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  1. Re:Posting's Title is Pretty much spot on on Hotel ISP iBahn Denies Breach By Chinese Hackers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The post title is exactly what iBahn is claiming. The Iraqi information minister would be proud.

  2. Re:News for nerds, stuff that matters on Should Social Media Affect Your Creditworthiness? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    credit agencies breaking the law in a way that treats individuals inequitably

    That's kind of hard to do, since the government wrote the law to protect credit agencies from the effects of their fuckups.

    If I told your boss you owed me five million dollars and your boss decided you were a risk and let you go, you'd have lawyers out the wazoo begging to take up a slander/libel case against me. If Experian tells your boss you owed me five million dollars and you lost your job, they're out a mandatory credit report.

  3. Re:greed kills on Verizon Tech Charged In $4.5M Equipment Scam · · Score: 1

    My favorite is the trick of leaving stuff under the doormat. Like the time I came home to the box my computer case shipped in under my front doormat.

  4. Re:I'm stunned on FBI Rejects Freedom of Information Act Request About Carrier IQ · · Score: 2

    they PAY for it

    There's a slashdot story about how the feds were having their wiretaps canceled for nonpayment.

  5. Re:You don't understand how this works do you. on LightSquared Disrupts 75% of GPS Connections In Government Test · · Score: 1

    Because then the wrong lizard will get in.

  6. Re:This is not the same test on Are You Better At Math Than a 4th (or 10th) Grader? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, it's (D). Bisect means split in two equal parts, which is why you can say the length of AE is the same as the length of EC.

  7. Re:I agree with TFA, mostly on Are You Better At Math Than a 4th (or 10th) Grader? · · Score: 2

    Raise the 12m long wall first, then lay the 5m long wall against it. Raise the 5m long wall.

    Actually, it's a trick question, all the wood you used to make the walls were warped pieces of crap, which is all the lumber stores seem to sell these days.

  8. Re:Oh - another one of my annoyances. on Are You Better At Math Than a 4th (or 10th) Grader? · · Score: 1

    Maybe the trick that's missed is that once you've learnt up to your 10*, 11* should be explained as 10* + 1*, 12* as 10* + 2* etc

    Which is exactly what you're doing when you write out the long multiplication, except in that case eg 53*24 is (3*4+5*4*10) + (3*2*10+5*2*10*10).

  9. Oh look, the pendulum. It swings back. on TSA Facing Death By a Thousand Cuts · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now if only America wasn't tied down in the pit underneath it.

  10. Re:Said it before and I'll say it again ... on Google, Facebook Upset By Ad-Injecting Apps · · Score: 2

    "One weird trick" seems to have become some sort of meme. I'm even seeing it in news articles online.

  11. Re:Oh, to suffer the slings and arrows... on Researchers Expanding Diff, Grep Unix Tools · · Score: 1

    In the CSV you get all the properties of each VM in the host.

    What do you get printed on the screen if you remove the "Export-Csv"? binary gibberish, or just text?

    On Linux, it's trivial to detect whether your output is to a terminal or to a file, and likely possible to detect that your output is a pipe. Likewise, if people really cared, they could produce a set of programs that output "objects" to pipes and text to the screen. The key here being that even if you declared a standard form for your objects (for instance, bencode) and other people used your standard, you'd need a pretty complete set of programs to deal with it.

  12. Re:Strange names on Researchers Expanding Diff, Grep Unix Tools · · Score: 1

    This is why God invented $IFS

  13. Re:Strange names on Researchers Expanding Diff, Grep Unix Tools · · Score: 1

    only, the man page for man does not in fact tell you that you need to type "Q" to return to the command line.

    That's because man simply formats the page, then passes it to your $PAGER of choice (more or less) for display.

  14. Re:Pet Peeve: SEO and URLs. on Researchers Say Carrier IQ Isn't Logging Data, Texts · · Score: 2

    or /story/latest-scandel-breaks

    Spelled that way because latest-scandal-breaks was already taken?

  15. Re:What's the definition of "prodigal"? on New US Government Project To Monitor Electronic Communication · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It used to be that ${God} would listen to everything you thought and prayed for, and that used to be enough to let people think their problems and concerns were being addressed. I think it's healthy to have that feeling replaced by the warm, comforting feeling that the government is watching you and might choose to intervene.

    I dunno, given the past few years, I'd say the government is about on par with God in terms of delivering on promises.

  16. Re:What's the definition of "prodigal"? on New US Government Project To Monitor Electronic Communication · · Score: 1

    "A person who spends money in a recklessly extravagant way."

    Nice name for this program.

    Pretty much spot on. The nice lady from California doesn't mind her tax dollars going to pay some peeping tom to be bored of reading her email.

  17. Re:viewpoint of an investor on Fed Gave Banks Eye-Popping Emergency Loans, Without Telling Congress · · Score: 1

    HAH! The banks made out like bandits, their CEOs did excellent by the only measure that actually matters these days.

  18. Re:The real issue on Interpreting the Constitution In the Digital Era · · Score: 2

    Add to this that every single technological advance in communications has been violated by the government despite the fact that the Constitution clearly indicates that it has no authority to do so whatsoever. Telegraphs, telephones, cellphones, the internet, gps... all tapped first, until the supreme court said "no".

    While advances in communication seem to be stalling, sadly, advances in government bullshit continue apace. Why bother with all this warrant and constitutional limits on power when you can just ask companies up the food chain to roll over for you, all perfectly constitutional. After all, it'd be terrible if something were to happen to an entire rack of servers because the feds thought you weren't bending over far enough for them.

    My guess is that ultimately, Obama will veto the law allowing citizens to be held indefinitely without trial, and the government will do it anyway, by having people held by private prison corporations not beholden to the Constitution. Of course, any complaints about "kidnapping" will be treated with the highest priority by the DA, and will be taken care of just as soon as they're finished with all of these important jaywalking and littering cases that suddenly are clogging the docket.

  19. Re:Language matters on Ask Slashdot: To Hack Or Not To Hack? · · Score: 1

    Cracking a safe sounds lame. 15 sticks of dynamite level of lame.

  20. Re:Wrong on Should Composting Be Mandatory In US Cities? · · Score: 1

    find the best value for their money

    Nobody wants the best "value", they want the best. After all, if they don't put their entire family's financial future in hock to give Tiny Tim another month of a miserable existence, they're bad people.

  21. Re:Wrong on Should Composting Be Mandatory In US Cities? · · Score: 1

    And your doctor violated his or her contracts and/or committed fraud. Their contract with Aetna or Blue Cross or just about every other insurance company out there specifically says that if they're going to be allowed to see Aetna's patients or Blue Cross's patients, they had to promise not to bill anyone else less than the amount they were getting paid by the insurance. After all, if healthcare wasn't so expensive, how would the insurance companies ever convince people to sign up?

    The insurance companies have won this war. Just try to find a single politician on either side of the aisle who doesn't use "healthcare" as shorthand for insurance.

  22. Re:Should X be mandatory? on Should Composting Be Mandatory In US Cities? · · Score: 1

    If recycling made sense, companies would be paying me for the time I spend recycling

    I get good money for my metals, and some money for my newspapers.

  23. Re:Not unrelated on Merck Threatens Merck With Legal Action Over Facebook URL · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In other words, Facebook being on American soil, this was just a delayed seizure of North American assets?

  24. Re:SSNs? on New Jersey DMV Employees Caught Selling Identities · · Score: 1

    until a national ID is standard the SS# will be used out of necessity

    And at that point, the national ID will be used for everything and we're exactly back where we are now, where everyone knows your ID and yet everyone expects you to be the only one who knows it.

  25. Re:hmm on Restaurants Plan DNA-Certified Seafood Program · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Of course not, you just have to test "monkfish" for pufferfish poison. While you're at it, you should test it to make sure it doesn't have stonefish poison, lion-fish venom, Kyphosus fuscus "dreamfish" hallucinogens, or any of the other millions of poisons out there nature invented to kill you.

    Or, you could test to make sure your "monkfish" is monkfish.