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  1. Re:Pizza shop worker loves Seattle’s new $15 on Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage To $15 an Hour · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Bullshit article...

    The minimum wage for Seattle isn't $15, it's $10 or $11.

    It won't be $15 for several more years (between 2017 to 2021 depending on various thing like size of the company, type of compensation, medical benefits, etc.).

    Source: http://murray.seattle.gov/minimumwage/

  2. Re:Also happened in 1995 on A Robo-Car Just Drove Across the Country · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The 1995 CMU vehicle was sponsored by Delco Electronics which, two years later, became part of Delphi (which engineered the car in this story).

  3. Re:Isn’t this one limited anyway? on HP Server Killer Firmware Update On the Loose · · Score: 1

    Actually, HP offers free lifetime warranties on a lot of their professional networking gear (this warranty includes support, software upgrades, even includes fans/power supplies and is transferable). All in all, it's a pretty good deal.

  4. Re:The most annoying thing. on Gravity: Can Film Ever Get the Science Right? · · Score: 1

    I don't know about serial killers, but there's a great blog / review site where a doctor does review and comment on House episodes:

    http://www.politedissent.com/house_pd.html

  5. Re:not actually write caching blocks copied to fla on SSHDs Debut On the Desktop With Mixed Results · · Score: 2

    Well, in that case you could actually just skip the flash entirely.

    The RAM could write directly to a dedicated area on the hard disk in the event of a power failure - sort of like how hibernate / suspend to disk works now.

  6. PGPi OCR project on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Store Data In Hard Copy? · · Score: 2

    Back in the late 90s when it was difficult to export strong crypto out of the USA, the PGP project came up with a program to get around this by using some loopholes in the law that allowed the source code to be exported if it was printed in book form.

    So the PGP source code was printed out, made into books, shipped overseas, and scanned and OCR'd. My memory is somewhat fuzzy, but they had a suite of utilities to do this reliably. See http://www.pgpi.org/pgpi/project/scanning for a description and links to the tools.

  7. Re:IMAP on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Archive and Access Ancient Emails? · · Score: 0

    I love all these "Use IMAP!" replies.

    That's like asking, "How should I archive all my old web pages?" and answering "Use HTTP!"

    IMAP is an email access protocol, not a storage or archiving format.

  8. Look to the past on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Archive and Access Ancient Emails? · · Score: 2

    Trying to figure out what formats will be available in the future is pretty hard, it's easier to see what formats have been around a long time and are still in use.

    As such, two formats come up readily:

    mbox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox and maildir http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir

  9. Re:Difficult position to argue on Samsung: Apple Stole the iPad's Design From Univ of Missouri Professor · · Score: 1

    Well, it didn't work out too bad...

    There were 4 patent lawsuits and Corvis won two and lost two. They had a $35 million dollar fine for which they were allowed to apply $33 million of the fine to purchasing goods and services from Ciena (Corvis was already a customer of Ciena's anyway). And, during the lawsuits Corvis had an IPO that raised $1+ billion (they were only expecting to raise $400 million).

  10. Performance improvements on Firefox Notably Improved In Tom's Hardware's Latest Browser Showdown · · Score: 5, Funny

    Interestingly enough, the Tom's Hardware pages-per-article benchmark shows that Firefox can now handle an article spread over twice as many pages as before!

  11. Re:no 17" laptop??? on Apple News From WWDC and iPhone 5 Rumors · · Score: 1

    Just think, very soon now you won't be able to get a Mac laptop with a 17" screen or Blu-Ray.

  12. Re:Woo Hoo! on Apple To Unveil iOS 6 At WWDC 2012 · · Score: 1

    Woo hoo!! I can't wait for 5G on my soon to be upgraded iOS 6 iPhone!!!

  13. Re:Who cares about Linux on Steam For Linux Will Launch In 2012 · · Score: 1

    Left 4 Dead 3??? Surely you meant Half Life 3!!

  14. Re:This is great news! on Steam For Linux Will Launch In 2012 · · Score: 1

    Steam is a lesson in how DRM should be done.

    So you're saying DRM shouldn't allow you to sell your games or lend them to friends?

  15. Already solved on A Wrinkle For Biometric Systems: Irises Change Over Time · · Score: 1

    The company I work for uses biometric security. The readers we use know that biometrics change over time and automatically update their databases every time you use the system (using some secret time weighted algorithm) .

    You can set a threshold for the change/deviation/etc (in some people it changes more often than others). Our system only uses biometrics for authentication, not identification (that is, the biometrics confirm your ID, the biometrics are NOT your ID).

  16. Opera on Google-Funded Study Knocks Firefox Security · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The researchers dd not evaluate Opera in their study. I wonder how that would have compared...

  17. Re:What????? on Radioactive Boar On the Rise In Germany · · Score: 1

    It's called radioactive fallout. A large plume of radioactive debris was spread over Europe (in fact, this was how the accident was first detected outside of the USSR, not because the authorities reported it).

    The debris contaminated ground water, lakes, rivers, forests, animals, livestock, etc. all over parts of Europe.

    I was in the UK at the time and I remember the contamination almost destroyed the lamb and mutton industry there.

    Wikipedia has some information on the effects of the disaster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

  18. Re:of course on Tor Developer Detained At US Border, Pressed On Wikileaks · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As a citizen of the United States?

    Wow, I can't imagine what would have happened if he hadn't been a citizen of the United States...

  19. Re:I've got to say... on Free Software, a Matter of Life and Death · · Score: 2

    Haha, just think... somewhere out there is someone who is thinking it would be a great idea to run Windows Embedded in a pacemaker.

  20. Re:BeOS on Apple, RIM, Google All Bid On Palm · · Score: 4, Informative

    BeOS was sold when Palm spun off PalmSource, which is now owned by Access http://www.access-company.com/

  21. Only some versions affected on Backdoor Found In UnrealIRCd Source Archive · · Score: 2, Informative

    Slightly misleading summary. Only some versions on the mirrors were affected.

    From the UnreadIRCd forums:

    The Windows (SSL and non-ssl) versions are NOT affected.

    CVS is also not affected.

    3.2.8 and any earlier versions are not affected.

    Any Unreal3.2.8.1.tar.gz downloaded BEFORE November 10 2009 should be safe, but you should really double-check.

  22. Re:Why not just use a Linux distribution? on MorphOS 2.5 Released, Supports More Old Macs · · Score: 1

    Windows NT supported PowerPC.