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  1. Re:IMHO on 3D Printing of Human Tissue To Spark Ethics Debate · · Score: 1

    When you can patent part of the GENOME you're already past that.

  2. Re:HAHAHAHAHAHAHA on 3D Printing of Human Tissue To Spark Ethics Debate · · Score: 1

    To go into Tamarian and mix references:

    "Mister Pink, sitting in diner, rubbing his thumb and finger together."

    It will be SUCH a HORRIBLE occurrence if the IP vultures go out of business. We will all cry.

  3. Gartner?? on 3D Printing of Human Tissue To Spark Ethics Debate · · Score: 0

    Gartner predicts that the time is drawing near when 3D-bioprinted human organs will be readily available,

    Which means it's probably 300 years off if it ever happens because Garner is rarely right about anything. If they say the sky is blue you had better change because it probably just turned to red.

  4. Re:so what about all my old devices? on Old-school Wi-Fi Is Slowing Down Networks, Cisco Says · · Score: 2

    Get the Ebay chinese version if you can wait 4 weeks!

  5. Re:Do anyone care about 2.5GHz speed? on Old-school Wi-Fi Is Slowing Down Networks, Cisco Says · · Score: 2

    Well... making you replace all your devices is a FEATURE, not a bug. At least from Cisco's standpoint.

  6. good idea on Old-school Wi-Fi Is Slowing Down Networks, Cisco Says · · Score: 1

    If you put in Cisco equipment your wired network speed WILL speed up.

    Since Cisco can't follow standards well and puts wifi systems that are constantly broken your wireless traffic will go WAY down.

    Sorry... the use of Cisco in many big complexes is because so many I.T. managers have to get the most expensive equipment. I've personally used Ubiquity and MicroTik equipment and they are more reliable.

  7. Re:And so it begins... on Bitcoin Exchange CEO Charlie Shrem Arrested On Money Laundering Charge · · Score: 1

    I actually consider this a feature and not a bug.

  8. Re:Keynsianomics on Detroit Wants Its Own High-Tech Visa · · Score: 1

    Ok.. provide the citation!

    Just because it is contradictory in your brain doesn't mean that is what reality is.

    Really... go ahead. Show the citation that unemployment benefits increases unemployment. You won't do it because the data show exactly the opposite!

  9. Re:Give Us Opportunity, Not More Mouths to Feed on Detroit Wants Its Own High-Tech Visa · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The idea that big business=everything is bullshit and backward. Big business is not supporting life in the US any longer and hasn't for years.

    The idea is to make your city and town a place that isn't a hellhole for the creative. Stop giving tax abatements to huge corporations that are actually employing few workers and who are often seeing NEGATIVE taxation. Start giving some help to the small businesses instead of the big ones.

    Of course this takes deep thinking and common sense which are at all time lows in the USA right now.

  10. Re:The more things change the more they... change? on Apple Macintosh Turns 30 · · Score: 1

    My experience with a Mac was close... I wondered how the hell I could drop to a command line.

    I loved Macs for a good long time though. Even today I think they are pretty good machines even though I prefer Linux. I don't like the movement of Apple towards a Microsoft-like business model where they care about their own corporate agenda more than their users, but as long as they don't make it a total walled garden it still deserves some respect.

  11. Re:Will plagiarizing speeches count? on Cameron's IP Advisor: Throw Persistent Copyright Infringers In Jail · · Score: 1

    Of course not. This only applies to people that don't have political power. Non-politicians and non-corporate class.

  12. Corporate sycophants in office. on Cameron's IP Advisor: Throw Persistent Copyright Infringers In Jail · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We have it in the U.S. too. People with extreme pro-corporate positions making it to office...

    In the U.S. we've got people under surveillance because they have spoken up against Fraking. That's what happens in a corporate state.

  13. Re:It's exactly why GTK was born! on Intel Dev: GTK's Biggest Problem, and What Qt Does Better · · Score: 2

    What is the matter with all of you? Curses got it right...

  14. Re:Expected on Amazon and GoDaddy Are the Biggest Malware Hosters · · Score: 3

    The assumption that "size is directly responsible for the malware" has been the excuse made by every Microsoft advocate ever to walk the face of the earth.

  15. Re:Mafia and the FTC on Notorious Patent Troll Sues Federal Trade Commission · · Score: 2

    Brings up a point. It's a legal form of Racketeering.

    "Nice code you have there. It would be a shame if something happened to it!"

  16. not commerce??? on Notorious Patent Troll Sues Federal Trade Commission · · Score: 1

    The patent-licensing behavior doesn't even amount to 'commerce' by the standards of the FTC Act, because the letters are not 'the offer of a good or sale for service,' argues MPHJ.

    YAY FOR DUMBASS LAWYERS!

    So if it's not commerce, then they don't need to make any money off their patents, right? It's all for the good of the world?

  17. Re: UMS on Ask Slashdot: Suggestions For a Simple Media Server? · · Score: 1

    That's funny. As long as my network conditions are good I've never had a problem like this with SMB, and I've had a setup for years.

  18. Re:Road Rage II, Revenge of the Soccer Moms on Engineers: Traffic Studies Use Simulation Software, Not Lane Closings · · Score: 1

    She can't get her head over the steering wheel, but you can see here angry fist waving in the air.

  19. Re:duh on Engineers: Traffic Studies Use Simulation Software, Not Lane Closings · · Score: 3, Informative

    The problem is that the reasoning ability is low and the length of memory is short.

    The same conundrum can be seen in Florida's governor, Rick Scott. He presided over a company involved in what was to that time the biggest Medicare fraud in U.S. history. He was either incompetent or a full fledged criminal. And what happens... people in Florida made his governor.

    If people thought through things I would agree, but come vote type old Fat Farmer Joe is going to pull the lever marked "Republican Straight Ticket" because he bases all his votes on political stereotype or talking points. The fact that we have a malice vs incompetence conundrum is not going to matter to Farmer Joe because he's late for Hee-Haw.

  20. Re:Won't work very well. on Japan To Tax Online Sales Of Foreign-Made Content · · Score: 1

    Well, Japan *does* still manufacture stuff, unlike the U.S. Maybe forcing people to buy locally isn't an unwanted outcome.

    The U.S., to my knowledge, is the only country that kowtows to the corporate to the degree that they don't even try to promote local manufacturing anymore. There is nothing wrong with protecting your country and its livelihood... it's one of the things governments are SUPPOSED to do.

  21. Re:Oh My God! on Programmer Debunks Source Code Shown In Movies and TV Shows · · Score: 4, Funny

    Next they'll tell me that "hackers" don't get a nice big screen that says "Access Granted" or that "Swordfish" isn't a common password.

  22. Re:True, yet. on Lawsuit: Oracle Called $50K 'Good Money For an Indian' · · Score: 1, Insightful

    That would mean law is enforced, and that is commie red soshalsism, friend.

  23. Re:german law on Lawsuit: Oracle Called $50K 'Good Money For an Indian' · · Score: 3, Informative

    In the US, that's the law regarding H1-B workers as well, but it's not enforced.

  24. Re:Wonderful news! on Chefs Preview Surface Tension-Based Cocktail Garnishes · · Score: 1

    If it makes money then DO IT.

  25. Re:Point taken. on Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks the Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who do you buy your supplies from when every corporation is intrusive?

    Every thread at slashdot has some snide NSA comment, and that's understandable. Slashdot tends to be more enlightened, but there are far fewer snide comments and corporate entities being intrusive with data (and the ones there are tend to be about Google and Facebook).

    However, if EVERY corporation is intrusive (and car companies will all be if they aren't already) then where do you go? Do you buy from Huffy? Huffy will probably put GPS in their frames.

    The idiot comment about OWS was always "but.. but... but... they buy stuff from corporations!" But what else can you do if you live in the U.S. Do you go out and live in a shack like the Unibomber?