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  1. Weights and Measures! on Comcast Typo Penalizes Wrong Customer For Data Usage (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Get the state bureau of weights and measures involved! If Comcast insists on usage-based billing, then its routers and billing infrastructure should be inspected, certified, and sealed just like gas pumps, water meters, and grocery store scales.

  2. This isn't the first time... on Carnegie-Mellon Sends Hundreds of Acceptance Letters By Mistake · · Score: 1

    When I applied there for undergraduate, I was sent two rejection letters, four months apart.

  3. Hmm... I can do this for a fraction of the cost... on Feds Offer $20M For Critical Open Source Energy Network Cybersecurity Tools · · Score: 2
  4. Re:Shotgun on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Spraypaint them orange first. PULL!

  5. Data Structures? on After Learning Java Syntax, What Next? · · Score: 1

    I'm taking Java this semester and we're moving on to Data Structures.

    This is the book my class is using. It's written by my professor and it seems pretty good.

  6. Re:Students need to do a economic demonstration on Pittsburgh To Tax Students · · Score: 1

    A More effective route would be to get a couple hundred students to picket the City-County building in downtown.

  7. Re:Wrong! on Pittsburgh To Tax Students · · Score: 1

    One of the Tax-ees here:

    I'd say that he didn't talk it over with the Universities.

  8. Re:1984 much? on The Mindset of the Incoming College Freshmen · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Indeed. The only things I could really relate to were the bits about chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream, GDP, and Blue Jello.

    Honestly, this is basically a list of things to assume about the class of 2013 that you can bring out in conversation to insult their knowledge of history.

  9. If this is the case... on Apple Says iPhone Jailbreaking Could Hurt Cell Towers · · Score: 1

    The someone writing Cell Tower Software needs to be fired.

  10. Re:Crazy people on English DJ Claims Wi-Fi Allergy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or... you know... the stuff that they're actually playing on the TVs...

  11. What I'm doing this fall... on Best Home Backup Strategy Now? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've re-purposed a computer as a backup server, which lives at my parents house. It runs Ubuntu, with ZFS running over FUSE. Each night, a scripted CRON event will run zpool scrub on my storage pool, and if there is a problem, it will send me a text.

    My MacBook Pro will use Time Machine over NFS over SSH to make the actual backups from my dorm/wherever I happen to be.

    Commence CDDL/GPL/BSD Flamewar.

  12. This is nothing new. on iPhone Users Angry Over AT&T Upgrade Policy · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you had an Original Motorola RAZR and you wanted a new one, you had to pay full price.

    I fail to see the issue here.

  13. Re:Just Great on Quake Live Dev Says Mac and Linux Are "Top Priority" · · Score: 1

    Nah... just as long as you don't pick up World of Warcraft, you should be fine.

  14. Re:Reddit had it right on Let's Rename Swine Flu As "Colbert Flu" · · Score: 1

    +1 More for Bacon Lung.

  15. Get to the meat of the story... on BT Blocks Access To Pirate Bay · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How is this implemented?

    DNS?
    OpenDNS' IPs are 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220

    DPI?
    https://thepiratebay.org/

  16. ZFS? on Oracle Buys Sun · · Score: 1

    So what does this mean for ZFS licensing?

  17. Re:Monopolies on FCC Seeks To Improve US Broadband Access · · Score: 2, Funny

    But duopolies serve a purpose!

    Someone needs to drop your connection for days at a time with no explanation or refund... and piling all that non-work on one company is just too much.

  18. Re:According to my (cop) Digital Forensics Prof... on FBI Seizes All Servers In Dallas Data Center · · Score: 1

    Okay okay. I should have thrown a spell check in there before posting my somewhat relevant post.

  19. According to my (cop) Digital Forensics Prof... on FBI Seizes All Servers In Dallas Data Center · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When a police officer seizes computer hardware from a business in the course of an investigation, they can be held civilly liable for any loss or damage caused to the business by their actions.

    At least thats how it is for Pennsylvania State Police.

  20. He won't bother to write or phone you... on Cellular Repo Man · · Score: 2, Funny

    He'll just rip the still beating heart from your chest!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMP2dvGFUlk&fmt=18

  21. Re:I feel left out... on .CA Registrar Trying To Preempt Conficker · · Score: 3, Funny

    No. It uses a vulnerability in the Windows File and Printer sharing daemon to inject a DLL file into svchost.exe.

    I suggest filing a bug with SAMBA and Wine, respectively.

  22. MMS, Bluetooth, C&P, Video on What Features Should Be Included With iPhone 3.0? · · Score: 1
    • Cut/Copy/Paste
    • MMS
    • Proper full bluetooth support. This means A2DP for music, DUN, FTP, SAP/SIM Access, Phonebook access.
    • Video recording
    • 2nd camera facing the user
  23. My experience with Windows Hitler. on Windows 7 Beta Released To Public After Delay · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've installed Windows 7 32-bit Pre-Pre-Release (build 7000 for inquiring minds) on my gaming machine and it works surprisingly well. Ventrilo took a bit of fiddling to work right, but other than that it worked better out of the box than XP Service Pack 3 does. It didn't need any extra drivers, although it did prompt me to update the Graphics card driver, which it happily did automatically.

    Then the trouble started.

    Since I had several firefox tabs open, I opted to put the computer into Hibernation for the night so I could continue with them this morning. It obliged surprisingly quickly and shut off the system power. Fans went off, case lights went off, and the USB devices lost power. The system was off. Off I Tell you!

    I went to bed. While reading Paris in the 20th Century by Jules Verne, almost an hour after I had shut off the machine, quietly returned to life! I thought that some bump or vibration or some minuscule cosmic ray had activated the case button and quickly dismissed it as some one-off odd event. I went back to reading about Le Grande Entrepôt.

    About a chapter later, I don't know how much time had passed, the beast roared back to life with the ferocity of all fans at one hundred percent and the squeal of the system speaker! Twice in one night was too much for coincidence. I put the machine into hibernation once again, unplugged the power supply and resigned myself that if it came back to life once more, I would call a priest for an exorcism. (which would be quite a phone call, considering that I do not frequent churches)

    Tonight, I will be sleeping with a copy of dBaN by my side.

  24. So what about me? on Every Email In UK To Be Monitored · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm a Dual US/UK National. Will these new wiretaps be incompatible with the preexisting NSA taps on My AT&T Cell phone?

  25. I come to Slashdot because it *isn't* Digg. on Slashdot Announces Idle Section · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If I want LOLcats, I go to Digg.
    If I want Pseudo-Politics, I go to Reddit.
    If I want to know about the latest announced Apple product, I go to appleinsider.
    If I want to know about the worlds largest TV, I go to The Register.

    If I want actual Intellectual articles with in-depth discussions, I come to slashdot.

    Please don't ruin this for me.