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  1. Re:Nurse to coworker: "Can you do math?" on Men And Women Think Women Are Bad At Basic Math · · Score: 1

    This is just a nitpick on your nitpick, but you wrote 6" 7' which would read as 6 inches, seven foot. You probably meant 6' 7". Ref: http://practicaltypography.com/foot-and-inch-marks.html

  2. Re:Future of hard drives is oblivion on Nanomaterial May Be Future of Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Looking at servers, 2.5" drives seem to be replacing 3.5" drives now days.

  3. Re:You can't make tech safe from malice on Bitcoin Exchange Flexcoin Wiped Out By Theft · · Score: 1

    Hmm. This somehow reminds me of a Steven King movie.

  4. good time to start a Flexcoin exchange on Bitcoin Exchange Flexcoin Wiped Out By Theft · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yet... Now is probably a good time to start a Flexcoin exchange which you can then "rob" and shut down in a years time for some easy $500,000.

  5. Re:Tomorrow's News on Schneier: Break Up the NSA · · Score: 2
  6. Re:Expect an exodus? on Gabe Newell Responds: Yes, We're Looking For Cheaters Via DNS · · Score: 1

    An exodus of cheaters wouldn't be a bad thing. Note that the DNS scan is only after the software detects a cheat.

  7. Re: Visiting does not imply guilt on Gabe Newell Responds: Yes, We're Looking For Cheaters Via DNS · · Score: 1

    Then it's a good thing that the DNS scan is only for verification purposes in the second stage of the anti-cheat process.

  8. Re:Classic Slashdot on Fire Destroys Iron Mountain Data Warehouse, Argentina's Bank Records Lost · · Score: 1

    So, we're moving from literature back to cave paintings.

    That's one way to make civilization implode. And I always thought civilization would come to a more dramatic end due to some calamity.

    Oh well. The end is nigh in yet another way, then.

    Those of us who've seen the movie Idiocracy are not surprised by any of this.

  9. Re: dubious opinion misstated as fact on Second World War Code-cracking Computing Hero Colossus Turns 70 · · Score: 1

    WW 2 occurred some 70 years ago. Why get all hung up on national pride over something other people did decades ago?

  10. Re:"poorly surveyed"? Sounds like us... on Dried Meat "Resurrects" Lost Species of Whale · · Score: 1

    I agree with what you write, but how can someone spin destroying a heavily trafficked website in a positive way? This redesign looks to be career damaging for those involved as far as I can tell.

  11. Re:We ALL need to leave. on How Edward Snowden's Actions Have Impacted Defense Contractors · · Score: 2

    The question is, where would we go? I suppose I'll at least be a bit more productive at work, if less informed.

  12. Re:Smartphone Revolution on Apple Reportedly Testing Inductive, Solar and Motion Charging For Its Smartwatch · · Score: 1

    the Slashdot crowd still hasn't gotten over the shock of people preferring simplicity and portability over features.

    Actually most have their music on their phones. I use https://play.google.com/store/... Vanilla Music on Android. In fact people everywhere are ditching their iPods for Android.

    I'd probably rewrite that to say that people are ditching iPods for smartphones -- unless you have an agenda.

  13. Re:unintended consequences on Kansas To Nix Expansion of Google Fiber and Municipal Broadband · · Score: 1

    If this law gets passed, and Kansas manages to make Google fiber too difficult to support, I can see an exodus of techies from the Kansas sided Kansas City suburbs to the Missouri side as it's only a few miles over. That's got to be bad for taxes and property values in their state.

  14. Re:Get Ready on Congressmen Say Clapper Lied To Congress, Ask Obama To Remove Him · · Score: 1

    So wait, you denigrate 9/11 "truthers" and "NSA truthers", but have a link to some JFK secret society speech?

  15. Re:Yeah yeah on $499 3-D Printer Drew Plenty of Attention at CES (Video) · · Score: 1

    Except cheap laser printers are roughly the same cost as cheap ink-jet printers at about $50.

  16. Re:I wonder. on Gmail Bug Sends Thousands of Emails To One Man · · Score: 1

    Luckily it's friday afternoon and we're all going home for an evening of gaming!

  17. Re:How do you know you're having a shitty day? on Gmail Bug Sends Thousands of Emails To One Man · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I like how the article suggests that he is manually deleting the bad emails. I'd think if they were all blank, he could set up a filter to do that for him.

  18. gmail bug on Gmail Bug Sends Thousands of Emails To One Man · · Score: 0

    We've converted to gmail where I work and for the last two weeks chrome consistently throws up page not responding errors when in gmail. This has been happening for multiple users, and I'm rather tired of hearing their complaints. Right now I just advise them to using Internet Explorer to access gmail.

  19. Re:That's all they can say! on Google Says It Has "No Current Plans Regarding Bitcoin" · · Score: 1

    Do a google search for how much money the creator of bitcoin has made in bitcoins and notice it's over $100 million worth. If this isn't a scam, then maybe we should all make up virtual currencies for a $100,000,000 profit each.

  20. Re:the empire state building on Facebook's Biggest Bounty Yet To Hacker Who Found "Keys To the Kingdom" · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure I've seen pictures of the builders of the empire state building sitting on some I-beam with no safety gear or even a rope to hold on to. I somehow doubt construction employers cared more about their employees then than they do today.

  21. Re:Teach all alternate theories on Creationism In Texas Public Schools · · Score: 1

    I know of no homeschoolers that aren't religious. (out of a group of 2 homeschooling families)

  22. Re:The payload is not much on How To Make 96,000lbs of WWII Machinery Into High-Tech Research Platform · · Score: 1

    It's possible that the gimbals more accurately reflect the motion of a ship buffeted by waves than 6 hydraulic jacks would. It would certainly be a more difficult test for the electronics to compensate.

  23. Re:Here's what I don't understand on NYT: NSA Put 100,000 Radio Pathway "Backdoors" In PCs · · Score: 1

    Isn't trade information publicly accessible? How does this information possibly help US companies?

  24. Re:NSA Toolbox Catalog on NYT: NSA Put 100,000 Radio Pathway "Backdoors" In PCs · · Score: 1

    That catalog looks to be about 10 years out of date. The 802.11 injection tool is made to exploit win2k and win xp, so they probably have better stuff now.

  25. Re:during the ads who cares? on Man Shot To Death For Texting During Movie · · Score: 1

    I'm as ready as the next guy to dump a jerks cell phone into their soda during the movie, but during the ads who cares?

    Apparently other patrons.