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  1. How many games are we playing? on A Rock Paper Scissors Brainteaser · · Score: 1

    It says that rock *must* be thrown 50% of the time. Not that there is a 50/50 chance of the choice being rock for each game. So the number of games *has* to be set out before gaming commences. As you draw closer to the last game, the odds will change to how likely rock will be thrown. This is very similar to counting cards in a blackjack.

  2. Re:Because you think Google is any better? on Why No One Trusts Facebook To Power the Future · · Score: 1

    Coincidence?

    Quite possibly

  3. Re:Wow ... just why? on Microsoft To Allow Code Contributions To F# · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Evaluating the merits of a language within 5 minutes, a brief article, and personal bias... seems legit

  4. I need a handle, man on What's In a Username? the Power of Gamer Tags · · Score: 2

    UltraLaser... DoctorDoom...

  5. Re:Good luck on UK To Finally Legalize Ripping CDs and DVDs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Most set to smart media players are shipping with Cinavia. Roku, Netgear NeoTV, now WDTV Live, to name a popular few implement Cinavia protection. Going forward it will eventually be all of them.

    I'm not even going to comment on your other "solutions".

  6. Re:Good luck on UK To Finally Legalize Ripping CDs and DVDs · · Score: 4, Interesting
    The torrented version up to this point had 3 ways to go with this:
    1. - Rip from bluray and tell people trying to play it on a smart appliance that detects the cinavia watermark "lol ur stewpid. Get real hardware loser" or "OMG it plays on my laptop via VLC fine. Shut up n00b."
    2. - Maim the audio stream to an unintelligible mess to the point the water mark isn't detected, but deal with the fact that you can't even tell what you are hearing most of the time
    3. - Rip the audio stream from the DVD copy and match it up with the bluray video stream

    The last was the most popular until recently where they are putting cinavia in the audio tracks of the DVDs as well now.

  7. Good luck on UK To Finally Legalize Ripping CDs and DVDs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "Audio outputs temporarily muted. Do not adjust the playback volume. The content being played is protected by Cinavia and is not authorized for playback on this device. For more information, see http://www.cinavia.com./ Message Code 3."

  8. Re:great on More Than 1 In 4 Car Crashes Involve Cellphone Use · · Score: 1

    Never going to happen. DUIs of people at that level is very very lucrative

  9. Re: obligatory on Minnesota Teen Wins Settlement After School Takes Facebook Password · · Score: 1

    The cops and psychiatrists do it all just the same.

  10. Re:Remote display across network? on XWayland Aiming For Glamor Support, Merge Next X.Org Release · · Score: 3, Informative

    No one WANTS VNC. The very idea of POLLING for changes is pretty much the worst approach to a remote display that you can come up with.

  11. Re: tldr on Are DVDs Inconvenient On Purpose? · · Score: 1

    No, no they haven't. If you google search, you come up with "Something something someone somewhere greasmonkey".

  12. Re:growing pains toward a better future, maybe? on Job Automation and the Minimum Wage Debate · · Score: 1

    No, see, everyone that is displaced by automation should "Quit being lazy and find a job!" :| There will be an ever increasing pool of jobless folks competing for an ever shrinking job pool. This is why the welfare and healthcare issues right now are so important. If we allow them to scale them back or even terminate them, imagine when a majority of everyone needs it.

  13. Re:Did they actually look at the bitcoin rules? on Researchers Find Problems With Rules of Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    By the time a CPU submits a share it is stale. There are much more profitable ways to use a botnet

  14. Re:Ok seriously though ... on Linux May Succeed Windows XP As OS of Choice For ATMs · · Score: 1

    They certainly won't have access to the 3rd party widget X that they are using

  15. Re:Ok seriously though ... on Linux May Succeed Windows XP As OS of Choice For ATMs · · Score: 1

    Sure. Kylix and Quake 2 are the first that come to mind (in terms of commercial software). But if you want to see something more GPL/Open Source originating, take, say, XFree86 from Slackware 4.0 and try to run it on Slackware 14. Same thing.

  16. Re:Ok seriously though ... on Linux May Succeed Windows XP As OS of Choice For ATMs · · Score: 1

    Man, you are making a HUGE assumption that the binaries are accompanied by source code. If it was a contracted piece or a commercial piece, this is certainly not the case

  17. Re:Well Duh... on Linux May Succeed Windows XP As OS of Choice For ATMs · · Score: 1

    Because of Visual Studio, that's why. Diebold in particular has a few in-house devs that exclusively use Visual Basic.

  18. Re:Ok seriously though ... on Linux May Succeed Windows XP As OS of Choice For ATMs · · Score: 5, Informative

    you can always upgrade to a newer kernel, and you're not going to break anything in the process.

    This is just wrong. Threading and libc compatibility isn't transferable between 2.4 and 2.6. There are innumerable 2.4 applications which will flat out not run on a 2.6 system. The same goes between 2.2 and 2.4. And 2.0 and 2.2.

  19. Re:Well Duh! on Research Suggests Pulling All-Nighters Can Cause Permanent Damage · · Score: 1

    More like Seroquel

  20. Re:False premise on Ask Slashdot: Will Older Programmers Always Have a Harder Time Getting a Job? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They usually have experience, but this usually requires that you pay more. If younger workers can do the job well enough, why not go cheap?

    Because the cumulative of 20 years experience they are looking for can actually be had by the older worker.

  21. Re:Does it record sound? on Cameras On Cops: Coming To a Town Near You · · Score: 1

    This is simply not correct, which is why I asked the question. http://www.publicopiniononline.com/opinion/ci_6300968

  22. Re:"I am more talented than average." on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 1

    Replying to the second part. All functions are members of something in VB. At the very least, they are members of ModuleName. So if you have a module "Frank", that has a function "Cheese", it can be (and is underneath) via "Frank.Cheese()". In terms of the DoCmd object, it is the way VBA communicates/interacts WITH Office. A list of members can be found here. You can also bring up the object browser via F2 when inside the VBA IDE

  23. Re:"I am more talented than average." on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 2

    Of course it is. However, it is like PHP in the sense that non-programmers can wield the magic wand and crank something out that LOOKS like it works, but at the very core is garbage. That has no baring on if the language is capable of being used well.

    Now with that said, VB.NET can almost be line for line compatible with C#. They are both .NET languages and can do the exact same things. If you are talking VB classic, that is a whole other beast. While it is/was possible to write good code in it, it was meant to be a dirty ActiveX host with some glue code to make it all work. If you went outside of its intended use, you had some pretty scary abominations forming.

  24. Does it record sound? on Cameras On Cops: Coming To a Town Near You · · Score: 1

    Do these record sound as well? How legal is this in an all party state, where everyone has to consent to being recorded and a suspect refuses?

  25. Re:Buying a Pig in a Poke ... on Mt. Gox Knew It Was Selling Phantom Bitcoin 2 Weeks Before Collapse · · Score: 2

    You aren't looking back far enough. The "with-it" trendy people as you call them, mined bitcoins or bought them when they were worth ~$1 or less. If the world comes crashing down and they end up back there, they lost nothing. I believe you are thinking of the people that only cared about bitcoin when it began to have some exchangeable value, where bitcoin was an investment, or a scheme to get rich. These will be the people who suffer. These are the ones who "fell for the scam"