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  1. Re:can they do it with https? on Amazon Granted a Patent That Prevents In-Store Shoppers From Online Price Checking (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's not how TLS works. At most you expose the hostname you connect to. All path parameters in the GET request are encrypted. And it doesnt matter if GET/POST/PUT.

  2. Overvalued if just a car company on Tesla Tops GM by Market Value as Investors See Musk as Future (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If you think Tesla is a car company - then it's overvalued.

    If you think Tesla is a battery company that happens to sell cars - then the valuation is closer to correct.

    The real key to their offering is batter management. Taking tons of little batteries as commodities and making them appear as one big battery. Then resizing that big battery for accomplishing things which at the time was expensive. Such as powering a car or a house.

  3. Is this an issue with TLS ? on US Congress Votes To Shred ISP Privacy Rules (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Apart from IP addresses (and DNS lookups) ... what can they sniff and sell? If we HTTPS all the things ... they wont really have access to as much as we think they do.

  4. Metrics on Ask Slashdot: Advice On Enterprise Architect Position · · Score: 2

    What you want are metrics. So while you cant get access to the systems ... you can (probably) dictate everything you need to measure and monitor. After you have lots of data points, then you can report the crap out of it to start making i better.

  5. Tax it on Stopping Universities From Hoarding Money · · Score: 1

    Make all management distributions a taxable. Or better ... make all management distributions above a % of education payouts at a taxed penalty. Then the donors will want more accountability since some money is going to the government instead of fund managers.

  6. Re:400 years for one murder on Supreme Court Makes It Easier To Get Lawyers Fees In Patent Cases · · Score: 2

    Because a life sentence (and other sentences) doesn't mean it will happen for that whole period of time. You can be eligible for parole before the time is up. By having multiple sentences or ridiculous amounts of time, it raises the bar high enough to prevent some people from EVER getting out.

  7. Ego Stroking on Tech Leaders Create Most Lucrative Science Prize In History · · Score: 1

    This does nothing except provide a tax write off and stroke the giver ego.

    Do real scientist do this for the money and the prizes? No.

    Providing a wad of cash provides no extra incentive.

    If the real goal is to change the overall culture of enourgaging science - its still misguided.

    Why not take that $$ and use it for more grant proposals and set fund science VC style and get more incubators?

  8. AWS S3 on Webhosting For A Large Art Project? · · Score: 1

    http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

    For 500GB you are looking at 46.50 or $70 a month for storage alone. I'd think the transfer costs (HTTP traffic) would be pennies based on the traffic patterns described.

    You won't be able to use rsync ... but I'd guess there are solutions our there that allow mirror like functionality you describe.

  9. Need more information on Convincing Your Employer To Go With FOSS? · · Score: 1

    The requirements sound like you need knowledge management system. Not a content management system.

    Of course that being said (without knowing the requirements), why wouldn't a wiki work? There are lots of wiki solutions available.

  10. Solution is quite obvious on Hardware TPM Hacked · · Score: 3, Funny

    Since using technique involves reverse engineering the chip, this is a clear violation of the DMCA. So just find your local attorney and prosecute.

    Problem solved. Nothing to see here move along. Thanks for playing. :)

  11. easy : Allow it for the private citizens on Panel Warns NASA On Commercial Astronaut Transport · · Score: 1

    Allow licenses for trips into space for private citizens via private corporations. Those who can afford it would fund the cost to get it done. In the quest to standardize and get more travelers, the cost would go down. Possibly low enough to be cost effective that NASA would then transition to the best provider.

  12. Ask Robert Morris on Ethics of Releasing Non-Malicious Linux Malware? · · Score: 1

    His worm had a little bug in it and see what happened to him :)

  13. building a network is hard? on Why Google Doesn't Need To Win the Bid To Win In January · · Score: 4, Insightful

    TFA says "Owning and operating a network, on the other hand, could make for a costly and distracting scenario."

    Because if there is one thing Google doesn't know how to do, its build networks with lots of computers and network them together.

  14. If this causes a decrease in alarmism ... on Arecibo Observatory Loses Funding · · Score: 2, Funny

    If this causes a decrease in "asteroid to swing by the earth within 10 million KM 90 years from now" stories - I'm all for cutting the funding.

  15. Re:Proof that there's no proof on PA Seizes Newspaper's Computers · · Score: 4, Informative

    The website had disclaimers on it (either during the login process or once you are signed in) that states unauthorized access is prohibited and that the web site is for official use only.

    So a journalist (or anyone) using the site with someone's else's login credentials violates the terms of service of the site.

    There is no way to plead ignorance for those who improperly accessed the site.

  16. I loath the appliance on The Google Search Server · · Score: 1

    I loath the google appliance. I liked it for the price and it was supposed to be like an appliance. Plug it in, turn it on and click a few buttons and off you go.

    It locked up for me waay to many times even though google cites this as rare. I wasted way to much time on support for a device which should not need this level of babysitting.

    When my contract ends, I'm switching to Nutch.

  17. Re:Dupe them on Dealing with Network Politics and Insecure Users? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Lay down some groundrules. If getting spyware or launching a worm on campus, or taking the time to debug the non-standard machine needs done - then charge the department back. Then the department head has a battle to fight with respect to budget.

  18. Re:Pedantic on New Apache Tomcat Branch 5.5 Released · · Score: 1

    The article is wrong. Tomcat 5.5 does not depend on JDK5.0. It uses classes which are distributed by JDK 5.0 by default. But Tomcat 5.5 works fine with JDK 1.4 and the compat libraries.

  19. Re:Change is for JSP compilation ... on New Apache Tomcat Branch 5.5 Released · · Score: 1

    Sorry, you still need tools.jar.

  20. Wasn't the VCHIP supposed to fix this? on FCC to Require Broadcasters to Keep Tapes of Shows · · Score: 1

    Don't people understand that the VCHIP can block out based on Sex, dialog, violence, or age?

    Geez!

  21. Re:Microsoft to remove the @ symbol from URLs on Microsoft Advises to Type in URLs Rather than Click · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough mozilla allows this too:
    http://www.microsoft.com:hahahahahahahahahah ahahah ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha@slashdot.org/article.p l?sid=04/01/30/0428242&mode=nested&tid=113&tid=126 &tid=133&tid=172&tid=186&tid=95&threshold= 2

    [Should be a link to this story]

    So isn't mozilla sort of vulnerable to this issue too?

  22. Oddly enough ... Metallica - Enter Sandman on What Was the Very First MP3 You Downloaded? · · Score: 1

    And it wasn't mp3. It was a .au file on a Sun workstation. I didn't learn about mp3 until years later.

    I already had the cd - I was amazed that I could download a song. This was also at that same time, my home machine (not a Sun workstation) was still using a 14,400 baud modem.

  23. Re:IMHO, but I must admit IAAL on Web Ad Trademark Law To Be Retested · · Score: 0

    IANAL, but please send me the magazines of the last 50 years, and I'll gladly provide some free research.

  24. Still can't beat on Best Online Mapping Site? · · Score: 1

    The old guy hanging out at AAA. He'll give you the right directions and more detail than you'll ever want to know.

  25. Re:What worries me most on Senate Approves Measure to Undo FCC Rules · · Score: 1

    This is Lott's payback for getting no support from the White House for Lott's racial remarks when Lott lost his speaker position. If Lott goes away from administration wishes, it could be an interesting if any other Republican has the balls to go for a ride. If so, it may be an interesting run up to the election. The topic which split the Republicans: Big freaking deficit.