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  1. Re:Hypocritical on Apple Bans DUI Checkpoint Apps · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I have a friend that is a former EMT. He always said their rule of thumb for night accidents was "if you haven't found a drunk person yet, keep looking. They were either thrown from a vehicle or are wandering nearby in a daze."

  2. Re:Certified incompetent... on Ask Slashdot: Best Certifications To Get? · · Score: 1

    Ever notice how the "please provide proof" people never come back when you call their bluff? Always makes me smile.

  3. Re:Fruad on Unabomber Property Up For Creepy Online Auction · · Score: 1

    I think it would be awesome to use his driver's license at the liquor store...

  4. Re:Business 101 on Developer Blames Apple For Ruining eBook Business · · Score: 1

    they only say it will work if it uses the easy-bake mix

    Apple only says that iOS devices work with software that comes from their App store and they make the rules for their App store.

  5. Re:Here's to hoping .... on Amar Bose To Donate Company To M.I.T. · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm a white male starting my PhD in the fall and I'm getting more money from the state of Arkansas than a foreigner would because I'm an Arkansas resident. I also had my undergrad degree fully funded by a state scholarship (to the tune of around $80,000). My university is practically begging locals to pursue a PhD. My foreign colleagues generally have to pay full retail and don't get the federally backed student loans my wife is relying on for her AuD. By the time I finish my PhD, it's looking like my state will have paid somewhere in the neighborhood of $250,000 to educate me. I'm thankful for that and plan on living in Little Rock for the rest of my life so my taxes can help future students.

  6. Re:FIRST LAWSUIT! on Tesla Sues BBC's Top Gear For Libel · · Score: 1

    Do you think the Stig is the same person each week? My theory is that they created the Stig persona so that they could have a handful of pro drivers in rotation. A pro racer could be anywhere in the world during a given week, so the Stig character enables them to have a rotating stable of drivers. Oh, and of course the practical concern is secondary to the Stig being a really great joke.

  7. Re:Original Research? on Wikipedia Wants More Contributions From Academics · · Score: 1

    I don't know what field you're in, but there's probably a professional organization that gets access to those papers that you can join at student rates and still get access to the articles. If you're studying computer science, an ACM student membership will set you back $42 per year and give you access to a large volume of journals online. I'm fairly certain most other disciplines have similar student access to their professional organizations.

  8. Re:Detection on AT&T Cracking Down On Unofficial iPhone Tethering · · Score: 1

    Someone above said (and I don't claim it's true, I'm just saying it's possible) that one of the specific apps for jailbroken tethering spoofs the user agent string on HTTP requests to match the user agent string from Safari on the phone.

  9. Re:imho on Large Hadron Collider is a Time Machine? · · Score: 1

    He accidentally the verb, of course.

  10. Re:whine on A Letter On Behalf of the World's PC Fixers · · Score: 1

    Your astounding rhetoric has convinced me. I now realize that Pokemon is the best thing in the world.

  11. Re:Don't laugh too loud on $30 GPS Jammer Can Wreak Havok · · Score: 1

    Why would they call the cops? I doubt that "This guy is listening to a conversation I'm having in public!" would go over very well with a 911 dispatcher...

  12. Re:Open Spec on IPad 2 33% Thinner, 2x Faster, iOS 4.3 · · Score: 1

    The spec is outlined in RFC iProtocol which is actually just a list of Apple stores...

  13. Re:Sad but smart on The Decline and Fall of System Administration · · Score: 1

    No, the person that finds a drug that will allow people with a broad range of cancers to live for about 80% of the average life expectancy for people without cancer, but live that 80% with a comfortable standard of living, will make billions. Provided the patient has to keep taking the drug for the rest of their life, of course.

  14. Re:Its happened in OK... on Arkansas Earthquakes Could Be Man-Made · · Score: 1

    How have fault lines in Alaska (AK) been shaking Oklahoma (OK)? I'd figure a quake from Alaska strong enough to shake Oklahoma would level most the western parts of the US and Canada...

    Arkansas is abbreviated (AR)

  15. Re:The 15 inch quad core price is very disappointi on Quad Core, Thunderbolt In New MacBook Pros · · Score: 1

    [citation needed]

    When I was repairing computers for a living a couple of years ago, I saw BSODs daily on XP SP2, SP3, and Vista. I think it's a BlackSOD on Windows 7, but a kernel panic shows the error, it doesn't just reboot. I've also seen a kernel panic screen or two on my Macs throughout the years. I've personally never seen one on a Linux machine, but I'd bet that they show the error as well.

  16. Re:TL;DR Version on Why Google Wants Your Kid's SSN · · Score: 1

    And the data they gathered was data that people chose to broadcast in plain text to a public street. They might as well set up a PA system that broadcasts everything they're doing on the internet. Google didn't do anything wrong by sniffing those packets.

  17. Re:Picard Facepalm on Has the Second Dotcom Bubble Started? · · Score: 2

    If you're broadcasting your personal data in plain text to the public street, you deserve to have it harvested.

  18. Re:Whoooops on Driver Sued For Updating Facebook In Fatal Crash · · Score: 1

    I agree that it's likely she was using Facebook, and at any rate she should've been driving more carefully. Her excuse is that the sun was blinding her- I say if the sun is blinding you then you need to slow the fuck down so you can stop quickly. The point I want to make is that you keep talking about evidence but there's not really any of that around yet. She apparently lives about 2 miles from where the accident happened, so it's entirely possible that she send the post from her driveway before she left, put her phone in a safe place, and then drove like a maniac for 2 miles and accidentally killed some guy (who shouldn't've been talking on his cell phone in the road, but I digress...). Just because the Facebook post time matches the time that the guy was on the phone doesn't prove that she was using Facebook at the time because of the objections I raise in my last post.

    This is a screwed up situation. The guy should have been standing somewhere safe while he was chatting with 911 about the fender bender. The girl may have been using Facebook on her phone, but the bottom line is she wasn't being careful enough if she hit a guy in a populated area because she couldn't see well due to sun glare. If you can't see, slow the fuck down until you can see far enough ahead that you can stop if there's something in your path. However, unless we can see packet headers with an originating IP from her phone and a destination IP to one of Facebook's IPs within a few seconds of her hitting the guy, there's no real evidence.

  19. Re:Whoooops on Driver Sued For Updating Facebook In Fatal Crash · · Score: 1

    You keep saying the evidence shows she updated within one minute, but I haven't seen anything to convince me that is true. The Facebook timestamp is in the same minute as the call timestamp. Assuming that Facebook and the 911 call had clocks in precise sync at that moment, and that Facebook's timestamp for the girl's post is the moment she hit submit, the best you can do is say that she hit submit within 60 seconds of the crash. I don't believe it's reasonable to assume that Facebook and the 911 call timestamps were perfectly synchronized, and I especially don't believe that the timestamp on a Facebook post is the precise moment a person submits it from their cell phone. Facebook is one of the most visited sites on the internet. It's not uncommon for a post to take several seconds or several minutes to actually show up on the site, especially from a mobile phone. Unless there is record of a packet header with her cell phone as the originating IP and one of Facebook's servers as the destination IP at the precise moment of the accident (or within 10 seconds or so before the accident), I don't think you can claim that the evidence shows she was using Facebook at the time of the accident.

  20. Re:Cant tell without the time of the accident on Driver Sued For Updating Facebook In Fatal Crash · · Score: 1

    However, unless the cell phone company stores the packet headers for every data transmission to and from her phone, it will be impossible to prove the precise time that the Facebook post was submitted from her phone. Without a packet header that shows a destination IP of one of Facebook's servers and a timestamp precisely at or just before the accident, it can't be proven that she was sending data to Facebook at the time of the crash.

  21. Re:Same time? on Driver Sued For Updating Facebook In Fatal Crash · · Score: 1

    Were the cell phone records for voice/SMS or for data? If the records were for data, did they show the packet headers or was it just (x)kb sent at (y) time? If she was updating Facebook on a smartphone that didn't send the update via SMS, it would be critical to see the packet headers to prove that the data was heading to Facebook by checking the destination IP.

  22. Re:Not sure why people are knocking it on Watch IBM's Watson On Jeopardy Tonight · · Score: 2

    Watson doesn't have speech recognition, it receives the answers in plain text. It is, however, recognizing complex speech patterns in real time and is definitely interesting.

  23. Re:Congressional ignorance on FBI Releases File On the Anarchist Cookbook · · Score: 1

    We live in a republic, not a democracy. It is true that we elect leaders to represent us, but the central difference between a democracy and a republic is that, in a republic, it is not the job of a representative to simply do whatever a majority of their constituents want on every issue. That would be a democracy. In a republic, we elect representatives and trust them to use their own judgement to do what is best. We then evaluate at regular intervals and decide whether or not to allow someone to continue representing us.

  24. Re:Dangerous book w/ incomplete instructions on FBI Releases File On the Anarchist Cookbook · · Score: 1

    Did you write a script that randomly chooses from a few different anti-gun tirades and strings together a post? I've read several of your posts in this thread and it seems like you have a handful of paragraphs that you copy and paste into each new post in slightly different orders. If you haven't written a script, you might want to. It should greatly increase your trolling efficiency.

  25. Re:Real geeks on Statistician Cracks Code For Lottery Tickets · · Score: 1

    That would've been a hell of a geek. Srivastava found the flawed cards in 2003. It would've been pretty damned hard to write an iPhone app several years before the iPhone was even invented...