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  1. Re:Big truck != Big company on NYC Asks Google Maps For Fewer Left Turns · · Score: 1
  2. Re:What if the house had a sign out front on Scientists Study Crime In Progress In a VR Simulated Environment · · Score: 1

    Don't get me wrong I am a 2nd Amendment advocate but I don't let that blind me. Burglars specifically target homes with guns and you are putting a bulls eye on your home if you put a sign like this up (large ranches excluded because trespassers are a different ballgame). Burglars can be smart enough to watch the house and see the schedule people keep. Walk quietly and carry a big boomstick.

  3. Re:Students + Anonimity on Can Online Reporting System Help Prevent Sexual Assaults On Campus? · · Score: 1

    Student body should show how this tool will be abused. Easily pick a target that is ridiculous (like the school mascot, upstanding adminstrator, or this program's coordinator) and spam it with blatantly false accusations. Point will be made rather quickly.

  4. Re:meanwhile on UK Chancellor Confirms Introduction of 'Google Tax' · · Score: 1

    poorly worded sorry.

  5. Re:meanwhile on UK Chancellor Confirms Introduction of 'Google Tax' · · Score: 1

    flat tax hits lower income demographics harder than middle/upper class as they have margin for error and don't have the ability to buffer unforeseen expenses with savings.

  6. Re:Parody on Gritty 'Power Rangers' Short Is Not Fair Use · · Score: 1

    Okay maybe not parody. I'd still argue it is parody of a sardonic sort, but maybe instead it is an abstracted satire. A commentary on the power players of the power rangers brand and how they will be as brutal as possible in taking anything down that even hints at being a derivative work of power rangers.

  7. Re:Parody on Gritty 'Power Rangers' Short Is Not Fair Use · · Score: 4, Interesting
  8. Re:Nostalgic for Windows 7? on Microsoft Ends Mainstream Support For Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    2021 Will finally be the year for Linux!

  9. Re:SimCity 2000 available for free on Is 'SimCity' Homelessness a Bug Or a Feature? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does it allow installation to continue if you decline data collection?

  10. Re:Uh huh on In Iowa, a Phone App Could Serve As Driver's License · · Score: 4, Insightful

    2 items. A driver's license is state property. How does it affect the ability of LEO to interact with your phone. There are laws in certain states that say if you have your phone on your person and are being searched that the phone contents are fair game to be 'rifled' through. If on the other-hand your phone is packed in a bag or in the glove box the phone is not on your person and can not be searched without a warrant. The act of NFCing your phone means it is on your person and you leave yourself open. No thanks, I like to compartmentalize my information as much as possible.

  11. Re:Dumb idea ... Lots of assumptions .... on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    Think again 33 dead and 140+ injuried by knife attack from group.
    http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

  12. Re:ROFL on Canadian Police Recommend Ending Anonymity On the Internet · · Score: 1

    I think this should be implemented with a sample population 1st and records open to the public. The sample population would of course be the Ontario P.P.

  13. Re:There's a clue shortage on The Great IT Hiring He-Said / She-Said · · Score: 1

    I have no idea what a purple squirrel is supposed to be, but I don't even bother to apply for jobs any more unless I know someone. Which means I don't apply for many jobs. But the alternative is to waste time.

    Purple Squirrel defined at length https://speakerdeck.com/dsalo/...

  14. Re:There's a clue shortage on The Great IT Hiring He-Said / She-Said · · Score: 1

    It's called the Purple Squirrel and it is not isolated to IT but IT makes it the most obvious. Here is an interesting speaker slide show I saw about it. https://speakerdeck.com/dsalo/...

  15. Re:Good on Chinese Hackers Mess With Texas By Attacking Fracking Firms · · Score: 1

    The Geology of each area is different so it's not really helping the Chinese with anything their scholars don't already know. The drilling tech hasn't changes too much in the past 10 years. The main difference is we frack and drill as we go instead run a huge frack job all at once (This means less waste and burn off). The main harm I think that can be done is watching land and jumping in on "standing titles". This is where a broker or company puts together 40 acres of land titles in a somewhat consolidated manner before the drilling can begin. By tieing up strategic strips of land they can jack up the price and make money as well as make the costs higher for us and dampen the attractiveness of our export prices.

  16. Re:Adobe DE used for something besides stripping D on Adobe's Digital Editions Collecting Less Data, Says EFF · · Score: 2

    Libraries use it to lend e-books. ALA was pretty ticked when it was brought to their attention. According a poll I can't seem to find at the moment libraries and museums are some of the only institutions still trusted today. http://www.ala.org/news/press-...

  17. Re:Problems with browser PDF readers on Adobe's Digital Editions Collecting Less Data, Says EFF · · Score: 1

    FF and GC pdf readers consistently balk at a lot of academic papers in research databases. There is an evolution in how some works were digitized that don't play nice with the newer readers expecting born digital pdfs.

  18. Re:The Discovery channel? on Kevlar Protects Cables From Sharks, Experts Look For Protection From Shark Week · · Score: 1
    Yes there are some corny aspects to the show but you should watch a different episode. I recommend the Amazon episode where people are just breaking down and throwing in the towel (if they had one). There are some interesting things to learn by observation. Some of the things I've learned are:

    How much I take the following for granted.

    Tools

    Clothes

    Shoes

    water

    hygiene

    shelter from elements and more importantly bugs/animals/wildlife.

    how hard it is to hunt with sticks, spears, traps (if you have the knowledge)

    how knowledge of plants can ease the prospect of infection/pain.

    how quickly your health can go down hill without clean water.

    what it looks like when you don't get a proper caloric intake. They do a time lapse at the end of the show.

    how fighting with your partner can make a bad scenario get worse. plus a lot more stuff I can't recall at the moment.

  19. Re:He cant or wont? on White House Punts On Petition To Allow Tesla Direct Sales · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's for the best. Anything the current President tries to push forward gets a 99.999% chance of opposition. He's taking one for the team by feigning disinterest and this may actually go somewhere. (Yes I am in Dreamland).

  20. Re:New Headlines on How To Fix The Shortage of K-5 Scholastic Chess Facilitators · · Score: 1

    The shortage on experienced facilitators is nothing new. back in the day 80's/90's I kept having to explain what 'en passant' was and pull it up in the chess manuals to inform the adults that yes this was a legal move. At least my own chess club facilitator was keen on learning something new and distributed the knowledge to the rest of the club.

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

  21. Re:Will we ever stop celebrating him? on "Internet's Own Boy" Briefly Knocked Off YouTube With Bogus DMCA Claim · · Score: 1

    I've heard 9 and 3, 10 and 2 but never ten and four could you link something to that states ten and four? http://teendriving.statefarm.c...

  22. Re:21 feet on Ancient Bird With Largest Wingspan Yet Discovered · · Score: 1

    no but you can walk it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

  23. Dream Theater (not the band) on Ask Slashdot: Where's the Most Unusual Place You've Written a Program From? · · Score: 1

    1. What is the most unusual location you have written a program from?
    Underneath a theatrical stage

    2. What is the most unusual circumstance under which you have written a program?
    Same place with a raccoon staring at me.
    No knife, but I think I would have been less scared if had one like the 'possums in this skit . At least the knife won't have rabies

    3. What is the most unusual computing platform that you wrote a program from?
    The "Whole Hog" Lighting console.

    4. What is the most unusual application program that you wrote?"
    not an application per se but programming the lighting cycles for a penguin exhibit. Not difficult at all but the need for accuracy was vital.

  24. Re:Syd Mead on H.R. Giger, Alien Artist and Designer, Dead at Age 74 · · Score: 1

    Phillip Drulliet too. His pieces were pretty trippy and heavily detailed sci-fi inspired work. Think Adam Warlock meets Aliens.

    Here is a google image search - http://goo.gl/zlw7bl

  25. Re:Once again, Apple iOS security is a sham on Apple Can Extract Texts, Photos, Contacts From Locked iPhones · · Score: 1

    found it doesn't look promising. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...