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  1. Re:Push vs. Pull on Ask Slashdot: What Magazines Do You Still Read? · · Score: 2

    Yes. But it has to be Really Simple Syndication in order to work...

  2. Re:Numbers don't add up on ACLU Asks FTC To Force Carriers To 'Patch Or Replace' Android Devices · · Score: 1

    The rest are tablet users on 3.x

  3. Re:I can see the conversation that happened.. on Australian Bureau of Statistics Doesn't Like Direct Downloads of Census Data · · Score: 1

    Coder: (And then I'll put it in the comments so that everyone can see what idiots we are)

    Yeah, nice try. But the coder actually thinks he's being really clever and doesn't realize all his Javascript comments are available for the world to read because he's actually an idiot (but he's a coder working for a government institution, so that's pretty much a given). No conspiracy here. They probably don't even realize what it means that it's under a CC license.

  4. Re:Bit torrent on Australian Bureau of Statistics Doesn't Like Direct Downloads of Census Data · · Score: 1

    Yes, the "crime" of making public data public...

  5. Re:It's all in the engineering on A Tale of Two Tests: Why Energy Star LED Light Bulbs Are a Rare Breed · · Score: 1

    Given that my first bulb died after 10 years, I'm going to say they did pretty well.

  6. Re:Avoid CFL mistakes on A Tale of Two Tests: Why Energy Star LED Light Bulbs Are a Rare Breed · · Score: 1

    I put them in when my kids were 5 and 3. They are now 15 and 13 and I came home one day and they said, "Dad, the lamp's broken."

    I said, "Did you change the bulb?"

    They looked at me dumbfounded. I mean, they know in theory that you can screw in a lightbulb, but they were like that commercial where it literally never occurred to them because they never had a bulb fail in their entire life.

  7. Re:For that matter... on Nintendo To Cancel Weather, News, and Other Built-In Wii Apps In June · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They need some games. If Nintendo can come out with exclusives like Mario Kart and Zelda and Super Mario Galaxy for Wii U, then it will start to take off. Right now, the only great game is Mario. Everything else is just OK to poor.

    They may succeed yet if Microsoft and Sony continue in their game console missteps, but I'm betting that Ouya takes off in a big way.

  8. Re:as i've said many times on BitCoin Value Collapses, Possibly Due To DDoS · · Score: 1

    Since people put money into it in cash and then transfer it to another number (or set of numbers, as many as they like), how exactly do you expect to sort them out? I'm genuinely curious, since people keep saying it's anonymous and you can't track the bad guys down who broke into the exchanges. As a programmer, I really can't think of a way that you could catch people.

    And what if they mined it themselves? Those would be even more difficult to catch.

  9. Re:Get your numbers right on BitCoin Value Collapses, Possibly Due To DDoS · · Score: 1

    Bitfloor has also been up and down all day.

  10. Re:Well I'm sold! on Hijacking Airplanes With an Android Phone · · Score: 1

    400,000 real-world miles repeated hundreds of times regression-tested against their software. Trust me, Google isn't leaving this one to chance. It's already orders of magnitude better than a human being. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yd9Ij0INX0

  11. Re:Simple on EA Repeats As 'Worst Company In America' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I often tell my kids, "I can only vote with my dollars."

    One day, my 13-year-old responded, "But dad, if everyone did that, they would go out of business. So why don't they?"

    Exactly.

  12. Re:Blink doesn't support blink? on Gecko May Drop the Blink Tag · · Score: 1

    Well, let's hope they don't name their next feature "page".

  13. Re:Holy crap ... on FBI's Smartphone Surveillance Tool Explained In Court Battle · · Score: 1

    It does look like they configured it in such a way that ONLY the suspect's card attached to the Stingray. That narrow focus may win the day in this case.

  14. Re:But.... on Fox, Univision May Go Subscription To Stop Aereo · · Score: 1

    And Fox gave no time to Firefly.

  15. Re:Cancel it! on Fox, Univision May Go Subscription To Stop Aereo · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many would pay to cancel Fox? I wonder how many would pay to cancel Fox News?

  16. Re:Awesome! on Fox, Univision May Go Subscription To Stop Aereo · · Score: 1

    Took me a while, but that's hilarious...

  17. Re:Awesome! on Fox, Univision May Go Subscription To Stop Aereo · · Score: 1

    As long as shows are rated properly and I can block them, fine. But when you have boob flashes at the TV-G rated Super Bowl, it's a problem. Rate that halftime show as TV-MA and go for it, but my TV won't be showing it.

  18. Re:Good. on Fox, Univision May Go Subscription To Stop Aereo · · Score: 1

    Where I live, CB is 40 channels of silence. OK, maybe 39 since the police do still use channel 9 some. (It's 9 right? It's been so long I can't remember.) My kids have walkie talkies that they play with and I have never heard anyone but them on it.

  19. Re:What am I missing? on Fox, Univision May Go Subscription To Stop Aereo · · Score: 1

    It might be difficult in NYC to get a signal depending on where you are. Multipath is killer in cities with tall buildings.

  20. Re:Academic Freedom on Teachers Know If You've Been E-Reading · · Score: 1

    You wish. 25 years ago when I was in college, I wrote a program that was faster, shorter and worked better than the example the ditzy blonde teacher gave in class. She gave me an F on it because I didn't follow her lame program exactly.

    I went to her and complained. How could she give me an F when the program worked? If it failed to give the correct result, that would be different, but it didn't. She changed my grade to a C-. I ended up with a D in her class, even though I am a 10x better programmer than her.

  21. Re:Disconcerting? on Teachers Know If You've Been E-Reading · · Score: 1

    A VAST majority just see stuff like what you say spouted constantly on-line and by their ignorant ass friends.

    Are you sure they need your English class?

  22. Re:Disconcerting? on Teachers Know If You've Been E-Reading · · Score: 1

    When I was a professor (BASIC Programming), I realized that students might already know BASIC. Even though they couldn't officially test out of it, I offered to let students take the final exam the first week and take the grade as their class grade. I even offered to go ahead and still let them take the class if they didn't like their grade, so they had nothing to lose. I had one student that was tempted (he really knew BASIC well and needed some free time in his crammed schedule), but ultimately nobody took me up on it. I was very surprised, because I absolutely would have gone for that offer.

  23. Re:What happens to those mined bitcoins? on New Skype Malware Uses Victims' Machines To Mine Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    If a coin were to be successfully mined by grandma's computer (unlikely anyway these, but possible if you have 1 million of them), then I am certain they would immediately transfer it to their bitcoin account using a bitcoin address.

  24. Re:The First World on H-1B Cap Reached Today; Didn't Get In? Too Bad · · Score: 1

    Really? Cause it sounds like he has more wisdom than all the whiners on here. He'll get out of school and settle for the 30K job at the bad company while living at home and getting experience. Then he'll have the "3-5 years experience" and be getting the 50K job that you refuse to take. After that, he'll get the 80K job and then the senior position at 120K while you're still sitting at home whining that you can't live on a 50K job.

  25. Re:Techies need to organize on H-1B Cap Reached Today; Didn't Get In? Too Bad · · Score: 1

    Because politics suck and I already get paid more than my doctor and lawyer friends that are my same age. Also, while I do have to work hard sometimes, most of the time I work 40 hours at my current job and they have a very reasonable pace. My doctor and lawyer friends work all kinds of weird hours and are on call constantly for their much lower pay.