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  1. Web Apps/Docs on some company's servers? on MS Office Tablet Delay Gives Google a Real Chance, and Not Just Google Apps · · Score: 1

    I still don't get it for content creation and access where you need web access.

    What the cloud delivers the cloud can take away; deliberately or otherwise.

  2. Re:2 Computers per Person? on Iranians, Russians, and Chinese Hackers Are After You, Says Lawmaker · · Score: 0

    Obviously, we can run "2 computers" in one box, so...?

  3. 2 Computers per Person? on Iranians, Russians, and Chinese Hackers Are After You, Says Lawmaker · · Score: 1

    One is for non-critical communications. Other is offline permanently.

  4. Fines vs Liberty on Speeding Ticket Robots — Laws As Algorithms · · Score: 1

    "you have to be able to predict different circumstances." Yeah, as we increase the fines a lot we have to know when the citizens will mount an insurrection against the government.

  5. Re:The thing with these people ... on Microsoft Creative Director 'Doesn't Get' Always-On DRM Concerns · · Score: 1

    "two things biasthese business men." The 2 words are: Steve & Ballmer.

  6. Re:He doesn't get it. on Microsoft Creative Director 'Doesn't Get' Always-On DRM Concerns · · Score: 1

    Boing on!

    "lots of people are miffed that their Internet connection is being used on a 24-hour basis to demonstrate that they are, in fact, not thieves."

  7. Re:Not surprising on Microsoft Creative Director 'Doesn't Get' Always-On DRM Concerns · · Score: 1

    Actually, the XBox managers adhere to what Ballmer wants, not customers.

  8. Re:This would clearly be a violation of on WA State Bill Would Allow Bosses To Seek Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    Constitutional Rights? The current POTUS does not believe in our constitution...based on his statements & actions.

    Troll, Troll , Trolling....The truth is so hard to take.

  9. Faraday Cages Work. on Ask Slashdot: How To Stay Ahead of Phone Tracking ? · · Score: 1

    Both ways. RF can't cross the cage either direction.

  10. Morons Don't Read Slashdot on One In Six Amazon S3 Storage Buckets Are Ripe For Data-Plundering · · Score: 0, Troll

    Amazon's Jeff Bezos must not give much direction to his crew about running things right.

  11. But...The ACA is manageable by Uncle Sam on Security Vulnerability Found On US Federal Government Contractors Site · · Score: 1, Troll

    US government agencies should have no problem managing the entire healthcare system under the ACA because there are so many tens of thousands of pages of regulations, they will obviously cover every single thing that needs to be done and done correctly and safely...

  12. Complex Choices on Ask Slashdot: Best 3-D Design Software? · · Score: 1

    1. Who you work with & funds you can spend: vendors, suppliers to interchange files with might be most important, or the company you might work with later.
    2. Simple vs complex 3D surfacing-solids needs. You want to learn simpler constructions that are extruded and rotated sections first. Jumping into complex 3D surfacing for "organic" shapes right off the bat can be confusing & frustrating.
    3. Training: It takes time to get the subtleties, and that may take a couple days practice on each platform if you can do it. Otherwise finding a good designer you respect which might be at a vendor or job shop can guide you (I happen to use SolidWorks as so many of my vendors & toolmakers use it). Once you pick software, its best to start constructing simple then more complex objects to find out how to best start a solid. For a round part, it takes experience to figure out whether you should start by extruding a shape or rotating a shape. Sometimes it doesn't matter. Sometimes it limits easy changes. Controlling constructions so draft doesn't give you sliver wedges is experience based. Many parts are constructed easier if you leave corner radii until nearly last.

  13. Re:Or White Noise + EGG Chair on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Block Noise In a Dorm? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Decades back I sat in a large egg shaped shell with a small opening with a padded interior you could sit in with stereo speakers in it.

    Whether it was music or white noise, once you were in the chair almost all the extraneous noise in the room just disappeared.

    Even someone speaking right in front of the opening was difficult to hear.

  14. Neon Gas in Neon Signs = ... Yellow on Astronomers Probe Mysterious Gas In Titan's Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    Maybe?

  15. Have it ALL: VMs on Ask Slashdot: Mac To Linux Return Flow? · · Score: 1

    Use whatever you want when you want...

  16. Re:Heh. on Iran Blocks 'Illegal' VPNs, Google, and Yahoo · · Score: 1

    Block too much and the unemployed youth will finally revolt.

    They know what they are missing from talking with friends in Europe.

  17. Preserved To Show Who Took over $100 Billion... on The Science of Hugo Chavez's Long Term Embalming · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And gave it away to the likes of Cuba and Bolivia and Iran for influence, while the citizens who elected Hugo Chavez received no benefit and the petro industry in Venezuela degraded due to lack of upgrades.

  18. Re:11,000 Year Peak: So we are going down! on Global Temperatures Are Close To 11,000-Year Peak · · Score: 1

    I was being quietly facetious. Indeed at some point in the 110,000 year cycle, we are destined fairly soon to start moving into a down trend (55,000 years) and then people are going to scream bloody murder that "Cooling is the fault of industrialization's soot." or similar.

    The Solar induced Ice Ages will return, in spite of politicians, do-gooders and worry warts. Northern hemisphere above about 50 degrees latitude will again go under a kilometers thick ice sheet. No one darn thing humans can do will stop this.

  19. 11,000 Year Peak: So we are going down! on Global Temperatures Are Close To 11,000-Year Peak · · Score: 1

    Great news. We have an 11,000 year solar cycle then, right?

  20. Re:Neil deGrasse Tyson - Heavyweight on Neil deGrasse Tyson On How To Stop a Meteor Hitting the Earth · · Score: 1

    If we worry about a 2 km dia asteroid (rough sphere) it weighs 15 BILLION TONS.

    Putting enough energy on over a year or two to pull the asteroid say 10,000 miles is going to be one hell of an amount of energy every second of the year. We don't have that sort of energy source we can deploy that I'm aware of.

  21. Cosmic Data Trove on Comet C/2013 A1 May Hit Mars In 2014 · · Score: 1

    No matter, hit or miss, there will be an enourmous amount of interesting data gathered.

    If it hits, we will learn a lot more about impact craters, that's for sure.

  22. Re:At you desk! on Mayer Terminates Yahoo's Remote Employee Policy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Some studies have shown that an interruption where you totally lose focus for another discussion causes you to take 15-20 minutes to get "back into the groove" of complex work.

    I understand this from my own work when it is complex. It doesn't have to be difficult, but just involve many things the mind juggles when attempting to come up with the best solution or design.

  23. CEO Backgrounds on Certificate Expiry Leads to Total Outage For Microsoft Azure Secured Storage · · Score: 1

    My perception of Ballmer and Dell is that they virtually started with their companies and neither person has a wide ranging training in business management & psychology of managing. Ballmer is famous for his chair throwing and viscous firing with a loud voice, sometimes for trivial reasons & banning Apple products in most places inside the company. Dell has been reported to become physically withdrawn when competitor Apple is mentioned.

    Neither of those responses to common activities speak good of a stable CEO who delegates well & thus the company's results suffer.

  24. Re:Wire cutters are my "do not track" on Ask Slashdot: Will Cars Eventually Need a Do-Not-Track Option? · · Score: 1

    Ahhhh. I see we have a subversive element here in the tech. world. Just meet him at his work, it is easy to get that off the Internet, and then we arrest him for disabling our Government Obligatory Odometer Design (GOOD), level a big fine and slap him with 30 days in the clink to silence the rest of his trolls around him.

  25. Wrong ?: US Govt Wants the Data on Ask Slashdot: Will Cars Eventually Need a Do-Not-Track Option? · · Score: 2

    Tyrannical nature of large governments is to "tax" miles driven (San Francisco) & grow, thus requiring built-in monitoring as a means of tracking you any time they want. Then they "fine" you if you disable the monitoring or help others do it.

    Our founders were aware of governments to become self-growing, cancer like entities.