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  1. Simple google search finds list of companies on Millions of Utility Customers' Passwords Stored In Plain Text (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Doing a Google search for "you may choose to have your password e-mailed to you" (including quotes) gives 160 results, most of which appear to be utility companies.

  2. Long time to read it on 128TB SD Cards Are Coming (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Assuming I did my math correctly, 128 TB at 985 Mb/second is 1.5 days to read the entire card (and I'm guessing writing would be slower). That seems awfully slow (or at least should be by the time 128 TB becomes reality).

  3. Re:We Are All Dead In The End on California Study To Examine the Influence of a Healthy Diet On Patients (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    While Healthy food can be enjoyable and taste good, I have not found that to be the case at hospitals. My mothers refusal to eat the heart healthy diet served her at the hospital negatively impacted her health.

  4. What about shade? on California Becomes First State To Mandate Solar on New Homes (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    What happens if your house is on the North side of a mountain, or in a redwood forest or shaded by a tall building? Are you required to put up solar panels which will never see the sun?

  5. Affordable for dual income households on Even Apple and Google Engineers Can't Really Afford To Live Near Their Offices (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    The article assumes a single income household, that is no longer typical. Two engineers can afford these housing prices and there are enough two engineer households to support the prevailing house prices.

  6. Flash @ The Register on FedEx Will Pay You $5 To Install Flash (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Ironically The Register article linked to has content (presumably ads) using Flash so you get an "Do you want to enable flash" popup.

  7. Tesla Coil on Disney Develops Room With 'Ubiquitous Wireless' Charging (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't installing a Tesla coil have a similar effect?

  8. How dense is the energy storage? If the equivalent of a D-cell would be bigger than a breadbox then limited usefulness.

  9. Not enough requests on How a Video Game About Sheep Exposes the FBI's Broken FOIA System (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe we should all file FOIA requests with the FBI for Slippery Slope information. That way they could not use the "not enough requests" excuse.

  10. Link to more information on Homemade Speed Trap Made By Former UVA CS Professor (cvilletomorrow.org) · · Score: 1
  11. Where this started on Two Years of Data On What Military Equipment the Pentagon Gave To Local Police · · Score: 1

    According to a cop I know, this program came about as a result of North Hollywood shootout where the local cops were seriously outgunned by the robbers.

  12. Re:Did Fluke request this? on $30K Worth of Multimeters Must Be Destroyed Because They're Yellow · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you do an image search for multimeters there aren't many colors left which don't copy one already in existence. I'd suggest Sparkfun try periwinkle.

  13. Based on ACCC files, this is old news (December 2011). http://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/accc-takes-action-against-excite-mobile-pty-ltd

  14. Efficiency on Researchers Use Lasers For Cooling · · Score: 2

    How efficient is this process? Would it be useful as a general replacement for current refrigeration technology?

  15. Re:To the usual crap Google digitization standards on 17th Century Microscope Book Is Now Freely Readable · · Score: 2

    It looks like some of the pages unfold to show larger drawings, unfortunately there weren't unfolded. :-(

  16. Dedicated A/C system on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Include In a New Building? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    On my required list would be a separate dedicated A/C system for your equipment room. Too often computer/telephone rooms are connected to whatever A/C system is convenient which leads to problems -- One of my horror stories was management turning off the A/C in the lunch room which had been running 24x7 to save energy, little did they know that the lunch room A/C was shared by the computer room on the other side of the wall.... :-(

  17. Let kids at it on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    I took one to my ex-wife's 5th grade class. Gave them screwdrivers, etc and let them take it apart to them see what was inside. Once they were done with them I'm sure nothing was recoverable.

  18. Re:Thank Nebraska on Congress May Permit Robot Calls To Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    I wonder how we can get his cell phone number....

  19. Time to robo-call congress on Congress May Permit Robot Calls To Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Sounds like now is the time to start robo-calling our representatives telling them how much we don't want this. ;-)

  20. Tell Chase what you think on Chase Bank May Drop Support of Chrome, Opera · · Score: 1

    I used their on-line service feed-back page to say I would do on-line banking with them unless they supported Chrome. I bet if enough people do that they will change their minds. Chase feedback link: https://www.chase.com/ccp/index.jsp?pg_name=ccpmapp/shared/assets/page/email#

  21. Size of a bit? on Western Digital Announces 1TB Mobile HD · · Score: 1

    At this geometry, how big is each bit?

  22. Better link on Broke Counties Turn Failing Roads To Gravel · · Score: 4, Informative