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  1. Re:Wrong code on "451" Error Will Tell Users When Governments Are Blocking Websites · · Score: 1

    It would seem that the 451 code would be returned by a server located on a (relatively) free country attempting to comply with restrictions imposed upon users (clients) in authoritative regimes. If the server was located in that regime, returning such a code might be political (if not literal) suicide.

    Returning 451 from a server would indicate that you the client, have made an error in requesting material that your government does not wish you to see. The server has not made the error. The server is 'only following orders'.

  2. Re:Doesn't make sense on Red Hat CEO: Bring On the Clones · · Score: 1

    Red Hat is a viable support solution for larger companies. Small shops are better off relying on local Linux talent, either in house or small shops. People that wouldn't be likely to buy RH services anyway. So RH figures that if any of these small enterprises grow to be big and wealthy enough to afford them, its better if they are already in the Linux ecosystem. Even better if they are used to a distro that does things the Redhat way.

  3. Where do you get your Internet? on Why Internet Television Isn't Quite Ready To Save Us From Cable TV · · Score: 1

    Most people get it from a cable company. And those companies will do whatever it takes to throw a wrench into the works of their competition. Apple and Netflix haven't raised the ire of the last mile monopoly yet. However Google has. And I'm starting to see anything 'Google, including some of their analytics mysteriously being throttled by the incumbents. Until the stranglehold on the last mile can be broken and broadband providers are classified as common carriers, nobody does business in the turf they consider to be theirs.

    That's a nice little streaming video service ya' got there, buddy. It would be a shame if something happened to it. Ha, ha, ha.

  4. OK, Smart, or legal on Ask Slashdot: When Is It OK To Not Give Notice? · · Score: 1

    I've worked for a number of firms that 'sweeten the pot' so to speak to get departing employees to give notice and help with a transition. legally, they have to pay you for your hours worked. And in some jurisdictions, for your accrued vacation time. But I've received nearly a year's salary in severance pay and benefits that they didn't need to give me just for sticking around for my last few weeks. This includes one situation where a bunch of us were being laid off at the end of a project and the company didn't really need to train replacements.

    That's the 'smart' thinking at work. If future employers see you cutting and running from an old job, they will assume that there was something negative at work to make you forgo such compensation. And they will assume (correctly or not) that it was partially your fault and there may be something afoot with you.

    Leaving on a moment's notice can be a sign (correctly or not) that your previous employer doesn't trust you on the property anymore. I've received a 60 day WARN notice and stuck it out through the last day. When asked about this by future employers, I just pointed out that I considered it a matter of professional ethics to provide an employer with a smooth transition or shutdown. And there was no suspicion that I might have been 'escorted to the gate'.

  5. "Dude. What?"

  6. RFC? on Datacenter Gives Internet To 70 Percent of Navajo Nation · · Score: 1

    TCP/IP over smoke signals.

  7. Re:Rural internet at its best on Datacenter Gives Internet To 70 Percent of Navajo Nation · · Score: 2

    If they get something worth having, the white people will run them out of there and march them to some useless land. Probably Detroit.

  8. Re:hmmm.. casino investment? on Datacenter Gives Internet To 70 Percent of Navajo Nation · · Score: 1

    But no-one else has a historic claim to their lands, right?

    Not if WalMart wants it.

  9. Re:hmmm.. casino investment? on Datacenter Gives Internet To 70 Percent of Navajo Nation · · Score: 1

    Right. Find someone with something of value and take it.

  10. Re:So basically surfing net while taking notes on Using Laptop To Take Notes Lowers Grades · · Score: 2

    Right.

    I attended a lecture by a psychologist/educator who had done some research linking the mental processes needed to write/draw information as received to those who just listened or read it. Her observation was that there is a significant improvement in comprehension if one goes through the process of recording it manually. Drawing and sketching in particular, in disciplines that lend themselves to graphical methods made significant differences.

  11. Re:Use the laptop... on Using Laptop To Take Notes Lowers Grades · · Score: 2

    Old story, pre laptop:

    One professor noted an increase in students who brought tape recorders to his lectures to take notes. Not just this, but some would have a classmate bring their recorder to class to record the lectures, not even bothering to show up. So he began a practice of covering certain important material by writing everything, including responses to students questions on the blackboard without saying a word.

  12. Prior art on MS Researchers Develop Acoustic Data Transfer System For Phones · · Score: 2

    "Mr. Watson, come here. I need you."

  13. Re:Then replace the... oh thats right on Studying the Slow Decay of a Laptop Battery For an Entire Year · · Score: 1

    Not something one can do when your battery gets low and you want to swap it out sitting in a coffee shop.

    In my opinion, to be user replaceable, there should be no tools required (perhaps a latch one can turn with a dime would be OK). Certainly not a proprietary Apple 5 point driver bit.

  14. Re:Letting the battery cycle? on Studying the Slow Decay of a Laptop Battery For an Entire Year · · Score: 1

    No modern li-ion battery will let you charge or discharge it far enough to cause actual damage.

    Tell that to Boeing.

  15. Re:Not recommended. on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Good Device Holster? · · Score: 1

    OK in the winter. Lousy in the summer. At least a fanny pack, backpack, briefcase or shoulder bag allows you to adjust your attire to match the weather.

    There is nothing worse that seeing someone wearing a bulky vest or jacket in 80 or 90 degree weather (27 - 32 C). They look like homeless people who have to wear their entire wardrobe for want of a suitable shopping cart.

  16. Re:I hate Microsoft just like anybody else on Class-action Suit Filed Against Microsoft Over Surface Write Off · · Score: 1

    "The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers."

  17. Misled? on Class-action Suit Filed Against Microsoft Over Surface Write Off · · Score: 4, Funny

    investors who purchased stock during Q2 and Q3

    Investors didn't know RT was going to be a dog by this time? What's the matter with them? Don't they read Slashdot?

  18. Dominos Pizza on Four Month Mars Food Study Wraps Up · · Score: 2, Funny

    20 minute delivery or its free.

  19. Re:Why? on Illuminating Window-Less Houses With a Plastic Bottle · · Score: 2

    Ah yes. The "let them eat cake" solution.

  20. Re:Very cool idea, but on Illuminating Window-Less Houses With a Plastic Bottle · · Score: 1

    You ever accidentally see your parents having sex?
    Well, that's the last time I visit that web site.

    --Larry the Cable Guy

  21. RT? on Russia Today: Vladimir Putin's Weapon In 'The War of Images' · · Score: 1

    Not a damned thing about the NFL season or the Kardashians. I'm outta here!

  22. Re:RT Slogan on Russia Today: Vladimir Putin's Weapon In 'The War of Images' · · Score: 1
  23. Re:That's the Job of the News on Russia Today: Vladimir Putin's Weapon In 'The War of Images' · · Score: 1

    The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

    That used to mean us watching them. Now it means them watching us. It all depends on who gets to enjoy the freedom.

  24. So, put Jobs body ... on Larry Ellison Believes Apple Is Doomed · · Score: 1

    ... on a horse in front of the troops.

  25. Re:Umm, it's called braking bad for a reason. on Despite Global Release, Breaking Bad Heavily Pirated · · Score: 1

    Standing by for the obligatory Bad Car Analogy .....