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  1. Re:And 2000 model Jaguar S type... on The Coming Wave of In-Dash Auto System Obsolescence · · Score: 1

    What is up with spelling Gauges without a U? Canada?

  2. Re:i don't understand... on NASA To Encrypt All of Its Laptops · · Score: 1

    Why must it be one, exactly?

    We use Credant here for Mac and Windows (and I hear it's DREADFUL -- awfully slow and other issues). I use the standard means in Ubuntu for Linux. I understand that that second one is probably not particularly manageable centrally, but certainly there is something else.

  3. Re:Windows 7 compatibility mode on Ask Slashdot: Best 32-Bit Windows System In 2012? · · Score: 1

    I'm curious what the situation is here when XP no longer has support/software patches. Is it any safer to run XP mode than to run XP?

  4. Re:Fuck those greedy bastards. on Tesla Motors Sued By Car Dealers · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Because no one recently has received a lesson on how necessary public services are or anything... (I'll give you a hint: NY/NJ are involved)

  5. Re:Fuck those greedy bastards. on Tesla Motors Sued By Car Dealers · · Score: 1

    And impartial people who were responsible for actually investigating this stuff at the UN came up with nothing. Colin Powell participated in the whole farce and basically disappeared after that happened and came out for Obama this time. There was some top-secret intelligence alright -- so top secret that only people inside the bubble had it. Anyone who had any sense has since said "if I knew then what I know now..." Notably, Hillary Clinton has said the opposite. Therefore she will never be my candidate.

  6. Re:complain on Google Doubts Apple Will Approve Its New Maps Application · · Score: 1

    The circle of people who use the maps software is much wider than the circle of people who use it to drive with.

  7. Re:complain on Google Doubts Apple Will Approve Its New Maps Application · · Score: 1

    As if there were no app for that if you wanted one.

  8. Re:complain on Google Doubts Apple Will Approve Its New Maps Application · · Score: 1

    Google walked away from the table? It's their table.

  9. Re:complain on Google Doubts Apple Will Approve Its New Maps Application · · Score: 1

    Transit directions? NYC is a big market.

  10. Re:Meaning of SSSS? on Experts Warn About Security Flaws In Airline Boarding Passes · · Score: 1

    I did even post a link you know.

  11. Re:Obvious High Risk on Experts Warn About Security Flaws In Airline Boarding Passes · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Profiling on Experts Warn About Security Flaws In Airline Boarding Passes · · Score: 4, Informative

    Bingo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_Security_Screening_Selection

    I got into an argument with a customer service representative (and flew standby -- not sure which was responsible) and received this.

  13. Re:Photoshop? on Experts Warn About Security Flaws In Airline Boarding Passes · · Score: 1

    I'm almost certain you're already receiving the minimum scan. There are higher levels that you can and probably have not yet gotten.

  14. Re:Same security for all on Experts Warn About Security Flaws In Airline Boarding Passes · · Score: 2

    You've not received the SSSS security scan (I've gotten it twice). Forget the barcode, it's written on your boarding pass!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_Security_Screening_Selection

  15. Re:Need new goggles? on White House Confirms Chinese Cyberattack · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Need new goggles? on White House Confirms Chinese Cyberattack · · Score: 1

    They are not the same, and you are not an economist. It has been written many times by people who DO work with the economy that it is a stupid analogy.

    Are you getting Milton Friedman confused with Morgan Freeman in a message where you're scolding me for not knowing what I'm talking about? Just so we're clear.

  17. Oh good on The US Navy's Railgun Program · · Score: 1

    Another thing who that can kill people who probably didn't have it coming. But hey, THAT'S the shit that's important.

  18. Re:Need new goggles? on White House Confirms Chinese Cyberattack · · Score: 1

    Yes, countries can go broke. NO it's not like a household budget. It's not. Period.

  19. Re:Need new goggles? on White House Confirms Chinese Cyberattack · · Score: 1

    The US economy is not your stupid household budget. Stop making that asinine comparison.

  20. Re:Unionize on Ask Slashdot: When Does Time Tracking at Work Go Too Far? · · Score: 1

    The alternative is to have some variety of binding arbitration, or something else to balance the fact that the public employees can't strike. In most cases, police have this for obvious reasons. If the boss can get a restraining order or whatever to get you back to work, there has to be something keeping it fair.

  21. Re:That this is patenteable AT ALL on Microsoft Patents Whacking Your Phone To Silence It · · Score: 1

    The pavement must be better where you live.

  22. Re:Unionize on Ask Slashdot: When Does Time Tracking at Work Go Too Far? · · Score: 1

    MOST won't. My point was that both are done, but generally from volunteer money, at least by the rules where I live and before Citizens United.

  23. Re:Unionize on Ask Slashdot: When Does Time Tracking at Work Go Too Far? · · Score: 1

    Yes it is the same board.

    Board: "We want the day after Thanksgiving off."
    Company: "No." ...if the board does not have the membership behind them, "no" is the end of the conversation. If the company knows the membership will not do anything if they say no, then why should they go for a proposal?

  24. Re:That this is patenteable AT ALL on Microsoft Patents Whacking Your Phone To Silence It · · Score: 1

    No, not really. It could be in a car or in your pocket or what have you.

  25. Re:Unionize on Ask Slashdot: When Does Time Tracking at Work Go Too Far? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, only that's not what happens at all.