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  1. Re:Wrong on Company Accidentally Fires Entire Staff Via Email · · Score: 1

    Wrong they are resources. [sarcasm]

  2. Re:Great trick on Samsung TVs Can Be Hacked Into Endless Restart Loop · · Score: 5, Informative

    The buffer overflow is worrisome . A lot of the newer BluRay Players have additional features like netflix over wifi/homenetwork. The basic consumer may put in their credit card (or ____ forbid their debit card) info to start their netflix account.

  3. Re:I'm glad they consulted the experts. on Man Builds 737 Simulator In a Garage · · Score: 1

    He has a prop plane.

  4. Re:Profitless? on Zuckerberg Made Instagram Deal Alone · · Score: 1

    He's not making a move for the company as it is. He is making the transaction for what it could be as well as avoiding lawsuits if some of his ideas run parrallel to what insta had but did not know. Here is the hook.. FB owns insta.. insta is agnostic. By owning insta as a clearing house for photos for the all social media he gets a good idea what their traffic is like - the content their user base provides. It's like owning the one branch of the railroad and buying the railroad station hub.

  5. Re:Then why is my program in the business school? on CIOs Dismissed As Techies Without Business Savvy By CEOs · · Score: 1

    Two that come to mind.

    Toyota Brake Issue.
    HP thinking about dropping Hardware sales.

  6. Re:hope it was worth the megan's law list on Man Protests TSA With Nudity · · Score: 5, Funny
  7. Re:Baloney on Magical Thinking Is Good For You · · Score: 1

    Can't remember who said it but..(paraphrased) "Show me a man who does not pray in a foxhole while mortar shell fire is raining on him and I'll show you an athiest"

  8. Re:Earth to Absent-minded Professor. Come in pleas on TSA Shuts Down Airport, Detains 11 After "Science Project" Found · · Score: 1

    There is a failure of communication between TSA sites. Once the projects and people have been vetted there should have been an e-mail/update advising the landing/connecting airfields that such object is aboard and has been looked at. This would not have stopped the new crew from freaking out but it possibly would have saved an extended arrest.

  9. Re:Inaccurate summary/title on Supreme Court Approves Strip Searches For Any Arrestable Offense · · Score: 1

    bkaul is citing the actual opinions of the justices (a link would have been nice but we have google I guess) - NatasRevol is citing the NYT - I'm not a media basher but it is one or more steps removed from the source.

  10. Re:Original Story on Student Expelled From Indiana High School For Tweeting Profanity · · Score: 1

    I wish this could be moved up to first post.

  11. Re:What really happened? on Student Expelled From Indiana High School For Tweeting Profanity · · Score: 1

    The bus analogy is not quite right. A student is still under the School's authority when on a bus that is in operation. This is more like having the school bus parked unattended at your house over the weekend and you walk by and say the F word while the driver's radio happens to be keyed.

  12. Re:precedents have been established on Student Expelled From Indiana High School For Tweeting Profanity · · Score: 1

    Public schools are funded by a mix of state and sometimes federal govt. The number one stat taken into account for funding population and attendance. A principal expelling 30% of a school has just slit his own throat financially.

  13. Have the robot do the following on Teaching Robot Learners To Ask Good Questions · · Score: 3, Insightful

    1. Fetch a beer from fridge.
    2. Walk the dog to do its business.
    3. Wash dishes.
    4. Mow the Lawn.
    5. Clean House.
    6. Make robot programmable and able to share/sell programs ala app store.

    People don't want to program stufff and you are not going to change that behaviour. Just make their life easier and give the innovators the tools to accomplish this and the rest takes care of itself.

  14. Re:Validity? on For Windows 8 Users, Stardock Revives the Start Menu · · Score: 1

    How else are they going to sell all those books Windows for ... et. al

  15. Re:Market Analysis on Publishers Warned On Ebook Prices · · Score: 1

    One thing I've seen missing is sidebars of information missing. Sometimes these sidebars have critical information.

  16. Re:David R. Palmer on Ask Slashdot: Good, Forgotten Fantasy & Science Fiction Novels? · · Score: 1

    Read Emergence, if you can find a copy. A genius eleven year old girl and her pet macaw travel a post-apocalyptic America. The writing style is hard to get used to -- a lot like Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" -- but after a few pages your brain starts filling in the missing words. (The in-story explanation is that it's her personal diary written in Pitman shorthand.)

    Unfortunately, the sequel "Tracking" is only available as a bootleg right now, (check torrents). It was serialized in a now-unavailable sequence of Analog magazines. If you can find "Tracking", it's also worth reading.

    Palmer seems to have done a lot of research for the books. He makes some mistakes regarding firearms that grated on me, but the rest seemed correct.

    DePauw University has these items which have tracking 1- 3. Maybe you can work something out with your local interlibrary loan to gain access to them. The exact volumes are listed below the link.

    http://hickory.palni.edu:4505/F/?func=find-b&local_base=plndup&adjacent=N&find_code=035&request=298347784

    Schmidt, Stanley, David R Palmer, Dean McLaughlin, et al. Analog Science Fiction and Fact. Vol. CXXVIII, No. 7/8. New York: Dell Magazines, 2008. Print.
    Schmidt, Stanley et al. Analog Science Fiction and Fact. Vol. CXXVIII, No. 10. New York: Dell Magazines, 2008. Print.
    Schmidt, Stanley et al. Analog Science Fiction and Fact. Vol. CXXVIII, No. 9. New York: Dell Magazines, 2008. Print.

  17. Re:Amazon Bonus on Ask Slashdot: Good, Forgotten Fantasy & Science Fiction Novels? · · Score: 1

    I've been adding these titles to my http://www.zotero.org/ collection and searching my library's catalog. If not in there it will be on http://www.worldcat.org/

  18. Re:sci fi masterworks on Ask Slashdot: Good, Forgotten Fantasy & Science Fiction Novels? · · Score: 1

    The Languages of Pao ?

  19. Re:gene wolfe -urth of the new sun on Ask Slashdot: Good, Forgotten Fantasy & Science Fiction Novels? · · Score: 1

    For those without e-reading devices I would recommend using http://www.worldcat.org/ to see which library closest to you has the titles in this thread. Also, I use zotero.org to gather a "to read" library. It tells you which website/library you found the book at. It's free and open source and is awesome for doing papers as it has word processing plug ins for Word and Open/Libre Office variants. (Chrome/FireFox/Safari)

  20. Re:Wait a minute. on Warner Bros: New Program To Digitize Your DVDs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The following is not my stance.

    It does a couple things:
    1. It shows there are alternatives to piracy so that "I have no alternative" isn't valid anymore.
    2. #1 allows legislatures to lay down laws that are harsh since there are alternatives.
    3. It's a labor intensive process that will make someone say why bother my time is worth more. Then the option of buying through some internet portal is made available at slightly higher price than conversion. win - win.. right?!?
    4. profit off the docile and persecute the unbelievers.

  21. Re:Too expensive on Chevy Volt Meets High Resistance, GM Suspends Sales · · Score: 1

    The study is talking about an enclosed environment (mine) with possible shoddy ventilation. This is not the same environment as having the exhaust expelled outside you car while you are inside. I'm not discounting that there could be medical or environmental impact but we need studies that address those specific issues.

  22. Re:Here's another solution on Laser Scanner May Allow Passengers To Take Bottled Drinks On Planes Again · · Score: 3, Informative
    They kind of did this at the Russian airport last year sans the groping. My wife was awestruck that they had flights going again in a few hours. I just said take a look at those Putin the adventurer pics - that's how they role.

    Despite the explosion quickly filling the terminal with smoke and the airport being evacuated, miraculously Domodedovo has now reopened for service for flights just a few hours after the terrorist attack. Russian news outlet RT.com reports that flights for this evening are departing on time.

    citation (with poor taste in a title): USA Today Story

    Pics of Putin

  23. Re:Much of the world has "illegal speech" on Journalist Arrested By Interpol For Tweet · · Score: 1

    My last post failed but I'll just post this here. Most Muslims perform Qibla. An act of unison of the muslim faith where they pray towards Mecca in Saudi Arabia. There are apps and websites that assist in finding the direction. http://www.al-habib.info/qibla-pointer/

  24. Re:how is that an insult? on Journalist Arrested By Interpol For Tweet · · Score: 1

    Mecca is in Saudi Arabia. Read up - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qibla

  25. Re:Audiophiles on Pink Floyd Engineer Alan Parsons Rips Audiophiles, YouTube and Jonas Brothers · · Score: 1

    (t)roll,