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  1. what they should do on this on "Bill Shocker" Malware Controls 620,000 Android Phones In China · · Score: 1

    since the PHONE COMPANY gets a cut then the PHONE COMPANY should be on the hook for the profits.

    it should be LAW that you must get Positive Confirmation for any charges either above 3(money units) or that are multiple charge type things.

  2. Re:Provoking on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 1

    the US tends to 1 actually MAP where they have placed mines 2 rigs mines to become "safe" after a shortish period of time 3 use "spare" rounds to clear mine fields when they are "done" with an area

  3. Re:suicide battery systems can be done today and t on DARPA Seeks To Secure Data With Electronics That Dissolve On Command · · Score: 1

    or having a reverse wired circuit on one or more electrolytic capacitors (which would also provide a handy source for a trigger acid)

  4. Re:This is why on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 1
    A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

    please note there is no comma in that part its a single statement

  5. the general rule is on Cities' Heat Can Affect Temperatures 1000+ Miles Away · · Score: 1

    the last digit in your number is Not Quite N or More Than N-1 (down to what your measuring device reads off)

    so if you have a Imperial Ruler you can say 3 inches and a bit more than 1/16 inch
    you brits can say a touch under 8 cm for your ruler (note little r ruler not Big R Ruler)

  6. Re:FYI: Alaska and Hawaii are part of the US on North Korea Announces 3rd Nuclear Test, Anti-US Aims · · Score: 1

    "That being said, a launch carrying a nuclear payload from NK aimed at anything outside of NK itself would probably result in the United States turning Pyongyang into the world's largest glow-in-the-dark parking lot."

    given the lift capability of the USAirforce we don't need to go nuclear to "show them a Dragon" we have enough HE and Fuel Air stuff to do the job quite nicely.

  7. keeping SK is the hard part on North Korea Announces 3rd Nuclear Test, Anti-US Aims · · Score: 1

    the big problem is that if we decided to instruct the Dear Leader in humility then SK would become a wasteland within minutes.

    now if we could get enough "civilian contractors" in place to get everything sorted out then we would have a single Korea in hours/days.

  8. don't forget nietzche and God is Dead on Barracuda Appliances Have Exploitable Holes, Fixed By Firmware Updates · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the reply was of course on 26 august 1900 and was

    "Nice try but the fact is YOU ARE DEAD NOT ME"

    when the stars themselves are going out there will be three things that remain

    The CockRoaches, Dylan Hunt and Slashdot (who will be reporting on the effort by DH to save the cockroaches)

  9. Re:Oh thats nothing on EFF Moves To Nix Trademark On "Gaymer" · · Score: 1

    things that the Server Folks could do to help fix this problem

    1 have a class of Ancient Epic NPCs that could NUKE a character for this kind of thing (get caught and find yourself in the Wylds trying to fight an Elder Wyrm Dragon with half of your "toys" left behind in town)

    2 have a Demi-God Wizard convert the character in question into a young girl/pixie (so they drop any armour and weapons, get slapped with a LolKitteh chat filter and get trapped into a special "safe area") and then if they try to just RNC block the ips they are coming from.

    3 work things so that you HAVE TO build a party to do anything from the list of X things (which includes getting The Good Toys)

  10. Re:OK, 35 years, then... on MIT Warned of a JSTOR Death Sentence Due To Swartz · · Score: 1

    lets see he

    1 broke into the closet where the port was

    2 changed his MAC a couple times (to get past a ban)

    3 most likely also did a few other things (see court docs for details)

    i would say he did a bit of hacking

  11. Some Fixes on Aaron's Law: Violating a Site's ToS Should Not Land You in Jail · · Score: 1

    1 having the first N pages be a set of boilerplate definitions (this causes you to go into a MEGO mode before any rules are stated)
    Fix: move those to the END of the doc

    2 stuff that hacks earlier clauses
    Fix: forbid later clauses from changing the nature of earlier clauses UNLESS there is a link/reference

    3 Use of nonstandard definitions of things like Week/Month/Year/Unlimited
    Fix: Webster overrides anything not "In the Context of the Normal Practice of the Business"

    4 EULA/TOS being way to long to read
    Fix you get 2 QRcodes (not counting the definitions part) with an allowed extra code for Business Corp and Personal rules

    5 Choose Your Own Adventure writing
    Fix: require these to be in separate blocks with the Personal (or smallest business) version being the template

  12. Re:suit on Tiny Pill Relays Body Temperature of Firefighters In Real-time · · Score: 1

    Im sure that the wool is treated a bit before they make it into a garment designed to be worn during a fire.

    plus of course wool won't burst into flames and or melt into taffy.

    its the principle of "level of approximation"

    every girl is a supermodel with enough beers in you.

  13. to restate the advise: on Doom 3 Source Code: Beautiful · · Score: 1

    always give enough comments to ensure that a drunken idiot programmer could understand what is going on

    (of course in 4 months you might BE said DIP ...)

  14. Wake Forest Med does NOT on Health Care Providers Failing To Adopt e-Records, Says RAND · · Score: 1

    in fact after your first visit to anybody part of the Wake Network your discharge papers has a page with an access code to get into myWakeHealth.org where you can see just about everything (down to all your test results no pix but...).

    After you have your login you can use MWH to access the entire WakeMed "stack". (from Docs to Drugz)

  15. so lets see for you on Bug Sends Lost-Phone Seekers To Same Wrong Address · · Score: 1

    Your sign should

    1 have a pentacle (assumes you are not a JC type person)
    2 state solicitors will be shot/eaten/sacrificed
    3 request that 1 case of thin mints and 1 case of samosas be delivered (does the GSA have an EStore??)

  16. Re:You know what's going to derease its effectiven on Smart Ice Cubes Tell When You've Had Enough Alcohol · · Score: 1

    fairly easy to have the threshold "latch" so that after N sips it locks into "red" to prevent this kind of thing

  17. Re:August 2012 to January 2013 on Oracle Ships Java 7 Update 11 With Vulnerability Fixes · · Score: 1

    what should replace the AS-IS clause is a simple "Fitness for Purpose Stated" clause
    does it

    1 perform the function it is for
    2 have reasonable steps been taken to ensure that is is safe and stable
    3 if it writes files have steps been taken to ensure it writes only to the needed areas and safeguards against deleting an excess amount of files (so no twitch the mouse and delete half the files on the computer type things)

    you wouldn't allow a truck to be sold with some sort of "blow up the gas tank" type problem and then have the OEM tell everybody FOAD it was sold as is would you??

  18. Stating Absolute Truth sometimes requires it on IBM's Watson Gets a Swear Filter After Learning the Urban Dictionary · · Score: 1

    If you are somebody like Penn & Teller then sometimes you have to in short form define which of Bovine Equine and Ovine said manure is (of course sometimes its Lupine Canine or Feline)

  19. "easy" response to this on Ask Slashdot: How To React To Coworker Who Says My Code Is Bad? · · Score: 1

    What you do is have him IN DETAIL give you all the points where your code "sucks"

    then take this report and figure out where

    1 He is being a "buzzword jackass"
    2 the code actually sucks AND CAN BE FIXED
    3 the code sucks because %issue% that needs to be worked around
    4 he has actually found a cleaner and stable way to do the code

    then if he has more than say 60% in case 2 and 4 keep him around

    if he doesn't then well "phone for you its a Mr Piffy he said that Mr BOFH is a bit busy but he has some time to chat with you"

  20. Re:now they can concentrate on ignoring mentally i on Connecticut Groups Cancels Plan to Destroy Violent Games · · Score: 1

    1. Seems nice/reasonable, problem is, what kind of test? It could be abused.

    then you hard code the test question bank to prevent this

    4. Like 1., that seems problematic. I'd almost want it to be a ballistic test, where the ballistic profile of the bullet provides a decryption key to who owns the gun.

    the problem with this is all it would take is about 20 seconds in a decent metal shop to "scrub" the gun or a few minutes to replace the firing pin and barrel with an anonymous duplicate.

  21. Re:now they can concentrate on ignoring mentally i on Connecticut Groups Cancels Plan to Destroy Violent Games · · Score: 1

    its the factor of somebody with "Iron" reminding a Whacko that "If You Touch Iron Im going to be faster" im sure that every responsible CCW holder can go into the OODA loop in about 3 seconds (assumes they are not always in a soft OODA loop).

  22. Re:Then why didn't that happen with notebooks? on College CIO Predicts Tablets Will Kill Smart Boards · · Score: 1

    okay using just html diagram a 3 stage amplifier at the component level (with voltage/current values).

  23. Re:(tm)? we have to mention (tm) every time? on Timothy Lord Discovers the Good Night Lamp at CES (Video) · · Score: 1

    well given that the band in question is a bunch of cool folks (assuming you are not in fact a band member or a man of Scottish decent) you may not be getting a letter from the band Albanach discussing why you are using that name (unless you just use it here).

    Xerox Keenex and Band-Aid all used to be trademarks but have suffered from genericide.

  24. Re:I dunno... on Ask Slashdot: Are Timed Coding Tests Valuable? · · Score: 2

    "
    @
    %!/bin/sh
    sort -n

    That isn't portable, should fire her."

    OBJECTION: feature not specified/requested therefore was considered optional

  25. two words for you on Man Charged With HIPAA Violations For Video Taping Police · · Score: 2

    In all cases where it can be reasonably proven that recorded evidence was destroyed/tampered with/ hidden from the court the next words out of the Judge should be

    CASE DISMISSED

    the burden of proof should always fall on the LEOs side of the case.

    auto uploading utilities should be very popular on smart phones