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  1. Re:Punishment for leaking NSL? on Site Launches To Track Warrant Canaries · · Score: 1

    Oh, I'm sure there's a crime in there. "Obstruction of Justice" sounds like a good catch-all.

    Leading to "Obstruction of Orifice"

  2. Real Life Grand Theft Auto? on Georgia State Univ. Art Project Causes 2nd Evacuation & Bomb Squad Call · · Score: 1

    Those are just the hidden packages!

  3. Punishment for leaking NSL? on Site Launches To Track Warrant Canaries · · Score: 1

    So, if they are told they can't indicate they received an NSL, and there is otherwise no proof the NSL was delivered due to lack of evidence aside from whatever the FBI has, then if someone were to leak that they received an NSL (or any other form of acknowledgement to this effect) then this by itself would require some further action by the FBI to arrest, rub out, or otherwise eliminate the person under some other reason to avoid revealing the contents or existence of the NSL?

    It seems like being sent to unspeakable places is really the only option (scary, I know) since FPMITA (federal pound me...) would require a reasonably clear case against the person, and therefore require the FBI to cough up whatever reason they can? I know I know, they will just make shit up...but still.

  4. Oh dang, I'm sorry on Facebook Targets Office Workers With Facebook At Work Service · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "I thought I was on our work Facebook, not the regular one. Sorry, it will never happen again."

  5. Oblig XKCD? on How We'll Program 1000 Cores - and Get Linus Ranting, Again · · Score: 1
  6. Re:A felon with misdemeanor convictions on Ask Slashdot: Can a Felon Work In IT? · · Score: 1

    Drug use could motivate theft though...just sayin'

  7. Umm, encryption? on Internet Voting Hack Alters PDF Ballots In Transmission · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why isn't that referenced? E2E encryption eliminates this, assuming the user is not an idiot.

  8. Re:"repeatable independently verifiable reproducti on The Physics of Why Cold Fusion Isn't Real · · Score: 1

    A patent only matters if those who you are trying to protect against are under (or cave or submit) to the jurisdiction of the region in which the patent is held. Unless you file a patent in every single industrialized nation for something as significant as this, and the idea is to make money, the better option is to keep it a trade secret so you don't need to disclose any details that those outside of the jurisdiction of the patent don't have the details handed to them.

  9. Re:Where does this leave the nuclear option? on Australia Repeals Carbon Tax · · Score: 0

    It's pronounced "nookular".

  10. Re:Best DOS game... on FreeDOS Is 20 Years Old · · Score: 1

    And Doom went to my little league games!

  11. Re:And since they're based in Québec on Amaya Gaming Buys PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker For $4.9 Billion · · Score: 1

    damn, no mod points...+1 Insightful and +5 Funny. You have to know Quebec language laws to get this. Unfortunately, some might mark it Troll/Flamebait

  12. Re:Gee, didn't they tell us ... on Using Google Maps To Intercept FBI and Secret Service Calls · · Score: 1

    It's more likely that google is just more open and honest about how they use the information they have about you. They admit openly that the main reason for their success is their "marketing" ability. Customer/client information is a valuable commodity, and the marketers at any corporation you deal with would be fools to not monetize the information they manage to collect.

    This is the same reason facebook pisses me off with their recent changes, but google+ doesn't really bother me.

  13. Re:10 year old software? on Windows Replacement? ReactOS 0.3.16 Gets Themes, CSRSS Rewrite, and More · · Score: 1

    I also suspect the newer UI APIs aren't fully implemented, so, perhaps... indeed only the old software actually works.

    I know you are just guessing, but my counter-comment is: so they have caught up to the UI API from 10 years ago?

  14. 10 year old software? on Windows Replacement? ReactOS 0.3.16 Gets Themes, CSRSS Rewrite, and More · · Score: 1

    Why use 10 year old software to demo a "Windows replacement"? If a successful demo only works because it is old software, that somewhat speaks volumes.

  15. Re:Who cares? on Hard Drive Reliability Study Flawed? · · Score: 1

    This. A failed drive is a failed drive, regardless of who it comes from and whether the issue is known or not and publicly admitted.

  16. Re:It doesn't cost any more to serve more data on An Iowa ISP's Metered Pricing: What Will the Market Bear? · · Score: 1

    Simple solution: real time (or updated hourly) traffic stats for the ISP backbone connection. Allow users unlimited use (unmetered) during the times when traffic is significantly less. As others have said, if the hardware is provisioned, then as long as it is not being taxed to the limit when you want to use it, then you shouldn't really be charged anything significant for using it.

    Teksavvy does this on DSL in Canada.

  17. Re:Personally I love tablets on Are Tablets Replacing Notebook Computers? (Video) · · Score: 1

    Define useful...I don't think that word means what you think it means.

  18. Re:Said every IT person. Ever. on CryptoLocker Gang Earns $30 Million In Just 100 Days · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And yet, the single most basic thing you can do to protect your data gets overlooked by hundreds of millions of people, because it's just too burdensome to drag and drop from "My documents" to "My external drive".

    And how many people that do use an external drive actually unplug it after the fact?

  19. Re:Orders of magnitude on Newly Discovered Greenhouse Gas Is 7,000 Times More Powerful Than CO2 · · Score: 2

    400000000 PPM should have said 400000000 PPT

  20. Orders of magnitude on Newly Discovered Greenhouse Gas Is 7,000 Times More Powerful Than CO2 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Obligatory xckd
    http://xkcd.com/558/

    0.18 PPT vs 400 PPM
    0.18 PPT vs 400000000 PPM
    0.00000018 PPM vs 400 PPM

    One of them is deceptive, the other 2 provide proper context. Even being 7000 times more powerful doesn't make up for 6 orders of magnitude in concentration.

  21. Re:Thanks Slashdot. on FAA Wants All Aircraft Flying On Unleaded Fuel By 2018 · · Score: 2

    I fail to see why the insurance company would care, and if they did care what legal theory they would use to deny the claim.

    Simple: you broke the law. Therefore, the insurance company doesn't have to pay out. Most policies say they are null and void if the vehicle is involved in any illegal activity.

  22. Re:No reproduction on 9th Grade Science Experiment: Garden Cress Won't Germinate Near Routers · · Score: 1

    except that you would also block other Environmental microwave and RF thereby impacting the result.

  23. Re:No P.E. required. on N.C. Official Sics License Police On Computer Scientist For Too Good a Complaint · · Score: 1

    It is if you review it and become "sufficiently familiar" with the work. Ultimately the second you sign off you become responsible for the work.

    This of course, depends on where the license is obtained and the work is performed.

  24. Re:Don't get excited on Toshiba To Launch No-Glasses 3D TV This Year · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So, like the Jaws add in Back to the Future....?

  25. Re:Cannonical is just trolling us on Ubuntu Will Switch To Base-10 File Size Units In Future Release · · Score: 1

    Mixing 1000 and 1024 just made my day. Well done.