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  1. Re:Totally different on Judge Doesn't Care About Supreme Court GPS Case · · Score: 1

    It was private, not state-owned. But the real question is, why did they have to put a GPS tracker on it to know whether he was going to work or not?

  2. Re:Can't or won't? on Facebook Tells India It Won't Help Censor the Web · · Score: 1

    Which article did you read? Normally I wouldn't ask, but given your post you must have read something.

  3. Re:And still... on Chrome Becoming World's Second Most Popular Web Browser · · Score: 1

    Well, it does work nicely,

    Good to know

    albeit a) more slowly than Chrome and b) it tends to crash for stupid reasons ...

    Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the show? Sorry, I wasn't sure it this was intentional or not.

  4. Re:Americans on Why America Doesn't Need More Tech Giants Like Apple · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering exactly what "naturally suicidal" means, and if it wouldn't include a variety of reasons for wanting to kill oneself, including a bad job.

  5. Re:Eh? on Universal Buys EMI's Recorded Music Unit For $1.9 Billion · · Score: 2

    "company executives believe they can persuade regulators to allow it to swallow the business whole because the music industry is in such decline."

    This wasn't claimed by Universal or EMI, but by a blogger that wrote one of the articles. Consider it accordingly. A snarky comment may well be appropriate here, but not for this reason.

  6. Re:My father said on Zynga To Employees: Surrender Pre-IPO Shares Or You're Fired · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of "the Golden Rule" that I try to live by: "Treat others as you would like to be treated."

    When companies or individuals treat others in this manner, that indicates how they would like to be treated. As a nice guy, I try to accomodate them.

  7. Re:Games on What's Keeping You On Windows? · · Score: 2

    Dual-booting takes time, and I have to decide in advance whether this will be a "Windows gaming" session or a "Linux whatever" session. What's the point? If I just stay in Windows I can simply fire up a game when I want a break, and close it or even just pause it to do something else.

  8. Re:Bonus time. on AMD To Lay Off 10% of Global Workforce · · Score: 1

    No. But most likely this news is already incorporated into the share price (I know the market is closed now), so this may or may not be a good time to buy.

  9. Re:Retribution on US Marshals Ordered To Seize Righthaven Property · · Score: 1

    I want to be able to search a database of scumbags - their name, dob, and known mailing addresses

    You should be able to find what you want in their corporate filings.

    The US Marshalls stealing their copy machine doesn't actually help society in any meaningful way.

    Seized assets are used to satisfy the judgement, which is a benefit in my opinion.

  10. Re:Quality is not perfectly correlated to sales. on Is the Apple App Store a Casino? · · Score: 1

    If nobody knows about your app, that's your failure, not Apple's. It's called "marketing," and it's usually a precursor to "sales."

  11. Re:-1 To Slashdot on Are Power Users Too Cool For Ubuntu Unity? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a good idea, but there wouldn't be many posts left. Maybe it's still a good idea.

  12. Re:THAT'S the big question? on Who 'Owns' the Google Driverless Car IP? · · Score: 1

    Only in the Slashdot summary is this the "big" question.

  13. Re:Good luck... on Australian Malls To Track Shoppers By Their Phones · · Score: 1

    (BBTW Have seen our supermarkets stocking halloween stuff... go away unwanted American culture)

    Pretty funny, this is. If YOUR people weren't buying Halloween stuff, YOUR stores wouldn't be stocking it. Moreover, why do you care?

  14. Re:The Poorest Pay the Most Taxes on IRS Auditing Google · · Score: 1

    Wow, I don't think I've ever seen such an appropriate nickname here!

  15. Re:Tax Evasion is Theft on IRS Auditing Google · · Score: 2

    Yes, tax evasion is illegal. Tax avoidance is not. Which one this falls under is yet to be seen.

  16. Re:Absolutely required. on Ask Slashdot: Is Reverse DNS a Worthy Standard For Fighting Spam? · · Score: 2

    Right. If you verify that the domain name matches, you'll block a whole lot of email from anything that's on a shared host, since the rDNS will be for the hosting provider's domain. On the other hand, just checking for a record is pointless. My home broadband has a rDNS record.

  17. Re:How many Californians on California Governor Vetoes Ban On Warrantless Phone Searches · · Score: 1

    No, you inferred racism. "Illegals" is typically short for "illegal aliens" which has a specific definition that is based on citizenship, not race. I once read that most illegals in the U.S. are British, which may or may not still be true. In MN I wouldn't be surprised if most illegals are Canadian.

  18. Re:RIP on Steve Jobs Dead At 56 · · Score: 1

    But he reaps a ton of credit for technology he didn't create. Some of it is technology even Apple didn't create.

    And? Neither MS nor Apple "invented" the GUI, either, but nobody else was able to get it onto the desktops. I suspect that a lot of inventions don't succeed in their original forms.

    Some think of things, some create things, and some gett things to a point where they can succeed. Jobs was very good at that.

    His true genius and achievements were marketing, not tech.

    That's probably a good thing, or there'd be a lot of Apple tech that nobody uses because it was created without a vision for those who might use it.

  19. Re:VMs are cheap. Lawsuits are expensive on Web Hosts — One-Stop-Shops For Mass Hacking? · · Score: 1

    Not even close. PCI provides standards of how personal information is stored and handled; it doesn't give a rat's ass who's doing it.

  20. Re:unable to recover? on Web Hosts — One-Stop-Shops For Mass Hacking? · · Score: 1

    You can bitch about MySQL all you want (many do, I don't), but if it takes you three days you're using the wrong database or engine. If you're using a cheesy open-source CMS that requires MySQL, you're using the wrong CMS. And so forth. Of course, I'm sure that you have other nodes running your vital site so you're not offline that whole time.

    Plus, your issue doesn't sound like it has anything to do with remote hosting, so it's not relevant here. What you describe will also occur on a local system.

    Also, as I recall, you can disable keys during insertions. That might help.

    But really, if you're hosting something like this on a shared host, and backing it up using your home cable Internet connection, it must not be too important anyway.

  21. Re:Why? on Chrome Set To Take No. 2 Spot From Firefox · · Score: 2

    Right, Firefox 7 has been out for two whole days!

  22. Re:Did anyone tell him on Man Charged in Model Airplane Plot To Bomb Pentagon · · Score: 1

    You mean, like the lady that thought they were being attacked by terrorists during the Washington quake while she was in the obelisk?

    Perhaps because there've been more recent terrorist attacks in DC than earthquakes?

  23. Re:So... on Amazon Kindle Fire Surfaces · · Score: 1

    For the first time ever, I regret not having mod points. This may well be the first time I've ever seen the term "over-priced" used correctly on Slashdot.

    Those devices were far overpriced. They tried to compete with the iPad at the iPad's price point with an inferior device. To the average consumer, they look at these smaller devices they've never heard of for the same price as an iPad and they say, "Well for that price, why wouldn't I just get an iPad?"

  24. Re:Pushing to look at alternatives, really? on Oracle May 'Fork Itself' With MySQL Moves · · Score: 1

    MySQL licensing has always been a whole lot more than a "couple dollars" per host. And MySQL AB never had an option to pay what you feel like.

  25. Re:UTC motherfucker! Do you speak it?! on NASA Warns of Magnetic Storm After Huge Solar Flare · · Score: 1

    Nothing wrong with AM & PM, and it's unrelated to UTC. But, knowing the timezone would help, considering that the summary says it "has penetrated close to geosynchronous orbit starting at 9am today", while it's 8:10am here now. Must be those damn neutrinos again.