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  1. Re:Horror Story on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Horrible IT Boss Story? · · Score: 1

    Was expecting Jack's Smirking Revenge

  2. Re:FERPA on First Ever HIPAA Fine Is $4.3M · · Score: 1

    My point is simply that there has never been an enforcement action for FERPA against any institution of higher education in the history of the legislation. Indeed the only penalty available to the FPCO for the enforcement of FERPA is the total withholding of federal funds.

  3. FERPA on First Ever HIPAA Fine Is $4.3M · · Score: 1

    Next thing you know, the feds be enforcing FERPA.

  4. can you say on Race On To Fingerprint Phones, PCs · · Score: 2

    Anonymous proxy?

  5. having trouble keeping up? on Motorola Sues Apple · · Score: 1

    A nice data visualization will help

  6. Re:Aaaand... on Studies Prove BPA Can Cross Placenta To Fetuses · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's a chemical used in many crystal-clear hard plastics. Like water bottles and baby bottles. Don't remember what it does to you - rots your brain or something.

  7. first? on Google's Plan To Save the News Through Reinvention · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    could it be?

  8. rule based DSS on What Would You Want In a Large-Scale Monitoring System? · · Score: 1

    Don't assume that you can successfully diagnose the problem based on your understanding of the indicators. You don't know my institutional context. Instead, give me a decision support system that I can use by adding rules that key off the monitored indicators and inject some of our own expertise into the diagnostic process.

  9. says the 60-something year old... on Brain Decline Begins At Age 27 · · Score: 5, Funny

    [sarcasm]
    Yeah, like I'm going to pay any attention to a study by a guy who got his Ph.D. in 1974 whose brain has therefore been declining for at least 35 years...
    [/sarcasm]

  10. Re:is that all? on Discovery Launch a No-Go, Again · · Score: 1

    I'm gonna' need some pliers, and a set of 30 weight ball bearings (it's all ball bearing nowadays) And I'm gonna' need about 10 quarts of antifreeze, preferably Prestone. No, make that Quaker State.

  11. Slashdotted before FP! on State of Colorado Calls Firefox Insecure, IE6 Safe · · Score: 1

    What's bad is that you managed to single-handledly introduce the amazing admin to the slashdot effect.

  12. profiles vs fast user switching on Google Releases Chrome 2.0 Pre-Beta · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What's the point of profiles in a web browser when you have fast user switching (and/or whatever MS calls their equivalent function)? Seems like that's the point of a multiuser operating system...

  13. $3,000,000 mint juleps at next year's derby on Water Ice On Mars · · Score: 4, Funny

    In other news, NASA announced today that a manned mission to Mars is planned to retreive the newly found ice in time for the 2012 Kentucky Derby. NASA plans to upstage Woodford Reserve's famous $1000 Mint Julep at the race with its own $3,000,000 version of the traditional cocktail. While plans are still being firmed up, the beverage will reportedly come in a limited edition collector's glass.

  14. Re:Cue the 3AM jokes... on One in Ten Americans Are Chronically Sleep Deprived · · Score: 1

    I can second this. I had a titration study about a year ago after my wife had bugged me for about five years. If you have sleep apnea, you simply do not know that you haven't been sleeping until that first night at home with the CPAP machine. The difference is incredible. I absolutely love that machine now.

    Aside from the long-term sleep deprivation that you don't even realize the apenea is causing you, it's really hard on your heart and the rest of your body...it's a serious medical issue. If you do go for a sleep study, ask to see the report. There was some pretty scary stuff on mine - I stopped breathing for nearly two minutes at one point and my blood O2 dropped to something like 65% at its lowest. (YMMV, I've got a particularly bad case)

    If you've got someone bugging you to get a checkup regarding your snoring, go do it. It can be a serious disease which is rediculously easy to treat, and you'll feel 200% better once it is treated. The fact that the person will stop bugging you is also a nice result as well.

  15. Re:Energy dissipation on Blast-Proof Fabric Resists Multiple Explosions · · Score: 4, Informative

    Oh yeah, video of the dragon skin grenade test here

  16. Re:Energy dissipation on Blast-Proof Fabric Resists Multiple Explosions · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Saw another kind of body armor on TV called Dragon Skin that's made of interlinked disks that also claim to spread the impact. Took armor piercing rifle rounds without penetration. They put a dummy wearing it on top of a fragmentation grenade and blew it up with no penetration through the vest. Crazy stuff.

  17. Anonymous Coward (87) on Slashdot Charity Buyers Donate Over $10,000 To the EFF · · Score: 0

    The big surprise was the anonymous reader who bought the Swag Bag AND the Low UID:


    Since when do anonymous cowards have UIDs?
  18. Re:I drive at every opportunity on United Makes Plans to Drop 'Baggage Neutrality' · · Score: 1

    Rail is great if you're in Europe or on the atlantic seaboard between Boston and DC. Otherwise, the service is close to non-existent. I'm in Memphis, so I just picked a random destination - Charlotte (lived there for a while) - and a random departure date - this Tuesday. To get from Memphis to Charlotte by Amtrak, you couldn't leave until Wednesday and would have to travel for 35 hours not counting 15 hours of cumulative layovers in Chicago and Charlottesville, VA, getting to Charlotte on SATURDAY. Even if a train burning diesel for 35 hours is more eco-friendly than an airliner burning jet fuel for 2, I still think I'll pass, thanks.

  19. online tutor - ALEKS on Best Way To Teach Oneself Math? · · Score: 1

    I'm taking a stat course for a doctoral program, and part of the course is an online tutorial called ALEKS. I get more out of doing the work in ALEKS than doing just regular problems out of a book because on the tough stuff the program can tell me that I've gotten it wrong and give me another chance. There's also a lot of explanation and easy access to formulas relevant to the problem at hand.

    The ed psych department I'm taking this class in has an institutional license, but you can apparently buy a personal subscription to ALEKS without having any affiliation with a school or university. Looks like they've got a thorough set of offerings from elementary to pre-calc and statistics. Also looks like there's a free trial so you can try it out.

    I'm not crazy about the implementation - Java plugin that's got a somewhat clunky UI. All the same, I'd recommend trying it.

  20. Re:Why? on China Sets Sights on Comprehensive Lunar Survey · · Score: 1

    I heard that the manned landing portion of the program will be called Allopo powered by Sotern A rockets, the landing craft called Egale Oen, and in a fit of innovation they'll be taking pictures will a cellular-based device called the iHpone.

  21. Re:What else do they decide to forward or not? on University of Kansas Will Not Forward RIAA Letters · · Score: 2, Informative
    From a short article in the Chronicle that accompanies a copy of the actual letter sent by Cary Sherman to university presidents:

    5. Some campus administrators already worry that the record industry's pre-litigation notices will leave colleges exposed to lawsuits. If colleges are given the task of passing on the letters, information-technology officials ask, couldn't they end up being sued by students who say they never got the notices -- and, therefore, missed the chance to settle their cases at a discount?

    Issues like that have gone largely unresolved. "There are a lot of legal questions out there," says Dick Jacobson, information-technology-security officer for the North Dakota University system, which received 19 pre-litigation notices this month. "And I'm sure if you talked to lawyers in other systems, they'll disagree with the lawyers in our system on some matters."

  22. Re:The short version... on Executive Order Overturns US Fifth Amendment · · Score: 4, Informative
    You left out a significant bit, when I've reinserted with emphasis:

    any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense to have committed, or to pose a significant risk of committing, an act or acts of violence that have the purpose or effect of threatening the peace or stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq or undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people.

    Your anti-war demonstration scenario is only going to get your property frozen if it's a violent demonstration.

  23. outsourced testing on Bill Gates Should Buy Your Buffer Overruns · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Almost sounds like an argument to outsource testing to the general public and pay them for it. Not sure why MS would do this when they've been outsourcing testing to the general public for years and charging licensing fees for it!

    Cynicism aside, do you think that it really makes business sense for MS to pay for vulnerabilities? Has their revenue really been hurt that badly from their current security practices?

  24. 2 or 3 points? on Firstborn Get the Brains · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And what is the standard error on the particular IQ test they used?

  25. Re:Huh? on Photosynth Demo · · Score: 1

    You know what's strange is that I thought the same thing before I watched the video demo, and now having watched it, the sentence makes decent sense.

    WTFV.