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  1. Re:Secure. Responsive. 24/7/365. the Cloud. on Code Spaces Hosting Shutting Down After Attacker Deletes All Data · · Score: 1

    Dammit. Time to update my password to hunter3.

  2. Re:Sensationalist summary on Yahoo's Diversity Record Is Almost As Bad As Google's · · Score: 2

    "The IT company I work for is full of young, sporty guys."

    There, a similar statement going on the most common stereotype for men - that only geeks work with computers. The GP's post likely meant that despite these women having the looks 'necessary' to just sit at home while their husband earns all the money they have chosen to go into the IT field. It's a stereotype BREAKER, not a stereotype ENFORCER.

  3. Re:Hmmm ... on AT&T Says Customer Data Accessed To Unlock Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Because at some point the red tape would become counter to conducting business.

    If one of these employees is the store manager or even regional manager, why WOULDN'T he have the authorization to grant access? Would they need to call the AT&T HQ every time they need to look up a record to have access granted from within?

  4. Re:Fuck Amazon on Amazon Dispute Now Making Movies Harder To Order · · Score: 1

    Then why are paperbacks usually cheaper than hardbacks? Of the same story, I mean.

  5. Re:multiple cell towers too, or grocery stores on Hundreds of Cities Wired With Fiber, But Telecom Lobbying Keeps It Unusable · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is why there would be multiple ISPs AT THE DATACENTER.

    Do you have ten different sets of plumbing running to your house so you can pick and choose between the best supplier of fresh water? A dozen different power cables so you can switch power company easily?

  6. Re:Wait a sec on Belief In Evolution Doesn't Measure Science Literacy · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It is the belief that Darwin's Theory of Evolution (with later minor revisions and adjustments) is the explanation of how evolution works. As long as something is a theory you are open to other explanations, but you can believe that this particular theory is the right one due to overwhelming evidence that still does not prove it as hard irrefutable fact.

  7. Oxymoron on Temporary Classrooms Are Bad For the Environment, and Worse For Kids · · Score: 2

    Sustainable but temporary. Maybe it's just because English isn't my first language but I really fail to see how you can have both; or why you would WANT both.

  8. Re:Well, of course. on Kids With Wheels: Should the Unlicensed Be Allowed To 'Drive' Autonomous Cars? · · Score: 1

    Which is why the car should have a series of profiles installed, perhaps fingerprint reading or voice recognition to determine which person is 'driving' the car.

    So when little Bobby gets in the car and with his squeaky six year old voice says to take him to Kentucky the car just goes "I can't let you do that, Bobby." Because little Bobby has two allowed destinations: School and Home.

  9. Re:To be fair... on Ask Slashdot: Tech Customers Forced Into Supporting Each Other? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The key word is CAN. Take a look at one of the recent stories about HP cutting off another sixteen thousand jobs.

  10. Re:To be fair... on Ask Slashdot: Tech Customers Forced Into Supporting Each Other? · · Score: 1

    I did? Which one of them, the first or the second? And looking at my post I don't see what you mean, could you be more precise?

  11. Re:To be fair... on Ask Slashdot: Tech Customers Forced Into Supporting Each Other? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And generally, the number of a tool's users with a problem at any given day SHOULD be << the number of developers or support staff.

  12. Re:Let me know when you win that war on drugs? on FBI Need Potheads To Fight Cybercrime · · Score: 1

    blunt honesty

    I see what you did there.

  13. Re:Protests were Illegal (and last Thursday) on Water Cannons Used Against Peaceful Anti-TTIP Protestors: the Next ACTA Revolt? · · Score: 1

    no disruption of over people

    Was that an intended typo or a Freudian slip?

  14. Re:Not neccessarily pirated on Ohio Prison Shows Pirated Movies To Inmates · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Showing CAM rips?

    That's gotta count as cruel and unusual punishment.

  15. Which is more likely? on A Look at Smart Gun Technology · · Score: 2

    The question, then, becomes obvious: Is it more likely that the perp will take your gun and shoot you (there has got to be statistics for this somewhere) or that the identifying electronics will fail and render the gun inert?

    Furthermore, should it be obvious to the guy being aimed at that the gun is inert? Just the threat of being shot might be enough to deter a lot of people.

  16. Re:Implicit ownership of the air? on U.S. Passenger Jet Nearly Collided With Drone In March · · Score: 1

    Because they carry several hundred people at any given time, probably.

  17. Re:Drone? on U.S. Passenger Jet Nearly Collided With Drone In March · · Score: 1

    You don't think people spend 270 dollars on their hobby?

  18. Re:Typcial on Physician Operates On Server, Costs His Hospital $4.8 Million · · Score: 1

    And yet he yanked a rib out of Adam. I smell a malpractice lawsuit in the making.

  19. Re:Jesus christ on Nintendo Apologizes For Not Allowing Same-Sex Relationships In Life Sim Game · · Score: 1

    And I am sure that whoever receives your 'report' will handle it with utmost dilligence. After all, in Slashdot's lifetime a whopping ONE comment has been deleted due to serious legal threats.

  20. Re:And this is why.... on Facebook Data Miner Will Shock You · · Score: 1

    So Margaret Thatcher was worse than, say, Hitler or Kim Jung-Un?

  21. Re:Wich only serves to further on Stung By File-Encrypting Malware, Researchers Fight Back · · Score: 3, Informative

    Symantec did exactly what gets private security researchers into hot water: They publicized an exploit in a program.

    Ignoring the fact that the program is malware and the exploit was a means of defeating the malware, WHY is it okay for Symantec to do this?

  22. Re:WTF is Planet X? on Last Month's "Planet X" Announcement Was Probably Wrong · · Score: 1

    I don't think that's a numeral, but an unknown.

  23. Re:Nintendo Hard on Study: Video Gamer Aggression Result of Game Experience, Not Violent Content · · Score: 1

    I got my start doing mr-fix-it work by fixing smashed NES controllers for all my friends

    I call bullshit, Nokias are fragile by comparison to those controllers.

  24. Re:loool on Comcast Takes 2014 Prize For Worst Company In America · · Score: 1

    And this is not the case with them as separate entities?

  25. Re:Its called evolution.. on Online Skim Reading Is Taking Over the Human Brain · · Score: 1

    Isn't that pretty much what the article is about, that we're all getting a touch of ADHD because of our online habits?