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  1. Re:Get your head out of your ass on Ask Slashdot: How To Ask College To Change Intro To Computing? · · Score: 1

    This exactly.

  2. Re:Cows eat Grass on Sweet Times For Cows As Gummy Worms Replace Corn Feed · · Score: 1

    I dropped 70 pounds in 9 months (and I wasn't that fat 6'1"/235lbs) just by limiting my carbs to 120g / day. So, no, it really is all carbs that people eat too much of. Sugar, HFCS, grains, etc., etc., etc.

  3. Re:Hard to like Apple any longer on Apple Wants Another $707 Million From Samsung · · Score: 1

    No. This is true. Many people at work that used to love Apple's products are very uncomfortable in supporting a bully that patented rounded rectangles.

  4. Re:thanks for the info on No Smiles At NJ Motor Vehicle Commission · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't lie. Nobody smiles in NJ, because it's NJ...

  5. Re:Image Hacking on No Smiles At NJ Motor Vehicle Commission · · Score: 1

    Actually, they do. They have to be able to prove it was you driving if it goes to court.

  6. Re:Support for Access databases on Linux. on MS Office 2013 Pushing Home Users Toward Subscriptions · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Open Office Base is an alternative to Access. I even used it at work to open an Access 2007 file (we didn't have Access with our version of Office) and it opened it well enough for me to read it into a spreadsheet.

  7. Re:Which is why... on How Big Pharma Hooked America On Legal Heroin · · Score: 1

    I had surgery on my finger recently and didn't bother to fill the pain medication prescription (it's just a cut finger, come on). Ibuprofen DID help the pain significantly, and for a lot less than $18.40 for a single dose (all I would have needed).

  8. Re:after watching the interview on Meet iRobot Founder Rodney Brooks's New Industrial Bot, Baxter · · Score: 2

    Actually, watch the video again. You'll see at one point that he puts his head in the way of the arm and it stops immediately.

  9. Re:One trick on Spoken Commands Crash Bank Phone Lines · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Pressing 0 works on a little more than half of systems. Make sure you keep pressing 0 in response to every prompt.

  10. Re:Includes an HDMI Cable!? on Nintendo WiiU Price and Release Date Announced · · Score: 1

    Or $6 if you have a Fry's Electronics.

  11. Re:New controllers expensive on Nintendo WiiU Price and Release Date Announced · · Score: 1

    The original NES controllers suffered badly from sweat leaking into them. But since then their hardware is pretty indestructible.

  12. Re:car++ analogy on Why Are Operating System Version Names So Absurd? · · Score: 1

    The other day, my kids were amazed that there was actually a car called the "9/11". "Why would somebody name a car after 9/11?"

    I had to explain to them that the model has been around for about 50 years and has no relationship to the US tragedy.

  13. Re:Easy on Why Are Operating System Version Names So Absurd? · · Score: 1

    Unless you're Android or Ubuntu...

  14. Re:Easy on Why Are Operating System Version Names So Absurd? · · Score: 1

    And another point. Security? Isn't it more secure not to tell your hackers things like EXCHANGE, SQL, MAIL, WEB?

    And if you really must, there's this new technology called "DNS" which has "Aliases" so that the server named OrdMantell can have an alias of EXCHANGE or MAIL. And then, when it gets repurposed, you can, get this, MOVE the alias to the new mail server. Amazing I tell you!

  15. Re:Easy on Why Are Operating System Version Names So Absurd? · · Score: 1

    Spoken like a true auditor. Let's all make the world easier for the auditor instead of the people who, you know, ACTUALLY work here.

  16. Re:Easy on Why Are Operating System Version Names So Absurd? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But that causes problems too. When the old Rio Vista server gets repurposed as the second WebSense server, what do you call it? I've seen people include the OS, SQL, IIS versions (oops we upgraded it in place), the room number (moved that to our new location), physical vs virtual, etc. and within 3 years, it all worthless because it's all wrong (or wrong often enough not to be trusted).

    I honestly wish that servers would be named after something like Star Wars planets or something, it actually gives them a character that you can remember instead of Win2008_IIS7_P_SantaAna (which is, of course, a Windows 2008 R2 instance running IIS 7.5 on a virtual machine in Amazon's cloud, but we can't change the name or everything will break). I would be much happier if it were just called OrdMantell.

  17. Re:It's an Effing Toll Road on Texas Opens Fastest US Highway With 85 MPH Limit · · Score: 1

    if im going the speed limit, i have no obligation to let you pass

    Also, you are wrong. What you are doing is quite likely illegal, you just haven't been caught yet:

    http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/free-books/beat-ticket-book/chapter7-6.html

  18. Re:It's an Effing Toll Road on Texas Opens Fastest US Highway With 85 MPH Limit · · Score: 1

    Because everyone (except you, apparently) knows that 15% of traffic goes over the speed limit. The US DOT knows this (this is why speed limits are set at the 85% point), cops know this (this is why they don't give tickets for 5-15 MPH over the speed limit (depending on state), drivers know this (which is why they expect you to move your slow heap of junk out of their way to the right), even judges know this (they don't always enforce overspeed situations strictly).

    Stop being a selfish jerk and show some common courtesy. It's not your job to enforce speed limits in a dangerous and ineffective manner. The cops are much better trained than you and they have the force of law on their side. It's your job to drive as safely as possible.

  19. Re:It's an Effing Toll Road on Texas Opens Fastest US Highway With 85 MPH Limit · · Score: 1

    Too Slow tickets are not common in California, but I have heard of them being given out. One person in a driving school class (to avoid points on your driving record) said he was surprised when two people in his class said that they got tickets for going too slow.

  20. Re:Rest of the world already ahead on Texas Opens Fastest US Highway With 85 MPH Limit · · Score: 1

    When I was in college, we had several places on campus where we had to parallel park (unusual in Southern California). I quickly learned how to do it. For long stretches before AND after that, I can honestly say that I ONLY parallel parked correctly on my driving test (sheer luck, or maybe divine assistance, but certainly not skill).

  21. Re:Apples and Oranges on Texas Opens Fastest US Highway With 85 MPH Limit · · Score: 1

    In California, you usually give them 2-3 seconds to look up from texting/browsing on their phone/checking on the baby seat/etc. and notice that the light is green before honking. Amazingly, you almost never have to honk as people pay attention.

  22. Re:Nothing new on Texas Opens Fastest US Highway With 85 MPH Limit · · Score: 1

    Sounds interesting. Does this have a point?

  23. Re:There's nothing Darwin about it. on Texas Opens Fastest US Highway With 85 MPH Limit · · Score: 1

    It depends on the state. In California, people tend to average 10-15 mph over the speed limit and cops generally leave you alone unless you are doing something stupid and catch their attention in some way.

    But in many Midwest states, going more then 5 mph over the limit will practically ensure a ticket.

  24. Re:I'm still waiting... on TSA Says Screening Drinks Purchased Inside Airport Terminal Is Nothing New · · Score: 1

    When I went to Hawaii recently, they were selling pineapple cutters in the airport with a really nasty blade in them. It would be really easy to use it on a plane as a weapon.

  25. Re:I hate to be the one to say this... on FBI Denies It Held iPhone UDIDs Stolen By AntiSec · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Exactly. Anonymous and Antisec have seemingly been completely honest in the past, when it comes to claiming responsibility for hacks. The FBI is known to lie and cover up. Given past experience, Antisec is more likely to be telling the truth.