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  1. Re:GUN SHY? on The Galaxy S8 Will Be Samsung's Biggest Test Ever (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I would never trust Samsung to sell me a phone that would not blow off my dick anymore.

    Some people pay good money for that, you know?

  2. > So in other words they used information that any intelligent facebook user / developer has access to via clever social engineering or the app itself

    No, as the article points out, it's not the actual victim's details that are at issue here. It's the fact that the perpetrator used the *wrong* photo, and that the photo they used comes up in a Google search (but not in other search engines). If they had have got the photo through Facebook or social engineering, they likely would have got the right photo.

  3. Re:Banning children of uneducated parent from scho on Australia To Ban Unvaccinated Children From Preschool (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    The question doesn't make sense. The vaccines you're talking about don't exist. The rule is that you need the MMR vaccine, because that's what's currently required to get immunized. I'm sure they'd consider changing the rule if/when a viable alternative were produced, tested, and shown to be effective.

  4. Re:which bay would that be? on NASA Planes Fly Over Bay Area To Measure Air Pollution Levels · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Seriously? I have lived in Australia all my life, and I know exactly what "Bay Area" means.

  5. Re:Ignore it. It's not a WiFi patent. on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Patent Trolls Seeking Wi-fi License Fees? · · Score: 1

    In order to be found in violation of this patent, your violation must satisfy all the claims listed on the patent

    I'm pretty sure that's not right (but see my nick).

    The claims are each enforceable in their own right, but typically get chained together ("Claim 2: The method in claim 1, further ...").

    If one claim is not relevant, then only those claims depending on it are irrelevant.

  6. Re:Apple is spending its patent portfolio on Judge Koh Rules: Samsung Did Not Willfully Infringe · · Score: 1

    You're missing the point.

    There's a difference between disagreeing with what someone says (throwing out the claims of prior art), and believing they believe what they're saying (agreeing the alleged infringement was not willful). They're not mutually exclusive.

  7. Re:Apple is spending its patent portfolio on Judge Koh Rules: Samsung Did Not Willfully Infringe · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think you might be misreading it.

    "their" refers to Samsung. So she's saying since Sasmsung's experts testified that there was prior art, she's assuming they genuinely believed the prior art to be valid. The jury disagreed, but without other evidence she has assumed the experts genuinely believed there to be prior art.

  8. Re:Hide your PhD on Ask Slashdot: Advice For Getting Tech Career Back On Track · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Most places I've worked would instantly toss resumes that explicitly mentioned anything like that - DOB, marital status, religion, even a photo.

    Having a policy of rejecting anyone who volunteers information that could be used as grounds for a discrimination claim is apparently the safest approach.

  9. Re:Better idea on A Subscription-Based Movie Theater · · Score: 2

    Your wrong

    No. ewe are.

  10. Re:You're assuming it's a burglar on Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage · · Score: 1

    Sure, if that actually happened, I'd fight tooth and nail to protect my family. Home invasion rape are incredibly rare - it's not something I lose any sleep over, and it's not worth culling 0.01% of your population annually "just in case".

    I strongly suspect a gun owner is considerably more likely to accidentally shoot themselves or a member of their family than they are to successfully ward off a rapist.

  11. Re:100 more will die today on Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage · · Score: 1

    Wait - what?

    Japan's murder rate is 0.3 per 100,000.
    China dominates that at 1.0.
    UK comes in even higher at 1.2.

    The US? No single US state comes in lower than Japan. Iowa, Vermont, and New Hapshire are the only states/territories that come in lower than the UK. The average across the US? 4.2.

    Make no mistake - murder rates in the US are unacceptably high.

  12. Re:*confused on Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage · · Score: 2

    At that rate, you are more likely to die in an airline catastrophe.

    That suggests the figures you took from the previous poster are extremely flawed. Over 30,000 americans die from gunshots every (not to mention the 75,000 who are injured). Air crash deaths are extremely rare - there have been a number of years recently with no air crash deaths in the US.

  13. Re:100 more will die today on Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The catch-22 is that your relative value on human life makes you an incredibly inappropriate person for making those life-and-death decisions.

    There are a million and one reasons why someone might be in your house (or why you might think someone's in your house).

    I'm not suggesting being robbed isn't most likely explanation, but it's just stuff. Your stuff is not worth extrajudicial killing someone over.

  14. Re:100 more will die today on Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What an absolute load of clap trap.

    Why do people get modded up as insightful for spouting the same old NRA propaganda? Analysing the statistics for violent crime, suicide and accidental deaths is a complicated area of research. Finding localised peaks in violent crime figures does not negate the massive drops in gun incidents we saw in Australia following the effective banning of firearms almost 20 years ago.

    And what's with this view that being able to shoot someone who wrongs you is better than the tiny risk of being robbed? Seriously? People with that view are exactly who I don't want having weapons anywhere near me.

  15. Re:Yahoo's take on Yahoo "Loses" $2.7B In Mysterious Mexican Yellow Pages Lawsuit · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://investor.yahoo.net/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=724306 will work better (without the trailing slash).

  16. Re:So far on Firefox 18 Beta Out With IonMonkey JavaScript Engine · · Score: 1

    Licking his palms.

  17. Re:#insert "YourAnusJoke.h" on The Most Detailed Images of Uranus' Atmosphere Ever · · Score: 2

    And for some reason, I has a strange compulsion to reply to this.

  18. Re:multiple control points on BrewPi: Raspberry Pi and Arduino Powered Fermentation Chamber · · Score: 2

    The valve is the easy bit (if you don't mind manually switching a tap on in response to an alert).

    The sensor is not so simple. Even if digital hydrometers were cheap and easily available, you'd need to find a way of mounting it inside the fermenter such that you're not going to create a haven for bacteria (hint: any kind of non-smooth surface inside the fermentation vessel is a haven for bacteria).

    I've heard of people using ultrasonic transducers for measuring the gravity of fluid in a pipe, but it sounds like a lot of work.

  19. Re:Do the same with a handful of transistors on BrewPi: Raspberry Pi and Arduino Powered Fermentation Chamber · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You reckon you can do temperature control in an uncontrolled environment with a handful of transistors? Keep in mind the external temperature is uncontrolled. The yeast itself generates heat within the ferment at varying (and often unpredictable) rates.

    The simplest approach you can reasonable consider for the level of control they're looking for in their environment would be a PID controller, which if memory serves me correctly will have more than a handful of transistors in it. You're going to need a pretty decent PID to handle temperature profiling, which their solution

    They're using cheap, off-the-shelf parts to solve their problem, which in turn allow them to put extra features in there like web control, and it's now much easier for anyone to do the same thing. The parts may not have existed in 1964, but you need to keep in mind The Doors aren't the only good thing to happen since then.

  20. Re:High School Kids? on Patent Troll Goes After Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, IBM, Others · · Score: 1

    Could explain their web design.

    Actually, you're not far off. Their Quality Assurance Coordinator is due to complete their Comp Sci degree this year.

    Their "Software Engineer" also plans to graduate this year.

    Their "Research Analyst" completed her fine arts degree last year.

    Their "Director of Marketing" should finish her Bachelor of Science, Journalism this year.

    Odd.

  21. Re:a computer engineer, you say? on Playing At the World: a Huge New History of Gaming · · Score: 1
  22. Re:bitcoins are traceable on Secret Service Investigating Romney Tax Hack Claim · · Score: 1

    They know they there's no chance Romney will pay up. If he pays up, he likely does more damage to himself than the tax returns ever could.

    The alternative is to say, "leave $1M dollars in unmarked bills under some overpass". They're hardly going to hang around waiting to see if he pays.

  23. Re:fuck CBS. on Falcon 9 Launch Aborted At Last Minute · · Score: 1

    This launch has so many firsts, that the launch window is instantaneous.

    If they didn't launch right on the scheduled launch time, they were not going to have enough fuel to get to the ISS *and* do the test manoeuvres they had planned for the approach.

  24. Re:Somebody shake that mans hand on Australian WiFi Inventors Win US Legal Battle · · Score: 1

    I never said otherwise, and agree this patent is the result of a significant research.

    I was replying to a post, which has since been modded "troll" suggesting there was some sort of double standard, anti-American sentiment going on here.

  25. Re:Somebody shake that mans hand on Australian WiFi Inventors Win US Legal Battle · · Score: 0

    No-one has any problem with this applying to actual American research. We just disagree on whether or not thinking up a trivial solution to a problem, or marrying two obvious technologies on some idle Tuesday afternoon counts as research.