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  1. Don't panic? on iPhone and Location: Don't Panic · · Score: 1

    So you're saying the iPhone is mostly harmless, then.

  2. Re:Pure subscriptions? on NYTimes.com Reports 100k Subscribers · · Score: 0

    Monday-Friday paper subscription, including full digital access, is $7.40/week

    Actually, it's $3.70/week. Seven days a week home delivery is $7.40/week, which means your analysis works; you made it sound like you were comparing Mon-Fri delivery to seven days a week digital.

  3. Re:Pure subscriptions? on NYTimes.com Reports 100k Subscribers · · Score: 1

    If everybody's paying that, they're pulling down $1.2 million a year. Not enough by itself, really, but if they're also pulling in ad revenues plus whatever they're getting from print, it might be enough to get by on.

  4. Re:Time to let go. on Games: Sony Confirms PSPGo Gone; New Consoles Expected 2014 · · Score: 1

    The PS3 Slim shed PS2 emulation and Linux.

    The PS3 shed PS2 emulation before the slim. My own PS3 is a pre-slim model that does not do PS2 emulation. The PS3 did lose Linux support when the slim came out but that was a firmware change--*every* PS3 that is running current firmware has lost Linux support.

  5. Re:No cable. Just Roku and my laptop on Ask Slashdot: Are You Streaming-Only For Home Entertainment? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I used to love Discovery and the History channel. Then it became all Deadliest Catch/Ice Road Truckers/Axe Men with a side of batshit conspiracy. It's been many years since I subscribed to cable TV.

  6. Re:Really? on Microsoft Counts Down To XP Death · · Score: 1

    If you're running the 64-bit version, 16 bit is completely unsupported. There is no mode or emulation that will run it. You could run a 32-bit Windows in a VM and run it there, but that's not a solution you can implement without buying additional parts. No Windows 1 program will run in 64-bit Vista or 7, period. A Windows 2 program would if it was 32-bit, but not many were, since such programs would not run in the Windows/286 ("real mode") version of Windows 2, which a lot of people had. 32-bit became a lot more common with Windows 3, where real mode and 386 mode were bundled together and you could choose, and most people had the 386 processor to run that mode. Real mode was finally dropped in Windows 95 and the great majority of programs for 95 were 32-bit, so Windows 95 is the first version you could really expect programs from to run in modern 64-bit environments.

  7. Re:Don't like it on Officials Say "Capes For the Unemployed" Plan Not Super · · Score: 2

    What would YOU do for a Klondike Bar?

  8. Re:Reasoned Debate? on Tim Berners-Lee: Stop Foaming At the Mouth, Twitter · · Score: 1

    The fact that Republicans have been systematically destroying the education system

    You mean, as opposed to the "schools are there for the benefit of the teachers' unions" Democrats?

  9. Re:This is not the logic you are looking for on Is Sugar Toxic? · · Score: 1

    a series of concussions. apples and oranges.

    I would think the concussions would be quite enough, even without the apples and oranges.

  10. Re:Obvious question from their perspective on Ask Slashdot: Do I Give IT a Login On Our Dept. Server? · · Score: 1

    You guys don't have modern ethernet connected xray machines, or modern MRI machines

    Not inside the firewall, they don't. Or rather, not inside a firewall with anything else. If I was network admin, each one of those would have its own little firewalled jail all to itself.

  11. Re:United Nations University, Not the UN on What Happened To the Climate Refugees? · · Score: 1

    It seems more than a little illogical to state that sea levels rise higher in one Atlantic coast state than the others.

    Not really. Although we speak of "sea level" like it's a great constant, it is, in fact, an average. Currents and tides make it vary from one place to another, and it can change in different ways from one place to another. Also land subsidence can make a difference in the effective sea level, and that too varies from one place to another. To use an example on the Atlantic coast, the sea level is rising considerably faster in the Chesapeake Bay than elsewhere on the coast.

  12. Re:"manned moon landing" on China Aims To Build World's Largest Rocket · · Score: 2

    <1492>
    What's the point of going to America? All you can do is walk around and then, if you're lucky, leave again.
    </1492>

  13. Re:All the shit you buy from Wal*Mart on China Aims To Build World's Largest Rocket · · Score: 5, Insightful

    To which I say, "Great! I'd rather the US get into space, but I'll settle for damn near anybody!"

  14. Re:So two companies in two different states sue on Ex-MS GM Can't Work 'Anywhere In the World' For Salesforce · · Score: 1

    Depends on whether or not they can sanction Salesforce for employing him. If they can't (I don't think they can), well, he'd better make sure he doesn't have any assets under US jurisdiction.

  15. Re:Confidentia info is separate from non-competes on Ex-MS GM Can't Work 'Anywhere In the World' For Salesforce · · Score: 1

    Confidential information (trade secrets, etc) can never be revealed by a former employee.

    Confidential information can never *legally* be revealed by a former employee. But you've got to prove it.

    The presence or absence of a non-compete agreement is irrelevant to such information.

    Incorrect. Taking up a position with a rival gives a motivation, perhaps a strong one, to reveal the information and try to get away with it. Prohibiting such employment in the first place is much easier than trying to prove that such information was revealed after the fact.

  16. Re:The cloud. on Google Videos Going Offline; Time To Grab What You Want · · Score: 1

    Which doesn't change the fact that people have the chance to retrieve their data only because Google was accommodating. A scenario where nobody gets time to get their stuff out is not only plausible, but, in my opinion, inevitable in the long run.

  17. Re:This is the best thing they can do. on Internet Explorer 10 Drops Vista Support · · Score: 1

    Why? IE 9 runs fine on 7. IE 8 runs fine on 7 *and* XP. If your only concern is being able to run all the browsers, you don't need Vista.

  18. Re:Oh please on FTP Is 40 Years Old · · Score: 1

    1) no command line HTTP file transfer clients ever sprang up

    Er, wget? Has supported SSL for ten years now.

  19. Re:Oh please on FTP Is 40 Years Old · · Score: 1

    SFTP is something totally different

    SFTP is so totally different that it actually isn't FTP at all. It's an all-new protocol based in SSH and given an FTP-style interface.

  20. But also... on Microsoft Adds Kinect Support For Netflix · · Score: 1

    ...a remote you can't hide (or take away) from your three-year-old...

  21. NaTcl? on Tcl Announces NaTcl: Native Client Tcl · · Score: 1

    Saltty!

  22. Re:Passwords not compromised on How Attackers Will Use Epsilon Data Against You · · Score: 1

    Bad guys do a very targeted phishing exercise, and scam you into giving up credentials for one service

    I don't give my passwords to anybody, ever. If Jesus Christ came down and asked for my passwords, he wouldn't get them, not even if he walked on water.

  23. Re:Mr. Hands on ALS Sufferer Used Legs To Contribute Last Patch · · Score: 1

    And, on that note:

    "Oh no, Mr. Bill!"

  24. Re:Nope on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    You left out the finishing line: "Specialization is for insects."

  25. Re:Mr. Hands on ALS Sufferer Used Legs To Contribute Last Patch · · Score: 1

    Well, that's better than calling him Trog.