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  1. Re:Count me off your team on Court Rules That Palin Must Save Yahoo Emails · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The "hacker" invaded her privacy, but found wrongdoing. He wasn't right, and she wasn't right. It's not either-or.

  2. Re:Taking one for the team. on Court Rules That Palin Must Save Yahoo Emails · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's not a state-provided service, therefore she must either not use it for official business, or take care to preserve all email herself.

  3. Re:But what about the real scam? on US Financial Quagmire Bringing Out the Scammers · · Score: 1

    Natural resources will still have almost the same value as before the crash. It's not like manufacturing will disappear anywhere.

  4. Re:WTF? on Qantas Blames Wireless For Aircraft Incidents · · Score: 1

    And I wrote earlier in this thread that it isn't, and why. Although it does make for a helpful backup in case of catastrophy.

  5. Re:WTF? on Qantas Blames Wireless For Aircraft Incidents · · Score: 1

    That still doesn't account for any altitude changes, since the GPS is for navigation.

  6. Re:WTF? on Qantas Blames Wireless For Aircraft Incidents · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, when flying at altitude above some limit (depends on locale), pressure is used, expressed as a Flight Level at a worldwide standard pressure. Everyone uses the same standard pressure setting above the cutoff altitude (or cutoff layer). This means that when someone is flying af FL240 (24000 feet) and someone else at FL250, they will be 1000 feet from each other if their paths happen to cross, regardless of what the actual air pressure outside is. You can't rely solely on GPS for something like this, there's too many external variables that can go horribly wrong, not to mention that GPS is not mandatory on all planes, AFAIK.

  7. Re:WTF? on Qantas Blames Wireless For Aircraft Incidents · · Score: 1

    Even if you're right, the autopilot does not make sudden changes to the control surfaces like that.

  8. Re:Moral of the story? on Qantas Blames Wireless For Aircraft Incidents · · Score: 1

    Are you talking about Microsoft? Where do you find Microsoft products in an Airbus craft?

  9. Re:Moral of the story? on Qantas Blames Wireless For Aircraft Incidents · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Another reason to keep devices off is so you're concentrating on the announcements that are made, if something goes wrong and everyone needs to get out. This applies in particular to any operations on or near the ground, but not as much while at flight level.

  10. Re:Just ovveride? on Recovering Blurred Text Using Photoshop and JavaScript · · Score: 1

    Yes, I didn't say it must necessarily be useful. :)

  11. Re:Just ovveride? on Recovering Blurred Text Using Photoshop and JavaScript · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It may stand out too much in the layout. What would be interesting (maybe even useful) is developing a formula that determines the minimum mosaic size for a given font style/complexity and size that makes reversing it produce ambiguous results, one extreme being a black rectangle, the other no mosaic at all.

  12. Re:Real /.ers wanna know! on Lord British To Conduct Experiments On ISS · · Score: 1

    Resurrection in space is easy, all he needs is a throne and a jester who constantly gets in the way.

  13. Re:Nematocysts on Fungus Fire Spores With 180,000 G Acceleration · · Score: 1

    Should be simple enough... just attach an impact sensor to the mirror.

  14. Re:Country First? on Election Dirty Tricks About To Begin · · Score: 1

    Like how?

  15. Re:No, the real trick on Election Dirty Tricks About To Begin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If I want to say that we were right to try and stay out of WWII even as genocide occurred, I'd be completely within my rights, I could even go further and suggest that it was a good thing, try doing that in Europe. It is a genuinely disgusting sentiment, but here you can actually say it.

    "In Europe"? What the hell does that mean? I'm "European", and I can say that in public. AFAIK there's nothing prohibiting me from doing it other than shame and life-long ridicule. I'd say the same applies to most European countries, other than Germany where it may - or may not - fall under the anti-nazi speech laws, but then Germany is the scene of the crime, and what they do is not my concern.

  16. Re:North Dakota Doesn't Require Registration on Voters In Many States Must Register By October 6 · · Score: 1

    You don't need a personal ID card, just any valid identification. Driver's license is fine.

  17. Re:Tomorrow? on Voters In Many States Must Register By October 6 · · Score: 1

    A lot of people can't vote because of whatever life situation or work. That's what absentee voting is for.

  18. Re:Please on Voters In Many States Must Register By October 6 · · Score: 1

    Finland has 200, that's a ratio of 1/26500. More reps in the US would perhaps be a good idea, say up to twice the amount? 800 is still barely within reasonable limits, I would say. They'd still fit in an A380, too.

  19. Re:That's how a Republic works on Voters In Many States Must Register By October 6 · · Score: 1
    IMHO, direct democracy couldn't possible work in practice, it requires too much work by the average guy. It's the same as everyone farming their own food, it becomes terribly inefficient. Instead, we specialize: politicians are specialized in making decision for the people the same way farmers make basic raw materials for food for the people. The only difference is that the benefits of corruption are greater, and oversight is more difficult. We have a group of specialized people to do that - the media - but it's just not working as well as it should.

    Instead of smarter politicians, or smarter people (ha ha!), a democracy needs smarter media.

  20. Re:clarification on iPhone Antitrust and Computer Fraud Claims Upheld · · Score: 1

    They have to follow consumer protection laws before inventing their own logic.

  21. Re:clarification on iPhone Antitrust and Computer Fraud Claims Upheld · · Score: 1

    I think they should help, actually. In that situation you've bought the phone for it's full price, effectively, and if it's not unlocked, it's not a functioning product.

  22. Re:She has time to call you at work? on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    He can't, he doesn't have sudo privileges.

  23. Re:Backwards Compatibility for Money on New Nintendo DSi Announced · · Score: 1

    One one hand, it's just cashing in. But on the other hand, this way those who actually want to play older games can do so on a newer device, without giving increased size and price of the device for everyone.

  24. Re:GBA slot will be missed. on New Nintendo DSi Announced · · Score: 1

    That's not really a widespread problem, though. There can't be that many truly useful expansions out there.

  25. Re:incongruous on Advanced Excel for Scientific Data Analysis · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why isn't it a good idea, and does this apply equally to OpenOffice?