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  1. Re:Some whine with that cheese? on Facebook Silently Removes Ability To Download Your Posts · · Score: 1

    Promissory estoppel.

  2. Hockey sticks? on TSA Decides Against Allowing Small Knives On Aircraft · · Score: 1

    Where the hell are you supposed to stow hockey sticks? The overhead bins aren’t long enough, and it’s been decades since I’ve seen a full-length closet in the cabin Maybe they still have one for first class? And if you have ski poles you almost certainly have skis, which you have to check, so what’s the point of bringing the poles with you?

  3. Re:Some whine with that cheese? on Facebook Silently Removes Ability To Download Your Posts · · Score: 5, Insightful

    By your logic, you couldn’t complain if I offered you a ride to the airport and then kicked you out of the car on the side of the freeway halfway there.

  4. Re:My goodness on U.S. District Judge: Forced Decryption of Hard Drives Violates Fifth Amendment · · Score: 5, Informative

    "But that is the origin, when somebody says: "I take the fifth", what they mean is that they will not testify against themselves. But to testify against yourself you have to be a suspect, you have to be the one on trial, that's why Lois Lerner, the IRS director "taking the fifth" makes no sense, she wasn't on trial."

    I can’t see whomever you’re quoting, but this is nonsense. While the text of the Fifth protects you from incriminating yourself at criminal trial, subsequent Supreme Court decisions have ruled that it applies much more broadly. People take the Fifth all the time when they’re testifying at hearings or as witnesses, i.e. not on trial. The right to remain silent under police questioning derives directly from it.

  5. Re:And... on Bill Gates: iPad Users Are Frustrated They Can't Type Or Create Documents · · Score: 3, Informative

    I’m guessing parent meant mechanical as in clicky mechanical keyswitches, like a Model M. He might be interested in something like this.

  6. Re:Better than Uncle Sammy on Why Your New Car's Technology Is Four Years Old · · Score: 1

    I was in the two-year-old USS Spruance’s CIC last Fleet Week and iirc it had modern LCD projectors. (The workstations were all logged out/sleeping but I saw some X mouse cursors.)

  7. Re:don't privatize the police on Paul's Call To Abolish the TSA, One Year Later · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Also the wealthiest. Coincidence?

  8. Re:Usually, no on Is Buying an Extended Warranty Ever a Good Idea? · · Score: 2

    Yeah, they were trying to screw you. A timing belt is a "consumable" the same way a clutch plate is a "consumable." Sure, they'll need replacement eventually, but any part not scheduled for replacement within the warranty term should not be exempt from the warranty.

  9. Re:Warranty or insurance? on Is Buying an Extended Warranty Ever a Good Idea? · · Score: 1

    If FourSquare wants to offer cheaper, better extended warranties paired with accident protection

    then Foursquare might actually offer something of value.

  10. Re:Copyright of IDEAS is ridiculous on Warner Bros. Sued By Meme Creators Over Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    According to them, they made repeated attempts to contact WB and 5th Cell, and got stonewalled.

  11. Re:The old days... on Most Companies Will Require You To Bring Your Own Mobile Device By 2017 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I work for a foosball table manufacturer, you insensitive clod!

  12. Re:Come back on The Balkanization of Chatting · · Score: 1

    I don’t know what networks or channels you hang out on but I never see any “a/s/l?” type shit on any I’m ever on, whether they be social or technical or hobby-related. If a newbie does come on acting inappropriately or just not in keeping with the tenor of the channel (e.g. CAPS LOCK PERMANENTLY ON,) they’ll realize they’re out of line and shape up, get bored and /part, or get /k’ed if they’re really obnoxious.

  13. Re:really? on The Text-Your-Parents-Your-Drug-Deal Experiment · · Score: 2

    Funny, that's where I saw this story first.

  14. Toothopolis on Weirdest DLC Sponsorship Ever: SimCity, Brought To You By Crest · · Score: 1

    Makes perfect sense if you think about it a little creatively (which EA won’t): A new disaster event in which you have to defend your Simcity of Toothopolis against an onslaught of Cavity Creeps.

  15. Re:Yeah Right on "Choice Blindness" Can Transform Conservatives Into Liberals - and Vice Versa · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What asshole modded this “Troll,” and whatever happened to metamoderation anyway?

  16. Re:Welcome back to drudgedot on Fisker Lays Off Most Workers, Plans To Shop Around Remaining Assets · · Score: 1

    Who is that supposed to be buying votes from, Fisker employees and investors? (Also, “teleprompters?” Fox News called from 2009, seems you’re infringing on their bullshit talking point)

  17. I don't understand. on Real-Time Gmail Spying a 'Top Priority' For FBI This Year · · Score: 1

    What's the difficulty? Get a warrant and Google/Dropbox/Skype/etc will hand over any data covered by it. Couldn't be simpler. Why waste time and effort with all this extralegal surveillance?

  18. Blacklists on ICANN Reveals Regional Winners of New gTLDs · · Score: 1

    Making this information public is kind of counterproductive (for them, not us,) as now everyone has a handy addition to paste into their spam blacklists, right after '*.info'.

  19. Re:Quality, price, experience, demo. on Ask Slashdot: What Is a Reasonable Way To Deter Piracy? · · Score: 2

    The scenario is a little different for games. Professionals don’t sweat the cost of the tools they use to do their jobs, within reason, as they’re either tax writeoffs or billable to a client. Adobe can charge $1300-2600 for individual copies of CS6 because a single freelance gig will more than cover that (unless you’re doing flyers for a local band or something.) $5-10 for a useful tool is nothing. Whereas very few people have the type of job that would allow them to deduct video game purchases from their taxable income or have them purchased by their employer, and even fewer make money directly from playing them.

  20. Re:for the seventh time since 1993 on North Korea Kills Phone Line, 1953 Armistice; Kim Jong Un's Funds Found In China · · Score: 1

    I didn’t say it was a good idea, just pointing out a possible course of action that the parent analysis missed.

  21. “Resist blowing desert sands” on IBM Designing Superman Servers For World's Largest Telescope · · Score: 1

    So they’ll be putting the servers indoors then?

  22. Re:A slightly off-topic observation inspired by KJ on North Korea Kills Phone Line, 1953 Armistice; Kim Jong Un's Funds Found In China · · Score: 1

    No one knows what Jesus actually looked like (if you believe he ever actually lived), and in general, there are far more unattractive people in the world than attractive ones, so with nothing else to go on, it's probable that he was unattractive.

    But you do have something else to go on. He (assuming he existed) was a (posthumously) wildly successful charismatic leader with no worldly perks to offer his followers. People like that aren't necessarily romance novel cover models, but they tend to be a little prettier than Quasimodo or Baron Harkonnen.

  23. Re:for the seventh time since 1993 on North Korea Kills Phone Line, 1953 Armistice; Kim Jong Un's Funds Found In China · · Score: 1

    There's also assassination. Start being a dick and threatening nuclear launches? Bam, next Kim's turn. After a while they'd get the hint and settle down.

    Oh, and try to pin the previous assassination on us to rile up the populace or international condemnation? Bam, next Kim's turn.

  24. Re:When talking to a prosecutor in the US. on The Accidental Betrayal of Aaron Swartz · · Score: 2

    That's on Lungs (and later The Hammer Party,) not Songs About Fucking.

  25. Re:becasue Apple never on Among Servers, Apple's Mac Mini Quietly Gains Ground · · Score: 1

    I believe the idea is that Minis are cheap enough that every box is redundant and you swap out the whole unit when a part fails. Dick around later with spatulas and tiny screwdrivers at your leisure, not under the gun to get services back up.