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  1. Nice, but... on Nicolas Cage To Return Rare Stolen Dinosaur Skull To Mongolia (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    When's he gonna return the declaration of independance?

  2. Re:Can the new buyer be worse than DICE? on DHI Group Inc. Announces Plans to Sell Slashdot Media · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hear Donald Trump is interested as well.

  3. Re:Maintenance server on Ask Slashdot: VPN Solution To Connect Mixed-Environment Households? · · Score: 1

    This ^
    This is much smarter than routing traffic from your son's computer at B through A to get to the internet. Save the extra latency and fault point.

  4. Re:Learn jQuery on To Learn (Or Not Learn) JQuery · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I agree, but there is a balance you should achieve. When I first learned jQuery and realized how easy it was to do a lot of things, I went crazy with it. Nowadays I've realized most of what I was using jQuery for, was better done using minimal jQuery (or none at all) and more CSS. Yes, it would be possible to use plain old javascript, but it's easier to write, AND READ jQuery than it would be to script all browser-specific perks of javascript. At the end of the day, use it, but don't abuse it. It's cached on all client browsers anyway and processing overhead and minimal, might as well use it and save yourself a headache or two.

  5. Re:Angular momentum at the park on Turning a Nail Polish Disaster Into a Teachable Math Moment · · Score: 3, Informative

    Teaching kids to go faster on the roundabout [...]

    This is terrible advice for children learning to drive!

  6. Re:Hard to take sides on University Overrules Professor Who Failed Entire Management Class · · Score: 1

    1. The professor is incompetent, and incapable of classroom management. 2. Every single student failed to learn the material due to their own fault.

    Except that average IQ drops quickly when in a large group. Sadly, if there are 3-4 real troublemakers in the group and enough "indifferent" students, it's probably enough to make at least 75% of them behave like retards, and that makes it a heck of a lot harder for the other 25% to actually do the learning. So it's very possible that in such an environment, no student was able to learn the material, due to the behavior of the group as a whole.

  7. Re:Instead... on 'Mobilegeddon': Google To Punish Mobile-Hostile Sites Starting Today · · Score: 1

    To be clear, to pass the "mobile-friendly" Google test, you DO NOT need a separate mobile version of your site. There are guidelines or what sites should do to be considered mobile-friendly such as size or proximity of links, no fixed-pixel-width interface, etc. This all makes sense in a mobile-friendly world that all web sites should abide by these principles, whether it chooses to serve different content to mobile and desktop, or they just make sure their regular website respects these accessibility guidelines.

  8. Why on the ISS? on ISS Could Be Fitted With Lasers To Shoot Down Space Junk · · Score: 1

    I'd sooner put a giant laser on the moon.

  9. Re:Bullshit Stats. on As Amazon Grows In Seattle, Pay Equity For Women Declines · · Score: 1

    When you look at the overall without understanding it at all.....it looks like we live in a sexist society because women choose more emotionally rewarding careers than financially rewarding.

    Because... traditionally there is more social pressure on the husband to bring the money home. Perhaps this could play a small role in the equation, no?

  10. Re:Unifi on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deploy Small Office Wi-Fi SSIDs? · · Score: 4, Informative

    +1 for Ubiquiti Unifi. I run the controller on my Macbook, the APs are spread across several locations and some locations have several. Roaming is seemless, quality and features are impressive and they are dirt cheap. 3 packs are 250$, that comes to about 85$ / AP. The controller is included and there is no license to pay or recurring fees.

  11. Re:I thought he died on Apple Reportedly Luring Ex-Google Mappers With Jobs · · Score: 1

    Replying to undo bad mod.

  12. Re:Has anyone ever noticed... on Complex Systems Theorists Predict We're About One Year From Global Food Riots · · Score: 1

    The idiot that wrote the linked article put great stock in filming 'Dawn of the Dead' in a shopping mall.

    I think that idiot is the prime minister of Canada...

  13. Re:How on Starbucks Partners With Square · · Score: 1

    Don't know about you but my phone can usually find me within 6 to 10 meters.

  14. Re:Crap coffee meets crap payment system on Starbucks Partners With Square · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dunkin Donuts?

  15. Re:Almost certainly fake on Australians Receive SMS Death Threats · · Score: 1, Interesting

    If Australia is anything like Canada, I'm betting it's a mobile operator doing it. Here they charge 25c per incoming message out of bundle.
    1. Write a script to send 100 000 death threats left and right.
    2. ...
    3. 25 000$ profit!

  16. Re:Tinfoil hat! Get yer tinfoil hat on! on Ask Slashdot: Are Smart Meters Safe? · · Score: 1

    I don't know about you but my mobile phone carrier keeps records of exactly when I place phone calls, how long I stay on the line, and even who I call! Can you believe these guys??

  17. Re:Sensationalized article on Black Death Discovered In Oregon · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Is it "too real"? on Hobbit Film Underwhelms At 48 Frames Per Second · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure they should worry so much about the shift to 48fps.
    If anything it's a great excuse for another re-release of all their past work.

    "And now, for the first time ever in Smooth D(tm), Bambi. Completely remastered and more life-like than ever."

  19. Re:Wrong on Company Accidentally Fires Entire Staff Via Email · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hear they immediately sent out 1,299 apology emails.

  20. Re:No on Ask Slashdot: Using Company Laptop For Personal Use · · Score: 1

    For what it's worth XenClient is exactly what you need, though it requires a Citrix infrastructure at work so it might not work out. But you'd have an hypervisor on the laptop with two VMs, Work and Home. Work is loaded by IT and sync'd with XenDesktop, and Home is loaded by you and you control everything on it. Complete isolation of both images.

  21. Re:I don't believe this for a second on Playbook OS 2.0 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    This came out last week. It is based on a survey of 1000 tablet owners in Canada only. I'd say within 2-3% margin of error it sounds about right. I'm in Canada and we have sold a lot of PlayBooks, mostly to people who would have liked an iPad but couldn't justify the 400$ more it cost.

  22. Re:Good app recommendations? on Playbook OS 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Sadly no. I use Citrix Receiver but that requires the Citrix architecture in the background. Other than that no gems yet I'm afraid. The platform and hardware are nice, just waiting on the apps...

  23. Re:I hate subjects on Playbook OS 2.0 Released · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You're looking at it wrong. They didn't cripple it to sell more phones, they developped the product when they still had good market share in the mobile world and wanted to sell PlayBooks into existing BlackBerry accounts. It was a way to bypass IT having to manage another device and piggyback on the already-approved BlackBerries in enterprise (think FIPS approval, etc). They did not expect then that nobody would want BlackBerry devices anymore, and that it would be a major handicap to the PlayBook to not be able to function as a standalone device.
    Short-sighted yes, malicious tactic I think not.

  24. Mod parent up on A Rant Against Splash Screens · · Score: 0

    ^ this

  25. Re:First post. on Team Creates Footwear Recognition System · · Score: 1

    I think they already got help from a woman, I've seen a documentary on the process on TV the other day...