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  1. Re:Economically rational, isn't. on Phishing Is a Minimum-Wage Job · · Score: 1

    Is it necessarily even a matter of self respect? Plenty of people make stupid economic decisions purely in the name of avoiding a day's work.

  2. Re:Don't worry on Are My Ideas Being Stolen? If So, What Then? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't mean to sound rude, but you probably won't do anything anyone would care to steal (aside from another student) while you're in school anyway.

    It may not be fair to state this for a school career in general, but almost certainly as an undergrad your professors aren't going to be interested in any of your completed assignments.

  3. Re:Good news everybody! on Milky Way Heavier Than Thought, and Spinning Faster · · Score: 1

    It certainly wasn't in ICU though.

  4. Re:sample top sekret mySQL code from the project on Data Mining Rescues Investigative Journalism · · Score: 1

    You should be shot for using so many underscores.

  5. Re:sue Amtrak and JetBlue on Amtrak Photo Contestant Arrested By Amtrak Police · · Score: 1

    Pity about how your camera got misplaced in the evidence locker sir. We're looking into it.

  6. Re:Kill!!! on Tales From the Support Crypt · · Score: 1

    Anyone emailing BMP images is right squarely in the same boat as the person sending screenshots embedded in a word doc.

  7. Re:Family Provide Our Best Stories on Tales From the Support Crypt · · Score: 1

    I can't play FPS any other way.

    Bizarrely, in a piloting game, like Mechwarrior, I can do just fine without it.

  8. Re:I had no idea on CCC Hackers Break DECT Telephones' Security · · Score: 1

    Interesting; I wasn't aware of the extra process involved in the case of a card signed like that.

  9. Re:I had no idea on CCC Hackers Break DECT Telephones' Security · · Score: 1

    *opens can of worms* That's because they can get in trouble with Visa if they demand ID. And it annoys customers besides.

  10. Re:missing the point on Avoiding Wasted Time With Prince of Persia · · Score: 1

    Getting killed a lot can drive you to get better, but getting killed so often you don't figure out how the game works is counterproductive.

    It's like learning karate from scratch via sparring with a blue belt. He's going to kick your ass, and you won't really learn anything from it.

  11. Re:They can't learn on ACM Urges Obama To Include CS In K-12 Core · · Score: 1

    Geezus, that's sad. Although having only recently been through a public university I remember what writing classes were like, so your semicolon story doesn't surprise me much.

    Which university, out of curiosity?

  12. Re:Subcompact on Netbooks Popular Enough For a C&D From Psion · · Score: 1

    Most people in the states tend to think of the Yaris, Geo or what have you as a "tiny fucking car" not a subcompact.

  13. Re:Dear ACM, STOP. on ACM Urges Obama To Include CS In K-12 Core · · Score: 1

    "Schools should be accountable to local communities and parents, NOT federal government bureaucrats"

    Mostly right, but as another person mentioned further up, making education entirely local, in some places means the curriculum is entirely in the hands of people who by and large think black people are dishonest, the earth is only a few thousand years old, that shutting down public libraries is a perfectly fine way to save money, etc.

    It certainly shouldn't be federal level but I personally would be horrified to think of education being totally controlled at a local level (thinking back to where I grew up and the people that live there, and the "good ol boys" in charge)

  14. Re:Most definitely.. on ACM Urges Obama To Include CS In K-12 Core · · Score: 1

    You use Djikstra's algorithm every time you plan a journey.

    I use google

  15. Re:Yes! Absolutely not! on ACM Urges Obama To Include CS In K-12 Core · · Score: 1

    Music and art are already cut, for football.

    To add computer science they'll probably offer fewer/no AP or Honors courses.

  16. Re:Doesn't matter if it starts out bad on ACM Urges Obama To Include CS In K-12 Core · · Score: 1

    +1 unfortunate truth

  17. Re:They can't learn on ACM Urges Obama To Include CS In K-12 Core · · Score: 1

    Some do; i try to use extra to make up for the deficiency.

  18. Re:I've setup Windows for my grandparents. on Configuring a Windows PC For a Senior Citizen? · · Score: 1

    Wasn't the shitty quality of their product already a good enough reason to not buy Lexmark?

  19. Re:Biofuels are worst than the problem. on Are Biofuels Still Economically Feasible? · · Score: 1

    We only destroy a foodsource for biofuels because there's a subsidy in place on growing of said food source (corn)

    There are plenty of better sources.

  20. Re:I just hope on What Restrictions Should Student Laptops Have? · · Score: 1

    maybe the point isn't to teach them about computers?

    After all, as a student I never got to learn about the bookbinding process by dismantling textbooks.

  21. Re:I'm a tech coordinator for a small district... on What Restrictions Should Student Laptops Have? · · Score: 1

    Since you seem to have experience in the field, i'm replying here:

    It seems like the overhwelming majority of people in this thread think these kids are going to be falling over each other to fuck with the system.

    I think most teenagers aren't willing to put forth the effort, either due having alternate, easier access, or the difficulty of circumvention or just plain having other things to do, and not being as fixated about being online as the average slashdotter.

    Any comment?

  22. Re:none on What Restrictions Should Student Laptops Have? · · Score: 1

    Think about it in terms of the support time necessary to remove the incredible quantity of malware likely to crop up in the course of surfing porn sites.

  23. Re:Absolutely not! on How Apple Could Survive Without Steve Jobs · · Score: 2, Funny

    She looks better than sonic youth

    Have you seen her lately?

  24. Re:If you want to see a real Steve Jobs Keynote... on Jobs Not Giving This Year's Macworld Keynote · · Score: 1

    Athletic is a really strange word choice. "Horrific" is what usually comes to mind.

  25. Re:I love this part of the text on Five PC Power Myths Debunked · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If all the annoying time consuming things happen after the user logs in, then a WOL isn't going to help, is it?