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  1. What rools, what OS? on Arkansas Declares a High School CS Education State of Emergency · · Score: 2

    When I was in high school, we learned QBasic on IBM PS/2s. What's the current equivalent today? Nobody's completed the .net help file, so who has the book to teach it?

  2. Re:Emergency probably has legal meaning on Arkansas Declares a High School CS Education State of Emergency · · Score: 1

    In state legislatures, an "emergency" declares a law in effect immediately, waiving off the tradition 90-day-or-so notices.

  3. Re:Obligatory Onion article on Neil Armstrong's Widow Discovers Moon Camera In Bag · · Score: 1

    This seems to be as well planned as an STS-33... we've got Slashdot matching The Onion, and quoting telegraph.co.UK... how does a news site that ends in UK become the leader on this story?

  4. Re:Alleged... on Neil Armstrong's Widow Discovers Moon Camera In Bag · · Score: 1

    You're starting to rate "nominal" around here... remember what that means when NASA says that!

  5. Warning: Contains discussion of 1960s... on Neil Armstrong's Widow Discovers Moon Camera In Bag · · Score: -1

    There's a reason why most collections of facts don't touch the 1960s... too much fiction in the news back then. Sorry, this story doesn't belong on Slashdot!

  6. Re:Google AV... baked in with every product. on New Google Security Reward Program Announcement · · Score: 1

    If you're browser-only... why do you need Windows? Linux/Chromium seems able to handle that.

  7. Google AV... baked in with every product. on New Google Security Reward Program Announcement · · Score: 1

    Google's got something ahead of the antivirus vendors... they're paying to prevent the hole from being open rather than setting up to block what comes in the hole. Chrome's main problem has been "feature not implemented" rather than takeovers that were seen in the early days of Internet Explorer. ChromeOS products are looking to be cheap user machines, and there's yet to be a need for antivirus there.

    Factor the price of an antivirus subscription into every Windows machine you're running, and maybe non-programming businesses could switch to Google products in place of Windows.

  8. Re:What the Hell? on Comcast Employees Change Customer Names To 'Dummy' and Other Insults · · Score: 1

    Monopoly? In most places, they face competition from the phone company.

  9. Re:AT&T and Comcast on Comcast Employees Change Customer Names To 'Dummy' and Other Insults · · Score: 2

    Actually, Comcast already merged with AT&T Broadband, while the rest of AT&T went bankrupt piece by piece. The current AT&T is really what SBC used to be.

  10. Re:What the Hell? on Comcast Employees Change Customer Names To 'Dummy' and Other Insults · · Score: 1

    Comcast is the cable TV provider of most systems from Maine to New Jersey, and is attempting to merge with Time Warner Cable.

  11. Re:Alright, time to pirate it! on Inkscape Version 0.91 Released · · Score: 0

    Yep... Inkscape is the answer to the open source bitmap editor GIMP... mix the two programs and you have the complete feature list of Photoshop!

  12. The world without NightWatch makes no sense... on Safety Review Finds Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Site Was Technically Sound · · Score: 0

    There's a better explanation for what's going on here, but without a 3AM hour of NightWatch, there's not much we can correctly say about this.

  13. Re:Needed! on Google Pondering $1 Billion Investment In SpaceX's Satellite Internet · · Score: 1

    Seems they're all pre-booked with customers, so that's why Google's joining this competition.

  14. Re:Needed! on Google Pondering $1 Billion Investment In SpaceX's Satellite Internet · · Score: 1

    The problem with the current solutions isn't ping time, they've done all they can about that... the problem is they're full and afraid more users would result in a throughput problem during peak times. That's why somebody needs to launch another service at another location, and Google seems to be stepping up to that task.

  15. Re:PayPal Fees on Google Pondering $1 Billion Investment In SpaceX's Satellite Internet · · Score: 1

    There isn't enough obvious statements being made right now. Who's playing Captain Obvious, or is it obvious that I have to do it?

  16. Re:PayPal Fees on Google Pondering $1 Billion Investment In SpaceX's Satellite Internet · · Score: 1

    The myth that "There's only $5,000,000 in US dollars in print" is a bit off course but getting closer to true. Some "vaults" willingly admit that they destroy the paper bills and they can claim them back from the US Treasury Bank by having them print new paper bills with the destroyed bill's serial numbers.

    Remember, The Treasury has at times taught that if somebody hands you shredded bill you can send it to them, hope they can solve the puzzle to prove how much money was there, and they they'll send you new bill. As far as I know, that's something they never plan to stop doing.

  17. Phone mode also at risk... on Security-Focused BlackPhone Was Vulnerable To Simple Text Message Bug · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It seems that the phone app on this device is susceptible to "Bank Impersonation" calls where the caller pretends to be from a bank when actually is a scam artist.

  18. Re:Business model? on Google Pondering $1 Billion Investment In SpaceX's Satellite Internet · · Score: 1

    Iridium went for worldwide phone service... and that meant wasting signal over places that had no customer. This seems to be yet another plan to do North American-area Internet service, which is currently full at current providers.

  19. Re:PayPal Fees on Google Pondering $1 Billion Investment In SpaceX's Satellite Internet · · Score: 1

    Nice joke, but PayPal is designed for moving small amounts of money that usually cancel out. (Ex. Somebody uses a Chase credit card to pay an eBay seller who banks with Citizens, then later in the day, someone uses a CItizens card to pay somebody who banks with Chase.)

    $1 Billion usually can move with the help of the US Treasury Bank... every real bank has a large supply of money there, destroyed and waiting to be reprinted.

  20. Needed! on Google Pondering $1 Billion Investment In SpaceX's Satellite Internet · · Score: 3, Interesting

    With Hughes and Wildblue both complaining they're full... this is really needed for the people who wires don't reach. It's not any fun for twitch games, but it does allow YouTube or other video streams to work well. Go Google!

  21. Control of RF on Google To Test Build-It-Yourself Ara Smartphones In Puerto Rico · · Score: 1

    A Build-your-own cell phone needs to be secured against misuse of RF networks. Remember, your provider needs to serve more than just you so you can't take up more bandwidth or signal power than you're allowed. A lot of limits get set at the towers...

  22. Re:Come on, MS Keyboards are secure. on Wireless Keylogger Masquerades as USB Phone Charger · · Score: 1

    Well, it's "flip"... it's a comment that states the opposite of the summary at the top.

  23. Re:Lobby = Corruption on Tesla vs. Car Dealers: the Lobbyist Went Down To Georgia · · Score: 1

    It's more like "I know it's bad for you and your state, but the rest of the nation needs the Internet!"

  24. Re:Lobby = Corruption on Tesla vs. Car Dealers: the Lobbyist Went Down To Georgia · · Score: 1

    To investigate how to vote, they have to call somebody outside in order to comment on the item in question, and that person then becomes a lobbyist.

  25. Re:Dewhat? on Wireless Keylogger Masquerades as USB Phone Charger · · Score: 1

    This is why you need Bluetooth in order to be sure there's enough processor in the keyboard to encrypt. Microsoft's proprietary system for this now has to be considered hacked.