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  1. Re:difference between driver and passenger? on Text While Driving In Long Island and Have Your Phone Disabled · · Score: 1

    You've never seen my wife text then.

  2. Re:Cash on Home Depot Confirms Breach of Its Payment Systems · · Score: 1

    I read leading counterfeit bills are $10. $100 attract attention, $1 not worth time counterfeiting, but the $10 bill is good candidate because Treasury Dept is always changing the colors so nobody really keeps track on what an authentic bill looks like.

    The Treasury Dept in 1998 said $20 get 5x the number of counterfeits as $10 but $100 has 3x the value of counterfeit notes. Source, page 53

    I wouldn't imagine the numbers have changed that much since than. I had always heard that $20s are the most frequently faked since everyone carries them so they are very common, and it's the highest denomination without being uncommon (like the $50 and $100).

  3. Re:Assuming there is a difference... on Is It Time To Split Linux Distros In Two? · · Score: 1

    I don't need that today...but check back tomorrow. I might then.

  4. Re:Cash on Home Depot Confirms Breach of Its Payment Systems · · Score: 1

    And a half hour later after the cashier has marked every bill, held it up to the light to observe ALL the security features, and then had to call two levels of management over to repeat the process to authorize accepting $50s or $100s.

    Maybe it wasn't quite a half hour, but the above happened to me recently. The guy in front of me was paying with several $100s. It too far too long to complete the transaction.

  5. Re:Bass Ackward on DMCA Claim Over GPL Non-Compliance Shuts Off Minecraft Plug-Ins · · Score: 1

    He doesn't have a leg to stand on to force Mindcraft to become open, but Mojang doesn't have a right to use his code that he released under a GPL license either since they apparently acquired Bukkit.

  6. Re:ELI5 please on DMCA Claim Over GPL Non-Compliance Shuts Off Minecraft Plug-Ins · · Score: 5, Informative

    NM. I found a post on Reddit that clarified it.

    Wolfe contributed code to Bukkit that was GPLed but was violating Mojang's license because it wasn't licensed under the GPL or similar. Mojang just chose to otherwise ignore the violation, but then has since acquired Bukkit. As soon as Mojang made a release, they infringed on Wolfe's GPL code contribution when they didn't release the source to the bundled Mindcraft server.

    Sounds to me that Wolfe's contribution wasn't covered under a valid license to begin with. That would mean that Mojang doesn't get to automatically use his code anyways, but also doesn't mean that Mojang needs to open Mindcraft up. Mojang just paid money for an incomplete product.

  7. ELI5 please on DMCA Claim Over GPL Non-Compliance Shuts Off Minecraft Plug-Ins · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Since I don't play Mindcraft or pay attention to any of the politics of the game, I'm a little foggy on what exactly the issue is. If I understand things correctly Wesley Wolfe issued a DMCA takedown notice because he contributed code to one or more projects that relied on the closed source game Mindcraft. And now he or others are trying to use this to force Mindcraft to be opened?

    If that is the case, boo hoo hoo perhaps you should check the licensing before contributing code next time.

  8. Re:DSL Is generally several layers of encapsulatio on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Repeated Internet Overbilling? · · Score: 1

    Why not? A significant portion of their infrastructure is based off of ATM, if there isn't a need to completely scrap their infrastructure why replace it even for something that might squeak out a bit more performance.

  9. Re:Told ya... on 850 Billion NSA Surveillance Records Searchable By Domestic Law Enforcement · · Score: 1

    Write you God damned congressman. Get a picket sign. The house is on fire, just because you told the kids not to play with matches doesn't mean you don't need to grab a bucket now.

    Grab a bucket and do what? Using your fire/bucket analogy, it's a multi-alarm raging inferno billed as a "fire fighter training exercise" to give them practice should a "real" fire happen in the future. The Congresscritters are the government officials that signed off on the approval to run the training opportunity. There's no amount of writing or picketing that's going to help.

  10. Re:AntiTrust on Dropbox Caught Between Warring Giants Amazon and Google · · Score: 1

    What's antitrust about this?

  11. Re:The memo you are about to see on Calif. Court Rules Businesses Must Reimburse Cell Phone Bills · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Which is the whole point. The company gives explicit instructions that personal cell phones are not to be used or authorized. You have to find something alternative (pay phone, calling card, tin cans...). Now if you happen to still use your personal cell phone for a call, you're breaking policy. They won't know [wink wink] that you're using your personal cell phone for convenience unless you happen to try to get reimbursed for it. And if you try, well, that results in some type of reprimand/discipline since you violated company policy.

  12. Re:Slippery path on YouTube Music Subscription Details Leak · · Score: 1

    They aren't commercials, but I hate the DJs between songs. I just wish they would play songs, one after another. I don't care about whatever drivel they want to talk about as if they were real DJs.

    And while I know you said music stations, if you ever go to one of the talk stations, commercials are awful. ESPN radio seems to be about 50/50 mix between actual talk and commercials. I understand SiriusXM doesn't have control over ESPN's inserted ads, but the ones that SiriusXM plays in the spots where local affiliates would insert local ads....argh. Get rich quick schemes, shady testosterone supplements, trucking company help-wanted ads, and franchise opportunities are just awful.

  13. Re:Slippery path on YouTube Music Subscription Details Leak · · Score: 1

    You are really overestimating the amount of work that could be required. Applications like Couchpotato for movies make it as simple as visit IMDB and you can quickly queue up an entire artist's career with just a few quick clicks. Headphones is similar for music, but not quite the same. I don't imagine it would be too hard to something similar to Couchpotato once an organized source becomes readily available.

  14. Re:Leave New York on $125,000 Settlement Given To Man Arrested for Photographing NYPD · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exactly. Leave New York and go somewhere safe and free and rights are respected. I'd suggest somewhere in the safe Midwest, close to a major city so that you have services and activities that are of interest, but not too close so that you are under the actual jurisdiction of the big city's police department. I hear the St. Louis area is nice and quite. Maybe Ferguson?

    It's not a New York City problem or even a big city problem, it's a law enforcement problem.

  15. Re:precedent on $125,000 Settlement Given To Man Arrested for Photographing NYPD · · Score: 0

    You're allowed to say fuck. Fuck fuck fuckity fuck.

  16. Re:Will they ban this ? on News Aggregator Fark Adds Misogyny Ban · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Perhaps it was poorly stated on my part. What I was meaning was an article about WBC picketing a funeral does not make the article homophobic just because the subject the article about is.

    The original comment was would Fark prohibit a legitimate news article that reported on a (horribly understated) misogynistic action. And I was saying no, because it wasn't the news article that was necessarily misogynistic, rather it was the action being reported on. If someone came along and said that the victim got what she deserved, then that would be prohibited.

  17. Re:Will they ban this ? on News Aggregator Fark Adds Misogyny Ban · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The problem here is that the policy is apparently all about "misogyny", which makes it inherently discriminatory. The policy should be about sexism.

    While I understand what you are saying, I disagree in the intent of the policy. Sexism is offensive, misogyny is hatred. Being offensive isn't prohibited for if it was, the internet would cease to exist. Being outright hateful is though.

    If I say "that awful parking job had to be by a woman", I'm sexist. If I say "that bitch deserves to be raped for that parking job", I'm misogynistic. It's the later trolling they don't want.

  18. Re:Will they ban this ? on News Aggregator Fark Adds Misogyny Ban · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, for the same reason why a news article that talks about a white supremacist assaulting a African-American isn't automatically racist. Or one about Westboro Baptist Church picketing a funeral of someone who was gay doesn't make it automatically homophobic. The context of the whole article is what makes it misogynistic (or racist, or homophobic, or ...)

    Now if that Reuters article had that same line, but then followed it with that the woman shouldn't have been out of the kitchen. Or she just needed to fix a sandwich. Or any other misogynistic ideas according to modern society then yes, it would be banned.

  19. Re:Not much of a fix on ICANN Offers Fix For Domain Name Collisions · · Score: 1

    WHAT THE FUCK made you create these new TLDs in the first place? Did you just pull some TLDs out of your ass and say 'great plan' and only AFTER saying you would create them start to think about the impact?

    Couldn't the exact same thing be said for the admins that decided to use a TLD that wasn't explicitly reserved for internal use only?

  20. Re:You have to understand on Ebola Quarantine Center In Liberia Looted · · Score: 1

    What they've seen is that when people go to one of these facilities, they tend to end up dead.

    As oppose to those that are infected that don't go to the facilities who don't just tend to end up dead, but are essentially guaranteed to be die from the virus.

  21. Re:Rot? Copper doesn't rot. It corrodes. on Groundwork Laid For Superfast Broadband Over Copper · · Score: 1

    Rot? Copper doesn't rot. It corrodes.

    From Merriam-Webster:
    1a : to undergo decomposition from the action of bacteria or fungi
      b : to become unsound or weak (as from use or chemical action)
    2a : to go to ruin : deteriorate
    b : to become morally corrupt : degenerate

    1b and 2a sound like they fit perfectly what Verizon is doing to their copper infrastructure.

  22. Re:Cheaper drives on Solid State Drives Break the 50 Cents Per GiB Barrier, OCZ ARC 100 Launched · · Score: 3, Insightful

    $2.02/GB flash drive

    Boom! Proved you wrong. ;)

  23. Re:Interesting on With Chinese Investment, Nicaraguan Passage Could Dwarf Panama Canal · · Score: 2

    Panamax is 12.04m draft, 32.31m beam, and 294.13m length for a total volume of 114420 m^3. With a tropical fresh water density of 0.9954 g/cm^3, that comes out to about 113,894 metric tons (125,547 short tons) of displacement.

    New Panamax is 15.2m draft, 49m beam, and 366m length for a volume of 272597 m^3 or 271,343 (299,105 short tons) of displacement.

  24. Re:Explain something to me on Apple and Samsung Agree To Drop Cases Outside the US · · Score: 1

    Marketshares. All the manufacturers not named Apple or Samsung combined don't add up to the market share of Apple or Samsung. The big guys could go after the little guys for something most likely, it's just not worth the time/money (if it hasn't already been licensed in some manner).

  25. Re:Is this me? on Alleged Massive Account and Password Seizure By Russian Group · · Score: 1

    Are the credentials to a website property of the website? Or of the user?

    Or, if you steal the complete password file/database/whatever of a site, and your password is one of the many you obtained, is that considered a stolen password still?