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  1. Such a combined murder and suicide by driving would seem to be the epitome of unsafe driving.

    I agree, but the original comment about not giving out a driving license to this person would do nothing to stop this.

  2. Re:Holder on Judge Jails Defendent For Failing To Unlock Phones (fox13news.com) · · Score: 1

    Hold on, so Holder holds handheld holdout to be held?

  3. I'm wishing for help from terminal programs on Pastejacking Attack Appends Malicious Terminal Commands To Your Clipboard (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    I know I shouldn't copy and paste into a terminal, but it is so convenient. I don't even need a malicious website to get myself into trouble. I just forget that I copied hundreds of lines right after I copied that filename that I wanted to use. And then boom!, lots of commands entered that who knows what will happen with.

    I've occasionally looked, but never found a terminal to help with this. Probably because they shouldn't encourage my bad habit. But if it would just give me a pop up showing what I am about to paste that would help a bunch.

  4. Scope? on FBI Wants Biometric Database Hidden From Privacy Act (onthewire.io) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If they get the exemption for that database, what will keep them from migrating all data to that database?

  5. Re:Simple on Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? · · Score: 1

    That's not the answer the business side wants to hear. They just want a zero on the report.

  6. Re:File manager without file, edit, view.. on Debian 8 Jessie Released · · Score: 1

    If you used to like evince, consider atril.

  7. Have the helmet do it on Enthusiast Opts For $2200 Laser Eye Surgery To Enhance Oculus Rift Experience · · Score: 1

    Would it be possible to put an eye test into the helmet and have it adjust the optics to give the wearer apparently perfect vision? Or is that just too sci-fi?

  8. Re:No screenshots on After a Long wait, GNU Screen Gets Refreshed · · Score: 1

    I actually use screen for its screenshotting ability. I have a series of unit tests which are an expect script that runs a reference program in screen, takes a snapshot and then runs the target program takes another screenshot and then compares the two to make sure they match.

  9. I've never been a fan of the old borg logo on Bill Gates Patents Detecting, Responding To "Glassholes" · · Score: 1

    but can we bring it back just for this one story?

  10. Do you think they used a typesetter... on Protesters Show Up At the Doorstep of Google Self-driving Car Engineer · · Score: 1

    ..to create that flyer. Or did they take advantage of technology to avoid hiring a professional. I know that there are problems to be solved with jobs lost to technology. I can't believe the solution is to have people do the jobs instead.

  11. Re:Some notable omissions in the article... on A Short History of Computers In the Movies · · Score: 1

    Is there any movie from 1981 to 1994 mentioned? It was going pretty much year-by-year up to then and then picks up again in 2006. I get the feeling that the article was edited for length by chopping out much of the middle.

  12. Re:How did this pass moderation? on The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever · · Score: 1

    Maybe he is just trying to start something.

  13. Re:A second trial on Did Goldman Sachs Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Of course they got to see the evidence. They pulled the hard drive out of the computer and showed it to them. It's in the fine article. I wish I could have seen that.

  14. 4k Computer on 4K Computer Monitors Are Coming (But Still Pricey) · · Score: 5, Funny

    The monitor for my 4k computer (a TRS-80 Color Computer) was just an ordinary television.

  15. Re:Can they stop it? on Can NASA, Air Force, and Private Industry Really Mitigate an Asteroid Threat? · · Score: 1

    If they can stop it, I think there is a greater risk that they will create a problem before there is an opportunity to solve a problem.

  16. Easy question on Ask Slashdot: Geekiest Way To Cook a Turkey? · · Score: 1
    This is by far the easiest question I have seen posted on slashdot. Bite the head off.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_show

  17. My Solution on Confessions of a Left-Handed Technology User · · Score: 1

    At work I have my workstation set up with a mouse on each side of the keyboard. I'm not aware of any way to swap the buttons on just one mouse through software, but I have never been completely satisfied with the software approach. Instead, I hardwire the buttons to be swapped.

    Now I don't even know which mouse I use most often. I catch myself using either. I think I prefer the one on the left because I don't have to move over the numeric keypad to get to it, but more often it has to do with whichever way I am leaning in my chair.

    The big advantage is when someone else needs to sit down at my workstation to do something, there is a normal right-handed mouse for them on the right. The only downside is that I always get that question about why I have two mice.

  18. Re:For this you want a professional product on Ask Slashdot: Open Source Tax Software? · · Score: 1

    Having a deduction on money you spend does not expempt that expenditure from being labeled a tax. If you spend $20 on tax filing, that is $20 that you have spent. It is true that you don't have to pay a 25% (or whatever) tax on that $20. So you have $5 savings on tax. Net, that is still $15 more out of pocket that you pay to file taxes.

  19. Re:For this you want a professional product on Ask Slashdot: Open Source Tax Software? · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Crime solved when Police do their job, News at on Looking For iPad, Police Find 750 Pounds of Meth · · Score: 1

    Sure it seems dumb now, in hindsight. When I see an ipad, I think "That's the device I played Fruit Ninja on once". I maybe heard of the "Find my ipad" feature, but I sure don't think about it. The fact (well supposition) that he took the deal suggests that he didn't have one already and unsurprisingly was unaware of the feature.

  21. Re:Free software wouldn't have helped on Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along · · Score: 2

    More to the point, that text (quoted in the GP) isn't actually in the GPL v2. It appears after the terms and conditions of the license proper. It suggests how you should apply the license to your code. The phrase 'any later version' does appear in the text of the license (section 9) and it is clear in that section that the license may be applied without the 'any later version'. At least that is how if read the word "if".

    If the Program specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and "any later version"...

    As you say, you have to look at LICENSE.txt (I assume; I never actually did) to see that the license on Linux is GPL v2 only.

  22. Re:The government isn't willing to force it on Christmas Always On Sunday? Researchers Propose New Calendar · · Score: 1

    Replying to this to undo the slip up when trying to moderate it. I didn't mean to hit overrated.

  23. Re: $42M for an ego boost? on Long Now Clock Advances With Bezos Cash · · Score: 2

    Spending $42 million dollars on food for starving people will not make starvation go away--not in the long term. Certainly it is possible that it will help in the short term. After the food is gone, then what? The Fine Article actually talks about that very point. By encouraging long term thinking you may be able to take on problems that seem intractable, the example being that you could not eliminate starvation in 5 years, but given 200 years maybe it could be done.

  24. Re:Null hypothesis my ass on Evolution Battle Brews In Texas · · Score: 1

    Thank-you, that's just what I was thinking.

  25. Re:Absurd on Ubuntu Unity: The Great Divider · · Score: 1

    Second screen actually. As you say, you do have to get your login name in first. I would have found it quicker if you could select it before choosing your login name. Unity crashes me back to the login screen in about 3 seconds, so it didn't take me too many cycles to find it.