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  1. Re:"...the same as trespassing." on Kentucky Man Arrested After Shooting Down Drone · · Score: 1

    No, the closest analog to this would be the stranger *hopping a 6 foot privacy fence* and approaching the family members.
    In this case, he circumvented reasonable privacy expectations with the 'copter.

  2. Re:Using Linux would prevent these Cisco mishaps! on Cisco Security Appliances Found To Have Default SSH Keys · · Score: 1

    Yeah, pretty much all of Ubiquiti's gear is. Edgeswitch, in particular, in this case.

  3. Wait... what cabling? on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Solve a Unique Networking Issue? · · Score: 1

    So he's going to run up to 16 cables to 8 peds of 2 pumps each...? I guess if you're OK with doing that each time, sure...
    Also, if it's only you/your company doing these, why can't you change the IP's on the pumps? Sure, if there was some other application or device needing them to be on a set IP, that would nix that idea.... but as said... they're not networked anyway.

  4. Re:Just be glad it's not... on Man-Shaped Robots Harass Britain Once Again · · Score: 1

    aren't they usually referred to as "pepper-pots" :) not that i know if/what difference there is..

  5. Re:That House episode on Augmented Reality Treatment May Alleviate Phantom Limb Pain · · Score: 1

    Yeah, he had lost the lower half of his arm. House set up a box with a mirror in it that when both arms were inserted, made it look like he had two complete arms/hands.
    When House told him to clench as tight as he could, and soon after relax, I guess his brain finally told the bad limb to stop clenching or doing whatever it thought it was supposed to be doing.

  6. Re:See what happens when leftists are in Charge? on Federal Court Kills Net Neutrality, Says FCC Lacks Authority. · · Score: 2

    Republican here Ralph Wiggam is righ- umm.. Correct. :)
    One thing Obama's administration has gotten right is an FCC that is at least TRYING for net neutrality. I own stock in AT&T and think what they are Verizon are doing is a bunch of crap.

  7. Re:ghost in the shell on Police Use James-Bond-Style GPS Bullet · · Score: 1

    I came across some nekkid Klingon chicks a few years back... Need the link?

  8. SO OLD NEWS on Police Use James-Bond-Style GPS Bullet · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not slashdot's fault... This is news from around 2009!

    http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records-7000/first-gps-projectile-tracking-device/

  9. Re:NO it won't stop anytng on Finally, a Bill To End Patent Trolling · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but a business owner that receives one of those letters is still going to fear going to court... If it were me, I'd fear the size and integrity of the trolls in question. What if the suit takes MANY months or years? I still have to pay lawyers in the meantime... When I DO come out victorious, how long will it be before a patent troll is on the up-and-up and pays the fees in question? Or will they just disappear into the night via some fakey bankruptcy or dissolution by a parent company?

  10. Helium? on Fusion Reactor Breaks Even · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't know a lot of about fusion, but I've read Helium is a byproduct of fusion reactions. Once these things start getting run more and more, will we be able to harvest the helium generated to stave off the coming shortages?

  11. Re:Yawn on Matchstick-Sized Sensor Can Record Your Private Chats Outdoors · · Score: 1

    Looks interesting. Wouldn't it have been cool if his character's name had been Edward Lyle (Enemy of the State)

  12. Re:Oh for crying out loud on Google's Scanning of Gmail To Deliver Ads May Violate Federal Wiretap Laws · · Score: 1

    This is the part I don't get. You're right. Isn't it pretty well spelled out in the EULA's that you're giving away your right to name your first born, let alone any "privacy" in the email? Add to that the fact that the feds recently said, "screw you, you don't have any expectation of privacy on these email accounts because the servers aren't under your direct control." Wiretapping implies surveillance without knowledge... In a lot of states only one party need know their call is being monitored to make it legal.

  13. Re:Oh my god on Homeless, Unemployed, and Surviving On Bitcoins · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm not sure what to think... I'm in Pensacola, and I'm seeing job listings for IT personnel that by all rights should be a minimum of 60K (VMWare Hypervisor and all other IT tasks, including database admin.)... Offering 30.

  14. Not "ours" on Obama Asks FCC To Make Carriers Unlock All Mobile Devices · · Score: 1

    Verizon's smartphones are already unlocked... ATT will unlock as soon as we've paid for the devices in full.
    I'm probably over-generalizing.... A mandate like this is going to prompt them to find a way to screw us over. Remember what happened with the portable numbers? We all ended up with a $1.75 "regulatory recovery fee" on our bills for quite a while.

  15. Crimp! on Ask Slashdot: Hands-On Activity For IT Career Fair · · Score: 1

    Let them crimp some RJ45's onto cat5.

  16. Re:Old news? on Colliding, Exploding Stars May Have Created All the Gold On Earth · · Score: 1

    New host? Are you going for some sort of super-deluxe, double-catch-22 in reference to the word new? :)

    Yeah, I miss Art Bell a lot. I liked Barbara Simpson, on the weekends, several years ago, too. I haven't listened in over a year, since our cumulus station switched to Red-Eye Radio. It sounds like it's gotten worse? Does he still have Ed Dames and Steve Quayle?

  17. patents on Apple and Amazon End Lawsuit Over the Term 'App Store' · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I bet a shiny quarter that somewhere in the agreement, Apple gets a break on the 1-click purchase license that Amazon got the patent on way back when. Apple was among the first, if not the first, to license that farce for their store online.

  18. freedom... on Teenage League of Legends Player Jailed For Months For Facebook Joke · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised it's come to this. I was sure that when I went back and read the summary more carefully, it was going to be Australia or the UK, not Austin, TX.
    Who in their right mind viewed that as a credible threat?

  19. Staying out of both... on Nook Failure, Lack of Foot Traffic Could Spell Doom For Barnes & Noble · · Score: 1

    I won't shop in a Barnes & Noble or a Booksamillion anymore because of the constant upselling at the register. If I say no thanks, and I'm not interested even ONCE, I don't need to hear the 60 second speech they have memorized.

  20. Re:But, But... on It's Time To Start Taking Stolen Phones Seriously · · Score: 2

    Forgot to mention the reason we suddenly got the databases... They were "voluntarily" created by the companies a few weeks (or was it days) they got called in front of congress wondering about what could be done...

  21. Re:But, But... on It's Time To Start Taking Stolen Phones Seriously · · Score: 2

    You're dead-on close... I used to work for a couple of resellers and it made me mad we didn't have databases at all when I knew as well as you what the ESN's and IMEI's could be used for in this regard.
    We do have stolen device databases now... I believe they're still carrier specific at the moment, but they were to be combined this year or next, I think. Yeah, a marketing manager like that doesn't surprise me at all. Too bad the carriers wouldn't come up with that on their own, but hey, money is money.

  22. Re:But, But... on It's Time To Start Taking Stolen Phones Seriously · · Score: 2

    Well, *theft* is... in these cases... But maybe you're worried about people that hobble up to you on a wooden peg-leg and say ARRR Matey... I'll be takin' yer phone, and there's a musketball with yer name on it if ye give chase!

  23. Re:Watch the age trend on Matt Smith Leaves "Doctor Who" · · Score: 1

    Hmm. She said "future" incarnations, too, right?

  24. Re:Remember Bluetooth Ear Pieces? on Google Glass: What's With All the Hate? · · Score: 2

    I can only imagine how badly retailers are going to hate it. They don't want you photographing in their stores as it is with cell phones...
    I wonder how long before there's a glass app (if that's what they call it) that just scans your camera input for bar codes and qr codes at all times.. As soon as it sees one, it runs the bar code through amazon to get cheaper prices for you. Yeah it already exists on the iphone.. But I'll bet they will hate it even more. I wouldn't be surprised to see more calls for cell phone jammers or RF-blocking paint.

    In short, I think 99.9% of the hate will be all about the cameras. Especially if there's a workaround to turn off any indicator light that it's active.

  25. no STEM for them. on Florida Teen Expelled and Arrested For Science Experiment · · Score: 1

    Stick to the liberal arts paths, kids...
    You can't get arrested or expelled for writing a pretty poem or sticking a cross in a jar with pee, after all. Just don't draw a picture of a gun.