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  1. Re:Cell Phone vs. WiFi on Ontario Teachers' Union Calls For Health-Related Classroom Wi-Fi Ban · · Score: 1

    What about microwave ovens? I'd expect their signal to be more like a fire, but I'm no expert.

  2. Re:Police will be ordering this soon on Smart Camera Tells Tobacco From Marijuana · · Score: 2

    It will never even occur to the government officials doing this that what they are doing is hippo-critical.

    No one ever thinks about how the hippos will feel, they just criticize them.

  3. Re:Proxy with logging. on Ask Slashdot: How To Allow Test Takers Internet Access, But Minimize Cheating? · · Score: 1

    So...you need to collect MAC addresses from everyone in the class before a test or something? Seems like a lot of infrastructure needed.

  4. Re:and what are they going to do... on FAA Bill Authorizes Surveillance Drones Over US · · Score: 1

    You can already hack up drones for your own use - and legally too as long as you own them.

  5. Re:Was the Watchman film good? on DC Comics Announces "Before Watchmen" · · Score: 1

    I'd never heard of the comic before seeing the movie, but I learned everything I needed to know about the characters in the first few minutes. Did you get to the theater late and miss the starting montage?

  6. Re:Very dissapointing on Swedish Supreme Court Refuses Appeal In Pirate Bay Case · · Score: 1

    What he really means is voting for a third party is like voting for the candidate in the top two that you dislike most. Your vote for the third party candidate is being taken away from the candidate you dislike least.

  7. Re:We're falling behind! on What If the Apollo Program Never Happened? · · Score: 1

    Doesn't WW3 come before the warp drive?

  8. Re:What annoys me... the "+" modifier on Google Updates Algorithm To Punish Websites With Excessive Ads · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You can quote the individual words to force them to show up as written, or you can use the "verbatim" option under "more search tools" on the left bar.

  9. Re:He should have said "God" Exists! on Indonesian Man Faces Five Years For Atheist Facebook Post · · Score: 1

    That's a good way to sum it up.

    In the game 'Black and White" the starting premise is that enough people have faith in a god and it starts to exist, then the more people believe in the god, the more powerful he is.

    Now there's actually no need for the god to be sentient or do anything - the followers will do that, but in a way you could say a god exists when people rally around it as a cause.

  10. Re:Forget PR on Air Force Says Iran Didn't Down Drone · · Score: 1

    Laws aren't like the game hearts - they don't all become invalid after some aren't enforced.

  11. Re:why phase out DVI? on VGA and DVI Ports To Be Phased Out Over Next 5 Years · · Score: 1

    I love SATA connectors. They're small enough that they don't take up half the motherboard, they only go in one way (can't jam them in like IDE), and they connect and disconnect easily.

    IDE it was easy to stick it in half way and have some pins with lose connections, and then when you pull them out, you have to yank the actual cable until your hand goes flying back against the pointy end of your graphics card or computer case.

    As others have mentioned, when you don't get the super cheap ones, they have connectors that snap them into place. That said, I've never had a SATA cable - even without the locks - come loose while the computer was running, and I wasn't messing with it. That's with several hard drives and optical drives hooked up.

  12. Re:Just tried to sign the form on the Reddit page. on Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do About SOPA and PIPA? · · Score: 1

    For the first few minutes, the Wikipedia block page had a "Learn more" link that went to a page on Wikipedia. Unfortunately, that page was also blocked. They did fix it soon enough.

  13. Re:IPv6 Info on June 6 Is World IPv6 Day 2012: This Time For Keeps · · Score: 1

    Slashdot users are probably already informed on the subject

  14. Re:Time-of-day restriction on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Wireless Catch-and-Release · · Score: 1

    Put it in the ceiling and have it draw power from the lighting circuits. That way it's only on when the lights are on (assuming you use lights and turn them off after use) and no one needs to remember anything.

  15. Re:WTF is SOPA? on SOPA Makes Strange Bedfellows · · Score: 1

    Also, the blog that cousin Bob embedded the youtube video on is shutdown and the domain confiscated.

  16. Re:I live in the Seattle Area and I'm wondering... on Germans Increase Office Efficiency With "Cloud Ceiling" · · Score: 1

    They do make it pretty blue when there aren't "clouds" over. Which is a bit strange since when we don't have real clouds, it gets brighter out (well maybe not in Seattle), while the blue LEDs make it look darker.

  17. Re:Dumbing down = a race to the bottom. on Ford System Will Warn, Correct Lane-Drifting Drivers · · Score: 2

    In the AF447 flight, the stall warning was going off for almost a minute. The correct thing to do in such a situation is to descend out of the stall, which is what an autopilot would have done if such system existed for emergency situations.

  18. Re:Diet Coke syndrome on Inside Obama's Twitter Blitz On the Payroll Tax · · Score: 2

    Maybe you should read some of the tweets that this article is about where people explain how $40 less will make a difference in their budgets.

    No doubt there are other programs that need debating, but for a lot of people, this will make a difference in their day to day lives.

  19. Re:Sounds like FUD on Domestic Surveillance Drones Could Spur Tougher Privacy Laws · · Score: 1

    They likely wouldn't be using Predator Drones - more likely the smaller sized ones that cost about the same as a new police cruiser. You're not going to see every police department with its own airforce.

  20. Re:what happens when it reads 0 / 0? on Google Outlines AI-Based Number Reading For Street View Photos · · Score: 4, Funny

    Might run into problems when it drives by my house at number:
    42'); DROP TABLE street_numbers; --

  21. Re:In case anyone has not yet heard it.. on Congress's Techno-Ignorance No Longer Funny · · Score: 2

    Well when it was even mentioned that proponents of SOPA might be payed to be in favor of it, Watt went on a long spiel about how that was a subject they shouldn't go into, and they should move on to passing the bill.

  22. Re:Not tooo worried about this one on Google Wallet Stores Card Data In Plain Text · · Score: 1

    That doesn't mean they store it in plaintext, that just means they didn't hash the whole thing. They could have hashed individual letter groups (kind of pointless) or more likely used some type of encryption for storage and then decrypt for comparison.

  23. Re:Buy versus steal on Louis CK's Internet Experiment Pays Off · · Score: 1

    But your money isn't even remotely going to the artist through them, might as well just torrent the album.

  24. Re:SQL too on Java Apps Have the Most Flaws, Cobol the Least · · Score: 1
    Though it's also worth noting that poorly written SQL statements can still be injected even using mysql_real_escape_string. Something like

    "SELECT * FROM table WHERE x = ".mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['input'])

    Putting quotes in the statement would fix it (though that's still a messy way).

  25. Re:Disincentive? on An Easy Way To Curb Smart-Phone Thieves, In Australia · · Score: 1

    Or maybe the cell carriers have an incentive to steal phones in other countries. They already know about where the person is, and what kind of phone they have - plus they can sell the phone they steal to new customers!