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  1. Re:Non story on Sapphire Glass Didn't Pass iPhone Drop Test According to Reports · · Score: 1

    Untrue. I watched in horror as my iPhone 4 fall from 5 feet, face up. A blink of an eye later, the glass was shattered. The back was undamaged. No, the Apple store couldn't explain it, either. But I saw it with my own eyes.

  2. Re:Only if the cops don't cover their tracks on Navy Guilty of Illegally Broad Online Searches: Child Porn Conviction Overturned · · Score: 2

    Parallel construction.

  3. Re:If you find him... on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    As Tom Clancy put it, "it's not how many fingers you break, it's how you work the broken bones that matters."

  4. Medallion cabs vs car services on NYC Taxi Commission Nixes Cab-Hailing Apps · · Score: 1

    Uh, most people (and the TLC itself) are ignoring the distinction between medallion cabs vs car service/'black cars."

    Medallion cabs: yellow, spend $1mm for a medallion (a bit cheaper for an "owner-driven" medallion, where the owner promises to drive one shift a day), have meters with regulated fares, famously won't usually take you out of Manhattan, and cruise Manhattan/Downtown Brooklyn, looking for street hails.

    Car service: not yellow, almost anyone can get a license, not allowed to pick up street hails (MUST use a base/radio), go anywhere/pick up anywhere, and charge whatever they want.

    Uber is targeted to the latter.

  5. Re:Install Cygwin + mutt on Ask Slashdot: Spoof an Email Bounce With Windows? · · Score: 2

    I don't think 'bounce' means what you (or Mutt) think it means.

    In particular, OP wants to create an NDR from the message; 'b' just redirects the message (adding on another line or two of header glop). Not the same thing.

  6. Re:It's the risk you take on SFPD Arrests Suspect In Airbnb Rental Trashing · · Score: 1

    Oh? Never had a tenant pour concrete down all the drains, then run the water - until it stops? EVERYTHING has to ripped out to fix the plumbing. Total train wreck ...

  7. Not a hard drive on Insider-Trading Suspects Smash Hard Drive Evidence · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one to notice that the title and the summary talks about hard drives, but Mr. Longueuil is described in the details as have ripped apart flash drives with pliers?

  8. Re:Complexity on PC Call Centers Garner Lowest Satisfaction Score · · Score: 1

    "Why is this so hard to understand? Moving to another desktop won't help since Ubuntu is trying to use a video mode that the monitor doesn't understand. If it can't show the initial desktop, why would changing to another desktop help?"

    Because the text-only desktop plays by different rules. Even if your GUI is toast, you can (probably) still use text.

  9. Re:Doctrine of Nullification? on Maine Rejects Federally Mandated ID Cards · · Score: 1

    "Yeah, and it's ok to beat my wife with a stick thats 1" in diameter or smaller, anything larger is abuse."

    I think that is actually still on the law book somewhere....I think it was Arkansas.


    The phrase "rule of thumb" comes from an old English law allowing a man to beat his wife with a stick no larger than his thumb.

  10. Re:the "God" of Hebrews and Arabs on ABC/Disney Shuts Down Blog Exercising Fair Use · · Score: 2
    Maybe you need to go back to school. The Hebrew and the Arab "God" is the same one. Hebrews are decendents of Abraham's son Ishmael and Arabs the decendents of his son Isaic. The split between the two came when Sarah, Ismael's mother forced Abraham to send Isaic and his mother Hagar into the desert. They all worshipped the same diety. And as Abraham was a decendent of Noah's son Shem, from where Semites come from, both Ishmael and Isaic are Semites as well therefore both Arabs and Hebrews are Semites.
    Maybe *you* need that refresher: you've confused Ishmael and Isaac!
  11. Re:Legalise Drugs on The Technology of Drug Prohibition · · Score: 1

    "Just curious...where do you live that you have to get a license to buy or own a gun??"

    New York City.

  12. Re:School on Wayback Archives as a Law Tool · · Score: 1

    And when they block archive.org, what will you do then? Even stupid admins tend to grow clues from time to time.

  13. Not everything is archived .... on Wayback Archives as a Law Tool · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... WBM respects the site's decision to not allow archiving. Unfortunately, those sites who might be the most interesting know that, and know that they can block archiving.

  14. I know how to instant appreciation ... on System Administrator Appreciation Day · · Score: 1

    ... just shut off the spam filters for a day. That gets EVERYONE'S attention.

  15. Re:I look forward to dealing with motorists.... on Cable Wants to Cut the Cord · · Score: 0

    ... watching movies on the freeway? Using hands-free phones, of course - to keep it legal.

  16. Re:Would make porn filtering a LOT easier on New .XXX Top Level Domain · · Score: 0

    ... er, '%systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\HOSTS'.

  17. Re:More funny would be to ... on How To Head Off ATA HDD Password Abuse · · Score: 0

    "Erasing it or even recording some random porn images before password protecting, almost every user would just discard it, but there would be some of them who pay lot of money to discover one hundred copies of goatse .... really funny!" ... or, to be even more nasty, d/l some kiddie porn. *That* would not be funny at all.

  18. Not to worry ... on IBM Ordered to Show More Code to SCO · · Score: 0

    ... as an attorney, I can predict the ultimate outcome: IBM will lawyer SCO to death. He who has the most resources wins. IBM beat the Department of Justice into submission; what chance does little SCO have? While in *this* case, it leads to a welcome result, It's always very disturbing when it happens. What if IBM decides, say, not to be so patent-friendly? And turns on, oh, Red Hat? Or somebody else? It's always nice to have the 800-lb gorrila in your corner. :-)

  19. Re:Typo in story line on Laser Painting Could Lead to 25-Year Prison Term · · Score: 0

    "Painting" should be "pointing." Nope. "Painting" is the term used for 'painting a target', such as used with smart bombs and sniper rifles. It's used for targeting, and considering the anti-terrorism topic this use of the word is still fairly relevant. Except that he wasn't painting the target. Had he used a laser scope attached to a rifle or SAM, say, this would not be such a scary article - from the right point of view.

  20. Typo in story line on Laser Painting Could Lead to 25-Year Prison Term · · Score: 0

    "Painting" should be "pointing."

  21. Hotmail TOS violation on Bringing Down A Copycat Site · · Score: 0

    ... I noted that the WHOIS record for e-buyonline.com uses, as admin contact email 'simply_hippy@hotmail.com', which, ISTR, is a violation of Hotmail TOS. And, of course, if the email account is pulled, then the domain registration is invalid and can be pulled, too. Rules and technicalities are such great things to have on your side. :-)

  22. MS hiring Linux Consultants on Microsoft Compares Windows And Linux · · Score: 0

    Do my eyes deceive me? "Microsoft is hosting a discussion on Windows and Linux between its two top Linux consultants." Things are sure changing in M$-land: they hire Linux consultants!

  23. The masses rebel! on MPAA to Sue BitTorrent Tracker Servers · · Score: 0

    NYT article today (registration required): http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/28/nyregion/28nyc.h tml "It was the 11th straight commercial - the second with Beyoncé trilling and shilling for Tommy Hilfiger - that pushed the audience over the edge. ..." "Oh, come on!" a man cried in the dark. "Give me a break!" a woman called out. "We paid for a movie!" another man shouted.

  24. PETC? on Legal Rights for Computers · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... so, are we going to have to deal with People for Ethical Treatment of Computers?

  25. Re:This doesn't *stop* anything on Beat Spam Using Hashcash · · Score: 0

    I think that part of the idea is that the hash is From- addr dependent. So, spammy must use the same From- address as the original CD seller in order to use his hash, and therefore gets picked off easier ...