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  1. Re:not quite on USPS Reports $15.9 Billion Loss, Asks Congress For Help · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sounds like a good investment actually. They could use those 44 raptors to bomb UPS, DHL and Fedex and they'll have more business overnight.

  2. Re:Accidentally? on CyanogenMod Android ROMs Accidentally Logged Screen Unlock Patterns · · Score: 1

    What am I missing? What good is the gesture and unlock code without the phone?

    Just imagine what the criminals will do!!! IMAGINE!

  3. Re:Somewhere... on Texas Schools Using Electronic Chips To Track Students; Parents In Uproar · · Score: 1

    You youngin's thinking you invented everything. Just like every teen believes they are the one to invent sex.

  4. Re:Umm on Ask Slashdot: How Do SSDs Die? · · Score: 2

    Those drives were hit with some sort of power issue. Even same batch of drives it's way too close together for manufacturing flaw. Congrats on getting the data off quickly though.

  5. Re:What's the value here? on US Election's Only VP Debate Tonight: Weigh In With Your Reactions · · Score: 2

    You have valid points on some of these, but I won't give you Gitmo. There are clauses in funding for Gitmo in the budget that say "Money can not be used to transfer prisoners from here". There is no funding to close Gitmo, so they can't close Gitmo. That funding comes through congress. After fighting to the edge of default a budget was passed that no one liked. Obama has tried multiple times to close Gitmo.

  6. Re:Guilty until proven innocent, as usual on MediaFire Restores Virus Researcher's Account But Not Individual Files · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, making a false claim is considered a perjury, but that clause is almost never enforced.

    Sadly, that is a part often mis-read by people. The DMCA requires a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

    Meaning, you say (not under penalty of perjury) that the information in the notification is accurate, then also say (under penalty of perjury) that you have the rights to send DMCA notices for your client.

    If you're sending notices proporting that you represent MGM but you don't actually represent MGM, you're in trouble. If you *DO* represent MGM, but are wrong about the copyright violation, there is no perjury.

  7. Re:It's even worse on Booted From Airplane For Wearing Anti-TSA T-shirt · · Score: 1

    I'm white, and according to Obama, I'm rich (roughly $65k salary).

    Curious: Where do you get the idea that Obama thinks you are rich at $65k?

  8. Re:If $3000 is the societal cost to you not on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 1

    In this case hiring more cooks means burning more coal/natural gas/oil or building more nuclear. I'm all for doing that if there was no downside, but frankly, there is a downside (I'm for building new nuclear plants... even in my back yard since I get all my power from Ginna) to all those extra emmisions.

    So my real question is why not do both? Build more and save energy. It is the responsible thing... more supply, less demand == good prices.

  9. Re:If $3000 is the societal cost to you not on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 0

    Wrong. Lets take Lightbulbs: The electrical savings of switching from incandescent to CFL is non-trivial. By removing that much power usage from the grid we reduce the national power usage. Our grid is already bursting at the seams, by using less power we have less strain on the grid. Upgrades to the grid are certainly needed, but cutting off excess use is the same. Conversely, if everyone is using more gasoline then supplies run out faster, prices go up, not just for him, but for the guy using the hybrid too.

  10. Re:The war on terror is over on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    Yeah, my UID is low enough that I read things before posting. It's a hassle really...

  11. Re:The war on terror is over on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    Then his vote is mine.

    Really? If he does all that you'll run for President and have him vote for you?

  12. Re:Well, that sounds unsinkable on Australian Billionaire Plans To Build Titanic II · · Score: 2

    One thing: Based on accepted maritime rules, the Titanic had more life boats than believed to be required. No other ships at the time had more lifeboats.

  13. Re:"Not voting" on House Passes CISPA · · Score: 1

    I know he doesn't support it, but missing important votes like this isn't exactly being a great champion of liberty.

    I get upset at ANY politician who misses votes while campaigning. Fact is, the final vote for the final text of the bill wasn't important enough for him to vote on.

    Now, what brought this on was you saying he's always there for the important votes.

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2813853&cid=39815873

  14. Re:"Not voting" on House Passes CISPA · · Score: 1

    My link was the vote on changes that the Senate made, thus the last house vote on the final version of NDAA.

  15. Re:"Not voting" on House Passes CISPA · · Score: 1

    Funny, your website contradicts the Source material available from http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll932.xml

    Which do we believe. The official house roll call or your link?

  16. Re:"Not voting" on House Passes CISPA · · Score: 1

    Hi Bill_mcgonigle.

    Would you like to tell me how Ron Paul Voted on NDAA? I hear that was a pretty important bill.

  17. Re:Time delay - info from the future? on Quantum Experiment Shows Effect Before Cause · · Score: 2

    Article says! It's on the order of 14billionths of a second.

  18. Re:Google drive with True Crypt? on Google Drive Goes Live · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Convenient and encryption doesn't seem to go well together. The closest I have found for windows and these cloud devices is AxCrypt, which lets you encrypt and password protect each individual file you store.

  19. Re:Privacy or Convenience? on The Average Consumer Thinks Data Privacy Is Worth Around 65 Cents · · Score: 2

    If only I could hear you over all this noise.

    What?

  20. Re:I find this information strange... on Drug-Free Organ Transplants From Unrelated Donors · · Score: 1

    Interestingly enough, after her transplant she needed to have her titers checked to see where she was on her vaccination schedule. There were a few vaccinations she needed to get that she had already had, but due to the transplant she was now immune to Chicken Pox, having never received the vaccine nor had Chicken Pox, it was determined she inherited the immunity through the donor.

  21. Re:I find this information strange... on Drug-Free Organ Transplants From Unrelated Donors · · Score: 2

    Oh, she still has the bone marrow in her. That is the point of the transplant. She had a condition called "Kostman's Syndrome" which to put short, meant her bone marrow had a genetic defect that she was unable to produce the white blood cells that fight bacteria. Not only is her bone marrow someone else's, if she were to take a DNA test on her blood she would show up as male, as the donor was a male. WIthout the donor's marrow, hers would go back to not producing neutrophils.

  22. I find this information strange... on Drug-Free Organ Transplants From Unrelated Donors · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My Daughter had a bone marrow transplant at the age of 18 months old and has been off immunosuppressants since 30 months of age. (She is currently 7 years of age with no rejection issues and no medications at all -- 100% cured, mild chimerism)

    I guess I thought that was common? Her donor was unrelated, but had a 10/10 match on HLA. That might be the magic. This study lists it working for a HLA mismatched recipient.

    Of course, I only have the knowledge you get when your daughter is going through the transplant process, not all the unrelated stuff that doesn't pertain to her actual condition.

  23. Re:That's why I like the basic Kindle on The eBook Backlash · · Score: 1

    Retroactive continuity. Essentially things in the past are changed to be more in line the present.

    Re-writing history as it were.

  24. Then you're taking it wrong. Replacing computers needs to include software and the work to actually put them in place. Doesn't help to have a heap of hardware.

  25. Software? Warranty plans? Wiring/Wireless? Power? IT staff to run the new software? This is $270/student per year over 10 years. You just don't grasp the scale.