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  1. Turn it off. on Tracking Protection In Wi-Fi Networks Coming Soon To Linux · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please don't. My company is building tools that help businesses understand their customers through WiFi. We're having to waste a lot of time building heuristics that determine whose MAC switched when they blip off and a new one randomly appears. We're barely off the ground with this stuff, now we're probably going to have to build new heuristics for Android devices.

    I will say that the good part of this is the product managers now understand we can't track real people, which was never our intent, but was possible given the long-lived nature of MACs. I just wish they'd randomize in the middle of the night when charging.

  2. Re:Cheap Labor on Is Montana the Next Big Data Hub? · · Score: 1

    The Starbucks to Walmart ratio has been used as a measure of exactly that for some time. Unfortunately Montana is well on the wrong side of that line.

  3. Re:An educated workforce on Is Montana the Next Big Data Hub? · · Score: 1

    It absolutely does. I worked for the largest Tech Engineering firm in the state a few years ago. It's relocating to Denver, so there goes all the talent. And I mean all the talent. Filling seats was about the hardest part of our job. No one else was doing what we were doing in Billings, the largest city. Of course, Bozeman and Missoula have cheaper student labor, so maybe they can make it work there. But those are also the most expensive cities so the cheap part is out the window.

  4. Re:Good Question on What's Stopping Us From Eating Insects? · · Score: 1

    This is a man who knows steak.

  5. Re:Good Question on What's Stopping Us From Eating Insects? · · Score: 1

    Don't spread FUD. Seriously don't.

  6. Re:Good Question on What's Stopping Us From Eating Insects? · · Score: 1

    Dogs (and bears) are omnivores, not carnivores. I don't know any culture that eats cats or carnivorous canines.

  7. Jeff Jaffe's Contact Info on Reject DRM and You Risk Walling Off Parts of the Web, Says W3C Chief · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.w3.org/People/Jeff/ I'm emailing him to tell him that DRM content is walled off from the web. DRM is not open content and has no place on the web. Let content providers who do not adapt die off. Doesn't matter if they are large movie studios or not.

  8. Re:What a disaster on BT Chief To Become British Government Minister · · Score: 1

    Who would you suggest for the position?

  9. Re:Herp, meet Derp on Microsoft Kills Xbox One Phone-Home DRM · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Your phone company logs your calls and you probably have a webcam in your laptop, which is likely in your living room. That you are worried once the NSA has a call log with your phone number and that a Microsoft device is the one with the webcam makes you seem paranoid.

    Out of curiosity, if the Xbox One were exactly as it was announced except that the OS was open-source, would you be less concerned about the always on camera?

  10. Re:Constitution on The NSA: Never Not Watching · · Score: 1

    It prevents them from passing good laws. When a bill is high profile, a politician is an extension of his base supporters, not a reasonable human being looking out for the best interests of the country. Nothing good happens when politicians feel they have to appease their base.

  11. Re:Simple on EA Repeats As 'Worst Company In America' · · Score: 1

    +1 Insightful

  12. Re:slow news day? on No Such Thing As a Tax-Free Lunch At Google? · · Score: 1

    How is that relevant for taxation?

  13. Re:Not a replacement yet on Big Advance In Hydrogen Production Could Change Alternative Energy Landscape · · Score: 1

    Warren Buffet doesn't need to follow the flow. He makes changes, the rest of the world follows.

  14. Re:Don't overspecialize on Ask Slashdot: Preparing For the 'App Bubble' To Pop? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'd hardly call them developers.

  15. Re:Is there an app bubble? on Ask Slashdot: Preparing For the 'App Bubble' To Pop? · · Score: 1

    Yes, definitely. It's not glamorous, but support apps are huge. By that I mean apps that support a business model, rather than being the business model. My company builds free mobile apps that work with our hardware. We will continue to support the apps as long as the hardware is bringing in the money. And boy, do they bring in the money.

  16. Re:Me, too! on MySQL's Creator On Why the Future Belongs To MariaDB · · Score: 1

    MySQL has never failed us for data.

  17. Re:unworkable? care to elaborate, corporate world? on UK Privacy Watchdog: 'Right To Be Forgotten' On the Web Unworkable · · Score: 2

    What civil right do you believe is threatened here? The one where you control Google's data about you? Not a civil right.

  18. Re:Lazy on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Stay Fit At Work? · · Score: 1

    My personal experience suggests the GP is more correct. 20 minutes is enough time to _start_ a good workout. The good stuff happens in the next 20-40 minutes.

  19. Re:It IS somewhat shocking. on DoJ Admits Aaron Swartz's Prosecution Was Political · · Score: 1

    Given that the legal framework of our land is Common Law and that the Constitution was designed to build a fair playing field, it is absolutely the job of Judges to ensure Justice. That's the entire purpose of judicial review in America, and a cornerstone of the Judicial Branch's check on the other 2 branches.

  20. Re:because on Ask Slashdot: Why Is It So Hard To Make An Accurate Progress Bar? · · Score: 2

    As long as people want to know how much longer it takes. We operate in time. This is why progress bars are so prevalent even though they aren't accurate.

  21. Re:OK then what about the 2nd amendment? on Spy Drones Used To Hunt Down Christopher Dorner · · Score: 1

    Proving my point, it's not 100%.

  22. Re:OK then what about the 2nd amendment? on Spy Drones Used To Hunt Down Christopher Dorner · · Score: 1

    It is 100% certain that an executed criminal will not commit another crime. So yes, execution deters crime.

    Non-sequitor. It is _not_ 100% certain that an executed criminal would have committed more crimes.

  23. Re:OK then what about the 2nd amendment? on Spy Drones Used To Hunt Down Christopher Dorner · · Score: 1

    The system doesn't work. As this fellow has been telling you. Also, he tried to use the system. It chewed him up and spit him out, as it tends to do when it is challenged in any way.

    He was using the wrong system. He's moved on to another wrong system.

  24. Re:not the first one on Spy Drones Used To Hunt Down Christopher Dorner · · Score: 1

    Of course they can. That's the entire purpose of the Legislative branch of our government. It's the Judicial branch that is concerned with constitutionality.

  25. Re:The problem with averages on Missile Defense's Real Enemy: Math · · Score: 1

    Here is my problem with the way we teach math. Calculus is not advanced. It is a different method to doing math. I use calculus all the time. Not because I'm doing Integrals, but because I see the world with Calculus. It is possible to learn Calculus without applying it to the world. What a waste though.