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  1. Re:Really? on Oregon Set To Become First Coal-Free State (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Eastern Oregon qualifies as a desert. But rooftop solar, even in the rainy season, would probably be far more productive than a tiny amount of power generated by rainfall. .

  2. Re:Gigabit connection on Google Fiber: Why Traditional ISPs Are Officially On Notice · · Score: 1

    KCMO is one huge fucking jurisdiction. Nothing like the Bay Area with a couple dozen cities and their own jurisdictions and contracts and holdout dilemmas. And I'd argue that if the purpose of a pilot is to learn something about the market, you need to go outside the Bay Area, so you can learn how to sell this in the marginal US cities. Of course the Bay Area has demand. But can you sell it in the other 98 percent of the US?

  3. Re:For non-Java users... on Apache Terminates Struts 1 · · Score: 1

    Well, Struts 2 was a completely different thing. Why WebWork thought Struts was the right brand to associate with, we'll never know.

  4. Re:Here is the list of senators... on US Senate Passes National Internet Sales Tax Mandate · · Score: 1

    I don't even understand why he voted nay though -- There's no sales tax in oregon to be charged!

  5. Re:APT? on Cryptography 'Becoming Less Important,' Adi Shamir Says · · Score: 1

    Advanced Persistent Threat. The idea is that your threat is a state agent deliberately after you, not just the economically cheapest target (ie the one with the weakest security).

  6. Re:Unemployment Insurance Scheme on Mayer Terminates Yahoo's Remote Employee Policy · · Score: 1

    Does Constructive Dismissal not apply in UI cases?

  7. Re:Get it right the first time? on Passwords Not Going Away Any Time Soon · · Score: 1

    Technically, you could have your phone autocomplete / spellcheck your password if such a scheme were used.

  8. Re:Why just predict, when you can prevent? on MIT Algorithm Predicts Red Light Runners · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's a pretty big assumption. The advantage this thing has is that you can outfit the traffic lights to delay the green light while the runner crosses and prevent the problem without instrumenting every car on the road.

    And ticket the jackass who might have killed someone.

  9. Re:Consumer Innovation on Consumer Tech: an IT Nightmare · · Score: 1

    My Linux smartphone connects with exchange perfectly fine. It pulls calendars, contacts and mail.

    What more do you want?

  10. Re:Exactly... Now here's a message from your CEO: on Consumer Tech: an IT Nightmare · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm crazy but it sounds like you got a mandate to play with DD-WRT.

  11. Re:This is getting out of hand on Consumer Tech: an IT Nightmare · · Score: 1

    You can't make OSX get kerberos credentials?

  12. Re:It just doesn't roll of the tongue... on Official "Firefox With Bing" Released · · Score: 1

    Well, as you've clearly demonstrated, the proper past tense of bing is banged.

  13. Outsource it to 30 years ago on DARPA: Reconstruct Shredded Docs, Win $50K USD · · Score: 2

    Off the top of my head, this seems very close to the techniques used for shotgun sequencing of genomic data. Lots of little strands you want to line up. Just in multiple dimensions.

  14. Re:Why *partial* caps?!?!?! on Sprint Cutting Unlimited 4G Data Plans · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing their current ad campaign on smartphones blasting all their competitors and lauding themselves as being the last truly unlimited phone plan has something to do with it. Advertising unlimited one month and take it away the next seems to be one of those bait 'n' switch tactics that attract regulator's attention.

  15. Re:I have $127k in student loans on US Student Loans Exceed $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    My undergraduate student loans are at 2.25 percent. But they dont hand out 127k worth of that. To get that kind of debt you have to become a dentist or doctor or lawyer. Aka, traditionally rich professionals. You pay that much because the certification is worth that much.

  16. Re:Not why many people use folders on Putting Emails In Folders Is a Waste of Time, Says IBM Study · · Score: 1

    "The study suggests to me that people just aren't fluent in using their e-mail applications."

    Did you actually read the study? Everyone was using the same email client, and had been doing so for quite a while, and the sample only included people who'd used all retrieval features at least once.

    Of course, we don't know whether bluemail is better at one kind of use vs the other. Except for this study...

  17. Re:Including Benifits on US Gov't Pays IT Contractors Twice As Much As Its Own IT Workers · · Score: 1

    Which is why the study looks at total compensation instead of just salaries:

    Because the contractor billing rates published by GSA include not only salaries but also other costs including benefits contractors provide their employees,[66] POGO added OPMâ(TM)s 36.25 percent benefit rate to federal employee salaries[67] and BLSâ(TM)s 33.5 percent loading to private sector employee salaries to reflect the full fringe benefit package paid to full-time employees in service-providing organizations that employ 500 or more workers.

  18. Re:As a university professor: on Your State University Doesn't Want You · · Score: 1

    This is what food stamps and Pell grants are for.

  19. Re:As a university professor: on Your State University Doesn't Want You · · Score: 1

    "Enrollment is down"

    What the hell is Wisconsin doing wrong? Every school I've looked at has growing enrollment. It's the natural thing in a recession: the opportunity cost of attending school far lower when you don't have a job to quit in the first place.

  20. Re:My Picks on Essential Open Source Tools For Windows Admins · · Score: 1

    "FIPS-validated AES256 encryption, integrated into Active Directory"

    What does that mean? Your sysadmin can decrypt your bitlocker?

  21. Re:Phones cost per month on Nintendo Slashes Profit Forecast and 3DS Price · · Score: 1

    You don't need a cellular contract, and many parents now buy their kids a plan. A kind of digital leash, if you will.

    Even if you didn't have a cellphone, you don't need one to get iOS or Android via iPods and Galaxy Player. Plenty of students have iPods now.

  22. Re:Sorry, disagree that SHA/MD5 is a solution on Android Password Data Stored In Plain Text · · Score: 1

    If you discard the password hash, your session key will expire and prompt you for a password again. For normal systems this might be fine, but in the case of mobile devices, you're not paying regular attention to it, and the keyboard is annoying to type with.

  23. Re:Stupid project on Cornell Software Fingers Fake Online Reviews · · Score: 1

    How about untruthful? It's not decidable in the provable mathematical sense, but they appear to have a statistical classifier system.

    As for how they defined "fake", they went to Mechanical Turk and deliberately paid people for "fake" reviews. As this is one particular behavior we wish to detect and punish, I don't care about the ontological arguments. The real problem is whether this can cope once shills use it to tweak their bullshit until it "passes".

  24. Re:Sorry, disagree that SHA/MD5 is a solution on Android Password Data Stored In Plain Text · · Score: 1

    Help me out here. How would it be different if the phone stored Kerberos credentials instead? Yes it hashes your password, but now that hash is the decryption key. Disclose that and you're fucked, just as much as

  25. Re:TL; DR on The Science of Password Selection · · Score: 1

    Is it nessecarily dumb? Not if the price of being locked out is a lot higher than the risk of bullshit forum account being hacked.