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  1. In Revere's own words on Palin Fans Deface Paul Revere Wikipedia Page · · Score: 1

    At one point on his ride, he was stopped by the British. This is what he said about it:

    "I told him; and aded, that their troops had catched aground in passing the River,
    and that There would be five hundred Americans there
    in a short time, for I had alarmed the Country all the way up. "

  2. Re:No, a setup by Andrew Breitbart on Anatomy of a Privacy Nightmare · · Score: 1

    "This smear has been in planning for several months"

    They've been planning this for months, and this is the best they could come up with?

  3. Summary: he's not handling it right on Anatomy of a Privacy Nightmare · · Score: 1

    People on the right think that Rep. Weiner attempted to direct message a picture of his privates to a girl but accidentally sent it on his feed were everyone could see it.

    People on the left think that Rep. Weiner's twitter account was hacked.

    Either way, he's not handling things properly.

    If his account was hacked, then someone has the ability to send out faked messages from a public official. This needs to be investigated to see if it was just him not being careful with his password or if there's a security flaw in twitter. Imagine if you got a faked tweet from President Obama's twitter account that said "Bombs dropping in 30 min. Take cover now!"

    If his account wasn't hacked, then he's lying about sending lewd pictures to a young woman.

  4. Re:You don't understand what CS is on Ask Slashdot: Good Homeschool Curriculum For CS?? · · Score: 1

    I had a programming class once where I had to submit the source code (Perl, I think) inside a MS Word document.

  5. Re:What? on A Piece of Internet History Lost: IO.com Sold, Services To Shut Down · · Score: 1

    I remember CompuServe costing $12/hour. And GENIE (General Electric Network for Information Exchange) changing $18/hour during the day and $6/hour at night.

  6. Michael Crichton had this idea in the 80s on Verifying Passwords By the Way They're Typed · · Score: 1

    Michael Crichton (yes, that Michael Crichton) actually wrote an article about this in Creative Computing magazine back in the early 80s. He even included a BASIC program to demonstrate the idea. I believe it was called MouseTrap.

  7. Couldn't do it without it on Do Developers Really Need a Second Monitor? · · Score: 1

    I find that I now have a hard time working if I don't have a second monitor. There are just so many scenarios where it is helpful:
    Debugger in one window, running program in the other
    Email in one, thing I'm writing an email about in another
    Word in one, thing I'm writing a document about in another
    Website with how to in one, thing I'm working on in another.
    It saves so much time not having to swap windows.

  8. Federal ethics law? on FCC Commissioner Leaves To Become Lobbyist · · Score: 1

    I don't know about federal law, but the state law were I live forbids a state official from taking a job with a company they regulate until they've been gone from their state job for at least two years.

  9. Western style pricing? on BSA 2010 Piracy Report: $58.8 Billion · · Score: 1

    What is "Western style pricing"? If something costs X to make, don't I have to sell it for more than X to make a profit? Doesn't that apply everywhere?

  10. I forsee a new reality show on Google To Offer Chrome OS Notebooks For $20/month · · Score: 1

    One where they film people going around repossessing laptops.

  11. I'd partner on Netflix CEO Hesitant To Fight Cable · · Score: 1

    If I was a cable provider, I'd be looking to partner with Netflix. Netflix seems to have figured out video on demand, so I would have them be the official VOD provider for my customers. Netflix would just be an added service on my customers' bills. I'd get a cut every month. And my customers would get the most popular VOD provider.

  12. Re:Part of a general pattern on Marking 125 Years Since the Great Gauge Change · · Score: 1

    Quite a few things get to the warehouse on a train and are then delivered on a truck.

  13. Re:Hardly secret or surprising on Crashed Helicopter Sparks Concern Over Stealth Secrets · · Score: 1

    And eventually the tech they develop makes its way to us -- things like communications technology (think satellite tv and gps) become available to consumers as the military moves on to more advanced things

  14. What about the browsers? on CNET Sued Over LimeWire Client Downloads · · Score: 1

    Since browsers allow access to CNET, shouldn't they be suing Microsoft & Mozilla?

  15. What about private road miles? on Draft Proposal Would Create Agency To Tax Cars By the Mile · · Score: 1

    Not every mile driven will be on public roads. Will we have to pay these taxes to maintain public roads even if most of our time wasn't spent on them?

  16. Star Trek on Do Gadgets Degrade Our Common Sense? · · Score: 2

    Wasn't this covered by a couple of episodes of "Star Trek"? They would find some civilization where the people had become dumb and relied on machines that had been invented years before?

  17. 3D? on Intel Designs Faster, 3D Transistor · · Score: 1

    3D? Aren't all transistors 3d? Along with every other physical item?

  18. Re:Room on the island? on Bin Laden's Death Causes Twitter Record · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Big deal on Why Users Don't Trust Mobile Apps · · Score: 1

    I can understand being given the choice. But I can also understand them not wanting a situation where a customer gets upset because they can't take the card from their phone and plug it into their Windows machine and access their files.

  20. Re:Big deal on Why Users Don't Trust Mobile Apps · · Score: 1

    I don't think you can blame Android for the fact that most sdcards come preformatted for fat32.

  21. Re:Wow on Why Users Don't Trust Mobile Apps · · Score: 1

    Several developers do. But what's to keep them from lying?

  22. Ubuntu's Not Linux on Is Canonical the Next Apple? · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu's Not Linux = UNL? Or is that suppose to be GNU/UNL?

  23. Re:Is V'Ger tied in with the Borg? on Voyager Set To Enter Interstellar Space · · Score: 1

    Personally, I try to forget ST:Voyager. Oh wait, you're talking about something different...

  24. Re:Let me say on Voyager Set To Enter Interstellar Space · · Score: 1

    And slide rules! Don't forget the slide rules.

  25. Re:Up to 10,000 years on New Heat Pump Will Last 10,000 Years · · Score: 1

    That's like those ads that say "Everything's on sale!" and then say "(excludes electronics, clothing and all Apple products)".