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  1. Re:wordpress.com? on HTML5 Storage Bug Can Fill Your Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Its not the user that follows the standard its the browser and it's developers that determine "yeah we can do that". As many people pointed out this would have impacts on more than my example, its just the one at the tip of my tongue. I can only guess the devs looked at that and said "that breaks too much" and tossed the 'suggestion' for this standard aside. I'm sure the devs thought about more than stupid wordpress sites. I doubt they would set this up to work on some domains and not others, it's likely we follow this or we don't so the particular use case is irrelevant.

  2. Re:wordpress.com? on HTML5 Storage Bug Can Fill Your Hard Drive · · Score: 2

    Let me clarify as I thought it was clear but apparently not, isn't everyone that uses wordpress.com to host a blog using a subdomain of wordpress.com? If that is true doesn't that make this standard a little difficult to follow.

  3. wordpress.com? on HTML5 Storage Bug Can Fill Your Hard Drive · · Score: 1, Insightful

    isn't everyone's blog a subdomain?

  4. Re:Good ... on Sony Fined In UK For PlayStation Network Hack · · Score: 1

    So how many credit cards were compromised and how is this fine proportionate? How does this put a dent in a large corporation? All it does is eliminate smaller business. My point was that the means of purchasing something are insecure and that insecurity is passed on to the seller. That should be corrected. In fact it would probably be better if credit card companies had to deal with all this security themselves similar to how you can get redirected to Paypal for completing a transaction. So when your credit card info is leaked it is the credit card losing real business.

  5. Re:Good ... on Sony Fined In UK For PlayStation Network Hack · · Score: 1

    I don't know is this a good thing? What about small companies that just want to sell something? There are ways of pushing the compliance on someone else for a fee but perhaps what data is necessary for this stuff and a complete overhaul of our payment systems would be better. I am not saying companies should not be PCI compliant but credit card issuers should also be required to come up with something better.

  6. Re:lol on Pot Smokers Might Not Turn Into Dopes After All · · Score: 2, Insightful

    LSD does not increase intelligence but allows one to remove themselves from there typical outlook on something. We try and do this all the time as humans. When you hit a problem you try and step back and look for a different way around said problem. LSD simply allows one to see things completely differently without effort. For those that wander down the rabbit hole most are not fortunate to be working on a problem that requires serious thought let alone have the intelligence and or luck to actually see a solution. Recreational drugs do not improve people except in that most people need recreation or we would die of overload. Some people drink, some smoke, who gives a shit if you do not harm others?

  7. Re:Waste of space. on Has Lego Sold Out? · · Score: 1

    Well, they can also compete on quality. My local Grocery Outlet has some cool-looking Transformers-branded knockoff blocks, but I suspect that they are pieces of shit so I won't buy them, even on sale. And they're at the Grocery Outlet because no other discerning shoppers will buy them, either.

    Yes and LEGO has incredible quality control. But I suspect many of their potential customers shop at Walmart discount stores and are more concerned with cost than with quality especially since there is a great potential the blocks will be lost. The age when children can be trusted with a 200 USD kit there is fierce competition with video games and other toys and children's interest with blocks will start to drop off shortly after the 10 - 12 year mark.

  8. Re:Waste of space. on Has Lego Sold Out? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No crap they sold out. Branding is now all they have left after losing their cases preventing competition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lego_Group#Trademark_and_patents The only way they can continue to compete with companies like MegaBlocks is to have exclusive rights to Star Wars or Harry Potter etc etc. Honestly how much justification can you have for $50 USD plastic blocks unless you are the only game in town with whats "cool".

  9. Re:The real problem on Virus Eats School District's Homework · · Score: 1

    Locking down the computer is a definite no matter the OS. Also you should only see the AP and no one else on the network. For BYOD you should be using a level playing field anyway like Google Docs so everyone sees the same stuff rather than "I can't open this .pages file!" This also allows for easier sharing because everything is going out the gateway rather than around the LAN. Cloud usage in this case should remove the need for an AD and home shares.

  10. Re:Is Java the new Flash? on New Java Vulnerability Found Affecting Java 5, 6, and 7 SE · · Score: 1

    I can't I'm verklempt

  11. Re:Worse? on Networked Cars: Good For Safety, Bad For Privacy · · Score: 2

    Agreed. I am more interested if it means I don't need insurance. I figure the car company can cover all of it to ensure they make the safest product.

  12. Or just dont eat meat on Meat the Food of the Future · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You dont have to eat meat and if it became a smaller portion of peoples diets all the better. The grass lands that these animals use are enourmous for your return in meat. I would say chickens and goats are a better option for people than cows. If sanitation was a top priority for towns they could focus on making sure families all were feed from a small local farm with no polution into the water or soil like the estrogen issues of large farm runoffs were have today.

  13. Re:Website half gone on The Leap: Gesture Control Like Kinect, But Cheaper and Higher Resolution · · Score: 2

    http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/10/ocuspec-raises-1-3m-from-andreessen-and-others-to-build-an-affordable-kinect/
    that was posted like a year ago, i searched through slashdot for OcuSpec but got nothing. maybe there was an article a while ago but it appears to have gone unnoticed for a year here.
    from the website:
    How do I pre-order a LEAP?
    We have a limited number available for our first shipment this winter. Early birds catch the worm – so click here to order. We won’t charge you until the product is ready to ship.
    What are the tech specifications for the LEAP?
    TBD.

    Huh? how are specs to be determined if you have them?

  14. ....Money on Why Intel Leads the World In Semiconductor Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_v._Intel
    When you get all the sales you get to build facilities that can make you even better toys.

  15. F Techsoup look for off lease PCs on Ask Slashdot: Best Practices For Maintaining IT Policy In K-12 Public Education? · · Score: 1

    Anonymous is correct, schools are not eligible for Microsoft licensing along with almost every other vendor on Techsoup which really makes it useless for only the smallest of qualifying 501 c 3s. http://www.techsoup.org/stock/restrictions.asp#ms

    Organizations that are not eligible: Not all 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations are eligible for participation in the Microsoft Donation Program. Those that are not eligible should visit Microsoft Volume Licensing for Industries for more information about charity licensing; they may still be eligible for discounted software from Microsoft. The following types of organizations are ineligible for Microsoft software donations:
    Governmental organizations or agencies.
    Educational institutions, including K-12 schools, colleges, universities, and trade schools. ...


    I would suggest looking for a place that sells off lease PCs that come with Win7 Pro COAs you can find PCs with 3Gig of memory for $200 USD. There are a bunch of places that specialize in selling off leases to schools only and some have lifetime warranties - lifetime meaning for as long as you own it. They just keep gutting PCs and new ones are always coming in for them.

  16. Re:What about external hazards? on TomTom Satnavs To Set Insurance Prices · · Score: 1

    Absolutely your response is the only possibly reason why someone would brake hard. After training all the deer in my town not to run out of the woods full speed without looking on 55 mph roads that is. And when you are the only person on the road how will they be able to corroborate your side of the story? Interview the deer of course, that's what we train the for! +5 Insightful on your comment shows how many cattle roam through ./ Moo

  17. Re:Just Wrong on Feds Return Mistakenly Seized Domain · · Score: 1

    Who pays for that year? If it isn't their money why the fuck would they care.

  18. Re:Too little. on Cnet Apologizes For Nmap Adware Mess · · Score: 1

    totally its so hard to find a trustworthy place to download nmap http://nmap.org/dist/nmap-5.51-setup.exe
    how about sourceforge?

  19. Re:Duh on No Windows 8 Plot To Lock Out Linux · · Score: 1

    Companies will advertise to consumers how their systems support some new video distribution system or format, and most people will never even question the loss of control (or notice it). The free software community will be forced to buy high-end workstations or systems from lesser known PC makers, and will be left out of the loop on new media formats as we already are with mainstream gaming.

    While I agree it is likely and annoying I also think it is a good thing in many ways. I know so many people that run VLC or some other OSS because the awesome stuff like WMP wants me to install a codec "How come I can hear it but can't see my movie!" They have no clue what OSS is just that they can google VLC anytime they get a PC and watch their kids baby movies without a second thought on tweaking software or downloading codecs. These kind of artificial walls have made the community stronger by providing a goal to strive for. Be better than that shit.

  20. Sun Shade on Film Turns Windows Into Solar Panels · · Score: 2

    "The film blocks or absorbs about 80 percent of visible light and over 90 percent of infrared light, so it also acts as a sunshade"

    Thats pretty dark. Now you don't have to live in the basement

  21. Re:Double Standard on Evangelical Scientists Debate Creation Story · · Score: 1

    Not sure if this was posted to contradict my post but if anything I feel it reaffirms it. From my understanding Lot's daughters felt that there was no other way to carry their linage which points back to necessity. In either case this occurred before supposedly the author Moses wrote Leviticus. And apparently some scholars believe the incest laws were created later to separate the Israeli people from others.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot_(biblical_person)#Incest

  22. Re:Double Standard on Evangelical Scientists Debate Creation Story · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviticus_18

    Like many things as necessity fades things changed

  23. Is this all the same problem? on Breaking Motion Capture Out of the Studio · · Score: 1

    Sounds like we are mixing two problems and the video shows a problem that seems to me not necessary in solving. I'm no expert or even n00b on the subject but I never really understood why you would need a camera and florescent dots on a person to record motion. Why can't you just have sensors that measure the movement like my phone, and you could do this anywhere. The video recording of dots seems like the old school poor mans way of recording points and thereby recording motion. Now if you want a three dimensional scene to be recorded along with the motion then yes it makes sense to use a camera but I don't see how a three dimensional scene could have been created in the studio anyway by recording dots. Now if we are talking about the matrix like freeze while moving around a three dimensional object isn't that a different problem? From what I recall this is done by recording with several cameras but is motion really involved? Now perhaps both of these problems can be solved now using this new method since you now have a three dimensional reference for the scene but doesn't the data need to be collected separately? I mean if I just stand still and wanted it to be a shot of me standing on a hill while the cameras do that helicopter circle pass shot that is over done what three dimensional model have I recorded for the scene since I have not moved?

  24. Re:9th way on 8 Ways To Circumvent the PROTECT-IP Act · · Score: 1

    Also what about the links in the website that using the domain name rather than the IP. An example of a website not using a redirect:
    host google.com
    google.com has address 74.125.93.103
    google.com has address 74.125.93.105
    google.com has address 74.125.93.104
    google.com has address 74.125.93.147
    google.com has address 74.125.93.99
    google.com has address 74.125.93.106

    Now punch 74.125.93.103 and click on the images link and were do we end up http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi

    which is why hosts file is suggested

  25. Re:The name indicates the market on Do Two-Screen Laptops Make Sense? · · Score: 1

    It's double the weight of my T61.