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  1. Re:Great so another bug fixed but... on Google Fixes Credit Card Security Hole, But Snubs Discoverer · · Score: 1

    while a good question, I don't think it is a better one.

    Clearly it shouldn't be. EVERYONE here agrees on that. The point is that due to Google's technical expertise and business product, they are in a position to significantly reduce the ease at which people can come accross these "powerful" numbers.

  2. Re:Highway Robbery on NZ Traveler's Electronics Taken At Airport; Interest in Snowden to Blame? · · Score: 1

    I dunno about that.
      Even in person, with friends of friends, anyone quoting Rush L. to me immediatly causes me to just disengage. It isn't that I have a vendetta against him, it is that Rush has consistently proven himself to be a mean person, focused only on entertainment and making money over education, thought, or general political discourse. I have never heard an interesting thought come out of his mouth, and most of things he does say are lies and twisted truths to rally his masses into thinking, "ONLY rush understand me, the media doesn't care, but RUSH does"

    There are multiple pages-> http://www.alternet.org/20-most-racist-things-rush-limbaugh-has-ever-said
    michael J fox http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_fQ3VLSvfI
    called Sandra Fluke a slut...

  3. Re:Groucho's solution on A Year After Ban On Loud TV Commercials: Has It Worked? · · Score: 1

    I actually had a TV that had a remote control key that did that. (it was more like 85% darker). I've never seen it since though.

  4. Re:In (future) related news... on Canonical Moving Away From GNOME Control Center · · Score: 1

    hahahaha, I'm not sure if people should mod this insightfull or funny. But I just laughed out loud.

  5. Re: Video latency on AirPlay Alternative Mirrors and Streams To TVs and PCs · · Score: 1

    If you are only comparing itunes to music players, then yes, it seems bizarrly constructed. If you just wanted to play music, then even mac users can just point any media player to the itunes directory and play music/videos as normal.

    But it is a media management program that interfacese to different portable hardware ( i*(pod,pad,phone) ). And it lets me backup, and update (make playlists), and sync my i*devices just fine.

  6. Re:Anybody who doesn't know ... on Google Doodle Remembers Computing Pioneer Grace Hopper · · Score: 1

    My kingdom for mod points.

    DEAL!
        Please send the deed for "Anonymous Coward's Kingdom" by way of African Swallow to neverland.
    No takesies-backsies
       

  7. Re:before anybody pops pills on Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? · · Score: 1

    Because evolution takes a long time, and only optimizes for birth to reproduction years. So, there are many parts of nutrition that are good enough to get you to the ripe old age of 16-25, but not great for delaying that first heart attack.

    This is why our bodies will never evolve to solve late-in-life diseases like: heart disease, most cancers, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Diabetes [type 2].

  8. On Getting a second opinion... on After FDA Objections, 23andMe Won't Offer Health Information · · Score: 1

    There are a lot of posts here already saying, "it's 23&me.com, of course you should get a second opinion before: {getting a double mastectomy, getting your balls cut off, ...}". But, that is always the case in the face of a life changing diagnosis. If your local doctor diagnosis you with anything you consider life changing, for me it was an allergy to a common food, you should always get a second opinion. And if it is something major like major surgery, then consider getting a 3rd opinion too.

    I trust my doctor, I've been with him long enough to know he doesn't just try to get me random expensive procedures, but I've learned to listen more carefully. The more it seems something is "probably", and less definitely, the more I consider what else it could be, what else I could do, do some reading myself, and consider getting a second opinion.

  9. Re:I for one would love to see DBs be more like Ex on Why Reactive Programming For Databases Is Awesome · · Score: 1

    The rules engine I've seen (BRMS) utilizes the Rete algoritm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rete_algorithm)

  10. Re:Equality on The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently' · · Score: 1

    6. women are given access to public money (scholarships) for education just because they are women.

    [citation required]
        I'm unfamiliar with any scholarships funded with tax dolars that can only go to women. Surely you aren't against the free market where private citizens can give money to whomever they want.

  11. Re:But it's okay if the carriers track us? on NSA Tracking Cellphone Locations Worldwide · · Score: 1

    Out my own ignorance, how to carrier's profit from anything but the most anonymized tracking? I can only see a want/need for supply/demand/usage statistics.

  12. Re:Equality on The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently' · · Score: 1

    women pay less into social security yet retire sooner.

    Do you realize that this is the opposite of proving your point? Because it is about how women are systematically given less money for doing the same job.

  13. Re:Joke's on them on Dial 00000000 To Blow Up the World · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but we're pretty much all ok with that :-)

  14. Re:Just like the new cancer test on Affordable Blood Work In Four Hours Coming To Pharmacies · · Score: 1

    Anyone seen a decent accuracy study for that test? Even if it detects cancer 100% of the time, that is useless if the FA rate is 99%.

  15. Re:Uhh on Time For a Warrant Canary Metatag? · · Score: 1

    So, his business is not registered. Silk Road based?

  16. Re:Data plan? on FCC App Lets Android Users Measure Mobile Broadband Speed · · Score: 1

    You aren't hard capped; they'll gladly charge you a fee for each MB over :-)

  17. Re:Cool! on Red Hat Releases Ceylon Language 1.0.0 · · Score: 2

    Well, force = mass * distance/time^2, but that probably wasn't your point. (or perhaps it was HAH!)

    I tried to do that once, it turnes out to get pretty complicated if you don't have compleate symbolic manipulation library at your disposal. Simple unit */ another unit was easy, but then when they were hard to simplify because one unit was to the (1/3) power, my c++ class system couldn't handle it.

    I eneded up simply requiring out group to always put units on their variable names so we could follow the code easily. So, now I always to int interval_ms = 5000; or float box_distance_km = 10; (Time and length were the most common errors)

  18. Re:WTF is Glassfish? on Oracle Kills Commercial Support For GlassFish: Was It Inevitable? · · Score: 1

    Now those companies will either have to depend of the community for support or switch to other commercial options like WebLogic or WebSphere or JBoss EAP.

    Jboss, like many Redhat products has free community editions, and pay for supported Corporate editions. Additionally, if your application only uses the JEE api, then migrating from glass fish to EAP should be easy.

  19. Re:WTF is Glassfish? on Oracle Kills Commercial Support For GlassFish: Was It Inevitable? · · Score: 2

    From my experiance, Glass fish is ONLY used by people following the JEE tutorials from oracle (using netbeans too). It is not a competative-performant-scaleable JEE Application server.

  20. Found it! on Ars: Cross-Platform Malware Communicates With Sound · · Score: 3, Informative
  21. Re:there already are on Does Software Need a Siskel and Ebert? · · Score: 1

    I agree with Office* (something everyone in business has a basic appreciation for and understanding of- but Medical billing software? that is kind of a niche software market, that would be akin to Ebert & Roeper reviewing Canadian surrealist pornography.

  22. Re:Missing option on Slashdot Asks: What Are You Doing For Hallowe'en? · · Score: 1

    I actually do, and I'm pretty sad about it-

  23. Re:I don't use providers HQ in the USA on Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Complete Hosting Providers? · · Score: 2

    The difference is that Switzerland has no ability to jail me for browsing things on the internet, while I'm sure the my [US] government could find a reason to if they looked hard enough.

  24. Re:I hate these things. on Automakers Struggle With Pairing Smartphones To Car Infotainment Systems · · Score: 1

    You can't play FLAC files if you use your phone as a USB mass storage device so get ready to haul around an auxilliary audio cable.

    standard Audio cables are cheap, I leave mine in the car, and usually leave one in my backpack for when I rent cars on travel.

  25. Re: This is what I like best about /. on How To Lose $172,222 a Second For 45 Minutes · · Score: 1

    This isn't a serious relation right? The market 'righted' itself because an algorithm with the credentials of a stock trader misvalued something and a bunch of other people and algorithms took advantage of it and made monet on it.

    This is no different than me buying a bunch of goods, and then selling them for 1/2 price- Other sellers of this good in the area can't compete with me for a bit, and while I lose a shit tone of money, the price of that good I was selling for a loss goes down. Now that I'm out of businees, they go back to their normal price.

    But, despite this correction, during that period of instability, a lot of people's businees were hurt, so they go to the govenment and demand retribution- You think that process should be 6min too?