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  1. Re:BSkyB didn't even have a SkyDrive on OneDrive Is Microsoft's Rebranded Name For SkyDrive · · Score: 1

    Oh it wasn't BskyB who got cranky.
    Microsoft wanted to own Sky and tried booting BskyB off their trademark.

    After Murdoch sunk them with more lawyers, Microsoft is going for a loftier target: The number one.

    Just you wait. There will be Microsoft lawyers kicking down accountants and kindergarten doors demanding royalties any minute now.

  2. Re:OneDrive stands for ... on OneDrive Is Microsoft's Rebranded Name For SkyDrive · · Score: 0

    If you've been under a rock for the past few years, Microsoft copies EVERYTHING!

  3. Re:Umm... on OneDrive Is Microsoft's Rebranded Name For SkyDrive · · Score: 1

    Err how exactly?

  4. Re:Oh Great! on World's First Multi-Color, Multi-Polymer 3D Printer Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Are you afraid of a piano?
    Probably not.

    Are you afraid of a piano dangling above your head on a thin rope?
    You probably are.

    Who is afraid of inanimate objects exactly?

  5. Re:What about the windows only software? and offic on High School Students Develop Linux Imaging and Help Desk Software · · Score: 1

    Got a link for a example?

  6. Re:What about the windows only software? and offic on High School Students Develop Linux Imaging and Help Desk Software · · Score: 1

    Like I said, care to share one of the documents? (Redact personal info if needed)
    I've never actually seen a table issue since they are so similar to HTML tables these days.

  7. Re:What about the windows only software? and offic on High School Students Develop Linux Imaging and Help Desk Software · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Link to a document that does not open correctly in up to date Open/Libreoffice.

    It is harder than you think. It has been on par for a while now.
    And if the entire school uses it then there is no Office anyway.

  8. Re:2014 on Chrome Bugs Lets Sites Listen To Your Private Conversations · · Score: 2

    They do something. They click on the page.

    Popups are allowed from a valid onclick event so the ads put a onclick event on the entire page.

  9. Re: It doesn't cost any more to serve more data on An Iowa ISP's Metered Pricing: What Will the Market Bear? · · Score: 1

    Which backhaul provider charges $5/gig?

  10. Re:Decaf at Starbucks? on A Data Scientist Visits The Magic Kingdom, Sans Privacy · · Score: 0

    Why shouldn't it?

  11. Re:Decaf at Starbucks? on A Data Scientist Visits The Magic Kingdom, Sans Privacy · · Score: 2

    I agree it shouldn't, which is why it is regulated. All insures should be able to insure everyone for a fair price.
    All I am saying is if that person is a smoker their premium should be higher than a non-smoker.

  12. Re:Decaf at Starbucks? on A Data Scientist Visits The Magic Kingdom, Sans Privacy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A lot of coffee is decaffeinated by water (Swiss water process).

    Plus I kind of think that doing risky behaviour *should* increase your premiums (and reduce everyone else's of course).
    Next you'll be wanting smokers to get the same health insurance premiums as non-smokers.

  13. Re:NoScript on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 1

    More trivial to infect? Bullshit.

    You linked to a article about how to create a trojan horse that requires user interaction to work. BSD is not immune to user stupidity either.
    It also gets no elevated privileges at all so it is trapped in the user's account only. Oh and it only works with Gnome or KDE and you have to guess the exact right DE for it to work. Oh and KDE and Gnome on BSD are also affected.

    Wtf are you smoking? There is no exploit there at all.
    Security by obscurity? Huh?

  14. Re:Hottest in 100 years = cooling down on Heat Waves In Australia Are Getting More Frequent, and Hotter · · Score: 1

    If they said "Hottest day for 100 years" then it implies it is not a record and there is a higher temperature 100 years ago on the record.

    If it was the hottest day on record, then they should actually be saying "Hottest day on record" or "A new record high".

  15. Re:NoScript on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 0

    Are typical Windows users ever going to pay for the damage and cost they do to my servers and websites?

    No? Then bugger off.

  16. Re:Privacy on Mozilla Is Mapping Cell Towers and WiFi Access Points · · Score: 4, Informative

    Completely. This just looks for the 'announcement' packets from access points. It doesn't care or do anything about the data packets.
    You are intercepting data just as much as your phone does when you go to the wifi page and it shows the list of access points near by.

    Google was accidentally storing all the raw data for debug purposes (which got left turned on).

  17. Re:I thought that we were supposed to be pro-activ on How Reactive Programming Differs From Procedural Programming · · Score: -1

    Guess how reactive programming works? Yep. Events/triggers.

    A = 1
    Run all events watching variable A
    Repeat until all the events have cascaded.

    Don't kid yourself that it isn't fundamentally a style implemented with events.
    There is no way for memory locations to be 'reactive' so you need a event to trigger the additional changes.

  18. Re:conduit in anticipation on New Home Automation? · · Score: 2

    Run the antenna to a TV Tuner with Myth on it. Perfect for sending it to multiple places around the house at once.

  19. Re:uh, don't use Windows based POS systems? on Target Confirms Point-of-Sale Malware Was Used In Attack · · Score: 1

    Well technically the Linux APIs are even more well known. You even get the source code for them!

    The difference is the difficulty to get the malware on, and for the malware to access the sensitive parts.
    Linux actually has restrictions in place which are extremely difficult to get past while Windows leaves everything open.

  20. Re:What about other people? on British Spies To Be Allowed To Break Speed Limit · · Score: 1

    Well depends if it is with a siren or not.
    It works pretty well for emergency vehicles currently who do use sirens and lights.

    Kinda defeats the point of being an intelligence agent though.

  21. Re:Verilog on Ask Slashdot: How Many (Electronics) Gates Is That Software Algorithm? · · Score: 1

    If you want to trade transistors for time, just use a CPU.

    Anyway when making a chip, 24,000 transistors is not much. You don't want to do it everywhere sure, but a couple of times and it isn't an issue.

  22. Re:Hope it doesn't melt the car! on Ford Will Demo Solar-Charged Car At CES · · Score: 1

    Plus any idiot who has walked outside knows that the sun radiates heat in addition to visible light.

    This concept would understandably cause confusion for Slashdot readers. Anything 'outside' might as well be in a different country for them.

  23. Re:It would work on Hacker Took Over BBC Server, Tried To Sell Access On Christmas Day · · Score: 1

    That is only true if you aren't smart enough to figure out how much the experience costs.

    Hint: An awful lot less than the cost of a year's worth of regular movie viewing.

    My cheap home theatre setup can make the couch shake, my TV is perfectly adequate for my needs and I can watch it with people I want, not random strangers making noise, talking, phones, etc.... I always get the best seat in the house and I can hit pause whenever I need to.

  24. Re: Headline Picker Misleads Readers on Govt. Watchdog Group Finds Apple Misled Aussies On Consumer Rights · · Score: 1

    The employees followed Apple policies. Its on all their Apple Care documentation.

  25. Re:The law will change on Govt. Watchdog Group Finds Apple Misled Aussies On Consumer Rights · · Score: 1

    Won't actually happen here. We are too small for them to bother.

    Our consumer protection laws are actually really quite strong.