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  1. Re:Sensitive? on Modular Touchpad Aims To Replace Most Input Devices · · Score: 1

    You're talking about sensitivity in the x and y directions; the summary was talking about sensitivity in the z direction.

    If you want it to be more sensitive in x and y, you have to poke at it with something with a finer tip than your finger.

  2. Re:Have you? on Life With the Dash Button: Good Design For Amazon, Bad For Everyone Else · · Score: 1

    Most of them have the cheese up front with the deli. The trend seems to be various cheeses at the deli you can get sliced, and then a separate display of a bunch of other block cheeses you can browse. As I said, they like to locate the deli up front.

    That's because the cheeses available up front in the deli are much more expensive than the ones at the back in the dairy case.

  3. Re:Nothing New Here... on A Breakdown of the Windows 10 Privacy Policy · · Score: 1

    Buy said Dell system, wipe Windows off it, put your distro of choice on...

    ...And signal the market that everybody wants Windows and not Linux, because all it sees are the Windows laptop sales figures.

  4. Re:Windows 10, it's free on A Breakdown of the Windows 10 Privacy Policy · · Score: 0

    Windows 10 has [S]ecure [B]oot to prevent Free Software.

    FTFY.

  5. Re:oh, man. Prepare for another round. on Court: FTC Can Punish Companies With Sloppy Cybersecurity · · Score: 1

    Last time it was the Sorbanes-Oxley act. The company security policies were changed by a committee mainly run by lawyers. These 300$/hr billing rate guys have never logged into anything, always had a bevy of flunkies who did all the access to the computer, who printed out emails and who typed back the responses scrawled on the print outs.

    And that's IT admins' OWN DAMN FAULT!

    The regulations governing civil engineers are sane and good. You know why? Because organizations like the ASCE stepped up to create reasonable professional standards. That's how it works, people: you have to put on the big-boy britches and take some responsibility, proactively, to get the result you want.

    If IT admins want that non-braindead regulations to happen to IT, then they need to fucking make it happen themselves -- otherwise the lawyers will step in and they'll deserve whatever ridiculous BS they get.

  6. Re:Corporations on Court: FTC Can Punish Companies With Sloppy Cybersecurity · · Score: 2

    It should work the same way professional licensing for civil engineering works: the technical professional involved should hold the legal liability (and be licensed so that it's abundantly clear to everyone that he is the one liable), but the company should be required to have its personal-information-holding servers administered by such a licensed professional so that he has the job security to be able to stand up for himself.

    In other words, make it so that all professional server admins can (and will) refuse to obey "skip the security" orders, and make it illegal for the CEO to replace the professionals with unlicensed yes-men.

  7. Fuck the TOS! Twitter is trying to set itself up as some sort of Orwellian Ministry of Truth, so violating its TOS in that way is a moral imperative.

  8. While I understand that your motivations are honorable, you have to realize that such a thing will never happen because the sentiment that "voting should not be easy" has been historically equivalent to "voting should only be done by white male landowners."

  9. If that's the case, then maybe they should tweet under @PoliticianNamesStaff instead of @PoliticianName. Otherwise, PoliticianName is a fucking dumbass who deserves whatever he gets!

  10. Re:Very sad - but let's get legislation in place N on Ashley Madison Hack Claims First Victims · · Score: 1

    Let's do that for homeowners too. If you are told that your door is unlocked, but you still don't lock it, and some robber comes and steals your stuff, the homeowner should be thrown in jail. And the burglar should be given a medal for exposing the lack of security in the house.

    The thing that's stupid about your analogy is that houses usually only hold the homeowner's stuff. The real analogy should be about the owner of a bank failing to properly secure it.

  11. Re:Fallacy fallacy [Re: Lovely summary.' on Hugos Refuse To Award Anyone Rather Than Submit To Fans' Votes · · Score: 1

    B: You only think that's a win.
    A: No true Scotsman! I win again!

  12. Re:A telling factor... on Police Training Lacks Scientific Input · · Score: 1

    I was about to moderate this discussion, but saw your post and decided to reply instead. Could you cite some examples of this? I live in Atlanta and have some activist acquaintances who would be interested in such things.

  13. Re:There is no reason for any drought to continue on How California Is Winning the Drought · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just let the water evaporate out of it and bulldoze it into a big pile. Then package it and sell it as fancy sea salt.

    If the pile gets too big, start re-filling the salt mines.

  14. Re:Ob on FreeBSD 10.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Haiku version:

    systemd crashes
    under Chuck Norris' one fist
    Windows 10 assholes

  15. Re:Groklaw Needed More Than Ever on Oracle: Google Has "Destroyed" the Market For Java · · Score: 1

    Yes, and every USB connector and USB protocol is a "work-alike" to every other USB connector and USB protocol. Like I said, that's what an interface is.

    Similarly, the Java API interface of the Dalvik virtual machine is a "work-alike" to the Java API interface of the Oracle JVM. That is separate and distinct from the functionality of the Dalvik virtual machine and the JVM themselves; those are only work-alike by coincidence (if at all).

    If you swapped out Dalvik's Java API interface for, say, a .NET interface, it would no longer be "work-alike" in the same way that if you swapped out your device's USB interface for a Firewire one it would no longer be "work-alike" to USB.

  16. Re:Groklaw Needed More Than Ever on Oracle: Google Has "Destroyed" the Market For Java · · Score: 1

    a Java work-alike but with different interfaces

    The trouble is, that's an oxymoron: a "work-alike" is what an interface is!

  17. Re:Groklaw Needed More Than Ever on Oracle: Google Has "Destroyed" the Market For Java · · Score: 1

    Dalvik does not interoperate with the JVM, as they will not run and load the same programmes. This is Oracle's point -- they are using JVM technology to their advantage without interoperating.

    Bullshit. Google is using Java technology -- not "JVM technology" -- to its advantage, for the purpose of interoperating with Java.

    Some other arbitrary code that also happens to interoperate with Java is irrelevant.

  18. Re:Groklaw Needed More Than Ever on Oracle: Google Has "Destroyed" the Market For Java · · Score: 1

    Of course there isn't, but that means nothing because the Supreme Court [lack of] ruling that enabled it only recently happened.

  19. Re:Don't worry! on Climatologists: By 2100, the Earth Will Have an Entirely Different Ocean · · Score: 2

    my favorite are the articles that ridicule al gore for riding private jets

    as if he had a choice and could use a magic carpet

    Let's be honest: he could fly coach.

    (Or, more realistically since the Secret Service would nix that, he could hitch a ride with the military)

    Aside from that, you're right that using the private jets thing as an excuse to ignore his argument is fucking stupid..

  20. Re:Big Mistake. on GitHub Desktop Launches To Replace Mac and Windows Apps · · Score: 1

    LOL! Firefox and Chrome ARE "interpretive layers!"

  21. Re: No-information voters on Internet Search Engines May Be Influencing Elections · · Score: 1

    No, that moderate Republicans don't actively seek out information or think critically and instead believe whoever shouts the loudest.

  22. UNICODE DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY on Unicode Consortium Looks At Symbols For Allergies · · Score: 1

    Although it may not be necessary to create allergy symbols, the existence of a similar-looking glyph is not a valid reason why. In Unicode, each code point corresponds to a particular abstract character, not glyph, so the snowflake symbol cannot be used for a food allergy symbol even if they look identical, because U+2744 means "snowflake" and not "food allergy."

    For example, Greek capital letter delta (U+0394) and the mathematical symbol delta (U+2206) usually look almost the same, but are completely different concepts. They alphabetize differently, are searchable differently, and are not interchangeable.

  23. Re:Food Allergies on Unicode Consortium Looks At Symbols For Allergies · · Score: 1

    Northwest Scotland is considered to have the cleanest environment in the developed world (due to wind and rain from the Atlantic)

    You've got to be joking or trolling.

    "Clean" because of wind and rain from the Atlantic and "clean" because of extensive use of bleach and antibacterial soaps are very different concepts.

  24. Irony on The Web We Have To Save · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Immediately following the end of the article, I found this:

    Log in to Medium and "recommend" this story.

    [infinite facepalm]

  25. Re:RTFA? on Ask Slashdot: Can You Disable Windows 10's Privacy-Invading Features? · · Score: 1

    Of course this may not really be a Windows 10-specific issue since they slipped a "Diagnostic Tracking Service" into previous versions (such as Win7) through Windows Update earlier this year.

    According to this, that particular update was 3068708, which is "recommended" and thus (as far as I can tell) not automatically installed under default settings.

    (Note: please correct me if I'm wrong! Also, feel free to list any other malicious updates which should be avoided, or other strategies to harden Windows 7 against Microsoft snooping. I just reinstalled and would like to make sure I get all that stuff right before I start using sensitive data.)