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  1. Re:Only if no law exists. on Will Real Name Policies Improve Comments? · · Score: 1

    That doesn't do anything to protect you from the HR drone sifting through 100's of resumes.

  2. Re:I'd have assumed... on Kepler Spots "Perfectly Aligned" Alien Worlds · · Score: 1

    My guess is that the gravitation pull between them (over said Billions of years) has pulled them into aligned orbits. But I am neither an astrophysicist, nor a rocket scientist, so salt may be required.

  3. Re:Calendar? on Ask Slashdot: Open Source Employee Vacation-Day Tracking Software? · · Score: 1

    Make the event name the employees number/name/what-ever then export as CSV. Then import into LibreOffice/MSOffice/GoogleDocs and tally the hours/days/star-dates.

  4. Re:Calendar? on Ask Slashdot: Open Source Employee Vacation-Day Tracking Software? · · Score: 1

    Or better yet, take your "vacation" and if/when they call you in, tell them it's overtime!

  5. Re:My novel idea on US Army Developing Armor Tailored For Females · · Score: 1

    When it comes to drinking and growing crops, there's not substitute for fresh water.

    It's got what plants need!

  6. Re:Shouldn't be a big shock on How a 3-Year-Old Can Open a Gun Safe · · Score: 1

    I don't think a 3-year-old can be "gun proofed".

  7. Re:Believe it or not... on City Council Ordered To Stop CCTV In Taxi Cabs · · Score: 1

    Good thing /. is finally compatible with screen readers. Oh wait...

  8. Re:Why would you check that? on Budget 27" IPS Displays From Korea Are For Real · · Score: 1

    This was a quite a while ago, before Google returned useful technical data of any kind.

  9. Re:Speaking as another Canadian on US Army Developing Armor Tailored For Females · · Score: 1

    It was a joke. Us Canadians like to joke about Canada's military consisting of rocket-launching Moose and rabid-beaver-launching war canoes.

  10. Re:My novel idea on US Army Developing Armor Tailored For Females · · Score: 1

    While fresh water is a valuable resource, it is also a resource you can create from other water (such as from the ocean). Oil is VERY difficult to create with anything other than oil.

  11. Re:Believe it or not... on City Council Ordered To Stop CCTV In Taxi Cabs · · Score: 2

    The cabbie might overhear a few things, but I'd be shocked to find out my conversations were being routinely recorded and stored.

    The notices on every side of the taxi stating such didn't tip you off?

  12. Re:My stockpiling has paid off! on Feds Ban 'Buckyballs' Magnets · · Score: 1

    Now you just have to figure out how to separate them from the metal table.

  13. Re:Wires are not the issue. on Wireless Car Charger Test Starts In London · · Score: 1

    Because the batteries weight about 400 pounds, full or empty!

  14. Re:Now how about making some that are... on Budget 27" IPS Displays From Korea Are For Real · · Score: 1

    I do when they take pixels off the bottom to make up for it.

  15. Re:Sweet on Budget 27" IPS Displays From Korea Are For Real · · Score: 1

    My old laptop had a blu-ray drive. It even came with a blu-ray "showcase" blu-ray disk that was supposed to show the benefits of blu-ray over DVD or something. I say something because I tried for 20 minutes to get it to work and it never did. That night I installed Linux on it and never did get a blu-ray disk to play in it till the day it died.

  16. Re:Common practice. on Budget 27" IPS Displays From Korea Are For Real · · Score: 1

    I think I did *once* just to check the supported refresh rates.

  17. Re:Why's this a good thing? on Contest To Sequence Centenarians Kicks Off · · Score: 1

    You never know, you may win the lottery!

  18. Re:Sounds good on US Army Developing Armor Tailored For Females · · Score: 1

    Not many countries can get away with having no military and the ones that can it is only because another nation or nations protects them.

    Speak for yourself.

    -a Canadian

  19. Re:My novel idea on US Army Developing Armor Tailored For Females · · Score: 1

    Oil is a resource.

  20. Re:"...has identified several problem areas and... on US Army Developing Armor Tailored For Females · · Score: 1

    He never said SHE shot it. Usually there is more than 1 person near a .50 when it gets fired.

  21. Re:Is there an OTR for video? on Microsoft Won't Say If Skype Is Secure Or Not. Time To Change? · · Score: 2

    I don't think there are any that use the major video chat clients (skype, etc), but you can set up a private ejabberd server fairly easily and do video-chat over SSL using that. I've actually set that up in the middle of a park with no internet connection (ejabberd was pre-configured on a laptop). Best part is there are xmpp/jabber clients for just about ANY platform (including iOS and android). Blackberry is the only one we haven't tried yet.

  22. Re:This isn't fair! on Australians Receive SMS Death Threats · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know the current $/km^2 of destruction for nuclear devices is these days?

  23. Re:PIGS OPEN FIRE ON BABIES on Google Wants You to Use Your Real Name on YouTube · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why the hell would you bring your baby to an anti-violence protest?!?

  24. Re:Beware the batteries! on Ask Slashdot: Storing Items In a Sealed Chest For 25 Years? · · Score: 1

    3-prong probably, 120V most definitely. Worst comes to worse, just cut the end off and hard-wire it. Failing 120V AC, I'm sure the DC output equivalent should still be available.

  25. Re:3D? Cameras? Microphones? on HTML5 Splits Into Two Standards · · Score: 4, Interesting

    YES! Non-text media should be handled by the system's media software. I would LOVE it if youtube would just have a link that I can click on that opens in VLC, your website's contact page would have a link that I click on that opens in Google Earth or Marble. The only exception I can think of would be images as *thumbnails* only. I'm sick and tired of being trapped in my browser shitty excuse for a video player (be it flash or HTML5) when I have a VERY capable fully-featured video player with frame-by-frame playback, rewind, subtitle support and tracking controls.

    PLEASE take everything media related OUT of my browser. Text, links, thumbnails and CSS for basic layout management is ALL we really need. In fact, I'd like to go even 1 step further and take layout management away from webmasters as well. Why should THEY get to decide how the menus work and the site navigation is layed out. This is one of the reasons why RSS readers are so nice, every website's feed uses the EXACT same interface and you NEVER have to try to figure out where they hid the menu or the contact page.

    Webmasters should compile the data into a basic heirarchy of XML with some predefined fields for contact information, navigation menus and search features. Leave the layout management to the user because THEY know what they want, you don't.