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  1. Re:Study financed by on Study: Red Light Cameras Don't Improve Safety · · Score: 1

    What's "batshit insane" is following too closely. "Don't look at the original cause of the problem, let's look at secondary and tertiary effects." Bah.

  2. Re:This actually sounds pretty cool. on Ubuntu Gets Container-Friendly "Snappy" Core · · Score: 2

    But... when a library is patched then you have to re-download your entire machine again. What's the point of shared libraries? Just static link everything and you get a lot of the same result. (Not all.. there are other features of containerization... but static linking solves your library hell. And then there's the GPL/LGPL issues....)

  3. Re:Summary of Trailer on First Star War Episode 7 Trailer Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    The original clone troopers were... but somewhere between Ep III and IV, it was opened up to conscripts.

  4. Re:Also in iBooks on Apple Swaps "Get" Button For "Free" To Avoid Confusion Over In-App Purchases · · Score: 2

    I'd like to see another label: Ad-supported. That way I know to avoid those apps too. "Get * in-app purchases * Ad supported".

  5. Re:reflexes? on Major Brain Pathway Rediscovered After Century-old Confusion, Controversy · · Score: 2

    I don't have depth perception, and I drive perfectly fine. I'd argue that I drive better than most. I have 0 accidents and only 2 tickets (speeding, and an illegal left contrary to posted signs) _lifetime_ record. (I've been driving > 20 years...)

  6. Re:Great! Now how about... on Apple Releases iMessage Deregistration Utility · · Score: 2

    For iPhoto: Select all of your photos... choose Export from the File menu. Pick "Original" as the format, pick a directory to dump them all into. Not sure what you mean about "all my data out of Time Machine". Almost like asking "all my data out of my ZFS filesystem" (and I mean _all_, not just the current state. Each and every snapshot I have ever made...).

  7. since it demonstrates that you have an awareness and knowledge of the device and the means to unlock it

    And the device being able to recognize your fingerprint doesn't do the same thing?

  8. Wrong company name on Lenovo Completes Motorola Deal · · Score: 1, Informative

    Wow. Crap article and summary. Both claiming "Motorola", when it's "Motorola Mobility". Not the same thing. "Motorola" had multiple divisions. (The press release got it right....)

  9. Re:Umm, like I have an idea? on Michigan Latest State To Ban Direct Tesla Sales · · Score: 1

    If Tesla can do this, then so will Ford and GM, and then you just killed a very large job market, seeing as how many dealerships employ 50+ employees

    And if the demand existed for the cars, those 50 jobs would still exist. Just instead of being employed by "Joe's Car Emporium", they'd be employed by Tesla (for Ford, or GM).

  10. Re:Government Dictionary on Facebook To DEA: Stop Using Phony Profiles To Nab Criminals · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Of course, perhaps the fact that so many people throw around the term entrapment is indicitive of a general feeling of unfairness at these actions and that they should be illegal actions for the police.

    Or, this is the griping of people who figured that they were going to "get away" with something and are now looking for any justification to escape the responsibility for their actions that they knew were wrong to begin with.

  11. Re:Not just college applications on Is It Time To Throw Out the College Application System? · · Score: 1

    If you're applying for a programming job, that will never come into contact with customers

    Famous Last Words. What's missing is the broader view of who the "customer" is. The customer is the person who will be "consuming" the programmer's work. That could be the programmer's manager ("here's my code"), or the project manager ("Hey, here's a different way of accomplishing the task with the following benefits and drawbacks"), Or the CTO ("If we change our practices in such-and-such a manner, we will save X hours a week of effort."), or Sales ("Hmm... can't do that, but what about this?"), or...etc.

  12. Re:If yes then what ? on Is It Time To Throw Out the College Application System? · · Score: 1

    22+22 is no longer 44. its now 40 (plus 4)

    Uh... that _is_ how I do math (well, for larger numbers, numbers that small are easy to keep in the head). When the calculation gets big enough, it's time to start changing the equation to a series of easier equations (or start writing stuff down...).

  13. Re:Not sure how well it will work on Matchstick and Mozilla Take On Google's Chromecast With $25 Firefox OS Dongle · · Score: 1

    I've got a Chromecast, but I'm not terribly impressed. I have separate SSIDs for my 2.4 and 5 GHz bands. The Cast is on the 2.4, which means that it doesn't nicely interact with devices on the 5 GHz band. It really wants to match SSID names.

  14. Re:Android version req - long time coming on Google To Require As Many As 20 of Its Apps Preinstalled On Android Devices · · Score: 1

    _And_ updates! Within some reasonable time of release by Google (shorter if they had access to the betas and RCs). For at least 2 years after the last _shipping_ of the phone (not from initial release date).

  15. Re:Only the beginning on First Shellshock Botnet Attacking Akamai, US DoD Networks · · Score: 1

    That's DHCP clients, not DHCP servers.

  16. Broadcast rights on Not Just Netflix: Google Challenges Canada's Power To Regulate Online Video · · Score: 1, Interesting

    If this is successfully argued, could it then be argued that there is no reason why there are any country restrictions on streaming any sort of media since it isn't "broadcasting"?

  17. Depends on the conference on Ask Slashdot: Who Should Pay Costs To Attend Conferences? · · Score: 1

    Justify the cost of the conference as training. (Justify, as in prove, that the conference will teach you something) Assuming that your company has a training program.

  18. Re:KIlling off the Microsoft Store Name Too on Microsoft Killing Off Windows Phone Brand Name In Favor of Just Windows · · Score: 1

    I've used multiple Windows Phones ranging all the way back to the WinCE devices, Windows Mobile, to Windows Phone. Never been happy with any of them. Then ended up on Android and stayed there ever since. (I do have an iPad, so I use iOS, just not on the phone)

  19. Headline that asks a question on Is It Time To Split Linux Distros In Two? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Betteridge's law of headlines. No. The article doesn't say a whole lot. Just makes the assertion that "servers" and "desktops" are different, and lightly appears to dislike systemd. Tries to make the assertion that the security concerns are different on the desktop and on the servers, but doesn't provide a strong argument for that assertion (or really any assertion it makes).

  20. Re:Crichton is an idiot. on How Scientific Consensus Has Gotten a Bad Reputation · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And as soon as those many many many scientists can repeat and verify that experiment, the consensus very quickly changes to account for the new experiment, and the old consensus vanishes. (Or someone can come up with a counter experiment that shows how the first doesn't apply....) That's how Science advances. "Here's how the current theory works. X, Y, Z.". "Hey, I found a case where Y doesn't happen, if there is a presence of midichlorians (M)." "You're right. Ok, new theory: X, Y (if there are no M), Z.". Doesn't make the first consensus wrong. It was right for all of the available data at the time.

  21. Battlestar Galactica on Could Tech Have Stopped ISIS From Using Our Own Heavy Weapons Against Us? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Did you not watch the Battlestar Galactica reboot? The first thing the cylons did was send a kill code to all colonial forces rendering the entire fleet helpless. Nuked the 12 colonies immediately afterward.....

  22. Re:No, it wasn't. on Deputy Who Fatally Struck Cyclist While Answering Email Will Face No Charges · · Score: 1

    In Canada there's a infraction called "Driving without due care and attention". Let's start with that. Then move up to the equivalent vechicular manslaughter. Or assault with a weapon, or any of probably a host of other charges. While the police are allowed to use electronic devices in the course of their duties (which the rest of us citizenry do not...), that does not mean that they are allowed to endanger other people while doing so. Theoretically they get training on how to do so, so it's worse in this case. The officer should have known better.

  23. Re:64-bit support on Chromium 37 Launches With Major Security Fixes, 64-bit Windows Support · · Score: 1

    Chrome isn't responding to about:buildconfig... and calling file on the executable:
    $ file Google\ Chrome
    Google Chrome: Mach-O executable i386

  24. 64-bit support on Chromium 37 Launches With Major Security Fixes, 64-bit Windows Support · · Score: 2

    So when are they _finally_ going to have a 64-bit OS X version?

  25. Re:Still... on C++14 Is Set In Stone · · Score: 5, Informative

    Uh, yes they do. Don't rely on summaries to list all of the features of the language. From N3797: An integer literal is a sequence of digits that has no period or exponent part, with optional separating single quotes that are ignored when determining its value. Example: The number twelve can be written 12, 014, 0XC, or 0b1100. The literals 1048576, 1’048’576, 0X100000, 0x10’0000, and 0’004’000’000 all have the same value. — end example