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  1. Re:Fake it 'till you make it on Bad PC Sales Staff Exposed · · Score: 4, Informative

    Best Buy's sales staff are not paid on commission, as far as I'm aware.

  2. Re:It will also "start to boot" Linux in 1 Second! on New Phoenix BIOS Starts Windows 7 Boot In 1 Second · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey, now, nobody asked for a car analogy just yet!

  3. Re:Brian Eno to God on Brian Eno Releases Second iPhone App · · Score: 3, Funny

    Specifications for the universe are very important! (Or did you mean speck?)

  4. Re:Link Warning! on Brian Eno Releases Second iPhone App · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You're the one who installed iTunes...

  5. Re:Screw calculator binaries; how about x64 driver on TI vs. Calculator Hackers · · Score: 1

    I think #6 in this case is 'counter-sue'

  6. Re:I beg to differ on MIT Project "Gaydar" Shakes Privacy Assumptions · · Score: 1

    Actually if you remove a tag of yourself in someone else's picture, they're not allowed to add it back. Which is a good thing, if you ask me.

  7. Re:I beg to differ on MIT Project "Gaydar" Shakes Privacy Assumptions · · Score: 1

    I don't know if this applies to Facebook, but a lot of sites let Google's User-Agent in past login-block as read-only so their content can be indexed.

  8. Re:the scary part is on RIAA's Elementary School Copyright Curriculum · · Score: 1

    Sshh, don't give them any ideas! We know they'd love to charge every time you listened to it, and for everyone within hearing range.

  9. Re:Great! on US Government Sets Up Online "App Store" · · Score: 1

    PKI ... CAC ... DoD ... HSM ... PIN ... RSA

    You use a lot of TLAs, you know that?

  10. Re:how about on (Near) Constant Internet While RV'ing? · · Score: 1

    What does wardriving do if you need to connect without stopping at every open AP you find?

  11. Re:Why not use a compass? on On-Body Circuits Create New Sense Organ · · Score: 1

    This would be more like replacing your feet for a wheel. Anyone can look at a compass or a GPS, but neither make you constantly aware of your heading without thinking about it (unless you're reading the device every second)

  12. Re:I just read about this on Heart Monitors In Middle School Gym Class? · · Score: 1

    Wait, you just read about it on a website, but you've been using one for 10 years?

  13. Re:JASRAC Strikes Again... on Japan's Cell Phones May Get DRM, At Music Industry Behest · · Score: 1

    And he also said back in 1993. According to FXhistory 10k yen was worth about $80 back then.

  14. Re:I guess it was money well spent on EA Comes Under Fire for Shady PR Stunts · · Score: 1

    Previous posts say Joystiq donated theirs to charity, so they must be real checks.

  15. Re:GPL violation? on Apple Open Sources Grand Central Dispatch · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If they were violating the GPL they probably wouldn't have released it under the Apache 2.0 license..

  16. Re:Use Cilk on Apple Open Sources Grand Central Dispatch · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the way it was designed is to work with Objective-C, due to it being OS X's primary language.

  17. Re:Motivation? on Why Motivation Is Key For Artificial Intelligence · · Score: 1

    self->motivate();, duh.

  18. Re:Update on China Considering Cuts In Rare-Earth Metal Exports · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Midwest-hating urban hipster.

    He's just upset we'd still be here after.

  19. Mergers on In the UK, T-Mobile and Orange To Merge · · Score: 2, Insightful

    However, it is likely that competition authorities in the UK and EU will probe the deal.

    Is there ever any news of mergers that hit Slashdot that aren't probed by the EU?

  20. Re:Spyware not available on Does Your College Or University Support Linux? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I visited a friend at college who had that same system (a lot of college use this same network, I can't remember what it was called, though.)
    All it did was check the browser's User-Agent, so if you spoofed yourself as Linux you could just use a standard login instead of having the security suite installed.

  21. Re:Not the UNIX way on Snow Leopard Snubs Document Creator Codes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While you are right that file extensions are not the UNIX way, from TFA and the other comments, it seems OSX uses Uniform Type Identifiers (a variant on MIME types) to identify files, rather than by their extension or creator code. I would assume extensions are still used When All Else Fails (for example, when reading files from FAT32 with no metadata attached)

  22. Re:quicktime on Snow Leopard Snubs Document Creator Codes · · Score: 1

    I'm sure Apple would rather sell you a (more expensive) version of Final Cut or somesuch instead, anyway. I was disappointed to find out they took the Pro features out of Quicktime X, and had to make do with iMovie in a limited timespan.

  23. Re:IP Reasons for SMB2 on Windows 7 Reintroduces Remote BSoD · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, it won't. The specs are right here.

  24. Re:PCI Compliance? on What the DHS Knows About You · · Score: 1

    Except the government isn't the one collecting the numbers, it's the airlines (or your travel agent/website.) So the government has to be getting them from -somewhere-.

  25. Re:Perhaps not an AK47 on Police Swarm Bungie Office Over Halo Replica Rifle · · Score: 1

    and I don't walk in and out of work every day comedically nearly-mummified in tractor-fed printer paper.

    Your wording suggests you have come to work comedically nearly-mummified in tractor-fed printer paper.