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  1. Simple Checkbox on Google Sued Over Children's In-App Android Purchases · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That says "Remember this payment method for the next half hour?" Then they can choose to make it a one shot only payment.

  2. Re:My bank enforces stupid passwords on Top E-commerce Sites Fail To Protect Users From Stupid Passwords · · Score: 1

    My bank tells you if you entered an invalid user name. Not particularly thrilled about that.

  3. Re:Dwarfed? yeah right on Japan Marks 3rd Anniversary of Tsunami Disaster · · Score: 1

    Ah, sorry. My tendency to not be able to see subtlety sometimes results in trying to see it where none exists... or just misread things entirely.

  4. Re:Dwarfed? yeah right on Japan Marks 3rd Anniversary of Tsunami Disaster · · Score: 1

    Not quite sure what you are trying to say here, that numbers don't matter?

  5. Re:Why can't this shit happen to North Korea? on Japan Marks 3rd Anniversary of Tsunami Disaster · · Score: 1

    I can't say how accurate the sources are but this might provide some information: http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/C/...

    The main points I see are the comments that even at the end of the war at most 1-3% of Japanese soldiers would surrender and the killed to wounded ratio of Japanese vs anyone else. Also note the low number civilian casualties among the Japanese relative to anyone else.

  6. Re:Win 7 on Microsoft's Attempt To Convert Users From Windows XP Backfires · · Score: 1

    I run win 8 on my primary machine at home and ...mostly... like it better than windows 7. As a power user I've killed off metro and installed a start button and it pretty much feels like Win 7 but slightly faster.

    Though honestly I think I would like Win 8 and metro IF it wasn't full screen. Make the start window its own window, kind of a background, instead of on top of everything and I think I would use it. As it is, I typically have a dozen and some things running at one time (ok, mostly explorer windows...) and don't care at all for losing my ability to jump between the items I'm working on.

  7. Re:Office 2003 works on Microsoft's Attempt To Convert Users From Windows XP Backfires · · Score: 2

    I've been using the "ribbon" for a few years now, and it still sucks.

    QFT

  8. Re:No radiator in a Leaf on Tesla Used A Third of All Electric-Car Batteries Last Year · · Score: 1

    I have a fanless server at home that works really great in a cool area but in 80+ degree weather has the tendency to shut down. I hope the leaf handles Mexico better than my server would.

  9. Re:The only question left? on Tesla Used A Third of All Electric-Car Batteries Last Year · · Score: 1

    At the moment gasoline but that is a whole other topic.

  10. Re:oops on The Emerging RadioShack/Netflix Debacle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If Netflix sold the time codes to RadioShack up front, I don't think they particularly care what happens to them. Not that I found anything that says one way or the other what happened.

  11. Re:Quality, not quantity on Do We Really Have a Shortage of STEM Workers? · · Score: 2

    Pray tell where this wisdom was gained and how I can pass it onto HR?

  12. Re:Future issues on Do We Really Have a Shortage of STEM Workers? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I've been doing a lot of contract work lately where I'm told they have no one that knows the code I'm to be working on. This is stuff that is core to some pretty major projects.

  13. Re:I thought this had been settled long ago. on Do We Really Have a Shortage of STEM Workers? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yep, I spent a few years of my career fixing stuff that came back from over seas. Cheap labor has been pretty good job security for me.

  14. Re:More likely on Majority of Young American Adults Think Astrology Is a Science · · Score: 1

    Depends, do they think astrology is astronomy or astronomy is astrology. One is not that bad, the other is not that good...

  15. Virus Proof? on Death Hovers Politely For Americans' Swipe-and-Sign Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    So when a virus is loaded up on the client devices that are scanning the cards, this improves things how?

  16. Re:Learn to freaken drive. on Atlanta Gambled With Winter Storm and Lost · · Score: 1

    Even up north when the snow is coming down over an inch an hour and the plows haven't been through my road in the past few hours the road conditions are nasty. It is still drivable, mostly. I'll admit three times in the past decade (that I can remember off hand) I've been driving along plenty careful on a snowy road only to have the car go dead straight into a corner when two feet ago it was turning just fine.

    Just my uneducated opinion but I suspect part of the problem is cars remaining at the scene of a fender bender. In that weather if your car rolls at all, exchange contact information and get the heck off the road. Respectfully :)

  17. Re:Learn to freaken drive. on Atlanta Gambled With Winter Storm and Lost · · Score: 1

    And as soon as you wait for a large enough gap to the car ahead of you that you can maintain a slow speed, someone pulls in front of you.

  18. Re:Canadian driving on Atlanta Gambled With Winter Storm and Lost · · Score: 1

    Well when the temperature is below zero (heck when it is below 15f) the salt dosen't work so well... at all. Also didn't see any sand on the road that morning, possibly because the snow fall was quickly covering it. When we get an inch+ an hour snowfall at times for hours at a time even Michigan snow clearing equipment has trouble.

  19. Re:Canadian driving on Atlanta Gambled With Winter Storm and Lost · · Score: 1

    I'm in west Michigan and have the original tires for my 2008 car and haevn't been rotating them like I should so the fronts are wearing. Handling has been getting a bit worse but its just a matter of don't do anything suddenly and maintain enough distance to make that possible.

  20. Re:So a good match... on New Russian Fighter Not Up To Western Standards · · Score: 1

    Yeah, if BVR was going to be all that useful it seems like an advanced F-14 would have been developed. Seemes the ability to shoot down six targets at over 100 miles in one volley is not particularly valued.

  21. Re:Dangerous... on California Students, Parents Sue Over Teacher Firing, Tenure Rules · · Score: 1

    ... and most importantly doing it for the betterment of everyone regardless of pay.

    While I agree that most jobs should be done for the betterment of everyone else, regardless of pay, quality of life for one's self (and often one's family) tends to be a stronger motivation. Humans tend to have a hard time seeing how their work is improving others (particularly when teaching people who don't really care) but seeing how their own life is improved is much easier.

  22. Re:Learn the background of languages on Ask Slashdot: It's 2014 -- Which New Technologies Should I Learn? · · Score: 1

    Add a type variable to an object's data and a switch for which "inherited" function to call based on the object's type. Not pretty but adds a form of inheritance.

  23. Re:The Seagate Squeak on Who Makes the Best Hard Disk Drives? · · Score: 1

    On my laptop the secondary drive was a Seagate and it started doing teh chirp. About two or three months later the drive failed and Windows refused to work at all despite the primary drive being just fine. Maybe it had something to do with the primary being a SSD and the virtual memory was pointing to the failed drive.

    Fortunately Linux did an excellent job of recovering the data. Took over 24 hours to copy ~250 Gb of data but it happened.

  24. Re:Amazing how times change. on Who Makes the Best Hard Disk Drives? · · Score: 1

    Any time a drive fails, just replace it with the competitor. Then if you don't have a 50/50 ratio things start becoming obvious and it automatically adjusts if quality shifts over time. ...no I am not a server professional or even amateur, why do you ask?

  25. Re:Amazing how times change. on Who Makes the Best Hard Disk Drives? · · Score: 1

    For me it was buying 4 1.5TB seagate drives and having a 50% failure rate as well as three different laptop drives that each failed between a month or three months. Note my other two 1.5TB seagate drives are crunching along just fine three years later so it could be misfortune. Still I haven't blown up any of my WD drives yet.