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  1. So what religion does he belong to? on New Pope Selected · · Score: 5, Funny

    linux, mac, vi, or emacs? :)

  2. Maybe your dog has one because he has on Google's Punishment? Lecture Those They Snooped On · · Score: 0

    to live with you?

    And the crime in Googles case is arguably worse: They were in it for the money.

  3. Setup a clonezilla partition on the hard drive. on Ask Slashdot: How Best To Set Up a Parent's PC? · · Score: 1

    If the machine gets infected, then have her restore from the clonezilla partition and she is back to where she was. For added fun, you could teach her how to make subsequent backups.

  4. Sorry, but scheme looks like garbage on Is Code.org Too Soulless To Make an Impact? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Did you even look at that link for scheme?

    (define (area-of-ring outer inner)
        (- (area-of-disk outer)
              (area-of-disk inner)))
    (define (area-of-ring outer inner)
        (- (* 3.14 (* outer outer))
              (* 3.14 (* inner inner))))

    The first example looks like mush and is just going to turn them off. Teach them python or java or something that wont turn them off to programming for the rest of their lives. I am sure you LISP guys can do wonders. But maybe its not so good for a first language. It looks like garbage.
    Yeah, I know I suck. blah blah blah

  5. Financial security should be stronger than secrecy on Australian Tax Office Stores Passwords In Clear Text · · Score: 1

    Why is it still the case that we live in terror that someone can get our secret financial information and ruin our lives? Secret information that is frequently scattered around in the public domain anyway. At this point it should be possible to lock down financials and identities so that this problem is in the past.
    If nothing else, someone should see a business opportunity in offering that kind of security. Move your money to this bank/credit because we offer real financial protection for you. You will never be inconvenienced by the old poorly secured way of doing things again.

  6. That makes more sense. on Future Fighters Won't Need Ejection Seats · · Score: 1

    Bombers that can carry loads of bombs but evade at high-Gs make sense. And anti-bomber fighters that will kill anything in the sky that does not emit the correct friend or foe signal also make sense to counter high-G bombers.
    People are making this about fighters and ejection seats. But I think this is about bombers and air defense against those.

  7. When there were 3 tv channels and nothing to watch on The End Is Near for GameStop · · Score: 1

    We read books. And books work just as well today as they did then. Even better, with the web you get reviews and instant delivery.

  8. Just Whistle on FTC Gets 744 New Ideas On How To Hang Up On Robocallers · · Score: 1

    Just like there was a "Captain Crunch" guy that could whistle at certain tones, why cant a group of "trusted parties" have
    a special audio signaler that sends a signal -back- to the originator of the call. This signal could be heard by the phone
    companies and they would know what circuit has the mad dial-er on it.

    Just an idea.

  9. Because it represents huge losses for the US on Senators Seek H-1B Cap That Can Reach 300,000 · · Score: 1

    1. The foreign workers send their money home instead of spending here in this economy
    2. The foreign workers take what they learn here and send it home making us less competitive in the long run
    3. The education system here will continue to decline because we are boosting our productivity with foreign trained workers. It hides symptoms.
    4. The foreign workers now trained here can be sent back to their home where they can seed outsourcing more labor.

    Conservative used to mean "Stingy and Self-Sufficient". What does it mean now?

  10. How about a note apologizing and closing shop on Barracuda Appliances Have Exploitable Holes, Fixed By Firmware Updates · · Score: 3, Insightful

    SSH backdoors into security appliances? Really?

  11. Good to know! That makes me feel better on UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Thanks!

  12. Re:This is dumb on Meet "Ophelia," Dell's Plan To Reinvent Itself · · Score: 1

    It gets fun when they give you a button to switch back and forth between PC inputs and android screen. Then you can use the monitor to select where your keyboard and mouse events go. To the android or to the PC.

  13. This is dumb on Meet "Ophelia," Dell's Plan To Reinvent Itself · · Score: 1

    They will just start building the functionality into the monitor. This will be the default behavior of the monitors unless you are feeling "inelegant" and decide to plug something into the inputs. Then the Dell shiny toy is a paperweight.

    In fact, the internal processor power of a monitor should be able to run this with spare cycles.

    The endgame is to use the usb ports on the monitor to connect drives and allow storage. Bing!

  14. Speaking of IPv6 and firewalls, how infested is it on UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Whats the worm traffic (ssh and other) on the IPv6 internet? The weird IPv6 people want us to just hop on IPv6 by tunneling under our old IPv4 firewall/routers. So how much parasitism and hacking is on the new network? And can we expect a wave of new attacks/exploits to happen to people who turn on IPv6 and blindly bypass the only protection they have?

     

  15. LG took me hostage recently on 'Connected' TVs Mostly Used Just Like the Unconnected Kind · · Score: 1

    They chose to change their "Terms of Service" and anytime I tried to use the menu to do -anything- it would force me to accept the TOS or I was kicked out. Basically, they sabotaged my TV until I accepted their terms. I couldnt change any setting because the menus were frozen. No choice but to accept. I complained and got no response. Needless to say, I am done buying LG and I was a very good customer for them.

  16. Do digital cable boxes report your viewing habits? on Verizon Patents Eavesdropping Using Your TV For Ad Targeting · · Score: 2

    It would be easy for them to see what ads you surfed away from. That information could be saleable and most people would not mind it too much. OTOH, people would mind if they reported on what you were watching when the commercial came up.

  17. Make checkout superfast on Ask Slashdot: How To Make a DVD-Rental Store More Relevant? · · Score: 3

    Use rfid or other tech so that when someone is leaving with movies, they are automatically logged and displayed. This is what you will be billed for starting now.
    Bill by the day.
    Make it easy to purchase the movies as an alternative to returning them. Take advantage of lazy purchasing.
    Keep a computer terminal up and locked on IMDB so people can look up the movie or find a movie they remember.
    Have three return bins. Liked it, hated it. Defective. Let your customers vote on which movies to keep in stock.
    Make it easy to order movies for purchase an put on their account. Take advantage of impulse purchasing.
    Dont ever ever ever ask them to sign up for an additional type of membership. Always a downer.
    Make it so that they never leave without a movie. Have a "are you feeling lucky" freebie movie.
    stress the importance and worth of the special features (which are unavailabe on streaming)
    Dont waste shelf space with all your titles flat. Keep one face up, the rest on edge.
    Dont be prudes
    Stock movies you would watch. Dont stock movies you could never stand to watch. Be a good place to find good movies.

  18. Not moving is very painful on Vegetative State Man 'Talks' By Brain Scan · · Score: 1

    He must be in severe pain. Unless his injuries have left him with no ability to feel his body, he would likely be in agony.

  19. They can leave if they pay their share of the Debt on Secession Petitions Flood White House Website · · Score: 1

    The national debt belongs to all of us. Secession is like trying to skip out without paying the check. If they have the gold or treasuries to equal 1/50th of our debt (or divide it by population) then I say let em leave.

    Pay up on your rent and you can vacate!

  20. Real Inflation Rate Is Considerably Higher than 2% on Should a Teenage Entrepreneur Sell Out To Facebook? · · Score: 1

    Are you sure you are giving good advice?

  21. So how does this relate to the "missing matter" on NASA Uncovers Millions of New Black Holes · · Score: 2

    Black holes are heavy right?

  22. Uhm, because they are too big to fail? on Would You Trust an 80-Year-Old Nuclear Reactor? · · Score: 1

    Seems to be the way of the world these days.

    Actually, I wonder if they are too big to build. It seems like we have lost the ability to conceive/build things on that scale anymore.

  23. He took us off the Gold standard on Economists: US Poverty On Track To Hit Highest Level Since 1960s · · Score: 1

    So you may have a really good point there.

  24. Print the data on sheets of gold with a laser on A Million-Year Hard Disk · · Score: 1

    Print the data on sheets of gold. It can be thin. It wont degrade and you wont need a player that lives for 40,000 years.

    Digital is not the answer to everything.

  25. Isnt it possible to just use their mass? on Pentagon's In-Orbit Satellite Recycling Program Moving Forward · · Score: 1

    If you send up a launch vehicle, and have it latch onto an existing orbiter, cant you use something to push the old satellite towards Earth. And push yourself into a higher orbit? It seems like it might be more efficient than hurling matter out of booster engines. You could use electromagnetic force.
    Can you use pre-existing orbiters as "stepping stones"?