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  1. Re:Gahh on Maybe the FAA Gadget Ban On Liftoff and Landing Isn't So Bad · · Score: 1

    Earplugs and eyecovers. Neither need batteries and they only weigh an ounce or two.

    Those and some dramamine makes transoceanic flights survivable.

  2. Re:Obligatory xkcd on Multiword Passwords Secure Or Not? · · Score: 1

    1.3*10^92

    FTFY

  3. Re:xkcd on Multiword Passwords Secure Or Not? · · Score: 2

    Not likely, seeing as the math is sound. TFA used a minimum case of 20,000 phrases generated from natural language, so of course it will be less secure.

    It even says at the end that passphrases generated like in the XKCD comic are sufficiently secure to offline brute force.

  4. Re:Just keep in mind the tradeoff on Indian Gov't Uses Special Powers To Slash Cancer Drug Price By 97% · · Score: 2

    From their SEC filings on EDGAR.

    http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch.html

    Pick a drug company and a year. Depending on which companies and which years you look at, both statements are true.

  5. Even failed projects are better than no projects on Google 'Wasting' $16 Billion On Projects Headed Nowhere · · Score: 1

    If they never fail, they probably aren't trying as hard as they should. If Google just sticks to funding proven projects inside search and advertising, somebody is going to eat their lunch.

    It isn't like Bell Labs or Xerox PARC are the major sources of cutting edge software ideas anymore.

  6. Re:What is "agency model"? on Publishers Warned On Ebook Prices · · Score: 5, Informative

    The agency model is where publishers set the price of books and retailers get a percentage. This isn't MSRP, the publisher actually gets to set the price the book is sold for.

    As opposed to the wholesale model print books use, where publishers sell books to retailers, give them a MSRP, and then the retailers get to set their own prices.

    When Amazon started selling ebooks, they used the wholesale model and would frequently set the price to just over whatever the publisher charged them, or even for a loss. As this frequently put the cost of an ebook below the price of a paperback when the book was only available in hardback, publishers got worried that Amazon would get too dominant. When Apple offered to use the agency model, publishers used that to force Amazon to switch.

    The thing that really annoys me is that some publishers are lazy about updating their pricelists, so you'll often see the ebook still listed at hardback prices months after the paperback version is available. That sort of crap makes me buy the paperback, use the IRC scanner, and then stuff the book in the attic. The publisher actually makes less money, but at least they kept their precious paper sales.

  7. Re:Calm Down... A LITTLE on After Complaints, AT&T Solidifies, Increases Data Limit · · Score: 1

    top 5% in their billing area, no less. So if you're the only person with a smartphone in your zipcode, you'll always be throttled.

  8. Re:Calm Down... A LITTLE on After Complaints, AT&T Solidifies, Increases Data Limit · · Score: 4, Informative

    I listen to pandora/spotify/etc during my commute, plus google maps+nav, youtube videos, random webpages. I'm 8 days into my billing cycle and I'm at 1241 megs, so probably about 4gigs/month. More like 6 or 7 gigs if I use google hangout or ustream for any serious amount of time.

    You're using your phone like you are on dialup, so it isn't surprising your data usage matches that.

  9. Re:Where did this data come from? on Users Spend More Time On Myspace Than Google+ · · Score: 1

    Also, the people that Comscore tracks are the kind of people that install toolbars that offer "computer security software, Internet data storage, virus scanning and chances to win cash or prizes".

    IE, the same people that need help finding the "any" key.

  10. Re:nice. on Users Spend More Time On Myspace Than Google+ · · Score: 1

    Or just quote the string.

  11. Re:browser pluggable executable objects on Proposed Video Copy Protection Scheme For HTML5 Raises W3C Ire · · Score: 1

    Oh, and if you believe that TPM will work, I've got this bridge^W universal TPM module to sell you.

  12. Re:browser pluggable executable objects on Proposed Video Copy Protection Scheme For HTML5 Raises W3C Ire · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So the DRM consists of some code(which they send you) that uses a key(which they send you) to decrypt an encrypted video(that they send you).

    Without TPM/code signing, I'm not sure why they even bother.

  13. Re:Of course the rich should give to charity on Tech Billionaire-Backed Charter School Under Fire In Chicago · · Score: 1

    So you're fine with private organizations imposing fines on a whim?

    Ever park in a pay lot?

    And that a school teaches its students to submit to such arbitrary authority?

    Pretty much every regular school does, why give this one shit about it?

  14. Too late on Ask Slashdot: Copy Protection Advice For ~$10k Software? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    you should have posted the spyware one to thepiratebay yourselves before it got cracked. Then nobody would've bothered to crack your commercial version, assuming it is indistinguishable feature-wise.

  15. Re:How's it feel on Nuclear Truckers Haul Warheads Across US · · Score: 4, Funny

    b) NaCl is not radioactive

    Speak for yourself, all my salt is made twice a day with fresh Sodium-24.

  16. Re:Just another Con Man on James Randi's Latest Debunking Operation · · Score: 2

    If water had memory, I would get high from hundreds of different chemicals in tap water.

    If homeopathy were true, the humidity in the air I breathe should be lethal.

  17. Re:I hate to defend Monsanto somewhat, but on 300k Organic Farmers To Sue Monsanto For Seed Patent Claims · · Score: 1

    Actually, a Grapple isn't GMO at all. It has just been soaked in Concord grape juice extract.

    Tadah, conquer your imaginary fear and have one.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C4%81pple

  18. Re:Fujitsu ScanSnap or similar on Ask Slashdot: How To Go Paperless At Home? · · Score: 1

    If the rubber drum looks worn, you can get a replacement kit for like 15 bucks on amazon.

    We've got 4 of them at work that see lots of use, it's really easy to replace. 500 pages seems a bit soon for it to have worn, though.

  19. Re:masked based on book? on Alan Moore on V For Vendetta and the Rise of Anonymous · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Not constructed - Completed on First Run of Raspberry Pi Boards To Be Completed Feb 20th · · Score: 1

    The foundation isn't going to have an official case until they are ready to put them in schools(later this year), so just bare boards for now.

    Several individuals have designed papercraft, CNC'd, or 3d printed cases. At least one of the 3d printed cases has been put up on Thingiverse or Shapeways.

    Others will just use the shipping packaging it comes in.

  21. Re:Hot damn, it's about time on First Run of Raspberry Pi Boards To Be Completed Feb 20th · · Score: 1

    The thing is the size of a business card, just make a case about the size of a paperback book and use some very short cables to put all the ports on one side.

  22. Re:The real education... on First Run of Raspberry Pi Boards To Be Completed Feb 20th · · Score: 1

    Good luck with that, they are limiting sales of the first batch to 1/customer and only made model Bs.

    As for your model C desires, have you considered a PIC or Atmel chip?

  23. Re:Blue eyes? on Chinese Boy Claims To Have Cat-Like Night Vision · · Score: 1

    Or he is just using his fingers to feel the patterns of thickly printed ink on the form.

  24. Re:SpeakToIt Assistant on Siri Competitor Evi Arrives, But Already Overloaded · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you give permission to text or call to an app, you don't get to choose to let it do so only when you mean it. Android phones don't come with fMRI or MEG to know your intentions.

    Yet.

  25. Re:Non biodegradable? on Geek Tool: Slashdot Video of Award Winning 3D Printer From CES · · Score: 1

    Nope, no reason you couldn't acquire it by several other means. I'll restate: most ethylene used in the production of polyvinyl acetate comes from steam cracking petroleum.

    Indeed, most ethylene used in commercial ripening procedures to forcibly ripen fruit comes from ethanol. But that method isn't significantly used in the commercial production of PVA, to my knowledge.