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  1. Removed "Disable Javascript" check box on Firefox 23 Arrives With New Logo, Mixed Content Blocker, and Network Monitor · · Score: 4, Informative

    AND... user prefs returned to default?

    Thank the FSM I'm using NoScript.

  2. Re:Facilitated Communication Hoax on Paralyzed Patients "Speak" With Their Pupils · · Score: 1

    It was slow. There was no blink required. The scanner registered how long the eye focused on a particular point to activate the "click". The dwell time was tunable, so you could adjust it as you became more practiced at it.

    Because *everything* for an ALS patient is exhausting, it was very tiring for her to use. But it was worth it, even if it took a long time for her to spell out what she wanted. Predictive text also helped.

    The biggest PITA was getting the positioning "just right" when we moved it from the rolling rack for her bed, to the wheelchair mounted rack, and vice versa.

  3. Re:paralysis of the eyes on Paralyzed Patients "Speak" With Their Pupils · · Score: 2

    They do.

    http://www.tobii.com/en/assistive-technology/north-america/

    Disclaimer: My late wife used a Tobii C17 for communication before she passed away.

  4. Re:Facilitated Communication Hoax on Paralyzed Patients "Speak" With Their Pupils · · Score: 3, Informative

    Bullshit. It's real. My late wife had ALS, and her eyegaze computer was worth every penny. Even if it wasn't *HER* voice (we didn't bank it early enough), she could still talk with us.

  5. Re:Strangely... on Obama Administration Overrules iPhone Trade Ban · · Score: 1

    I'm talking about the patents that Apple refused to license from SAMSUNG.

  6. Re:GET READY.... on Peter Capaldi Unveiled As the New Star of Doctor Who · · Score: 1

    Smith was probably the most Troughton-like of all the Doctors since Troughton.

  7. Re:Your argument is crazy on Obama Administration Overrules iPhone Trade Ban · · Score: 1

    Thank you. Those replies were the typical "answer the question you wished they'd asked".

  8. Re:Strangely... on Obama Administration Overrules iPhone Trade Ban · · Score: 1

    Pardon me. Apple said they would refuse to accept a court-ordered rate in the Motorola suit.

    See http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=2012110322254380. PJ uses only court documents as her sources.

    Now, given that, what should Samsung assume about Apple's good faith in any negotiations?

  9. Re:Strangely... on Obama Administration Overrules iPhone Trade Ban · · Score: 5, Informative

    And Apple has refused to license those patents. They have refused to negotiate to license them. They have even stated that they will not accept a court-ordered license fee unless they happen to think it's low enough.

    Tell me, oh wise one, what other recourse did Samsung have?

  10. Re:You should have told me it existed! on Geeks.com Online Shop Has Closed · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Exactly. This sounds like a place that I would have used... IF I HAD KNOWN ABOUT IT.

  11. Re:happend to me this year on Ask Slashdot: IT Staff Handovers -- How To Take Over From an Outgoing Sys Admin? · · Score: 1

    ha ha ha ha....

    2) Require exiting person to produce network diagram. Make it their last duty if one doesn't exist.

    "What are you going to do? Fire me?"

  12. Re:I guess Snowden saved Manning's life then. on Bradley Manning Convicted of Espionage, Acquitted of 'Aiding the Enemy' · · Score: 1

    I think it was the Rosenbergs.

  13. Re:Ironic..... on Bradley Manning Convicted of Espionage, Acquitted of 'Aiding the Enemy' · · Score: 1

    The movie sucked. The short story simply said he had some Yakuza data. Never specified what it was... it was irrelevant to the story line.

  14. Re:add it to the list on Bahrain Activists Battered By IP Tracking Attacks · · Score: 3, Informative

    Russia. Putin. See the story from earlier today.

  15. Re:Intentions on ASCAP Petitions FCC To Deny Pandora's Purchase of Radio Station · · Score: 2

    We need copyright to extend after the death of the author!!!! Otherwise, what motiviation does Elvis Presley have to write new music?

  16. Re:You are kidding right? on Ask Slashdot: Secure DropBox Alternative For a Small Business? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I agree with Merlyn. Are you F***ING INSANE?????? Especially after the way that the gov went batshit insane over Wikileaks and then over Snowden.

    I know that "classified under ITAR" is not "Classified secret", but you'd be crazy to trust that data to any storage that you (or your company) doesn't directly control.

    Disclaimer: I am not an ISSO or ISSM (though at one point I did get certified as one -- long since lapsed).

  17. Re:Executive Power on DNI Office Asks Why People Trust Facebook More Than the Government · · Score: 1

    I was going to post something similar, essentially:

    Private Parties don't have guns that they can (semi-)legally use on my and they don't have prisons.

  18. Re:i wonder... on Confirmed: F-1 Rocket Engine Salvaged By Amazon's Bezos Is From Apollo 11 · · Score: 1

    That would be 1981, not 1980.

  19. Re:There's just one thing to say. on Confirmed: F-1 Rocket Engine Salvaged By Amazon's Bezos Is From Apollo 11 · · Score: 1

    Marshall Space Flight Center also has one, though it's built of prototype and QA versions of the various stages. None of its components were built to go into space.

    Nevertheless, they are not replicas.

  20. Re:like anything else.. on Math and Science Popular With Students Until They Realize They're Hard · · Score: 1

    That just means he/she/it is a *CIVIL* Engineer.

  21. Re:Real-world examples, shaky foundations on Math and Science Popular With Students Until They Realize They're Hard · · Score: 1

    Your experience mirrors mine. Although the professor didn't explictly state that up front, during a lecture on N-dimensional Jacobians (or something like that), someone asked, "Does this have any use in the Real World(tm)?" The professor scratched his beard for a moment, and then said, "I don't think zo".

    At that point, I started questioning my choice of a math major.

  22. Re:DOJ, pay attention on Steve Ballmer Reorganizing Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Go to Groklaw and search the COMES archive.

  23. Re:NRHP on House Democrats Propose National Park On the Moon · · Score: 1

    I thought that by International law, a US embassy is considered to be US territory. Therefore it *is* inside the nation.

  24. Re:How Will He Get There on Snowden Offered Asylum By Venezuelan President · · Score: 1

    diverting or dissallowing diplomatic flights would be serious business.

    Bolivia would like a word with you.

  25. Re:Do we have to hold up a sarcasm sign? on Tech Companies Looking Into Sarcasm Detection · · Score: 1