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  1. Re:Think of the children on FBI Chief: Apple, Google Phone Encryption Perilous · · Score: 2
  2. Re:From a physics professor on Ask Slashdot: How To Pick Up Astronomy and Physics As an Adult? · · Score: 2

    I agree generally with the above. For some background lectures, I would suggest Leonard Susskind's lectures. A highly entertaining lecturer and knows his stuff. But again, the above is true in that the only way to truly understand physics is to do some problems. To combine it with IT, you can try doing simulations of things. Alternatively try your hand at some masters level projects. (eg. these)

  3. Re:I have a method on US Patent Office Seeking Consultant That Can Stamp Out Fraud By Patent Examiners · · Score: 1

    And then only 20 years since his ./ comment!

  4. Re:illogical captain on Why Atheists Need Captain Kirk · · Score: 1

    Never before have I so wished I had mod points to give to an AC.

  5. Re:Wait a second! on For Microsoft, $93B Abroad Means Avoiding $30B Tax Hit · · Score: 1

    I don't think you owe taxes to any country unless you are a US citizen abroad and then you owe taxes to the US. See this

  6. Re:And ironically on For Microsoft, $93B Abroad Means Avoiding $30B Tax Hit · · Score: 1

    Yep. Should a player who wins one game with straight flush be immediately declared a poker champion? I don't know, he's stopped playing.

  7. Re:tax by transaction on For Microsoft, $93B Abroad Means Avoiding $30B Tax Hit · · Score: 1

    Alternatively, if they were 1c more expensive, these transactions just wouldn't happen. More businesses would incorporate overseas and the same behavior would continue without the US getting any revenue.

  8. Re:Okay... and? on For Microsoft, $93B Abroad Means Avoiding $30B Tax Hit · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure that would be Irish revenue but you would have to pay customs taxes for the package.

  9. Re:Okay... and? on For Microsoft, $93B Abroad Means Avoiding $30B Tax Hit · · Score: 1

    Yes, because Ireland is only a holding place for money that should be paid to the US and not part of Europe at all

  10. Re:nuisance fee on Rightscorp's New Plan: Hijack Browsers Until Infingers Pay Up · · Score: 1
  11. Re:non military space agreement?? on Japan To Launch a Military Space Force In 2019 · · Score: 1

    Even formal treaties involving WMD do not seem to apply once war starts: NATO Nuclear Weapons Sharing

  12. Re:Savings? on Alcatel-Lucent's XG-FAST Pushes 10,000Mbps Over Copper Phone Lines · · Score: 1

    BT tried this in the UK. Retrospectively, they found that it would have pretty much cost the same to lay fibre to everyone's door as it would be to maintain their fibre to the cabinet system. 80Mbit/s is what you can get at the maximum. I live about 300m down the road from the nearest phone cabinets I've seen and I get about 60Mb/s

  13. Re:What?? on WhatsApp Is Well On Its Way To A Billion Users · · Score: 1

    Pretty much any deal in the UK comes with unlimited texting in the UK or extraordinarily cheap.

  14. Re:What?? on WhatsApp Is Well On Its Way To A Billion Users · · Score: 1

    Literally a lie in any civilized country....

  15. Re:Serious Video Games on Mobile Game Attempts To Diagnose Alzheimer's · · Score: 1
    Most depressing thing I have ever seen:

    This app is incompatible with all of your devices. This item cannot be installed in your device's country.

    I'm now more depressed than ever :(

  16. Re:Has anyone noticed Beta STILL Sucks? on Wireless Carriers In Huge Washington Lobby Fight Over Spectrum Auction · · Score: 1

    +1

  17. Re:For Windows on Ask Slashdot: Managing Device-Upgrade Bandwidth Use? · · Score: 1

    Broke, or fixed?

  18. Dice stuff on DRM Has Always Been a Horrible Idea · · Score: 1

    At least battlefield 4 didn't have a shaky launch due to its DRM

  19. One would hope the only way that one takes the law is literally. If it were open to interpretation as to what was actually illegal well I guess we would have a quagmire of issues...

  20. Re:OTOH... on FCC Chair: It's Ok For ISPs To Discriminate Traffic · · Score: 1

    Interestingly, currently from the UK it is cheaper to pay for a vpn and US netflix than than the UK netflix version which has less content.... If it they were truly separate comparies, they would compete for this market, but they will never.

  21. Re:Waiver of rights on Woman Fined For Bad Review Striking Back In Court · · Score: 1

    Non-citizens apparently are denied quite a few of these rights thought...

  22. Re:STILL not accurate and STILL misquoted on SSD Manufacturer OCZ Preparing For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    It's nice that you've had more than 4 friends but more interesting is OCZ drives.... I have an OCZ drive that I acquired due to the shop being out of sale of Crucial equally sized 240GB drives. It's had windows 7 on it since a year and a half ago and is working fine now. No errors ever reported. If everyone who has ever had a hard drive die on them is just going to post we could have a marathon of karma

  23. Re:This is just a decoy... on Microsoft, FBI Takedown Citadel Botnet · · Score: 1

    Good god; we better avoid anything that is only one molecule away from another!

  24. Re:Who ported btrfs to DOS? on Denial-of-Service Attack Found In Btrfs File-System · · Score: 3, Funny
  25. Re:I feel a great disturbance in the force... on Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm, Star Wars Episode 7 Due In 2015 · · Score: 1

    And he's not even a true Scotsman!