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  1. Re:Android Has Full Device Encryption on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Prepare For the Theft of My Android Phone? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Enable the "Wipe after X failures."

    I presume you don't have kids :-)

    Or you teach them that certain things are not toys. Why, maybe you even keep those things out of the kid's reach! Wow! Y'know, like every real parent has done throughout the ages. Knives, matches, car keys, stoves, cleaning chemicals, really there are things much worse than cellphones out there.

    Confirmed. He's never had kids.

  2. Re:In their defence. on School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA · · Score: 1

    No. Filtering merely limits the choices of what they can do.

    Yes. Which is the same goal as looking over their shoulders.

    Yes, in part. What filtering does is eliminate the need to watch over their shoulders. It's the lazy way out - a technical solution to an ethical problem.

  3. Re:In their defence. on School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA · · Score: 1

    How about actually, you know, paying attention to what the kids in class are doing?

    That's what filtering does.

    No. Filtering merely limits the choices of what they can do.

  4. Re: Orbital Sciences and SpaceX are the real playe on SpaceX Wants To Go To Mars — and Has a Plan To Get There · · Score: 1

    Call me when their engines stop exploding.

    Ring! Ring! The engine didn't explode. Let me quote directly from the youtube link you posted:

    Approximately one minute and 19 seconds into last night's launch, the Falcon 9 rocket detected an anomaly on one first stage engine. Initial data suggests that one of the rocket's nine Merlin engines, Engine 1, lost pressure suddenly and an engine shutdown command was issued. We know the engine did not explode, because we continued to receive data from it. Panels designed to relieve pressure within the engine bay were ejected to protect the stage and other engines. Our review of flight data indicates that neither the rocket stage nor any of the other eight engines were negatively affected by this event.

  5. Re:Good on SpaceX Wants To Go To Mars — and Has a Plan To Get There · · Score: 1

    This just in: The economy of the US now has mass, and lots of it!

    You didn't think that just because it is fiat currency that all those coins and bills were weightless, did you?

  6. Re:Was there any ACARS data? on 20 Freescale Semiconductor Employees On Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight · · Score: 2, Informative

    An electrical fault would not cause the main systems, the backups, the transponders and the emergency beacons to all simultaneously fail. In fact, in the event of a power failure, a ram air electrical turbine generator drops out of the belly of the plane to provide electrical and hydraulic power. Something catastrophic or something deliberate happened to that plane.

  7. Re:Not a subsidy? on NASA Admits It Gave Jet Fuel Discounts To Google Execs' Company · · Score: 5, Informative

    NASA's Moffett field is only a ten minute from Google Headquarters. H2-11 is paying $108,000+ a month to rent hangar space at the airport PLUS NASA gets to use the aircraft for science missions. That's $1.3million per year plus an obligation to fly science missions for NASA. When they're fuelling up at Moffett, they pay full price for the only fuel available: non-taxed government fuel. I don't see the problem. Any other civilian organization could have organized similar arrangements. This isn't any sort of "billionaires only" club. Essentially it's no different than civilian workers eating government chow at Federal cafeterias.

  8. Re:There are people who can echolocate on Computer Program Allows the Blind To "See" With Sound · · Score: 1

    There are people who can echolocate

    Anyone else read that as e-chocolate?

  9. Re:Protection? on Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Outed By Newsweek · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If I punch him enough times, will a flood of shiny coins spew from his unconscious body?

    Possibly.

  10. Re:Why not go whole hog and make pancreatic cells? on Researchers Hope To Grow Human Ears From Fat Tissue · · Score: 1

    Couple of things:
    First of all, the money spent on this research is going to be a drop in the bucket compared to diabetics related research.
    Second, we need to walk before we can run. Medicine is no where near the state where we can just implant an artificial pancreas into a patient. It's one thing to build a simple structure like ear shaped cartilage, but there are all sorts of issues building a multiple hormone and enzyme producing organ that has to interface with multiple body systems (endocrine, exocrine, digestive, circulatory, autonomic nervous system) to maintain balances of a variety of chemicals essential to digesting food. It's not just insulin and blood glucose, you know.
    Third, I'm guessing that it's likely that your friends could get off of the injections if they ate healthier.

  11. Re:I have your conversion right here... on Microsoft's Attempt To Convert Users From Windows XP Backfires · · Score: 1

    I threw an SSD into my laptop and the boot time trippled. The keyboard freezes for 30 seconds or so after the login prompt is displayed. Happens in both Windows and Linux, so it's not a driver issue, and strangely enough GRUB and BIOS are both keyboard responsive.

  12. Re:Comcast WiFi on Comcast Turning Chicago Homes Into Xfinity Hotspots · · Score: 1

    the first thing I did when I got Comcast was have them disable the wifi on there router and set it up so it runs as a bridge instead.

    But... if it is their router, it is their network. Thus they can turn it back on at their pleasure.

  13. Re:So what happens on Comcast Turning Chicago Homes Into Xfinity Hotspots · · Score: 1

    Meh. IPv6 makes things simple.

  14. Re:You can't make tech safe from malice on Bitcoin Exchange Flexcoin Wiped Out By Theft · · Score: 1

    Exactly! Leave the driving to those of us who can't even remember where we last saw our toothbrush.

  15. Re:Unregulated currency on Bitcoin Exchange Flexcoin Wiped Out By Theft · · Score: 1

    The United States of America has 314 million people with a near 100% literacy rate, a highly educated workforce, diversified economy, and 5,000 nuclear weapons. What does bitcoin have?

    The moral high ground?

  16. Re:I agree with all of the things. on Teaching Calculus To 5-Year-Olds · · Score: 1

    Back when I was in grade school, probably grade 4 or 5, there was this reading comprehension system. It had a bunch of colored levels, and on each level there would be ten booklets. Each booklet had a story and a question sheet. You would mark your answers on an answer sheet using the same color pencil crayon as the level you were on.

    They should develop the same sort of thing for mathematics.

  17. Re:Mischaracterization of problem on Teaching Calculus To 5-Year-Olds · · Score: 1

    You think taking off your shoes in a grocery store is bad... try settling a restaurant bill.

  18. Re:Overhead Power - on Walmart Unveils Turbine-Powered WAVE Concept Truck · · Score: 1

    Toronto just recently suffered an ice storm that took out a fair portion of the overhead powerlines in the city. Overhead power is not a desirable solution.

  19. Re:they don't care on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 1

    No need. Keurig cannot simply leave the K1.0 market and create a K2.0 market. The installed base of brewers is too high. You can't go into a kitchen appliance store without tripping over third party K-cup brewers, and third party K-cup coffees line the supermarket shelves. Even Starbucks and Tim Hortons have their coffees available as K-cups. Keurig would be foolish to release a brewer that could not take K1.0 cups. It would be like a new third company trying to horn in on the single brew market.

  20. Re:Really? on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 1

    Meh, just glue the barcoded foil of a used K2.0-cup to the top of your repackable unit, and you're done.

  21. Re:Horrible coffee on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 1

    You CAN get K-cup filter pods into which you can put whatever grind you prefer.

  22. Re:Horrible coffee on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 1

    Cleaning the grounds out of a french press is awful. The aeropress completely fixes that problem.

    Yes, it replaces the problem of cleaning the grounds out of a french press with the problem of cleaning the grounds out of an aeropress.

  23. Re:Horrible coffee on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 1

    Just because they can't see doesn't mean they can't hear the grinder, smell the fresh ground aroma, and taste the result.

  24. Re:Horrible coffee on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 1

    How about we just skip to the end of the chain?

    Unless you created a pocket universe, started a creation event, formed stars from the resulting big bang cloud, fused a solar system worth of hydrogen into heavier matter, collected the matter into a planet in the perfect orbit, formed a primordial soup, created life from the soup, evolved the life to create coffee bean producers, harvested the beans, processed and roasted the beans, ground them, and finally pressed them yourself, then it's not proper coffee.

    On the other hand, they have instant coffee now-a-days. Just add a spoonful to hot water and stir.

  25. Re:Non-deterministic sort on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Sort? · · Score: 1

    And as long as you do this on a regular basis, the receipts end up in your administration more or less sorted by date as well.

    It's the "on a regular basis" thing that is the heart of the problem. I've let things pile up, and with GnuCash's date manipulation keyboard shortcuts having things sorted by date makes data entry easier.