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  1. my suggestion on Ask Slashdot: CS Degree Without Gen-Ed Requirements? · · Score: 1

    do n't really worry about the "wasted" time in gen ed courses use them to network and get contacts.
    Also you may want to get with your advisor and see what are the best courses to take to serve those requirements without getting one of the more "loony" teachers that will hit you with those insane "i think everybody should go through what i did to get my degree" assignments like a weekly 9 page report on %random% subject that must be in %style of the week%.

  2. just incase folks have not seen this 47CFR64.1200 on FCC Ups Penalties For Caller ID Spoofing · · Score: 2

    http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2010/octqtr/47cfr64.1200.htm

    print that out read it and have it on you when you get one of these calls.
      it begins
    " (a) No person or entity may: (1) Initiate any telephone call (other
    than a call made for emergency purposes or made with the prior express
    consent of the called party) using an automatic telephone dialing system
    or an artificial or prerecorded voice;
            (i) To any emergency telephone line, including any 911 line and any
    emergency line of a hospital, medical physician or service office,
    health care facility, poison control center, or fire protection or law
    enforcement agency;
            (ii) To the telephone line of any guest room or patient room of a
    hospital, health care facility, elderly home, or similar establishment;
    or
            (iii) To any telephone number assigned to a paging service, cellular
    telephone service, specialized mobile radio service, or other radio
    common carrier service, or any service for which the called party is
    charged for the call.."

    oh and just for fun it also includes this bit

    "(4) Identification of sellers and telemarketers. A person or entity
    making a call for telemarketing purposes must provide the called party
    with the name of the individual caller, the name of the person or entity
    on whose behalf the call is being made, and a telephone number or
    address at which the person or entity may be contacted. The telephone
    number provided may not be a 900 number or any other number for which
    charges exceed local or long distance transmission charges."

    i think most call centers will dump the call if you even breath 47CFR64.1200 (or invoke federal law)

  3. "kid" proves it works Adults get tasked with the d on Teen Builds Nuclear Bomb Detector · · Score: 2

    I can see a group of engineers being told " Okay this kid showed us a plan on how to make this thing you need to figure out how to make it work in the field UNLESS I SHOULD FIRE THE LOT OF YOU AND HIRE THIS KID AND HIS FRIENDS"

    maybe the dosage info is not present because he did not have/take the time to get enough data for a legally/medically sound figure??

  4. Re:Turkish Delight (Remember Narnia!) on Steam Now Offering Free-To-Play Games · · Score: 1

    you do know that the drive im talking about is a USB PORTABLE drive so it would be well within the price range of somebody that is willing to spend a few hundred dollars on games.

    point is if you are willing to spend X on games you should be willing to spend X/10 on a drive to hold the games.

    (and btw if you map the network drive to a letter steam will work from a network drive)

  5. Re:Turkish Delight (Remember Narnia!) on Steam Now Offering Free-To-Play Games · · Score: 1

    Like letting your son play one game, while you play another?

    im not sure how that is addressed maybe check the steam FAQs

    Or what when a lightning strike has knocked out your internet connection? "Offline play" requires that you go online first to enable offline play.

    as somebody else has stated a given game needs to be "unlocked" by going online at least once and then will fallback to offline if the network is down

    Or what when you have so many games that they can't fit on a single disk partition?
    so you can spend several hundred dollars on games but not US$150 on a 2 TERABYTE hard drive??

    Or what when you need newer content/patches to play online than what Steam yet offers, and you have to update the game through Steam?

    that may be an issue i would ask about that in the steam forums

    And what about Steam games that add additional DRM, often conflicting, and often without even mentioning it at purchase time?

    That is a problem with the Publisher not a problem with Steam

    Or what when Steam one day goes titty up, as all companies do one day?

    plan is the guy that turns out the lights will also post a "Master Unlock" for the games you have and anyway i would see some company buying out Steam first.

  6. Re:Cameras don't cause collisions... on Los Angeles To Turn Off Traffic-Light Cameras · · Score: 1

    the problem with leaving space for stopping distance is that most of the time folks will
    1 go around the car going "too slow" and slip into the gap
    2 honk their horns (or worse) because you are going too slow (obviously if you have 3 or 4 car lengths between you and the next car you are going too slow)

  7. Re:Innocent? on Thomas Drake Innocent of All Ten Original Charges · · Score: 1

    If that is what is being said then the judge is 1 giving a plausible excuse 2 a complete moron
    All that would have to happen is the members of the jury would have to be read in on the material in question (or some useable subset) and that problem vanishes.

    Also why has nobody brought up that Drake is under the UCMJ not the normal DOJ laws??

  8. Re:Sentencing on Thomas Drake Innocent of All Ten Original Charges · · Score: 1

    Some version of "time served" i would guess i do hope that they fix his discharge papers (assuming he is not still in service).

  9. Re:What's the deal-o ? on Los Angeles To Turn Off Traffic-Light Cameras · · Score: 1

    "If you were making passage for a ambulance or policy vehicle, there will be witnesses and incident logs."

    witnesses that they won't bother to find and incident logs that will be "unavailable" until after you go to court.

  10. Re:So? on Want iCloud With Windows? Ditch the XP · · Score: 1

    well if you figure that a good number of folks have yet to bother "upgrading" to Vista or 7 and have computers than are 6 or 8 years old the big question is how many folks have these computers and are online enough to actually want an iCloud??

  11. The way Google could do it on Citi Bank Reveals Attack... One Month Late · · Score: 4, Interesting

    find a good sized but stressed bank and then just go ahead and BUY IT.

    advantages for Google
    1 no need to burn time/money on building the "stuff" needed for a bank
    2 instant access to millions of new customers (have as part of the deal that the bank hosts email on google servers)
    3 this would be a real established bank

    advantages for the Bank
    1 tens of millions new customers (they would logically be the default bank for GWallet)
    2 point and click dibs on the GProfiles of everybody with a Google Account
    3 "native" access to the google server farm network

  12. Re:Happens every time on Student Suspended For Posting On YouTube · · Score: 2

    actually if you want to be precise its like 2.5 continents
    (North South and if you want to "Central" which is actually part of North)

  13. Re:Or to write it a neater way on Man Ordered At Gunpoint To Hand Over Phone For Recording Cops · · Score: 1

    the issue is one of credible evidence so if there is credible evidence of misconduct then the whole must prove innocence thing comes into play.

    a "suspect" comes into be booked and has to stop by the hospital to get patched up first can it be proven that this was with-in protocol??

    a "suspect" tries to claim misconduct but does not show any sings of damage: NO CASE (aka no blood no foul)

    the whole intent is to make it not worth the time to destroy a civilians camera (since all it could do is help the officer)

  14. Well lets see about that on Man Ordered At Gunpoint To Hand Over Phone For Recording Cops · · Score: 1

    1 DNF is coming out in a few days
    2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-10_Thunderbolt_II
    3 anything can be made to fly given enough force

  15. Or to write it a neater way on Man Ordered At Gunpoint To Hand Over Phone For Recording Cops · · Score: 1

    It is in all cases of Police Misconduct a matter of proving that the Officer is in fact Innocent Of All Charges (and furthermore any cameras under control of the state are EXCLUDED from use as evidence). So if you get accused as an officer your DashCam(TM) can not be used to settle things with IA and if nobody else can be found with video (or is otherwise a Witness) then you go down.

    (this will also cut down on the need for everybody to have to risk filming an Officer)

  16. the real problem is apps using more than they need on Motorola CEO Blames Open Android Store For Phone Performance Ills · · Score: 1

    im not sure of the exact order of power users but

    1 every time an app ping out via one of the transceivers
    2 sounds (with high volume sound being worse)
    3 any high brightness use of the display
    4 anything that forces the cpu to go into max clock

    will drain power so to fix this
    1 limit pings to whats absolutely needed (updates to most programs should not be needed daily) and find out the minimum amount of pings needed for any "real time" apps

    2 unless its a game not everything needs to cause a noise (and limit game noises to like 75% volumne at most) and default sounds to OFF

    3 you want to have a flashlight?? stick 2 or 3 LEDS and a fracking LENS on the top end of the phone and be done with it

    4 use common or lightweight runtimes whenever possible

    5 HAVE A REAL TASK MANAGER AVAILABLE BY DEFAULT AND YES THE CARRIER PROVIDED APS SHOULD BE STOPPABLE (and removeable)

    then lets talk about the "ap store" killing your precious devices battery oh if Google really wanted this to get solved quick they would have some sort of "power use rating" in the Ap Store so you could see that a given ap is a power hog.

    (hmm i could see a pair of 5 segment batteries as the icon one for "this ap" and one for "average ap in this category" )

  17. Re:subtle issues on Researcher Claims Magnets Can Affect Blood Viscosity · · Score: 1

    no he was outside and got hit by a 30Kamp ESD strike

  18. No they are taking the duke nukm FOREVER seriously on GameStop To Honor Ancient Duke Nukem Pre-Orders · · Score: 1

    but anywho i think they should have a contest for the oldest reserve ticket redeemed

  19. Re:Uhh, why wouldn't they? on GameStop To Honor Ancient Duke Nukem Pre-Orders · · Score: 1

    the problem is they may not have a DECADE OLD RESERVE.

    i think for tax purposes they only have to keep like 5 or 7 years worth of records.

  20. Virgin Mobile is CDMA on Sprint Pushes FPS NOVA With Firmware — and Users Can't Remove It · · Score: 1

    you need to get a VM phone

  21. Dah rules on Tom's Hardware Benchmarks Inkjet Printer Paper · · Score: 1

    If you can hit it its hardware
    if you can't its software
    if its software going to a device then its firmware

    so the manual for your new program is hardware
    the DVD/CD/FD your program is on is hardware

    your download folder is full of software

  22. The problem of Tradition on China Alleged To Use Prisoners In Lucrative Internet Gaming · · Score: 1

    They want enough payouts to draw customers but not enough that it risks the casinos profit.

    You do know that BACK IN THE DAY most casinos operated as a Family business and taking customers "for a walk in the desert" was actually done and God Help You if you 1 cheated 2 were staff and got caught dipping into the till

  23. Re:PopSci != Tech Breakthrough on Skylon Spaceplane Design Passes Key Review · · Score: 1

    they are promising to cut the cost to 7 percent of current
    (1/15=~ 6.66667%) and it would in "marketing math" be a 1500% cut so that i think would be a cut of many hundreds of percent.

  24. Not a car owner but... on Mandatory Automotive Black Boxes May Be On the Way · · Score: 1

    okay so you want a "black box" in "MY CAR" fine with me

    1 i get to have a "dump port" on the box so that i can see what is being recorded and said port shall be a standard microUSB port placed in a known location accessible while seated in the drivers seat.

    2 merge the engine computer data into the box as well

    3 if the GPS data shows i was in fact within tolerence for safe driving then any tickets get ripped up on site
    (so if an officer radars me at plus 20 and the GPS data shows me either at the speed limit or within 5 miles then no ticket)

    4 all data from the black box shall be considered "gospel" as far as a court of law is concerned (i would assume that the cars will be able to ID the current driver as well)

    give me those points and sure you can require a "black box"

    oh and for the "I want a Pony also" point give OnStar a federal contract to provide basic/EMS service to all cars with the BlackBox installed FREE OF CHARGE TO THE OWNERS.

  25. Re:Well done Mark on Google Founders' Jets Caught On WSJ's Radar · · Score: 1

    I just wonder if some of the folks that complain about "carbon credits" and such (gee why don't they do a hook up with the Roman Catholic Church and sell indulgences at the same time??) would complain less if they were the ones getting money.