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  1. Re:No way I could trust a self-driving car on Volvo Testing Autonomous Cars On Public Roads · · Score: 1

    You forgot the restaurant that's now something else.

  2. Re:Misleading Summary on Ask Slashdot: How To Communicate Security Alerts? · · Score: 1

    In that case deployment is a non-issue.

  3. Re:Military Basic training method on Ask Slashdot: How To Communicate Security Alerts? · · Score: 1

    That'll be twenty push-ups for sending lol cats through corperate e-mail to your co-workers.

    I'm not so sure the boss would go for that.

  4. Re:My thoughts. on Ask Slashdot: How To Communicate Security Alerts? · · Score: 1

    Not to mention, if the enterprise also uses GPO's to manage browser functionality / appearance / behaviour, woops, none of that on Chrome/Safari/Firefox...

    There are custom administrator templates available for firefox and chrome. I'm sure there are some for Safari I've just never used them.

    https://support.google.com/chr...

    http://sourceforge.net/project...

  5. Re:Misleading Summary on Ask Slashdot: How To Communicate Security Alerts? · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression it would be made available through windows update but it's not really very clear.

    http://blogs.technet.com/b/msr...

  6. Re:and yet... on Google Hit With Antitrust Lawsuit Over Default Search on Android Phones · · Score: 1

    I have worked with that guy.

    We were working on something in a room full of execs and he says to me "I hope you don't screw like you type." to which I replied "I hope you don't dress up like Angelina Jolie."

    One of the execs caught that he quoted Angelina's character in Hackers and busted out laughing.

  7. Re:Gun nuts on "Smart" Gun Seller Gets the Wrong Kind of Online Attention · · Score: 1

    More than 50% gun related deaths are do to suicide at least according to the CDC and so removing guns is likely to save less than half the total gun deaths.

    Now I don't own any guns but I see some flaws already with this one.

    It's a short barrel .22 very inaccurate and very short range and dangerous. You would likely be better off defending yourself with a baseball bat. {FYI I own a baseball bat and if I hear any funny noises at night I take it with me to investigate}

    Most people don't wear watches on their dominant wrist because they are more likely to bump it into things and break the watch. If for some reason you were to fire this one handed {and being a .22 you might} then when you drop your non-dominant hand the gun locks.

  8. Re:Ass time on You Are What You're Tricked Into Eating · · Score: 1

    Wait a minute. If you fit all three of those criteria then you have other problems that need addressed as well.

    I have three sons still living at home {five total} I have always tried to stay away from eating out or over processed food because they are more expensive or just plain go through it to quickly. It's always busy around my house, and I work around 50-60 hours a week and so does my wife. Cooking does not have to take as much time as you think it does.

    On Sunday I tossed a roast in the oven in about four minutes that cost less than half what I would have spent eating out once. I went outside and did the yearly maintenance on my mower since it's that time of year again. I cleaned up just in time to take the roast out of the oven and eat.

    Monday I made stew in about 10 minutes I just cut up the left over roast with carrot and potatoes in big pan tossed in some bouillon and corn starch { a few seasoning} and let it simmer for about an hour.

  9. Re:So lets sell off the unprofitable areas. on Comcast Offers To Shed 3.9 Million Subscribers To Ease Cable Deal · · Score: 3, Informative

    Telecommuting is becoming more common and you can do it from anywhere, which is what makes the sticks appealing.

    I live in a rural place but not so rural that I can't get gas or go to a grocery store 24/7 and telecommute to work. I drive my car a few times a week and rarely over 50-60 miles/week. I enjoy a small mortgage payment, lower property taxes, and less crime. I'm much better off financially than co-workers in higher cost of living areas.

    I spend time throwing BBQs and tending my lawn which is much bigger than anything you get with a city apartment {when I was in college the dorms where barely larger than my patio}. This week end I may go fishing if the weather is good... it's not far to drive.

  10. Re:Unbelievable and disgusting abuse of state powe on Anonymous's Latest Target: Boston Children's Hospital · · Score: 3, Informative

    I found it interesting that she was taken off the medications used for stroke victims which they say was diagnosed via MRI as a large stroke. MRI is a standard diagnostic for stroke or also a CT scan and that it is related to the original diagnosis as it's a possible side effect of the mitochondrial disease. It's also a physical sign that would rule out somatoform disorder or somatic symptom disorders.

    Being that it was characterized as a large stoke tells me that the MRI should have shown it clearly making misdiagnoses unlikely.

  11. Re:Forget idiotproofing, how about licensing on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Create a Culture of Secure Behavior? · · Score: 1

    I have never heard anyone say

    I had a download that was just flying when a kid on a bicycle came out of nowhere and I had to crash my computer to avoid hitting him.

    Firefox crashed, my wrist was broken in two places and I got a concussion, I was lucky compared to the guy with internet explorer.

  12. Re:Libre is the new Open on Not Just a Cleanup Any More: LibreSSL Project Announced · · Score: 2, Insightful

    SSSL - Secure Secure Socket Layer is that like when people say LAN Network - Local Area Network Network

  13. Re:Not Necessarily A Bad Thing on Netflix Plans To Raise Prices By "$1 or $2 a Month" · · Score: 1

    I already moved away from cable TV, long before I actually canceled the subscription. I have netflix, hulu, plex media server to store all my DVDs {plex also has channels for cbs, spike, history, nat geo} I have either a roku or game console on each tv.

    We're not a sports family so no one really noticed, the shows my wife likes are on hulu mine are on cbs through plex the kids {teen agers} like netflix and hulu a lot of cartoons. We can browse the dvd collection on any tv, laptop, or tablet.

  14. Re:Not Necessarily A Bad Thing on Netflix Plans To Raise Prices By "$1 or $2 a Month" · · Score: 1

    which will make cable companies useless in the short term.

    Where I live cutting the cord isn't really cutting the cord. I canceled my tv subscription but if I want reliable Internet at a good price and speed I have to keep cable Internet. Satellite Internet is a joke {I can't get on the Internet to check the weather because of the weather}, the dsl is expensive {$3.49/mbps vs cable $1.33/mbps for their mid-tier accounts} and the dsl service in the area isn't that great either.

  15. Re:Not Necessarily A Bad Thing on Netflix Plans To Raise Prices By "$1 or $2 a Month" · · Score: 1

    Basic cable runs about $40-$50 a month with no extras Netflix $7.99 + $30-$40 Internet. Most people can say well I'm going to have Internet for work or cause I game, but it really depends on the situation {cable and Internet prices of course vary}.

  16. Re:My toilet on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Products Were Built To Last? · · Score: 1

    I used to have a re-issued crate tube 2X12 combo with spring reverb, a celestion 12' classic and green back mismatched. I loved the tone but it was so heavy and difficult to move around. I have a crate 90 watt tube half stack with a 4X12 cab now that has great tone. I've never figured out why the watt rating on a solid state amp never really compares to a tube in dB output. I always find it funny the Marshal valvestate is very popular but when I'm jamming with someone that has one, 100 watts solid state just doesn't stack up against my 90 watt tube.

     

  17. Re:My toilet on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Products Were Built To Last? · · Score: 2

    I picked up a magnavox am/fm radio turntable cabinet model at a yard sale in the 80s the couple told me they had got it for their son as a gift when he started college in 1962 but he didn't have room for it so it sat in their attic. It was open but still had the original packaging I used it for about 10 years then gave it to a friend who still uses it {the fm radio anyway it has a really great sound}.

    It's actually older than my toilet.

  18. Re:Personal Drones on Americans Uncomfortable With Possibility of Ubiquitous Drones, Designer Babies · · Score: 1

    If the personal drone thing takes off, the government won't need to operate spy drones, the public will do it for them.

    Just look at all the cell phone pictures you see posted around the internet, cats, stupid accidents, and girls butts, etc. I doubt that personal drones are going to garner the kind of information a government spy agency would want or at least make really hard to sift through.

  19. Re:There aren't infinite bugs on Bug Bounties Don't Help If Bugs Never Run Out · · Score: 1

    Eventually the price of a black market exploit would make it not worth purchasing? I just can't imagine a company offering bounties that high anymore than I can imagine them paying for all losses to any customers due to an exploit.

  20. Re:There aren't infinite bugs on Bug Bounties Don't Help If Bugs Never Run Out · · Score: 1

    What about scarcity? Wouldn't scarcity of exploits on the black market just drive the prices up eventually putting the price over the infinite bug price?

    Although I agree that if there is enough money involved someone will find a way even if it is an indirect exploit to an otherwise solid application.

  21. Re:Tech companies are over valued on Investors Value Yahoo's Core Business At Less Than $0 · · Score: 1

    Funny you mention ISP, Yahoo partnered up with SBC in the 90s and now AT&T. {although I believe SBC bought out AT&T and took the name I think they still provide the email services for AT&T subscribers}

  22. Re:Plan B on Investors Value Yahoo's Core Business At Less Than $0 · · Score: 1

    Piezoelectric crowns and fillings? Chew more the lights are getting dim!

  23. Re:This would go over so well on IT on Switching From Sitting To Standing At Your Desk · · Score: 1

    I used to work dsl support in a call center. I was in my early 30s and had recently had back injury just sitting all day irritated it. My co-workers thought it was funny seeing me pace around my little cubical like a caged lion at first. I would put my foot up on the divider and stretch, do squats, and a bunch of other things. They transfered a girl to the team that did some kind of pilates and soon the entire team was doing desk exercises. Occasionally they would refer to us as team yoga, all I can say is our team had the best moral and the best numbers.

    Now that I'm in my 40s and I work from home I still do my desk exercises and I am seriously considering getting an elliptical for those hurry up and wait moments. {hurry up and wait is the worst.. don't you have a million other things to do... sure but none of them can be done until this is completed}

  24. Re:Militia, then vs now on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    I have kids and I felt it better to not have a firearm around until they were older. Now that they are old enough to drive a car I don't have a problem with it, but I rarely have the time to hunt, and I'm not really the hunting type although I did when I was young. You are correct if you are going to own a firearm everyone in the house need to be educated and understand how to be safe with it.

    It's a personal choice for me and I'm glad I have the opportunity to make the choice.

  25. Re:Militia, then vs now on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    I know a lot of people in the mid west who own a gun. I know zero people in the mid west who've ever had to use a gun for self defense.

    You are correct, the very few people I do know that have used a gun in defense are exceptions such as on duty police officers.

    I already know what their response would be. "I've never had to use it because I own one and people would be scared to break in!"

    The people around here would say that it's because it's a small community that home invasions are almost completely unheard of. They would also likely continue on about how smaller schools are a better place for their kids.

    Don't get me wrong cars still get broke into and iphones or what ever else you left valuable in the car get's stolen. Houses sometimes get broke into but not usually when anyone is actually home.

    I just rarely hear from anyone that owns a gun a reason why they need to own a gun that actually makes sense

    Most of the guys I know would tell you that they enjoy hunting and that they eat everything they kill. I'm sure the crazies you're talking about exist but they are not the majority and not anyone I would associate with.