Comment: Re:Paging Darth Vader (Score 2) 951
3 constants in every new version of MS
1: A new icon
2: A new name
3: A new location.
Overall new functionality, near zero.
Comment: Re:Constant failures? (Score 2) 290
How long does it take for the cluster to rebuild after a drive fails, and does this involve downtime?
Comment: Re:Commentary on the Dollar? (Score 1) 227
Don't forget the ever popular measure of "football field" in the US.
Comment: Re:In all seriousness, how the hell does this happ (Score 1) 267
I do believe that the sentiment you express here is exactly what Google are hoping the patent office, lawmakers, etc, will finally realize. It's what I first thought when I read it. I also believe they already have a list of examples prepared when they get challenged on this new patent. I also think they will also patent all kinds of other silly things real soon. The sillier the better. The system is broken, clearly, and perhaps they think that if they lean on it a little it will come crashing down. Here's to hoping.
Comment: Re:Massacre (Score 1) 343
Her Majesty's is not a variant, it's the original. ( ... cue pedants)
Comment: Re:Obviously not afraid of terrorists in Russia (Score 1) 640
This is not a surprise. I said something like this would start happening
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1859240&cid=34166882
Comment: Re:Expectation of Privacy (Score 1) 417
It's called discretion, and no one knows what it is anymore.
Comment: Re:M.A.D. (Score 4, Insightful) 703
Pretty much. There always an "ist" of some sort to battle against. There were fascists, that went away. Then came communists, that got old. Now it's terrorist. You have to tell people who the bad guys are or else they start looking at what you've been up to.
TSA Told To Tell Children That Groping Is A Game->
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Marc Desrochers writes "Apparently TSA agents are being told that one way to handle the new groping pat downs for children is to try to make it out to be some sort of "game." This is apparently horrifying some sex abuse experts who point out that a common tactic in abuse cases is to tell the kids that they're just "playing a game." The TSA has said that the newer patdowns will not apply to children under 12, but the rules have been somewhat unclear — leading to the statement from a TSA director, James Marchand:
"You try to make it as best you can for that child to come through. If you can come up with some kind of a game to play with a child, it makes it a lot easier."
He also said that the idea of making it a game would become a part of the TSA's training. Ken Wooden, who runs an organization to try to stop sex abuse of children was not pleased:
"How can experts working at the TSA be so incredibly misinformed and misguided to suggest that full body pat downs for children be portrayed as a game?" Wooden asked in an email. "To do so is completely contrary to what we in the sexual abuse prevention field have been trying to accomplish for the past thirty years.""
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"You try to make it as best you can for that child to come through. If you can come up with some kind of a game to play with a child, it makes it a lot easier."
He also said that the idea of making it a game would become a part of the TSA's training. Ken Wooden, who runs an organization to try to stop sex abuse of children was not pleased:
"How can experts working at the TSA be so incredibly misinformed and misguided to suggest that full body pat downs for children be portrayed as a game?" Wooden asked in an email. "To do so is completely contrary to what we in the sexual abuse prevention field have been trying to accomplish for the past thirty years.""
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Comment: *sigh* (Score 1) 173
Because all those "remove me from your mailing list" options have worked so well...