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  1. Re:Secret Agent Man on Sorm: Russia Intends To Monitor "All Communications" At Sochi Olympics · · Score: 1

    Change of that 0.
    However I am expecting to see snowden standing next to Putin waving at the crowds during the opening ceremony.

  2. It was a glitch on Health Exchange Sites Crushed By Demand; Shutdown Blanks Other Gov't Sites · · Score: 1

    It was a glitch because it affects the peons. Besides if Apple had all the problems this system did they would of been crucified in the newspapers and everywhere else.

  3. Re:I like an illustration of how bad this is on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 1

    Do you mean like they did back in March of this year?
    No that would not be fair since it requires a high level of standard to remove parts of the US Constitution then to defund some other law. Now if the democrats wanted to add an amendment that had both gun control and a budget portion go for it.

  4. Re:*Some* old ones are valuable on Ask Slashdot: Prioritizing Saleable Used Computer Books? · · Score: 1

    As the number of books for a title go down some software, be it amazon or the sellers, automaticcly increases the prices. So for that book there could just not be many people selling it.
    When you get a book like that the best place to check is ebay. When I was recently throwing out my old books I had a few books that amazon placed in the $100 range and ebay had a bunch at $.10; did not think that a 3rd edition of a management book that was currently near edition 20 would be of that much value.

  5. Re:This is what Ronald Regan protected us from on Abandoned UK National Health Service IT System Has Cost $16bn... So Far · · Score: 1

    There were two studies earlier this year that found the reason.
    1) The USA has alot of children having children and there is a better chance of the baby having problems and dieing. The USA counts birth from the first breath of the baby which is not used by other countries. This and the death rate from illegal people have babies really brings down the USA overall life exceptacy.
    2) The USA leads the world in accidents and young people performing possible life threating activities. However the reports pointed out if have an life threating accident or something else you are more likely to live if you make it to a USA hospital.

  6. You do know that according to the vast majority of reputable scientists both of those items are extermely safe and self-regulation has work.

  7. Ok, but... on Crooks Arrested Over KVM-Based Bank Heist Attempt · · Score: 1

    How where they caught?

  8. Re:USPS setup for failure on UK Gov't Outlines Plans To Privatize Royal Mail · · Score: 1

    WHich law are you talking about the early 1970s law where the USPS said they would take over the obligations and save monies to pay for peoples retirements or the 2006 law that came about because they where not saving money with which they would need to pay people retirement in a few more years and required them to build up the fund so they could meet their obligations?

  9. Re:USPS setup for failure on UK Gov't Outlines Plans To Privatize Royal Mail · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Please stop repeating this lie, granted it is repeated enough on alot of hate sites. For you it was probably a mistake since you did not know the truth.
    Congress want to protect the taxpayer from having to take over the duties that the USPS said they would do, the postmaster general and the postal unions want to make the taxpayers pay for thier poor management and keep things as they are.
    The postal accountability law requires the USPS to actually do some proper financial management and dropping it would not make them competative again; even ignore the money they owe for this they would of lost money for the last couple of years. Without the money set aside they would not be able the meet the obligations they agreeed to back in the 1970s and the people who retiring now would not have the monies that they are suppose to get.
    Privatization would solve nothing of this since the obligations would follow the person who purchased the company.
    BTW the 75 years is number of years that for ACCOUNTING purposes they have to figure future liabilities. It is NOT how long they have to fund benefits. That 75 years of accounting is followed by the DoD, social security, department of Housing, etc.

  10. Re:WTF, PRZ? on NSA-resistant Android App 'Burns' Sensitive Messages · · Score: 1

    No, you the receiver can make the decisions.

    Software like this is old, even Microsoft sell software with similar options.

    Instead of using the normal mail you have to you their software. Since the email only unencrypts in that software it can control how long it is kept, if you can forward it, if you can save it, etc. So unless you do screen captures if the sender only wants you to be able read it once that is all the software is going to allow you to do.

  11. Re:Ryanair dreams of just being horrendous. on Angry Customer Buys Promoted Tweets To Bash British Airways · · Score: 2

    The best explanation I have seen is that Ryanair is an experiment to see what people will do for cheap plane tickets.

  12. Re: Sounds good to me on U.S. Gov't Still Fighting the Man Behind Buckyballs; Guess Who's Winning? · · Score: 1

    You want to know how the lawyers got the temperature they said the coffee should of been served at?
    They went around to places that sold sell coffee and then took the average of them.

  13. Re: More false history on Galileo: Right On the Solar System, Wrong On Ice · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Pope gave him a chance to prove his idea and he could not. It was when he would not stop saying that the main scientific thinking of the day, based on the works of Aristotle, were wrong that he got house arrest.
    Before you complain about that it is very much around today present the same amount of scientific research against a popular mainstream thinking and the scientist of today will call for you to be fired and blacklisted.

  14. Re:Twisted "Justice" on Bradley Manning Sentenced To 35 Years · · Score: 1

    Please go back and learn some basic history, before Bush 2 we were alerady invading Iraq. What Bush decided to do was remove a threat that every other country, excluding North Korea and Cuba, said possed a threat and to end what was drawing out to be a longer invasion then what it turned into.

  15. Re:Well America isn't number 1 in being fat on What's Causing the Rise In Obesity? Everything. · · Score: 1

    If you go by a more number, per capita, the USA drops even more.
    By per capita the US is around number 7 or 8.

  16. The problem was not the profit but the land on The Death of the American Drive-in · · Score: 1

    The problem that most drive in have is not the profit they can do a decent busy at night, host flea markets,etc during the day. It is that alot of the older drive in have moved from being outside the city to being in the city.
    With that the value of the land has increased to the point that is worth the money for the owner to sell to a business or housing developer.

  17. Get a bag. on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Good Device Holster? · · Score: 1

    Get a bag they are easier, you are not adversiting what you are carring and you can carry extra items.
    I have been using a bag from pacsafe, https://www.pacsafe.com/ for a while and it works great for all electronics.
    The main benefit of pacsafe is they are design primarily to prevent thieft, so they have wire mesh sewn into the bottom, straps have a metal core, items can be locked down, etc. They also have version with RFID shielding. Another benefit at being over 2 meters the straps are long.

  18. Re:NIMBY and a big Fuck You on Court: NRC In Violation For Not Ruling On Yucca Mountain · · Score: 1

    Actually there are alot of place that wanted this built in thier backyard. A couple of places in Texas tried to get it, to the point where they had to settle on the best place in the state so that a former governor could lobby on just that one.
    Other states also tried to get it.

  19. Answer: Almost everything on Ask Slashdot: Best/Newest Hardware Without "Trusted Computing"? · · Score: 0

    What kind of trolling is this?
    You can easily find computers without those options, or at the very least can be disabled.

  20. Re:Not necessarily firing people? on NSA Firing 90% of Its Sysadmins · · Score: 1

    Read facebook and slashdot all work day.

  21. Re:What happened to comparmentalization? on NSA Firing 90% of Its Sysadmins · · Score: 1

    The problem with this is the government pay system is very low if you are a skilled person. So they have problems hiring people and keeping them. Clinton saw this and laid a foundation which was built on by Former President Bush to increase the salaries to the market rates for those skilled people and to grade them by work done. This was then all killed by Obama because it was hated by the unions and Obama needed to pay back the unions.
    The contracting companies are able to hire at the market rate so for skilled people you almost have to go with contractors.
    Now the problem is the same low level for techs happens in management which leads to people who are not really managers but paper pushers who have problems actually doing human management. So they tend to accept almost anyone that the contractors throw at them; In many cases that is also because of the lack of people who could do the job and if they don't fill the spot the manager gets in trouble. Fill it with an unskilled person and upper management will not blink an eye.

  22. Wrong analogy. on What Medical Tests Should Teach Us About the NSA Surveillance Program · · Score: 1

    If you want a medical to NSA the analogy would be they test someone and they have a sexual transmitted disease and it shows positive. The person says I had sex with person X so the medical team says we need to check with person X and see if they actually had sex with the person and if they did if they got the disease. If so then person X needs to be handled as required.

  23. Re:Funny that on Judge Rules Apple Colluded With Publishers to Fix Ebook Prices · · Score: 1

    The cost from the average distributor and seller is higher then that. The 30% charged by Apple is cheap.

  24. Grues on Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers · · Score: 1

    Especially when you have to go into the dark server room.

  25. Grues. on Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nothing more fearful then the worry of having grues attack you as you go into a dark server room.