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  1. Re: Customer service? on Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet · · Score: 1

    And the mobile comment post lost my line breaks. I forgot to put in actual break tags.

  2. Re: Customer service? on Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet · · Score: 1

    Loading back to front wouldn't help. The front seats aren't valuable because they are near the cockpit. The front sears are only valuable because they are the closest to the exit. People choose the front seats because they know they will be the first to get off the plane when it lands. What they really should do is have the entrance be at one end and the exit be at the other. But there are problems with that as well. The front can't always be the exit, because then the plane would have to move 50 feet between passengers getting off and getting on. Or the exit would become the entrance each time, and the pilot would have to remember which door needs to be lined up at each landing. It would swap every time, and if it gets messed up, he has a plane half full of angry people who boarded first and now have to exit last.

  3. Re:Fake info generation to stop intrusive phone ap on Building Deception Into Encryption Software · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is XPrivacy, which uses the XPosed framework. That doesn't disable permissions, but rather sends fake data to the app.

  4. Re:So they mistakenly tell 1:20 people to fuck off on Microsoft Researchers Slash Skype Fraud By 68% · · Score: 1

    Me thinks thou doth protest too much.

    You're using the phrase incorrectly. That phrase doesn't mean "You're whining too much". Rather, it is an argument for attributing guilt. An archaic form of the more recent "He who denied it, supplied it".

  5. Re:gmail plus sign postfix on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Misdirected Email? · · Score: 1

    The issue with gmail in particular is that a) it is unable to filter according to the actual recipient address used and

    Sure you can. But you can't use the TO:"email+filter@gmail.com" field in the filter. Instead, use the field Has the words:"deliveredto:email+filter@gmail.com". The "deliveredto" will match the exact email address for the adressee, while the "to" field just matches the email after it has been resolved from email+filter to email.

    b) it is impossible with any webmail I know to have incoming emails rejected, in particular combined with a)...

    You can do plenty of things, such as applying a label, marking it as spam, etc. But you're right that you can't send a rejection email; you'd need to control the smtp server to do that.

  6. Re:(866) 598-4296 on Woman Facing $3,500 Fine For Posting Online Review · · Score: 1

    Mobius fax, FTW.

    Why Mobius? You don't need to twist the loop in order for it to perpetually fax.

  7. Re:Recently discovered almost 3 years ago on 10-Year-Old Boy Discovers 600-Million-Year-Old Supernova · · Score: 2

    I take that back. Slashdot editors simply linked to the old story of his sister, but did so in such a way that I thought the first article was the article that was summarized. The second link is the actual story.

  8. Recently discovered almost 3 years ago on 10-Year-Old Boy Discovers 600-Million-Year-Old Supernova · · Score: 0

    Published on Tue Jan 04 2011

    Cool story. Not exactly recent, though.

  9. Re:I wish they'd do it here. on NYC's 250,000 Street Lights To Be Replaced With LEDs By 2017 · · Score: 1

    I don't think I've ever seen it snow upwards.

    It comes up, Charlie Brown, snow comes up! ~ Lucy

  10. Re:It is supposed to change on Ask Slashdot: Has Gmail's SSL Certificate Changed, How Would We Know? · · Score: 1

    Once the certificates are changed, it should be considered best practice to rotate the server key as well, so the new certificate will always be signing a different key from the previous certificate.

    I've not heard this before. I'm curious to why this would be considered best practice. What reasons are there to cause one to want to generate a new key instead of reusing the old one?

  11. Re:Will they hide search info from 3d party sites? on Google To Encrypt All Keyword Searches · · Score: 1

    When you go from a secure (https) site to a different domain (whether secure or not), the browser automatically removes the referer tag. So by searching via https, none of the sites will see your search term page.

  12. Re:Genetic Engineering for Night Vision on Why We Need to Keep Our Night Skies Dark (Video) · · Score: 1

    Genetic engineering implies we bypass the whole evolution thing and go straight to editing the source code to our liking.

  13. Re:Yay, onward march of technology on Radical New Icebreaker Will Travel Through the Ice Sideways · · Score: 1

    Yup, just like cotton gins. Increases efficiency, reduces the need for labor, all while giving the same output.

  14. Re:The linked article says it's the last day in Ju on How Are You Celebrating National Sysadmin Day? · · Score: 1

    Kind of throws a wrench in the trick question "What months have 28 days in them?".

  15. Re:The TV networks have had an awful time adapting on How Netflix Eats the Internet · · Score: 1

    Dude, have you even seen 300?

    No. Netflix doesn't have it available for streaming.

  16. Re:Orbital Envoirment Protection Agency.... on NASA's Fermi Spacecraft Dodged a Defunct Russian Satellite · · Score: 1

    The GP has a point. The GGP states they have little relative velocity, which means they would have to have the same inclination. A geosynchronous satellite that is moving in the opposite direction is going to have a ton of relative velocity and would have disastrous results in the event of a collision.

    So perhaps the GPP meant geostationary (or close to it), not just geosyncronous (if the only definition of that is the satellite has a 1-day orbit). However, I am not an astrologer or any sort of scientist, so correct me if I am making incorrect assumptions.

  17. Re:cold war just got hot on NASA's Fermi Spacecraft Dodged a Defunct Russian Satellite · · Score: 1

    That's the way the Tourists Win!

    FTFY

  18. Re: What would you report? on Ask Slashdot: Identity Theft Attempt In Progress; How To Respond? · · Score: 1

    404 Response: units not found.

  19. Re:Already found a bug in Big Island on Liberated Pixel Cup Code Winners Announced · · Score: 1

    Don't be silly. That was obviously Jesus and Peter. Had you continued to watch, a storm would have blown in, and then one would start swimming.

  20. Re:Parasitic words on Linus Torvalds Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Whoooosh.

  21. Re:Verizon on Ask Slashdot: Best Cell Phone Carrier In the US? · · Score: 1

    It can use Wifi and cellular data. I think the free version of GrooVeIP might restrict the ability to use the program over cell data, but I know the paid version can do this. And SIP programs work over cellular data as well.

    However, you need a reliable connection, and a fast one as well. The 3G I get from Virgin Mobile is not very good, so I disabled calling over 3G. It's usable in a pinch (like it is at the end of the monthly cycle and I've used up all my minutes), but it usually has a large delay (sometimes a second or more).

  22. Re:Verizon on Ask Slashdot: Best Cell Phone Carrier In the US? · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure when GP mentioned it was a hassle to set up, they were referring to setting up Google Voice so it was VOIP. This can be done with GrooVeIP (android app) or using any number of SIP apps with a SIP proxy server. It can be done so that Google Voice uses zero minutes and only data.

  23. Fractured glass + vacuum on iPhone 5 Teardown Shows Boost To Repairability · · Score: 2

    So you need to remove fractured glass with a suction cup? Let me know how that works out for you...

  24. Re:You're asking if a hurricane can take down a cl on Could a Category 5 Hurricane Take Down East Coast Data Centers? · · Score: 1

    Funny. Here I thought regular clouds would be fine, seeing as they are high up in the sky and would reform on their own anyway, whereas all of our manmade iClouds are, ironically, stationed on the ground.

  25. Re:Help me, I'm apparently retarded on Ouya Teams Up With XBMC · · Score: 1

    What in god's name does XBMC stand for?!

    I see these stories all the time with no disambiguation of the acronym, and I go to their website and can't even find it there. For the longest time I thought it stood for XBox Media Center.

    Save me from this nagging question please!

    XBox Media Center.

    It was originally created for the XBox, and was later ported to the desktop; the XBox version, incidentally, has been discontinued..

    It is a little annoying seeing the logo on startup: XBMC Media Center. Has no one caught the redundancy?