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  1. Re:Cameras can see things? on Report Hints At Privacy Problem of Drones That Can Recognize Faces · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You are already in the system to be able to set up a match regardless of whether you have committed a previous crime or not. Between a license and State ID nearly everyone has something in a state held database for facial recognition.

  2. Re:4 years later... on House Approves Extending the Warrantless Wiretapping Act · · Score: 1

    One also has to look at who is up for re-election and can not afford touchy votes like this.

  3. Re:Keep loaning them out. on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Found Calculators? · · Score: 1

    His kid will probably come out ahead but have to work a little harder. He'll come out on top because he will have to know what the function is that he is looking at rather than knowing the placement of the next button to push.

  4. Re:Doing the right thing on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Found Calculators? · · Score: 2

    Donate them to a needy high school/middle school. They will get more use out of them that way then some stupid project that cannibalizes them for a one off project that will get thrown away or never get completed.

  5. Re:Why is there an arm on the far side... on DARPA's Robo-Cheetah Is Now Faster Than Usain Bolt · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's the external power supply and probably holds the com lines kill switches and probably acts as a tether so it doesn't accidentally trample a grad student.

  6. Neat but scary. on DARPA's Robo-Cheetah Is Now Faster Than Usain Bolt · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I thought it was kind of cool that the limbs did not really differentiate from their front rear pairs until the very end.

  7. Re:Java blows on Recent Apple Java Update Doesn't Fix Critical Java Flaw Claims Researcher · · Score: 2

    http://www.cloudpath.net/solutions/solutions.php

    A lot of their solutions work on Java.

    Example: New kids to campus want to get their laptop on the university wireless system. All they have to do is have java and know their e-mail user name and password and this 3rd party solution takes the machines MAC address - registers it on the network and logs it in a back end database and automatically switches the student from the setupwireless to the WPA2 university wireless network. This saves a ton on help-desk logged hours/tickets and student lines.

  8. Re:Blizzard is not telling the truth. on Iranian Players Blocked From World of Warcraft Due To Trade Sanctions · · Score: 1

    No recent changes in U.S. law but if Bliz was unaware they were violating existing law and got a friendly knock on the door from a U.S. agent to inform them what they were doing was a violation .. then Bliz would change their policies to comply.

  9. No on Would You Open Your Home To a Hacker – For Free? · · Score: 1

    However, if I had some type of mother in law house/suite not being used then maybe.

  10. Re:Wake up CEO on Are 12-16 Hour Workdays Productive? · · Score: 1

    Not sure what the sample percentage is but 2 ratings might be a somewhat small sample size.

  11. Re:just stating the obvious on Are 12-16 Hour Workdays Productive? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Meta moderation - you'll get there one day if you're a good little "dotter" and keep your karma up =) .

  12. Re:Oh good on U.C. Berkeley Offers Free "Big Data" Class This Week · · Score: 1
    http://aws.amazon.com/free/ (requires credit card for verification but is free)

    run a free Amazon EC2 Micro Instance for a year, while also leveraging a free usage tier for Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic Block Store, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, and AWS data transfer. AWS’s free usage tier can be used for anything you want to run in the cloud: launch new applications, test existing applications in the cloud, or simply gain hands-on experience with AWS.

  13. Browser Agnostic on Why We Love Firefox, and Why We Hate It · · Score: 1

    I use what works when I need it.
    IE for certain ERM reports that dictate it. Also for accessing OWA when I need more than the basic features of work e-mail while away.
    At Work Firefox the plug ins help me do my job.
    Chrome when I'm at home and just want to quickly browse something and want a quick starting browser.

  14. Re:Not a tough sell on John Carmack: Kudos To Valve, But Linux Is Still Not a Viable Gaming Market · · Score: 1

    That's the only game that ever made me jump out of my seat and yell in terror. Great game.

  15. Re:The problem is on The Increasing Role of Predictive Analysis In Police Work · · Score: 1

    [quote] Do you really think that the PC brigade will allow it back again because a computer says so?[quote]

    Yes. Initially. I am overwhelmed out how many times I get: "The computer says this and it's never wrong." The individuals that state this can not be swayed and it takes talking to managers etc.. before some semblance of a logical discussion (just barely) can be started.

  16. Re:I personally love Khans accademy. on Ask Slashdot. Best Online Science Course? · · Score: 4, Informative

    He knows what it is. He just didn't check for the specific course. Khan covers a lot more than it use to.
    Chem
    http://www.khanacademy.org/science/chemistry
    and
    Organic Chem
    http://www.khanacademy.org/science/organic-chemistry
    Thinking I just got trolled by two ACs.

  17. Re:group project is the real work place / world on Students Looking For Easy A Target Online Courses, Where Cheating Is Easier · · Score: 1

    Group project does not mean 4 people doing one person's job - which is what is happening here.

  18. Re:Use your WoW character's cooking skills! on Grilling For Geeks · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Makes no sense on Only 22% of California 8th Graders Pass National Science Test · · Score: 1

    + math*

  20. Re:Makes no sense on Only 22% of California 8th Graders Pass National Science Test · · Score: 1

    "Earth and space sciences, biology, and basic physics" 4 different sciences fields? + reading and writing. You could not pay me enough to have to run the test guantlet of Jr. High. If I was a kid today with all these tests I would not do anything extra curricular like sports or music.

  21. Re:Call it the Microsoft method on Adobe Introduces the Paid Security Fix · · Score: 1

    You forgot that Adobe offers upgrade protection. Now all those people who bought this "protection" won't have to shell out quite as much as those who tried to snub the "Familia". I'm being snide not at you but at adobe.. This almost makes it look like they set up this scenario.

  22. Re:Sounds like shilling on Complaint Challenges Univ. of Hawaii Email Partnership Wth Google · · Score: 1

    Whether it works or not is a small issue. The big issue is Colleges use to have a rep for standing up for their student body's rights. e.g. no access to e-mail/log records with out a warrant and not without notifying the individual in question (National Security issues not withstanding). A company is not going to fight as fervently for its students right to information/privacy as a company will. The school's future admission numbers will reflect a bad move in this department. A company is beholden to none but the law and mass consumerism.

  23. Re:War On Climate on Panetta Labels Climate Change a National Security Threat · · Score: 1

    It equals more contracts for them (or their subsidiaries). One contract to make the mess and another contract to subsidiary to clean it up. If they want to avoid ethics violations and be smart they will do cross contracting for the clean up contracts.. i.e Hali sub cleans Bech's mess and vice versa.

    [unrelated joking here]>Polls suggest liberal hipsters are not afraid of terrorist. Best to scare them with Enviro-Annihilation to get appropriate feedback response to vote rights away.[/end lame joke]

  24. Re:Is it in Gemini? on Sun's Twin Discovered — the Perfect SETI Target? · · Score: 1

    Germany or Ironsky: http://www.ironsky.net/site/

  25. Re:Correction on Slackware: I'm Not Dead Yet! · · Score: 1

    The summary is, as usual, misleading. Caitlyn Martin didn't post this in a DistroWatch article, she (and some other posters) mentioned it in the comments section of that website. She also didn't say she was moving the derived distro to a new base, she said she and the rest of the development team would be voting on the issue as to whether to move to a different base.

    Honestly, how bad does a person's comprehension skills have to be to submit this kind of summary?

    I know it's bad form to post on one's own submission but I'll make an exception.

    Where in the summary does it say Caitlyn posted anything in an article? You are projecting words into the summary that are not there. Here is Caitlyn's quote verbatim from the journalist's article.

    "You remember that comment about my involvement in the development of a Slackware derivative? Forget it. We're already discussing about delaying the release and rebasing off of something with a more secure future,"

    I mixed up the words distro and base as I was being rushed unexpectedly before submitting, I sincerely apologize to Caitlyn for that.

    On another comment there was discussion of timing of the submission - how late it was. I had not seen anything about this story until Thursday night and I found the news shocking and it was "news to me". Submitting the story was my way of calling attention to Slackware's need of assistance. I cut my teeth in IT beyond the windows control panel on Slackware and hope it continues to live on in the future.