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  1. Re:And therefore.... on Most Online 'Terms of Service' Are Incomprehensible To Adults, Study Finds (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    What's the exchange going on here?

  2. Yowzers on What Are Silicon Valley's Highest-Paying Tech Jobs? (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Is that in local currency? Geeze. I make that much in a place that costs 1/3rd the amount to live in.

  3. Re:It was unequivocally a criminal offense on Clinton's First Email Server Was a Power Mac Tower (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The act of creating the server was disconnected from any act of sending mail, in time, and in mind. She didn't even create the server, after all. That happened in like, 2007.

  4. Re:It was unequivocally a criminal offense on Clinton's First Email Server Was a Power Mac Tower (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "gross negligence" != "extreme carelessness". As the FBI specifically said. One is a legal term, with specific criteria, and the other is colloquial.

    Gross negligence requires some aspect of voluntary and conscious disregard, usually, by the way. Which means she has to have known some specific information was classified when she sent it, and known that she should not be doing so.

  5. Re: Clinton should be in jail!!! on Clinton's First Email Server Was a Power Mac Tower (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It would be, but the FBI does not believe she lied to them. Comey said exactly that during his House testimony.

  6. Re:I suspect it'll take a while. on One Year After World IPv6 Launch — Are We There Yet? · · Score: 1

    Good news, every piece of software you are now running is IPv6 compatible. If an application establishes a connection to a host name, all of the underlying OS stacks can do so over IPv6 if addresses are available and connections can be made.

    Of course, those apps that have four little input boxes and only support hard coding an IP for a connection still won't work. Have any of those? I don't.

  7. Re:And the root cause is... on One Year After World IPv6 Launch — Are We There Yet? · · Score: 1

    I pulled it off in my network in about a month. Since it's enabled by default in pretty much every major OS, the only thing required was to lease IP space and configure the routers to push addresses. Magically now most of my trafffic goes over IPv6.

  8. Mind on Ask Slashdot: How Many of You Actually Use Math? · · Score: 1

    My view is that even though you might not need these skills, the very act of attempting to learn them alters the way your brain is capable of solving problems in a way that is indispensable.

  9. Already There on Sale of IPv4 Addresses Hindering IPv6 Adoption · · Score: 1

    My company is already using IPv6 addresses. All of our sites have public addresses... as well as all of our desktops. All of our users now use Facebook and Google over IPv6. So... nothing will help me adopt it. Already done.

  10. Re:Poetic Justice on Georgia Apple Store Refuses To Sell iPad To Iranian-American Teen · · Score: 1

    It also reports on her saying she intended to give it to her cousin in Iran as a gift. So she admitted it to the news station.

    What did the employee hear her saying in Farsi? Got me, but if it was that, then he seems in the clear.

  11. Re:Really? on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 4, Informative

    Most of us are agnostic atheists. Including Dawkins, Hitchens, and the rest. You may have missed that.

    a-theist means without God. One who does not accept that God exists is an atheist. One does not need to also hold the positive belief that God does not exist.

  12. Re:really? on Analytic Thinking Can Decrease Religious Belief · · Score: 1

    I'm going to disagree with you. It's true that propositions that are at least plausible testable are more likely to be true than those that aren't, but the fact is you're trusting the scientists to do the tests, and accurately report their findings.

    Which I'm fine with. Trust in science itself can be built on the overwhelming number of things that science does that are testable by you right now. Such as whether your cell phone turns on or not. Whether GPS works. Or by your personal experience with the results of other science: understanding electricity, and thus running your tests by wiring a lightbulb.

  13. Re:Whoever is responsible for this article on Analytic Thinking Can Decrease Religious Belief · · Score: 1

    Both sides of thinking are useful. But useful does not automatically translate into correct.

  14. Re:Because 32bits of addressing... on Apple Under Fire For Backing Off IPv6 Support · · Score: 1

    All of my office machines have public IPv6 addresses. It's quite awesome. Makes so much stuff so much easier.

  15. Re:There's Your Problem Right There on Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution · · Score: 1

    Well, the "theory of evolution" does exist, and would include natural selection as one of the mechanisms to shape change. There's also simple drift.

    It's still valid to refer to it all as the "theory of evolution", or "evolutionary theory", or some such.

    Since it's also observable, it's also a fact.

  16. Re:There's Your Problem Right There on Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution · · Score: 5, Informative

    Evolution is still a theory. And a fact. The terms aren't exclusive.

  17. Re:Isac Newton anyone? on Lawsuit Claims NASA Specialist Was Fired Over Intelligent Design Belief · · Score: 1

    Modern physics (astro included) is about formulating theories that CAN be tested. Not sure why you'd think otherwise. String theory too.

  18. Re:An agenda on Virginia High Court Rejects Case Against Climatologist Michael Mann · · Score: 1

    Thanks for proving the point with "as science finds out more." You see, nothing else has been shown to do that. Yeah, science might be wrong. But it's the only human endeavor to obtaining knowledge that actually gets better. The alternatives seem don't have that track record.

  19. Re:An agenda on Virginia High Court Rejects Case Against Climatologist Michael Mann · · Score: 1

    Not really. He said we're 200 years into a 1000 year cycle of reversal. That means we're 1/5th through it. So they would point 1/5th of the way to south.

    If the PP is even correct, which I am neither arguing for or against.

  20. Re:An agenda on Virginia High Court Rejects Case Against Climatologist Michael Mann · · Score: 1

    I understand where you're coming from. So I'll question it.

    Science helps us determine that something will cause issues for everybody in the country down the road. The country is tasked with protecting the people within it. Science has determined a threat, so the government is tasked with helping eliminate, reduce, or avoid it.

    Okay, done.

  21. MS SQL is better on Ask Slashdot: Open Source vs Proprietary GIS Solution? · · Score: 1, Redundant

    MS SQL is a better product, all around. Both as an engine, and the management UI. The integrated security features, integrated XML support, and of course the GIS functions.

    But it costs money.

    Cost benefit, dude. That's all there is to it.

  22. Re:Yes it is! on New Batch of Leaked Climate Emails · · Score: 1

    Global warming is trivially demonstrated. The globe used to be cooler. Now it is warmer. That was easy.

  23. Re:Windows Phone 7 is a good solution on Are There Any Smartphones That Respect Privacy? · · Score: 1

    And there's tons of Contact synching apps in the market. Pick one.

  24. Re:Windows Phone 7 is a good solution on Are There Any Smartphones That Respect Privacy? · · Score: 1

    Or just using IMAP. Which works just fine.

  25. Re:Makes perfect sense on Banshee, Mono May Be Dropped From Ubuntu Default · · Score: 1

    Also opens up the possibility to optimize for specific ARM processors at runtime, or install time.