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  1. Re:"its accuracy at detecting fingerprints is 99.9 on High School Student Builds Gun That Unlocks With Your Fingerprint · · Score: 1

    it gets better when you realize the fingerprint sensor is in millions of phones and doesn't come close to that reliability. That same sensor can be hacked in minutes too.

  2. Re:Good luck with that on Why Atheists Need Captain Kirk · · Score: 1

    The jews is quite simple. Birds of a feather will flock together. They believed in the same thing and when given a chance they grouped up again. Basically any religion can do that, in fact some have they just haven't been as big or widespread as jews.

  3. Re:Good luck with that on Why Atheists Need Captain Kirk · · Score: 1

    The thing is Atheism is that god doesn't exist. replacing God with another imaginary idol means you just believe in a different God. You might as well believe in Thor, or Zeus, or Ba'al, you are no longer an Atheist.

  4. Re:So.... on Drone-Based Businesses: Growing In Canada, Grounded In the US · · Score: 1

    When did Canada do it the first time?

    England was burned it down once but Canada hasn't been free that long.

  5. Re:... and back again. on City of Turin To Switch From Windows To Linux and Save 6M Euros · · Score: 1

    What you are missing and most here are missing is the backend ERP and accounting software. Yes the office documents are setup but you also have to setup the database and Interface for the reporting and auditing software.

    Not all of that is available for Linux. What is available may or may not suit the needs you are trying to do.

    You don't run a city out of spreadsheets.

  6. Well Microsoft did write off 900 million dollars I tablets last year. Maybe they tried to get some of that back.

  7. Re:Hangouts is, in turn, part of plus, right? on Google Hangouts Gets Google Voice Integration And Free VoIP Calls · · Score: 1

    is it only to US POTS lines? what happens if the end user is a VOIP user? What happens if the end user switches?

  8. Re:What's email? on 5 Million Gmail Passwords Leaked, Google Says No Evidence Of Compromise · · Score: 1

    Who needs a pocket my computer displays on my contacts and blast audio through a bone phone.

  9. Re:Two factor authentication time! on 5 Million Gmail Passwords Leaked, Google Says No Evidence Of Compromise · · Score: 4, Informative

    Except google has a policy for that an can give you a one step password for the particular device.

  10. Next question is what about those with two factor authentication?

    My pass word is the same from both before and after but I have two factor authentication token as well

  11. Re:Looks like our problems are over on Scientists Regenerate Rat Muscle Tissue · · Score: 2

    Once we figure out rats we can then move on to pigs which share many traits with humans.

    However once we can generate pig muscles then we can make an unlimited supply of bacon.

    Now doesn't that sound good.

  12. Re:Anthropometrics on 3 Recent Flights Make Unscheduled Landings, After Disputes Over Knee Room · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Exactly. Well that and the details aren't spelled out by the airlines either . When you pick economy the seats may or may not be as advertised. The same airline and the same plane can have different configurations. Dimensions of space aren't listed anywhere when booking a seat.

    Airlines are running into physical space issues. In their quest for ever more seats The airlines are beginning to ignore basic human needs. People need to move around. The tighter and more closed off you make people feel the more likely they are to get into arguments. This is not only true physically, but mentally as well. Arguments lead to fighting.

    It is why Cities have always struggled. To many people to close to each other. The wealthy always purchase enough space to make themselves comfortable. However the poor can not and once you get so many people pressed together they fight. That fighting spills outward and you have a riot over a simple issue that is dealt normally dealt fairly.

  13. Re:Who cares if they pay $0 on Silicon Valley Fights Order To Pay Bigger Settlement In Tech Talent Hiring Case · · Score: 1

    324 million divided by 60,000 is $5,400 per person. Before Lawyers tax their share.

    In reality those 60,000 people will see less than $2500 each.

  14. Re:Hell no on Bill Gates Wants To Remake the Way History Is Taught. Should We Let Him? · · Score: 1

    That is 1590 on the old tests though. in 1995 they recalculated how the scores where done and people who would have gotten over 1500 suddenly were getting 1600.

    I remember both sets of my score. my new score put me in the 1300 range and my old score was 1170.

  15. Re:And make video available when asked on NYPD Starts Body Camera Pilot Program · · Score: 2

    There shouldn't be tapes. The feed from those cams should be directly sent IA. It can them be used as needed to clear officers.

    Local storage is an issue.

  16. Re:Huh on UCLA, CIsco & More Launch Consortium To Replace TCP/IP · · Score: 2

    Don't worry the NSA and GCHQ interests are being covered by China.

  17. Re:Switching is too hard? on FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Says Switching ISPs Is Too Hard · · Score: 1

    I have choice DSL or crapcast. However the copper lines are so old that you can't actually run DSL over them. You can barely use regular phone lines.

    So I don't have choice.

  18. Digital restrictions do not work in the real world. With this the military is going to have to pirate it's own equipment to use it.

    I can see it now a soldier out in the field goes to fire a rocket launcher and it goes oops sorry we can't connect to the DRM server please try again later.

    Name one DRM scheme that hasn't been cracked?

  19. Re:Small government on Tesla's Next Auto-Dealer Battleground State: Georgia · · Score: 1

    It gets better when you realize Texas has had more democrats as governors than California

  20. Re:They are stagnant on Tesla's Next Auto-Dealer Battleground State: Georgia · · Score: 1

    Or maybe electric cars are only for famines earning over 150k annually. No one else can afford to buy a car that is only useful some of the time.

    I know one couple with a nissan leaf and a standard SUV. The leaf is use for around town driving and to get one of them to from work. The sub is for the husband and distance driving. 50-60 miles a day doesn't take you far.

  21. Re:Not the end... on Invasion of Ukraine Continues As Russia Begins Nuclear Weapons Sabre Rattling · · Score: 1, Informative

    The Ukraine isn't part of Nato yet. NATO agreed to defend the Ukraine in agreement for the Ukraine disarming itself of nuclear weapons.

  22. Re:Guilty on In Maryland, a Soviet-Style Punishment For a Novelist · · Score: 1

    Snoopy was smart enough to not publish his novels. Besides he never or out of the first paragraph.

  23. Re:If the Grand Ayatollah's against it.... on Grand Ayatollah Says High Speed Internet Is "Against Moral Standards" · · Score: 1

    The ones fighting are a tiny percentage of muslims though. The fact is a percentage of muslim inman are indirectly supporting the IS through sharing similar beliefs about sharia law. They may decry the tactics the IS is using. They may denouce the violence, but at the end of the day they still want Sunni Sharia law imposed and will look the other way on how to get there.

  24. Re:If the Grand Ayatollah's against it.... on Grand Ayatollah Says High Speed Internet Is "Against Moral Standards" · · Score: 1

    Apparently you are still a student of the English Language. Just remember the hard coded bounds of English that say I before E except after C unless you are an efficient ancient.
    Why do you think we have legalize? it is the law version of a programming language with strict structure and definitions. Worse it was written by people who hate staying in the bounds of strict structure and definitions.

  25. Re:blackberry on Ask Slashdot: What Old Technology Can't You Give Up? · · Score: 1

    I never got a landline because I always needed a cell anyways. That and with my cell came free long distance. At the time (late 90's) Long distance was expensive. It still is.