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  1. [audio src:"Les Mis"] Master of the House anyone?? on Adobe's Creative Cloud Illustrates How the Cloud Costs You More · · Score: 1

    it real fun is all of the addon charges (and support charges and..)

  2. Sales Support SUCKS nowadays on US Senate Passes Internet Tax Bill 69 To 27 · · Score: 1

    A few things that would improve things a lot in stores

    1 issue the staff scanners with barcode and CC readers so they can ring stuff at the racks

    2 keep a better track of whats in store

    3 have a buy in store send from warehouse service ( invert the ship to store thing)

    4 have at least one person in the store keeping the sales folks going

    oh and as to the "riff raff" sometimes they do actually buy stuff (or bring folks that do buy)

  3. Define: Defect on Device Can Extract DNA With Full Genetic Data In Minutes · · Score: 1

    the problem is how do you define "defect"??

    I could see kids getting "edited" to correct things like excessive intelligence or self will (can't have a 95% person smarter than a 5% person or be able to get "uppity" )

    Plus its been proven that if you select for %trait% and don't balance things out the person tends to be somewhat NUTS.

  4. Re:Set expectations on Ask Slashdot: How To Teach IT To Senior Management? · · Score: 1

    also include what RISKS using a non opensource ERM solution creates.

    If making the package work for that business can be solved with an open account to the local JimmyJohns (on top of what is already being paid to the workers involved) then this could be a Good Thing.

    i would put together a Block Diagram of Whose(server is) On First so that they understand that skimping on Tommorow will prevent anybody getting Paid, Today prevents The Company from being Paid and I Don't give a [bleep] just annoys the lawyers.

  5. Re:Yes, spread the false information. on Campaign Raises Funds To Send Wikipedia Readers To Kids Without Internet · · Score: 1

    actually in most intelligent circles to consider something as TRUTH (about an event) it takes N independent sources (where N is greater than 3 in most cases).

    Wikipedia is good for 3 things mostly

    1 to get the keywords on a subject
    2 to get a quick "dance through" a subject
    3 REFERENCES (you know that buncha links at the bottom??)

  6. Re:Why buy this? on Sandia Labs Researcher Develops Fertilizer Without the Explosive Potential · · Score: 1

    no you have to think of the whole plot of land

    if you blow the hills up (and then plow the loose soil into the gullies/ dips) you make more FLATish land.

  7. Nitrogen wants to be free on Sandia Labs Researcher Develops Fertilizer Without the Explosive Potential · · Score: 1

    ask anybody in The Biz anything with a buncha nitrogen tends to be a bit "frisky"

    for example
    http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/01/09/things_i_wont_work_with_azidoazide_azides_more_or_less.php

    is a compound that will go BOOM if you so much as look at it cross-eyed

  8. Define: Porn on No Porn From Public WiFi Hotspots In the UK Proposed · · Score: 1

    The biggest problem is how do you actually define "Porn"?? (and no punting with "i know it when i see it")

    as long as "reasonable efforts" are good enough (don't try to get every bit just the most obvious 95%)

  9. Re:incompetence on Unanimous: Provo Utah Council Approves Google Fiber · · Score: 2

    plus even if you have plans accurate to the inch you have to deal with the ground shifting about. you put the cable down this line 3 years ago?? the whole line has shifted THAT WAY by 3 feet.

    Remember kids the Call Before You Dig Hotline is 811 (or consult your local yellow pages for "utility locating services")

  10. easy fix for lost bear problem on Hands-Free Or Voice-Activated Texting Not Safer · · Score: 1

    tether the bear to the car seat (and when the kid is old enough tether the bear to the kid directly)

    or get very smart and have somebody old enough riding (err what do you call the seat behind the "shotgun" seat) to handle
    "Mommy|Daddy|Caretaker doesn't want to wrap the car around a telephone pole" type things.

  11. Re:only partially agree on Hands-Free Or Voice-Activated Texting Not Safer · · Score: 1

    actually a lot of people who are in related fields (or are related to somebody in the field) and folks that want to be "polite" will use LEO and or Leonine/Kitteh type naming.

    and in a USA context CA is most likely CAlifornia (hint /. is US based).

  12. 100% focus 99.999% of the time on Hands-Free Or Voice-Activated Texting Not Safer · · Score: 1

    The trick is to break focus as little as possible (facebook should have a driving game of some sort).

    and of course realize that 100% focus is a GOAL not a requirement.

    All Y'all round here in the auto/ai field we need KITT invented!

  13. Standard Practice with electronics on USB SuperSpeed Power Spec To Leap From 10W To 100W · · Score: 3, Insightful

    actually the power supply would need to have an extra 450 watts since you NEVER design to full rating you at the least design for the loads to be at most 90% of Full (prevents a fire hazard).

    The point is if the spec says XXX watts are available then XXX+Y watts had better be available (nasal demons are allowed for drawing under spec).

  14. Re:but XP is doomed on Windows: Not Doomed Yet · · Score: 1

    the big problem is similar to the one that windows 3.1 faced back in the day

    SOFTWARE WILL STOP SUPPORTING XP (google no longer supports anything farther back than MSIE 9 which means they no longer support XP )

    as far as any CALs are concerned why do you think that MS has had the EOL date published for what the last year??

    you do know that FUD is only FUD if there is not a lot of TRUTH in what is being said.

  15. but XP is doomed on Windows: Not Doomed Yet · · Score: 1
  16. Easy way to fix this (sortof) on Huge Explosion at Texas Fertilizer Plant · · Score: 1

    What you do is jigger the tables the insurance companies use so that "within Blast Zone of Industrial Building" is something they can charge a Rider for. Within a few years the problem will solve itself.

  17. Re:Spend the money keeping People Away on Coral-Repairing Robots Take a Step Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    or better yet start sinking the boats they are using to get there.

  18. What you can do to Help on Why It's So Hard To Make a Phone Call In Emergency Situations · · Score: 1

    1 STAY OFF THE PHONE

    2 Get Out of the area (find the nearest StarBucks /McDonalds/%other hotspot%)

    3 Check In however you want to (ARC runs a Safe and Sound type site btw)

  19. WebDesktop/Cloud free stuff that works?? on Businesses Moving From Amazon's Cloud To Build Their Own · · Score: 1

    So what is around for a SoHo type outfit that wants to do the Self Hosted Cloud thing but can't waste money? EyeOs would work if it
    1 was a still being developed project
    2 hadn't gone Closed Source

  20. Re:"and websites" on The Internet Archive Is Now the Largest Collection of Historical Software Online · · Score: 2

    a couple things are in play

    1 IA is a part of the LOC
    2 if you really as a copyright holder want to have your stuff dropped out all you have to do is put a robots.txt in place and then they drop you from the archive.

    http://faq.web.archive.org/how-can-i-have-my-site-removed-from-the-wayback-machine/

  21. Re:What no Android versione? on FDA Approves Software For iPhone-Based Vision Test · · Score: 1

    the part where this is classed as a Medical Device.

    Now im sure with a wide enough detune of the required tolerance this could be used on %smartphone%

    basically instead of giving numbers it reads back as
    1 Meh
    2 You might want to ring your doc
    3 You need to see your doc (while you still can see)
    4 WTFBBQ!!! DOC NOW!!
    5 911!!!!

  22. Re:not a complete success on 'CodeSpells' Video Game Teaches Children Java Programming · · Score: 1

    You obviously did not even check out the site itself (btw they have a Pro Version for use in businesses so the "no commercial reason to exist" thing is not valid). But given the large number of IT folks that have checked out the program i think its legit.

  23. Re:not a complete success on 'CodeSpells' Video Game Teaches Children Java Programming · · Score: 1

    and this is why you should have the download from
    http://ninite.com/flash-flashie-java-shockwave/

    as a Run Before Anything Else program on a flashkey you use to do Computer setups.

    (and yes you can have it download//install a number of other programs in the same run)

  24. Re:Eyes in abundance on Aaron Swartz Prosecution Team Claims Online Harassment · · Score: 1

    http://bible.cc/matthew/21-12.htm

    you remembered correctly and i think that whole thing of turning the other cheek is taken out of context (and does not cover what you do AFTER turning said cheek).

  25. new Social Media Feature: Duress Password on WA State Bill Would Allow Bosses To Seek Facebook Passwords · · Score: 2

    What FB and others need to do is have the ability to set two passwords

    1 your normal day to day password
    2 the "im being questioned by a LEO" password

    if you use the Duress password

    1 They do a reverse DNS on the ip address and make sure it belongs to some sort of Law Enforcement Organization
    2 They pop up a box stating " Duress Password used Call 1-877-???-???? and provide the operator with verification string %string% to enable access for 72 hours"
    3 if this fails then they refer the case to the FBI for prosecution under CyberCrimes