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  1. Re:The 30 and 40-somethings wrote the code... on Recruiters Use 'Digital Native' As Code For 'No Old Folks' · · Score: 1

    And now Safari has blended the location and search fields into one. Makes sense to both young and old.

  2. iPad mini is a great travel computer on The iPad Is 5 Years Old This Week, But You Still Don't Need One · · Score: 1

    The mini is great for checking email, keeping up with the news, researching nearby attractions, restaurants, making reservations. Ultra-portable and not so valuable that one gets overly stressed out about losing it. Plus it is great for running a sound board while walking around the stage! http://www.yamahaproaudio.com/... I also find that the mini is comfortable to read from for long periods, and nice to hand around to people to show off a discovered web page without worrying they'll accidentally drop it.

  3. Re:Land of the free on European Court Finds Copyright Doesn't Automatically Trump Freedom Of Expression · · Score: 1

    "To thine own self be true". If, for example only, you were to say nasty things about a friend of yours to someone else, and that friend never found out, wouldn't you still be a bad person for doing so? The logic is identical, except that the "friend" is a horse. Or a rock, I suppose. I'd give you a pass on gossiping about a rock. Plus, horses are shiny.

  4. Re:Internet rudeness will stop... on Why Are We So Rude Online? · · Score: 1

    I didn't see the previous mention of the article buried in a longish paragraph. But *I* don't have mod points today (wish I had). The story is so compelling it is worthy of repeating the reference.

  5. Prime Example: "Meeting A Troll..." on Why Are We So Rude Online? · · Score: 1
    http://www.traynorseye.com/2012/09/meeting-troll.html

    ...

    Two days later I opened my front door and there was a bunch of dead flowers with my wife's old Twitter username on it. Then that night I recieved a DM. 'You'll get home some day & ur b**ches throat will be cut & ur son will be gone.'

    ...

    I put my hand on his shoulder and asked him "Why?" The Troll sat there for a moment and said "I don't know. I don't know. I'm sorry. It was like a game thing."

  6. Keep a lookout for Kal-El on Tennessee Crater Inches Toward Recognition · · Score: 1

    He's gotta be around there somewhere...

  7. Re:Sneakernet piracy? on RIAA Admits SOPA Wouldn't Have Stopped Piracy · · Score: 1

    please tell me you are not serious.

  8. Re:Heinlein Juvies. on Ask Slashdot: Best Science-Fiction/Fantasy For Kids? · · Score: 1

    Yes, "Andre" Norton really does the "Hero's Journey" kind of story really well. Kids (and old kids) love that.

  9. The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet on Ask Slashdot: Best Science-Fiction/Fantasy For Kids? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This was got me hooked back in the day (plus the Heinlein juves): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Flight_to_the_Mushroom_Planet Part of "The Mushroom Planet Books". These are easy to follow without being condescending. And anyone who isn't captivated by the idea that youngsters could build their own functional rocket ship isn't awake.

  10. Re:Heinlein Juvies. on Ask Slashdot: Best Science-Fiction/Fantasy For Kids? · · Score: 1

    +1 Growing up these were my favorites.

  11. Re:Quiet a few things the internet sucks at on Internet Use Found To Affect Memory · · Score: 1

    "Inappropriate" in this case can easily be seen to mean "not appropriate/relevant to researching the statistics on sex". Religion bashing is uncalled for in this case.

  12. Re:I have a much more ambitious vision on The Continued Censorship of Huckleberry Finn · · Score: 1

    My favorite version of this is Robert A. Heinlein's "Double Star", where the not-very-admirable protagonist impersonates an ailing admired world leader, and successfully transforms himself into that admired world leader upon the leader's passing (hey, it *is* fiction).

  13. Re:Target practice? on Geostationary GPS Satellite Galaxy 15 Out of Control · · Score: 1

    Besides, it's the tiny, hard-to-track pieces that you have to worry about. I honestly don't know if we have a remotely workable solution to deal with these.

    Robotic satellites trailing kevlar flypaper oughta do it :-)

  14. Re:Islam is dangerous. on South Park's Episode 201 — the Expurgated Version · · Score: 1

    No, in a court of law it might well be called "a witness".

  15. People don't even follow the "original" list on The Cell Phone Has Changed — New Etiquette Needed · · Score: 2, Informative
    I *like* this original list, and wish people could abide by even these points of etiquette.

    * 1. Lower your voice when taking calls in public. * 2. Avoid personal topics when others can hear you. * 3. Avoid taking calls when you're already engaged in a face-to-face conversation. * 4. If you do take a call, ask permission of the people with you. * 5. Avoid texting during a face-to-face conversations. * 6. Put your phone's ringer on "silent" in theaters and restaurants. * 7. Don't light up your phone's screen in a dark theater. * 8. Hang up and drive.

    Sure it'd be nice if the author's new points of etiquette would also be followed, but people! Can we all (and by that I mean you all) NOT use any damn cellphones during the movie we all paid $9 or more to see! Geez!

  16. Re:You can't teach people who don't want to learn on Easing the Job of Family Tech Support? · · Score: 1

    +1 on that, good buddy! @celest (100606): I'd encourage you to pull the plug on their "not important" technical support and tell them to get it elsewhere. Nobody deserves that level of grief, especially from family.

  17. Oh yes, you can! (It just costs money) on Affordably Aggregating ISP Connections? · · Score: 1

    What people presume to know, sheesh! Bandwidth Aggregation: Combining Internet Connections to Incrementally Increase Bandwidth Capacity Bandwidth aggregation combines two or more Internet connections and gives Internet applications access to their total available bandwidth and increases reliability with link redundancy. PowerLink, ShieldLink and ClariLink bandwidth aggregation techniques (also known as multi-homing) support load balancing to route Internet sessions from congested links, to links with more available bandwidth. They also provide automatic failover of Internet sessions from failed links to functional connections to eliminate the Internet as a point of failure. http://www.ecessa.com/pages/solutions/solutions_technology_bandwidth.php

  18. Re:So who was it ?? on Most Expensive JavaScript Ever? · · Score: 1

    parsecs are a measure of distance, in spite of what Han Solo said. From Wikipedia: "The parsec ("parallax of one arcsecond", symbol pc) is a unit of length, equal to just under 31 trillion kilometres (about 19 trillion miles), or about 3.26 light-years."

  19. Re:MATLAB on OS X won't suck now? on Qt Opens Source Code Repositories · · Score: 1

    Perhaps use the lower-cost, well-supported Igor Pro, instead? http://www.wavemetrics.com/ Disclaimer: I work there :-)