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  1. Re:Who steals HDDs? on Vudu Resets User Passwords After Burglary · · Score: 1

    Why bother going through all that work when a waitress can just write down the cc number when she swipes your card.

  2. Re:Can't he sue? on Legitimate eBook Lending Community Closed After Copyright Complaints · · Score: 1
    If you're going to make a snarky comment involving logic, you should at least make sure your logic is sound...

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

  3. Re:Frettin' over the grindstone on Do Companies Punish Workers Who Take Vacations? · · Score: 1

    Everyone else is picking up your slack.

  4. Re:Startup time is not a useful metric on Early Speed Tests For Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Yes, but this is a modern desktop, laptop, and possibly tablet OS.

  5. Re:(facepalm time) on Gnarly Programming Challenges Help Recruit Coders · · Score: 1

    Seemed kind of tongue-in-cheek to me.

  6. Re:You think the housing collapse was bad on US Student Loans Exceed $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    And stick the rest of us with the bill. OMG they're so good at fraud!

  7. Re:Without remorse there is no rehabilitation. on Kevin Mitnick Answers · · Score: 0

    It's not about the time served. It's about how he views his past activities. The man seems incapable of saying "What I did was wrong." He says the price he had to pay was high. What about the price paid by his victims?

  8. Re:Without remorse there is no rehabilitation. on Kevin Mitnick Answers · · Score: 1

    This coward is right. He unequivocally states that he has no regrets. In his mind, it's the companies' faults for having security holes. It's the governments fault for overstating the effect of his actions. He says now there is little difference between what he does now, and what he did then, with one little difference - "authorization." As if that were a trivial difference.

  9. Re:Religion can also be a survival manual on Does Religion Influence Epidemics? · · Score: 1

    There is not a single answer here. The ideas survive because they are good are proliferating themselves. Sometimes this is due to actual providing real survival benefit, sometimes its simply because the borrow into our brains using emotion, e.g. fear.

  10. Re:Step 1 on Ask Slashdot: Becoming a Network Administrator? · · Score: 1

    Always get a trace. Wireshark is your friend.

  11. Re:Where does Light Peak fit? on Apple To Unveil Light Peak, New MacBook Pros This Week? · · Score: 1

    I was going to attempt to refute your comment about bandwidth, but it appears that you are right and the summary/article are wrong. The summary says GB or gigabyte, but it looks like it's actually 10 Gigabit, scaling to 100 Gigabit by 2020. Note to anonymous submitter and editableapple.com: bandwidth is measured in bits.

  12. Re:They also support 6RD and 6to4 on Comcast Activates IPv6 Trial Users · · Score: 1

    Just wanted to add that the 6RD instructions on the DDWRT wiki also worked for me on Comcast. Thanks for the tip about native dual stack requiring DOCSYS 3.0.

  13. Upload/Download on Naming Bi-Directional Streams In an API? · · Score: 0

    How about the upload stream and the download stream? Upload and download is usually understood to mean from the client's perspective.

  14. Re:F-117A is a bomber on Chinese Stealth Fighter Jet May Use US Technology · · Score: 2

    The misunderstanding is forgivable considering the "F" designation and irrelevant to the purposes of the summary. Give it up, "Stealth Fighter" is part of the lexicon.

  15. Re:Medium is appropriate... on Android Text Messages Intermittently Going Astray · · Score: 1

    This is such crap. Performance/Security should be an objective classification of the nature of the problem. By your metric, virtually any bug could be classified as performance.

    "This app displays 'PONIES' instead of my user name. That's a performance issue because I have to remove that text before typing in my username."

    "This app crashes everytime on startup. That's a performance issue because I won't be able to get my information until the issue is fixed."

    I say this as someone who works in the Performance group at a software company. I prefer the less ambiguous "response time." Which means, it works, but it's slow.

  16. Re:Demographic Data on Goldman Invests $450m In Facebook · · Score: 1

    Google (and I assume Facebook as well) make it very easy for a company to evaluate the impact of their advertisements. It's called analytics. It only, requires a few variables, CPC (cost per click), conversion rate, revenue per transaction. Google is nice enough to provide a ROI in bold at the bottom of the page. I set this up at a retail website that I used to work for. The data makes a very convincing argument that Google advertising is worth it.

  17. Re:I tried it... on Skype For iPhone Now Makes Video Calls · · Score: 1

    2 weeks? What exactly do you think happens in 2 weeks of software development? Or are you just throwing out a number that is the limit of your attention span and fits with your feeling of entitlement to instant gratification from a free application?

  18. Re:remarkable on Rear-View Cameras On Cars Could Become Mandatory In the US · · Score: 1

    C H I L D R E N O F M E N

  19. Re:Frostwire? on Looks Like the End of the Line For LimeWire · · Score: 1

    You're seriously still arguing this? You and I understand this as a matter of common sense, but the precedent has been set.

    Napster
    Grokster

  20. Re:Only five times more than magnetic... on Are Consumer Hard Drives Headed Into History? · · Score: 1

    Why does a developer need gobs and gobs of storage? I thought that slashdot was populated with developers and IT administrators, not media junkies.

  21. Re:Spinning disks have left this customer on Are Consumer Hard Drives Headed Into History? · · Score: 1

    If capacity is a non-issue, then neither is price. That just leaves performance, and in a laptop it's a perfect fit.

  22. Re:Spinning disks have left this customer on Are Consumer Hard Drives Headed Into History? · · Score: 1

    Spoken like someone who has never used a machine with the OS installed on an SSD...also, how are you going to get 4 drives in a laptop?

  23. Re:? Do you really think Intels are 4x faster on AMD One-Ups Intel With Cheap Desktop Chips · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but now you are talking $150 more than an AMD solution. If you covet the i7 for the giant epeen that it will give you, fine, but you are throwing your money away.

  24. Re:Ugh.. on The A-Team of IT — and How To Assemble One · · Score: 1

    Waaaahhhh Developers are unprofessional mouth breathers waaaaaahhh

    Do you know why IT has a job? To support that shoddy code. Guess what, Software is Hard (tm) and if it was perfect, IT could be run by 1 guy replacing power supplies and hard drives when they failed.

    You want to be lazy, and get paid for it. Not gonna happen.

  25. Re:Bland and inoffensive on Windows 95 Turns 15 · · Score: 1

    Yep, when comparing two tick counts, you better check for that rollover condition.