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  1. Re:OUCH on Man Killed By His Own Radio-Controlled Helicopter In Brooklyn · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well maybe this is the wrong crowd, but I feel sorry for the family. A kid just died, stupid as he may be.

    “He was the best person ever. He had the biggest heart,” said Mr. Pirozek’s sister, Amy Pirozek. “I think he was just doing it because it was his day off.”

    She said he worked as a cargo handler for an airline. “He always protected me,” she said. “He was a good brother. I’ll never forget that.”

  2. Re:Unfortunately on Qcloud Puts Quantum Chip In the Cloud For Coders To Experiment · · Score: 1

    Quantum encryption is different than quantum computing. In quantum encryption, it is impossible to 'listen' into a message without being detected.

  3. Re:The problem... on Qcloud Puts Quantum Chip In the Cloud For Coders To Experiment · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ziggy says your odds of being first post are good!

  4. Re:Note that it's against the rules on Ask Slashdot: Can Creating New Online Accounts Reduce Privacy Risks? · · Score: 1

    Hah! Brilliant idea.

  5. Re:Note that it's against the rules on Ask Slashdot: Can Creating New Online Accounts Reduce Privacy Risks? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I tried signing up for a new youtube account today and was REQUIRED to give them my phone number in order for them to send me a text message to 'verify my account'. I was unable to upload a video without doing so. I ended up signing up to vimeo instead.

  6. Who are you hiding from? If it's simple google searches, sure it'll help. Just doing a quick search on my schneidafunk nick turns up a surprising amount of info. However, the NSA has a wide variety of tools to track down me down, including writing analysis.

  7. 4 hours to respond on Angry Customer Buys Promoted Tweets To Bash British Airways · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Think about this, BA did not respond to this paid & highly public tweet until 4 hours later. If they are that bad at dealing with publicity, I imagine their customer service on a daily (semi-private) basis must be 10 times worse.

  8. What's the big deal? on Software Developer Says Mega Master Keys Are Retrievable · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't get it, why is this a big deal? This just displays your local storage in your web browser.

  9. player piano on Technologies Like Google's Self-Driving Car: Destroying Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Every time I hear this argument, I think of the book player piano. Anyway, why do people want jobs that are replaceable by machines? It makes about as much sense as hiring someone to cut my grass with a pair of scissors, just so they have something to do. Or those useless construction workers holding a stop sign, that could literally be replaced with a piece of wood.

  10. Re:so he did in fact break the law on Snowden Spoofed Top Officials' Identity To Mine NSA Secrets · · Score: 1

    Bad analogy, it's more like planting a bug in your boss's office, or screw analogies -logging into your boss's computer and downloading all of his emails & files.

  11. Re:so he did in fact break the law on Snowden Spoofed Top Officials' Identity To Mine NSA Secrets · · Score: 1

    To the person that modded me down, I know my opinion is not a popular one. I'm open to debate. However, you should be using your mod points to bump up good comments and modding down off-topic or blatantly offensive messages, not opinions you disagree with.

  12. Re:so he did in fact break the law on Snowden Spoofed Top Officials' Identity To Mine NSA Secrets · · Score: 2

    My point is I was under the impression he had the information readily available to him through his job, like Mark Felt. "Hacking" into areas he has no business in is a different story than what has been presented. It makes his defense, if he were to come back to the U.S., deserving of protection under the whistleblower status less credible.

  13. Re:so he did in fact break the law on Snowden Spoofed Top Officials' Identity To Mine NSA Secrets · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You mean he abused his privileges. He is a low level tech, not privy to high level discussions. Compare him to Mark Felt, who was in a position of power and knew for certain through his daily dealings that the administration was abusing his power. He didn't have to raid Nixon's private files to show it. Here's a better analysis for you.

  14. so he did in fact break the law on Snowden Spoofed Top Officials' Identity To Mine NSA Secrets · · Score: 0

    Sorry, I am a fan of him and grateful he leaked only certain documents as opposed to Manning just dumping everything out into public, but stealing classified documents to leak is a bit different than the story we've been given as a true whistle-blower.

  15. Re:New Zealand on Live Q&A With Outercurve Foundation President Jim Jagielski · · Score: 1

    *ban, is not the best word... software patent reform law is probably better.

  16. New Zealand on Live Q&A With Outercurve Foundation President Jim Jagielski · · Score: 1

    What are your thoughts on the software patent ban New Zealand just passed?

  17. Oh No's! on Silicon Valley's Loony Cheerleading Culture Is Out of Control · · Score: 1

    Wow, judgmental much? People who may not have talent are actively looking for money, investing time & dedication in getting expertise... the horror!

  18. All about the money on Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant To Close In 2014 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Please don't read too much into this, it's a straight economical decision: "The company noted that the estimated operational earnings contribution from Vermont Yankee was expected to be around breakeven in 2013, and generally declining over the next few years. "

  19. Re:Speaking of Journalism... on Brazilian Journals' Self-Citation Cartel Smashed · · Score: 1

    Actually the word fits quite nicely here, because they were competing journals working together. By definition: "A cartel is a formal (explicit) "agreement" among competing firms. It is a formal organization of producers and manufacturers that agree to fix prices, marketing, and production.[1] Cartels usually occur in an oligopolistic industry"

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartel

  20. Re:multivac on The World Fair of 2014 According To Asimov (From 1964) · · Score: 1

    That link is to a story written by Fredric Brown. I believe you meant to post a link to The Last Answer

  21. multivac on The World Fair of 2014 According To Asimov (From 1964) · · Score: 2
  22. Re: china on Could a Grace Hopper Get Hired In Today's Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    I'm curious how you ended up working in China. Are you a citizen or a visa worker? Does the time zone difference from Europe & the U.S. effect you or is your business local?

  23. Yes on Could a Grace Hopper Get Hired In Today's Silicon Valley? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Of course, anyone with credentials like this: "She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar in 1928 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics and earned her Master's degree at Yale University in 1930." would get an interview at a tech company, or even become the CEO.

  24. Female programmers on Could a Grace Hopper Get Hired In Today's Silicon Valley? · · Score: 5, Informative

    I only had one girl in my computer science classes in college, but she was an exceptional programmer. Now in the work field, again I encounter very few female programmers but am always impressed with their skill levels and dedication.

  25. 100,000? on Open Source Mapping Software Shows Every Traffic Death On Earth · · Score: 1

    Is there any good reason that this stat is 11.4 out of 100,000 instead of 1.14 out of 10,000 or say a normal percentage?