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  1. Re:a pittance in ayn rands america. on Facebook's Biggest Bounty Yet To Hacker Who Found "Keys To the Kingdom" · · Score: 1

    But a bounty gets multiple people to fill the role of the single hired expert. There is also nothing that precludes the bounty participant from holding another job (potentially as an expert for a company that DOES pay a living wage) and participating in the bounty program. Even if FB does hire experts, having the bounty program allows you to tap the knowledge of far more experts......and we've already seen that even the best can't foresee every possible avenue of attack. The hive mind is smarter than a single expert.

  2. Re:Rogue on Celebrating Dungeons & Dragons' 40th Anniversary · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who? My faithful dog WandTester? He was awesome.....at least until I found a Wand of Death.

  3. Re:I deciphered it last month. on Voynich Manuscript May Have Originated In the New World · · Score: 5, Funny

    So you're saying that it's the original Loren ipsum with illustrations?

  4. 80/20 rule on Code Is Not Literature · · Score: 1

    80% of the code of a program is uninteresting and mundane. As a programmer, you want to get to the core nugget of a problem, suss it out and solve it. "Reading" code is the same thing. You want to decode the structure, find the interesting 20% and move on to gleaning whatever you can from it. It's in our nature.

  5. Re:Use IIS Express, SQL Server LocalDB, Visual Stu on Ask Slashdot: Configuring Development Environment On a Shared Workstation? · · Score: 1

    As a consultant, I run a new VM for each client. This ensures that the software I install for one client (including licensed software) doesn't interfere with any of the software for another client. You should be able to do the same with your development environment at home. Virtual Box works well. I currently use Hyper-V on my Windows 8.1 machine. Whichever you prefer should do. If the machine is shut down, it doesn't really consume any resources.

  6. Google-ish issue? on Mozilla Is Mapping Cell Towers and WiFi Access Points · · Score: 0

    Hopefully they run into the same issue that Google did.

  7. Actually, the presence of the gun raises the severity of the crime ---- whether it was fired or not. But yes, his analogy was flawed.

  8. Re:Reinforcing the term on Google Glass User Fights Speeding Ticket, Saying She's Defending the Future · · Score: 2

    Item (b)(2) allows GPS navigation screens. End of statement. Item (b)(5) brings items that were excluded in (a) as long as they meet (b)(5)(A) or (b)(5)(B). Those two clauses are only needed for items such as TVs and DVD players.....or laptops.....or what have you.

    [Of course, there is an argument to be made that the cop who wrote the ticket very likely had a dash mounted laptop which violates the law in question.]

  9. Re:Most likely exists to prevent over-grazing.. on Why Transitivity Violations Can Be Rational · · Score: 1

    Rock, Paper, Scissors (Lizard, Spock). If you prefer Rock and all three options are available, you'll favor Rock. However, if you know that Paper has been eliminated as a choice, you'll pick Scissors because Scissors beat Rock. Of course, in this sort of set-up, I would guess that there wouldn't be a group bias towards any one resource (individual bias, but not a group bias).

  10. Re: Get a real mail account on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Misdirected Email? · · Score: 2

    I don't bother setting up on-off e-mails. I just set up a catch all for spam. Then I have non-catch all e-mails for my real accounts. So slashdot@mydomain.com goes to catch-all, but I can still identify who sells my e-mail.

  11. Re: Get a real mail account on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Misdirected Email? · · Score: 0

    This. And if you still want Gmail, you can have your domain's mail at Google Apps (mine is). Or Office 365 if you want Hotmail/Outlook. etc. You can get the features of the web mail with the benefits of a custom e-mail.

  12. Re:Multiple Monitors... on 4K Is For Programmers · · Score: 1

    I had four monitors for a while, but found that I could really only utilize up to three at a time. I like the multi-monitor set-up better than a single monitor because of the wrap-around effect......and like you say, being able to maximize windows helps manage the focus aspect when you really need to concentrate on one window.

  13. Re: Momentum on Security Expert: Yahoo's Email Encryption Needs Work · · Score: 1

    If you use the My Computer icon, you get a different view of Windows Explorer. While under the covers, it's the same program, "normals" won't recognize this fact and will never know that they are running Windows Explorer. Besides, your desktop is actually just a special mode of Explorer.exe....."normals" certainly won't know that.

    I would suspect that people who don't know how to navigate files and folders very well don't know how to maximize a window.......so they probably don't run maximized anyway.

  14. Re: Ya-what? on Security Expert: Yahoo's Email Encryption Needs Work · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The recent revamps to Bing / Outlook.com (nee Live.com nee Hotmail.com) have made it better than Yahoo (in my opinion --- and many tech blogs as well). But what Yahoo has going for it is that the high-inertia crowd has been using it for a while and won't budge from it. I know a lot of tech un-savvy baby boomers who won't leave Yahoo because they don't know how to transfer their information and don't want to lose their history. (It's the same crowd that still pays for AOL.)

  15. Re:Busting out my tinfoil hat... on US Federal Judge Rules Suspicionless Border Searches of Laptops Constitutional · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I hereby announce that all personal data on my drive is copyright me. For software not written by me, I am also copyrighting the organization of the data on my drive. Copying this information without my permission is a violation of my copyrights subject to a minimum license fee of $10,000,000 USD per item copied. There is also a viewership license with a minimum fee of $1,000,000 USD per incident (each file and each viewing constitutes a new incident).

    There. Now if my laptop is ever rifled through without a warrant, I should have some recourse in a civil court as this was announced in a public forum.

  16. Re:OneNote on Ask Slashdot: Life Organization With Free Software? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes. If your company already runs Microsoft products, One Note will work, can sync to SkyDrive, has Apple and Android clients, can be viewed and edited on the web (via SkyDrive). There are arguments of Evernote vs OneNote, but both are considered best of breed. Since your company limits you to OneNote, the choice is made for you, but it's a good product.
       

  17. Re:I'm 40 and what is this? on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Implement Wave Protocol Self Hosted? · · Score: 1

    It was less about e-mail and more about a document.

    Basically think of starting a document (or more like a OneNote/EverNote notebook), sharing it with people, and everyone editing it at once (everyone can see every else's changes in real time). There were also plug-ins for embedding objects such as maps and video.

  18. Re:Easy on Can a Computer Identify Your Urban Tribe? · · Score: 1

    Cosplayers are real people portraying characters. Their tribe is that of "cosplayers".

  19. Re:Easy on Can a Computer Identify Your Urban Tribe? · · Score: 2

    Cosplayers might break your Pseudocode. Lots of dark clothing and non-standard hair colors as well as face make-up / lighter skin tones.

  20. Re:Why on Gift Idea: Custom Photomosaics With AndreaMosaic and PhotoGrabber · · Score: 1

    I used to make calendars using Print Shop on the Apple IIc.........eons ago.

  21. Re:Orcish translation? on The Climate of Middle-Earth · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Trollish...... :)

  22. Re:Expect... on Supreme Court To Review Software Patents · · Score: 1

    The bigger of the two businesses (cash payout)......

  23. Re:Sell now. on Bitcoin Tops $1,000 For the First Time · · Score: 1

    I am curious how much of today's price increase is due to the loss of $7.5M in BitCoin due to some one tossing a hard drive. That effectively dropped the supply from the max by some decent number......was this spike really just re-valuing the current outstanding balance? (I don't know, I haven't really done the math.)

  24. Re:Automatic upgrade on Netflix Users In Danger of Unknowingly Picking Up Malware · · Score: 1

    Just more FUD. Netflix is just one of the biggest reasons that people have Silverlight installed. Therefore, Netflix is the reason that you are vulnerable.

  25. Re:I can see HR all over it... on Red Hat Releases Ceylon Language 1.0.0 · · Score: 1

    Out of mod points, but a virtual +1 for you, sir.