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  1. Re:Where can I signup? on Dutch City To Experiment With Paying Citizens a "Basic Income" (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't discount the power of the left in the Netherlands. We had some computer shop trying to donate old equipment to welfare recipients not so long ago. It was rejected on account of the computers being 'too old'.

  2. Just read some of the spec on Perl 6 Released (wordpress.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure I like all that simplification. I mean, I kinda liked it when @array[ 1 ] and $array[ 1 ] had different results (but worked on the same array).

  3. Re:Explaining to your Foxnewser Uncle at Xmas dinn on The Juniper VPN Backdoor: Buggy Code With a Dose of Shady NSA Crypto (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a service to you. They do that so that your suitcase remains intact. Otherwise, the lock on your suitcase would simply be broken, rendering the locking mechanism useless and the bag ugly.

  4. Re: There are US DHS at London Gatwick?? on US Stops British Muslim Family From Boarding Flight To Visit Disneyland (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    "Is your responsibility to make sure you have permission in the destination country before you fly."

    But you have no way to check this. The list, based on which you will be denied entry, based on which the airline will decide not to transport you, is not public. And the ESTA application came through. So in a way the US has the power to arbitrarily deprive you of your money.

  5. Re:Ah, but it's the effort to deter that counts. on JavaScript User Prohibitions Are Like Content DRM, But Even Less Effective (teleread.com) · · Score: 1

    In the US, bypassing DRM is illegal. Not many other places. Of course, the US reserves the right to try any world citizen in absence for infractions not committed on US soil, so there's that...

  6. Re:Not suprising on US Predicts Zero Job Growth For Electrical Engineers (bls.gov) · · Score: 1

    Thanks to the efforts of the Sauds to ruin alternative oil production and the electronics jobs being shipped overseas to countries that don't care about the environment or their population's well-being, inflation is at an all-time low. So low even, it risks flipping over into deflation at the moment. If you have pointers as to why 'the real' inflation would be high, I'd like to see them.

  7. Re: Needs an Update on Tim Cook Calls Apple's Tax Questions 'Political Crap' (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Every humongous company does this. They pay internally (using pricing mechanisms which they can set arbitrarily internally as well) between branches all over the world, and handle 'profit' where it's least taxed. IKEA, for example, have this down to an art. I forget how it works exactly, but I believe it is a non-profit in the Netherlands, which gets charged by the other branches for the distribution of saleable goods leading to an exact zero profit. You try to sell your house to a child for an arbitrary price and you'll have the taxman pulling you inside out - big companies do the same trick on a routine basis. And get rewarded for it. Tim Cook is talking out of his ass.

  8. It's either 'what a load of marketing crock have I just read won't someone pay for those dear 20 seconds of life I just lost', or 'guess which company is going to be the next hackerteam'. I can't decide.

  9. American science on Asteroid Impact Helped Create the Birds We Know Today (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    If something has trouble to be explained - throw in an explosion.

  10. It's the other way around on Why Governments Lie About Encryption Backdoors (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    The people who ask questions like this are the disingenuous ones: they too must be smart and they too must understand that the smart people in government - yes, they're there, in fact, they meet them at conferences and stuff - are in no position to seek out the news-media like that. And they too must understand that people have jobs that include assignments and not meeting them can mean that you get fired. People in governments have jobs to do. Some of those do it in front of cameras, others in front of computer monitors. They aren't the same jobs. To act like you don't understand this difference, is to pervert the discussion. Purposely. I'm firmly in favor of strong encryption, but articles like this don't help the cause.

  11. Re:Dear Mr FBI on FBI: Just Don't Call Them Backdoors (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    All Ted's manifestos and lunatic ravings would fit on a modern cell phone, with gigabytes to spare for his pr0n collection.

    Which would give him something to do and keep him warm during those long, cold winters.

  12. Re: First Build Safeguards into the FBI on FBI: Just Don't Call Them Backdoors (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    I remember clearly that they did. It wasn't their biggest argument, and it was their first argument (rather it came about when it became clear that the people at large weren't buying into Colin Powell's magic show at the UN), but it was pushed nonetheless.

  13. Re: Well.. on Chipotle Plans To DNA Test Produce After E-Coli Outbreaks In Nine States · · Score: 1

    You carry Escheria Coli as well, just not so much near the intake of your food; much more where it comes out. Getting it (and even then: certain varieties that we're not certain of) near the intake of your food (i.e. in your stomach) is where it wreaks havoc.

  14. Re:Hype on Why Is Gravity the Weakest Force? · · Score: 2

    The last financial meltdown was caused by the government mandate to take on bad loans. Since bad loans were all-of-a-suddenly risk-free, they could be bundled into derivatives, and every single perverse incentive started rolling from there. Had nothing to do with millisecond trading.

  15. Re:can someone please explain for me on Germany Fires Up Bizarre New Fusion Reactor (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    So 'Ein bisschen schweres Wasser'?

  16. Slashdot write up on MIT Researchers Develop Triple Helix MicroRNA Cancer Treatment (mit.edu) · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Once placed on the tumor, the gel slowly releases microRNA-dendrimer particles, which are absorbed into the tumor cells. After the particles enter the cells, enzymes cut each triple helix into three separate microRNA strands."

    And? Aaaand?!... The suspense is just killing me! For Pete's sake man - just tell me what happens next!

  17. Government data classification markers have specific syntax. Just saying 'Top Secret', also in a government setting, is at most an indication, not binding (for one, because there are more countries that speak English, for example). For classification markers to be legally binding, they must follow certain rules (where the info came from, and who has need-to-know). Also, companies these days have data classification systems. They don't have legal redress of course, but they can fire you and/or try to have you fined in a civil court. A classification system helps to define the damage done.

  18. I fail to see the problem on Disease Threatens 99% of the Banana Market (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    This is only a problem from a commercial perspective (and for people who really, really like bananas). The banana that we currently have won't disappear. It will become scarce, it will live on in the wild, and it will mutate to become resistant. In the mean time, growers will have to come up with another banana. Which might taste well enough to the general populace. Or not. In which case we won't eat bananas for a while. Which isn't bad either.

  19. Re:I won't use a DBMS I cannot pronounce. on Why To Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL, MariaDB (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Everything's better than 'gimp' right?

  20. Just in time so I can go on forever in my flying car.

  21. Re:They will go one step further on Pursuit of Slenderness May Mean No More Headphone Jack In iPhone 7 (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Like the cryptographically protected power plug? 'Oh we're too visible while trying to corner the market for 5VDC!' *faints*.

    Yeah right.

  22. Too true. Miniaturize what you can, keep it in the current dimension-sphere. Fill up what remains with battery, security and antenna features. The phone is already a good size, it doesn't need to be too small.

  23. Re:Important to note on LSD Microdosing Gaining Popularity For Silicon Valley Professionals (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    Migrate to Europe. We generally don't mind softdrugs and lock picking tools. And we don't check FBI databases. If you can write software, you can work anywhere.

  24. About that... on Raspberry Pi Unveils New $5 Mini-computer · · Score: 1

    Does anybody know of a place where you can *still* get one? Or get on a waiting list or something?

  25. What an IRRITATING article! on How Computer Scientists Cracked a 50-Year-Old Math Problem (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't say *anything* about the conjecture in the first place! You read on and on and on. You hope that at one point the vapid author comes close to describing what the problem they solved was all about and every time. Every. Single. Time. The author manages to deflect away from it. Bah!