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  1. Re:Fuck those guys on Online "Swatting" Becomes a Hazard For Gamers Who Play Live On the Internet · · Score: 1

    I used to watch one of those swat tv shows every now and them in the background. I was always surprised more often than not they showed up to an empty house, or in some cases the wrong house (for instance a house illegally converted into multiple apartments). It seems like they perform very little intel gathering. I have to think just about anything is safer than a no knock warrant in the middle of the night.

  2. Re:What's missing from this story? on Online "Swatting" Becomes a Hazard For Gamers Who Play Live On the Internet · · Score: 1

    I am sure there is SOME other solution besides a full on swat raid. Especially is the source of the information is from some vague skype or text.

  3. I would like some stats on Online "Swatting" Becomes a Hazard For Gamers Who Play Live On the Internet · · Score: 1

    How many calls like this end up being real vs fake? Of each category how many are from a throw away cell phone, Skype, etc? What I am getting at, is if the call seems really suspect, maybe a full on swat raid should not be done.

  4. Re:how about an NSA honeypot? on To Avoid NSA Interception, Cisco Will Ship To Decoy Addresses · · Score: 1

    I was thinking something like a security device that would alert cisco and the customer if the boxen were opened. Or even something simple like unique security tape. Seems like there is something out there that could either alert or prove it was tampered with.

  5. Re:Training, not college on Inside Minerva, a Silicon Valley Bid To Start an Elite College Online · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you believe what the brochure said hook line and sinker. There is no definition of college that says it has to be all those things... clubs, sports, dorms. You can go to college just to learn, and maybe at a school that doesn't spend crazy amounts of money on non academic things.

  6. Re:As far as I'm considered, this article ends wit on Inside Minerva, a Silicon Valley Bid To Start an Elite College Online · · Score: 1

    My community college is more like 8k. 60 hours at 135 per credit hour.

  7. Re:Nope on Samsung Officially Unpacks Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge At MWC · · Score: 1

    I don't carry jumper cables or an air compressor because I can just call AAA.

  8. Re:Nope on Samsung Officially Unpacks Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge At MWC · · Score: 3, Informative

    I chose my phone based on the removable battery and sd slot. I have lots of information stored on sd cards, some of it reference, some of it sensitive. I like to be able to read it off multiple devices. Phones in my house tend to get passed down. They go beyond the two years.

  9. Who cares.... on One Astronomer's Quest To Reinstate Pluto As a Planet · · Score: 1

    I mean would a rose by... stop the bickering, nothing is anything except for what it is.

  10. Pfft on Adjusting To a Martian Day More Difficult Than Expected · · Score: 1

    I would just use the "extra" time to sleep. They would have a bit of time getting to mars, seems enough time to adjust while in transit.

  11. Guess I am a dead tree-er on The Case Against E-readers -- Why Digital Natives Prefer Reading On Paper · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I like having and reading physical books. I really can't explain why, so I do not have much to contribute.

  12. Re:griping about historical accuracy in this case on The Imitation Game Fails Test of Inspiring the Next Turings · · Score: 1

    I despise historical inaccuracies. Sure you can never recreate everything exactly. Condensing time, subjective views, any number of things. What gets me is alright, why given that would you just outright make things up? Find another way to get your message across if you have to resort to outright lies. Argo, 21, Breach, The theory of everything... There are some things that are facts, why not try to portray them as best as possible? To me it ruins the movie, either I can tell it is BS, or I look it up and think " why lie"?

  13. Forget technology. on Ask Slashdot: How Can Technology Improve the Judicial System? · · Score: 1

    Just work on fixing the system.

  14. Re: Get digging. on Could Fossils of Ancient Life From Earth Reside On the Moon? · · Score: 1
    Just as much chance the rocks did not make it to the moon and are floating around.... lets go collect millions of space rocks looking for one from earth... with fossils... that have scientific merit.

    The return on investment just looks terrible to me.

  15. It is no wonder nobody know what is going on. on Ten Lies T-Mobile Told Me About My Data Plan · · Score: 1
    All these companies have such complicated data plans that keep changing it's no wonder nobody knows what is going on. Shared data, banked data, Etc. Then you have Facebook autoplaying ads, phones on the same account downloading eachothers apps, etc. Everyone now has a smart phone and most are the kind of people who think they won the Nigerian lottery. Probably 99% of data complaints are the fault of the user. Maybe it is time to switch to a company with better customer service.

    On my phone you can send a text and see how much data you have used. If I were the article author, I would keep a daily record of usage. It might not prove anything but it might help narrow some things down. It would be obvious when the data really reset and you could see if you were doing anything odd if you data spiked. Set an alert when you are getting close to your cap. Then turn data off.

  16. Re:The punchline on Stephen Hawking: Biggest Human Failing Is Aggression · · Score: 1

    I think people are just tired of seeing a headline every week about his opinion. He makes a few comments in an unofficial manner and we tear him a new one. Maybe if this was a paper, lecture, interview... etc but its just a comment. Why does it even make the news? It's not even anything crazy, hey let's end hating eachother and we will be better off. People just don't want everything he says to be considered profound wisdom, because it is not.

  17. Re: Actually on Stephen Hawking: Biggest Human Failing Is Aggression · · Score: 1

    Amen.... it seems he has an opinion on something every week. How about ending stupidity instead, I bet that would stop quite a bit of aggression. Where do you draw the lines with aggression? Is wanting to make a better product than my competitor considered aggressive? There may be a situation when you need that so called aggression.

  18. Re:Wouldn't this be a magnet for FAKE information? on Darkleaks: an Online Black Market For Selling Secrets · · Score: 1

    I would think people in the trade would have their ways of verifying information. One way would be to say, send over bulk documents from a company, that are private, but not dealing with the information you really want to sell. Or send over documents but with the important parts blocked out. You get the idea. You could verify the information in a series of exchanges. Now maybe a company would have the resources to create fake documents to screw with whoever. I imagine the buyers take that into account though. There must be enough real information being sold to keep people buying though.

  19. Re:Get digging. on Could Fossils of Ancient Life From Earth Reside On the Moon? · · Score: 2

    But... but... " The implications for science and future lunar exploration are profound". No I agree, the odds of finding something have got to be so small I can't imagine how much work you would have to go through to find something.

  20. Re:every few years on Drones and Satellites Spot Lost Civilizations In Unlikely Places · · Score: 1

    I was thinking the same thing... where are the pictures? You can post a few, nobody is going to be able to figure out the location from some pictures a drone took.

  21. Re:The search for positive reinforcement on What Your Online Comments Say About You · · Score: 1
    I tell my SO all the time DO NOT argue with people on the Internet. Even if the basis of their reasoning is a fallacy, that is not going to change their underlying opinion of the subject.

    Most of what people say in the real world is a bunch of crap. Look things up for yourself . Where I used to work people would have hours long debates about things. But nobody would ever actually look anything up. I have no idea why the first reaction in many people is to just believe something. Even if they are getting their information from TV news, every other broadcast has a correction. Twerking caught on fire, baby grabbed by falcon, kids smoking bedbugs.

    I was banned from a forum, pretty much because it was mostly xian republicans. Stray from those two views and you are an idiot. Everything that supports those two, great.

    Hopefully online, people making stupid comments will be corrected. But there is always the people who can point to studies it is better to not vaccinate, so it is pointless to argue with them.

  22. I think this is a biased group to ask. on Should We Really Try To Teach Everyone To Code? · · Score: 1
    Sure, I wish I was taught coding from an early age. I am not a coder but work in IT. Ask a nurse if they think coding should be required, they will probably say no. Should nursing be required? I know people have been saying similar things about any number of professions. You can say nursing teaches troubleshooting, wellness, compassion, and can be tied to health in general. I think options are a good thing, why require one or the other, coding or nursing?

    Why not offer as many options as are reasonable? If you want to teach people to think, you can do that in any class, we are just doing a terrible job of it. In high school I took calligraphy, Latin, sculpture, choir, and so on. This was inner city stuff, so don't get any romantic ideas of some sort of classical education, this was more like gluing a bunch of disposable spoons to a pile of trash. Maybe everyone should take a theater class every year and be forced to take part in a public play. It will teach them how to work in a group, increase their confidence, and give them a lifelong appreciation for the arts, Or it will make then despise being forced to do something like that. The people who want to be there will despise the people who don't, because one group wants to be there and most of the time spent there is trying to get the slackers up to speed.

    School is really missing both teaching people to think independently and teaching how things apply to the world outside of school. So along with math, science, history, and literature. Add coding? Yet economics, statistics, foreign languages, arts, etc are all electives?

  23. Re:Yes, and we need a nee teaching language on Should We Really Try To Teach Everyone To Code? · · Score: 1

    My college requires a class in Visual Logic before taking a real programming class. I don't think everyone should be forced to take programming. Many people just do not "get" anything to do with computers. There are so many problems with the education system, fix those problems and you will get a much better return on your investment. I would like to see coding as optional classes, I would have wanted to take them over the art classes, or latin, and so on.

  24. Re:KnowledgeWorks Foundation on Arkansas Declares a High School CS Education State of Emergency · · Score: 1

    In 1999 my ohio public high school CS class was still using Apple IIes to program in BASIC.

  25. Re:oh dear god no on Free-As-In-Beer Electricity In Greece? · · Score: 1

    Where are you getting the penny from? Maybe giving money away discourages people from trying to earn it themselves. Every person I know who went on unemployment milked it as long as they could. Same as everyone thinking of ways to scam "free" electricity. Get it free there is no incentive to save, food, heat, electricity, whatever. Okay the poor spend every penny, so why not just give the bottom 10.... 20... 30.... percent of the population as much money as they want? Just spending someone elses money does nothing. I see all these under 16 year olds not working. Lets all chip in and give them a thousand dollars a month, as long as they spend it all. Do you think that would do anything to help the economy? Think about how the money is changing hands and tell me how it works out to being a good thing.