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  1. Re:They told me if I voted for Romney on NCTC Gets Vast Powers To Spy On U.S. Citizens · · Score: 1

    They would have made the exact same decision under Romney, but it would have been their God given right to do so!

  2. Re:Hey, hey gauise... on NCTC Gets Vast Powers To Spy On U.S. Citizens · · Score: 1

    No, she's married to Cthulhu, there is a difference.

  3. Re:So...much ado about not much on Thorium Fuel Has Proliferation Risk · · Score: 1

    a) this is a fission reactor, the natural decay chain is of minimal consequence to the composition
    b) but even if it mattered, look at the thorium 232 decay chain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decay_chain#Thorium_series - you will notice that the radon isotope in that chain has a short half-life time of less than a minute - too short to diffuse out of a solid and accumulate at appreciable rates
    c) the radon the op was worried about is part of the uranium 238 chain

  4. Re:So...much ado about not much on Thorium Fuel Has Proliferation Risk · · Score: 2

    Radium (88 Ra) is a solid and shouldn't be affected by ventilation. Do you mean Radon (86 Rn)?

  5. Re:Couldn't they just on Judge Demands Email and Facebook Passwords From Women In Sexual Harassment Case · · Score: 1

    Yes they could. Then they have to fight Facebook's lawyers, possible out of state, with no precedence guaranteeing they win. This way they only have to convince the local magistrate judge.

  6. Re:is it shipping to customers ? on Red Hat Developer Demands Competitor's Source Code · · Score: 1

    You had to start the car analogies ... If BMW GPLs their engine management code, and you write a software that modifies that GPLed code to make your BMW go faster, do you need to GPL it if you want to distribute it? The code is clearly yours, but it only works because of the GPL allowing you to modify BMWs code.

  7. Re:And this is why I'll never live in a walled gar on Apple Orders Memory Game Developers To Stop Using 'Memory' In Names · · Score: 1

    The whole deal with trademarks is you HAVE to defend them. They can take you to court and you will lose, as long as they have a history of defending the trademark. Try branding your cooking app American Pumpkin Pie Lover Estate and see what happens to you.

  8. Re:This is photoshop 101 kind of stuff... on Ask Slashdot: How To Catch Photoshop Plagiarism? · · Score: 1

    The submitter leaves out the implied priority; all of this has to happen without causing the teacher extra work. The teacher doesn't want to have to check for plagiarism by hand. The teacher also doesn't want to have to prepare 20 + individual assignments. The teacher also doesn't want to hand out a flat jpg - that means the teacher has to explain what's supposed to be done in each layer. Of course, the students learn more about photoshop if there's some control - not about the image manipulations, but how to cheat the metadata, add a distortion layer and whatnot to defeat any kind of comparison software. Useful skill later on in college.

  9. Re:Smart Guy on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Convince Someone To Give Up an Old System? · · Score: 1

    Some employees, especially if they're volunteers and not bound by any contract, might be irreplaceable. The web domain and the server hosting might be in Bob's name (because ten years ago that was so much easier to set up), and he's under no obligation to turn over access information. If you really piss him off, he might just delete the whole caboodle. Even if he just drops out and doesn't answer you calls and emails, you're now pulling all documents one by one for the server and start over, and hope that the hosting company lets you take over the domain when Bob's payment runs out and he doesn't renew. If you now add that the submitter is clearly not up to date on how to run a large document system (Google doc's, really?) the potential for stepping on toes and causing huge damage to the organization is there.

  10. Re:My Suggestions on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Become a Rural ISP? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Before you start anything, check on the status of your existing DSL provider, they might have gotten an exclusivity deal from your local government in order to set up something in a rural area to begin with. You might not be able to get a permit for years to come.

  11. Re:Memory card. on Software Uses Almost 1/2 the Storage On 32GB Surface Tablet · · Score: 1

    I started to look into wireless storage instead. Not as cheap as a SD card, but easier to carry than a couple of spare Nexus ;)

  12. Re:Memory card. on Software Uses Almost 1/2 the Storage On 32GB Surface Tablet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    By pure coincidence, 13 Gb with no expansion slot is all you get on a Nexus 7 16 Gb.

  13. Re:If Americans cannot compete with non Americans. on Cringley: H-1B Visa Abuse Limits Wages and Steals US Jobs · · Score: 2
    There must be clearly a second class of H1-B holders I've not encountered before, those that are actually planing to go back to their country of origin. Most H1-B people I've worked with used the H1 process to clear any immigration hurdles due to their previous F and J visa, which often required return to the homeland for a certain amount of time. The H1-B than gave them a period to get permanent residence.

    I've seen the "live on the cheap" version before, typically with Indian and Chinese graduate students, so it might very well exist in the DBA H1-B world too. And maybe DBAs are more interchangeable than scientists, and having true short term employees is not a detriment for Microsoft. But in most fields you want to keep your technical staff around, not having to replace it every 3 - 6 years due to visa rules.

  14. Re:Here here! Well said. on Cringley: H-1B Visa Abuse Limits Wages and Steals US Jobs · · Score: 0

    That's amazing, as the quote is only 85,000 annually, with a maximum of 6 years (not sure if the renewal after 3 years counts against the quota). So there shouldn't be more than 510,000 in the US at any given time. But the real reason we use the H1-Bs is that most US graduates won't stay in school for the advanced degrees the industry requires. You can't run a research oriented business with BS. You need the PhDs and MS, and there are probably less than 25% of those with US citizenship.

  15. Re:If Americans cannot compete with non Americans. on Cringley: H-1B Visa Abuse Limits Wages and Steals US Jobs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So, the H1-B worker, by your calculation, lives of donuts he steals in the break room and sleeps on a park bench? While there are probably some H1-B workers who remit a fraction of their income to their home country, most live in the community like every one else, renting a house, buying a car and groceries, and try to get ahead in the new country. As for the "stealing American's jobs", we graduate some 5,000,000 people a year from US colleges. Compare that to the 85,000 total H1B visa given out annually, less than 2% of the total job market entries.

  16. Re:I have to wonder on Iran's High Tech Copycat War Against the West: Drones and Cyberwar · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Since the legitimate government of Iran was overthrown and the current cycle of extremist leaders/newly rich plutocrats was engineered by the US and UK in Operation Ajax not so long ago

    If you define 1953 as not so long ago you must be in it for the long run. Waiting for the return of Zoroaster?

  17. Re:Faradays cage on Boeing's CHAMP Missile Uses Radio Waves To Remotely Disable PCs · · Score: 1

    I'm sure it works great against any kind of wired equipment (as the leads work as great antennas to pick up the pulse), but what of those fancy laptops with aluminum cases? Cell phones, especially if off? You'd think that people who are important enough for the government to go after them with something like this would be aware of it and harden their communications against it. If you're unsophisticated enough to be susceptible to this you're probably not enough of a threat to warrant its use.

  18. Re:Do we really need to recycle photons? on New Quantum Computing Record Set By Recycled Photons · · Score: 1

    For each photon recycled you get a one electron credit on your electric bill.

  19. Re:Unlike before, now you can turn it off on User Tracking Back On iOS 6 · · Score: 1

    Actually, this obfuscation works against apple, or better, defeats the "limit tracking" trick's usefulness. As you will most likely only find the setting upon reading instructions, you will have been warned about the misleading button. If they'd put it as a clear privacy setting for people to set themselves, most would have probably allowed the tracking due to confusion about the correct setting.

  20. Re:Settle down, everyone. on Twitter Censors German Neo-Nazi Group, Within Germany · · Score: 1

    Article 5 has a "Gesetzesvorbehalt", making the right of freedom of expression subject to "general laws, laws for the protection of children and laws for the protection of personal honor". With other words, you have the right to say everything someone doesn't find objectionable. And against the right, there are special laws outlawing anything that could be considered putting the Nazis in a good light, including denial of Nazi crimes, and anything against any people, race or religion. They also have very wide reaching blasphemy laws. The only thing they don't have is censorship prior to publication, but that's about it for freedom of expression in Germany.

  21. Re:Further, I'd suggest... on New Evidence That the Moon Was Created In a Massive Collision · · Score: 2

    Other than Pangaea not forming until 300 million years ago and the moon impact happening 4.5 billion years ago I don't see any problem with your theory.

  22. Re:UN, carbon credits, oh nos on Huge Geoengineering Project Violates UN Rules · · Score: 1

    The treaties do not say what you think they do. There is a voluntary moratorium in place that might be violated by the experiment, but there are no national laws and no true enforceable bans in place yet. And the groups opposing it are of the kind that want environmental protection at all cost, and if that means we have to get rid of half the people in the world because we can't feed them without chemical fertilizers, tough luck for them. So I will wait for some more balanced report, maybe even hard scientific data, before picking a side here.

  23. Re:Reasonable? on Texas Schools Using Electronic Chips To Track Students; Parents In Uproar · · Score: 1

    And how long until the students learn to stick the ID into a piece of aluminum foil to disable the RFID? Your school reported 1200 kids in attendance that day, but your electronic records only show 1 kid (you know there's always one who doesn't get the message). Here's your $30.

  24. Re:not quite that simple on Alan Cox to NVIDIA: You Can't Use DMA-BUF · · Score: 1

    Nvidia makes it money with high-end graphic cards. Who buys high-end graphic cards? Gamers. How many gamers are there on Linux? Nvidia was offering to up the performance of Linux computers, a small fraction of their low-profit mass produced card sales, by optimizing their drivers for a Linux feature that makes Linux look good. Now you have lawyers telling them they can't do it, marketing predicts a loss of $3.25 in sales, and they move on. Probably making up for the lost profit by laying off the engineer who wasted his time implementing the feature. But the purity of the GPL has been preserved. Victory all around.

  25. Re:He can still win. on Stanford Study Flawed: Organic Produce May Be More Nutritious After All · · Score: 1

    Sorry, it's clearly a mammalian product and as such off-limits to the vegan.