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  1. Re:Good on Judge Refers Prenda Copyright Trolls To Criminal Investigators · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And that in turn might happen if the Senate would stop stonewalling every freakin' judicial appointment offered up http://atyourlibrary.org/culture/even-shortages-federal-bench-cant-get-judicial-appointments-through-congress/, and I'm not talking about up or down votes - I'm talking about a refusal to vote.

  2. Re:That's how they'll jump to mobile phone spammin on Messenger App Brings Free VoIP to US Facebook Users — At a Price · · Score: 1

    I suppose you can. But if you're actually using this app, tossing the phone no. will disconnect you from using it with all your friends. It becomes a balance of convenience and hassle, and I expect Facebook will rely on that.

  3. That's how they'll jump to mobile phone spamming. on Messenger App Brings Free VoIP to US Facebook Users — At a Price · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The warnings in Facebook's reports to the SEC always mention advertising revenue on mobile phones as one of their challenges. And this is how they will build their database of mobile phone numbers.

    At some point, they'll "streamline" the privacy settings so the numbers will be shareable, visible, etc. so the advertising revenue can start coming in.

  4. Re:Do the math. on New 25-GPU Monster Devours Strong Passwords In Minutes · · Score: 1

    Really? I wonder how Homer remembered the Iliad...

  5. Re:30,000 pages might be about right on Petraeus Case Illustrates FBI Authority To Read Email · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm thinking that the these emails are long strings of replies back and forth, with each email repeating the stuff already sent previously. What with all the blank spaces, headers, wrapping of text, I can see how that the page count gets inflated by quite a bit.

  6. Re:Idiot spews stupidity on Internet! News at 11! on Parent Questions Mandatory High School Chemistry · · Score: 1

    not particularly, but when I submitted this, I did sort of hope for a colorful reaction. I was not disappointed (other than I learning I need to polish up submitted summaries - Lamer did a better job).

  7. Someone should be able to do their printing on Iran Running Out of Physical Currency, Satellite Broadcasts Dropped in Europe · · Score: 1

    Can't print currency? They should go ask their friends, the North Koreans. I hear they're pretty good at it.

  8. Oh the irony on Can Data Mining Win a Presidential Campaign? · · Score: 2, Funny

    So Romney is outsourcing Republican party functions too?

  9. Re:break the law. on Insurer Measures Driver Safety With Smartphone App To Calculate Premiums · · Score: 1

    Most people are good drivers, at least 99% of the time. It's that 1% of the time that we all lapse and scare the hell out of everyone else...

  10. Re:Buy DEET on West Nile Virus Outbreak Puts Dallas In State of Emergency · · Score: 2

    Lower concentrations work fine too. http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/toolkit/DEET.pdf. It wears off sooner, but if you're not going out for hours at a time, no big deal.

  11. Re:419 Scam? on The Strange Nature of the Nigerian App Market · · Score: 1

    Oh, I don't know, maybe this is how they launder the money from those 419 scams....

  12. I've got a question about this on John the Ripper Cracks Slow Hashes On GPU · · Score: 1
    I've been curious how a hash looks with respect to various lengths of a password. Is a hashed 3-character password 3 characters long, i.e. does the hashed password itself indicate how long the password is? Is it filled to a particular length?

    I'd be grateful for some insight about it looks / works.

  13. Re:Cheap countermeasure on Trained Rats Map Minefields With GPS · · Score: 1

    That won't work because there's lots of wild animals that would smell the food as well. You lose a mine, and your entire minefield, in short order.

  14. Re:great on US CIO/CTO: Idea of Hiring COBOL Coders Laughable · · Score: 1

    Come on, man, this is Slashdot. Since when do the comments ever have anything to do with the article?

  15. Re:The article is really hokey on SAP VP Arrested In False Barcode Scheme · · Score: 1
    That's the part that has me curious. Presumably, there would be persistent inventory reconciliation errors reflecting more sales of low-priced Lego kits than they had in stock.

    But multiple errors across multiple periods? That too should have made a few people suspicious.

  16. Re:Sauna world on Astronomers See the Glow of a Boiling Planet · · Score: 1

    I think you mean to send Sam Magee

  17. Don't agree with the math on Bring Back the 40-Hour Work Week · · Score: 1
    Whatever the arguments of this post, the statement that 4 people working 50 hours equals 5 people working 40 hours doesn't work.

    Costs of health insurance and other items that are incurred for each employee don't extend to working more hours. Such costs run at least 25 percent and can be as much as 40 percent. And as just one more example, consider the costs of finding and hiring that next employee.

    Before you start extrapolating how to spread work across more employees, consider the added costs of hiring that next person. This is why companies are reluctant to incur those costs until they are sure those costs will be recovered over the long term.

  18. Re:Danish on Danish Research Center To Explore Mysteries of Earth's Interior · · Score: 1

    You have a point, but not ALL of our stuff sucks. Same thing with beer; if you look at the small producers, we have some pretty good stuff.

  19. Not in the TFA on Details of Initial "Disc to Digital" Program Emerge · · Score: 1

    Didn't see it in TFA, but I half suspect them of keeping the physical disks as they "upgrade" you to be able to see the streaming movie.

  20. Re-make the publisher then on Publishers Warned On Ebook Prices · · Score: 3, Informative
    So let's start up eBook only publisher, containing only the staff needed to assist the Ebook author. No typesetting, warehouses, printers, or distribution chains to the mortar shops. Then we can price the book to cover our costs and profits for both us and the author.

    The author can then negotiate two separate publication deals, one for the ebook version and one for the paper version.

    Most likely, a third person will be required, who will be paid to shill the book and get the book tour going.

  21. Re:And so it begins... on Sale Or License? Sister Sledge Sues Over ITunes · · Score: 2
    What we really need are a few consumers, hopefully as a class-action, to cross-sue both sides, claiming that these are indeed sales (and thus resurrecting the first-sale doctrine).

    Maybe we can get a judgment to decide the issue once and for all. It's merely icing on the cake to watch the RIAA take both positions simultaneously.

  22. Updates on AT&T's Metered Billing Off By Up To 4,700% · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    AT&T's records are accurate. The problem is that all those computers are loaded with applications that keep checking for updates every 30 seconds. Tthat's what's chewing up all the bandwidth.

  23. Re:Good for US economy on MS Wants Laws To Block Products Made By Software Pirates · · Score: 1, Interesting

    "Left-wing..." who love the "no borders" globalization, with "no worker safety protection laws, and zero environmental protection laws." Man, I must have my politics mixed up; that sounds totally Republican to me. Either that, or you simply blame the other side for everything and your beloved party for nothing.

  24. Re:this is what one expects on Fox News Brings Video Game Violence Debate To a New Low · · Score: 1

    This is from the first page of the Conservative Playbook: Invent a "clever" twist of a name to demean one's opponent, giggle while patting one's self on the back and never, never, actually debate any merits of an argument.

  25. Re:Slashdot fails at reading in between the lines on N.C. Official Sics License Police On Computer Scientist For Too Good a Complaint · · Score: 1
    I commented on much the same thing immediately after you posted it, but I have to disagree with you at the conclusion. This was not a work product that will be relied upon to construct anything. It would be different story if NCDOT accepted the calculations as-is and incorporated them into their engineering study, or if they were submitted for that purpose. Instead, I believe the purpose is to demonstrate that NCDOT's study was flawed as a "correct" study would have come to a different conclusion, and an argument for that purpose - a policy argument - should not require a PE stamp, as the recipients are free to evaluate the merits of the argument separate from their value in determining the validity from an engineering purpose.

    My posted argument was that Mr. Lacy suspects that someone in his department did the calculations and he wants hang that guy by his feet.