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  1. Re:Srsly? on Net Companies Consider the "Nuclear Option" To Combat SOPA · · Score: 1

    They could use geolocation to selectively turn it on: "Your congress critter ______ supports SOPA. When he/she publicly opposes SOPA, we will return your site back to normal and let you [feed the cows or whatever the current farmville thing is]

  2. Re:Steve Jobs on In New Zealand, a System To Watch for Disabled Parking Violators · · Score: 4, Funny

    I see people parking illegally all the time. Even when there is legal parking just a few spaces away. I'm lucky, I can walk a little ways (in spite of the severe pain.) There are many who are wheelchair bound who need the special large parking spaces to exit their vehicles.

    At a local school, someone came up with a solution when the handicap spot was inappropriately used: They simply parked in the street right behind the car, trapping them in. The idiot had to sit there until the fellow with the handicap sticker got back and left. :D

  3. Re:1Password + Dropbox + CrashPlan on Ask Slashdot: Changing Passwords For the New Year? · · Score: 1

    Add CrashPlan into that, and you have a way to recover your passwords even if all your machines are destroyed in a tornado. :) I use all of these together, and I never have trouble getting to a password - even my droid phone can get at them.

  4. Re:As much as I hate all things Apple on Orangutans To Skype Between Zoos With iPads · · Score: 1

    Check out http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/jan-june11/jesseext_04-21.html and related pages on that site. As the parent of an autistic child, I can clearly see the difference.

  5. Re:GoDaddy Reversal on Wikipedia To Dump GoDaddy Over SOPA · · Score: 1

    What makes you think they reversed their stance?

  6. Re:V Sign. on How a Gesture Could Get Your Google+ Profile Picture Yanked · · Score: 1

    What does the sideways v in front of your eyes mean?

  7. Re:Maskelyne, also great inventor of the pay toile on Progressive Era Hacker Griefed Marconi Demonstration · · Score: 1

    There are supposed to be safety systems that prevent anyone from being trapped and "buried alive".

    If you RTFA (I know, this is slashdot) it is raised and lowered by an attendant at sunrise and sunset.

  8. Can you guess? on Amazon Patents Deducing Religion From Gift Wrap · · Score: 1

    Where does Thomas the Tank Engine fit in?

  9. Re:move on on ISO Updates C Standard · · Score: 1

    Many of us have never depended on Microsoft for our development tools.

    FTFY

  10. Storing cleartext passwords is asking for trouble. on Chinese Developer Forum Leaks 6 Million User Credentials · · Score: 1

    I'm looking at you, Mailman... http://www.list.org/

  11. Re:Quick, now's our chance! on Bell Canada To Stop Internet Throttling · · Score: 1

    Here in KS with Cable One, I think we can get a 50Mbps package, but they meter it and charge extra if you go over 50GB in a month I think.

  12. Re:Why are they testing on HIV positive people? on HIV Vaccine Approval For Human Trials · · Score: 1

    I suspect that is to make sure it doesn't have negative side effects...

  13. Re:I DO, like every DD on Do Slashdotters Encrypt Their Email? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but that doesn't mean it's polite for me just post it on a public site, now does it?

  14. can't blame what preceded it... on High School Reunions — Facebook's Newest Victim? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I stopped going to school reunions long before facebook existed. And by stopped, I mean never went.

  15. Re:I DO, like every DD on Do Slashdotters Encrypt Their Email? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    gpg: Signature made Mon Dec 19 21:46:40 2011 CST using DSA key ID 98EF9A49
    gpg: Good signature from ........

    Not posting the rest, but you can get the name and email address from the signature. :) I'd be surprised if any spammers know how to do that though.

  16. Yes. I've been using PGP for a long time. on Do Slashdotters Encrypt Their Email? · · Score: 3, Informative

    -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
    Hash: SHA1

    Why, yes. Yes I do. At least for the few recipients that do too. And
    all my messages are signed.
    -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
    Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin)
    Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

    iD8DBQFO8AWNUy30ODPkzl0RAr75AJ9qYq94sfL00DZxCb3e1tL/HX4uIACeLlbJ
    RYRY0ZwfXoKwpyEJn0JzJ2Q=
    =fy5a
    -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

  17. Re:Not to take sides on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 2

    Talking on a cellphone while driving is as dangerous as drunk driving: confirmed

    I have a major beef with that episode though: it assumed that you would give priority to the conversation over traffic. When I'm talking to someone, whether in the car or on the phone, if I encounter a problem, my mind shifts entirely to the problem... once resolved I then ask the person to repeat, or otherwise restart the topic.

  18. Re:Huh? on Canada First Nation To Pull Out of Kyoto Accord · · Score: 1

    If referring to the continent, yes. (Some might say middle eastern) But if you specifically wanted to imply a country, it would Israeli or Saudi Arabian.

  19. Re:Huh? on Canada First Nation To Pull Out of Kyoto Accord · · Score: 1, Informative

    Strictly speaking, if you are going to refer to a continent such as "african" or "european" then it would be "north american" or "south american". If you are refering to a country, it would be "Mexican", "Colombian", ... and thus, "American". /pedant rebuffed

  20. Re:So what? on Juror's Tweets Overturn Trial Verdict · · Score: 1

    I got $10 for the time I was on a jury. WOo hoo

  21. Re:So what? on Juror's Tweets Overturn Trial Verdict · · Score: 1

    I was on a jury just a few months ago, and they requested that we leave all phones and such turned off in the jury room until after the verdict was given. Doesn't seem too hard to understand.

  22. Re:I don't get it on Book Review: Head First HTML5 Programming · · Score: 1

    As I understand it, HTML 5 took the approach of standardizing what the current practice (aside from IE maybe) in browsers instead of coming up with a spec expecting browsers to follow. As such, it already is current.

  23. Re:To say nothing of their own reputation on Greenpeace Breaks Into French Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    And from what I've read so far, the only reason they managed to deploy their banner is that the French snipers were ordered not to take the shots after Greenpeace called and said that they had sent those guys....

    [citation needed]

  24. Re:It's funny how stupid they are on Greenpeace Breaks Into French Nuclear Plant · · Score: 4, Informative

    Got a link to that source? All of the stories I see fail to say anything about that.

  25. Re:This is /. on The Sports Footage You Won't See Today On TV · · Score: 1

    Nothing but net.