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  1. Re: As long as... on Linux On a Motorola 68000 Solder-less Breadboard · · Score: 1

    Just keep hitting Insert until it dies...

  2. Re: Ask the credit card for a refund on UK Hotel Adds Hefty Charge For Bad Reviews Online · · Score: 1

    FTFA:

    "The Broadway Hotel's booking policy reads (in small print), "Despite the fact that repeat customers and couples love our hotel, your friends and family may not. "For every bad review left on any website, the group organizer will be charged a maximum £100 per review."

    I'm betting these nice patrons read that as carefully as you did. The first time.

    They may not be able to claim ignorance.

  3. Re: Ask the credit card for a refund on UK Hotel Adds Hefty Charge For Bad Reviews Online · · Score: 1

    This isn't a fraud case. There isn't any reason to shift liability to the processor or acquirer. This is a pure dispute.

    Assuming the cardholder isn't trying to claim a deceptive practice. Which doesn't seem sustainable.

  4. Re: Not quite true on UK Hotel Adds Hefty Charge For Bad Reviews Online · · Score: 1

    They may have a harder time than we think. If the hotel can offer their terms and conditions, with disclosure of the potential fine, and prove this was known by the cardholder, these patrons may be denied their claim. Indeed, add on any statements by the cardholders they they knew and made the complaint anyways, and the merchant should press this vigorously.

    Mind you, this is sharp practice by the hotel, but that's their business.

  5. Re: The rest of the country needs to face reality on The Downside to Low Gas Prices · · Score: 1

    It's not semantics. Biking to the train station to sit on the train, and then biking from the stationn to work is NOT the same as biking 50 miles to work. It's multi-modal. That is a distinction any traffic engineer or planner would find significant.

    I walk to work. Granted, I walk out to my car, drive to the parking lot, then walk into work, but i walk to work. I walk 25 feet to the car and 300-1500 feet to work plus stairs, but i walk to work. The 44 miles in between is incidental.

    Get it?

  6. Re: Makes no sense that on Magnetic Field In Meteorite Provides Clues About Formation of Solar System · · Score: 1

    I can magnetize a rod of iron by hitting a rock with it.

    And you can, too.

  7. Re: Stupid, trucks cause the problem on The Downside to Low Gas Prices · · Score: 1

    Apartment is to freestanding house as your comment is to useful.

  8. Re: The rest of the country needs to face reality on The Downside to Low Gas Prices · · Score: 1

    Sorry, this was directed at Mr. Wisenheimer... m.slashdot.leg sucks so hard.

  9. Re: The rest of the country needs to face reality on The Downside to Low Gas Prices · · Score: 1

    You're NOT bicycling 50 miles to work if you're using the train for most of the trip.

    That's just one of your misstatements.

  10. Re: Stupid, trucks cause the problem on The Downside to Low Gas Prices · · Score: 1

    No, raise taxes while gas prices are temporarily low, then when prices return to historical levels, as they will, the blame it on the producers, not the government.

    Basically, sneak it in. See a pattern here?

  11. Re: Stupid, trucks cause the problem on The Downside to Low Gas Prices · · Score: 1

    My crap house with most sheetrock and stick is quiet as a morgue. I can't hear my neighbors, they can't hear me, unless we open doors or windows.

    You're just incorrect.

  12. Re: Stupid, trucks cause the problem on The Downside to Low Gas Prices · · Score: 1

    Passenger cars drive expansion of roadways. That's worth gas tax dollars.

  13. Re:RCA Spectra on Education Chief Should Know About PLATO and the History of Online CS Education · · Score: 1

    Touch screens.
    E Mail.
    Chat Rooms
    In-app Messaging

    And a lot more. PLATO delivered features not found in public systems until decades later.

  14. Re:If he's right, on Zuckerberg: Most of Facebook Will Be Video Within Five Years · · Score: 1

    Turning FB video centric will require more than just users can generate. So they will repost, which is already a lot of what what you see anyways, just more.

    And that means more snore video, bleagh.

  15. If he's right, on Zuckerberg: Most of Facebook Will Be Video Within Five Years · · Score: 1

    I won't be using Facebook in 5 years.

    First, video is a pox. Most waste time with pointless or awkward intros, fail to make the point, or, -the worst-, communicate a technical point or information by repeating the unimportant stuff over and over and over. Most video should be text.

    Second, a predominantly video Facebook guarantees it will NOT be user-created. You're not creating a quick video on the A train, or being stuck on the PCH, or walking to school. Oh, wait, you are. And doing it badly. Point 1 again.

    Never mind. Video will still suck.

  16. Re:California on We Are Running Out of Sand · · Score: 1

    When I was stationed at Keesler AFB in Biloxi MS, a while ago, they were busy trucking sand from the most recent hurricane had deposited it back to the Biloxi beaches. they seemed to have lost >10 feet of it.

    In Maine, I lived near a beach being depleted by changes in circulation caused by a railroad bridge some 12-20 miles north. Among other things, homes were being undermined. So far as I know, the bridge was modified, but it takes time for this to correct.

    Beaches have never been permanent, however, and our time frame is just too short to fully appreciate that, nor long enough to tolerate the cycles.Kinda like so called man-made climate change.

  17. Dubia? on We Are Running Out of Sand · · Score: 2

    How many Dubai beaches are artificially constructed?

    And so should be expected to require a LOT of sand, and not be expected to last very long...

  18. Re: Marked Paper Ballots FTW on Another Election, Another Slew of Voting Machine Glitches · · Score: 1

    Pencil. That's funny.

  19. Re: Marked Paper Ballots FTW on Another Election, Another Slew of Voting Machine Glitches · · Score: 1

    Yup. And contests where the risk of fraud is worth the chance, the usual margin of victory will be within the margin of error.

    Even recounts will be that close. These taxes are worth it to game with fraud or challenges.

  20. Re: Marked Paper Ballots FTW on Another Election, Another Slew of Voting Machine Glitches · · Score: 1

    Sadly, your proposal does not improve on paper ballots, because it generates one with the intermediate step of 'marking' it electronically.

    Kinda pointless. Give the voter a ballot and a pen, not some newfangled gizmo.

  21. Re: I love working with recruiters.... on Tech Recruiters Defend 'Blacklists,' Lack of Feedback, Screening Techniques · · Score: 1

    Typo. 8+

  22. Re: I love working with recruiters.... on Tech Recruiters Defend 'Blacklists,' Lack of Feedback, Screening Techniques · · Score: 1

    Since recruiters are the gatekeepers and explorers of the job market, developing a good relationship with them is beneficial for you and they.

    I've got a couple of recruiters that I stay in touch with,despite being in my current position for 87+ years. They appreciate my quick 'not available', no wasting time, and I appreciate their continued interest. So far they haven't hit me for anything interesting enough to move, but they also know my current salary requirements, and don't waste my time either.

    If you don't treat your recruiter right, they won't treat you right. If they are scumbags, you're not changing that.

  23. Re: Why at a place of learning? on Creationism Conference at Michigan State University Stirs Unease · · Score: 1

    The 'repeatable' part is interesting. Repeating miracles is difficult, and commanding miracles isn't how it works.

    Good job.

  24. Watch? Watch what? on How Apple Watch Is Really a Regression In Watchmaking · · Score: 1

    I haven't worn a watch for a few years, and nothing out there makes me want to.

    Battery life alone is a detractor. I could consider a more than one day life watch, and a cradle to charge it, with an option on the fly, but we go on to reason two:

    Nothing in smartwatches is showing me a killer feature. Even fitness is half a loaf, since Google Fit is worth a try and the price is right...

    A phone on my wrist is not very attractive to me. That small a screen for text previews, not so much. An alarm clock? Got that. Calendar? No advantage.

    I am clearly not in the target market.

  25. Re: Why at a place of learning? on Creationism Conference at Michigan State University Stirs Unease · · Score: 1

    Interesting. Facts that lead to faith don't exist?