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  1. Re:wow on California Employers Can't Ask For Your Facebook Password · · Score: 1

    and besides i said IF it gets to a lawyer then ...

  2. and 4.8B being spent on MicroSoft Software on Microsoft Calls For $5B Investment In U.S. Education · · Score: 1

    wanna bet that if this money does start flowing that Microsoft will do everything it can to grab as much of it as possible??

    (spend 48K on "dinners" get 4.8B in business)

    (oh and to the folks trying to get a degree DREAMSPARK ---- best way to get MS stuff without paying for it LEGALLY

  3. Re:wow on California Employers Can't Ask For Your Facebook Password · · Score: 2

    the best answer to that is

    Im sorry but it is a violation of Federal Law for you to ask for this due to my having groups/friends that are listed for religious reasons (or ethnic reasons).

    Just remember if it gets to a lawyer you were not hired/ fired for being part of a "protected class".

  4. Re:Common sense and reason on File-Sharing For Personal Use Declared Legal In Portugal · · Score: 0

    yah but The Red Court (the bloodsuckers) had turf in the Southern Americas, The Black Court is very minor (mavera is the only BC vamp to pop up really) and the White Court has Thomas as a member.

    No info on the other 4 courts of course (except that there is a WOJ they are very Minor).

  5. Re:Prepare to jettison booster on 5, 4... on What Should Start-Ups Do With the Brilliant Jerk? · · Score: 1

    yah make sure you give him

    1 a good parachute
    2 dispatch a boat to pick him up quickly (another small biz that needs him maybe??)

    hey this "booster rocket" thing WORKS

  6. Re:Common sense and reason on File-Sharing For Personal Use Declared Legal In Portugal · · Score: 1

    To bad this is not the Dresden Files Universe

    about 2 books back in The Dresden Files the Bloodsuckers got made extinct.

    (oh you are talking about Managers Not Vampires never mind)

    btw Cold Days comes out on November 27 (read the previous 13 books first!)

  7. Re:George Bush on Torvalds Uses Profanity To Lambaste Romney Remarks · · Score: 1

    " Maybe instead of campaigning Obama should be reading books with schoolchildren while the WTC burns."

    well i would say that
    1 staying in a SECURED LOCATION
    2 Finishing what he was doing at the time
    3 allowing all of his people to DO THEIR JOBS (and figure out WTF!? happened)

    was a smart thing to do

    All a President has to do truthfully is

    1 be smart enough to surround himself with Smart People
    2 know when to say NOTHING
    3 sign his name when needed

    Now if Romney calls his buddies from Boeing asking how 28000 and 29000 can have openable windows installed then we need to worry but otherwise a quick phone call from said buddies will explain why Open Windows + Airplane = BAD IDEA.

  8. Re:imprisoned indefinitely without trial on US Military Designates Julian Assange an "Enemy of State" · · Score: 1

    as far as the Uniform Code Of Military Justice is concerned no.

    fun fact if you as a member of the military commit a crime the day before you retire you will go to a different court than if you commit the same crime the day after.

  9. What they should have done on FTC And PC Rental Companies Settle In Spying On Users Case · · Score: 1

    1 declare all RTO agreements "completed" AND refund all payments made (so the victim keeps the computer)

    2 have a third party service the machine and declare BY COURT ORDER that the "spy" software was removed completely

    3 the company must file a document stating that any and all files/logs or other records from this software have been deleted from company systems (to include any contractors or any company the information has been disclosed to)

    4 all computers rented from this point on must have a highly visible notice as to what kind of monitoring/remote access software has been installed

  10. And Use Tropicana (tm) Orange Juice!! on Lab-Grown Leather Could Be a Reality In 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Wanna Know the difference between a bad steak and a good leather shoe??

    You might be able to eat THE SHOE

  11. Re:When I was in high school on Ask Slashdot: How To Ask College To Change Intro To Computing? · · Score: 1

    the point is to teach AN OFFICE program (so that you can sit down at a computer and run whatever Office Program is installed)

    and given that LibreOffice is the most "current" of the NOT MSO programs it is actually a good choice.

    now training folks on MSO 2010 (with 2013 coming out) is bad if its a Click this Icon then This Icon wave your mouse like this... type program.

  12. Re:Sounds pretty good, but... on Book Review: Digital Forensics For Handheld Devices · · Score: 1

    Back in the Day to do a "live report" in %remote location% you had to

    1 fly a dozen support folks to %remote location%
    2 with Trucks of equipment
    3 and a sat uplink truck

    and then hope and pray that something did not go wrong

    Today (ignoring 3 for a bit)

    1 fly your reporter to %remote location% WITH HIS iPhone (or Android device)

    or

    2 Airdrop your reporter with a Big BackPack (and his personal Mobile Computing Device)

    and all you are praying for is that he gets Close Enough (but not To Close) to The Action

    The Elder Reporters would have sold Bodies (or Parts of Them) to get the tech we have today.

    (and oh sure leave all your files "On The Cloud" the TLAs love that kind of thing)

  13. Re:Meh on Swiss Railway: Apple's Using Its Clock Design Without Permission · · Score: 1

    "Also I think you'll find that the Doctor is neither English, nor Anglo-Saxon, nor for that matter, human.

    Oh, and the red cross, like the Olympics, is special and isn't handled unde the normal trademark rules."

    As to The Doctor he has be Portrayed As being "English" in the way he acts and such (but note you knew exactly Who i was talking about even without saying the word TARDIS).

    and yes the Red Cross/Cresent/Crystal trademarks are a bit abnormal but the rules are a SuperSet of normal Trademark rules. J&J and the IRC have agreements for use between them.

  14. Re:Meh on Swiss Railway: Apple's Using Its Clock Design Without Permission · · Score: 1

    its the whole thing that is the problem not bits and pieces.

    make a show where the main character travels about in a Box might slide

    the Box is Blue
    maybe maybe not

    it has a white Light on the top
    getting dodgy there

    The character is English (or some version of Anglo-Saxon)
    lets think about it

    Breath the two Words TIME TRAVEL
    Excuse me I have somebody from BBC legal on line 4 for you

    this AS A WHOLE is a deliberate rip-off of the Swiss Train Clock (i would bet it pauses on the 00 second for a fraction of a Tick also)

    same thing with using a Red Cross on anything remotely medical/safety (i think J&J more or less licenses the RC bit from the ARC).

  15. Call it "Project 54" on When Kickstarter Projects Go Missing · · Score: 1

    Then when you Vanish with the Cash we can all sing "Project 54 Where Are You???"

    But seriously i would hope that KS puts a page up that says " This Project has been removed due to %Authority% contact %admin% for Possible Refund"

  16. Or in other words || my big question on The Swiss Pirate Party Has Its First Mayor · · Score: 1

    Also can be said PUT THE BONG DOWN AND WALK AWAY.

    So i guess one of the first orders of business is to ensure the Rum Supply for the city.

  17. I have PJ from Groklaw on line 3 for you on Gates and Others Offer $150k For Open Source School Software · · Score: 1

    http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2005010107100653

    not going to go into details here but MS basically did a buncha stuff to lock out NOTMS from the browser market up to and including delaying Key info from Computer OEMs if they preloaded a NONMS web browser.

    you want details and Cites follow the link

  18. okay lemme get this straight on Chemist Jailed In Russia For Giving Expert Opinion In Court · · Score: 3, Informative

    She did LAB TESTS on i would assume a bunch of semi random samples of a shipment of Poppy Seeds and concluded that THIS SHIPMENT was so low in Drugs that this was not a DRUG shipment but a FOOD shipment. So the response of The Government is to JAIL HER for being "in on it". I would assume she had things like lab reports and such which were submitted as evidence and that Somebody Else has not done the same work and found different results (her "random" samples just "happened" to be Clean).

    Comrades Put down the Vodka for a moment and THINK.

  19. its called cross checking on Facebook Disables Face Recognition In EU · · Score: 1

    on of the things Facebook likes to do is Yoink your address book/contacts list from your email service so i would bet that somebody on that list allowed the address book yoink and then got X folks to sign up and some of them allowed the Yoink (Facebook at this stage cross references and dedupes the addresses). Now that it has gotten to YOU Facebook has noticed that %list% has YOU listed.

  20. the problem is "turf wars" on Rapid Arctic Melt Called 'Planetary Emergency' · · Score: 1

    If we suddenly found a StarGate and dialed an 8 chevron address and found a warehouse with a few dozen ZPMs (and other "toys") we would have a full bore World War 3 THE NEXT DAY.

    Way too many folks have a vested interest in keeping things STATUS QUO for anything to be allowed to disrupt things.

    besides how are you going to get folks to allow a NUKE PLANT in their city?? even if it was a sealed unit that could be trucked in (and then Bolted In Place) you would have folks lining up to scream how unsafe it is.

    SlashMind Challenge find credible and recent links of a design for a semi portable reactor (not counting ship mounted types).

  21. Re:Metal detector? on Nestle's GPS Tracking Candy Campaign · · Score: 1

    "I have not seen a tinfoil wrapped candy bar for over 30 years. plastic wrapped with a Metallica plastic? yes!"

    does this wrapper play "Hells Bells" if you hook it to your power mains?? (i think you have an extra L and A in your statement)

  22. Re:FLAC on Neil Young Pushes Pono, Says Piracy Is the New Radio · · Score: 1

    but if you don't spend $10,000 on Eunectes murinus infused cables you just aren't getting the TRUE SOUND

  23. Re:yay on Wi-Fi Illness Claim Doesn't Impress New Mexico Court · · Score: 2

    in the same fashion that folks do not worry about somebody throwing a pencil tip at you and somebody SHOOTING you

    its all about the doseage

  24. Re:Does this mean . . . on Wi-Fi Illness Claim Doesn't Impress New Mexico Court · · Score: 1

    i can rig both a false positive and a false negative for you

    False negative: open the router and cut the traces to the LEDs

    False postive: set the router to disable the radio or just wire camo leds into the holes.

  25. Re:Note to TSA on TSA Spending $245 Million On "Second Generation" Body Scanners · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No i expect the Pilot to disable the AutoNav and do some maneuvers aimed at turning the cabin into a DICE CUP. don't forget the biggest weapon on an airplane is THE AIRPLANE ITSELF.

    "This is your captain speaking Sorry about the turbulence but we have had a bit of trouble in the cabin. As you disembark please be aware you will need to make a statement to security."