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  1. Re:Much of the world has "illegal speech" on Journalist Arrested By Interpol For Tweet · · Score: 1
    From the GP:

    There are upstanding, progressive regimes in Europe where there are literally things you can say that don't involve a threat of violence or which won't cause immediate danger to those around you

    (emphasis mine)

    Just another sign of Muslim-haters' complete intolerance, and insistence on ignoring counter-attitudinal information.

  2. Re:Much of the world has "illegal speech" on Journalist Arrested By Interpol For Tweet · · Score: 1
    From GP:

    There are upstanding, progressive regimes in Europe where there are literally things you can say that don't involve a threat of violence or which won't cause immediate danger to those around you

    (emphasis mine)

    Just another sign of Muslim-haters' complete intolerance, and that some will think whatever they wish, regardless of what they read. Score 5: Insightful? Really?

  3. Re:Sometime the old ways on Ask Slashdot: How To Allow Test Takers Internet Access, But Minimize Cheating? · · Score: 1

    I had a student once -- Whenever we had an "in-class" test, his mother would always have a heart attack.

    Perhaps she was regularly ill, and it was only ever your business when tests came 'round.

  4. Re:I'm shocked! on Louis CK's Internet Experiment Pays Off · · Score: 1

    That would be a great point to make, if only for the fact that the revenue was $500,000, not the profit. But yes, since I doubt the album took 300k to make, other people are getting their cut.

  5. Magic pots of money on California Going Ahead With Bullet Train · · Score: 1

    I keep hearing that "we just don't have the money to fund education, the students have to bear some burden"; here my legislature is ready to fund a rail project mainly for the sake of creating (shovel) jobs, instead of increasing access to and the quality of education so that more people in the state have the resources to create jobs themselves through their business and innovation.

    Then I read that these "leaders" have no idea where the money's going to come from, but they're hoping we'll be generally more prosperous later, in a state that spends more on prisons than it does on higher education.

  6. Re:How about Sagan on Renaming the Very Large Array · · Score: 5, Funny

    Super Awesome Group of ANtennae?

  7. Re:If this were done in an English speaking countr on What You Eat Affects Your Genes · · Score: 1

    Nope, mice are relatively cheap, easy to handle, and have physiology somewhat similar to humans' in English-speaking countries too.

  8. Re:New York on GPS Tracking of State Worker Raises Privacy Issues · · Score: 1

    I may be missing something about the process here, but if it's such a slam dunk, why is an appeals court hearing about it? Shouldn't that case have been cited in a motion to exclude the GPS evidence? Or are state court of appeals decisions not binding in lower courts?

  9. In 3 years? How about now. on Ask Slashdot: Best Second Major For a Mechanical Engineer? · · Score: 1

    At my university many of the engineering faculty are international. I would imagine working at a prestigious multinational corporation or even a small venture focusing on research would have a similar mix.

  10. But the point of a pseudonym on Fake Names On Social Networks, a Fake Problem · · Score: 1
    is to not give your real name to other users or to corporations we don't trust.

    The requirement is there to help the corporations, not their users. (snip...)

    would do 99% of the work of verifying identity.

    A legitimate attempt at verifying users' identities is exactly what I don't want; it makes their data more valuable, and for the benefit of using a nickname in front of people I already know? I'm more concerned about Facebook et al. getting my personal information than my friends. Also, with a credit card charge, it's not just your name that they get; they get a billing address too.

  11. Re:RTFS? on ISPs Will Now Be Copyright Cops · · Score: 2

    Agreed. But now you're actually talking about the idea itself, instead of following the OP's vein of misinformed personal attack.

  12. RTFS? on ISPs Will Now Be Copyright Cops · · Score: 3, Informative

    talks about the new plan by ISPs and content providers

    Not her plan, she's just talking about it.

  13. Re:Don't have to out the customer (?) on Banks Find Way To Sell Consumers' Shopping Data · · Score: 1

    You can use them to uniquely identify each picture in the email and associate it with a uniqueid or campaign.

    If the only trackers were for the campaign as I proposed, there shouldn't be an issue. Perhaps I should refrain from assuming this is what will happen though.

    It will more than likely be email. It's cheapest to implement.

    ...

    They can now link all of the information I provided them with the demographics they purchased.

    Agreed, an online purchase would be difficult to claim without selling out the customer, which is why I was thinking more along the lines of a print-out coupon. The transaction itself, then, does not give the merchant free personal data, and neither should the bank claiming its commission. As long as actually obtaining the coupon does not require any loss of privacy.....

  14. Don't have to out the customer (?) on Banks Find Way To Sell Consumers' Shopping Data · · Score: 1

    In your example, what you are really pointing out is that whatever percentage of customers click on the links, or even view the email with downloaded pictures, are revealing themselves and losing their privacy. In order for the bank to receive a commission it needs to admit that particular customer was indeed part of the chosen demographics.

    There should be ways for the bank to get the kickback without the customer being identified specifically. A coupon could have a non-unique barcode to keep track of how many customers the bank sent the merchant's way without the coupon being specific to the client. Same goes for links in email; isn't it more trouble to have every click-through associated uniquely with an email?

    Can someone clarify how viewing the email with downloaded pictures necessarily identifies the customer? I suppose my arguments would be moot if that was the case.

  15. Other more important words on Spanish Surgeon Performs First Synthetic Organ Transplant · · Score: 1
    The Jarvik hearts are not custom-printed to be structurally identical to the patient's, but we can call them synthetic organs. The artificially grown bladders are made from the patient's (already differentiated) cells, but they are not custom printed either (they're bladders, they don't need to be).

    These windpipes are both custom printed to match the structure of the patient's original windpipe, and are made with the patient's stem cells.

    Synthetic is not the most salient descriptor, but none of the other factors make this a distinct first.

  16. Advertising superior security..... on Citi Bank Reveals Attack... One Month Late · · Score: 1

    Dropbox? If a company can conceal/lie about compromises of sensitive information, it can lie about its security.

  17. Very Small Inconvenience on Facebook Facial Recognition Raises New Privacy Concerns · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Every time somebody tags a user in a photo, the user is notified and can untag him/herself.

    The algorithm uses images that have already been tagged as X person for the reference. Tagging the wall behind you, or your pants, etc., should confuse the inputs enough to prevent good matches. This affects facebook's ability to find and recognize photos of you, which is slightly separate from other users' ability to find photos of you, since facial recognition indexing will occur even if you untag yourself or "opt out".

  18. Not a scarlet "A" on Checkpoint of the Future Coming Soon To Airports · · Score: 1

    But a scarlet "T"

  19. Re:Harvesting on Facebook Adds Two-Factor Authentication · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but this seems to make harvesting people's numbers easier as well. "To make sure you are who you say you are, check your phone. In case you are somebody that doesn't know what the phone number is, it's: 1-559- -1331. We hold ourselves to the highest standards when handling your personal information."

  20. Re:they immediately publish your cell # on Facebook Adds Two-Factor Authentication · · Score: 2

    Worth noting - when you supply a phone number (btw, my Google Voice number didn't work at all for this.. had to use my actual mobile #).. they immediately publish it on your profile.

    Thanks Facebook! (i immediately removed it and disabled the feature)

    And then you can modify your privacy settings so that contact info is not viewable by any users other than you......

  21. Re:Mission Accomplished on Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands · · Score: 1

    bin Laden never was directly connected to Al Qaeda's field operations, he always was a money man and organizer. The operational head of Al Qaeda has always been al-Zawahiri, who remains at large.

    What do you mean by organizer, then, if he was never involved in directing operations? And how did is bin Laden's name become the one that most of us less-informed know in connection to 9/11?

  22. Re:Mission Accomplished on Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands · · Score: 1

    It's a good start. When the next leader of Alqueda steps up, we just kill him too, lather rinse repeat.

    From one of the articles:

    Qais Azimy, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Kabul, said Afghan officials described bin Laden's killing as a "symbolic victory", since he was no longer directly connected to the group's field operations.

    There have been other leaders stepping up for a while now.

  23. Critique Science, not Religion on Tennessee Bill Helps Teachers Challenge Evolution · · Score: 1

    From the bill:

    "(e) This section only protects the teaching of scientific information, and shall not be construed to promote any religious or non-religious doctrine, promote discrimination for or against a particular set of religious beliefs or non-beliefs, or promote discrimination for or against religion or non-religion."

  24. Don't tell me about it until after it happens on Nuclear Risk Expert: Fukushima Fuel May Be Leaking · · Score: 1

    I was rather curious on why this particular researcher was relevant as all of his thoughts seem to be nothing more than conjecture.

    So you're saying what is currently happening is all that's important, and we need not worry about what might happen? Conjecture, the way you seem to be using the word, is the reason things like safety mechanisms are designed the way they are (or at all). This seems to be very educated conjecture, with knowledge of the structure of the reactor and the behavior of the materials involved.....

  25. Determinism? on Large Hadron Collider is a Time Machine? · · Score: 1

    If they discover the decay products spontaneously, and stopped all tests, wouldn't they not detect the decay particles because the singlet didn't end up being created?