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  1. Re:Club on Hackers Steal Keyless BMW In Under 3 Minutes · · Score: 2

    Another is to never lock a door on a convertible, if someone cuts through the roof to get inside the cost will be much more than anything they could have stolen.

  2. Re:Club on Hackers Steal Keyless BMW In Under 3 Minutes · · Score: 1

    Opportunists aren't going to be hacking into a BMW either, which is what the article is about. I would agree that a club has some preventive value....

  3. Re:It's like this. on Does Grammar Matter Anymore? · · Score: 1

    This is all so complicated, how about a car analogy? ;-)

  4. Re:Club on Hackers Steal Keyless BMW In Under 3 Minutes · · Score: 4, Informative

    Steering wheels are a thin steel hoop enclosed in foam you can hacksaw through them in less than a minute.

  5. Re:Have they actually found it? on Texas Scientists Regret Loss of Higgs Boson Quest · · Score: 2

    Estimating the mass and energy of particles is a very established science- I would be very surprised if all of the detectors aren't calibrated in real-time against well known particles identified in the same event.

  6. Re:hmm on Texas Scientists Regret Loss of Higgs Boson Quest · · Score: 2

    ....except this would of funded research for hundreds if not thousands of young physicists across the USA.

  7. Re:Get over yourselves on Texas Scientists Regret Loss of Higgs Boson Quest · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Congresses cut of funding destroyed physics programs across the country- although the collider was in Texas there were people working on detectors, software and other aspects of the project across the entire US.

  8. Re:'Atomically pure material' on Qubits Stored at Room Temp For Two Seconds · · Score: 1

    I believe you on that but you would be surprised at how many nines they get out of some important industrial materials.

  9. Re:'Atomically pure material' on Qubits Stored at Room Temp For Two Seconds · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually diamonds are probably one of the less pure materials, because there is no way to refine them like you can with elements that can be zone refined such as silicon. Buckyballs can be refined by fractional crystalization... etc etc.

    Impurities are locked into diamonds.

  10. Re:And... on Why Mark Zuckerberg Is a Bad Role Model For Aspiring Tech Execs · · Score: 1

    So I guess you are applying 'clothism' with 'twits in a business suit'....

  11. 'Atomically pure material' on Qubits Stored at Room Temp For Two Seconds · · Score: 1

    Who gives a shit? There are lots of atomically pure materials.

  12. Re:And... on Why Mark Zuckerberg Is a Bad Role Model For Aspiring Tech Execs · · Score: 1

    Also he dresses poorly. Don't go to wall street hoodie in hand asking for people to invest their pension money.

  13. Re:A good team is tops; materialism is irrelevant. on Ask Slashdot: What Defines Good Developer Culture? · · Score: 1

    You can retain a good experienced older workforce this way- generally boring surroundings, 40 hr workweeks, infrequent or no 'emergencies', protection from management and showing poor or troublesome employees the door.

  14. Re:In other news on The Hobbit's Higher Frame Rate To Cost Theater Operators · · Score: 1

    When they started selling catsup in bottles instead of cans people complained because the metallic taste was gone.

  15. Re:Fan Edit? on Game of Thrones: Bush's Head Gets a Makeover · · Score: 1

    There is the old saying 'bad publicity is better than none at all'
    This sounds more like an HBO publicity stunt than anything....

  16. Re:Statistics... I hate them. on Immigrants Crucial To Innovation · · Score: 1

    I hate statistics 63% of the time.

  17. Re:why not SQL on the POS? on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 1

    What if his network goes down? He needs to spend a few hours figuring out a pencil/paper/calculator process and have that ready to go as a backup.

  18. Re:True HA costs money on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 1

    Please mod- this was my initial thought

  19. Re:best antivirus / firewall for Windows? Linux? on Older Means Wiser To Computer Security · · Score: 1

    I have used the AVG free suite for years with the more obtrusive stuff turned off and have had no problems...

  20. Re:O RLY? on Why Bad Jobs (or No Jobs) Happen To Good Workers · · Score: 1

    Or better yet, cut some of the rubbish from your lifestyle and have one of the parents stay home to take care of the kids.

  21. Re:hard drive prices/GB are also dropping on SSD Prices Down 46% Since 2011 · · Score: 1

    Not sure what your beef is, I have one and I think it was worth every penny.

  22. Re:Training! on Why Bad Jobs (or No Jobs) Happen To Good Workers · · Score: 1

    I think there is more to it than pay- you need management that protects their coders, keeps the hours reasonable and gets rid of employees that pollute the work environment.

  23. Re:Training! on Why Bad Jobs (or No Jobs) Happen To Good Workers · · Score: 1

    I've been told that these are unenforceable.

  24. Re:Lie on your resume on Why Bad Jobs (or No Jobs) Happen To Good Workers · · Score: 3, Informative

    One of my co-workers came off of a HP minicomputer and was fixing bugs in .NET web applications within a few weeks, a few years later he is now the lead on another web project.

  25. Re:There is a fundamental error on Capitalists Who Fear Change · · Score: 1

    Recording industry has money invested in a business model and they are going to get as much money as possible from their investment as possible. It's dollars and cents, fear has nothing to do with it.