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  1. Office 2008? on Adobe Hopes Pop-up Warnings Will Stop Office-Borne Flash Attacks · · Score: 2

    "To protect users of Office 2008 and earlier"

    Refer to Office 2008 then post a Windows screenshot? Par for the course I suppose.

  2. Re:Is this News? on Cox Comm. Injects Code Into Web Traffic To Announce Email Outage · · Score: 2

    Are you using a SIEMENS SpeedStream?

  3. Focus on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Summer Camp Tech Center? · · Score: 1

    Seems like there's a lack of focus. I would pick a topic or three and just work on those.

  4. Re:Link went mising - here it is on Catfish Strands Itself To Kill Pigeons · · Score: 1

    This is a link to a video that is a low-quality copy of the one linked to in both of the links inside the original post.

  5. Re:Hardly competition at least for now on Redbox Set To Compete With Netflix On Video Streaming · · Score: 1

    Redbox is including the 4 nights (of DVD, no mention of Blu-ray) with the subscription fee, where Netflix charges another $7.99 (DVD) or $9.99 (Blu-ray).

  6. Re:DSL ATM overhead on Ask Slashdot: AT&T's Data Usage Definition Proprietary? · · Score: 1

    It's at least deceptive and I feel dishonest to advertise a transfer cap that is in a unit the end user can't realistically measure or calculate.

    I don't think it's a coincidence that they chose a method of measurement that *always* puts the customer at a disadvantage. If the ~10% really is that important they should lower the cap 10% and then measure the "actual" data transfer and not the header-wrapped data the customer can't measure. If measuring at the ATM layer is more efficient then just subtract 15% and give the customer the benefit. What they are doing now, although possibly explained technically by headers and wrapped packets, is despicable.

  7. Where do you draw the line? on Hiring Smokers Banned In South Florida City · · Score: 1

    But have they changed so much that we'd now postpone the Manhattan project for 12 months because Oppenheimer had toked his pipe?

    Would we postpone the Manhattan project for 12 months because Oppenheimer had made a copy of a copyrighted book? What if he stole a candy bar? How about if he beat his wife? How about if he killed his children?

    Where do you draw the line? Only one of those doesn't hurt anyone else, and it's not the smoking one.

    The application of the Manhattan project hurt *way* more people than his smoking.

  8. Ultimately? on US Doctors Back Circumcision · · Score: 1

    the choice is ultimately up to parents"

    Ultimately it should be up to the person who's penis it is.

  9. Re:UIs by engineers on Samsung's Comparison of Galaxy S To iPhone · · Score: 1

    Because the UI people were less, if at all, involved.

  10. Re:Optimization on Ask Slashdot: How Many of You Actually Use Math? · · Score: 1

    If anything Logic is a much better indicator for programming skill. Math skills does not imply good programmer and good programmer does not imply good math skills. As for premedical students taking physics, that depends on the school. Medicine and physics are both largely logic/diagnostic/causal-relationship based. Depending on the school or program, there are *many* classes one needs to take for a degree. For many of these classes there is no deliberate decision made as to why it is required. It's more likely that physics is science related and so is medicine.

  11. UIs by engineers on Samsung's Comparison of Galaxy S To iPhone · · Score: 1

    This looks like Samsung had software engineers (not UI designers) make the UIs, then sent the prototype to UI Consultants and asked them to compare their UI to the iPhone's. The vast majority of suggestions that were made would be obvious to most UI designers.

  12. Re:Metabolites and half lifes on The Pacific Ocean Is Polluted With Coffee · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't you piss out what isn't metabolized? People pee usually before the 6 hour half-life is up, which would leave around half the caffeine left, no?

  13. Re:Flamebait in Headline on SQL Vs. NoSQL: Which Is Better? · · Score: 1

    2. Relational data doesn’t map well to typical programming structures that often consist of complex data types or hierarchical data. Data such as XML is especially difficult because of its hierarchical nature. Complex objects that contain objects and lists inside of them do not always map directly to a single row in a single table.

    you mean the developer actually has to do his job? the developer actually has to tell his ORM what he's thinking, and organize his objects in a way that makes the data well understood?

    If one will be extensively manually editing ORM configuration, one might consider not using ORM and learning a new "language" for configuring the ORM. Stick with a traditional complicated 'data layer' instead of replacing it with another or adding a second complicated data layer.

    I believe the author is trying to say "SQL begets complicated data translation between applications and the database whereas NoSQL does not". Most applications do not access data in the typical NoSQL structure of just key value pairs. As such using NoSQL will generally require a similar translation as the author is illegitimately implying is only necessarily for SQL.

  14. Composing music on The Real-Life Doogie Howser · · Score: 1

    Composing music is something an average 5 year old does.

  15. Re:Not an easy life on The Real-Life Doogie Howser · · Score: 1

    My father was someone like that, IQ literally off the charts

    Did they go to extreme lengths to come up with this chart? Every manual method and software method I can think of or have experience using is hard-coded to prevent 'going off the chart'. The only reasonable explanation is that those doing the charting pulled some graph paper that was duplicated and designed on a basis of containing the average person plus/minus a standard deviation or two which is just silly.

  16. Re:No offense, but... on Ask Slashdot: Provisioning Internet For Condo Association? · · Score: 1

    It's a sad state of affairs when the all the hurdles for such an endeavor are legal and not technical or logistical.

  17. Re:Metro Ethernet? - Below lay fantasies. on Ask Slashdot: Provisioning Internet For Condo Association? · · Score: 1

    One IP? Gross. Buy more IPs from the ISP. They shouldn't be more than two dollars a piece especially in bulk.

  18. Colors on Apache OpenOffice Lagging Behind LibreOffice In Features · · Score: 1

    Apparently whatever suit the author used was missing the "don't distribute this document with these insane colors warning" feature.

  19. Re:Cheapskates! on Science Reveals Why Airplane Food Tastes So Bad · · Score: 1

    What misleading statistics. If Delta spends 10 million dollars on peanuts a year, a cost inrease of .6 million dollars is practically insignificant. With absolute figure like the ones used in TFA, Why not fire their CEO and save ~10 million dollars a year. That would save 100 times as much money as cheating their paying customers from an extra strawberry, a berry that costs the company a few cents from the $500 ticket the customer purchased.

  20. Also good for gamers on $1.5 Billion: the Cost of Cutting London-Tokyo Latency By 60ms · · Score: 1

    Quake 3 on a 230ms connection would be awful. 170 might at least be playable.

  21. Re:How to disable these cameras for cheap on Astroturfing For Speed Cameras · · Score: 1

    Not sure what a scare quote is but I used quotes because laws should generally have a net-positive impact on society be it safety, financial, well-being, etc to be worthwhile. When a law exists for no other reason than corruption, especially laws that have not been thoroughly approved by the judicial system, I would not consider them illegal from an idealogical stand point. If a judge will inevitably overturn a law then really that law was just a drain on society and the law makers who came up with the crap should be reprimanded.

    Most red light photo enforcement tickets are for people trying to squeak by after the light turns red and are not people blatantly running the red light. Based on my research, red light cameras are fairly ineffective at improving safety or net cost to society. They general instill hostility to a municipality and are costly to operate and maintain.

    Not sure why you bring up moaning on slashdot; seems like a legitimate strategy to me. Based on your original comments it seemed like you might learn from what I had to say, so I said it. I never encouraged anyone to vandalize anything in my original post.

  22. Re:What happened to consent? on Astroturfing For Speed Cameras · · Score: 1

    I think you misunderstand the signature on the ticket. One does not enter a plea when receiving the ticket and, to the best of my knowledge, the signature is not any form of consent and is likely more of a witness of receiving the ticket. If one chose not to sign I could only imagine the alliterative is being taken to the police station in cuffs. The plea is entered when one goes to court.

  23. Re:How to disable these cameras for cheap on Astroturfing For Speed Cameras · · Score: 1

    The problem here is that the primary 'illegal' thing is running the red light, and often there is ZERO safety implication of doing so and often energy and time efficiency costs of stopping.

  24. Re:Stardock? No thanks. on For Windows 8 Users, Stardock Revives the Start Menu · · Score: 1

    Windows XP's theme support was written by Stardock; It's ugly but it's pretty stable.

  25. Sexism? on Google: Best Adaptation of a Novel To a Patent? · · Score: 1

    "postings by the user on her or other users' profiles" Was this an implication that more women are Google+ users than men?