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  1. Re:Stolen by the FBI, not sold to them on How Hackers Accidentally Sold a Pre-Release XBox One To the FBI · · Score: 1

    Reading comprehension is hard. The group built the mockup and sold it for $5000. The person who picked it up from them claimed to be an XBox enthusiast, but actually worked for the FBI.

  2. Re:How Hackers Got Money on How Hackers Accidentally Sold a Pre-Release XBox One To the FBI · · Score: 2

    They could have been scammers, except they actually handed it over it to someone who said he would send it to the Seychelles. Turns out the person who picked it up was working for the FBI. After they took the money they were going to be arrested for either fraud or piracy.

  3. Re:Come on - a 4.5 is nothing on Bangladesh Considers Building World's 5th-largest Data Center In Earthquake Zone · · Score: 2

    I'm pretty sure that is exactly why this data center is being built. Hype that it's going to be the "World's 5-Largest data center" doesn't mean much. Data centers are getting bigger all the time so of course it's bigger than older ones.

  4. Re:Here is a thought on Back To Faxes: Doctors Can't Exchange Digital Medical Records · · Score: 2

    That would be illegal. Ted Kennedy made it so in the "Patient's Bill of Rights" known as HIPAA

  5. Re:HL7? on Back To Faxes: Doctors Can't Exchange Digital Medical Records · · Score: 1

    Adapter has nothing to do with this problem. Data content is the issue. PIt takes a full scale integration engine like Mirth to sort out what's inside an HL7 message.

  6. Re:Space Ferry on Earth Gets Another Quasi-Moon · · Score: 1

    Not really. In order to land on it and use it as a "ferry" you would have to put yourself into it's orbit. But once you do that there's really no reason to land on it. I suppose you could argue that it would make a good staging place, but again, in space you can just float along anyway, no need to land on an asteroid.

  7. Re:HL7? on Back To Faxes: Doctors Can't Exchange Digital Medical Records · · Score: 1

    HL7 is a format for messages, it says nothing about the content. Which is why it's unworkable - every HL7 interface is custom

  8. Re:It's time to fine. on Back To Faxes: Doctors Can't Exchange Digital Medical Records · · Score: 1

    As the summary suggests, they just print and fax it over. Simple as that. I've done it.

    And then the receiving office has a big pile of paper. If they even bother to do so it is very expensive and error prone to manually enter that stuff into an EMR. But if they don't enter it into the EMR your record is not readily available

    GP is partially correct, vendors hate to provide interfaces and custom reports. Not just for lock in, but mostly because they never get paid enough to support them. Even a fairly small system could end up with dozens or hundreds of reports and interfaces; forget about ever refactoring your database or much of the application in that case, the burden of testing and maintaining all those external pieces would be too much.

  9. Re:Now sharing music is illegal? on Grooveshark Found Guilty of Massive Copyright Infringement · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Only copyrighted music. Or copyrighted anything else to which you don't have distribution rights.

  10. Re:lol capitalism. on eBay To Spin Off PayPal · · Score: 1

    A functioning organization/infrastructure that provides a useful service is something of value. You fail at economics.

  11. Re:I am an economics nub on eBay To Spin Off PayPal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    PayPal can't go after other auction/retail business because it's part of eBay, eBay can't use other payment systems because it owns PayPal. By splitting them apart there's more room for both of them to grow. Kind of a reverse gestalt.

  12. Re:choose 4 hours by direction on Energy Utilities Trying To Stifle Growth of Solar Power · · Score: 1

    He's not saying that. Put the power in a battery or use it at peak generation time - pick one, you can't have both. But the battery won't hold more than a couple hour's worth of power either way and the total cost will be several times as much as power from the utility company.

  13. Re:IBM is dying on Lenovo Set To Close $2.1 Billion Server Deal With IBM · · Score: 1
    FTFA:

    IBM, however, will still hold on to its System z mainframes, Power Systems, Storage Systems, Power-based Flex servers, PureApplication and PureData appliances.

    Are they holding on because they still make a profit on those lines? Or because they can't unload them? I suspect the latter.

  14. Re:Is CIS authentic Japanese name? on Mystery Gamer Makes Millions Moving Markets In Japan · · Score: 1

    They're also in Japanese, not English.

  15. They needed a few slashdotters on Japan's Mt. Ontake Erupts, Stranding Hundreds of Hikers · · Score: 1

    Toss in a few virgins to placate the volcano gods and this wouldn't have happened.

  16. He tried to make it worse on Nearly 2,000 Chicago Flights Canceled After Worker Sets Fire At Radar Center · · Score: 1

    The paramedic then saw Howard’s feet sticking out from under a table, and saw Howard under the table, shirtless and in the act of cutting his own throat, according to the complaint.

    Turns out it's very difficult to behead yourself.

  17. Headline and summary completely wrong on Utilities Should Worry; Rooftop Solar Could Soon Cut Their Profit · · Score: 5, Informative

    A study by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory predicts that distributed rooftop solar panel installations will grow from 0.2% market penetration today to 10% by 2022

    That is not what the study shows at all. They did an analysis of what the revenue impact on utility companies would be at various hypothetical levels of PV installation between 0.2% and 10%. It ignored total costs of PV (including installation and maintenance).

    Most importantly, the study does not predict that PV installations will grow to 10% or any other level. It is just a "what if" analysis.

  18. Re:The 57% in the title is misleading. on Breakthrough In LED Construction Increases Efficiency By 57 Percent · · Score: 4, Informative

    The 57% improvement was on top of existing improvements like adding a reflector. This brought it up from something like 38% to 60%.

  19. Re:Castle Doctrine on 2015 Corvette Valet Mode Recorder Illegal In Some States · · Score: 1

    Video is different. You can assume someone is watching you from a distance, even if they can't hear you.

  20. Re:inb4 "evil corporate plot" allegations on BT and Coke To Offer Free Rural Wi-Fi In South Africa Through Vending Machines · · Score: 1

    I'm just surprised they didn't do a system where there's a code on the side of the can good for something like an hour's access.

    Problem is the potential customers don't have a credit card to activate their can.

  21. Conversion issues on China Eager To Send Its Own Mission To Mars In the Wake of Mangalyaan · · Score: 4, Funny

    One of the hold ups for a Chinese interplanetary exploration program is the delays surrounding the development of the Long March 5 rocket, which will be roughly the equivalent of the America Delta IV in its capabilities

    They're not used to working from blueprints that use feet, inches, and pounds.

  22. Re:Bah on Drones Reveal Widespread Tax Evasion In Argentina · · Score: 1

    I assume they do the same thing almost everywhere. The only difference is how the pictures are used. Enforcing building codes, checking for illegal crops, whatever. The fact that this locality used drones is not especially interesting, a guy in a small plane could probably have covered the same area faster and cheaper.

  23. Re:Age of Preceding Supernova on Solar System's Water Is Older Than the Sun · · Score: 1

    This is why terrorists do not possess nuclear weapons.

    If it was easy to make weapon grade uranium from ore we would control access to the ore. As it is, we control access to the enriching technology and final product.

  24. Re:Reports should only exist to solve problems on Ask Slashdot: Is Reporting Still Relevant? · · Score: 1

    Reports should only exist to solve problems.

    Wrong. Submitter was talking about monitoring, not debugging. The subjects of his reports are operations; the idea is to look for opportunities to improve things, get an early heads-up that something isn't running as well as it used to, is getting close to capacity, etc. In other words - avoid problems, don't solve them.

  25. Re:Compiled Strongly-typed Languages -vs- Scripts on Rosetta Code Study Weighs In On the Programming Language Debate · · Score: 1
    But look at the results:

    C C# F# Go Haskell Java Python Ruby
    # ran solutions 391 246 215 389 376 297 676 516
    % no error 87% 93% 89% 98% 93% 85% 79% 86%

    Java was one of the poorest at actually running successfully.