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  1. Writing to memory is still storage on Canadian Malls Are Using Facial Recognition To Track Shoppers' Age, Gender Without Consent (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Long-term, short-term -- it is still being stored.

  2. Not fired, garbage collected on The Man Who Was Fired By a Machine (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    The individual responsible for keeping him flagged as an active resource failed to perform that activity and he was garbage collected.

  3. As soon as someone responds, the bot is writing the conversation to memory. How is this not making an illegal recording, regardless of length of storage, in two party consent locations?

  4. Where can I buy me some SchruteCoin? I have a big bag of Stanley Nickels to buy them with.

  5. Innovation is sooo last year.... on Linus Torvalds: Talk of Tech Innovation is Bullshit. Shut Up and Get the Work Done (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Get with the times - you have to be disruptive now.

  6. They'll profit by selling in volume on Tesla Posts 13th Straight Loss, Says On Track For Second-Half Deliveries (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    When asked how the company can survive by selling each unit at a loss, Elon Musk responded "Although Tesla sells each vehicle below the cost to manufacture, we will attain profitability by selling in volume".

  7. Who is running their shop? on Codecademy's ReSkillUSA: Gestation Period For New Developers Is 3 Months · · Score: 1

    They should fire their IT staff and only run it using their 3-month program "grads". Is this the same company that tells companies that they should only hire PMP certified people which, of course, a PMP certification can only be obtained from them?

  8. Diplomacy Skills and Design Patterns on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Out As a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Diplomacy Skills and Design Patterns. Those are my two I wished I learned starting out as a young know-nothing.

  9. Re:And in 5 years... on 13-Year-Old Uses Fibonacci Sequence For Solar Power Breakthrough · · Score: 2

    I had to straighten my father out one night regarding this very myth. I explained it thusly: When the barbarians were at Britain's doorstep during WW Deuce, and the same barbarians were trying to conquer northern Africa for the oil routes, I'm pretty sure the respective leadership was not concerned about protecting the oil industry's profits and wouldn't have ignored this mythical marvelous fuel efficient carburetor.

  10. What are google's ToS? on Bing Is Cheating, Copying Google Search Results · · Score: 1

    If the google expressly prohibits the use of its services for commercial purposes without some sort of license, or their results are copyrighted, or some other such legal mechanism is in place, Microsoft could/should find themselves on the other end of yet another lawsuit.

  11. Made interesting to... on 200 Students Admit Cheating After Professor's Online Rant · · Score: 1

    It sounds like you tried to make the class interesting to yourself, rather than understanding your audience and making it interesting to them.

  12. Correction on IE 9 Beta Strips Down For Speed · · Score: 1

    "So, forget the performance and security boost, most enterprises and netbook users."

  13. Re:You're not flying cheaper! on Airlines Get Billions From Unbundled Services · · Score: 1

    If you don't like the price to fly, you can always take the bus, the train, drive, bicycle, or walk. Figure out how much your time is worth and the real cost of these other options to get to your destination and back, then tell everyone how much you are getting fucked harder and harder. Last time a compared a train ticket, it was more expensive than flying - and it took two days compared to four hours. Flying is cheap for what you get, really.

  14. Re:Wikileaks doesn't possess these documents on Pentagon Seeking Out Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    Herein lies a credibility problem. If wikileaks does have the documents, why are they not publishing them? For extortion? If they are what they say they are, they should be publishing them en masse, not trickling them out for sensationalism.

  15. The end is near? on Iceland Volcano's Ash Grounds European Air Travel · · Score: 0

    Massive earthquakes, flooding, and now volcanoes. Maybe the world really is going to end in 2012.

  16. I stopped reading when I got to this nugget on Standards Expert — "Microsoft Fails the Standards Test" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I stopped reading when I got to this nugget - "It is also a worrying commentary on the standards-savvyness of the Office developers that the first amateur attempts of part-time outsiders find problems with documents which Redmond's internal QA processes have missed." Is the author really this naive? If so, how did this guy become involved in the process in the first place?

  17. Re:How badly do you need a smartphone? on Best Smartphone Plan Covering US and Canada? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    More so, how badly do you need a phone at all? You are a student. Is there some higher obligation that requires you to have mobile accessibility (and why isn't that paying for it) or is this something you want to have so you can be like all the other cool kids on campus? If a mobile phone is an unnecessary want, get your priorities straight. Plenty of time for over-priced whiz-bangs after school.

    Secondly, what is the need for keeping the same phone number? I had a new number every year when I was in school back when we used two Dixie cups and a string, and modems melted the lines at a blazing 2400 baud.

    Figure out what you really need, then go from there. That should help you decide what it is worth rather than looking to get the cheapest generic plan for something you may not need to begin with.

  18. Re:Lock, what lock? on Newspaper "Hacks Into" Aussie Gov't Website By Guessing URL · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Incorrect. Burglary can still occur if you do not lock the door to your house. The problem here is that the govt posted material on something akin to an unfinished public street that is not (yet) on any my map and then complaining that someone drove onto it because they (the govt) didn't put up a sign/gate to keep people off of it.

  19. Bring the suspected employees to the States on Google Investigating Chinese Employees · · Score: 1

    Anyone know if Google could bring their Google China employees to the US and then have them charged with industrial espionage? I think a quick way of narrowing the field of candidates is to float this out there and see which rats leave the ship.

  20. I am confused. on Hackers Counter Microsoft COFEE With Some DECAF · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Someone please explain. How is Windows secure (no pun intended) if Microsoft can release a tool, or script, which can get information from a password or encrypted system? Surely this cannot be an exploit to a backdoor. Does the use of COFEE require a user to already be logged in for it to work? Seriously. If this is the case, what keeps an evil-doer from using the tool to get into any window system they want and do whatever they want? If the tool has been leaked, then there is plausible deniability regarding any type of evidence on any windows box. Even if it were not leaked, this is proof that the windows platform is inherently insecure because there is a built-in method for bypassing its security features. Someone knowledgeable care to enlighten the uninformed?

  21. Re:it doesn't matter on Busybox Developer Responds To Andersen-SFLC Lawsuits · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If I understand this correctly, all one needs to do is get one change into the source and they have standing to bring a lawsuit against any company not in compliance. From what I read in Wikipedia, these guys have already received undisclosed amounts in previous settlements. That could get interesting - some minor developer suing and getting paid for the work a majority of others have performed. What standing do the other developers have for getting a cut of any settlement?