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  1. Re:I asked a friend if it was any good? on Google Video Shows All-White Redesigns For Gmail, Google Photos, and More (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    What the hell? I thought it was bad enough that they had an "S" in the name so that someone who lisps cannot accurately name their own condtion. Now, I discover a whole new condition for people who struggle to say the letter "R" (in English at least) and what do they put in the name!?

  2. Hilarous, they're running a pilot program to see if we can do without pilots.

  3. Re:Hope it's better than Google Finance makeover! on 'A Fresh, Clean Look.' Gmail Is About To Get a Makeover (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    This has just recently been fixed again. You can now type natural language again.

  4. Visa overstays on Facial Scanning Now Arriving At US Airports (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    "and to prevent visa overstays" Huh? You want to detain people for visa overstays as they're trying to leave the country? How does that help?

  5. Balkanization on How DIY Rebels Are Working To Replace Tech Giants (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    "Balkan and Kalbag form one small part of a fragmented rebellion" How odd that someone named Balkan would form part of a fragmented solution.

  6. Re:frosty on Ask Slashdot: Biggest IT Management Mistakes? · · Score: 1

    I have been implementing SAP for the past 20 years. (Look at my handle.) I can count on one hand the number of bad implementations that we have encountered. The vast majority of them have been highly successful. I know this because I have supplied post go-live support at a number of these installations and on a couple of occasions even came back a few years later to implement more features.All of these customers have been very happy with SAP. (Including the people that work on it day-to-day. )

  7. Wouldn't STAMP be a portmanteau of story amp?

  8. Re: SAP is not the problem here on Attackers Targeting Critical SAP Flaw Since 2013 (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I work with SAP on a daily basis (hence my nickname) and there are some updates that will break stuff. Luckily this is preventable by pushing the update into your DEV system and then onwards into the QAS system prior to slamming it into PROD. There are some cowboys out there that will slam an SAP hotpack straight into PROD but if you're dealing with one of those guys you have bigger problems anyway.

  9. Then how did he know to post his reply on this thread?

    Simple. The original article on the "Exceptionally Magic" drive told him on which day to come back to /. and what to post. It's actually an easier exercise than figuring out the EMDrive. All you need to do is count the number of days between dupes and you know which day to come back and post again.

  10. If and when - aargh on Real-World Roadblocks To Implementing CISA · · Score: 1

    The phrase "if *and* when" really grates my nerves. Especially when we've just had an article on Boolean logic come through recently. It's one or the other people. It cannot be both. One indicates a conditionality and the other indicates a certainty.

  11. Re:Condescending Attitude on It Is Programmer Day - Why So Apathetic? · · Score: 1

    Just judging by the trouble some people have using a computer, I wouldn't want to touch anything they've created with a ten foot pole.

    In their defense it would be pretty hard typing anything on a computer using a ten foot pole...

  12. Re:Terrorist is an impossible label on The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a Terrorist · · Score: 1

    The helicopters were in Miami https://www.google.com/search?...

  13. Re:Ha, "self-determination" my ass on WikiLeaks: NSA Recording All Telephone Calls In Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    Whoa! Are you saying in the next US election we're going to get people that are pro-U.S. on the ballot? Nice.

  14. Re:If you can learn to put a beer down while drivi on The Case For a Safer Smartphone · · Score: 1

    In Germany it's considered better to put your indicator on while you're in the fast lane to indicate to the person in front of you that you want to pass them. Flashing your lights is considered rude.

  15. What could be gleaned from exact numbers? on DOJ Announces New Methods For Reporting National Security Requests · · Score: 1

    What could the terrorists (as if it's even remotely about them anymore) glean from the exact numbers that they couldn't deduce from rounded numbers? I.e. what state secret goes out the window if we knew 1024 NSLs were sent to Google rather than 1000-2000? This is what bugs me the most about petty pointless crap like this. They graciously are "allowing" us to know the rough numbers but give no justification for the added secrecy.

  16. Re:this was the best: on Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview · · Score: 1

    My roommate back in the early 90s went on a job interview in the late 80s.

    Your roomate has a time machine?

    No time machine needed. They were roommates in the 90's. During this time his roommate spoke about an interview that occurred in the 80s.

  17. Re:hi on Building a Full-Auto Gauss Gun · · Score: 1

    How do you report her? I can't find an obvious link back to the actual person that made this comment.

  18. What was there to attack? on Zimbabweans Hit By Cyber Attacks During Election · · Score: 1

    I think the thing that blows me away the most about this news is that there is anything of a cyber nature in Zimbabwe to attack in the first place.

  19. Re:Sad no-one realizes how different iOS7 really i on Apple Isn't the Next Microsoft (and That's a Good Thing) · · Score: 1

    Daring fireball is that you? How nice of you to show up here on /. http://daringfireball.net/2013/06/ios_7_signature

  20. Re:simple on Ask Slashdot: Preventing Snowden-Style Security Breaches? · · Score: 1

    The trick with that is what was the ratio of attacks stopped versus the number of people "looked" at?

    In the UK their is a current debate on random stop and search used by police. The noticeable point is that it is 9% effective in finding someone doing something wrong.

    So if the police stop and search 100 cars they find 9 people who are breaking the law.

    Sorry, but you're wrong with those numbers. If the police stopped and searched 100 cars, and all 100 of those people were breaking the law, they find 9 people who are breaking the law.

    In reality you would have to stop 1000s of cars before you caught 9 people breaking the law.

  21. Re:Google Voice: Add PER CONTACT calling preferenc on Is Google Voice Doomed To Be 2nd-Class Messaging System? · · Score: 1

    Use an app called Voice Plus https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bbrother.googlevoicebyname&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5iYnJvdGhlci5nb29nbGV2b2ljZWJ5bmFtZSJd You can set area codes to be dialed with your regular number or groups within GV to be dialed with regular numbers. It's indispensable when using GV.

  22. Re:Miranda on Seeking Fifth Amendment Defenders · · Score: 1

    I think the OP is assuming that the set of criminal *statues* is small and they are concretely defined. Just California has over 34000 intentionally ambiguos *statues* in its penal code. So there is absolutely no way for a common citizen to live a life that doesn't violate a single one of those *statues*. California passes statutes and then has a statue made to represent each of these statutes? And then those poor statues are violated as well? It's a good thing I don't live there. Also, they might be able to cut back on their budget problems if they just stopped making all these damn statues.

  23. This has been around for 10+ years on U.S. Senate's Big Immigration Bill Seeks Centralized Database For H-1B Jobs · · Score: 1

    This isn't anything new. More than 10 years ago when I was in the labor certification part of the green card process my employer had to post the job description to this website.

  24. Re:Our Tax Dollars on IRS Spent $60,000 Producing Star Trek Parody · · Score: 1

    The IRS will attach a tax lien on the priory.

    Huh? I thought the original poster was talking about losing their farm. How did a poor monastery get dragged into this?

  25. Re:1kpl.us on What's the Best RSS Reader Not Named Google Reader? · · Score: 1

    I managed to get my feeds from Reader over into 1kpl but nothing displays for me. Do you have a help page hidden away somewhere really well that I should be looking at?