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  1. You can get by with: on How Much Python Do You Need To Know To Be Useful? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Holy Grail;
    Dead Parrot;
    Spam;
    Ministry of Silly Walks;
    and of course Spanish Inquisition.

  2. Re:Except... on Google Calendar Ends SMS Notifications · · Score: 1

    My Kyocera Brigadier can take quite a beating. See some comparisons here: http://versus.com/en/2014/09/2...

  3. Re:Dear Michael Rogers, on NSA Director Wants Legal Right To Snoop On Encrypted Data · · Score: 2

    When encryption is outlawed, only outlaws

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  4. Re:Secret Ballot? on How Bitcoin Could Be Key To Online Voting · · Score: 1

    In fact, they only record that you received a ballot, and which ballot type it was (e.g. for closed primaries); you could enter a blank ballot and not actually "vote" at all.

  5. Re:Have Both on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 1

    Here, here. I get odd looks from my coworkers, but I have used this setup for at least 5 years. Yes: browsers, etc look "odd" on the portrait screen but it works perfect for having loads of IM windows, code windows, etc open.

  6. UTC or go home on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Stand on Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 1

    At a prior company I had all of the systems my department used set to UTC, they were not user-facing devices but sure made our jobs easier, there would always be a big hoopla about going in to and out of summertime settings in all the other areas--and massive headaches for everything that didn't work right--meanwhile our staff just relaxed. Even set our wall clocks to UTC for easy reference.

  7. Re:Sounds nice on GNU Emacs 24.4 Released Today · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ahh, first post, I bet you prepped this offline in vi for super-speedy readiness.

  8. Passenger Use, Temporary other driver on Technological Solution For Texting While Driving Struggles For Traction · · Score: 1

    This seems ripe with technical flaws, first it assumes that only known persons would ever operate the vehicle; secondly it presumes that the owner can't let anyone else in the vehicle use their phone.

  9. Local AS in Web Production on Ask Slashdot: Modern Web Development Applied Science Associates Degree? · · Score: 1

    Our local state college has numerous AAS/AS degrees, these are generally designed to teach a skill more advanced then high school that you can make some use of.

    The AS in computer information technology has a lot of room for specialization, allowing students to select from a large range of in-field electives in this topic such as:

    Website Development, Introduction to E-Commerce, Web Animation, E-Commerce Design, Multimedia Programming, Java Programming, Web Programming, Introduction to Computer Programming, Advanced Web Programming - CGI/Perl

    This allows for the AS degree to be customized to the needs (and does NOT focus 15 entire courses on just one topic).

  10. Re:Why? on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    In this day and age I understand that javascript is pretty much a necessity, HOWEVER..there is absolutely no reason that a site as large as /. should be forcing third-party javascript loads--if you can't host it your self - shove it out the window.

  11. And still no SSL support fon /. on GCHQ Created Spoofed LinkedIn and Slashdot Sites To Serve Malware · · Score: 1

    If /. had even basic ssl support, at least a possible forged certificate could have been revealed.

  12. The Goggles, they do nothing! on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 1

    Ow Ow Ow, as soon as I hit the beta site all I wanted to do was RUN.

    Didn't take time to find out why, but noticed third party scripts from rpxnow and ooyala attempting to load-- really /. you can afford to host your own scripts!

    Glad I'm doing most of my reading through RSS and can avoid it!

  13. Re:Mirror? on Yahoo Deletes Journalist's Pre-Paid Legacy Site After Suicide · · Score: 2

    Use http://web.archive.org/web/20130816143409/http://www.martinmanleylifeanddeath.com/why_not even before it was down there were some bad links when omitting the hostname.

  14. Re:Smart guns are a silly idea. on Hardly Anyone Is Buying 'Smart Guns' · · Score: 1

    Are you presuming that someone only has ONE gun? There is no practical need to keep most of your secured arsenal currently loaded.

  15. Mt.Gox initial response on DHS Shuts Down Dwolla Payments To and From Mt. Gox · · Score: 4, Informative

    "MtGox has read on the Internet that the United States Department of Homeland Security had a court order and/or warrant issued from the United States District Court in Maryland which it served upon the Dwolla mobile payment service with respect to accounts used for trading with MtGox. MtGox takes this information seriously. However, as of this time MtGox has not been provided with a copy of the court order and/or warrant and does not know its scope and/or the reasons for its issuance. MtGox is investigating and will provide further reports when additional information becomes known.

    Regards
    Mt.Gox Co. Ltd Team."

    https://mtgox.com/press_release_20130515.html

  16. Re:waste of money on In Sandy-Struck NJ Town, Verizon Goes All Wireless, No Copper · · Score: 1

    copper wireline is expensive, what medium would you expect those DSL customers to get service delivered on?

  17. Re:Lasers and corner reflectors on Navy To Deploy Lasers On Ship In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Blinding weapons are, but it has to be their primary intent; blinding as a side effect is not covered.

  18. Re:Rimm should pull a Nokia on BlackBerry 10 Unveiled · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The value behind RIM isn't BBM, it is BES. RIM does exchange integration very well, and that is from BES.

  19. without the knowledge of the site visitor on Some Hotspot Operators Secretly Intercept, Insert Ads In Web Pages · · Score: 5, Informative

    Of course this is in no way limited to hotels, even ISP's have been shown to do this. Using Client-Server encryption like SSL should easily bypass that.

  20. Re:Nope on The Death of BCC · · Score: 1

    gmail supports BCC: in both client/server mode and web mode. In Web Mode the link to add BCC recipients is just as prominent as the link for CC recipients. They even have a pretty 'English' write up of it's use: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=57143

  21. New scripts? on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    Haven't analyzed them yet, but seem to be getting new third part scripts trying to load now? (cdn.optimizley.com; s8.addthis.com) Are these new or am I just looking to hard?

  22. Yo dawg! on Sony Has Lost the PS3 Hacking War · · Score: 4, Funny

    "It makes you smile that you can use one homebrew console to hack another to get homebrew on that console."

    Yo dawg! I heard you like hacking homebrew, so we we put hack in your homebrew so you can hack homebrew while you hack!

  23. Re:And a safe for when you're not there to guard i on Where To Start With DIY Home Security? · · Score: 1

    Housebreakers don't go in for (ineffective) arms races. They are more into avoiding "houses that shoot" in favor of less dangerous prey.

    I can't be the only one that envisioned automatic "gun cameras" here can I?

  24. Not safe enough for my work on Playboy Launches Safe For Work Website · · Score: 5, Informative

    "This site contains content from the following categories: Adult/Mature Content;Entertainment; and has been automatically blocked". It is distinguised from playboy.com (category:Pornography), but unless they can get the "Mature" label dropped this will remain just beyond reach.

  25. Re:SOlution on The Desktop Security Battle May Be Lost · · Score: 1

    Sure, but how many are available from the "LAN" port with NO or default passwords? Couple this with more browser based attacks (from redirection a call to 192.168.0.1 to running a java control) then you can count and the router can be readily owned. For most home users it is very easy to get them to run malware.