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  1. Re:Send the kids home? on Bug Means High School Students' Schedule Errors May Last Days · · Score: 1

    The post I was referring to said as much. It was a sibling to the post of yours that I replied to. The post:

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1350215&cid=29224445

    The (shared) parent post:

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1350215&cid=29224193

  2. Re:Hackers can be pen testers on Hackers (Or Pen-Testers) Hit Credit Unions With Malware On CD · · Score: 1

    We all know AC loves dick, but it is a little unusual for one to come right out and say it.

  3. Re:Hackers can be pen testers on Hackers (Or Pen-Testers) Hit Credit Unions With Malware On CD · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure a large percentage of the populace even has a clear idea what an OS is.

  4. Re:Hackers can be pen testers on Hackers (Or Pen-Testers) Hit Credit Unions With Malware On CD · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, the descriptivists are right. Probably even in France.

    If nearly every language had not changed drastically over time, there might at least be an interesting conversation there, but alas.

  5. Re:I actually saw one of these.... on Hackers (Or Pen-Testers) Hit Credit Unions With Malware On CD · · Score: 1

    My CU is currently paying 1.9% on a 1 year CD, and 0.25% on a savings account. The former GMAC does pretty good against that (though they offer very few services with an account):

    http://www.ally.com/index.html

    I have to admit, I haven't shopped it around much (I don't have enough money for 1% to matter a great deal, and my money is earned and spent a great deal faster than it is compounded), but I don't really think I missed the mark.

  6. Re:I actually saw one of these.... on Hackers (Or Pen-Testers) Hit Credit Unions With Malware On CD · · Score: 1

    They generally pay pretty meager interest on deposits though (My primary financial institution is a credit union, I'm just sayin').

  7. Re:Send the kids home? on Bug Means High School Students' Schedule Errors May Last Days · · Score: 3, Funny

    Touché. And you are only in 78 minutes after someone posted how to get Slashdot to render it.

  8. Re:Kids from Planet Oblivious on Augmenting Reality With Your Mobile Phone · · Score: 1

    I am a reasonably solid 6 feet 210 pounds. It is a regular feature of crowds that I have to adjust to avoid knocking puny people around. It has nothing to do with them being kids or playing video games, not paying attention is simply a feature of many people.

  9. Re:The Killer App? In-n-Out Burger, baby. on Augmenting Reality With Your Mobile Phone · · Score: 1

    The first hint that he wasn't ordering a coffee was that he was asking for something in it.

  10. Re:Think of the possibilities! on Augmenting Reality With Your Mobile Phone · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure the checkpoints are worth it (but that doesn't say anything regarding how I feel about traffic stops for errant driving).

  11. Re:Using Common Sense...? on Bug Means High School Students' Schedule Errors May Last Days · · Score: 1

    They paid $4 million for something that didn't work, so I don't think the problem is limited to how much funding they have.

  12. Re:Send the kids home? on Bug Means High School Students' Schedule Errors May Last Days · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Even worse, we are more concerned with 'instruction' than 'learning'.

  13. Re:TV sucks anyway on An End To Unencrypted Digital Cable TV and the HTPC · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In his own mind, Booth was a patriot. Maybe thinking you are a patriot isn't always a good thing.

  14. Re:oh noes! on Watermelon Juice Makes Great Biofuel · · Score: 1

    You mean subsistence farmers (well, probably, maybe you mean growers of various plants that drugs are refined from). Displacing first-world food crops doesn't really effect them much (maybe it gives them better prices at market for any meager leftovers they have, subsistence farming actually means living off the crops...), it effects the millions of poor who do not grow their own food.

  15. Re:Water problem! on Watermelon Juice Makes Great Biofuel · · Score: 3, Informative

    They aren't suggesting growing more watermelons, they are suggesting that the watermelons that are presently left in the field to rot could instead be harvested and sent to a distillery.

  16. Re:Secure protocols for home wifi? on WPA Encryption Cracked In 60 Seconds · · Score: 1

    Do you mean WPA with AES, or just AES itself?

    I'd bet $5 on the latter lasting more than 2 years (depending a little bit on how 'fall' gets defined).

  17. Re:To be more specific on Fear of Porn URL Exposure Discourages Firefox 3 Upgrade · · Score: 1

    They gave Jenny McCarthy airtime. That makes it shit.

  18. Re:That's Ironic on US Call-Center Jobs — That Pay $100K a Year · · Score: 1

    Tens of millions of Americans work for American corporations. Corporations are probably closer to an actual realization of rational economic man than individuals, so apparently, by hiring Americans, they are expressing the fact that they see value in hiring Americans (rational economic man would not pay for something he did not perceive to carry value).

  19. Re:Here's a great idea. on Fear of Porn URL Exposure Discourages Firefox 3 Upgrade · · Score: 1

    In Firefox 3.5, there is an dropdown option box on the Privacy page of the options dialog allowing you to choose what information Firefox should use to populate the Awesome bar. I think you are probably interested in 'Nothing'.

  20. Re:I had to quit 3.5 because of crashes on Fear of Porn URL Exposure Discourages Firefox 3 Upgrade · · Score: 1

    The issue may be particular to something you are doing (some set of pages you visit, some extension, some issue with your FF profile (perhaps you created a new profile, it isn't clear from your post), or some issue with disk corruption on your system), the only crash I have had with FF3.5 on XP was related to the exploit code that I typed into a Javascript shell (the code triggered a memory overflow, I had not put in the payload (or maybe there wasn't a payload), so I wasn't real worried about the consequences).

  21. Re:To be more specific on Fear of Porn URL Exposure Discourages Firefox 3 Upgrade · · Score: 1

    I'm glad somebody untied you, nobody should be forced to watch that shit.

  22. Re:Browse safely on Fear of Porn URL Exposure Discourages Firefox 3 Upgrade · · Score: 1

    In 3.5, you can go into the Options dialog, select the Privacy page and set the dropdown for the location bar to 'nothing'.

  23. Re:C02 is not a pollutant on Global Warming To Be Put On Trial? · · Score: 1

    The earth is spheroid.

  24. Re:You can't put science on trial. on Global Warming To Be Put On Trial? · · Score: 1

    Well, not in a court of law. If you publish a paper, I should be able to repeat your experiment and get substantially similar results. This is very much me putting your science on trial.

  25. Re:Absurd on Global Warming To Be Put On Trial? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't care about what the planet can handle, I care about a comfortable environment for humans.

    (and I don't think it is clear that anthropogenic contributions are leading us to a world of cataclysm, but given that there are lots of other reasons to reduce human emissions (I like forests, coal power puts more radioactive material into the environment than nuclear power, oil is economically and politically unstable, etc.), I don't mind there being a push to at least examine the costs of exchanging those emissions for something else; maybe it will even turn out like sulfur emissions)