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  1. Re:1984 on Super Bowl Ads: Worth the Price Or Waste of Time? · · Score: 1

    Good news! DHS has announced they'll have a spot this year!

  2. Re:Theft prevention: label it "Linux Laptop" on Ask Slashdot: Good Tracking Solutions For Linux Laptop? · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is actually not a terrible idea. Kinda along the lines of how people joke that the best anti-theft an American car can have is a clutch.

  3. Re:Argh! on Researchers Crack iOS Mobile Hotspot Passwords In Less Than a Minute · · Score: 2

    For reference, that means there's 18,420,000 combinations.

  4. poor babies on With an Eye Toward Disaster, NYC Debuts Solar Charging Stations · · Score: -1, Troll

    and often walked across whole neighborhoods to reach zones with power

    Whole neighborhoods!? I'm amazed they survived the brutal fifteen minute journey and lived to tell the tale.

  5. Site already blown to bits on Shapeshifting: Proposal For a New Periodic Table of the Elements · · Score: 1

    Error establishing a database connection that looks suspiciously like a broken WordPress on the source material. Google link shows a translation of a translation of a translation...

  6. Re:Seems fishy on Revealed: How the UK Spied On Its G20 Allies At London Summits · · Score: 2

    "#211,944? I'm not familiar with it."

    "Of course you aren't, senator. "You" haven't written it yet."

    Fixed for unfortunate truth

  7. Already not in use on Proposed Rule Would Drastically Restrict Chimp Research · · Score: 2
    From TFA:

    In fact, most of the roughly 1,000 chimps held at biomedical laboratories are not being used.

    I'd be curious why this is - already too much regulation? The article goes on to say that they hope to pass them on to shelters. I'd certainly hope that's the case if they're not being utilized

  8. Re:Genius judge on Federal Judge Says Interns Should Be Paid · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The only point I can see is that even if they have to be paid, you still have perfectly legitimate reason to pay them less than you would someone else doing the same work.

    The real problem is the racket they've got going. You can't get a job without experience and the only experience you can get is going to be unpaid or underpaid labor doing the exact same job

  9. "Summary" on Apple Shows Off New iOS 7, Mac OS X At WWDC · · Score: 1

    This is about the longest TFS I've ever seen. It's only about half the length of the full article!

  10. Re:Self Checkout - Bah Humbug on Supermarkets: High-Tech Hotbeds · · Score: 1

    You put it back? That's nice of you. I've abandoned my cart in these lines before.
    Protip the the Walmart in Houston - Dunvale. When there are literally more than a hundred people in line to check out, you should open the fourth checkout stand.

  11. Re:Been going on for years on Supermarkets: High-Tech Hotbeds · · Score: 1

    This is such a simple energy saver that it's kind of amazing they didn't come up with using one of the two parts (motion activation and LEDs) it much, much earlier.

  12. Re:Wayback machine? on Ask Slashdot: What To Do When Another Dev Steals Your Work and Adds Their Name? · · Score: 1

    If the original client won't cooperate, perhaps you could send a DMCA takedown notice asserting your ownership of the copyright for the original digital content.

    Unfortunately, this is almost certainly not an option. From TFS:

    Now this is grey territory as it the client who owns the source, not the contracting developer.

  13. Re:"Dark" past? on IBM Buys Dallas Based Softlayer For $2 Billion · · Score: 1

    Having worked with several former TP and EV1 people, I'm confused as well. Aside from running like, well, a lot of early tech companies did, I've never heard of any "dark history."

  14. Re:Bad OS or bad GUI? on A Serious Proposal To Fix Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    If it is simply a shitty GUI on an improved kernel and stack then I will deal with it.

    Agreed!

    For powerusers, whom I would assume make up a large portion of /.'s audience, a GUI is something that can be replaced or skinned over but a crappy backend is forever

  15. Re:You have to pay to play! on MasterCard Forcing PayPal To Pay Higher Fees · · Score: 1

    Interest?

  16. Re:Read the reviews yourself on In Wake of Poor Reviews, Amazon Yanks SimCity Download · · Score: 1

    AFAIK, Amazon referrals will track you until you get another one. The Amazon link in the posted article did feature a referrer link.

  17. Read the reviews yourself on In Wake of Poor Reviews, Amazon Yanks SimCity Download · · Score: 4, Informative
  18. Re:Starcraft on Games Workshop Bullies Author Over Use of the Words 'Space Marine' · · Score: 2

    It's common rumor, though I'm unable to find a source right now, that Starcraft was originally designed to be an RTS version of Space Hulk. You've got the Marines/Marines, Zerg/Tyaranids, Protoss/Tau. Someone who's not at work might be more enterprising than I and actually be able to find a source on this.

  19. Re:Call the Waaaahmbulance? on Amazon.com Suffers Outage: Nearly $5M Down the Drain? · · Score: 0

    You can't lose what you do not yet have.

    Unless you're the RIAA/MPAA

  20. Re:small set of ips on Barracuda Appliances Have Exploitable Holes, Fixed By Firmware Updates · · Score: 1

    Line breaks, do you have them?

    Fixed for you

    According to the article, these non-Barracuda domains fall within those blocks.

    mail.totalpaas.com (205.158.110.135) - Domain registered by: Domains By Proxy, LLC ...
    frmt1.boxitweb.com (205.158.110.132) - Domain registered by: Thor Myhrstad
    static.medallia.com (205.158.110.229) - Domain registed by: Medallia Inc.
    utility.connectify.net (205.158.110.171) - Domain registered by: Connectify Networks, Inc.
    everest.address.com (216.129.105.202) - Domain registed by: WhitePages, Inc.
    mail.tqm.bz (216.129.105.205) - Domain registered by: Total Quality Maintenance, Inc
    outbound.andyforbes.com (216.129.105.212) - Domain registered by: HM hosting

    Anyone got any idea why those would be included in having access? Apparently this hole has been present since 2003. I'm surprised it didn't come to light earlier.

  21. Re:that constitutes harassment and threatening beh on Cisco VP To Memo Leaker: Finding You Now 'My Hobby' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I want to preface by saying that I absolutely agree that this is harassment and threatening behaviour.

    However, I can say with certaintly that HR does not care one single bit. HR really couldn't care either way on most issues. They do their job. That job is to protect the company and its higher ups.

    If a low level employee sent this, then yes, absolutely, they'd be terminated.

    Now, when a low level employee brings these concerns to HR, they'll be informed that it is not in fact threatening, but rather a reminder of company policies regardling leaks and an assurance from the VP that he personally takes those policies very seriously. Then she'll offer some candy from the bowl on her desk and ask you if you've remembered to signup for this weekend's company picnic.

  22. Better upgrade on Apple Delays Simpler and Cleaner iTunes 'to Get It Right' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Thanks for the warning, Apple. Now I know that I need to upgrade now, before you remove my favourite functionalities.

  23. Re:Where are the mid-American datacenters on New York Data Centers Battle Floods, Utility Outages · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why aren't there more datacenters in Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, etc.?

    If you're paying the premium to host in Manhattan, you're doing so because latency is a big deal to you.

  24. Extra features prevent use on Ask Slashdot: Seamonkey vs. Firefox — Any Takers? · · Score: 1

    Unfortuantely for me, all of Seamonkey's "extra features" make it less desirable for me.

    In fact, I can't use it at all on my work machine - no software that can access IRC allowed = no Seamonkey :(

  25. Obligatory XKCD on Apple Patents Alternative To NFC · · Score: 1