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  1. Re:I've had issues with the Win10 NVIDIA drivers.. on Windows 10's Automatic Updates For NVidia Drivers Causing Trouble · · Score: 1

    Perhaps she is trying to capture installation instructions and test them? There is no way to know what testing Snowgirl is doing, but it is very likely there is a good reason for multiple reinstalls.

  2. Re:yawn on MIT Stealth Startup Charges Up Wireless Power Competition · · Score: 1

    Though the 3,100mAh battery has wireless charging capabilities, it cannot be removed (two screws on the bottom corners make sure of that). This may be inconvenient for those who like to swap out their battery often, but it does mean one fewer seam for water to seep through.

    If you want to call it water resistant, that is up to you, but it isn't splash resistant, you can actually take it underwater and use it. Waterproof is just a term, but due to legal reasons, no one calls anything waterproof in marketing.

    It has integrated QI charging, so it absolutely does have wireless charging. A water resistant case doesn't allow you to charge the phone as easily as dropping a phone on a charger, so it does not solve the problem, it just makes it 10 times harder to charge the phone while making the phone enormous.

    You might not want a phone that is so easy to charge and doesn't require a constant supply of USB cables as they wear out. Others prefer wireless charging and see the benefit of it in the ability for the phone to just be placed in a charging cradle and have no exposed ports.

  3. Re:Likely misdemeanor mishandling of classified in on Criminal Inquiry Sought Over Hillary Clinton's Personal Email Server · · Score: 1

    All of the emails she didn't turn over that she apparently deleted?

    According to some of the stories, there were even emails where paragraphs were cut out, wouldn't that be mutilation?

  4. Re:Yep, keep searching on Criminal Inquiry Sought Over Hillary Clinton's Personal Email Server · · Score: 1

    By international treaty, embassies are "sovereign territory", but consulates are not.

    Are you sure about that?

    http://diplomacy.state.gov/dis...

    As far as I read that, a consulate is just a smaller version of an Embassy. I have never visited a US consulate, but I have been to a US embassy, and the security was pretty insane. Embassies are in the capital, consulates are in regional capitals.

    http://geography.about.com/od/...

    A consulate is just a smaller version of an embassy and is run by a person with the title consul. The embassy is only located in the capital city and is where the ambassador is in charge. Seeing how Chris Stevens was the ambassador to Libya, what was he doing in the consulate and not the embassy?

    Also, from the wikipedia entry on the attack:

    Diplomatic Security Service Special Agent Scott Strickland secured Ambassador Stevens and Sean Smith, an information management officer, in the main building's safe haven.[79][81] Other agents retrieved their M4 carbines and tactical gear from another building. They tried to return to the main building but encountered armed attackers and retreated.[79]

    What were they doing with M4 carbines if it is illegal to send US military there without permission!

  5. Re:Likely misdemeanor mishandling of classified in on Criminal Inquiry Sought Over Hillary Clinton's Personal Email Server · · Score: 1

    http://www.archives.gov/about/...

    If you say so. I believe they are very specific on what needs to be kept and what not. How much do you have to deal with official records?

  6. Re:I am shocked! on "Breaking Bad" At the National Institute of Standards and Technology · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, I meant to type 2009, not sure how 2005 got in there. I did mean specifically just before Obama took office compared to now.

    Unemployment/Underemployment/Labor participation numbers are absolutely abysmal, these are the true measures of a recovery, not how the stock market is doing.

  7. Re:Mailbox on Criminal Inquiry Sought Over Hillary Clinton's Personal Email Server · · Score: 1

    Do you have a link to this information? As far as I understood it, she like every other employee was given an email address, she just never bothered to log into it.

  8. Re:Mishandling Sensitive Material? on Criminal Inquiry Sought Over Hillary Clinton's Personal Email Server · · Score: 4, Informative

    Since no one was allowed to audit the email server, we will never know if it was in fact hacked as Hillary is hardly an IT expert.

    http://politics.slashdot.org/s...

    Also, the server apparently was horribly misconfigured.

  9. Re:yawn on MIT Stealth Startup Charges Up Wireless Power Competition · · Score: 1

    Noone?

    http://www.cnet.com/products/k...

    Failed!

    I use it so I don't have to remove the waterproof cover from the USB port, I can just place my phone in a holder at home and it charges, and I place it in a stand in the car which charges it. So obviously, no one is the wrong word to use.

    Please also, show me this mythical case you don't have to take off to charge your phone while it stays waterproof, without wireless charging.

  10. Re:It depends on who is in charge on Criminal Inquiry Sought Over Hillary Clinton's Personal Email Server · · Score: 1

    http://fas.org/sgp/othergov/in...

    Page 6 and 7:

    Throughout the history of the United States, certain information has been held “in confidence” to
    protect national security. Executive Order (E.O.) 12958, as amended, specifies conditions under
    which information may be classified for reasons of national security. Information is eligible for
    classification only if it meets all of the following conditions:
    (1) an original classification authority is classifying the information;
    (2) the information is owned by, produced by or for, or is under the control of the United
    States Government;
    (3) the information falls within one or more of the categories of information listed in
    section 1.4 of this order; and
    (4) the original classification authority determines that the unauthorized disclosure of the
    information reasonably could be expected to result in damage to the national
    security, which includes defense against transnational terrorism, and the original
    classification authority is able to identify or describe the damage.1
    Furthermore, Section 1.4 of E.O. 12958, as amended, states that information shall not be
    considered for classification unless it concerns:
    (a) military plans, weapons systems, or operations;

    1
    Part 1, Section 1.1(a) of E.O. 13292, “Further Amendment to Executive Order 12958, as amended, Classified National Security
    Information,” March 25, 2003. Cited in Federal Register, Vol. 68, No. 60, March 28, 2003.
    UNCLASSIFIED
    UNCLASSIFIED
    7
    (b) foreign government information;
    (c) intelligence activities (including special activities), intelligence sources or methods,
    or cryptology;
    (d) foreign relations or foreign activities of the United States, including confidential
    sources;
    (e) scientific, technological, or economic matters relating to the national security, which
    includes defense against transnational terrorism;
    (f) United States Government programs for safeguarding nuclear materials or facilities;
    (g) vulnerabilities or capabilities of systems, installations, infrastructures, projects,
    plans, or protection services relating to the national security, which includes defense
    against transnational terrorism; or
    (h) weapons of mass destruction.2
    Thus, according to the President of the United States, only information owned by, produced for,
    or under the control of the U.S. Government that could cause harm if disclosed in an
    unauthorized manner and contained in one of the eight categories listed above (Section 1.4 a
    through h) may be classified.

    The only people authorized to determine the classification of information is the ORIGINAL classification authority. This is the department producing the intelligence, not the person emailing about it.

  11. Re:But... on Criminal Inquiry Sought Over Hillary Clinton's Personal Email Server · · Score: 1

    I believe that this investigation is more about drying out some particularly stinky mud to improve the Democrat chances of being elected again.

  12. Re:Yep, keep searching on Criminal Inquiry Sought Over Hillary Clinton's Personal Email Server · · Score: 1

    The email the republicans are looking for is the one calling for a force reduction at the embassy. This happened, so the question is, who called for it and why. This question has never been answered. Why was the embassy in a hostile country left undefended in the middle of a riot?

  13. Re:Felons on Criminal Inquiry Sought Over Hillary Clinton's Personal Email Server · · Score: 1

    What does that have to do with being president?

  14. Re:Likely misdemeanor mishandling of classified in on Criminal Inquiry Sought Over Hillary Clinton's Personal Email Server · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nor is blatantly ignoring records retention laws.

  15. Re:This is the WRONG focus on MIT Stealth Startup Charges Up Wireless Power Competition · · Score: 1

    So you have never lost a phone to the dreaded beast that is water?

    Wireless charging allows waterproof design. It can be used for many things: wireless keyboards/mice, wireless charging of laptops, wireless charging of cars by the road, wireless powered sensors.

  16. Re:yawn on MIT Stealth Startup Charges Up Wireless Power Competition · · Score: 1

    Getting to the point where there isn't a wire plugged into your phone allows you to design a phone with no openings. This allows the phone to be WATERPROOF. Thus solving one of the main causes of phone replacement.

  17. Re:Not new on MIT Stealth Startup Charges Up Wireless Power Competition · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because all directed energy is harmful to flesh, right?

    These are magnetic fields in the range of less than those generated by your fridge, if it was harmful, everyone in the first world would already be dead.

  18. Re:In other news... on France To Reduce Reliance On Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    The problem was that the discussion was of France/Germany/Poland AND California. So it was unclear what DC power lines you were speaking of.

  19. Re:In other news... on France To Reduce Reliance On Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    Didn't Bilbo grow a beard?
    He was also a little plump near the end.

  20. Re:Legislate 50% less consumption? Good fucking lu on France To Reduce Reliance On Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    French press.

  21. Re:Legislate 50% less consumption? Good fucking lu on France To Reduce Reliance On Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    What do those seashells do anyways?

  22. Re:Legislate 50% less consumption? Good fucking lu on France To Reduce Reliance On Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    My Makita 9.6v I bought in 98-99 is still going strong after all these years using it for random things.

    It could be that it just can't do he types of jobs that would make it wear out quicker.

  23. Re:Oh great. The cows go moo thing is catching... on France To Reduce Reliance On Nuclear Power · · Score: 0

    Moo!

  24. Re:It is and was really decided long ago on France To Reduce Reliance On Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    I don't know how many astronauts read Slashdot these days, but it couldn't be too many.

    http://science.slashdot.org/st...

  25. Re:Not downsizing nuclear on France To Reduce Reliance On Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    When you have a better solution to power the world, you will be the richest man in the world. Until then, you are a moron claiming other people are stupid.