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  1. Re:Ask Donald on Flu Shot Doing Poor Job of Protecting Older People This Year · · Score: 1

    Tamiflu is not a vaccine.

  2. Re:Oh no, he's rich. But we're looking at that wro on Homeland Security Stole Michael Arrington's Boat · · Score: 1

    You know, there exist boats that aren't yachts and are inside the purchasing power of many people.

  3. Re:Let me get this straight... on USPS To Launch Line of Smart Clothing · · Score: 1

    Never underestimate the bandwidth of a box full of tape send via overnight mail.

  4. Re:Cash seizures on Illinois Politician Wants a Kill Switch For Anonymous Speech Online · · Score: 1

    Great. It's not like basically the entire currency supply of the United States has trace levels of cocaine residue on it.

  5. Re:You know, you can buy an unlocked phone on White House Petition To Make Unlocking Phones Legal Passes 100,000 Signatures · · Score: 1

    Would you be happy then?

    I seriously doubt you would.

    You'd be correct. Carrier locks should be prohibited. All they do is restrict competition in-country and allow carriers to charge absurd rates for international service. For example, getting charged $5/MB for data if I go to the USA vs. grabbing a local SIM and paying $3/day for unlimited data.

  6. You're not going to get that loop on USPS To Launch Line of Smart Clothing · · Score: 1

    That feature is exclusive to UPS-brand clothing. Also available from them are the UPS-band package punting boots.

  7. Re:Pro Exploitation CEO on US CEO Says French Workers Have Three-Hour Work Day · · Score: 1

    35 hours/week is the line where overtime kicks in. There are other limits for different time periods, as your link states about 1/4 of the way down.

  8. Re:You know, you can buy an unlocked phone on White House Petition To Make Unlocking Phones Legal Passes 100,000 Signatures · · Score: 5, Informative

    Replace "for the next two years" with "for the next infinity years".

    The anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA makes it illegal to ever unlock the phone without the carrier's permission, regardless of whether the contract is up or not.

  9. Re:American Wage Slaves are an Even Better Value on US CEO Says French Workers Have Three-Hour Work Day · · Score: 5, Informative

    Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, DC, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming all allow the employer to not pay out accrued vacation time on termination in the absence of a contract or company policy saying they will.

    Only Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Idaho, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota (only if employed there for at least 1 year), Oklahoma, Rhode Island (after 1 year, like ND), and South Carolina require accrued vacation/PTO time to be paid out.

  10. Re:Change your WPA keys on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 2

    It's a dictionary attack. Use a sufficiently long and random passphrase and that's not going to work.

  11. Re:No, call or write your CONGRESSMAN. on White House Petition To Make Cell Phone Unlocking Legal Needs 11,000 Signatures · · Score: 2

    No, read the law. The executive (specifically, the Librarian of Congress) has the power to issue exemptions to the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA, which they did 6 years ago to allow cell phone unlocking. They then declined to renew that exemption.

  12. Re:Also a petition for a people's FCC chairman on White House Petition To Make Cell Phone Unlocking Legal Needs 11,000 Signatures · · Score: 1

    Susan Crawford, law school professor and author of Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly in the New Guilded Age,

    It's Gilded Age, not Guilded Age.

    A guilded age might be a nice thing to have.

  13. Re:I'm sure posting it on /. on White House Petition To Make Cell Phone Unlocking Legal Needs 11,000 Signatures · · Score: 2

    Down to 9,795 as of this post, so about 30 signatures per minute.

  14. Re:A bit hard to enforce.... on Planetary Resources To 'Claim' Asteroids With Beacons · · Score: 1

    Probably. Salyut 3 had an autocannon on it and it reportedly fired just fine.

    You'd need to make sure you're securely attached to something though, lest the recoil send you drifting.

  15. Re:Non removable battery, no memory card slot. on HTC Unveils Revamped HTC One · · Score: 1

    0. Going away? Really? Barring HTC and the Nexus 4, basically every current Android phone I see has a microSD slot, as does the new Blackberries and all the non-HTC windows phones.

    1. They should ship a real SD card rather than the class 4 junk. A class 10 or UHS card will keep pace with the onboard flash easily.

    2. So having a (quite possibly even slower) usb drive dangling off the phone is replacement for an SD card in the device? And then you're complaining about thickness in the same breath?

    3. Not to any relevant degree. In stock condition, my Galaxy S3 is even thinner (0.34" to 0.36") than this unit and has a replaceable battery.

    4. WTF is the big deal with thinness? Out of the box, my GS3 was rather too thin to hold comfortably and my hands aren't that big. An extended battery and case (specifically Seidio's extended active case) allow it to fill my hand nicely.

  16. Re:Google is the new phone book on Canadian Court Rules You Have the Right To Google a Lawyer · · Score: 2

    "Some places" includes Canada. Solicitor-client privilege is all but absolute.

    To quote Bacon v. Surrey Pretrial Services Centre

    This Court declares the respondent is obliged to provide the petitioner with a telephone system for solicitor-client telephone calls that is not vulnerable to breaches of solicitor-client privilege, intentional or accidental.

  17. Re:!(Prisoner's Dilemma) on French Police Unsure Which Twin To Charge In Sexual Assaults · · Score: 2

    Technically yes. I believe there have been 18 amendments to the current Constitution of France.

  18. Re:!(Prisoner's Dilemma) on French Police Unsure Which Twin To Charge In Sexual Assaults · · Score: 1

    Yes, note the "against himself" bit. You only have the right to remain silent regarding your own crimes. You have no right to not be compelled to testify against someone else (barring certain exceptions, like spousal privilege or lawyer-client confidentiality) and would be charged with obstruction of justice if you persisted in refusing.

  19. Re:Doesn't Anabuse already do this? on Alcoholism Vaccine Makes Alcohol Intolerable To Drinkers · · Score: 1

    It messes with the same mechanism, but probably does it differently (antibodies against the enzyme maybe?) and last longer (Anabuse lasts 2 weeks after the last dose at best, this supposedly lasts 6 months in one shot).

  20. Re:Vaccine? on Alcoholism Vaccine Makes Alcohol Intolerable To Drinkers · · Score: 3, Informative

    In medical terminology vaccines likely do refer strictly to immunization against virii.

    No, vaccines are anything you use to provoke an antibody response against something. This includes viruses, but also bacteria toxins (toxoid vaccines, like the diphtheria and tetanus vaccines), and other things, such as TA-CD ( which produces antibodies against cocaine).

  21. Re:This is news? on Alcoholism Vaccine Makes Alcohol Intolerable To Drinkers · · Score: 1

    Not permanent. It wears off after 6 months according to the article.

  22. Re:It's called the key on Driver Trapped In Speeding Car At 125 Mph · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Assuming the shifter actually physically does something rather than being connected to a drive-by-wire system that isn't responding to your commands.

  23. Re:Shut off the engine? on Driver Trapped In Speeding Car At 125 Mph · · Score: 1

    It's called a keyless ignition. The "key" in this car is a card (which you put in a slot) and you push a button to start/stop the engine.

  24. Re:It's called the key on Driver Trapped In Speeding Car At 125 Mph · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nope, there's no conventional key. The ignition is entirely computerized. The "key" is a card you stick in a slot and you start (and stop) the engine by pressing a button. Here's the car's dashboard. The thing with the red fob is the "key".

    http://www.autotesty.com.pl/fotki/renault/laguna3_gt_20dci_177km/renault_laguna3_20dci_177km_gt_15.jpg

  25. Re:It's called the key on Driver Trapped In Speeding Car At 125 Mph · · Score: 1

    Turn it to "off" and the engine will lose power.

    The vehicle in question doesn't have a conventional key. Observe. The card with the red fob hanging off it is the key and I'm not sure if the card is able to be removed while the vehicle is running.