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  1. Re:opposite reactions on Senators Seek H-1B Cap That Can Reach 300,000 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've been a fool, but I won't get fooled again. Who said that?

    George Bush tried to, once.

  2. Re:just don't automatically join public wifi on Have a Wi-Fi-Enabled Phone? Stores Are Tracking You · · Score: 2

    Beacons are sent from the access point, not the client. The scans from the wifi client (e.g. the phone) are passive, not active. It just sits there listening for beacons from all the access points that are in range.

  3. Re:just don't automatically join public wifi on Have a Wi-Fi-Enabled Phone? Stores Are Tracking You · · Score: 1

    Argh, why is there so much FUD on this issue? Wifi clients do NOT broadcast anything when looking for access points. They just listen.

  4. Re:Petition to remove the DA on US Attorney Chided Swartz On Day of Suicide · · Score: 1

    Someone please mod the parent up. I signed the petition. This bitch needs to go.

  5. Re:Concusion detection tech on NIH Neuroscientists: Junior Seau Had Brain Disease Caused By Hits To the Head · · Score: 1

    Oh please, give me a break. These are minor differences.

  6. Re:Concusion detection tech on NIH Neuroscientists: Junior Seau Had Brain Disease Caused By Hits To the Head · · Score: 1

    Without the padding, American football would be almost indistinguishable from rugby. Why not just rename the NFL to the NRL, and get rid of American football altogether? I would be in favor of that, but that's just not realistic.

  7. Re:Old problem on Ask Slashdot: How To React To Coworker Who Says My Code Is Bad? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    New guys want to re-write everything and don't understand the value of code maturity

    I've been working in this industry for 20 years, and I've never experienced this. Instead, the "new guy" is intimidated by me because I'm constantly explaining things to him, and he quickly realizes that he doesn't know anything.

  8. Re:Study should be done outside its influence on TSA (Finally) Studying Health Effects of Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    People are putting their kids in there.

    I've flown several times and have never been in one of these scanners. As soon as the TSA staff see my children, we're routed through the metal detectors instead.

  9. Re:is it shipping to customers ? on Red Hat Developer Demands Competitor's Source Code · · Score: 1

    This is probably what Red Hat thinks needs to be proven.

    Yes, and RTS has no obligation to comply. Red Hat could sue, but only if they have basis for claiming that they own the copyright of the "stolen" code.

    RTS could make Red Hat happy by running a Black Duck analysis on their proprietary code and sharing the result.

  10. Re:Why did they change the requirements? on Airlines Face Acute Pilot Shortage · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why would it cost 5X extra? Doubling the salary of pilot should only make it at most 10% extra. Most people wouldn't even notice.

  11. Re:This is what Benjamin Frankin warned us about.. on Shut Up and Play Nice: How the Western World Is Limiting Free Speech · · Score: 1

    They're not at all concerned about freedom of speech in general, they just want to avoid fines and prison terms after their typical antisemitic tirades

    You do realize that the whole point of Free Speech is to allow and protect antisemitic tirades? That is exactly the kind of speech that the U.S. Constitution is designed to protect. We don't need fancy laws to protect inoffensive speech.

  12. Re:Coding is a skill, not a profession on The Case For the Blue Collar Coder · · Score: 1

    We already have apprenticeships, but we call them internships. If you have a demonstrable natural talent for coding, companies will claw over each other to hire you as an intern. I know, because not even half of the interns we hire were even remotely productive, but the others could write their own tickets.

  13. More like PowerPC on Linux 3.7 Kernel To Support Multiple ARM Platforms · · Score: 2

    enabling the new kernel to not only target multiple platforms but also be more in line with its x86 counterpart

    It would be more accurate to say that is more in line with its PowerPC counterpart, since device tree support is the primary reason why multi-platform works on ARM today, and that support was ported from PowerPC last year. Very few x86 platforms use device trees, but they have been pervasive on PowerPC for over five years now.

  14. Re:$3000 every 1-3 years. Right. on Sealed-Box Macs: Should Computers Be Disposable? · · Score: 1

    You should be able to upgrade the hard drive.

  15. Don't buy games the day they are released on Some Players Want Day-1 DLC, Says BioWare · · Score: 2

    A lot of problems would be solved if you wanted 3-6 months after a game is released to play it. The game drops in price, most bugs are fixed, and a lot of DLC becomes available, sometimes at a discount. I haven't played ME3 yet, and I'm glad I waited.

  16. Re:no big conspiracy...just normal maintenance on White House Pulls Down TSA Petition · · Score: 1

    Thank you. I was wondering when someone would post that. I was monitoring the petition the last few days. Even though it needed over two thousand more signatures, it was only getting a couple hundred a day. There was no way it would make the 25K goal by the end of the day.

  17. Re:Nuke it from orbit on Ask Slashdot: How To Clean Up My Work Computer Before I Leave? · · Score: 0

    Anyone who uses Windows is Ballmer's whipping boy, so it makes sense.

  18. Re:Hope it lights a fire... on Google Announces Plans, Pricing For Kansas City Fiber Network · · Score: 2

    I used it on both my slow-speed 56k dialup and 750k DSL so your presumption is false.

    The plural of anecdote is not data. It makes sense that disproportionally fewer people with slow Internet connections use speedtest.net. Just because you, a single person, do not conform to that profile, that does not mean that the common-sense argument is invalid.

  19. Re:Safe trip? on Sally Ride Takes Her Final Flight · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's another way of saying he hopes she doesn't go to Hell?

  20. Re:Four horses... on Lenovo CEO Gives His $3M Bonus To 10k Workers · · Score: 1

    That was just the two guys from ZZ Top and their stunt doubles.

  21. Re:$11,000?? on Star Wars Fans Fix Up Luke Skywalker's Home · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did you really expect a hard-core Star Wars fan to have any real-world skills?

  22. For Xbox 360 users ... on The Ugly, Profitable Details About Xbox Live Advertising · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's a method you can use to block some of those ads:

    http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/n5831/how_to_block_xbox_dashboard_ads/

    It doesn't block all of them, but it does block most of the animated, generic ads that aren't related to gaming.

  23. Re:Not quite as bad as the Summary seems on Hackers Steal Keyless BMW In Under 3 Minutes · · Score: 1

    You're paying extra for a security system that's supposed to be better than hot-wiring a car, so I don't understand why you're not concerned.

  24. Re:Why are these things opposites? on South Korea Will Revisit Plan To Nix Evolution References in Textbooks · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why couldn't God create evolution? If I'm God, why would I want to create a universe that needs to be micromanaged? A real God would just snap his fingers and create a universe that does everything it needs to do, including creating humans to worship him, automatically.

  25. Re:Bandwidth? on ARM Publishes 64-bit "AArch64" Linux Kernel Support · · Score: 2