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  1. Re:current laws and terms of service on Facebook: Legal Action Against Employers Asking For Your Password · · Score: 1

    That would be one option.

    Another would be something like "Thou shalt not use facebook to gather data pertaining to the hiring of any individual." This would hopefully cover the other scenario of requiring people to be friends with an HR manager.

  2. Re:Who are all these people who need 4G? on Huawei Claims 30Gbps Wireless 'Beyond LTE' · · Score: 1

    These comments that call for "I'd rather xyz was improved, why are they bothering with foo?" are silly. Very simply: the scientists who study xyz don't know a darn thing about foo.

    Also 30 gigabits/second is so effing fast that they hopefully wouldn't need data caps at the 2 to 4 gig mark, but could go higher. Because, in theory, those data caps exist because that's the cell companies can reasonably provide to everyone. yeah I know I'm being way too hopeful given the nature of cell phone companies.

    ... improving the efficiency of spectrum utilization ...

    Like by introducing 4g? OK, maybe that wasn't an intelligent response of me. What other techniques are there that increase spectrum effeciency?

  3. current laws and terms of service on Facebook: Legal Action Against Employers Asking For Your Password · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Since the current laws about unauthorized network/computer access are vague enough to include doing something against any website's terms of service couldn't FB just put it their TOS? Then setup a bounty or whistle blower reporting system.

  4. huh? on WikiLeaks To Ship Servers To Micronation of Sealand? · · Score: 1

    So many posts making fun of this, but does Sealand really have an internet connection?

  5. Re:Time for the scientists to ge to work on Genome Researchers Have Too Much Data · · Score: 1

    Time for scientists to get to work? What an elegantly simple solution.

    The next time I have to debug something, maybe my fist step should be identifying the problem [taken from dilbert..]

  6. Re:HDMI? on Motorola Reinvents the RAZR · · Score: 1

    I was hoping that my first sentence that they are powerful enough encompassed video decoding. Oopsies.

    Hopefully netflix runs out the HDMI port. That would be another fun use-case. no ripping, encoding, and several hour long transfers to a micro SD card.

    Its cool that the n8 came with the adapter, but what I've seen is that most don't.

    Also, I'm pretty sure its not the poor little 680 MHz ARM 11 that is doing the video decoding.

  7. Re:HDMI? on Motorola Reinvents the RAZR · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes they are powerful enough.
    Second, some people want to use their tv as a slide show projector.
    Third, its an extra feature for those people out there who shop based on feature lists.
    Fourth it creates a need for people to buy a mini HDMI to full size converter. Even if its just to experiment with and never use again.

  8. FYI on Rise of the Ping Pong Robots · · Score: 3, Informative

    The first video has some text saying that the current robot vs robot record is 176 strokes.

  9. the title is refreshing on Agile Quadruped Robot Unveiled By Italian Roboticists · · Score: 0

    I know its semantics but its nice to see an industry specific title with the word "roboticists" Instead of the generic "scientists" or "researchers" do XYZ.

  10. too bad he's passed on... on Steve Jobs' Missing License Plate · · Score: 1

    It'd be funny if a bunch those occupy wallstreet protesters decided to occupy the handicap parking at apple.

  11. monkey see, monkey do on Iran Tried and Failed To Launch a Monkey Into Space · · Score: 1

    Who's the Jerk who sold a bunch of monkeys to Iran ?

  12. Re:hmmm on Chinese Propaganda Accidentally Reveals Cyberwar · · Score: 1

    And that's billions of dollars right?

  13. hmmm on Chinese Propaganda Accidentally Reveals Cyberwar · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering who is responsible for the Falun Gong website and where they live?

    It'd be pretty hilarious to see a lawsuit in US courts against the Chinese government going after Chinese government property. (US debt)

  14. good faith? on Measuring Broadband America Report Released · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wonder how long this will last until a class action suit.

    I think the ISPs are hiding behind the variables like distance to the tap and peak hours to not make a good faith effort to provide what they are advertising.

    In many cases people pay for 3mbs but get 2mbs, then upgrade to the 6mbs plan and get 4mbs, which demonstrates the ISPs capability to have delivered the full 3mbs in the first place.

  15. Re:ahhh on The Rise of Polymorphic Malware · · Score: 1

    Sorry there should be a carriage return between the the "jmp lbl_1" and the ".ds 50"

  16. ahhh on The Rise of Polymorphic Malware · · Score: 1

    I've been wondering about this for 13 years now (when I started learning z80 and 68k assembly) if antivirus software was smart enough to analyze for things like:

      jmp lbl_1 .ds 50 /* declare 50 bytes of storage */
    lbl_1:

    And those 50 bytes are filled in with random patterns. But this article makes it sound like there are multiple jumps that are being generated which I've also considered. Or dummy for loops.

    I'm surprised virus writers are only starting to do this. Any assembly coder worth his salt should be smart enough to think of this.

  17. CPUs used ? on Data Review Brings Major Setback In Higgs Boson Hunt · · Score: 1

    Floating point precision is slightly different between powerpc (64 bits and fused multiply and accumulate instructions) and x86 (80 bit internal results)

  18. ha on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Other People's Email? · · Score: 1

    I have my last name registered as a domain so I could have a first_name@last_name.org email address. But I occasionally get news mails that address me as Ralph, my dads name, from the Missouri state university, where my dad went. I also get environmental political action emails addressed to him.

    I've examined the links closely and none appear to be phishing attempts.

    I'm wondering if these institutions have bought supposed good email addresses from a company that came about them through some kind of "smart" interpolation algorithm.

  19. Give it to yourself on The Petition to Classify Wikipedia a "World Wonder" · · Score: 2

    Why bother with a petition?

    It would be much simpler if someone simply edited wikipedia's article on world wonders to say that it is a world wonder.

  20. Gandolf? on The Decreasing Impact of Death In Sci-fi · · Score: 1

    Using Gandolf as an example? I might be wrong but I suspect Tolkien wrote the Lord of the Rings before this plot device became a cliche.

  21. Re:Month/Day on What Pi Sounds Like · · Score: 1

    What day would that come out to be for an annual event?

    The 3rd day of the 14th month?
    Maybe the 31st day of the 4th month?

  22. WRONG! on What Pi Sounds Like · · Score: 1

    PI sounds exactly like 3.

    Also, if I kick up the bass can I make is sound like e?

  23. Re:allow me to cherry pick quotes. on Google's Search Copying Accusation Called 'Silly' · · Score: 1

    I don't believe anything said by anonymous cowards.

  24. Re:allow me to cherry pick quotes. on Google's Search Copying Accusation Called 'Silly' · · Score: 2

    p.s. I'm aware that comparing them to a 14 year old is probably just as much an ad hominem as a 14 year old who likes to call people haters.

  25. allow me to cherry pick quotes. on Google's Search Copying Accusation Called 'Silly' · · Score: 3, Informative

    I read the article and it just seemed like a bunch of collated sound bites with all the intelligence of a 14 year old who thinks she wins arguments by being the first to call the other a hater.