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  1. Re:Thankful on Surge In Online Orders Overwhelms UPS Christmas Deliveries · · Score: 1

    GP's point (and the point made in the summary) is still valid, though: Customers were still offered 2-day shipping, when the grounded planes and full trucks should have caused a red flag to be raised indicating that the offered delivery window will not be as dependable as it usually is.

  2. Re:Said every IT person. Ever. on CryptoLocker Gang Earns $30 Million In Just 100 Days · · Score: 1

    So maybe a good backup situation (for individuals) would be: 1. Keep flash drive in USB hole a. Leave it unmounted somehow 2. At backup time: i. Mount the flash drive ii. Copy files iii. Unmount 3. ... 4. Profit!

  3. B-b-b-but... on Bitcoin Exchange Value Halves After Chinese Ban · · Score: 2

    They promised that THIS time it's DIFFERENT!

  4. slashdotted on OpenSSH Has a New Cipher — Chacha20-poly1305 — from D.J. Bernstein · · Score: 1

    Guess I'll never know what it looks like.

  5. What steps are they taking? on Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners · · Score: 2

    The article doesn't state what specific steps the country is taking to reduce crime. That would be much more interesting to read. Currently the article isn't much more than a page out of the IKEA catalog.

  6. simulator on Qcloud Puts Quantum Chip In the Cloud For Coders To Experiment · · Score: 1

    I'm neither a physicist nor a computer scientist, but if you can "hone [your] skills" using the simulator, why isn't it sufficient to have a fast enough simulation of a quantum system using a classical computer, and solve your problems on the simulator?

  7. which is the "real" starfish on Scientists Discover New Clues To Regeneration: How Flatworms Regrow Heads · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Suppose you could cut a starfish into 5 segments, and they could each regenerate the missing 4. Which is the real one? How much of a body can one replace before it's a different body?

  8. still allow outbound? on Boston Officials Did Not Shut Down Cell Network After Marathon Bombing · · Score: 1

    Boston slashdotter, here (as if that mattered). Anyway, wouldn't it be as effective to just disallow inbound calls/sms/etc? Allow people to make outgoing calls to call friends and family and all, but don't allow phones to receive calls.

  9. Re:"You can't delete something from the Internet." on Is It Possible To Erase Yourself From the Internet? · · Score: 1

    It was Joe from News Radio.

  10. noughts and crosses? on The Science of Game Strategy · · Score: 2

    I'm guessing "noughts and crosses" is "tic tac toe".

  11. Re:A boat? on The World's First Supercavitating Boat? · · Score: 1

    AND captain nemo called the nautilus "[his] submarine boat". I think he deserves to name it!

  12. Re:Solution on Samsung Galaxy S3 Face Unlock Tricked By Photograph · · Score: 1

    ha! where are my mod points?

  13. Re:Does this guy say... on Australian Billionaire Plans To Build Titanic II · · Score: 1

    ...of spelling

  14. help on Documentation As a Bug-Finding Tool · · Score: 1

    When I write little utility programs, I start by writing the words that will come out with "--help".

  15. i don't buy it on Ask Slashdot: How To Allow Test Takers Internet Access, But Minimize Cheating? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So what happens when all the "original content" makers die off? If we just search the web, we'll only get old information. Let people figure out how to create their own OC by searching within and solving/exploring on their own, so that the future internet will have new information. In the meantime, grade on the curve just to keep the education process moving.

  16. Re:English, do you speak it? on Controlled Quantum Levitation Used To Build Wipeout Track · · Score: 1

    have beert

  17. Dragonfly BSD's HAMMER... on Ask Slashdot: Free/Open Deduplication Software? · · Score: 0

    ...includes dedupe. There was a blog entry a while ago where on a 256MB RAM machine someone was able to dedupe 600GB down to 400GB and the performance was fine. This is much unlike ZFS which wants the entire dedupe tree in memory and requires gigs and gigs of RAM.

  18. Re:1.3M? Why Not All? on Sprint Orders All OEMs To Strip Carrier IQ From Their Phones · · Score: 1

    If they are still collecting on 1.3 of the 26, then maybe it's a sample group of phones, for collecting service quality stats. 1.3MM/26MM happens to be exactly 5%. That's a nice round number.

  19. even better on Rethinking Rail Travel: Boarding a Moving Train · · Score: 1

    When I ride the T or commuter rail, the bottleneck is at the doors to get in the cars. One small door on either end of the car, with people competing to get on and to get off. *My* brilliant idea is to have the entire side wall of the car roll up like a garage door so that people can board and detrain en masse. The problem is with the placement of the seats.

  20. dangers of anthropomorphology on Lost Russian Mars Probe Phones Home · · Score: 1

    Reading things like "she was lost" and "she's finally sent a weak signal" and stuff like that make me sad and want to send a rescue mission to save this hunk of metal and hydrazine flying through space.

  21. Re:Long awaited? on JavaScript Toolkit V1.1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I had to see it to believe it! I had no idea that 6 was an odd number. Well, back to square-one.

  22. They'll get some dough from me on New Mexico Spaceport Nearly Ready For Business · · Score: 1

    It's worth a couple hundred for me to hang out in the terminal and watch commercial space flights landing and taking off as nonchalantly as though it were Logan (airport, that is). Even if I can't go up, it would still feel good to watch the activity man's nascent commercial space adventures.

  23. The other possibility on Are Bad Economic Times Good for Free Software? · · Score: 1

    I posit that it's more tempting to steal the software you need and are accustomed to, more than it is tempting to move to foss alternatives.

  24. facebook is not responding on Chrome Extension Adds Facebook, Twitter To Google+ · · Score: 1

    I just tried to import my photos from FB to G+ and got a message from startgoogleplus saying, "Facebook isn't responding to requests from startgoogleplus.com". Looks like they put the kibosh on it in near record time.

  25. Re:Current state of transferring contacts on Chrome Extension Adds Facebook, Twitter To Google+ · · Score: 1

    Sign up for a Yahoo! email account. You can import FB contacts natively through Yahoo. Then import your Yahoo contacts from your Gmail accounts.