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  1. Re:Never used this keystroke on Goodbye, Ctrl-S · · Score: 1

    Sometimes the challenge with Ctrl-S was that you often didn't know if it did anything, and you found yourself going to the File menu to see if the Save button was grey, or to click it more than a few times "just to be sure."

    Trusting that your Google Doc was saved without hitting a button, or that a draft of your email was auto-generated takes a bit of trust that takes a while to build.

    If you're not a heavy user, it'll take time to build that trust.

  2. Re:Biggest challenge is avoidance. on CERN's Particle Smashers List Their Toughest Tech Challenges · · Score: 1

    Meh. You cannot observe anything, ever. At best you can analyze your own neurons firing.

  3. Re:Correlation vs correlation on U.S. Drone Attack Strategy Against Al-Qaeda May Be Wrong · · Score: 1

    What's the correct number to kill to prevent another attack?

  4. Re:Blizzard Shizzard on Blizzard Sues Starcraft II Cheat Creators · · Score: 1

    Must be terrible for McDonalds too, only having netted 1.4BN after all was said an done...

  5. Re:what a crock on IT Pro Gets Prison Time For Sabotaging Ex-Employer's System · · Score: 1

    I didn't intend to go all Chris Brown on her?

  6. Re:Blizzard Shizzard on Blizzard Sues Starcraft II Cheat Creators · · Score: 1

    Stars on Amazon were less about the gameplay and more protest over always-online DRM.

  7. Re:Blizzard Shizzard on Blizzard Sues Starcraft II Cheat Creators · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the 10 million plus copies of the two SC2 games are probably really killing them financially...

  8. Re:what a crock on IT Pro Gets Prison Time For Sabotaging Ex-Employer's System · · Score: 1

    Yup.

    Here in Arizona:

    The elements of kidnapping are (1) knowingly, (2) restraining another person, (3) with the intent, (4) to place the victim in a reasonable apprehension of imminent physical injury or to seize or exercise control over a vehicle.

    So, when you argue with your girlfriend, and don't unlock the car doors, and she's scared you'll Chris Brown her -- kidnapping.

  9. Re:Ashamed! on IT Pro Gets Prison Time For Sabotaging Ex-Employer's System · · Score: 1

    Well, one could argue this "Pro" is now a "Con".

    /sunglasses

    YEAAAAAH!

  10. Re:DRM on Kaleidescape Settles With DVD CCA But No Victory For DRM · · Score: 1

    Well, for starters, that wasn't the question. It was asked about the protection schemes themselves instead of the larger picture.

    Further, not everything my Windows Media Center records is popular, and rarely will the downloadable/torrentable versions be as high of quality as a native capture.

  11. Re:DRM on Kaleidescape Settles With DVD CCA But No Victory For DRM · · Score: 1

    Has DRM ever worked? One instance? I've never heard of it lasting longer than a few days.

    Microsoft .DVRMS files saved on Windows Media Center devices with PlayReady.

  12. Re:Yet more proof on Kaleidescape Settles With DVD CCA But No Victory For DRM · · Score: 1

    Yesterday, a California court announced the was voluntarily dismissed.

    I believe the California court accidentally the whole thing.

  13. Re:50 GB?? on Wolfenstein: The New Order Launches · · Score: 1

    I know what they were called :)

    And to be fair, the only way to really know was to get to the obscure point in the game that needed one of those files and find it missing. :/

  14. Re:50 GB?? on Wolfenstein: The New Order Launches · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Back in the day, I recall a number of pirate copies of games that compressed audio/video assets because bits were still costly and slow.

    *shrug*

  15. Re:I'm curious what a FPS with "Maturity" is on Wolfenstein: The New Order Launches · · Score: 1, Informative
  16. Re:Next target, please on Driverless Cars Could Cripple Law Enforcement Budgets · · Score: 3, Funny

    Get out of my head!

    My Powerball power fantasy includes me roaming the country with high-speed vehicles, with my team of enormous bodyguards, tossing lit cigarettes back in people's cars.

    "Hey, you must have dropped this."

  17. Re:Reaction guestimations... on The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call In the Bahamas · · Score: 1

    How long does it take to cut-and-paste a list of countries in that font and see how many fit the width?

    Then repeat the process against the other documents in other fonts?

    Then compare the two lists? How many countries will be left?

    [Leading or trailing whitespace is a non-issue, since you know where the next word starts.]

  18. Re:The Secrecy Sucks on Water Cannons Used Against Peaceful Anti-TTIP Protestors: the Next ACTA Revolt? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Numerous Senate and Congressional meetings occur behind closed doors.

    We're hardly fully transparent.

    Translucent on a good day...

  19. Re:Protests were Illegal. on Water Cannons Used Against Peaceful Anti-TTIP Protestors: the Next ACTA Revolt? · · Score: 2

    I see the smiley, but in case someone else misses it -- it's just their bilingual logo.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...

  20. Protests were Illegal. on Water Cannons Used Against Peaceful Anti-TTIP Protestors: the Next ACTA Revolt? · · Score: 4, Informative

    The law in Belgium states that it is illegal to hold public protests without authorisation from the municipality.

    The video on this site, shows the round-up, and it seems, VERY VERY controlled and peaceful on both sides.
    http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ttip-...

    Nice people, the Belgish...

  21. Reaction guestimations... on The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call In the Bahamas · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Based on the number of proportional font memos with a blacked out second country name, it shouldn't be too hard to narrow down the other country (in addition to the Bahamas) for which "full retrieval" was possible.

    I mean, it's not Laos, and it's not Nagorno-Karabakh, but with a known font, you could narrow it down pretty quickly based on the redacted images.

    Here:
    https://prod01-cdn00.cdn.first...
    And here:
    https://prod01-cdn02.cdn.first...

  22. Today's Best Slashvertisement? on Almost 100 Arrested In Worldwide Swoop On Blackshades Malware · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How many of you thought, "Hey, only $200...hmmmm?"

    Be honest.

    I wonder what this particular Slashvertisement cost to buy?

  23. Re:when are you going to fix the star rating syste on Interviews: Ask Travis Kalanick About Startups and Uber · · Score: 1

    The rating itself isn't a problem.

    The problem is that the riders have no idea what an "expected" rating is, and leave 3-4 stars for drivers that need 4-5 stars to not fail the system.

  24. Re:Microwave trays on The Physics of Hot Pockets · · Score: 1

    If they're not, how do they support them now that they can't in the future?

  25. Re:Don't. on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Theft Products For the Over-Equipped Household? · · Score: 1

    ...most of the time I've been pulled over...

    Where do you people come from that have been pulled over enough times to generate statistically useful information about it? Are you psychic? Do you have the special ability to interpret other's intentions merely by thought?

    Here's a little something I've noticed, that's probably just as scientifically valid as your theory that cops are out to get you because of your stickers (ha!): People driving like civil humans rarely ever get pulled over for "illegal reasons."

    I've been driving for about 30 years, and in the last 20, I've probably been pulled over fewer than half a dozen times, all for pretty valid reasons.

    Maybe I should get some more anti-establishment stickers... ...which cops can TOTALLY read from the roadside. :/