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  1. please catch on here on Samoa Air Rolling Out "Pay As You Weigh" Fares · · Score: 1

    About half of all my flights last year I sat next to someone who's belly enveloped the armrest.
    Half.
    Maybe I'm flying to the wrong places.
    But I'm not getting a discount for the < 90% of a seat I'm left to occupy.
    Forget the fuel cost of weight... this is justice.

  2. a tip? on A Day in Your Life, Fifteen Years From Now · · Score: 2

    "You leave a small tip for the robot maintenance engineer."
    Please. By then, gratuities will have merged with lobbying to become a complex system of bribery. It will be functionally the same as the U.N.'s value-added-tax (which will replace various nations' income tax systems in 2020) except that bribery will apply to the black-market half of the global economy.
    Change to
    "You are completely unconscious of the app in your phone which correctly deduces the proper syndicate to receive the VAT/bribe. It automatically transfers the credits from your account, thereby saving you another broken kneecap."

  3. I hate to say it on Hotmail No Longer Accepts Long Passwords, Shortens Them For You · · Score: 1

    but create an account at redhat.com and you're limited to 18 characters.
    I dug through the recesses of my brain to remember a password that short and the JavaScript validation had the nerve to call it "Strong". (And the JS only worked on keyboard events.)
    Red Hat should know better.

  4. not just some random staffer on SOPA Protests 'Poisoned the Well,' Says Congressional Staffer · · Score: 4, Informative

    From the title on her LinkedIn page, she most likely represents the establishment position.

  5. skeptical on Erasing Details Of Bad Memories · · Score: 1

    I'd say the Don't Think About Pink Elephants test soundly contradicts the Autobiographical Think/No-Think procedure. And the basis for their scientific results is each subject's emotional response And I saw nothing to indicate that the study involved actual PDST patients, despite the article's scarcely related photo. .

  6. CS ain't what it used to be on Women's Enrollment In Computer Science Correlates Negatively With Net Access · · Score: 1

    It is possible now to get degrees in CS in major universities (even good universities with some top-notch programs) that are nothing like traditional CS. Some CS programs teach mobile app dev and PHP and web design, allowing their students to get by without so much as a binary search tree. Assuming these enrollment statistics apply somewhat similarly to them, the traditional explanation about gender-based learning of math and science is moot.

  7. sorry, but it's the OS version on Android Phones More Prone To Hardware Problems · · Score: 1

    Android's niche is bleeding edge, so it's bound to be less stable. Android is on a multitude of devices, so it's bound to be less stable. Blaming the hardware is too easy for the average luser and I saw no indication from the article that they distinguished between real hardware problems and purported hardware problems. Do you have any idea how many "defective" phones get "refurbished" by simply being wiped ?
    Personally, I would like to see a stable version of Android that's meant for users who want something with more stability than features. But then I use CentOS on my desktop, so I'm just nutty that way.

  8. people always have to turn it into Linus vs. RMS on Linus' Other Gift to the World · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Maybe everyone will be happy when we just start calling it GNU/FOSS.

  9. Re:The new Taliban? on Libyan Rebels Weaponize Power Wheels Toys · · Score: 1

    Be sure to tell Doc Brown. He's about to sell them some Plutonium.

  10. when the battery dies on Apple Plans New Spaceship-like Campus · · Score: 1

    >>>generate its own energy
    But when the battery dies, they'll need to send in for a replacement iSpaceship.

  11. Just be careful on Ask Slashdot: FTP Server Honeypots? · · Score: 1

    Can you be absolutely sure that the organization that you're reporting the abuse to isn't the same as the organization that's probing you to begin with. People have been known to try that little trick. Sending them an e-mail may mark you as a live target ?

  12. boo hoo hoo on Splinternet, Or How We Broke the Good Old Web · · Score: 1
    i.e. The Internet is becoming less homogeneous than it was when Everyone Who Mattered ran IE6.

    Actually, I don't mind the new moniker (Web 3.0) if it means we can confine all the high-bandwidth, AJAX-heavy websites to an ill-reputed package named (Web 2.0) and toss it out the window.

  13. 61% seems low on Only 39% Curse At Their Computers? · · Score: 1

    There are all sorts of folks who never fart, vote, or give enough of a crap about anything to ever lose their temper.
    Same folks.

  14. Profiling on Taiwan Develops Face-Recognition Vending Machine · · Score: 1

    When used in US airports, the machines will profile its customers and the TSA will just search anyone drinking Mr. Pibb.

  15. Re:HTC MyTouch 3G Slide works OK on Smartphones For Text SSH Use Re-Revisited · · Score: 1
    Wait, your pipe key works in ConnectBot?

    Mine seems to be recognized as if it were escaped.

    e.g.
    $ ls | more
    ls: |: No such file or directory
    ls: more: No such file or directory

    From the virtual keyboard, I'm pressing 12# -> 1/2 -> |

    Also, It's a pity I can't reprogram one of those blank alt keys with ":wq".

  16. Re:IP sold to MS-led consortium = UNIX? on Attachmate To Acquire Novell For $2.2B Cash · · Score: 1

    Microsoft has a history of throwing good money after bad (as with SCO) on the one-in-a-million chance that they'll find a shortcut to global domination, mostly because they can afford to. So their new IP may come to nothing. Yes, that's what I'm telling myself.

  17. When they try it with a virus on Problem-Solving Bacteria Crack Sudoku · · Score: 1

    The virus that ends up wiping out humanity will have been engineered to solve the NYTimes crossword puzzle.