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  1. Re:Oh please on Ask Slashdot: Do I Give IT a Login On Our Dept. Server? · · Score: 1

    If this touches the network that the servers that contain HIPAA (not HIPPA) then that is where the HIPAA violation may occur.

  2. Re:Truecrypt on Dropbox Authentication: Insecure By Design · · Score: 1

    I prefer individual file encryption for my dropbox files. I use AxCrypt http://www.axantum.com/axcrypt/ which has right click integration to encrypt files.

  3. Re:Improved tablets on MS Global Strategy Chief: Tablets Are a Fad · · Score: 1

    Heh, I have this UID and regret waiting the time before I got an account myself. My friend who introduced me is in the 500's, and I would be there as well. Alas.

  4. Re:Improved tablets on MS Global Strategy Chief: Tablets Are a Fad · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you could learn some hospitality from *your* elders?

  5. Re:Actually... on AT&T Cracking Down On Unofficial iPhone Tethering · · Score: 1

    They have an "unlimited" contract for their data. Why is it unreasonable to believe that their contract actually means "unlimited"? If they don't want to give you unlimited access, then why are they being sold unlimited access?

  6. Re:Real lending on E-Book Lending Stands Up To Corporate Mongering · · Score: 1

    I want the ability to buy a paperback and for a small (less than $1) added fee get the ebook. None of this buy the ebook at same price as paperback nonsense the publishers are doing.

    David Weber has done better than that with his Honor Harrington series. If you buy the Hardcover, you get all of his previous books in the series in multiple formats on a DVD inside the book cover. Great for catching up on a series.

  7. Re:Bad things COULD happen. on Infertility Could Impede Human Space Colonization · · Score: 1

    And of course I misclick the post I'm replying to =/

  8. Re:Bad things COULD happen. on Infertility Could Impede Human Space Colonization · · Score: 1

    [citation needed], current in vitro fertilization is a common practice for infertile couples, fertilized egg cells can be stored for indefinitely long time, and TFA speaks about killing egg cells in the embryo during second half of pregnancy, nothing about attachment.

    Re-read what the grandparent said... Land on planet, build suitable shelter, implant embryo's. Suitable shelter presumably means "Protected from radiation that will make your babies infertile"

  9. Re:Typical east coast sensibilities on Internet Groups To Stream Live IPv4/6 Announcement · · Score: 2, Informative

    Middle of night over the PACIFIC. Less people live in the pacific ocean than elsewhere, so conversely, less people to be asleep at that time. Sorry, no citation, just common sense.

  10. Re:Impossible on Kilogram Gets Controversial; Why Not Split the Difference? · · Score: 5, Funny

    And what happens to water in a vacuum?

    It gets the bag wet.

  11. Re:I'm waiting for Epoch Second 1300000000 on Today Is EPOCH Day 15000 · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Unfortunately on Mail Service Costs Netflix 20x More Than Streaming · · Score: 2

    Nope, that's their agreement with Starz. Those are movies that Starz is currently offering, and when Starz stops netflix stops.

  13. Re:Good Plan on Mail Service Costs Netflix 20x More Than Streaming · · Score: 1

    I know a large portion of my watch it now queue is TV shows. Rewatching Sliders, watching Earth2 for the first time. Checking out A-Team because I didn't watch it as a kid, etc.

  14. Re:LoTR free to play on LotR Online's Free-To-Play Switch Tripled Revenue · · Score: 1

    Everquest had that feature in 2001. http://www.gamespot.com/news/2823441.html Never did much with it.

  15. Re:So This Will Be the ... on Star Wars Coming To Blu-ray In September · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is the fool who is following him following him so he can part the fool with his money?

  16. Re:The damage is already done on Famous British Autism Study an 'Elaborate Fraud' · · Score: 1

    It is sadly true tho. This is a perfect example of the prisoners dilemma in action, but for society as a whole. There is risk with vaccines, very small but they exist. If you know that 95% of the population is going to take the vaccine, then statistically you're better off not getting it, everyone else takes the vaccine risk, you get the herd protection without the risk. Really sucks though. The quacks can go around refusing vaccines, then call them overrated because they didn't take the vaccine and never got sick, so fewer and fewer take it and you have a real problem.

  17. Re:I tried... on Pay What You Want — a Sustainable Business Model? · · Score: 5, Funny

    this is like the guy who put a couch out near the road with a sign "Free" and it was there a week. Took the "Free" sign off and put a sign that said "$25" and it was stolen that night.

  18. Re:What's so new about single line queue? on Scientifically, You Are Likely In the Slowest Line · · Score: 2

    Borders does this

  19. Re:Low prices + steam helps on Examining Indie Game Pricing · · Score: 1

    I've noticed that I've been taking serious looks at any game that goes on sale for 75% off (don't buy them all, but a good chunk I will) and I have serious impulse buy problems when games start hitting the $5 range. All those $5 indie bundles in steam right now are calling my name. If I hadn't bought $25 worth when steam did them one a day for a week (And thus own a good portion of the games in each bundle) I would already have plunked down a good $20/$30. I suppose when it hits $1/game it is better for steam to sell than for each individual publisher. I hope this doesn't drive indie developers out of business, but frankly, they wouldn't have gotten my business at any price higher than that!

  20. Re:First sale doctrine on First-Sale Doctrine Lost Overseas · · Score: 1

    Actually, you should read the 13th and 14th amendment and see that YES, we did need an amendment to clarify that yes, people are actually people.

  21. Re:Flawed Assumption on The Future of Web Video At Stake In Comcast-NBC Regulatory Review · · Score: 2

    Chuck, Top Gear, NFL Football, Tosh.0, Robot Chicken (Those are my top 5, not in that order)

  22. Re:In my day we used 14.4kbps dial-up modems... on 68% of US Broadband Connections Aren't Broadband · · Score: 1

    Ahh, I love when people completely miss the joke, especially when it is advertised with a smiley.

    *I* had an obsolete at the time 8088 in the late 80's that I used to call into a local BBS at 300 baud. My UID was created when 56K modems were all the rage. Slashdot started in the 28.8 timeframe if I remember correctly, so no one could have a UID that supports then having used a 300 baud modem.

  23. Re:In my day we used 14.4kbps dial-up modems... on 68% of US Broadband Connections Aren't Broadband · · Score: 1

    Your UID says you're lying. =)

  24. Re:Sony is already working on it on Gamers Abandoning DS, PSP In Favor of Smartphones · · Score: 2

    Games to get: Chrono Trigger, Super Mario All Stars, Rock and Roll Racing, Super Punch Out, FFIII, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Pilot Wings.

  25. Re:Vacation time on Corporations Hiring Hooky Hunters · · Score: 1

    My boss is good to me, if I run out of sick days he generally doesn't care and will pay me anyways. This is not common though, you would be taking the day off without pay generally. I'm not saying that the US is the best for days off, all I am saying is that it's not 0 like you're led to believe by this chart.