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  1. Re:Please be good on Neuromancer Movie Deal Moving Forward · · Score: 1

    Already been corrected, but I think you are thinking of Snow Crash, not Neuromancer.

  2. Re:Heavy users? on Verizon Customers: Say So Long To Unlimited Data · · Score: 1

    You can say it about whatever phone you like, and you are wrong. Do you really think that with the high percentage of Windows users in the market people would have trouble using a Windows OS on a phone? Usability isn't that big of a deal. Many of the phones were touchscreen and/or keyboarded. I had a flip with a numeric keypad and never had issues using it. Palm was also incredibly useful, and BlackBerry was the high water line of usability for years before iPhone (or Android) ever came around.

  3. Re:Surely on Saturn's Super Storm · · Score: 1

    Except perhaps those aliens wouldn't have the NIMBYs we have to deal with and would have shifted over to nuclear fission, and possibly even nuclear fusion.

  4. Re:Heavy users? on Verizon Customers: Say So Long To Unlimited Data · · Score: 1

    Um, the networks all advertised it for data when the data portion of 3G was released, they knew it would get used, they failed to upgrade. Stop making excuses. AT&T was actually much worse at it than Verizon, somewhat due to the technology differences, but AT&T still failed at upgrading.

  5. Re:Heavy users? on Verizon Customers: Say So Long To Unlimited Data · · Score: 2

    Are you really that confused? There were tons of very usable smart phones well before the iPhone was considered for designing. You may be drinking the coolade, but you are wrong. Windows Mobile, Palm, BlackBerry, and many others were quite usable and worked wonderfully. Having to use iPhones for work, I would even say they are quite a bit less useful than the old WinMo phones, with WinMo, you could run any software you wanted. Want a tether app, sure no problem.

  6. Re:ssh is the same on Ask Slashdot: FTP Server Honeypots? · · Score: 1

    Hook it to their fingers? For more fun, do it to different hands.

  7. Re: whossh on Ask Slashdot: FTP Server Honeypots? · · Score: 1

    I much prefer our 440v 3 phase for a nice boom.

  8. Re:No on Ask Slashdot: FTP Server Honeypots? · · Score: 1

    Whois the IP address and report them to their ISP. We had someone hack one of our servers before (service account with default password...someone else, not I) and started running a dictionary attack from it, we were notified by our ISP, and we cleaned it up, then started notifying the ISPs of the source of our attack. That is the smart thing to do, but not all ISPs will even do anything about it.

  9. Re:Except that isn't what happened. on Judge Orders Former San Francisco Admin Terry Childs To Pay $1.5M · · Score: 1

    CALIFORNIA PENAL CODE 502(c)
    "COMPREHENSIVE COMPUTER DATA ACCESS AND FRAUD ACT"
    (1) Knowingly accesses and without permission alters, damages,
    deletes, destroys, or otherwise uses any data, computer, computer
    system, or computer network in order to either (A) devise or execute
    any scheme or artifice to defraud, deceive, or extort, or (B)
    wrongfully control or obtain money, property, or data.

    Nope

    (2) Knowingly accesses and without permission takes, copies, or
    makes use of any data from a computer, computer system, or computer
    network, or takes or copies any supporting documentation, whether
    existing or residing internal or external to a computer, computer
    system, or computer network.

    Nope

    (3) Knowingly and without permission uses or causes to be used
    computer services.

    Nope

    (4) Knowingly accesses and without permission adds, alters,
    damages, deletes, or destroys any data, computer software, or
    computer programs which reside or exist internal or external to a
    computer, computer system, or computer network.

    Nope

    (5) Knowingly and without permission disrupts or causes the
    disruption of computer services or denies or causes the denial of
    computer services to an authorized user of a computer, computer
    system, or computer network.

    Authorized user? Who is authorized, who authorizes. Wouldn't giving out the password to numerous people in the room not authorized to have it break this part?

    (6) Knowingly and without permission provides or assists in
    providing a means of accessing a computer, computer system, or
    computer network in violation of this section.

    He would have broken this clause had he provided the passwords over the phone with people in attendance who did not belong having the password, as they tried to force him to do.

    (7) Knowingly and without permission accesses or causes to be
    accessed any computer, computer system, or computer network.

    Nope

    (8) Knowingly introduces any computer contaminant into any
    computer, computer system, or computer network.

    Nope

    (9) Knowingly and without permission uses the Internet domain name
    of another individual, corporation, or entity in connection with the
    sending of one or more electronic mail messages, and thereby damages
    or causes damage to a computer, computer system, or computer
    network.

    Nope

    Ok, what did he break again? Nowhere in there does it say he is required to provide passwords to systems at an office he has already been let go from. If they didn't get the passwords before firing him, tough shit.

  10. Re:PC Fanboys will eat this up! on Apple Causes Religious Reaction In Brains of Fans · · Score: 1

    Um, Macs are PCs...as PC stands for Personal Computer, as opposed to Mainframe Computers. I have always wondered about the logic of calling it PC vs Mac, when both are PCs...

  11. Re:Except that isn't what happened. on Judge Orders Former San Francisco Admin Terry Childs To Pay $1.5M · · Score: 1

    What law? Do you have a link?

  12. Re:Unlikely on Local Atmosphere Heated Rapidly Before Japan Quake · · Score: 1

    There were some reports of higher than normal radioactivity as far away as Maine, it was reported that they thought this was from a radioactive release from Fukushima. Apparently, this could have been from the large Radon release instead.

  13. Re:Except that isn't what happened. on Judge Orders Former San Francisco Admin Terry Childs To Pay $1.5M · · Score: 1

    Except it was quite well detailed in the SF password policy that his boss was not entitled to the password, and surely the HR director on the other end of the phone, as well as the police officers they called are not privy to the password.

  14. Re:We've sent them a message already... on Gliese 581d Confirmed as 'Habitable' Exoplanet · · Score: 1

    I thought it was Belgium.

  15. Re:Nice on GSM Association Slams Euro Call For Ban On Wireless In School · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death

    Yes, the nuttery is that bad sometimes...

  16. Re:Oh? on NSA CS Man: My Tracking Algorithm Was 'Twisted' By the Government · · Score: 1

    Bull shit. We are in a declared war in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war_by_the_United_States

  17. Re:Really? on Why People Watch StarCraft, Instead of Playing · · Score: 1

    How the hell!? I wasn't aware you could counter that move in such a way, wow, just wow.

  18. Re:nuclear can be safe; short term profit preferre on Engineers Find Nuclear Meltdown At Fukushima Plant · · Score: 1

    I put salt on food I eat, and I have not died any time recently from it. Perhaps I am trying to point out that toxic isn't the right word to use?

    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/toxic

  19. Re:Bring Back The Fairness Doctorine on Bill Clinton Suggests Internet Fact Agency · · Score: 1

    This is why I go to the BBC for news, rather than any US news organizations.

  20. Re:I'm a left winger on Bill Clinton Suggests Internet Fact Agency · · Score: 1

    So, if this is your rationale behind being a left wing supporter, how you you align that with the left's support of the media corporations? Left or right, they are both in support of corporations, just different ones.

  21. Re:One question they did not answer on Lodsys Responds To In-App Purchasing Patent Controversy · · Score: 1

    Does the patent office really make a profit? Is it possible for them to lose money?

  22. Re:One question they did not answer on Lodsys Responds To In-App Purchasing Patent Controversy · · Score: 1

    Agreed, this patent actually makes sense when you consider that it is a manufactured dog toy, not a stick. Now the method of swinging on a swing pantent is blatantly stupid however, and would serve as a much better example of abuse of the system.

  23. Re:hot because she is Asian? on Disorderly Conduct Charge for Offensive Classmate Ratings · · Score: 1

    What laws would this be that prevent abortion in the face of harm to baby and or mother?

  24. Re:Yes on Alabama Nuclear Reactor Gets 'F' Grade · · Score: 1

    0, as that is pretty much impossible.

  25. Re:nuclear can be safe; short term profit preferre on Engineers Find Nuclear Meltdown At Fukushima Plant · · Score: 1

    I misunderstood the term meta-stable and later figured out the error. Not being a nuclear isotope specialist, I am not clear though on the actual dangers of the 99 isotope vs the 99m isotope, and I have to say, the Wikipedia article doesn't really go into the dangers. Please enlighten me on why this isotope is so dangerous.