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  1. Once Slashdot ditches the Therac-25 system there's a chance the mobile site might not suck so hard.

  2. Re:Overstated or misrepresented? on Fuel Efficiency Numbers Overstate MPG More For Cars With Small Engines · · Score: 1

    My 2004 Lancer OZ gets 31 MPG on my commute without A/C on. that's a 44 mile run each way, 3 miles at one end and 2 mines at the other end streets with 50MPH limits and 2 traffic lights each. 65MPH on the highway, no slowdowns or stops in the morning, averaging closer to 45MPH in the afternoon with slowdowns to 25MPH and sometimes dead stops.

    It gets 26MPG when I travel the highway at 70MPH with the A/C on.

    Before this, a 1998 Saab 900 SET met its MPG ratings even with A/C on.

    The 2000 Explorer V8 my wife drives? Horrible, doesn't meet ratings for her at all.

  3. Re:metric you insensitive clod! on Fuel Efficiency Numbers Overstate MPG More For Cars With Small Engines · · Score: 1

    Define 'recently'.

  4. Re: "Consented" on DoJ: Law Enforcement Can Impersonate People On Facebook · · Score: 1

    I've never attended college.

  5. "Consented" on DoJ: Law Enforcement Can Impersonate People On Facebook · · Score: 1

    "implicitly consented by granting access to the information stored in her cell phone and by consenting to the use of that information to aid in an ongoing criminal investigations [sic]."

    "Consented". they keep using that word.

    I do not think it means what they want you to think it means. Ever.

  6. Re: $1000!? on Marriott Fined $600,000 For Jamming Guest Hotspots · · Score: 1

    I'm saying that the summary alone explained that they were disabling routers/hotspots.

  7. Re:Sounds About Right on Marriott Fined $600,000 For Jamming Guest Hotspots · · Score: 1

    That knew they were being jammed.

  8. Re:Inverse Wi-fi law on Marriott Fined $600,000 For Jamming Guest Hotspots · · Score: 1

    The last Motel 6 I stayed at charged $29/night for Wi-Fi.

    They didn't attack my hotspot.

  9. Re:$1000!? on Marriott Fined $600,000 For Jamming Guest Hotspots · · Score: 1

    You should read the summary at least, my friend.

  10. Re: No, it is not. on Obama Administration Argues For Backdoors In Personal Electronics · · Score: 1

    There are two factors at work here, I think:
    1. Smartphones, the internet, and surveillance technology make it possible to gather enormous amounts of data on each and every one of us. Because it is possible, law enforcement feels compelled to do so, with or without permission or authority. We must both hold LE accountable for their illegal activities, and also specifically restrict and prevent them from engaging in activities we either do not want them to, or we believe they are constitutionally prohibited from

    2. Our government, especially federal government, is actively expanding its influence and control. This must be resisted and prevented, despite the attraction of alleged social benefit, the siren song of 'the children', and the promise that this is for 'our good'. This is the real fight. Government will tell is anything to get control. We are now, whether we want to believe it or not, in a conflict with our federal government. They want to overstep the constitution. If we do not prevent this, we will lose all of those protections.

  11. No, it is not. on Obama Administration Argues For Backdoors In Personal Electronics · · Score: 2

    “It is fully possible to permit law enforcement to do its job while still adequately protecting personal privacy,”

    It is if we are permitted to keep our own information secret from law enforcement except when compelled to deliver it by warrant.

    As if regular examples of law enforcement taking advantage of their access to data to spy on current and ex-spouses,boy/girlfriends, family, etc aren't enough of a warning to say NO to this, the fact that they wish to have the Fourth and Fifth Amendments circumvented in law should be enough to deny this.

    We must say no.

  12. Re:Update to Godwin's law? on Obama Administration Argues For Backdoors In Personal Electronics · · Score: 1

    "They want it to be illegal for you to have information they can't readily get."

    THIS.

  13. Re:Plus what religion might ET bring? on Are the World's Religions Ready For ET? · · Score: 1

    "Everyone having the same religion means no more religious conflicts."

    Wow. You ARE new here.

  14. Re:Paging Arthur C. Clarke... on Are the World's Religions Ready For ET? · · Score: 1

    Oh,dear, excepting that angels and such are extraterrestrial....

  15. Re:Paging Arthur C. Clarke... on Are the World's Religions Ready For ET? · · Score: 1

    Christian theology is mute on the subject of extraterrestrial life. I personally believe that if ET comes, we have to accept extraterrestrial life for what it is.

  16. Re:ET would disprove God on Are the World's Religions Ready For ET? · · Score: 1

    When you reconcile your concept of Christianity with the common convention within the faith that God is creator of all, and the appearance of superior aliens would necessarily be His creation, and therefore real and acceptable, then you'll abandon your concept and accept what is Christianity.

    If aliens come, Christians will accept them as God's creation. Even if they are Satan's tools, they are God's creation. We'll probably preach the Gospel to them. That;s what we should do, and invite them to dinner.

  17. Re: now that its not $700 on HP Introduces Sub-$100 Windows Tablet · · Score: 1

    Free as in a free boat.

  18. Government ineptitude on Medical Records Worth More To Hackers Than Credit Cards · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If Medicare practiced fraud/risk control energy marginally as will as the payments industry, they could cut fraudulent claims by 70%.

    - Does the zip code you are shipping durable equipment to when remotely match the patient's residence? If not, just a phone call might work to confirm the transaction.

    - Does the durable equipment have use for any Diagnostic code used my the patient in past?

    There are other triggers that could help.

  19. Re: It will if it's pre-OS X on Medical Records Worth More To Hackers Than Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    The NetWare servers I worked with for Navy use similarly had humorless Marine guards between them and you. Wrong badge, wrong response. Bang.

    Reasonably secure. That and the air gap measured in kilometers.

  20. Re: Man oh man on Physicists Find Clue as To Why the DNA Double Helix Twists To the Right · · Score: 1

    Putting money in your pocket is so 90s. That is doing it wrong.

  21. Re:Risk management? on Why India's Mars Probe Was So Cheap · · Score: 1

    Learjet.

  22. Repeating previous advice, network! on Ask Slashdot: Finding a Job After Completing Computer Science Ph.D? · · Score: 2

    1 - Contact your university's career placement office. Get real chummy with them. Be very, very polite. they want you to get a good job, so you can afford to donate to the alumni associations.

    2 - Contact your alumni associations, all of them. Get really, really chummy with them, until they realize you aren't donating any time soon. You want to go to events, meet fellow graduates that have been out there for a while and have opportunities, and you want them to remember you favorably.

    3 - Find professional associations and get involved. Near first,then further away. Again, be real chummy, be a good guy, keep it simple, and admit you are looking for opportunities. NOT WORK. NOT A JOB. an OPPORTUNITY. New terminology.

    4 - Find a job club in your area, possibly at the local Job Service or Employment Security office. You will be slumming with healthcare workers, salesmen, and laid-off union workers. They will teach you things you do not know, like how to actually write a resume, make an elevator speech, and interview.

    5 - Above all, stay active, exercise, eat well, sleep. Keep yourself in shape, mentally and physically, to nail the next interview and hit the ground running.

    Now, about that interview question. Me, I would have responded with "Wow, it's been a long time since freshman Computer Science, but let me see... I remember vector, pair, list, gee, I had to use valarray for a test, but it's been a while since I had to recite those. I've spent more time in {fill in your favorite high-level language here, unless it's VB6} for the past two years, but C is something like riding a bicycle. I don't remember every trick, but I can code whatever I need to, even if it means looking something up to jog my memory and get past a problem. What sort of C++ or C# work do you do here?"

    Take the question, demonstrate familiarity with the subject, a partial answer with acknowledgment that you are not a walking encyclopedia, and then turn it around and ask about the apparent basis for the question - do they need a C++ guy, are they just scared you slept through that class, and can you both think on your feet and are interested in the requirements, how you will fit in, what's the real criteria here?

    There are only three questions to be asked: Can you do the job? Will you do the job? And will you fit in?

    Have ready answers to those.

  23. Re:"imperialist Russia" on US Revamping Its Nuclear Arsenal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Soviet Union (USSR) included Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belorussia (now Belarus), Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kirgiziya (now Kyrgyzstan), Latvia, Lithuania, Moldavia (now Moldova), Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Its sphere of influence, the Warsaw Pact nations (the Iron Curtain), included Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungry, Bulgaria, East Germany, Romania, Albania and Yugoslavia.

    The USSR's influence extend well beyond these nations, to North (and now South) Vietnam, North Korea, various Central and Latin American nations.

    This extended Russia's 'borders' greatly.

    Claiming the U.S. was a uniquely global empire from the 50s to the 80s is disingenuous. Even now, I'n not sure we can claim a global empire, whether by design or incompetence being a question for the scholars.

  24. Re:MAD on US Revamping Its Nuclear Arsenal · · Score: 1

    Our real nuclear threat is that someone either 1) demonstrably not entirely sane, or 2) with little to lose, will gain control of a working nuclear weapon and deploy it. IT doesn't matter where.

    And there are lots of slightly insane actors on the global stage who give us the very clear impression that they would absolutely do this. There need be only one.

  25. Re: Alright smart guy on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 8 a Pig? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should have let them install. The G1went to 1.6 (donut), and it had so little RAM that was the end unless you for it and went with a custom ROM.

    My Sensation went from 2.2.3 to 4.0, and can go to 4.4.4 with root and custom ROMs.

    What do you want?