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  1. Re:Not exactly a right to remain silent... on The Reporter's Fifth Amendment Paradox · · Score: 1

    Exactly. He is not being asked to incriminate himself; he's being asked to incriminate someone else. The question is really, was he an active participant in a crime? It gets murky when a reporter elicits information rather than just being a recipient. Case in point; Wikileaks!

  2. About one B52 flight away! on How Close Is Iran, Really, To Nuclear Weapons · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they aren't careful!

  3. Samsung Tube amps and docks on Ask Slashdot: Gifts For a 90-Year-Old, Tech-Savvy Dad? · · Score: 1

    I know you said he has tube amps but he might want something to complement them. I'm a 66 year old tech savvy grandfather who want's http://www.samsung.com/us/video/home-theater/HT-E6730W/ZA
    and http://www.samsung.com/us/video/home-theater/DA-E750/ZA

  4. He should count his blessings! on Bradley Manning (WikiLeaks Source) Given Hearing After 2 Years In Jail · · Score: 1

    Manning wasn't treated any differently than any other maximum-security detainee, especially one displaying signs of mental illness. He was kept under suicide watch for the first six days which included being held naked until he was deemed not a risk to himself. The rest of his time has been in isolation.

    Manning has entered a plea which, if accepted, would subject him to a maximum sentence of 16 years. According to AP reporting:
    "Earlier Thursday, a military judge, Col. Denise Lind, accepted the terms under which Private Manning would plead guilty to eight charges for sending classified documents to WikiLeaks". The judge’s ruling does not mean the pleas have been formally accepted. That could happen in December. But she approved the language of the offenses to which Private Manning would admit, which she said would carry a total maximum prison term of 16 years.

    Manning may have a legitimate complaint for a "speedy trial" appeal but he will have to deal with the fact that the defense team has also asked for delays. And he should be thankful that the extended investigations into his motives and the motives of the recipients have apparently removed the charge of treason from above his head. He could be facing life in prison, or DEATH!

  5. This has nothing to do with the Petraeus incident! on Petraeus Case Illustrates FBI Authority To Read Email · · Score: 1

    Nice way to rehash your old articles but it's got nothing to do with Petraeus, or any other member of the armed forces. Anyone subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice gave up their right to privacy when they took the oath.

  6. Re:What are google's two js replacements? on TypeScript: Microsoft's Replacement For JavaScript · · Score: 1

    Dart, obviously. But what is the other one? Anyone know what the article writer was talking about?

    CoffeeScript is probably the second.

  7. George O. Smith - Venus Equilateral on Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer? · · Score: 1

    A brilliant engineer, contemporary and friend of Heinlein and Hubbard.

    My father was a friend of his; we lived in the same building in Jackson Heights when I was in elementary school, and we moved into his old apartment when he moved to New Jersey. My father used to say that Scientology began as an argument between Hubbard, Heinlein and Smith in that kitchen. Through the years that apartment probably hosted every member of the "Trap Door Spiders". I wish I had met them all! He did introduce me to Willy Ley and of course I had no idea who he was until "Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel, (1957)" was published.

  8. Re:Crawling under desks on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Professional Geek Dress Code? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Do not crawl under desks; delegate! I once worked at a bank where our IT manager was an extremely competent programmer who had been promoted to AVP. One day the VP, his boss and mentor, caught him going through some code with us and he hit the roof. He actually promised to fire him if he ever caught him at it again.

    As far as clothes go, keep in mind that your visibility is now vertical, not horizontal. Dress for your audience. Or follow the consultant guideline, dress one level above your constituents.

    I know its BS, but its also reality.

  9. Re:ooh on Google Apps Beats Office 365 For US Dept. of the Interior Contract · · Score: 1, Insightful

    symbolset, you've discovered the difference between PR and Marketing; PR spins the facts while Marketing simply makes them up

  10. Re:Does it involve a heist, con, or scheme? on Univ. of Florida Announces Plan To Save CS Department · · Score: 2

    Lots of politics and intramural rivalries involved. It's tied to the creation of Florida Polytechnic, the STEM school recently separated from USF.

    The chairman of the Florida Senate budget committee, JD Alexander, pushed hard for the conversion of USF Polytechnic (campus is in Alexander's district) to a separate university. At the same time he proposed cutting the USF budget by 58%. The budget cuts were significantly modified after it was discovered that USF was to suffer close to 80% of all the cuts to the Florida University system. Someone doesn't like USF! It might be because the upstart school is now tied with Florida State among research institutions.

    IMO; JD Alexander, who is a lame duck due to term limits, is trying to create a new home for himself after retirement from the senate. Have you noticed how much public university presidents earn?

  11. Re:Florida Polytechnic??? on University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department · · Score: 1

    submitted as AC cause I was too lazy to login.

  12. Re:Winchester Disks - cram on The Sounds of Tech Past · · Score: 1

    In the '60s NCR had a product called CRAM which stood for Card Random Access Memory. It was a deck of magnetized cards that were towed around a spinning drum. When they crashed, which was often, they shook the office!!

    On head crashes in general; I once got an emergency call from a bank customer who needed an emergency replacement of their master software pack (MSP) because of head crashes. When I got to the site the FEs were replacing 3 drives. I asked the operator what happened and he said that the MSP had crashed on drive 1 so he tried it on the other drives. When that didn't work he pulled out the backup MSP and repeated the process! IT support hasn't changed much in forty years, has it?

  13. Oh, the smell! on The Sounds of Tech Past · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In 1970 I was a print jockey feeding six IBM 1403 printers, producing junk mail. When I got home from work I needed a shower before my wife would come near me. The printer dust thrown off as the forms cycled through the printers filled our lungs, clogged our nasal passages, and permeated our clothing.

  14. Re:Damn unfortunate on Rutgers Student Ravi Convicted of Bias Intimidation and Spying · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Ravi knew he had contributed to his roommate's suicide; he attempted to destroy evidence during the investigation and tried to get his dorm mates to cover for him. Those acts alone demonstrate his guilt. The prosecutors probably added the bias charges because they couldn't tie him directly to the death.

    Bottom line; this guy is a despicable coward and doesn't deserve to be in the country.

  15. IBM PR!! on Google 'Wasting' $16 Billion On Projects Headed Nowhere · · Score: 1

    The author of this "study" should apply the same lens to IBM.

    This is an opinion piece on an IBM sponsored site; total crap. Go to the site and count the number of negative pieces on Google.

  16. Re:To Which the Reaction Will Be on Open Letter By Eric S. Raymond To Chris Dodd · · Score: 1

    I think the implicit threat is "We built it, we maintain it, and if you break it we can fix it; or bypass it entirely!".

    A captive DNS and a network of hacked routers could create a phantom network pretty quickly.

  17. It's the cover-up stupid! on Heartland Institute Threatens To Sue Anyone Who Comments On Leaked Documents · · Score: 1

    It's always the cover-up that brings them down, Perhaps they should hire a new PR firm.

  18. Re:And people ask me why I don't use Chrome on Google Accused of Bypassing Safari's Privacy Controls · · Score: 1

    But you trust Apple!!

    Apple doesn't need cookies to track your web behavior, they have access to the iOS logging facility. What they've done is to prevent their competitors; Google, Amazon, Microsoft and others from obtaining the same data. Google found a way around this tactic. It's called competition.

    However it looks like Google, after opening the door, left it open for everyone else to follow them in. They say they've closed the door but is it closed for all, or just everyone else?

  19. He was not exonerated!! on Romney Invokes Fair Use In Dispute With NBC Over Campaign Ad · · Score: 1

    Considering he has never retracted this story, nor reported on the fact that Gingrich was later exonerated of the charges, I think that's a fair assessment of him.

    Gingrich was not exonerated; after negotiation he was reprimanded and fined $300,000 (apparently the cost of the investigation) for ""intentional or . . . reckless" disregard of House rules. The matter was then referred to the IRS for review and they eventually concluded that the the foundation broke no laws. The foundation was exonerated, Gingrich was not!

    from Wikipedia: "The Ethics Committee's Special Counsel, James M. Cole, concluded that Gingrich had violated federal tax law and had lied to the ethics panel in an effort to force the committee to dismiss the complaint against him. The full committee panel did not agree whether tax law had been violated and left that issue up to the IRS.[71] In 1999, the IRS cleared the organizations connected with the "Renewing American Civilization" courses under investigation for possible tax violations[72]."

  20. Re:exactly. something stinks to high heaven on Ask Slashdot: Handing Over Personal Work Without Compensation? · · Score: 1

    And his "above his pay grade" comment; I think I know why.

  21. Re:Prior art on Apple Patents Using Apps During Calls · · Score: 1

    I think WebOS on the Palm Pre could access apps via wifi while in a call.

  22. code freeze?? on October, November the Worst Months For Writing Buggy Code · · Score: 2

    Many shops have a code freeze prior to the new year so there's a big push to get things in. SQA falters.

  23. Re:Siren voice.... on Ready For Your Payroll Software Update? · · Score: 2

    Attention! We need you, all you COBOL programmers!.

    It's a twenty minute task but I'll have to bill by the month.

  24. psftp is scriptable on PuTTY 0.61 Released · · Score: 1

    Back in 2009 I was tasked with converting a VB app that used the wininet lib ftp routines, to sftp. I had two days before the source site transitioned to sftp entirely and the wininet lib didn't support sftp. There were a number of third-party and open source solutions but I could only use something from the current approved vendor list. We used putty for support so I installed psftp.exe on the utility server and rewrote the VB app to build a psftp script, execute it, and delete it. It was a kludge but it worked and the user never noticed the change; except he did comment that the app was faster!

  25. Re:Is digitising such a good idea? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You File Paper Documents At Home? · · Score: 1

    Short form or long form?

    I'm sorry, I had to say it; I'll go back to my room now/