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  1. Missing versus changed on What a 'Six Strikes' Copyright Notice Looks Like · · Score: 1

    I suppose it might come down to context, but in the internet world it would seem to be the difference between your ISP blocking a page versus allowing it but changing the content.

    No media boxes I'm aware of can substitute product-placement, in-show banners, etc. They just don't record for certain times.

  2. Re:Consequences on Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies · · Score: 1

    And piss off visitors in a highly visible way? Not likely.

    More likely they'll try to re-jig the advertising model to route around the blocking if it becomes prevalent enough.

  3. Re:Not that simple (Re:Online Advertising Response on Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies · · Score: 2

    I'm less concerned about letting the big guys doing it because they are more likely to have some basic security in place and controls to at least respect the TOS

    Exactly! Big companies would never have buggy infrastructure with poor security practices!

    Kinda like Sony. Oh... wait.

  4. Countries on Islamists In Bangladesh Demand Murder of More Bloggers · · Score: 1

    Indeed.
    In the East, they'll kill you for religion.
    In the West, they'll kill you for money.

  5. Un-forgeable on 'This Is Your Second and Final Notice' Robocallers Revealed · · Score: 1

    There are legit reasons to "spoof" the caller number. For example, companies that call out from multiple sources but have one main-office line.
    In my case, I have a VOIP line with no incoming #. I previously used my cellphone # for call-display so that people know that it's me calling.

  6. How about on 'This Is Your Second and Final Notice' Robocallers Revealed · · Score: 1

    Publish the number in several public places. Start with max sentence, but periodically call to "reduce" their sentence... but only if they make the call.

  7. This was my first thought on Ask Slashdot: How To Convince a Company Their Subscriber List Is Compromised? · · Score: 1

    There are many ways to get an email address. Having their servers compromised is only one. If you start a new account and it get spammed right away, it's a better indicating of ongoing compromise.

    Ways to lose your email address to spammers:
    * having the company's systems compromised.
    * having local systems (your PC or email service) compromised.
    * having the address sold to some scummy 3rd-party (either by the corp or an immoral employee)
    * having a data-storage method containing the information lost/stolen/etc (USB stick, whatever)
    * having the company "share" the data with a third-party partner, who leaks it
    * having the company "share" the data with a third-party partner, who is compromised

  8. Not buying eReaders on DRM Lawsuit Filed By Independent Bookstores Against Amazon, "Big Six" Publishers · · Score: 1

    Which would make (most of) the publishing companies happy. They not exactly embracing technology.

  9. Other resources on New Process Takes Energy From Coal Without Burning It · · Score: 1

    Well, I'm fairly sure that other resources (petroleum, uranium, etc) are also fairly environmentally damaging to mine. Coal isn't going away any time soon, so this at least cleans up part of the equation.

  10. Encryption != password on Cellphone Privacy In Canada: Encryption Triggers Need For Warrant · · Score: 1

    In other articles I've read, this says password, not encryption.
    Encryption is good to have, but it seems the minimum requirement for a warrant is less than that.

  11. Second this on Ask Slashdot: Starting From Scratch After a Burglary? · · Score: 1

    Also, on your purchase list I would add
    a) Get an alarm (based on the above. Doesn't have to be fancy, but visible and load is good)
    b) Depending on the method of breakin, window-bars for ground-level windows
    c) Change your passwords and bank logins if saved on the computers, etc. Those are worth more than the electronics themselves sometimes.

  12. Revamp the EVO (shift) on HTC Unveils Revamped HTC One · · Score: 1

    I'd love to see a hardware-updated version of the "evo shift", which had a MicroSD slot, removable battery, and a PHYSICAL KEYBOARD (minus the issue with the screen contacts).

    Yeah, thin phones are nice, but HTC needs to do something to make themselves different from the Galaxy S series (that doesn't involve loading crappy "partner" software on the phone).

  13. Tricks and traps on Duke Nukem 3D Code Review · · Score: 1

    My personal favourite was:
        laser-tripmine just outside of a door beside a pile of pipebombs...

    Door opens, breaks laser, explodes tripmine, explodes pipebombs. Bonus if you can leave a little breadcrumb trail of pipebombs.

    Also fun to stick at the bottom of mineshafts, steps, etc.

  14. You could actually do that on Laser Intended For Mars Used To Detect "Honey Laundering" · · Score: 1

    I assume your post is in jest, but supposedly there is a product that allows you to do just that.

    I'd imagine that there are some maintenance, etc concerns though.

  15. Not much on Why Hasn't 3D Taken Off For the Web? · · Score: 2

    For most people, probably not a lot. However, there are some forms of data that can be better represented in 3 dimensions.
    That said, a lot of those can still exist as Java plugins etc. Yeah, Java has security issues right now, but if we stack too much up on the web layer we'll probably see similar issues/bugs there too.

    Really, for a 3d web-browsing experience to be useful, first we need a readily-available true-3d display (as in, hologram etc) to come around.

  16. DNA isn't everything on French Police Unsure Which Twin To Charge In Sexual Assaults · · Score: 1

    There's other evidence that can be collected. Certainly you might be able to collect enough to rule out one of the twins, which leaves the other as the only suspect with matching DNA and no alibi, etc.

  17. What if on French Police Unsure Which Twin To Charge In Sexual Assaults · · Score: 1

    They both accuse each other...?

  18. Dialog/Acting on Han Solo To Reportedly Return For Star Wars VII · · Score: 2

    I think that you're underestimating his acting skills a bit. Some of the original Star Wars scripts would be a slight bit dull if not for Ford's unique "alterations"

    For example, changing "I love you too" to I know in Empire. Acting with personality, and knowing when to override the script, is a much bigger skill than being an "Action Hero"

  19. Been done before on Ask Slashdot: What Features Belong In a 'Smartwatch'? · · Score: 1

    Well, to start with this isn't a new concept. The pebble project has been around for awhile, though it's more of a smartphone interface in some ways.

    That said:
    * An "idle" time of at least 1mo.
    * Waterproof, inductive charging
    * Bluetooth/wifi
    * Ability to sync calendar events/email etc from the cloud (internet and OTA from other devices)
    * If cellular-compatible, the ability to act as a hotspot
    * Ability to act as a bluetooth speaker/mic for other smart-devices
    * Infrared (would make a dandy universal remote)

  20. Cheap energy = cheaper water on NASA: Huge Freshwater Loss In the Middle East · · Score: 2

    For desalination and filtering plants, it seems one of the bigger obstacles is energy. So if we had cheap (renewable) energy, we could also have more abundant potable water .

  21. That would likely depend greatly on how much it actually costs.
    I've purchased a few "Office" (Word processor/spreadsheet/etc) apps on Android (which generally cost a fair bit more than your standard Android app/game).

  22. OO and CSV files on OpenOffice: Worth $21 Million Per Day, If It Were Microsoft Office · · Score: 2

    I use OO at the office for important various forms of CSV-style (though not always comma-separated, often it's a pipe etc) data.
    It tends to work better in Excel in that if you have a bunch of stuff in your data file that's within a column but separated by a carriage-return, then you end up with a cell having several items on different lines.

    In Excel, trying to import the same data file just crams all the data together in the cell (no line separation).

    I sometimes build references of servers/group membership, with the inner cells being group members on a given server. This comes out much nicer in OO. For others stuck on Excel, it does keep the proper formatting when exported to XLS.

  23. Banking passwords suck! on Everything You Know About Password-Stealing Is Wrong · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, I've found that most banking sites have horrible password policies, basically requiring an 8-character alphanumeric password (no special characters, spaces, or anything more than 8 chars).

    My Mastercard provider allows (and requires) that I use special characters in my password. The last several banks I've used... don't even allow them.

  24. Gravity on W3C Declares DRM In-Scope For HTML · · Score: 1

    Gravity is really annoying for the American Airlines. Those are the breaks.

    I'm fairly sure that without gravity, American Airlines wouldn't have much business. People could just flap their arms and fly to Mexico/Australia for the winter :-)

  25. Re:...and if you don't HAVE a serial port on Moving the Linux Kernel Console To User-Space · · Score: 1

    "They have PCMCIA to serial port adapters."

    Yes, but will said adaptor work when you're trying to solve an issue that's already broken the machine to the point where the VGA terminal isn't working, or when it's stuck at the busybox bootloader?