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  1. Re:How about no on Comcast To Expand Public WiFi Using Home Internet Connections · · Score: 1

    Okay, maybe that's an exaggeration. But not much. Big companies like Google (YouTube) rely on that provision all the time.

    You're not Google...

    Should someone download CP using your connection, you're being naive if you think that it's not likely that some prosecutor will decide to go after you. It is not a cut-and-dried issue, as you imply...

  2. Re:The NeXT CyLINDER on Apple Shows Off New iOS 7, Mac OS X At WWDC · · Score: 1

    on a different but related note what is with the general public conflating mac use with tech savvy? most mac users i know use it because they are to confused by windows so need a easier system. I know that not all are that way but that has just been my personal experience.

    Maybe in your call center. Most engineers that I work with have Macs as their personal systems (we use Linux for development).

  3. Re:Vulnerability extends application's permissions on Android Malware "Obad" Called Most Sophisticated Yet · · Score: 1

    I know, but I feel confident enough in my own knowledge that I don't have to prove it to every AC who comes along.

    Yeah, it's almost like this is a discussion forum or something.

    Or, you can continue being anti-social...

  4. Re:Oh brother on PETA Wants To Sue Anonymous HuffPo Commenters · · Score: 1

    The cite he was looking for was for the assertion you made that the Wrestling Foundation initated the lawsuit. Every cite that I see shows that the opposite occurred.

  5. Re:Let me be the first to say... on Sleep Deprivation Lowers School Achievement In Children · · Score: 1

    Actually, as a definite night person, I have no trouble at all staying awake, even for a couple of days. I do, however, have trouble getting awake after having gone to sleep. My whole family is that way...

    And my experience with morning people, is that they very definitely do fade toward the end of the day, whereas the most awake that I am all day is right before I go to bed.

    I definitely wouldn't want to be in a car driven at night by a morning person. My experience is that they are much more prone to falling asleep...

  6. Re:New Coke was a Flop? on Microsoft's "New Coke" Moment? · · Score: 1

    I think the difference was sugar versus HFCS (as well as water differences).

    Exactly. And, if you can find the Mexican coke in your area (my Costco carries it), you'll find the difference in taste quite dramatic.

  7. Re:Don't bother getting ahold of me then on Most Companies Will Require You To Bring Your Own Mobile Device By 2017 · · Score: 1

    Ha ha ha, that joke just never gets old...

  8. Re:Baking Soda on Explosions at the Boston Marathon · · Score: 1

    I have a friend living in Ecuador and the biggest surprise he found is that he can't get baking soda at the grocery store. Apparently there's some way to make some explosive where one of the steps involves baking soda as a reagent. So, a bombing happened one time, and apparently (unless I've been very obscurely punked) they banned baking soda in response.

    Yes, when paired with vinegar, it becomes a potent explosive.

    I'm actually curious about what kind of real explosive there is that could use baking soda ... but decided that googling it probably isn't a good idea...

  9. Re:Seriously now on Want to Keep Messages From the Feds? Use iMessage · · Score: 1

    Unless the originating agency can prove where and how they intercepted some communication, and it wasn't obtained as part of an unreasonable search or seizure, any such evidence is "fruit of the poisoned tree".

    That's a quaint, but outdated sentiment. The original impetus can just be an "anonymous tip", and then any later, related evidence can usually be allowed...

  10. Re:A contrived test: old phone, old operating syst on Wiping a Smartphone Still Leaves Data Behind · · Score: 2

    The author used the last iPhone (3G) running the last iOS version (4) that would exhibit such behavior. It seems a contrived test.

    More than just contrived, it is very intellectually dishonest...

  11. Re:You can't un-post an image on SendGrid Fires Employee After Firestorm Over Inappropriate Jokes · · Score: 1

    You're right about her mistake being public, so publicly trying to fix it seems an obvious option.

    To be fair, he actually mentioned her mistake being pubic...

  12. Re:Legacy of Turbo Pascal on What Early Software Was Influential Enough To Deserve Acclaim? · · Score: 1

    The compiler was fast, but the machine code it generated wasn't well optimized.

    And it didn't have a linker, so it had to compiler everything, every time. That would have been very painful, except that the compiler was so fast.

  13. Re:True on IQ 'a Myth,' Study Says · · Score: 2

    In the ninth grade, I gave up on "The Silmarillion" about halfway through, only to start reading "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever". I've also never forgiven myself...

  14. Re:Wall St. Closed on Hurricane Sandy Nears East Coast · · Score: 1

    The effect of even an inch of ice on surfaces is absolutely crazy. We get ice storms in the PNW every few years and the only thing you can do is hunker down and hope the power comes back on before you freeze to death. Snow isn't a problem. Millions of tons of ice clinging to everything is a significant problem.

    Especially with above-the-ground power lines, which is really silly with so many trees around in the PNW. Visitors from Europe are frequently astonished that a developed country would do it that way...

  15. Re:Disgusted with lameness on What To Do With Those First Generation Photo Frames? · · Score: 1

    Says the anonymous coward -- you spineless twerp...

  16. Re:so all those people weren't crazy on US Air Force's 1950s Supersonic Flying Saucer Declassified · · Score: 1

    Don't you just hate it when you are doing 0.99c along an interstellar freeway and some photon is tailgating you?

    Drafting...

  17. Re:so all those people weren't crazy on US Air Force's 1950s Supersonic Flying Saucer Declassified · · Score: 1

    Maybe her smartphone didn't have a decent flash...

    Well done...

  18. Re:Reverse engineer on Apple Says "No" To Releasing New Dock Connector Specs · · Score: 1

    This is starting to be as common and stupid as everyone who complains about the McDonald's coffee lawsuit without understanding the specifics.

    Apple is guilty of a number of evils, so it isn't necessary to distort the facts in order to demonize them. That you do feel the need to do so actually undermines your argument...

  19. Re:Well... on FAA To Reevaluate Inflight Electronic Device Use · · Score: 1

    You are clueless...

    I don't even have kids, and don't particularly like them. I'd be completely with you if we were talking about people taking kids to a nice restaurant.

    However, with travel parents simply don't have much other choice when it comes to their children. I've never seen a parent who wasn't embarassed about their crying kids, but there is often not much they can do.

    Learn some empathy...

  20. Re:Reminds me of an old RPS contest... on Robot Hand Beats You At Rock, Paper, Scissors 100% of the Time · · Score: 1

    Contest programs ran in the same process, so your rand() state was shared

    This little bit of vital information is what moves your story from "stupid, could never happen" to "clever idea", and, absent this information, the original reply questioning your story was well warranted...

  21. Re:Games not shown OTA on Game of Thrones The Most Pirated TV Show of the Season · · Score: 2

    ESPN only charges $3 per home per month.

    However, note that they require placement on the simplest "expanded" tier, which means that it is $3 for every subscriber, regardless of whether the subscriber even cares to watch sports. To net the same amount ala carte, they would have to charge much more.

    When you get Viacom doing the same thing, the networks charging for placement, etc., the base costs add up pretty quickly.

  22. Re:implement nonexistent 16 bit processor in softw on Wozniak's Original System Description of the Apple ][ · · Score: 1

    I think that he was referring to a complete interpreter for a 16-bit processor called sweet16, which resided with the integer BASIC interpreter in the original ROM.

    Sweet16 was pretty much never used, and its space (along with the builtin assembler) was reclaimed later when Applesoft BASIC came out.

  23. Re:Disrespect on Confidentiality Expires For 1940 Census Records · · Score: 1

    tl;dr version: No disrespect was meant. The proxy baptism for your father was an act of love and friendship, which he is free to reject if he doesn't want it. I'm sorry if you were offended.

    So you wouldn't be offended if some Satanic cult were to decide to "baptize" your father or grandfather?

    I'm surprised that you can't see why this practice would be considered offensive ... and disrespectful. If the guy wanted to be baptized, then he presumably would have done it while he was alive.

  24. Re:Context? on Apple to Buy Back $10bn of Its Shares and Pay Dividend · · Score: 1

    What worth 100B dollars could Apple buy that they also could have a good fit with?

    They could fund the war(s) in the middle east for less than a year. (Just to add some perspective...)

  25. Re:Hmmm... Let's see... on Lawyers For Mining Companies Threaten Scientific Journals · · Score: 1

    I was hoping to avoid any specific answers, as I've been sent to mod-hell for advancing a feminist agenda here on Slashdot. As such, I've been sticking to more generalized questions. Like, why aren't white people working in-proportion at fast food restaurants in Seattle? (In Seattle, it's almost exclusively Hispanic people working behind the counters, in New Mexico, it's almost exclusively teenagers.)

    I think that was the OP's point...

    Men are indeed overrepresented in engineering fields, for whatever reason. But, they are also overrepresented in mining, sewage treatment, and any number of less desirable jobs. And also less represented in nursing, child care, certain types of administration, etc.

    Is it fair to cherry-pick?