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  1. Re:Lesson from this story...don't be a glass hole! on AMC Theaters Allegedly Calls FBI to Interrogate a Google Glass Wearer · · Score: 1

    Why was it an abuse? It is plausible for a layman to think that a recoding device was use to record. The law enforcement agency with jurisdiction was brought in which determined that the recording device was not in fact use to record.

  2. "Sometimes even the allowed colors of homes are controlled. "

    Sometimes even the allowed colors of home purchasers are controlled.

  3. Re:Spell it out the first time on Linus Torvalds: Any CLA Is Fundamentally Broken · · Score: 2

    Amateurs at least have pride and self-respect.

  4. Re:Subsidizing your employer on Ask Slashdot: Configuring Development Environment On a Shared Workstation? · · Score: 1

    Then learn it in the employer's equipment at the workplace.

  5. Subsidizing your employer on Ask Slashdot: Configuring Development Environment On a Shared Workstation? · · Score: 1

    "I need to setup a development environment on my home desktop"

    No.

    If you are doing it for work then your employer supplies the equipment. Maybe if it is convenient for *you* then some might add something for their personal equipment, e.g. I get my work calendar on my personal phone since it is more convenient for me to see it there than on my employer-supplied computer and the overhead is low. Since you have demonstrated how inconvenient it is to do it on your own equipment, you've proven that it is incorrect to use your own equipment.

  6. Re:Different Servers Make It Possible on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 1

    Easy: If a site is all randomly sized images, then NONE of it is content.

  7. Re:NoScript on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 1

    My favorite are site that actually do render without JavaScript and show it to you for a second... but then do a refresh to a "your browser lacks JavaScript" page when a script fails to block the refresh.

  8. How I would discredit Snowden on NSA Collects 200 Million Text Messages Per Day · · Score: 1

    1) Release a series of correct and provable claims about spying activities, with Snowden's name attached.
    2) Release a series of claims that slightly stretch the bounds of credibility beyond the last claim, with Snowden's name attached.
    3) Release a series of claims about time machines and space aliens impregnating PBR drinkers, with Snowden's name attached.

  9. The solution that few here will admit works on Ask Slashdot: Suggestions For a Simple Media Server? · · Score: 1

    iTunes + AppleTV

    Yes, the source is as closed as your father's anus isn't but it has the twin advantages of a) working, with b) relatively little effort. The most I have to do is when I rip a new disc I have to click a few buttons in MakeMKV, a while after that click a few buttons in Handbrake, and a while after that drag to "Automatically Add to iTunes". I can send to multiple receivers, I can control playback from the computer, from the AppleTV remote, or from the Remote app on any of my IOS devices. And I didn't have to expend time worth more than the hardware.

    (And still not one DRM-encumbered file in the library. If Apple we wiped from history tomorrow, I could still pick up my files and move on.)

  10. Reading, do it. on Doctors Say Food Stamp Cuts Could Cause Higher Healthcare Costs · · Score: 1

    From the actual article: "a growth in government and private sector medical costs for diabetes alone of nearly $15 billion over10 years".
    Your conclusion is correct... if diabetes is the only effect ever.

  11. Re:At constant risk on India Frees Itself of Polio · · Score: 1

    a) Meter readers are rarely trying to inject things int your kids.
    b) According to the NRA, if a stranger is wandering around your property under false pretenses you ought to be allowed to defend yourself, particularly from government overreach. What do you think the 2nd Amendment is for?

  12. Re:Not so fast ! on India Frees Itself of Polio · · Score: 1

    Jenny McCarthy is a Muslim? I never knew!

  13. Re:Source data for this study? on Daily Pot Use Tied To Age of First Psychotic Episode · · Score: 1

    Why are people who don't design surveys so ready to believe that people that DO design surveys have *never thought* that the respondent may be unreliable?

  14. Re:no on Intel Challenges Manufacturers To Avoid "Conflict Metals" · · Score: 1

    "sort of worked out ok for diamonds"
    If by worked out okay you mean the cartel got to slow down growth of a new supplier until they could get control of it.
    During the height of a conflict no once cares about the conflict-whatevers because the volume is too low. Once the conflict starts to die down production can ramp up. This is the point where the advertising starts against conflict-whatevers. This has the additional effect of keeping economic development down during the recovery form the conflict so that foreign powers have time to get their claims in.

  15. Re:Plotline of Weeds on Cartels Are Using Firetruck-Sized Drillers To Make Drug Pipelines · · Score: 1

    "including livestock, zoo animals, "

    Unless they pureed the livestock first,this is not the same thing at all.

  16. Feature size vs "Feature size" on End of Moore's Law Forcing Radical Innovation · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The defining characteristic of the 7nm is that it's the one after the 10nm node. I can't remember the last time I worked in a process where the was a notable dimension that matched the node name, either drawn or effective.

    Marc Snir gets bogged down in an analysis of gate length reduction which is quite besides the point. If it gets harder to shrink the gate than to do something else, then something else will be done. It worked on processes with the same gate length as the "previous" process, and I've probably even worked on a process that had a larger gate than the previous process. The device density still increased, since gate length is not the only dimension.

  17. Re:Obviousness on BlackBerry Sues iPhone Keyboard Maker Typo · · Score: 1

    -1, irrelevant rant.

    Blackberry does not claim the QWERTY layout, so a rant about how they don't own the QWERTY layout is pointless.

  18. Re:A RICH MAN'S KIDNEY IS WORLD NEWS on Ecuadorian Navy Rescues Bezos After Kidney Stone Attack · · Score: 4, Funny

    I bet you think this post is about you.

  19. Re:Unobtainium on Intel's Knights Landing — 72 Cores, 3 Teraflops · · Score: 2

    "Its news for nerds, but only four guys can afford it: Bill G., Mark Z., Larry P. and Sergey B."

    I would rather have that market than all of the rest.

  20. Re:I wish they wouldn't on Boeing Moving X-37B Operations To the Kennedy Space Center · · Score: 1

    Billing the Air Force for use of available facilities transfers some of the military space budget back to civilian agencies. Remember, the military space budget is larger than NASA's so NASA could probably use the money.

  21. Re:Stop me if I'm wrong, but... on Senator Bernie Sanders Asks NSA If Agency Is Spying On Congress · · Score: 1

    The people are citizens but the position brings special conditions. For example, the communications of a citizen with their elected representatives concerning legislative acts are constitutionally privileged. There was a huge separation of powers issue when the FBI raided William Jefferson's congressional office because they seized such communications along with documents relating the corruption investigation.

  22. Re:oh sure on Senator Bernie Sanders Asks NSA If Agency Is Spying On Congress · · Score: 1

    No, now that *you* might be spied on you suddenly care about what Bernie Sanders has been working on.

  23. Re:Simplyfying inventory management on Coca-Cola Reserves a Massive Range of MAC Addresses · · Score: 1

    "as long as the IP block belongs to the company. "
    The MAC addresses also have to be unique for the network. If you don't control the network then you need a reserved range to prevent collisions. The set of machines on Coca-Cola's own network is trivially small.

  24. Re:Not cans on Coca-Cola Reserves a Massive Range of MAC Addresses · · Score: 1

    "Nobody wants dollar coins."

    El Salvador uses the US dollar as its currency, and they have no problems with dollar coins.

  25. Wrong man for the job on Bill Nye To Debate Creationist Museum Founder Ken Ham · · Score: 1

    You don't need BIll Nye, you need Penn Gillette.

    Actually, who we really need is a resurrected Arthur Schopenhauer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Being_Right