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  1. Re:I'm already paying AT&T to deliver Netflix on AT&T Exec Calls Netflix "Arrogant" For Expecting Net Neutrality · · Score: 2

    Netflix already pays for service at their data centers and you pay for service at home. AT&T want to charge Netflix for traffic that passes through their network to non-AT&T customers in addition to getting paid by Netflix's service provider for handling the same traffic.

  2. Re:Bans Drones not Guns. on Drone-Assisted Hunting To Be Illegal In Alaska · · Score: 1

    Hunters that don't obey the bag limit could do some serious damage, but if they are not obeying the bag limit what's to say they obey any other laws, however spotting a drone would be a red flag if it's outlawed.

    My father taught me how to hunt, fish, dress/clean, cook, and light a fire without matches. All of these are valuable skills, hopefully I'm never in a situation that requires me to rely on them.

    A magnifying glass is good addition to an emergency kit.

  3. Re:Want to write a kernel ? on The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage · · Score: 1

    One of the projects she had to write a cli mortgage calculator and had a terrible time understanding casting.

    The instructions say they have to be declared as this, how do I recast them to get this??? Why is this not showing decimal places??? Why does that work but not this???

  4. Re:Want to write a kernel ? on The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage · · Score: 3, Informative

    My father had no college but was a certified Master electrician and plumber, he did need a certain amount of experience and had to take multiple exams. After he was unable to physically do the job every day they still kept him as foreman until he retired since it meant the company was not required to pay the state for some permits and they didn't need to pay for the state to have a certified master inspect the job.

    In order to become any kind of craftsman you usually have to go through some type of apprenticeship with exams and at the end be certified by some authority state or otherwise.

  5. Re:Want to write a kernel ? on The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage · · Score: 1

    My niece went to IL State, she needed help with a programing course... Ms Visual C++... I enjoyed spending some time with her and revisiting all those basic concepts... I don't think her courses really covered much outside of web design except that one C++ course.

  6. Re:Nonsense. on Full-Disclosure Security List Suspended Indefinitely · · Score: 1

    Hire a person to operate it.

    I think you forget the lengths people will go to to achieve a goal. What happens when that person is paid off to get in, threatened, or blackmailed.

    You can make it so difficult that few to none would care to try, but it's not going to be 100% secure.

  7. Re:I can't freely switch between Android and Windo on Google and Microsoft Both Want To Stop Dual-Boot Windows/Android Device · · Score: 1

    Why are you trying to sync your mobile toy with my LAMP!?!?

  8. Re:Number 1 in my experience on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 1

    Where they trying to say they saw it or fixed it?

  9. Re:Do not overreacht please on Google Blurring Distinction Between Ads and Organic Search Results · · Score: 1

    There is also the ads that are exactly what you searched for. Try searching newegg or jcpenny the first result is their site and it's tagged as an ad. If I search for ford service center the very first link is listed as an ad and it is also the place I get my car serviced.

     

  10. Re:Do not overreacht please on Google Blurring Distinction Between Ads and Organic Search Results · · Score: 1

    I agree that it is easier to see. I prefer a dim monitor and the yellow ad box stands out more. It doesn't appear that there any more ads than usual. I don't see the big concern.

    I also thought most of the people on /. used some kind of Ad-blocker and/or no script that would take care of that anyway. I had to turn ad-block off to see the ads.

  11. Re:Commenting code on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 1

    Good code that rarely needs commented has very few lines. I don't care how good the code is when you get into a huge code base and there are no comments it's a pain.

  12. Re:Number 1 in my experience on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 5, Funny

    catch(exception x) { //You've been eaten by a grue. } is error handling.

  13. Re:ISO 8601 on Happy Pi Day · · Score: 1

    I prefer ISO 8601 format because it's easy to sort and I use it all the time. On my bills it's spelled out like you would say it March 14th, 2014 at the top and the line items are in ISO 8601 format. My power bill is the one exception, but it's confusing all around not just the date format. We are moving away from the MMDDYYYY format that everyone outside the US appears to hate, at least in some areas.

  14. Re:Why do you think $.02*12/year/GB is cheap? on 1GB of Google Drive Storage Now Costs Only $0.02 Per Month · · Score: 1

    I have a 500GB external that 1GB at this point has cost me less than $0.01/Mo... I more recently got a 3TB on sale for $103 but I'm not sure I would use a cloud storage service for large amount of data just because of the time involved with transferring that much data.

    let's say I buy a 2TB hard drive for $99 each month, after 5 months I have 10TB, and at the end of the year I would have 24TB. That's more than twice the storage space and i don't need to spend $99/mo to keep it.

  15. Re:Gotta be a red herring on How the NSA Plans To Infect 'Millions' of Computers With Malware · · Score: 1

    'Expert System,' which is designed to operate 'like the brain.

    This is the point where it started sounding like a syfy.... Maybe they have malware but I doubt it operates like the brain.

  16. Re:Before or after? on NASA Offers Bounty For Improved Asteroid Detection Algorithms · · Score: 1

    Why am I imagining this as your answer?

    if(AstroidBoundingSphere.Intersects(EarthBoundingSphere)) LaunchCounterMeasures();

  17. Re:Newsweek is the new National Enquirer on Satoshi Nakamoto Found? Not So Fast · · Score: 2

    It makes me think. Are media outlets that are doing stories about bitcoin also trading in them with hopes of inflating the value?

  18. Re:Does not make sense on Massachusetts Court Says 'Upskirt' Photos Are Legal · · Score: 1

    charged with two counts of attempting to secretly photograph a person in a state of partial nudity.

    Trying to take photos of panties or genitalia secretly, therefore without permission... In some states that might be considered sexual assault.

  19. Re:Yes they did. on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Employer Perform HTTPS MITM Attacks On Employees? · · Score: 2

    If I'm on-call, I'm getting paid. If I'm not on-call, then I'm not checking my email.

  20. Re:Yes they did. on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Employer Perform HTTPS MITM Attacks On Employees? · · Score: 1

    Productivity must be down... facebook addiction +1

  21. Re:Yes they did. on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Employer Perform HTTPS MITM Attacks On Employees? · · Score: 2

    If it's illegal to police your own network and stop unauthorizes use or activity then how do companies protect themselves from liability there?

    Most American enterprises monitor their networks nothing gets in or goes out without going through something and a proxy is a very popular solution. They also usually include a disclaimer when connecting to the network or logging into a machine about monitoring, authorized use, and the possibility of prosecution for unauthorized use.

    {it's more likely a company will just terminate your employment if they catch you torrenting or streaming from a video service but if you cause an outage and enough revenue loss they may take legal action}

  22. Re:The worst kind of human beings on Study: Half of In-App Purchases Come From Only 0.15% of Players · · Score: 1

    Well.... I know I spend over $1k on cable a year the idea of really figuring out how much I spend on entertainment gives me pause since it might actually appall me.

  23. Re:Why single out Whole Foods? on Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience · · Score: 1

    We should all probably know by now that most of the advertising we see is hype. We don't have a Whole Foods anywhere near where I live, if we did I probably wouldn't shop there.

    We have a farmer's market it's not that much more expensive and I just like fresh fruit and vegetables more than the canned stuff in the store {not that I have choice this time of year}. Fresh whole milk, there is nothing healthy about it but it's so much better than that 2% stuff they call milk in the store.

  24. Re:The worst kind of human beings on Study: Half of In-App Purchases Come From Only 0.15% of Players · · Score: 1

    I was thinking the same thing... I spent $1-$1.50 a day at the arcade everyday after school. Of course my kid's have an xbox and rent or buy a new games all the time. $400 on entertainment doesn't sound amazing if it's spent a little at a time over a year.

  25. Re:in other news on Using Handheld Phone GPS While Driving Is Legal In California · · Score: 1

    No, but I wouldn't have been surprised if she had tried.