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  1. Re:So a good match... on New Russian Fighter Not Up To Western Standards · · Score: 3, Funny

    And don't rule out older designs, the military used to train pilots in new planes by pitting them against experienced pilots in F4s and other older jets, and routinely the older jets would get kills against the new ones.

    So long as your Air Force is made up of nothing but experienced pilots, you'll do fine then.

    We''l just recruit new pilots from Lake Wobegon.

    Yeah, all the pilots are above average there.

  2. Didn't happen to me on Network Solutions Opts Customer Into $1,850 Security Service · · Score: 1

    I just logged into my NetSol account for my two domains, and aside from the totally skeevy auto-renew forced on, and only removable with a phone call, I saw no trace of this.

  3. Re:Not exactly new on Network Solutions Opts Customer Into $1,850 Security Service · · Score: 4, Informative

    Since when do lawyers make the law?

    Pretty much since the 20th century. The law schools shit out lawyers and they end up in Congress. 60 Senators and 170 House members (last stats I could find) making up 43% of Congress. Largest representation of any profession, and that's not even looking at state governments.

  4. Re:Lesson from this story...don't be a glass hole! on AMC Theaters Allegedly Calls FBI to Interrogate a Google Glass Wearer · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Lesson from this story...don't be a glass hole!

    No, the lesson from this story is that copyright is unsustainable with our emerging technologies which will enable us to record everything without anyone noticing.

    I think someone noticed. Hence the article.

  5. Mangers? on 20 Million People Exposed In Massive South Korea Data Leak · · Score: 1

    I guess you don't have much physical security when your servers are at a horse farm!

  6. Re:Nest Smoke Detectors are Useless on Google Buys Home Automation Company Nest · · Score: 1

    Many areas of the country, i.e. California, require that for new installations that all of the smoke detectors be wired together using special wire. In my case I just installed a bunch of 2-wire smoke detectors that tie into my monitored alarm system. I had to use special fire alarm wire and the 2 and 4-wire smoke detector hookups are at least somewhat standardized (you don't want to mix brands though) as are the hard-wired AC smoke detectors. Nest wireless smoke detectors can't interface with other smoke detectors or alarm systems and they don't meet the hard-wire connection requirement between detectors. Many people in the Nest forums have complained about this. While it's cool it will help the Nest thermostat keep track of if the house is occupied or not until they provide the proper hard-wired hookups they're not even legal for new installations or even replacing smoke detectors in existing installations.

    That's not exactly true. The law says that they need to be interconnected, and Nest Protects do amongst themselves using 802.11, or falling back to 802.15.4. The requirement that they be hard-wired was dropped a few years back. In essence, if you replace one wired detector with a Nest your should replace all of them...which gets Quite Damn Expensive since they can't interconnect with any wired device.

  7. Re:Consumers don't see these fluctuations on Record Wind Power Levels Trigger Energy Price Fall Across Europe · · Score: 1

    Then those old coal plants should be closed if they can't be brought up to modern emissions standards.
    China has a mandate that ALL coal plants have until Summer 2014 to meet the tougher standards that took effect in Jan 2012 or shut down.
    Of course, it'll have to be enforced to have teeth but given the terrible smog over major cities of the past few years, I think this will be taken seriously.

    Based on what? Their glorious record to date?

  8. Re:Gmail/Google bug on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Misdirected Email? · · Score: 1

    I have a feeling you're dealing with the same issue I am. I've reported it to Google, but years later it still isn't fixed.

    I have a normal username (made up example: abcde@gmail.com). This other user apparently has "a.bcde@gmail.com". I don't know if they get any mail at all, but I get lots of theirs. I even tested it, sending an email to my address with randomly-inserted periods, and they all end up coming to me.

    No, Google specifically touts that as a feature. Look for another reason why you're getting the other person's mail.

  9. Same last name on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Misdirected Email? · · Score: 1

    There's some cow in Oklahoma who shares the same last name and first initial as me, but yet manages to give MY gmail address to all of these various opt-in mailings. Consistently. Spanning years. Not sure how someone can be consistently wrong.

  10. Imagine a world... on U.S. Waived Laws To Keep F-35 On Track With China-made Parts · · Score: 1

    ...where we'd outsourced defense materials to the Soviet Union. That would rightfully be called "freaking insane."

    This isn't too different.

  11. Re:The 21st Century is on 53% More Book Banning Incidents In US Schools This Year · · Score: 1

    Ellison's Invisible Man is banned? Dammit, I was forced to read that (very slow-paced book about racism) in high school. Hours of my life I'll never get back! Why couldn't you have banned it earlier? Whyyyy?

    LMAO. I thought the same thing when reading the summary and was going to post exactly that. (I think my torture was freshman college.)

  12. Re:So that's what the model is based on on US Requirement For Software Dev Certification Raises Questions · · Score: 1

    Exactly. The Supreme Court already ruled you can be forced to contract with a private company for many different things. That cat is out of the bag.
    Expect more of this in the future.

    More? Or did you miss that pretty much every state requires you to hold at least liability insurance to get a drivers' license? And that certainly isn't even the only case before ACA.

    No state requires that to get a license. Owning and operating a motor vehicle on public roads is a whole 'nother story..

  13. Re:Not so bad. on How the Dark Lord of the Internet Made His Fortunes · · Score: 1

    Dark Lord of the internet? Please, it's not like he pirated music or anything.

    Next time he's in the US they can bust him for downloading a song. That's clean out his fortune!

  14. Re:Reputation Management on How the Dark Lord of the Internet Made His Fortunes · · Score: 1

    Willms handled this as, by now, you might expect he would: by hiring a search-engine-optimization company to create a bewildering array of interlinked Web sites with domain names like jessewillmsethics.com and jessewillmscharity.com in order to stack his search results with favorable material.

    They call themselves "reputation management" companies now.

    I call them paid liars.

    You're talking about his lawyers, too, right?

  15. Re:Time Warner and Comcast are NOT Competitors on Don't Expect US Approval of Huge Telecom Mergers · · Score: 1

    Two megalithic corporations do not a competitive market make.

    Yep. Real competition doesn't begin until there are 4 (or more) entities.

  16. Re:Too bad.... on Don't Expect US Approval of Huge Telecom Mergers · · Score: 1

    (It's amazing how 100 years and millions and millions of bribe...err, campaign donations have changed perspectives.)

    Um - perhaps you're unaware that John D. Rockefeller wrote the regulations that broke up Standard Oil. He laughed all the way to the bank.

    You're right, I'm unaware of that. Here I always thought this case might have had something to do with it. But yes, he did laugh all the way to the bank pre- and post-breakup.

  17. Too bad.... on Don't Expect US Approval of Huge Telecom Mergers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ....the government didn't have this kind of wisdom when they allowed allow of the oil company mergers again. (It's amazing how 100 years and millions and millions of bribe...err, campaign donations have changed perspectives.) How well have they worked out for the American consumer?

  18. Re:Jailbreakingg on The iOS 7 Jailbreak Fiasco · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wifi Analyzer and SwiftKey are two apps that are so useful to me that I will never even consider an Apple phone.

    Wow. After switching from Android to iOS those are the ONLY two apps I miss...not enough to regret switching, though.

  19. Re:Guilty and impossible to prove innocent on F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen Cancels RSA Talk In Protest · · Score: 4, Informative

    RSA has categorically denied that they cut a deal with the NSA. But Mr. Hypponen and the rest of the internet has declared them guilty based on unseen evidence. How is that fair?

    First, no one said that life was fair. Secondly, RSA didn't categorically deny anything. Go parse their statement carefully. They've denied a specific scenario with several criteria, that's it.

  20. Re:First step on Programming Molecules To Let Chemicals Make Decisions · · Score: 1

    Errr, "descolada." Think I was dyslexic a bit there....

  21. First step on Programming Molecules To Let Chemicals Make Decisions · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the first step to creating Orson Scott Card's "descadola" virus. When reality imitates fiction....

  22. Re:Noah on Research Suggests One To Three Men Fathered Most Western Europeans · · Score: 1

    This proves it! Noah and his sons have been found through genetics.

    Isn't this really what this is all about? Not the research, but **why** the research is noteworthy...

    There are **alot** of people who believe the Torah, New Testament, etc not as litteral truth but as mythology which can represent truthful stories under a layer of abstraction.

    The problem with that is the stories were presented as literal truth until proven otherwise and then they conveniently became mythology buried under abstraction.

  23. Re:While... on Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records · · Score: 3, Funny

    If we look closely enough it is quite likely that we will find spree shooters all had drivers licenses. Talk about a key similarity!

    And they all breathe air! Time to ban oxygen!

  24. Re:USA,..... on Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records · · Score: 1

    The terrorists won.

    Yep, if the definition of terrorism is to be terrorized.

  25. Re:Talking to itself! on Google Wants To Write Your Social Media Responses For You · · Score: 2

    Great! Eventually all social media communications will break down to a generic set of responses back and forth..

    WIll??? You're saying that is hasn't???