace board games is losing the bits and pieces.

    You can't do that on an iPad.

    Well... you could; you just have to take a hammer to the iPad first.

  16. Re:Huh? on Slow Oracle Merger Leads To Outflow of Sun Projects, Coders · · Score: 2, Insightful

    stop-A

  17. Re:Survival of the fittest on Blizzcon 2009 Wrap-Up · · Score: 1

    You won't find the meaning of life at level 80.

    True; it's found at level 42.

  18. Re:Eighth Amendment - One Line on In Round 2, Jammie Thomas Jury Awards RIAA $1,920,000 · · Score: 1

    What court case limits the Eighth Amendment to Criminal cases?

    That would be BFI v. Kelco Disposal, at least when the government isn't a party.

  19. Baseless Speculation on Pixar's Next Three Films Will Be Sequels · · Score: 5, Informative
    A quick google search of Pixar's production schedule might have told the poster, or even the editor, that 2 of Pixar's next 3 movies are in fact new franchises.

    Sigh.

  20. Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? on Young People Prefer "Sizzle Sounds" of MP3 Format · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gold is only good if the component will be unplugged and plugged back in a lot, or will spend a lot of time sitting around.

    As opposed to components that spend a lot of time jogging.

  21. Re:Generate your own 'fake' logs on Bill Would Require ISPs, Wi-Fi Users To Keep Logs · · Score: 1

    In regards to my private Wifi service, the only authority I have to obey is my home state legislature, since I operate completely and wholly within the state.

    Please see Wickard v. Filburn. The Supreme Court doesn't necessarily agree with you in RE: Reach of Federal Jurisdiction.

  22. Re:This isn't necessary on Spiraling Skyscraper Farms For a Future Manhattan · · Score: 1

    "By 2050 nearly 80% of the worldâ(TM)s population will reside in urban centers, and 109 hectares of arable land will be needed to feed them."

    Assuming this quote is accurate, then that means we'll have plenty of land to grow crops on (because not as many people live in rural areas).

    Especially considering we'll be able to feed everyone in the world using just over a square kilometer of land.

  23. Re:It's my computer on Google Earth 5.0 Silently Changes Update Policy · · Score: 1

    Apologies that I've pulled this completely off-topic. -- Ultimately, my preference, if the chemicals are properly documented on the food, is that the choice remain with me... in the sense that I want to decide if trans-fats are too much of a hassle. What I don't want is someone who thinks he has my interest at heart going to the State of New York and asking that I not be given the choice.

    I just don't see the need to escalate this from a fairly benign individual decision about the level of hassle associated with the new rev of Google Earth into some sort of (to quote from the GP of your original post) war.

  24. Re:It's my computer on Google Earth 5.0 Silently Changes Update Policy · · Score: 1

    Umm, If you don't like DRM, then don't buy DRM encumbered music! If you do want to listen to your music on all the devices you own, you still have options. For instance, you can simply buy the CD and do the work required to translate that music into the format desired for playback on whatever device you like, be it MP3 player, analog turntable, or full in-house symphony orchestra. If the effort is too great for any given device, perhaps what you should question is the wisdom of purchasing, say, an in-house symphony orchestra.
    If you want to see the ocean floor, you have at least two choices: use Google Earth, or swim to the bottom of the ocean. The only real question is, is any available choice better than 'not' seeing the bottom of the ocean?

  25. Re:Since When Was It Legal on Wiretapping Program Ruled Legal · · Score: 1

    . . . for any citizen to conspire, support, or engage in activities whose sole purpose is the violent overthrow of the Constitution?

    Since December 15, 1791.

    The first amendment allows freedom of expression, even if the idea being expressed is to abolish the existing government.

    You've conflated the Constitution with the Government.
    Those who are trying to overthrow the Constitution are significantly more dangerous than those who are simply trying to overthrow the government.