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  1. Re:So... on Altering Text In eBooks To Track Pirates · · Score: 1

    It would not be that simple. If there were 100 changes to a text to which you removed 50 and added 50 of your own there would still be 50 alterations remaining that could identify the original source. The only way to combat this is to diff multiple versions and untangle all the changes so as to remove any remaining ID information.

  2. Make it run Dalvik on Microsoft To Start Dumping Surface RT To Schools For $199 · · Score: 1

    MS should create an emulation layer that allows RT to natively run Android apps. That will solve the chicken and egg issue of limited app availability and make their platform a more compelling offering.

  3. Re:Because that worked so well for Apple? on Microsoft To Start Dumping Surface RT To Schools For $199 · · Score: 1

    Casio invented and owned the graphing calculator market until the early 90's before TI stepped in and started heavily promoting their own offerings to teachers. Look where Casio is against TI today.

  4. Re:Comcast Router? I think not on Comcast To Expand Public WiFi Using Home Internet Connections · · Score: 1

    Comcast gives you a choice between renting a combo modem/router, a modem only, or providing your own modem.

  5. Re:Nothing new under the sun on Snowden NSA Claims Partially Confirmed, Says Rep. Jerrold Nadler · · Score: 1

    The implication at the time is that the recordings were from parties outside the US where our clandestine services aren't bound by the constitution. That may still be the entire truth of the matter.

  6. Re:Building 317 on Kodak Ends Production of Acetate Base For Photographic Film · · Score: 1

    One of the largest building in Kodak park will go un used and off of the tax bill for the town.

    I think they have to tear the building down to get tax relief which is part of why other buildings at KP have been taken down in the past few years.

  7. Re:Kodak vs. stockpile on Kodak Ends Production of Acetate Base For Photographic Film · · Score: 1

    unless they can kill CCD/CMOS imaging with a new device of their invention

    Kodak did much of the early work on using CCDs for imaging so they are their invention in a way. It just never fit into their razor blade business model so they licensed out the relevant patents and sat on their heels while the world passed them by.

  8. Re:Thanks Slashdot. on FAA Wants All Aircraft Flying On Unleaded Fuel By 2018 · · Score: 1

    Whenever I accidentally put premium into my bike (runs fine on 87) it stumbles and occasionally stalls at idle until the computer has adapted to the less volatile fuel. It is definitely pointless to use a higher octane than necessary and can be problematic in itself.

  9. Re:A curious thing about NH... on The Free State Project, One Decade Later · · Score: 1

    Be thankful they at least save you from the overbearing burden of wearing a seat belt.

  10. Re:Moving from Ohio I hope on The Free State Project, One Decade Later · · Score: 1

    Ohio should be their destination considering that NH doesn't have as much influence over national politics. NH already leans more libertarian than any other state so there isn't much to change other than providing a stronger guarantee that tea party types can't get ahead in local politics.

  11. Re:"could get" vs "did get." on Steubenville Hacker Faces Longer Prison Sentence Than the Rapists · · Score: 1

    When one "could get" a cruel and unusual punishment, DAs take advantage of that to force their victims into copping a plea to slightly less cruel and unusual terms.

  12. Re:Short answer? Yes. on Ask Slashdot: How Best To Disconnect Remote Network Access? · · Score: 1

    Lock MAC addresses to a single port and/or firewall everything that IT can't maintain control over.

  13. No it has a sensor for weight in the passenger seat. Otherwise it would bark at you if you opened the passenger door to retrieve or put something on the floor just before driving.

  14. Re:kinda pointless given a few facts on Microsoft Attempts to Woo Students With 'Crowdsourced' Laptops · · Score: 1

    each desltop basically exists as a $500 PuTTY workstation.

    That's not such a bad deal considering how much dumb and X terminals cost back in the day.

  15. Some whine with that cheese? on Facebook Silently Removes Ability To Download Your Posts · · Score: 0

    How much were you paying Facebook so they could provide this vital service to you?

  16. Re:No, it's not. on A Serious Proposal To Fix Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    ... my design company's ...

    Sounds like Apple's traditional audience. Maybe not so rabid as to have bumper stickers and tattoos but still not a stretch from their default user base: creatives, educators, liberal arts, and soft sciences.

  17. Re:Physical Access on Researchers Infect iOS Devices With Malware Via Malicious Charger · · Score: 1

    There are more sophisticated implementations of the charging protocol that involve signaling on the data lines which is needed to get the full 2.1A or other steps in between. That being said it doesn't matter because a rogue "charging" device can have a fully functional host interface without any visual difference.

  18. Re:Very good point on Julian Assange Says Google's Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen Are "Witch Doctors" · · Score: 1

    changed our world by starting this "leaking culture"

    Internal Memos predated WL by some years. They just never achieved notoriety before they were shut down.

  19. Re:A great disturbance... on Green Lantern Writer To Pen Blade Runner Sequel · · Score: 1

    I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

    That's just Damon Lindelof beginning to write his hack script for Star Wars 7.

  20. Re:You are deluge in all on Activist Admits To Bugging US Senate Minority Leader · · Score: 1

    said by you from the gecko

    from the *get go* ?

  21. Re:Aspect Ratio on 4K Computer Monitors Are Coming (But Still Pricey) · · Score: 1

    Just treat it as two 8:9 screens. With a larger display, the usability of each half increases tremendously.

  22. Re:Why? on 4K Computer Monitors Are Coming (But Still Pricey) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    There is nothing wrong with plain old VGA. It could easily handle these resolutions on CRTs. It can do the same on today's flat panels.

  23. Re:Many classes of non-human on Book Review: The Human Division · · Score: 1

    people who don't put the return type of a C function onto a separate line!

    You mean like Kernighan and Ritchie do it, you blaspheme?

  24. Re:Small runtime? on Dao, a New Programming Language Supporting Advanced Features With Small Runtime · · Score: 1

    You don't have to link the standard runtime in if you are willing to do the init and shutdown chores yourself (or just the subset that you really need).

  25. Re:Breach of DPA? on Inside One of the World's Largest Data Brokers · · Score: 1

    "Lands End" Is a clothing retailer in the US.