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  1. Re:Why? on Apple Refuses To Unlock Bequeathed iPad · · Score: 1

    This is why it is vitally important to have *TWO* wills for any piece of electronic equipment, the open one and the sealed one. The sealed one contains the passwords.

  2. Re:Wrong, study shows disfavor with science. on Pro-Vaccination Efforts May Be Scaring Wary Parents From Shots · · Score: 1

    No matter what the collateral damage, right?

  3. Re:Sounds like a good idea to me on Oregon Withholding $25.6M From Oracle Over Health Website Woes · · Score: 1

    I'm not convinced that they haven't.

  4. Re:Please let Oracle go... on Oregon Withholding $25.6M From Oracle Over Health Website Woes · · Score: 1

    What do you expect from a company that routinely campaigns for more H-1b visas?

  5. Re:Education on Pro-Vaccination Efforts May Be Scaring Wary Parents From Shots · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the correction. Yes, indeed I was.

  6. Re:I have your conversion right here... on Microsoft's Attempt To Convert Users From Windows XP Backfires · · Score: 1

    XP Mode doesn't fix incompatible hardware. A lot of these machines are running XP because they need legacy hardware support that Windows Vista, let alone 7 & 8, just don't have.

  7. Re:Internal billing is dumb on Ask Slashdot: Automatically Logging Non-Computerized Equipment Use? · · Score: 0

    What are you, Amish?

  8. Re:Education on Pro-Vaccination Efforts May Be Scaring Wary Parents From Shots · · Score: 1

    Actually, no, I wasn't being sarcastic. I do think they need to figure out a way to do it better though- a three second blitvert at the end of the advertisement is not sufficient for making a rational decision, and we need relative percentages of the potential side effects and perhaps even what "debugging" the drug companies have done to eliminate other problems.

    I have heard a few advertisements do that- warnings against pregnancy or other drug interactions- but I've yet to hear it from the vaccination community, and I've yet to hear percentages from original control group studies.

  9. Re:Wrong, study shows disfavor with science. on Pro-Vaccination Efforts May Be Scaring Wary Parents From Shots · · Score: 1

    The answer is to give them both the benefits *AND* the dangers. Full disclosure. Then let them make up their own minds.

  10. Re:Education on Pro-Vaccination Efforts May Be Scaring Wary Parents From Shots · · Score: 1

    If they're going to evaluate it rationally, shouldn't it start with the authority actually being honest about potential side effects? I'm kind of tired of listing to the vaccines/vaccines/rah rah rah cheerleading. Give me real information, pre vaccination testing to limit problems, and a willingness to contraindicate where necessary.

  11. Re:So sad and pathetic on Popularity On Facebook Makes People Think You're Attractive · · Score: 1

    That's for sure. But if you want them, may I suggest getting them the way I did? Volunteer to organize your next high school reunion. At least 90% of my 400 friends on facebook are former classmates "friended" because I was tracking them down to invite them to the reunion.

    Not bad for somebody with Asperger's Syndrome.

  12. Re:Internal billing is dumb on Ask Slashdot: Automatically Logging Non-Computerized Equipment Use? · · Score: 1

    And if you don't have badges, use a bluetooth sniffer, and require registered phones. In this day and age, everybody, including students, are carrying around an RFID tag with them at all times anyway.

  13. Re:Sniff, sniff... on Facebook Wants Drones To Connect the Developing World · · Score: 1

    It's actually a combination of guerrilla gardening and permaculture and is based in actual experiments. It's also decentralized- you don't actually need drones to do the dropping, anybody can do this in their neighborhood, just by scattering seed.

    The idea of using it in the third world is to avoid situations where local governments hoard the foreign aid- if the plants are native, widely scattered, and numerous enough to out-compete the weeds, you don't need fancy NGO programs for the harvest- the starving people will do it themselves.

    Look at my tagline again and click on the link there to find out what kind of Marxist I am.

  14. Re:Sniff, sniff... on Facebook Wants Drones To Connect the Developing World · · Score: 1

    Scatter enough seed, and you'll out-compete the weeds. Use appropriate (native) vegetables, and you'll have plants that are matched to the normal rainfall in the area. Scatter enough of them, and mere gathering can take care of the rest.

    Of course, this takes interviewing the indigenous people in the area to find out what their favorite vegetables were *before* Monsanto came in to feed them western foods.

  15. Re:typical proprietary hacks on Facebook Wants Drones To Connect the Developing World · · Score: 1

    I think you mean RFC 2549, not RFC 2460.

  16. Re:ummm on Facebook Wants Drones To Connect the Developing World · · Score: 1

    I would like to know how they keep a plane on "stationkeeping" enough to serve as a GPS platform though. I'd think turbulence alone would mess that up, and doesn't a plane have to keep *some* airspeed to stay up?

  17. Re:Sniff, sniff... on Facebook Wants Drones To Connect the Developing World · · Score: 1

    Props to B. But I have a solution based on this. Load drone with 200 lbs of pelleted vegetable seeds encased in dirt, in addition to your 25 lbs of communication equipment and a 25 lb electronic pellet release system. Whenever the batteries reach full capacity, use excess energy from the solar panels to release pellets. After a year or two, the starvation problem will take care of itself, and you still have three years + left of station keeping on the "atmospheric satellite" to sell the now more prosperous population internet access.

  18. Re:Not a good idea on Ask Slashdot: Modern Web Development Applied Science Associates Degree? · · Score: 1

    I can teach relational databases to a kindergartner with marbles. It isn't exactly higher math.

  19. Re:Yeah right on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 2

    My guess RFID. By one regular pod, cut RFID chip out of it, tape to the bottom of subsequent generic pods.

  20. Re:Not a good idea on Ask Slashdot: Modern Web Development Applied Science Associates Degree? · · Score: 1

    I'd go with C (make it hard enough to achieve a 10% pass rate, else you're not going to weed out those who don't have the stamina to code hours on end, this is the Controller)- followed by databases (any relational database will do, keep it simple, third normal form and select/insert/delete, this is the Model) and then, when they've got the basics, HTML/Javascript (the View). I can see it actually being two terms of each, for six terms total.

  21. Re:Not a good idea on Ask Slashdot: Modern Web Development Applied Science Associates Degree? · · Score: 4, Funny

    For 99% of web work, you can get by with the concept of relational databases and three SQL commands: Select, Insert, and Update.

    PLEASE don't teach them delete.

  22. Re:Not a good idea on Ask Slashdot: Modern Web Development Applied Science Associates Degree? · · Score: 1

    " at my community college"

    This would be a two year degree with a lot of mentoring, and would likely be 20 credit hours or less.

    You *MIGHT* be able to teach somebody some basic web design in that amount of time, but they would end up the young kid on a team doing front end work.

  23. Re:Drone Occupation on US War Machine Downsizing? · · Score: 1

    Correct. If we were actually moral, instead of globalization we'd be manufacturing vegetable seed bombs and carpet bombing the world.

  24. Re:God on Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience · · Score: 1

    To you he's a sadist, and I completely understand.

    And only 70% believe.

  25. Re:God on Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience · · Score: 1

    I'm a theist who actually cares enough about both science and correct theology to know the answer to this is laughably no. And I consider this sort of incredibly bad pseudoscience and other equally stupid superstitions to be the primary cause of that.

    Even if you take my assumption that God exists, religious fundamentalists of various stripes make him out to look like an idiot. There is little wonder under 70% of Americans still believe in Him.