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  1. Re:Funding? on Patent Troll Sues Google, AOL Over Search 'Snippets' and Ad Serving Tech · · Score: 1

    easy to fix require that it have been SOLD at that price a significant number of times.

    so you are saying that this code is worth $%BigNum% well when has it SOLD for $%BigNUm%??

  2. create a Phrase Book?? on Ask Slashdot: How Best To Teach Programming To Salespeople? · · Score: 1

    of course you can also throw together a bunch of projects that they can "practice" on (just have REAL PROGRAMMERS make sure that they will work and mark what bits can be changed)

  3. limit to "probable cause" and it might work on Could Cops Use Google As Pre-Cogs? · · Score: 1

    and yes i know yet another way for the police to get a warrant may or may not be bad (but not as bad as the police not bothering to get a warrant).

  4. Re:Wait, what? on FBI Used FedEx To Sneak Dotcom's Hard Drives Out of NZ · · Score: 1

    big difference between What The Package Is and details like the file contents.

    all the custom form had to have on it was WD Model Xynt504 serial number %big string of stuff%
    it does not have to have say a detailed file list (even for Insurance Purposes)

  5. Re:Nazi policies make cracking EASIER on LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked Online · · Score: 1

    limiting changes to N a month also limits how fast somebody could run a password "list" where the first and Nth+1 password is the same.

  6. lets sort out the conspiracy theories on Ray Bradbury Has Died · · Score: 0

    Okay lets see

    The Shadow Government folks line up here

    The Aliens Did it folks line up here

    The He isn't actually Dead folks line up here

    who else do we have??

  7. Nazi policies make cracking EASIER on LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked Online · · Score: 1

    i think a sane password policy would be

    1 between 6 and 16 characters
    2 case sensitive (but don't actually REQUIRE mixed case)
    3 allow the full Latin-1 character set (with a limited number of excluded characters)
    4 no dictionary words
    5 encourage but don't require numbers and symbols
    6 no reusing passwords
    7 limit password changes to N a month (with further changes being done at the IT office).

    but all these multi clause policies reduce the number of possible passwords (could somebody run the math on my suggestion and the most common Nazi set??)

  8. as long as they are paying for BEER on Netflix Launches Its Own Content Delivery Network · · Score: 1

    me i don't care HOW they are doing it (as long as they don't NDA wrap the results) as long as it gets done (and they cut some sort of deal with the coder(s))

  9. Re:So bottom line on Netflix Launches Its Own Content Delivery Network · · Score: 1

    any ideas as to why your email address is not "valid"?? flip me an email and maybe i can see whats wrong (not a netflix employee just want a puzzle).

  10. Re:Law of averages on Taking Issue With Claims That American Science Education is 'Dismal' · · Score: 1

    i think they may have been a bit more willing to SHOOT a bad teacher (or worse).

  11. Re:Obligatory question on South Korea Surrenders To Creationist Demands On Evolution Textbooks · · Score: -1, Troll

    okay if the Proof of Evolution is so solid then show me fossils of some sort of MACRO evolution. i want at least 3 fossils for each stage in the conversion for Critter A to Critter B (say from fish to frog to lizard).

    as a side note explain how fossils Millions Of Years Old exist when the continents themselves would have worn down (and been replaced) in a fraction of time.

  12. get your ISP to put a switch on the premises on Ask Slashdot: Provisioning Internet For Condo Association? · · Score: 1

    I think you may be in the range needed to allow for your setup to have its own switch/noc/head end. as far as the individual units i would say prewire the units for your ISP and then as units are filled drop in the "modem".

    You may want to see if the ISP is willing to cut you a deal for some ad space/bulk discount.

    whatever you do make sure the walls are built with conduits to allow you to snake wires (and check them every once in a while for the odd dead body).

    Also whatever you do Cheaping Out could earn you a condo at the bottom of Michigan lake so keep that in mind.

  13. "Cloud" is a useful term on Students Looking For Easy A Target Online Courses, Where Cheating Is Easier · · Score: 0

    it makes the headline for the problems of cloud services very Easy and PHB friendly.

    WHAT HAPPENS IF IT RAINS???

    of course defining in detail what "rains" means is an exercise left to The Student

  14. As a User some suggestions on Ask Slashdot: Tips For Designing a Modern Web Application? · · Score: 1

    1 design the forms so that somebody with a Small Screen can still use them (don't do cute things with iframes so that the scroll bar gets cut off/disabled)

    2 test your ap in low bandwidth setups (does your ap go wonky if the connection snaps mid session??)

    3 be as simple as possible in your interface (small adbar on top and 2 rails down the sides are a MAX)

    4 most folks can't watch a 3 ring circus so please don't make one

    5 make your login/signup thing part of the main page not some sort of popup

    6 KISS is not just something you do to your SO its a very good design principle

  15. what we need to stop this on US Warns Users of Child-Porn Blackmail Ransomware · · Score: 2

    1 make it a lot easier for folks to get hands on Self Booting Fix discs (hint Norton/Mcafee/ect should include this in their products)

    2 redefine CP laws so that CP is defined in a strict narrow way:
    as a rough example:
    A Does it depict a Sex Act with a Minor?? (wiggle for models with actual ages not in line with appearance needs to be written in)
    or
    B Is the Model NUDE (or only clothed in something Trival) AND is it devoid of Artistic Diagnostic or Documentary Value
    or
    C Does it depict any other crime

    Then the Pic/Vid/media IS NOT CHILD PORN.

    the problem is BURN THE WITCH!! is never Justice so we need sanity in the laws.

  16. Re:Don't bet on it. on Debate Over Evolution Will Soon Be History, Says Leakey · · Score: 1

    Got a river near you?? seen rain run over the ground into the nearest drain/the ocean?? its not magic its actual hard FACT

    run that process out a few thousand years an even the tallest of mountains would be worn down to nothing

  17. proving God without BEING God on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 1

    Unless you somehow could BE EVERYWHERE and KNOW EVERYTHING you can't say "FACT There Is No God"

    besides Friedrich Nietzsche most famous for saying "God is Dead" is ... drumroll please

    Dead Himself

    besides as far as Lack of evidence lets talk about the ORDER in all things.

  18. Re:and you won't get the cheapest. on Google To Require Retailers To Pay To Be In Google Shopping Results · · Score: 2

    what i would like to see is a way to disable E-Bay and other auction sites when im looking for something.

  19. Re:OK but... on IE10 Will Have 'Do Not Track' On By Default · · Score: 1

    exactly what bits of info are you objecting to as such??

    Hardware/Windows version info: kindof needed to do the job
    various stats info: shady needed for WGA checking
    Software info: again needed for updating said software (the MS stuff and anything else that hooks WU

    you do know that there are OFFLINE patch tools availible like WSUSOFFLINE right??

  20. Re:How about printing the information on the stick on Using QR Codes To Save Lives · · Score: 1

    well as a sanity check

    1 if the data does not show a similar person they should discard the data as false

    2 if you have any "issues" you should have your OWN square/sticker.

  21. would it killem to include The Company Address?? on Using QR Codes To Save Lives · · Score: 1

    esp with articles being half advertisements would it kill them to mention that lifesquare is a .com??

  22. easy way to fix on NC Planners May Be Barred From Using Speculative Sea Level Rise Predictions · · Score: 1

    if i was that close to sea level i would design and build stuff to account for it getting wet (and maybe even staying wet for extended periods of time). Also they are saying that in 80 some years the water could maybe if we twist the numbers right be at THIS LEVEL what happens if its at THAT LEVEL (which happens to be 2X as high)?

  23. Saving "Brainspace" i think on After Trip to ISS, SpaceX's Dragon Capsule Returns Safely To Earth · · Score: 2

    Given that you would need that type of lighting on a craft i would bet that the whole Red/Green thing is saving the amount of needed thought for the various operators

    "Okay we need it with White on top Red on Left and Green on the right ... okay looks good ... keep coming ...."

  24. "The Road Ahead" is HOW OLD?? on IEEE Spectrum Digs Into the Future of Money · · Score: 1

    this has been "coming soon" for ages now and is unlikely to succeed.

    1 Not EVERYBODY has a SmartPhone
    2 Carriers treat this kind of thing as a MUST BE OUR VERSION thing
    3 and want to get a cut of every transaction somehow (i would bet by at least making the info into a 8 step 50Kbyte per step process)
    4 you need some way of transfering funds to UnKnown (and UnRecorded) persons (yeah i know anti-terror/anti-moneylaundering regs are a good thing but im talking about $50 range stuff and lower)

    So what you would need to do is have The Phone Companies provide a basic FREE phone and then convince both Visa and MasterCard to agree and then sign off on a single solution (which they could ReBrand but...).

    NOT GOING TO HAPPEN

  25. it depends on many things on Do Headphones Help Or Hurt Productivity? · · Score: 1

    If you pick your music CORRECTLY then it can improve your productivity (and do other neat things).

    Of course it can also be used to Signal various important things

    Eye Of the Tiger/Ride of the Valkeries = bad mood somebody is in a fighting mood
    Anything with BagPipes and Drums= Somebody is either Scottish or in a WAR mood
    Jazz/Classical/Dance= good mood hopefully the normal sound
    Mission Impossible Theme= A DeadLine Approacheth

    ect