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  1. Because capitalism! on Amazon Warns Employees About 'Million Mask March' On Seattle HQ Today (geekwire.com) · · Score: 0

    March on Amazon, wearing your Guy Fawkes mask that you bought from... Amazon!

  2. Re:I'm glad but only $718,000 is peanuts on FCC Fines Another Large Firm For Blocking WiFi · · Score: 1

    I have a feeling that repeat offenses will grow the fine, eventually leading to prosecution. I think 3/4m is a pretty good deterrent to others. It's kind of a warning shot to other venues that would do the same. Even in this example: I read most of the linked PDF, and the offender fined here stopped blocking wifi 2 months after the FCC fined Marriott. They were still caught.

  3. Re:Doesn't happen in Europe on Affordable Care Act Exchanges Fail To Detect Counterfeit Documentation (atr.org) · · Score: 1

    Here we go again with the country comparisons. With countries only a fraction of the population of the United States. For instance, Canada (per google, 2013): 35.16m. US (per google, 2013): 316.5m. It's a problem of scale. I'm not saying it can't be done, just saying that "they did it for their tiny amount of people" is not good enough.

  4. Re:Dear SJW morons on There Is No .bro In Brotli: Google/Mozilla Engineers Nix File Type As Offensive · · Score: 2

    This amuses me, so I'll post it. When I see an acronym, my reading mind actually pronounces the words. So "an SJW" is read as "an social justice warrior" and therefore sounds awful. Maybe this is why people always avoid using an indefinite article with definition-ambiguous acronyms.

  5. "Magnets: How do they work?" on Facebook's Solution To 'One of Education's Biggest Problems' Is a Dashboard · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Screenshot 3: Looks like whoever created the Demo Student data was an ICP fan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvmvxAcT_Yc

  6. Re:Trading one set of problems for another on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Do If You Were Suddenly Wealthy? · · Score: 1

    For those who agree: Come to Nashville, then. We've had our problems with gentrification too, but 100k will buy you a very nice upper-middle lifestyle and a city lifestyle comparable to other cities.

  7. Re:No "morally acceptable" sites? on Ashley Madison Hack Claims First Victims · · Score: 2

    Uh, nope, sorry. The site advertises itself as a place for people wanting to cheat on their spouses to do so. The moral compass being touted here is the moral compass of millions of people who do not do such things. This has nothing to do with a single person looking for a fling.

    Those worried about being exposed, frankly, should be. Data security arguments aside.

  8. Wouldn't that be "Himalayas' peaks!"?

  9. Re:Library Filters on Tor Project Pilots Exit Nodes In Libraries · · Score: 1

    Wow, that's news to me. When I worked IT for a local government which managed the public libraries, we were barred from filtering anything. We had to install polarizing screen covers and put computers in weird places for all the pervs. Granted, this was 13 years ago.

  10. Re: No Foul play... on Grooveshark Co-founder Josh Greenberg Dead At 28 · · Score: 1

    Fallacy*

  11. Re: No Foul play... on Grooveshark Co-founder Josh Greenberg Dead At 28 · · Score: 1

    Call it falacy if you want. I've written and sold software that made its way onto TPB and resulted directly in lost sales, so I'm a bit salty. They just want shit for free, and the logic of that assertion will always be perfectly sound to me.

  12. Re: No Foul play... on Grooveshark Co-founder Josh Greenberg Dead At 28 · · Score: 1

    No, it means he wants shit for free and doesn't care if artists or their heirs get paid.

  13. Guns on Rich and American? Australia Wants You · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't understand why guns always come up when non-Americans talk about America. I have lived here my entire 30 years, IN THE SOUTH, and have not seen a single gun in public except in the hands of a police officer. I own guns and most of my family do as well. But I've never seen them in public.

  14. Re:DICE, Please fix on School Lunch Program Scans Student Thumbprints For 'Tracking Purposes' · · Score: 1

    The read more is gone on purpose. Notice that it's been very carefully replaced with "Share" in a farmville-esque play to get more views. $$

    M$? Nah. $lashdot.

  15. Traffic? on UrtheCast Releases Its First Commercial Videos of Earth · · Score: 1

    The traffic has to be simulated somehow, right? I guess sufficiently advanced technology appears to be magic, but I can understand how the rooftops move as the ISS changes position but the cars on the road stay very much planted.

  16. Best comments of the day on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is the best story of the day, comment-wise.

    Hatred of conservative Texas, hatred of guns, yet still the absolute intolerance of religion and strict belief in the first amendment all combining into a cognitive dissonance (to use a favorite term around here) that must be blowing people's minds.

    I love it.

  17. Re:Law enforcement doing what they should do on VA Tech Student Arrested For Posting Perceived Threat Via Yik Yak · · Score: 1

    It does read as a tip or warning until you apply context; If he had inside information about a pending attack and wanted to thwart it, it's more likely he would have been alerting authorities directly.

    Rather, he chose to tell the public at large in an ambiguous way using a public channel. Doing so immediately put the suspicion on him directly. And rightly so.

    Even if he was "tipping" people in on an attack, his method and words of doing so makes him a casual observer when the attack does go down, amused with an "I told you so" smirk. That makes him an accessory.

  18. Re:Some random CEO passed away? Oh noes! on SurveyMonkey's CEO Dies While Vacationing With Wife Sheryl Sandberg · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not really random; SurveyMonkey is THE goto survey company online, as far as valuation.

  19. Re:Oh, yeah? on Oops: World Leaders' Personal Data Mistakenly Released By Autofill Error · · Score: 1

    It's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

  20. Re:"losing" tools on A Toolbox That Helps Keep You From Losing Tools (Video) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I watched the video, and this is actually the problem they're solving. Not solving "losing" tools, but solving "employees taking tools." You have to unlock the box with a device registered to you, and the box registers what tools you take.

  21. Constantly amazed on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Build a Home Network To Fully Utilize Google Fiber? · · Score: 1

    Constantly amazed at this pursuit. Maybe I'm old school or something (LOL, just turned 30.) My life is my computers, my work and my hobbies, but I have a 50mb/s connection, and a family which consumes multiple netflix/hulu/youtube streams for the entire 4 hours that we're at home in the evening and not asleep. It all works fine for us. Not saying it would for others, and I'm all about the technical aspects of it, but come on. What in the world are you trying to do? The only possible use case I could see for this is piracy.

  22. Re:So, it has come to this. on Complain About Comcast, Get Fired From Your Job · · Score: 1

    No, it means exactly what it is called. "Right to work" means you have the "right to work" for a company without being forced by your employer to pay dues to a union. The whole ability to fire thing is mostly due to lack of union protections.

  23. FTFY on Swedish Dad Takes Gamer Kids To Warzone · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "A Swedish father has come under fire for interacting with the real world."

  24. Re:One stupid question on Winners of First Seized Silk Road Bitcoin Auction Remain Anonymous · · Score: 4, Informative

    How do they choose the exchange? Government property must be auctioned off to the highest bidder, otherwise they are favoring a business over others.

    One of those little things that they do to maintain the appearance that they are not corrupt.

  25. *really, actually.