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  1. Re:This is why... on New "Spear Phishing" Attacks Target IT Admins · · Score: 1

    It's not finding out that the guy is a douche that would get him in trouble; it's going on Facebook in the first place. It would be like asking "What do you like to do on Sunday mornings?" in an interview--it's something that could reveal the applicant's membership in a protected class, and the interviewer should reasonably be aware that it could reveal the applicant's membership in a protected class.

    This wouldn't justify an EEOC complaint in itself, but it's another data point that could be used to show a trend.

  2. Re:This is why... on New "Spear Phishing" Attacks Target IT Admins · · Score: 1

    That's ammo for an EEOC complaint, right there.

  3. Re:This is a random comment. on New Method for Random Number Generation Developed · · Score: 1

    It could be a random number base64 encoded.

  4. Re:Ha! on Newsday Gets 35 Subscriptions To Pay Web Site · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And furthermore, it's actually less expensive to buy a Newsday print subscription than it is to get just the electronic access, so the article could really be rephrased as "Thirty-five people pay extra to not get a real newspaper."

  5. Re:Enter the Matrix was OK... on Failed Games That Damaged Or Killed Their Companies · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yahoo?

  6. Re:Mice on Cellphone Radiation May Protect Brain From Alzheimers · · Score: 1

    The phrase uses "imply" in the sense in which it is used in logical proofs; "If A then B" is logically equivalent to "A implies B."

  7. Re:You guys missed one tiny, important detail... on Google Unveils goo.gl URL Shortening Service · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, as long as you don't post the exact same comment tomorrow you should be fine.

  8. Re:NO TAXATION, WITHOUT REPRESENTATION on Calling B.S. On Amazon's Taxation Arguments · · Score: 1

    A good point, except what you mean is that New York has the "gall", as in bile. Just trying to keep things humorous.

  9. Re:Let freedom ring! on US Supreme Court Skeptical of Business Method Patents · · Score: 1

    Except for Jefferson it would have been six or seven old men that run the country.

  10. Re:Go to your room and no video games! on Internet Probably Couldn't Handle a Flu Pandemic · · Score: 1

    His phrasing was "They can already turn off the internet at-will," and then he described a proposed bill. How is it correct to say that someone already has a power that might be granted to them in the future?

  11. Re:Go to your room and no video games! on Internet Probably Couldn't Handle a Flu Pandemic · · Score: 1

    A proposed bill doesn't give anybody the power to do anything except debate the bill in Congress. You might need to watch this again.

  12. Re:Simple facts prove you're right. on Verizon's Challenge To the iPhone Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Even somewhat technical people fail to realize this frequently.

    Do you have some kind of number that would describe exactly how frequently?

  13. Re:A Question on 12M Digit Prime Number Sets Record, Nets $100,000 · · Score: 1

    The more digits that prime numbers have, the further apart adjacent primes are.

    That's not actually true. As numbers get larger you'll get longer composite runs, but you'll still find prime constellations between some of those runs. If what you say was true, the twin prime conjecture would be closed with a "Myth: BUSTED!" sticker on it, instead of open with overwhelming evidence in its favor.

  14. Re:Theres one technical point on Tim Berners-Lee Is Sorry About the Slashes · · Score: 1

    Good catch. The other thought that occurs to me now is that the rule could have simply been "if specifying a port number, you must also specify the protocol." Now there's no ambiguity in any case.

    It should also be noted that in the alternate universe where URLs look like http:example.com:80/whatever, we'd be having this conversation on colondot.org. That alone is reason enough not to have done things this way.

  15. Re:Theres one technical point on Tim Berners-Lee Is Sorry About the Slashes · · Score: 1

    No, your example just showed that you'd need to remove the :port option if your parser is stupid. Here's how it could work.

    1. Are there two ':' in the URL? Then you have protocol:host:port.
    2. Are there zero ':' in the URL? Then you have host, assume protocol and port from context (like your web browser does now).
    3. Is there one ':' in the URL?
              3a. Is the string in front of ':' a known protocol name? Then you have protocol:host.
              3b. It's not? Then you have host:port, assume protocol from context.

    See how easy that was? Furthermore, you're basing your entire argument on the way things work now, not the way they worked at the time. Sir Tim could have come up with any system he wanted, as evidenced by the fact that he did come up with an arbitrary system in the form of two slashes.

  16. Re:TPB on Entire .SE TLD Drops Off the Internet · · Score: 3, Funny

    It looks like someone messed up the summary. I'm pretty sure it should be:

    Peengdum und Netvurk Vurld ere-a repurteeng thet zee SE tld drupped ooffff zee internet yesterdey dooe-a tu a boog in zee screept thet generetes zee SE zune-a feele-a. Zee SE tld hes cluse-a tu oone-a meelliun dumeeens thet ell vent doon dooe-a tu meessing zee treeeling dut in zee SE zune-a feele-a. Sume-a cecheeng nemeserfers mey steell be-a retoorneeng infeleed DNS respunses fur 24 huoors.

  17. Re:Isn't that a highly regulated industry? on Is Working For the Gambling Industry a Black Mark? · · Score: 5, Funny

    As long as none of your references are named Guido, you should be fine.

    I guess Python isn't used much in the gambling industry.

  18. Re:well, that's a crying shame on Tolkien Trust Okays Hobbit Movie · · Score: 1

    Can't troll in daylight.

  19. Re:At the Risk of Sounding Like an Apologist on Poor Design Choices In the Star Wars Universe · · Score: 1

    Was it ever supposed to be anything more than that?

  20. Re:thank the US government on IPv6 Challenges and Opportunities · · Score: 1

    But isn't a large supply of systems capable of running IPv6 a prerequisite for actually running IPv6?

  21. Re:Free speech and democracy? on Flickr Yanks Image of Obama As Joker · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The ones GP mentioned were repealed in 1802, and the most recent sedition act was repealed in 1920. Subsequent Supreme Court cases make it very unlikely that anything similar would survive judicial review today.

  22. Re:Step 1 on URL Shortener tr.im To Go Community-Owned, Open Source · · Score: 1

    Stop telling the Isle of Man what to do with their TLD.

  23. Re:Full refund on Danish FreeBSD Dev. Sues Lenovo Over "Microsoft Tax" · · Score: 2

    Your analogy would work if there was a note in the car saying that you either agree to an additional contract regarding your use of the tires, or the dealer will refund the price of the tires and take them back.

  24. Re:They are missing the point on Playing a First-Person Shooter Using Real Guns · · Score: 1

    Yes, but you'd need to fire up your Mac in order to upload a virus to the mothership.

  25. Re:Did we not already know this? on Formerly Classified Global Warming Spy Photos Released · · Score: 1

    Um, the National Snow and Ice Data Center disagrees.