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  1. Re:Artificial organ scarcity on Transplant Surgeon Called Dibs On Steve Jobs' Home · · Score: 1

    It's worse than that. There's some discussion about harvesting the organs before the donor is actually dead. You see, when you sign that donor card, your life immediately becomes less valuable to The System as your death becomes more valuable.

  2. Re:Artificial organ scarcity on Transplant Surgeon Called Dibs On Steve Jobs' Home · · Score: 1

    An acceptable moral alternative to me is donating your whole body to science. Doctoral students still need to work with real bodies.

  3. Re:Artificial organ scarcity on Transplant Surgeon Called Dibs On Steve Jobs' Home · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Many people don't check the donor box because they are appalled at the greedy doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies making good money off of their donated organs. Ever check the price of a transplant?

  4. Re:No idea on Transplant Surgeon Called Dibs On Steve Jobs' Home · · Score: 1

    The Republicans are the party of the rich. They would never complain about rich people getting preferential treatment; when you're rich, it's expected. Any special treatment that Steve Jobs received was well earned because he was a self-made billionaire.

  5. Re:Sheesh on Apple Yanks Mac Virus Immunity Claims From Website · · Score: 1

    Whether you use 2008 data or 2012 data, you can conclude that there enough Macs out there to be a nice target for malware. We will see more malware for Macs but, because Mac OS X is more secure than older versions of Windows, never as much as we have seen for Windows.

    In fairness to Windows, how much malware is for Windows 7 and how much is for previous versions which may not have been as secure?

  6. Re:Arizona Drivers on Arizona H-1B Workers Advised to Carry Papers At All Times · · Score: 1

    Nope, the Supremes struck this part down. The cops are allowed to ask, but you don't have to carry papers. As someone earlier pointed out, the U.S. government recommends that tourists leave their passports in their hotel rooms.

  7. Re:Congratulations Arizona! on Arizona H-1B Workers Advised to Carry Papers At All Times · · Score: 1

    But the Supremes struck down the part that you must carry ID at all times.

  8. Re:this is new how? on Arizona H-1B Workers Advised to Carry Papers At All Times · · Score: 3, Informative

    You are not required to carry your papers with you. The OP misreported this part. The police are allowed to request that you prove citizenship but there presumably a period of time for you to produce papers.

  9. Re:Peacetime? on How the Militarization of the Internet is Changing Warfare · · Score: 1

    Correct. If you don't want war, don't ask Congress to declare one. But we haven't been in peacetime, either.

  10. Re:Sheesh on Apple Yanks Mac Virus Immunity Claims From Website · · Score: -1

    Apple's market share is 66% for all personal computers sold in stores for more than $1,000. In addition, Apple's market share as been increasing as sales of PCs as a whole have been dropping.

  11. Re:Suprising that no one has sued. on Apple Yanks Mac Virus Immunity Claims From Website · · Score: 1

    Like Retina displays? Only available from Apple!

  12. Re:Are we failing to prepare children for leadersh on Are We Failing To Prepare Children For Leadership In the US? · · Score: 1

    To me, survival skills means being able to change a flat tire. Anything beyond that and I'll call for help.

  13. Re:...overkill...? on Will Dolby's New Atmos 62.2 Format Redefine Surround Sound? · · Score: 1

    Your point is valid but Pixar is a poor choice of example. When Pixar makes a movie, the image part doesn't even exist until the audio is done. There is no "recorded at the same time as the image" at Pixar or you would just see people standing in front of microphones.

  14. Re:...overkill...? on Will Dolby's New Atmos 62.2 Format Redefine Surround Sound? · · Score: 1

    Especially for pretty much anything in a Pixar film for example.

    Surely you understand how they "film" a Pixar movie, don't you? (My silliness detector is set to high today.)

  15. Science fiction vs. real science on Ask Slashdot: Best Science-Fiction/Fantasy For Kids? · · Score: 1

    My son (now 20) grew up in a household with a lot of science fiction (books, magazines, television and movies) and now has no interest in real science. Science fiction, yes, but real science, where you do something called mathematics, no. Since he would have made a great scientist, I wonder if the overexposure to science fiction ruined this career path for him.

  16. Re:Let the public education on U.S. Students Struggle With Reasoning Skills · · Score: 1

    You do understand that one or both of this child's parents are probably autistic as well, don't you? Perhaps you should find an autistic teacher or administrator (high functioning, I'm sure) in your school district who can speak their language.

  17. Re:Obama's Record on Schneier Calls US Stuxnet Cyberattack a 'Destabilizing and Dangerous' Action · · Score: 1

    So let me get this straight, you thought any US administration was just going to sit by and let Israel bomb the crap out of Iran so that they don't gain nuclear capabilities?

    There, FTFY.

  18. Re:Post-Microsoft era on Study Shows Teen Gamers Like Tech, But Don't All Crave IT Jobs · · Score: 1

    I want my time to be productive. Maybe you could work at a job where you spend all day installing Microsoft updates but I can't. I get my jollies from designing systems that work well on the factory floor 24 hours a day, six days a week without crashing.

    If you think the last 37 years have been great because of what Bill Gates and Microsoft did, think of how great they could have been if Bill Gates and Microsoft had done things right (using the quality standards in place in the mid '70s).

  19. Re:WTF is csoonline? on US-CERT Discloses Security Flaw In 64-Bit Intel Chips · · Score: 2

    According to US-CERT, OS X is not affected.

  20. Re:Post-Microsoft era on Study Shows Teen Gamers Like Tech, But Don't All Crave IT Jobs · · Score: 1

    True that.

  21. Post-Microsoft era on Study Shows Teen Gamers Like Tech, But Don't All Crave IT Jobs · · Score: 0

    I have successfully discouraged my 20-year-old son from going into IT. There have been countless man-years and dollars lost due to the incompetence of a Microsoft-dominated world (mostly viruses and malware, but also regular blue screens of death and lack of consistency among development platforms). Now that we're entering a post-Microsoft world (think Linux/Apache/Java/PHP/Python, Watson and iPad), it's safe to go back into IT if you do it the right way.

    For you that think I'm just picking on Microsoft, I have spent my entire career (1976 to present) working on systems that don't require anti-virus software to be safe.

  22. Re:The thing about trick questions. on Why Smart People Are Stupid · · Score: 1

    Okay, I know a family where the man has two children, the elder one is male and so is the younger one. Whoever says 0% is wrong.

  23. Re:Die's per Wafer estimation on TSMC To Spend $10B Building Factory for 450mm Wafers · · Score: 1

    Please check your calculations again. You're so far off that you must not be thinking right.

  24. Re:How about on TSMC To Spend $10B Building Factory for 450mm Wafers · · Score: 1

    450mm is 2.25x larger than 300mm, that's a pretty big cost saving there. There, FTFY.

  25. Re:The article is written by a fucktard. on Why Smart People Are Stupid · · Score: 1

    Relax. You're just saying the emperor has no clothes and I agree with you. I got both examples right and I did it quickly, too. But I'm especially good at trick questions (If a fence is 102 feet long and has a post every six feet, how many posts are in the fence?). This serves me well when programming.