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  1. Re:Considering the mindset of the era on Spectral Imaging Reveals Jefferson Nixed 'Subjects' for 'Citizens' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    in all fairness, there weren't many Japanese-Americans in 1776.

  2. Re:Don't worry on Spectral Imaging Reveals Jefferson Nixed 'Subjects' for 'Citizens' · · Score: 3, Informative

    some people have religious objections or objections to the organ donation system itself.

  3. Re:Why cut prices? on Sony Finally Turning a Profit On PS3s · · Score: 2, Insightful

    for $20 you can also buy a new copy of an older PS3 title.

  4. Re:Oops. on Microsoft Kills the Kin · · Score: 1

    in all fairness, if you combined a droid and an iphone by gluing them together (touchscreen to touchscreen), the kin would be better.

  5. Re:Thanks for providing a real world example.. on New Messenger Has Same Old, Gaping Privacy Holes · · Score: 5, Funny

    ahh, now I see the gaping hole.

  6. Re:I'll bite. on Security For Open Source Web Projects? · · Score: 2, Informative

    aside from the mysql_escape_string()/mysql_real_escape_string() issue, you should be using PDO and prepared statements instead of building sql queries. Less work, easier maintenance, better security, better performance.

  7. Re:Don't care on USPTO Grants Bezos Patent On '60s-Era Chargebacks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So... the patent office (ie, government bureaucrats) are incompetent (or possibly the summary is wrong) and that proves all billionaires are crooks?

  8. Dear Ask Slashdot, on Open Source Geographic Tracking? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I like Free Open Source Software. Please give me this highly specific software so that we can use it for free in our business. I don't want to actually develop it myself or give back to the community an way. FOSS FTW!!

  9. Re:Call me clueless on Google Has Android Remote App Install Power, Too · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You're clueless.

  10. Re:So how does this work? on Skype Releases Open SDK · · Score: 2, Informative

    Remember: Skype is owned by eBay. Once the WTF!?! wears off, you'll remember what they did with paypal and eBay itself: Attract users with price, convenience, and functionality, lock them in, and jack up the fees.

  11. Re:still dont see on States Launch Joint Probe of Google Wi-Fi Snooping · · Score: 1

    How can it be illegal in 'some states'?

    I was referring specifically to the reference of driving down the street with a big fat microphone, recording people's conversations.

    isn't this the jurisdiction of the FCC?

    The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

  12. Re:still dont see on States Launch Joint Probe of Google Wi-Fi Snooping · · Score: 1

    That happens to be illegal in some states.

  13. Google is fucked on States Launch Joint Probe of Google Wi-Fi Snooping · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Legal or not, accident or not, there's only two facts that matter:
    • States are desperate for money
    • Google has money

    The state Attorney Generals (Attorney's General for the pedants) can taste the green. They haven't been this rabid since the Big Tobacco lawsuits. I expect Google will make a big donation to "help educate people about identity theft" (read: prop pension plans and make sure state employees and their union masters are happy).

  14. a FULL COLOR eBook? on Blender 2.49 Scripting · · Score: 1

    Holy Shit!!!! I'm surprised they could afford color for 9£... I'm shit, a color eBook is usually 3 or 4 times as expensive as the black and white version.

  15. Re:Programmable Number Plates on California Wants To Put E-Ads On License Plates · · Score: 5, Funny

    I support team goatse.

  16. Re:What is it then? on Windows Phone 7 Lacks Copy-and-Paste · · Score: 1

    Who the hell calls OS X and Linux the same OS?

  17. Re:PDF files will render as seamlessly as HTML? on Google Builds a Native PDF Reader Into Chrome · · Score: 1

    Things aren't the same as when the web was invented - where mostly text and a couple of inline images

    When the web was invented, it was text only. Inline images weren't around until 1993 or so. NCSA Mosaic only supported gifs -- clicking a jpeg would launch a separate viewer (assuming you had it set up correctly).

  18. Re:How long? on Developers' New Opportunity — Retailers' Open APIs · · Score: 1

    Commercial transactions were taking place on the net since the 70s. The first spam was in 1978.

  19. Re:Why Slashdot Fired Michael on Getty's Flickr Sales, Money Spinner Or Ripoff? · · Score: 2, Informative
    Michael Sims aka michael. former slashdot janitor. I think he moved to Canada to protest the DMCA or patriot act or anti-child porn laws or something. He was responsible for the bitchslap.pl script and generally abused his unlimited mod points.

    He was also the webmaster of censorware.org (cofounded with Seth Finkelstein, Jaime McCarthy, Bennett Haselton, and others). He generally acted like an asshat deleted the site contents (twice) and hijacked the domain.

  20. Re:Steve Ballmer is an idiot on Microsoft To Add Yet Another Smartphone OS This Year · · Score: 1

    Please clarify: He was an idiot before MS was founded or he was Bill's friend before MS was founded?

  21. Re:I don't know what the complaint is about? on Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names · · Score: 1

    that's for email addresses as used in email programs, including shit like an optional full name ("First, Last" ). Unless you're parsing mail headers, you don't need to deal with all that shit.

  22. Re:How long? on Developers' New Opportunity — Retailers' Open APIs · · Score: 1

    The first RFC was in March 1989. The first succesful communication was December 25, 1990.

  23. Re:Parameterized SQL on Kaminsky Offers Injection Antidote · · Score: 1

    SELECT * FROM ? WHERE ? -- is that what you're thinking? Good luck on that one since string parameters are quoted. And most DB engines would reject it.

  24. well on Knuth Got It Wrong · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't have time to read through the article and verify the numbers (at least right now) but anyone who's even paged through TAOCP knows it was written for computers where "swap" was what the operator did when the tape was full. (Ok, they also had drum memory).

  25. actual numbers on MySQL Outpacing Oracle In Wake of Acquisition · · Score: 1
    The write up in the summary is useless. In 2009, MySQL and Oracle usage was 27.7% and 27.3%, respectively. In 2010, it is 31.8% and 21.8%, respectively. This was a community survey of 1696 people (in 2010), 1481 in (2009)

    More interesting (to me, at least) -- despite all the talk about how awesome git is, svn usage was more or less unchanged, increasing from 57.5 to 58.3%. Git went from 2.4% to 6.8%.