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  1. Not against TOS here, but... on Company Claims 80% of Facebook Ad Clicks Are From Bots · · Score: 4, Informative

    It is not against the slashdot TOS, but it is against the imageshack TOS. Report to imageshack, the link breaks, and all is well again.

  2. Re:I blame on Study Finds New Pop Music Does All Sound the Same · · Score: 1

    Or spoken word over a beat track or small rip. Also called rap.

  3. Re:Disturbing on Predicting Color Blindness, ADD, or Learning Disorders From Game Data · · Score: 2

    So will gaming companies be subject to HIPA now?

  4. Re:Camouflage cannot fool the colorblind on Predicting Color Blindness, ADD, or Learning Disorders From Game Data · · Score: 4, Informative

    Color is differentiated by hue and intensity. "Normal" vision is more hue than intensity. The common forms of color blindness is more intensity than hue. So camo is less effective. You can see if a portion of a car is repainted when others can not. Also, since people know this, traffic lights are not just red and green. The red is a darker intensity and the green is a lighter intensity. Even in black and white you can tell the difference.

    I am color blind. Friends often take me to look at used cars. :)

  5. Kinda free on HP Offers Free Access To OpenStack · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Amazon has a free account forever, until you out grow it. This one is "up to" three months, or until you outgrow it. In most cases, the proof of concept takes longer than three months to prove and fund. That means with Amazon you can try something without having to get major approvals, and just show a working prototype. With HP, it is a gamble.

  6. Re:Common practice. on Budget 27" IPS Displays From Korea Are For Real · · Score: 1

    Probably get some great comedy reading the manuals, too, as cut rate electronics sellers usually don't want to tie up any money on wages for people actually capable of translating and editing

    When was the last time you read your monitor's manual?

    I don't recall ever looking at mine. Not once.

    Must be a chick, that's the only logical reason anyone would ever look at a manual.

    There are chicks in manuals? I gotta see this. Too bad I threw all mine out. Damn!

  7. Re:sounds interesting on Budget 27" IPS Displays From Korea Are For Real · · Score: 1, Informative

    Or, his is saying "I could give a shit" and implying "but I don't." Or he is saying "I could give a pile of human excrimant for this technology, but not much else." Stop believing that all reading comprehension is done after the first pass.

  8. Re:When "you're doing it wrong" is fun. on Khan Academy: the Teachers Strike Back · · Score: 2

    So you will teach the "abstinence" course?

  9. Re:And the unions are pissed... on Khan Academy: the Teachers Strike Back · · Score: 3, Informative

    Automatic pay raises based on seniority, and not merit... I am all for paying good teachers a lot more.

  10. Re:And the unions are pissed... on Khan Academy: the Teachers Strike Back · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But bad teachers who have been around forever are very highly paid. Good teachers that have not been there for 20 years are the under paid ones. And that is the problem.

  11. And the unions are pissed... on Khan Academy: the Teachers Strike Back · · Score: -1, Troll

    And the unions are pissed because high pay for bad teaching is their territory!

  12. Re:VOIP on Microsoft Won't Say If Skype Is Secure Or Not. Time To Change? · · Score: 1

    Sure... Just like reading aloud.

  13. Re:If there is a third party... on Microsoft Won't Say If Skype Is Secure Or Not. Time To Change? · · Score: 1

    Of course, once you've become an interest to them they can get the ISP to give them physical access to the machine and you're screwed on any future conversations.

    How did the ISP get keys to my office and home?

  14. Re:What if we started encrypting more on Spooky: How NSA's Surveillance Algorithms See Into Your Life · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Also, that would only hide what your were saying, and not who you were saying it to. Those connections are the more important data.

  15. Re:What if we started encrypting more on Spooky: How NSA's Surveillance Algorithms See Into Your Life · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They do not even read it now. Just warehouse it for later. So with encryption, they would do the same, and only crack it to show what a bad person you were when they needed to.

  16. Re:What on earth does "Binney's HOPE keynote" say on Spooky: How NSA's Surveillance Algorithms See Into Your Life · · Score: 2

    Just get a copy from the NSA. I am sure they have several.

  17. Re:I wish Gore had won. on Spooky: How NSA's Surveillance Algorithms See Into Your Life · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You mean like Obama ended war? How about how he vetoed unlimited detention? When will people get that there is no substantive difference between the two parties? The slogans may be different, but the actions are the same.

  18. Re:VOIP on Microsoft Won't Say If Skype Is Secure Or Not. Time To Change? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    However, with minimal security, you can at least avoid any automated eavesdropping. And arguably, there is consumer level security that can stand up to almost anything short of someone hitting you with a wrench.

  19. If there is a third party... on Microsoft Won't Say If Skype Is Secure Or Not. Time To Change? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If there is a third party running the server in the middle, there can be no trust. Run your own server if you need security. There are lots...

  20. Re:Seriously? on Microsoft Won't Say If Skype Is Secure Or Not. Time To Change? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I guess that is why the OP mentioned Jitsi. That and a server of several different types, or direct site to site, and there is no "service."

  21. Re:twisted pair, twisted logic on Who Really Invented the Internet? · · Score: 1

    Ooops... I start going back and stuff gets blurry. Now I remember upgrading all those old system/360s and system/370s with AS/400s. It was about 1990. I was always a DEC guy anyway. RSTS/E forever! I still have an "Orange Wall" in storage somewhere. :)

  22. Re:Crazy Talk Follows on Who Really Invented the Internet? · · Score: 1

    And all system supported Ethernet. Decnet was only on DEC and PC, but not the AS400s which were big in education. Appletalk was really only Apple. Token Ring actually gave it a good go, but was so painful...

  23. Re:twisted pair, twisted logic on Who Really Invented the Internet? · · Score: 1

    Ethernet was used for an "inter-network" connection. Like a vax cluster network to an AS/400 cluster network... That was the beginning of "The Internet."

  24. Re:twisted pair, twisted logic on Who Really Invented the Internet? · · Score: 1

    SLIP was well after Ethernet and TCP/IP. Specifically, Serial Line Internet Protocol. Or, a way to dial into terminal servers.

  25. Re:twisted pair, twisted logic on Who Really Invented the Internet? · · Score: 1

    But Ethernet was the way you got a PDP 11/34 to talk to an AS400. That started things.