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  1. Re:Let's be hospitable to terrorists? on Federal Judge Rules US No-fly List Violates Constitution · · Score: 1

    Or in the case of the woman in the court case that allowed this judicial review, because an intern entering the data from an already approved visa application into the system ticks some boxes that were confusingly worded negative questions, and should have been left unticked.

  2. Re:So what? on First Phone Out of Microsoft-Nokia -- and It's an Android · · Score: 1

    On a platform where they're complete virgins?

    The Nokia Asha is their best selling phone since the N900. I don't think this is lost on the company's new owners.

  3. Re:Listen up, Japanese. on Workplace Surveillance Becoming More Common · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A lot of Japanese companies are fighting back against the overwork culture these days. It is usual to see all the lights turned out in the office over the lunch hour to discourage working through lunch, and many companies have no-overtime days where the office is closed at 6pm (I even met one guy a couple of weeks ago who said his company has started doing this every day of the week).

  4. Re:Diesel? on Are US Hybrid Sales Peaking Already? · · Score: 1

    Diesel's have better performance than petrol engines at low rpm. So their acceleration from standing is much better, it's at higher speeds where a diesel needs a turbocharger to keep up with even quite low end petrol engines.

  5. Re:My experience driving a Prius on Are US Hybrid Sales Peaking Already? · · Score: 1

    The Prius is a CVT. It doesn't need to go through these oscillations of downshifting and upshifting (which you used to see a lot going up hill in old 3-speed autos with their massive gap between gears that meant that neither gear was exactly right for the driving conditions). I have a non-Hybrid Toyota with CVT, and have also observed that its peak acceleration is with the pedal about half way to the floor. In a CVT, the engine speed is pretty much directly proportional to where the pedal is, and peak torque on most cars is around 4000 rpm, not 6500.

  6. Re:Sigh on European iPhone Chargers Prone To Overheating · · Score: 1

    My guess is cheap universal chargers, that are designed to provide sufficient charging current at 100V (as used in Japan), and anything in excess above that results in excess power being dumped as heat. 240V is just a worst case.

  7. Re:What about flat cards? on Clueless About Card Data Hack, PF Chang's Reverts To Imprinting Devices · · Score: 1

    Chip & sig is being rolled out by some national banks right now.

    Chip and sig makes no sense whatsoever. The point of the PIN is that the chip will not divulge its information without a correct PIN being entered.

  8. Re:but that's the problem with the turing test... on Was Turing Test Legitimately Beaten, Or Just Cleverly Tricked? · · Score: 1

    How exactly are you supposed to get an artificial bot to pass the Turing test without people being cleverly tricked? Isn't that the whole point?

  9. Re:Subscribe on Auditors Release Verified Repositories of TrueCrypt · · Score: 1

    If the poster checked from a second machine, they could update their post with a confirmation that it was indeed right.

    I think you should update your post to clarify that Slashdot does not support updating of posts once they are submitted, least anyone get confused and spend time looking for that option.

  10. Re:I used to live there on AT&T Charges $750 For One Minute of International Data Roaming · · Score: 1

    You have to manually turn off roaming (most phones still have that setting - the carriers have only eliminated the force-roam setting).

    If you don't have the option to turn off roaming, you can also manually select a network instead of setting it to auto.

  11. Re:50MB = 750$ on AT&T Charges $750 For One Minute of International Data Roaming · · Score: 1

    But were the charges legitimate (not in error)?

    Since Bosnia is outside the EU, they can charge what they like. I never understood why European regulators stopped at usage within EU when they decided that roaming rates needed to be regulated.

  12. Re:Why bother? on OpenSSL To Undergo Security Audit, Gets Cash For 2 Developers · · Score: 2

    How many CAs does your browser come with these days?

    Browsers have come with far too many CAs installed for many years now.

  13. Re:Wrong, wrong,wrong! on Dump World's Nuclear Waste In Australia, Says Ex-PM Hawke · · Score: 1

    In some cases, these problems are also created by Australian companies shipping their toxic production processes overseas where they can cut costs by cutting corners, and politicians refusing to accept the waste back.

  14. Re:Fuel economy? on New Semiconductor Could Improve Vehicle Fuel Economy By 10 Percent · · Score: 1

    In a hybrid, improved electrical economy is improved fuel economy.

  15. Re:Raise the Price on Fiat Chrysler CEO: Please Don't Buy Our Electric Car · · Score: 1

    More likely is that their cost is based on the limited demand they are predicting. If they do sell more than expected, their per-car costs will come down, and the car may actually become profitable.

  16. Re:The elephant in the room on Professors: US "In Denial" Over Poor Maths Standards · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Any time you see "education" and "deep South" in the same sentence, it's dog whistle racism. This article is criticizing their scores and compares them to other countries without discrimination. This article is racist and should not even be here.

    He said the tendency to make internal comparisons between different groups within the US had shielded the country from recognising how much they are being overtaken by international rivals.

    Just keep screaming racism every time you see something that alerts you to a problem within your society, and claim that the article should never have been posted. Thats a very effective way of ensuring that the US continues on the path it is on.

  17. Re:Interview on Weed?! on FBI Need Potheads To Fight Cybercrime · · Score: 1

    Some drugs would help with that. I'm not sure I would pick marijuana though. The decreased anxiety going into the interview is outweighed by the increased paranoia when the interviewer starts questioning you.

  18. Re:Let me know when you win that war on drugs? on FBI Need Potheads To Fight Cybercrime · · Score: 1

    Considering the lack of a sense of humour among Slashdot moderators these days, the parent post might even be serious.

  19. Catching up to Microsoft fast on XMPP Operators Begin Requiring Encryption, Google Still Not Allowing TLS · · Score: 0

    No one ever expected Google to make the transition from evil to incompetent so quickly. There must be some chairs flying in the boardroom of Microsoft.

  20. Re:Almost first post! on Discrete Logarithm Problem Partly Solved -- Time To Drop Some Crypto Methods? · · Score: 1

    If push comes to shove, the police can be given your ID, most likely without the need for a warrant.

    When push comes to beta, your ID will be pushed directly to the police using JSON, most likely without the need for a cookie.

  21. Re:Auto switches on Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android · · Score: 1

    Apple's revenue for iMessage for Android would be the same as Google's revenue for Hangouts on iOS. Does everything need to be a direct revenue generator?

  22. Re:SQLite Studio on Ask Slashdot: Easy-To-Use Alternative To MS Access For a Charity's Database? · · Score: 1

    That looks like a (reasonably good, apart from the fact it is tied to sqlite) database adminstration tool. Its not something you make forms for end users in, which I think is the main feature of MS Access the submitter is interested in.

  23. Re:What? on Why Should Red Hat Support Competitors' Software? · · Score: 1

    The article does not seem that badly written to me, and it says quite clearly that it is #1.

    Then it is not news. "Company refuses to support software they didn't sell" shouldn't really be making headlines - even on Slashdot.

  24. Re:"No reliable solution" on Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android · · Score: 1

    I have "unlimited" SMS on my plan. But it is only unlimited to the phones on the same network, and with number portability there is no way of knowing whether my friends have switched networks. Certainly for international SMS, I'm not aware of any plan that is truly unlimited.

  25. Re:Auto switches on Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android · · Score: 1

    Another solution would be if they stopped tying software services in the cloud to their own hardware, and people access their iMessages with their new Android device.