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  1. Re:Windows 8 woohoo! on Write Windows Phone Apps, No Code Required · · Score: 1

    For the more complex bits you should be coding it anyway.

  2. Re:Won't pay? on Security Researcher Makes His Point By Hacking Into Zuckerberg's Facebook Page · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hacking into someone's account is a criminal offence.

    It was not hacking since Facebook said themselves it was not a bug. Therefore it must be a feature and taking advantage of a feature is not hacking. Now if someone were to take advantage of that feature on my account I would sue Facebook for providing said feature and point to their own forum as evidence.

  3. Re:Unless the amortized annual cost is low on Dishwasher-Size, 25kW Fuel Cell In Development · · Score: 1

    You obviously live in an economically secure area.

  4. Re:XKCD on Elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" Released · · Score: 1

    A real /. veteran has 927 as well as 538 and a few others memorized.

    Now get off of my lawn!

  5. XKCD on Elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" Released · · Score: 1

    927

    That is all....

  6. Re:This is also the case on Firefox on Chrome's Insane Password Security Strategy · · Score: 1

    Our migration TO Windows 7 isn't even completed yet. Highly unlikely 8/9/X will be on the budget for years.

  7. Re:This is also the case on Firefox on Chrome's Insane Password Security Strategy · · Score: 1

    We were admonished earlier this year for having given so many laptop users in our groups admin rights and told to never do it again. The support calls for printer installs has skyrocketed. Security is slowly...quietly giving more laptop users admin rights.

  8. Re:This is also the case on Firefox on Chrome's Insane Password Security Strategy · · Score: 1

    Except the company I work for created their image with a default My Documents folder in C:\docs so everyone who logs in to the machine has access to any files stored there. Fortunately they left Local Settings and Application Data in the default location.

    FYI Documents and Settings was replaced with users in VISTA IIRC but it is definitely users in 7.

  9. Re:Basis for discrimination on US IT Worker Files Hiring Lawsuit Against Infosys, Class Action Proposed · · Score: 1

    No but he has been heard calling Honey Boo Boo a talented actress.

    That said I have a friend who made a fortune freelancing as VB programmer back in the day.

  10. Re:Basis for discrimination on US IT Worker Files Hiring Lawsuit Against Infosys, Class Action Proposed · · Score: 1

    Had a coworker who lived ~90 miles from the office. He took the job over numerous others closer to his home because they waived the dress code for him. His attire of choice was an old tank top and neon orange jump pants. He also had an impressive pony tail. Once a month he would bring in his homemade habanero jerky...mmm...jerky.

  11. Re:Basis for discrimination on US IT Worker Files Hiring Lawsuit Against Infosys, Class Action Proposed · · Score: 1

    I HATE you!

    Not only did I read that in Jar Jar's voice but I saw his face and got his slobber all over my keyboard.

  12. Re:Huh? on Ask Slashdot: Is Tech Talent More Important Than Skill? · · Score: 2

    The difference is one is a learned skill and the other is instinctive. If someone has the latter they just have a knack for fixing/creating things without a full understanding of the underlying mechanics.

  13. Re:keep it and manage it like roads and airspace on Congress Wants FCC To Auction TV White Spaces · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I would like to see a system similar to the electric utility. A regulated company handles the actual towers and the mobile providers provide service and support.

  14. Do these numbers reflect Boost & Virgin Mobile on Sprint May Have Unlimited Data Plans, But Not Unlimited Customers · · Score: 2

    I haven't looked at the report so I don't know but since Sprint is the sole owner of both Boost and Virgin Mobile I'd be curious to know if their sales numbers are added in to Sprints total bottom line or if they are kept separate.

  15. Covering wrong attack vector on Apple Retailer Facing Class Action Suit Over Employee Bag Checks · · Score: 1

    Everyone knows to get the stuff out the door you hide it in the boxes of trash and pick it up after work. I knew a guy who knew a guy that worked at BestBuy and had a very lucrative side business.

  16. Re:Wow, just wow on Why Bob Mansfield Was Cut From Apple's Executive Team · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The Zimmerman trial is over and the White house needed something else to deflect scrutiny on them.

  17. More than meets the eye on "Slingatron" To Hurl Payloads Into Orbit · · Score: 1

    This sounds like a character from Transformers. Optimus Prime sends the Autobots newest planet hurling member Slingatron Maximus against the Decepticon hoard.

  18. Re:With the right training, huh? on Psychopathic Criminals Have "Empathy Switch" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You're missing the point. It's important that these scientists do the research because it provides a reason to beg for funding for the research. That is essentially the only possible benefit from this train of thought...

    While I am of the same cynical cloth you seem to be cut from there is the possibility they could discern what chemical process happens in the brain to turn it on and synthesize a serum that the psychopath would then be induced to take once released to prevent the switch from turning back off. I'm sure many pharmaceutical firms would fund that research.

  19. It's all fun and games till someone figures out how to monetize it.

  20. Re: For all the drunks out there! on How One Drunk Driver Sent My Company To the Cloud · · Score: 1

    While the Y2K issue was very real there were also plenty of shills trumpeting the virtues of numerous electronic snake oil products. I think it's also worth noting that the Y2K issue helped inflate the tech bubble so we ended up with the tech bust post 2K instead of the Y2K crash.

  21. Re:Income source on Why Yahoo and Marissa Mayer's Over Reliance On Alibaba Could Spell Trouble · · Score: 1

    you would be surprised how many sites AOL owns.

    Not if he's been here.

  22. Re:Income source on Why Yahoo and Marissa Mayer's Over Reliance On Alibaba Could Spell Trouble · · Score: 2

    Switched to Yahoo webmail a month after Microsoft bought Hotmail. I eventually opted to pay the $20 a year to get rid of the ads. I don't miss the $20 and not having every email tagged with Do You Yahoo or any ads is well worth the costs. I have a Gmail account but rarely use it for email.

  23. 2nd failed Eco City in Florida on America's First Eco-City: Doomed From the Start · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's interesting that this is the second story about a failed master planned eco-city in Florida this month.

    Full disclosure: I work for Nextera Energy. Parent Company of Florida Power & Light which this story references.

  24. Re:Fuck you Oracle on Oracle To Stop Developing Sun Virtualization Technologies · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually the problem was that they WERE great. SUN's products were pretty bulletproof and once you had one configured for what it needed to do it did it. That combined with the bubble of 2000 where SUN was overextended on several fronts is what tore the company apart.

  25. Re:Until movie production becomes dirt cheap on Ask Slashdot: Video Streaming For the Elderly? · · Score: 1

    What the hell kind of a question is "which closed source non-free software appliance should I buy to pay for DRMed content?"

    The cost of recording a music album with quality comparable to commercial releases has fallen to a "prosumer" level, which allows a dedicated hobbyist to record an album without "how am I going to recoup the cost of production?" necessarily hanging over his head. Until the same happens to the writing, directing, cinematography, acting, and set and prop design of feature films, there won't be any viable alternative to the MPAA, and MPAA studios have made a business decision to apply digital restrictions management to their works.

    Well given Hollywood's creative accounting ways that may never happen.