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  1. Re:how stupid are people? on Employees Admit They'd Walk Out With Stolen Data If Fired · · Score: 1

    Oh you can, but you'll usually get found out very, very quickly.

  2. Re:100Mbps for..... text...books on Report Says Schools Need 100Mbps Per 1,000 Users · · Score: 1

    9am. 5000 students accessing the same non-cached 25MB PDF on a 4mbps line.

    Do I need to make the calculations, or can you see where I'm going with this?

  3. Re:Who answers these polls? on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 5, Informative

    Results are based on telephone interviews conducted May 3-6, 2012 with a random sample of –1,024—adults, aged 18+, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.

    It's the very first line of the report. http://www.gallup.com/file/poll/155006/Creationism_120601.pdf

  4. Re:When you can't innovate on Canadian Copyright Board To Charge For Music At Weddings, Parades · · Score: 1

    I wonder if it's possible to copyright a protest speech or letter. Anyone wishing to use said protest speech or letter in the future will have to pay big bucks for as long as copyright stays alive. Didn't the Luther-Kings do this with the "I have a dream" speech?

  5. Re:Salaries on IT Positions Some of the Toughest Jobs To Fill In US · · Score: 1

    Would you like a printer with that?

  6. Re:The TSA on TSA Defends Pat Down of 4-Year-Old Girl · · Score: 1

    Will someone PLEASE think of the children?!

    Hey, why not use it when it's finally to our advantage?

  7. Re:Who pays? on Mercedes Can Now Update Car Software Remotely · · Score: 1

    Sure but paying big bucks for a Mercedes, and then afterwards paying big bucks because it decides to go updating its operating system over a wireless connection while you're accidentally overnighting in a place where you haven't got service.

    We've all heard the stories. "Oh, you went outside your coverage area? Pay up sucker! $500 per MB!"

  8. Re:I have an idea on Survey Says Bosses Fear Being Filmed By Employees · · Score: 1

    Isn't that what they always tell us? If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear from these CCTVs we're installing everywhere so we can protect your children.

    I'm A-OK with recording every single move made by CEOs all over the world. We all know it's big business that writes the laws these days anyway, so let's see how they like having their privacy invaded for a change.

  9. Who pays? on Mercedes Can Now Update Car Software Remotely · · Score: 2

    I'm assuming the car connects to some sort of 3g or other wireless network to download updates.

    Who pays for this?

  10. Re:Meh. on The State of the Diablo 3 Beta (Two Videos) · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is you've grown out of playing games. Big whoop, really. There'll be 20 people to replace you.

  11. Re:As An American... on Apple Is Forced By EU To Give 2 Years Warranty On All Its Products · · Score: 5, Informative

    In the EU, you can't change the laws by writing terms on your website, or providing some arbitrary "agreement" with the product. All it takes is for someone to challenge it, and Apple will get a slap on the wrist and get told that the law applies.

    And now that someone did challenge this 1 year warranty "agreement", Apple has got their slap on the wrist and changed their heinous ways.

    That's all there is to it really...

  12. Re:It's illegal on Campaign Urges People To Send MPAA and RIAA Copied Currency · · Score: 0

    It's illegal to print money.

  13. Our business model is dying! on Swiss Voters Reject Book Price Controls · · Score: 2

    You must make laws to ensure its survival!

  14. I have a great idea on Huge Jurassic Fleas May Have Fed On Dinosaurs · · Score: 1

    Let's take some dinosaur blood from the fossil and merge its DNA with African frog DNA and we'll make the greatest petting zoo in the world!

  15. You should on Ask Slashdot: Best Practices For Leaving an IT Admin Position? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    change your name and get a new phone number, and let the new guy figure out everything on his own, from reading your properly written documentation. You did write good documentation, right?

  16. Re:Whats the big deal? on "Learn To Code, Get a Job" According To CNN · · Score: 1

    I meant to write CSS, not javascript, which I did post somewhere in this thread... but it must've gotten lost. Blame /. for not letting me edit my posts.

  17. Re:gives everyone a supercomputer... right on Cloud Computing Democratizes Digital Animation · · Score: 1

    It's not a proper sand castle if construction of it didn't involve at least a bulldozer.

  18. Re:Whats the big deal? on "Learn To Code, Get a Job" According To CNN · · Score: 1

    I meant to write CSS, not javascript. But I suppose we can blame javascript too.

  19. Re:Whats the big deal? on "Learn To Code, Get a Job" According To CNN · · Score: 1

    As soon as you build it into a browser, the browser vendor has to maintain it. Then you never know which version is installed or whether it's even supported in , paving the way for the kind of clusterfuck that javascript already is.

  20. Re:Bandwidth on Almost 1 In 3 US Warplanes Is a Drone · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm not sure where the submitter gets his 500MB/s from, but as others suggest it's probably 500Mb/s.

    However, you might say 500Mb/s is still a tad much, however I have a good idea why it might be that high.

    First, a drone typically doesn't have just a single camera. It'd be a bit of a waste to get cheap there really, when you can put three or four cameras per drone.

    Second, I can imagine military regulations dictate that judging kill orders based on compressed live images from a shaky drone isn't good enough. Has to be a raw data stream to ensure the best possible information is available.

    These are of course just my thoughts and I don't have any experience or insider knowledge to back them up with.

  21. Re:Why does PayPal still exist? on Paypal Orders Buyer of Violin To Destroy It For a Refund · · Score: 1

    That is indeed a possibility, but unfortunately Google doesn't - as far as I know at least - have a way of removing duplicate, or similar entries. That'd be a nice feature to have though. Can't count the number of times I've found those crawler sites that simply rip the content off of other sites for the ad revenue. Ah well...

  22. Re:Apple on Apple Threatens Steve Jobs Doll Maker With Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Imagine if Apple and RIAA got together on that. Oh dear, what've I done?

  23. Re:Why does PayPal still exist? on Paypal Orders Buyer of Violin To Destroy It For a Refund · · Score: 1

    In order for Google to find a string, rather than having it search for each individual word, you need the quotes. Searching for "paypal sucks", quotes included, yields 187,000 results.

    This doesn't invalidate your argument though, seeing as how "paypal is the best", quotes included, yields 32.9 million results.

    Still, I just wanted to point out that you were doing it wrong.

  24. "Summary close" on Spanish Website Blocking Law Implemented · · Score: 1

    What does it mean to "summary close" a website?

    Are we talking that the website has to be hosted at a Spanish provider in order to be closed, or are we talking yet another (idiot) DNSSEC-breaking solution?

    Or simply a custom DNS entry on whichever DNS servers an ISP controls?

  25. Re:That is like suing Ford on Spanish Court Rules In Favor of P2P Engineer · · Score: 1

    I reckon being poor and being unemployed are two entirely different, albeit occasionally related concepts.

    I was referring only to the unemployed. By working two jobs, one is by definition not unemployed.