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  1. Re:Selll your stock. on Apple Is Now the Most Valuable Company In History · · Score: 1

    If anything I think we are in a 'gadget bubble' right now, and Apple is king. I've spent much more on pianos, violins and lessons for my kids the last few years than electronics.

  2. Re:Can't have it all on US Astronomy Facing Severe Budget Cuts and Facility Closures · · Score: 1

    They can retire whenever they want if they pay for it.

  3. Re:Yep on Is Windows 8 Microsoft's Riskiest Bet? · · Score: 1

    I don't think so- MS didn't want to delay windows 8 and include 'windows 8 desktop' so they released it as is... windows 9 will have 'windows 8 desktop'
    They get to sell the same thing twice.

  4. Re:Why does "reasonable expectation" matter? on Police Don't Need a Warrant To Track Your Disposable Cellphone · · Score: 1

    It sounds like it boils down to this- they don't know who the owner of the phone is, but it has been linked to an illegal use. Does it require a warrant to locate this phone?

  5. Re:This must be some new use of the word "fast"... on Windows 8 RTM Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    Why didn't they use SSD for the boot disk? Article is ridiculous.

  6. Re:Weird benchmarks on Windows 8 RTM Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    Another thing that I thought was odd was using the HDD as the boot disk... why did they even have a SSD in the configuration? If SSD was used for boot the differences in startup and shutdown wouldn't have been as much.

  7. Re:Why does "reasonable expectation" matter? on Police Don't Need a Warrant To Track Your Disposable Cellphone · · Score: 1

    So if the Coast Guard triangulates on the radio of a drug running boat to find it they shouldn't do this either?
    If you emit radiation you should assume it is public.

  8. Re:Look at it this way... on Police Don't Need a Warrant To Track Your Disposable Cellphone · · Score: 1

    The article does not say that explicitly- I don't really know much about cell protocols but there may be a way to do it just by looking at the signals.

  9. Re:Why does "reasonable expectation" matter? on Police Don't Need a Warrant To Track Your Disposable Cellphone · · Score: 1, Interesting

    If you have a unique flashing blue light on your car and police notice that it shows up at different drug sites in a pattern, are they supposed to ignore it? What is different about the EM radiation from a cellphone other than you not being able to see it?

  10. Re:Contrary to my morality on Saudi Arabia Objects To Proposed .gay gTLD, Among Others · · Score: 1

    What do you mean by censorship? If taxpayers want to be reasonably certain that porn isn't available in schools or libraries is blocking porn censorship? Why would a website operator want to get around these restrictions?

  11. Re:It's just random use of antibiotics. on Widely Used Antibacterial Chemical May Impair Muscle Function · · Score: 1

    Maybe they just love their work :-)

  12. Re:Why not just wait? on Thoughts On the iPad Mini · · Score: 1

    Here's a better thought- add phone service to this thing and call it a 'iPhone Maxi'

  13. Am I correct? on Is Sexual Harassment Part of Hacker Culture? · · Score: 1

    Readercon is to hackers as donut is to washtub?

  14. Re:Downgrade rights on CowboyNeal Weighs In On the Windows 8 "Metro" GUI · · Score: 2

    I would be surprised if you couldn't add a startup job to click the desktop icon.

  15. Re:Field dependent requirement on Ask Slashdot: How Many of You Actually Use Math? · · Score: 1

    I can't take credit for this, it is a chemists trick from when plotters were used with a gas chromatograph and there was no automatic integration.

  16. Re:My biggest problem... on Scrum/Agile Now Used To Manage Non-Tech Projects · · Score: 1

    You have a good view of how things should happen but that is not how the usually occur, at least from my POV.
    I am sure there are other successful outlooks that work too this is just my personal experience.

  17. Re:My biggest problem... on Scrum/Agile Now Used To Manage Non-Tech Projects · · Score: 1

    Well for one, I always know what is coming down the pipe so I could get my team and I on the juiciest projects and avoid the loser/death-march projects. I would also get called to do prototypes and demos so upper management became familiar with me, so it was easy to ask for large pay increases.

    Exposure to OPS has increased my ability to troubleshoot environment issues.

  18. Re:But how smart? on Google's Self-Driving Cars: 300,000 Miles Logged, Not a Single Accident · · Score: 1

    These cars are not self driving!
    By law there is a licensed operator at the wheel that is ready to take control at any time. Without stats of how often these operators had to take control from the computer these statistics are meaningless!

  19. Re:My biggest problem... on Scrum/Agile Now Used To Manage Non-Tech Projects · · Score: 1

    That's funny, I have always been curious about what everyone is doing, even operations and sales. I have found this knowledge extremely helpful for both my projects and my career.

  20. Re:Field dependent requirement on Ask Slashdot: How Many of You Actually Use Math? · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's not true- one way is to plot your curve on the paper (a pencil will do), cut it along the line and weigh it.

  21. Re:Mod parent down! on A Conversation with Rob Malda - Part One of Three (Video) · · Score: 1

    Wet?

  22. Huh? on Bad Software Runs the World · · Score: 1

    while user-facing software is often well-polished

    I think the distinction is that most user facing software doesn't lose 400million due to a bug.

  23. Re:Mod parent down! on A Conversation with Rob Malda - Part One of Three (Video) · · Score: 1

    Get out much?

  24. Re:No way. Too late. SSDs already cheap enough on Are SSD Accelerators Any Good? · · Score: 1

    Java apps really benefit to... open office is amazingly quick.

  25. Re:Transcript, please. on A Conversation with Rob Malda - Part One of Three (Video) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, like you were going to RTFA anyway ;-)