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  1. Re: another name on Fingerprint-Protected Phones Vulnerable To Inkjet Attack (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    For? Or are you in violation of the law Mr. " nospam007"?

  2. Re: Seriously on Another Windows 10 Update Causing Problems (windowsreport.com) · · Score: 1

    I went the Insider route soon after W10's release, and I never rated a release above a 2. Running a torrent program including Microsoft's distributed updates scheme caused Windows to eventually crash. Now I've got a situation where Windows crashes before shutdown and restart. Edge is still missing a number of important features.

  3. Re: plugin has been suppressed from the wordpress on WordPress Plugin Comes With a Backdoor, Steals Admin Credentials In Cleartext · · Score: 1

    I t depends. Does Microsoft make the theoretical program available through Windows Store?

  4. Re: The kryptonite of slashdot groupthink on Laid-Off Disney IT Workers Decry Offshoring At Trump Rally (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought we were talking about "crony capitalists. John Oliver (not the best source, I know) mentioned that trump licenses his name to projects that otherwise he has nothing to do with. Having your name do your work for you might be considered the epitome of laziness, one coud think. Me? I think that the concept of laziness doesn't really get at the reasons for why people do the things they do.

  5. Someone has clearly never taken a course on rhetoric.

  6. Because when whoever comes for you based on what you do have, there will be no one left to care for you?

  7. Revolutionary on Internet By Light Promises To Leave Wi-Fi Eating Dust (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    They did say "revolutionary"... and when the revolution comes you will have line-of-sight... and like it!

  8. Re: I'm not sure what conclusions to draw from her on Study: Mice Gain Weight In Cold Temperatures Due To Gut Changes (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Usually the calories in/out crowd only look at the calories that make it into the bloodstream and calories burned by exercise.
    Then there's the strange situation of when fattening food animals is talked about what is really meant is causing them to gain meat, not fat.

  9. Re: Not sure I understand this. on Apple: Terrorist's Apple ID Password Changed In Government Custody (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    The tax in the ACA was put there by Congress. I should think that in order for the administration to start fining someone for something else a law would have to be passed. And even then, a new judgement that the new tax is also in the government's interest could be fought in court. (I know my phrasing's a bit off, but I hope my meaning's clear enough)

  10. Re:Legal justification on Apple: Terrorist's Apple ID Password Changed In Government Custody (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    All the "legal justification" any American needs is that government exists for the people and not the other way around.

  11. Re:Python actually is not included on ReactOS 0.4 Brings Open Source Windows Closer To Reality (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Different concepts of what "included" means? If the Tower of Babel is based off something that really happened, I suspect something like everyone slowly drifted apart on what words mean what, but they didn't have people studying the phenomenon like we have today. There are situations where person A understands person B, who understands person C who understands person D, but person A won't understand person D.
    But back to the matter at hand, it seems to me that calling something included that is accessed by a program that downloads it over the internet isn't that far removed from calling everything that is free in an app store for a particular OS included with that OS.

  12. Re:Confusing summary is confusing on ReactOS 0.4 Brings Open Source Windows Closer To Reality (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    How am I spreading FUD? Nothing I said was anywhere close to spreading fear, I expressed that I was uncertain and that the summary was unclear, and as for doubt, the only real doubt is over to what degree the summary reflects reality.

  13. Re:Python actually is not included on ReactOS 0.4 Brings Open Source Windows Closer To Reality (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Typo: I meant 2.7 like it says in the summary, which says it is included, not that it can be installed via an application manager.

  14. Confusing summary is confusing on ReactOS 0.4 Brings Open Source Windows Closer To Reality (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember it is NT "based"? This is supposed to be a clean room OS, supporting the API calls to Windows and comparing what happens when code makes calls to Windows APIs, isn't it. They say it has a WINE implementation, but they don't call it "WINE-based". And what's the point of including a variation of Python 1.7? How hard it is to uninstall? And why only a read-only NTFS implementation?

  15. Does anybody have a car analogy to explain this? on Camless Internal Combustion and the Digital Age (hackaday.com) · · Score: 2

    No, wait... We're already talking about cars... Hmm, where does one go to for an analogy when the subject is already cars?

  16. Re:reading comprehension on Senate Passes Bill Making Internet Tax Ban Permanent (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a saying, "You need to know when to read." Reading comprehension doesn't enter the equation until something has been read.

  17. Re:Internet service, not stores. on Senate Passes Bill Making Internet Tax Ban Permanent (consumerist.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Various government agencies do collect tax on purchases made using the internet. This is just no tax on the connectivity provided by an ISP.

  18. Re: Stop the let desert north on Meteorite Strike Kills Man In India · · Score: 1

    I think that he may be speaking perfectly correct Indian dialect English, which I have been assured is "crisp".

  19. Re: Rajiv.. on Sen. Blumenthal Demands Lifting of IT 'Gag' Order (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't care if you can get a new job on short notice. They're planning to lay you off anyways.

    From what I have been able to piece together, many Indian people's first language is an Indian English dialect, which is more different from the US/UK/Aus dialects than they are from each other. It can make for some "interesting but stupid" exchanges. What's worse, they are worse than the American stereotype of expecting non-Indian speakers to be able to follow their "crisp" Indian English dialect. They've even got a peculiar notion about self-promotion. What any other person would call self-promotion, they would say is not unless it fits into a strict set of circumstances I'm not particularly clear on.

  20. Re:Lashing out on Elon Musk's Next Great Idea? Electric Air Travel (bgr.com) · · Score: 2

    Well that sure escalated fast.

  21. Tech Article Sins on World's Smallest Optical Switch Uses a Single Atom (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1
    Quick! Someone form a Tech Article Sins (if one doesn't already exist... I think a Cracked video hinted at the existence of one) and count up the number of "Sins" this article racks up. They are doing very well at the "describe a limiting factor using vague words" game, similar to the pronoun game.
    "break the rules"
    "fundamental constraints"
    "hitherto unlikely"

    Alright, so I've finally come across details that draw into question the article's assertion of an "optical switch using a single atom and accompanying circuitry", Some of us when thinking of an optical switch would consider some of the things they put in the "accompanying circuitry" column, port of the optical switch.

    "Until recently, even I thought it was impossible for us to undercut this limit," said Professor Leuthold."

    ...Is not a follow-up to a quote by anyone on the team as to what limit he is referring to.

    According to this article, all atoms are the same size, apparently.

    There are a number of other sins, but I'm done with typing right now.

  22. Re: What? on Bitcoin Capitalist Opens Bounty For New Block Cipher · · Score: 0

    Funny, I keep thinking that fiat currencies are the purest form of money that exists because it responds better to relative economic changes between regions. Haven't yet experienced anything to disabuse me of that notion. I'm starting a blog covering various ideas trotted out by bleakonomic believers and why they make no sense to me. Got quite a few books on the subject in preparation, though.

  23. Re: Is this really new? on Let Your Pupils Do the Typing · · Score: 1

    The system may not need to show letters to get the letters right but somewhere in the brain there needs to be letters and somewhere in the machine there also needs to be letters.

    As an aside, is anyone else having to relog in a lot on the mobile side of Slashdot?

  24. Re: Decades of makware on Online Museum Displays Decades of Malware (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.c... has the details as to why it was partially the drive's fault. They could have asked the user to verify which type of drive they had at the beginning, but it's a bit like the current NumLock situation today.

  25. If their customers were paying the ISPs to connect only to the ISP's servers then you might have a point. If you don't use any of the high bandwidth features then you can get a lower capacity tier. If you charge your customers for the data they want brought to them and then charge the other side to bring the data to your customer, that's double charging and hides where the costs lie from the customer.