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  1. Re:I'm still trying to wrap my brain around... on FBI Dad's Misadventures With Spyware Exposed School Principal's Child Porn · · Score: 1

    Delete profiles - Control Panel\System and Security\System - Advanced Tab of system properties - User profiles - Settings - list comes up with different user profiles - delete the ones you do not want anymore (gets rid of files in the usual space (desktop/my documents/ etc.) Looks like a clean install with new user accounts.

  2. Re:please on Companies Getting Rid of Reply-all · · Score: 4, Informative

    One of the things that can be done is restrict who can send to certain distribution lists. i.e. If you have something important enough to send to the entire student body or staff you have to basically send the original e-mail to a designated person and they send it "on behalf of x"

  3. Re:She should lose on Student Refusing RFID Badge Now Fights Expulsion Order · · Score: 1

    Does that include atheism as well? An atheist that doesn't support the freedom to practice religion or lack there of is woefully outnumbered. Becareful for what you wish for.

  4. Re:I just don't get it on Student Refusing RFID Badge Now Fights Expulsion Order · · Score: 1

    Your also told to pledge allegiance to the flag.. whoops...if you object you do not have to (Half the states require students to recite it but when brought up in court the supreme court rules that the students do not have to) . This is not a job for the students and they do have some rights including speech (that is not disruptive to the learning environment) and not being forced to due something that would be against their religion.

    see the following:
    http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/tinker.html

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance#Legal_challenges

  5. Re:Easy on With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers · · Score: 1

    Not in the U.S. but in specific states Washington and Colorado.

  6. Re:Well... on With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm sure as you well know.. different people are affected in different manners by THC consumption. Some get overly paranoid, some overly talkative, some think everything is ground breaking new idea, and some do become worse drivers. I've witnessed someone become impaired while smoking when s/he thought that there was no affect on his/her driving. There definitely was an impairment particularly merging on highways with those massive looping turn-arounds. I made the individual stop and took over after a heated argument.

    Am I saying your impaired? No... but there are some people who can't handle themselves and aren't aware that they are not in full control of their faculties.

    I just really hope fork lift drivers in the big box hardware stores are careful and don't use right before their shift. However, I expect to see accidents here. I'm glad this has been legalized in those states but hopefully this is enjoyed responsibly.

  7. Re:Individual Song Downloads on Highway To Sell: AC/DC iTunes Snub Finally Over · · Score: 3, Informative

    Dream Theater as well particularly "Scenes from a Memory"

  8. Re:Serious comment on German Police Stop Man With Mobile Office In Car · · Score: 1

    This is a non-story. A bunch of insurance claim agents and cops have this setup.

  9. Re:God bless the free market! on Seafood Raised on Animal Feces Approved for Consumers · · Score: 1

    I don't even let my dog eat/chew anything out of china, some of the dog treats/bones just look scary. Read the labels people 'cause fido can't do it for himself.

  10. Re:God bless the free market! on Seafood Raised on Animal Feces Approved for Consumers · · Score: 1

    Seafood sections usually post things like Farm raised and previously frozen.

  11. Re:How to win friends and influence people on Ask Slashdot: What Books Have Had a Significant Impact On Your Life? · · Score: 2

    I'll add this website since there's bound to be a ton of titles listed. You search for your title and enter your region and it tells you the closest library that has the title. http://www.worldcat.org/

  12. Re:I must be coming back from too far away... on Take a Free Networking Class From Stanford · · Score: 1

    Not all engineers are programmers, not all Sciences involve programming. Slashdot has had a gaming section for a long time and definitely not all gamers are programmers. The demographics have changed but not as much as one might think. I'm actually thinking that those science fields are picking up more on programming than use to be the case.

  13. Re:This is bad. on Hiring Smokers Banned In South Florida City · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Better than MOOC on ROSALIND: An Addictive Bioinformatics Learning Site · · Score: 1

    Tech applied incorrectly screws up education but if you really watch the model that Khan is putting forth it shows the granular focus you can give a student to help him/her overcome a concept. At least watch the video for his discussion of analytics that can be provided. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gM95HHI4gLk

  15. Re:Calm before the hyperbole on A Suicide Goes Viral On the Internet · · Score: 1

    yes it would.

  16. Re:Calm before the hyperbole on A Suicide Goes Viral On the Internet · · Score: 1

    Car chases get broadcasted near live all over the U.S. this has been going for more than a decade.. even longer than O.J. and the white Chevy Blazer. L.A. and Dallas do it all the time. 5 seconds delay is too short in my opinion.

  17. Re:Google doesn't want to pay a human for this... on Google Blocks Author's Ads For Offering Torrent Of His Own Book · · Score: 1

    1. Write book.
    2. Setup an advertisement like everything is normal full well knowing it will get yanked with out giving advanced notice of the torrent issues (this is the current environment we live in).
    3. Internet Rages with the added bonus of eyeballs for his book.
    4. Profit.

  18. Re:Good times! Clearly, he's a dirtbag on Innocence of Muslims Filmmaker Arrested, Jailed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He's locked up because he violated the terms of his probation. He apparently has a pathological tendency to refuse to give his real name to authorities or anyone else for that matter, and the Judge had enough of it.

    If you had people who wanted to kill you and had the means to falsify badges/I.D./uniforms you would be giving out false names too. I concede that his own actions caused his current predicament and I don't condone anything he has put out but I can understand his motivations for lying about his name..

  19. Re:Silent? on Astronomy Portfolio Review Recommends Defunding US's Biggest Telescope · · Score: 1

    Silent as in not feeding researchers the data that they crave. If it can't listen it can't distribute data.

  20. Re:Woz on ASIC Seeks Power To Read Your Emails · · Score: 1

    you're not your*

  21. Woz on ASIC Seeks Power To Read Your Emails · · Score: 1

    I hope your watching. Not that we in the U.S. are any better but we do try to "look" we care about privacy. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/apples-wozniak-wants-to-become-australian/story-fn3dxiwe-1226481489824

    "In the interview with the Financial Review, Wozniak said the national broadband network was one of the reasons he wants to become a citizen."

  22. Re:Technet + Dreamspark on How Microsoft Is Wooing College Kids To Write Apps For Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    edit: to 40% windows laptops.

  23. Re:Technet + Dreamspark on How Microsoft Is Wooing College Kids To Write Apps For Windows 8 · · Score: 2

    At my university we keep stats on what students are connecting to our network. As far as wireless connections go trend is now 60% macs to windows laptops. Disclaimer (It's a private institution so that could explain some of the higher apple product numbers)

  24. Re:reading comprehension? on Your Moral Compass Is Reversible · · Score: 1

    If the video is similar to the way the questionnaire was actually performed then people are not focused in on exactly what they are doing as their mind is on getting to somewhere else. 2nd it is not surprising that the opposite arguments are readily available to those going to college courses as that is one of the fundamental cornerstones of many papers "address arguments against your thesis".

    Now combine the two elements above with the participants motives. I need to get somewhere; I somehow picked the opposite of what I meant or it was switched on me. Do I (A) sit there and play investigator or (B) spout off the arguments that I'm actually opposed to and get to my ludefisk luncheon on time. The answer is B.

  25. Re:Sigh on Ask Slashdot: Where Should a Geek's Charitable Donations Go? · · Score: 1

    Your heart is in the right place but some things can be attacked on multiple fronts - allowing some geographic areas to leap frog technological barriers. What is more powerful 2 years supply of porridge or one year of porridge and a solar powered tablet with localized language that has a pre-loaded wiki on medicine/first aid/farming and a whole slew of other topics. You can literally have a library in a laptop.