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  1. Re:Honest Question on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    The rest of the world needs employment as well. I have no issue with investments being made to create additional wealth on a global scale. What I object to is the stockpiling of unearned Money. Perhaps there should be a "capital inventory tax" whereby anything more than, say, $10MM in assets are taxable at around 2% per year. That way any money not being aggressively invested will gradually be whittled away.

  2. Genesis 1:28 on World Population Expected To Hit 7 Billion In Late October · · Score: 1

    Turns out to be disingenuous then...

  3. Re:Public safety should be the priority on EPIC Files For Rehearing In Body Scanner Case · · Score: 1

    You don't do it in the bathroom of the airplane, you do it in the bathroom at the terminal before you board. That way you can have a dozen contributors and only one person carries it onto the plane.

  4. Good to see V.i doing well on Turning Chinese Piracy Into Revenue · · Score: 2

    I'm sure emacs could have done this too, but no-one can remember the right keystrokes to make it happen.

  5. It probably had something to do on Linux Journal Goes — Surprise! — Digital · · Score: 1

    with Borders closing.

  6. Re:Magical electrodes on Car Makers Explore EEG Headrests · · Score: 1

    So do I, but I recently test drove a volvo and the headrests are different, you feel them against the back of the head.
    I wonder if EEG can detect drunkenness ?

  7. Re:Audio quality must suffer on Apple Patents Cutting 3.5mm Jack in Half · · Score: 1

    Which is why this makes no sense. The socket is more than 3.5mm wide because of the contacts that take up space. Now the contacts have to be placed on the circular-domed side, eating up a little of the thickness of the device rather than rotated 90 degrees to eat up a little of the width of the device..

    If they really wanted to trim the thickness of the device below 3.5mm and accommodate regular headphones, why not shave off a little from the top and the bottom of the socket and add a small key, so that a regular plug would still sit in the socket but bulge a little to each side, and apple could bring along a new plug with the sides shaved off and an appendage to match the key so that it did not rotate.

  8. Re:Only as "free" as your ability to defend it on Paypal Founder Helping Build Artificial Island Nations · · Score: 1, Interesting

    These people are the same ones who hate obamacare, right up until they need to show up at an ER and expect a free ride. It's not that they should be worried about our navy attacking them, it is that they expect to pay no taxes and yet have our navy come and defend them if, say, a Somalian pirate wants to enjoy some libertarian living.

  9. contortionist on Driver Using Two Cell Phones Gets Year-Long Driving Ban · · Score: 1

    David Secker, was apparently using his knees to steer the car, an accusation he tried to refute in court.

    If he did not want them to think he was driving with his knees when his hands were clearly unavailable, what the hell did he want to convince them he was using to grip the wheel ?

  10. Your current skills on Ask Slashdot: Am I Too Old To Learn New Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    should help you work your way through college. I suggest you go back to school and learn Naval Architecture, Marine biology, History or something totally different. For two reasons:

    • * You (and I by the way) are on the downward slope, it's time to try out those things we've always wanted to, live a little
    • * Your programming skills will be rare and valued in the new field, imagine what you can accomplish crunching numbers to verify historic finds, correlate roman accounting records or whatever, those tasks are yours to define in any language you wish

    When it comes to programming you've seen it and done it, time to move on.

  11. Re:409 += 10 on Google's 'ID Validation' Is a Joke, But Not Funny · · Score: 1

    Maybe he meant a 409 drinker. It has to taste better than Mountain Dew.

  12. Re:China? on UK To Shut Down Social Networks? · · Score: 1

    Are you suggesting that the rioters be armed or that the rioters be shot ? the police in the UK have ample stocks of weapons if shooting rioters is the answer, and if arming the populace is the answer then I expect there would be a lot more blood on the streets than there has been. US citizens are armed and yet 53 people were killed in the LA riots of '92.

  13. Re:more stupidity on Drought-Stricken Texas Town Taps Urine For Water · · Score: 1

    Nicely debunked sir...

  14. Re:more stupidity on Drought-Stricken Texas Town Taps Urine For Water · · Score: 1

    I heard once (I've no way to know if it's really true) that by the time Thames water reached London it had been through 7 people. It was claimed to be one of the reasons London drinking water was so soft and good tasting (it routinely won blind taste tests against bottled waters) .
    Shame about the bi-sexual fish though.

  15. Re:doesn't make much of a difference on S&P's $2 Trillion Math Mistake · · Score: 1

    Or if there's an election year before 2013

  16. Shouldn't it go in front on Army Gives Robo Jeeps a Go · · Score: 1

    rather than follow the soldier ?

  17. Re:I know this problem well. on Ask Slashdot: Overcoming Convention Hall Wi-Fi Interference? · · Score: 1

    It's also an inherent problem with conference centers gouging for wifi access. If it were reasonably priced the exhibitors would not go rogue.

  18. How come this on Saving Gas Via Underpowered Death Traps · · Score: 5, Interesting

    is not already costing drivers of big cars more in terms of liability premiums.

  19. Re:I am an HFT programmer on How and Why Wall Street Programmers Earn Top Salaries · · Score: 1

    Where do you get these price feeds from (or route the prices to) ? surely you could save 5e-7s just by using shorter cables or putting the mic and speakers closer to the traders.

  20. I wonder how on Hackers' Flying Drone Now Eavesdrops On GSM Phones · · Score: 1

    they got a license to use the GSM spectrum.

  21. Re:Once you have discovered on Why Your Dad's 30-Year-Old Stereo Sounds Better Than Yours · · Score: 1

    Yes, I specifically mean costs to the manufacturer. The concept of giving customers less while charging them more is called marketing. But to be fair, there may be more money to be made overall making mediocre equipment for above-average pricing or even poor equipment for low pricing than there is making high-end equipment for an elite few. I doubt that the back pages of Gramophone magazine are filled with advertisements from huge multi-national companies.

  22. Re:Secret Weapon on McCain Decries "Hobbits," Accused of Ringbearing · · Score: 1

    Exactly; I have to wonder whether, from a purely re-election standpoint, whether Obama would be better off if Boener's plan were passed as-is and the whole issue re-emerged in an election year with even more emphasis on "taxing the minority" vs "beggaring the majority", with further rumblings about national credit ratings and with a national discussion about whether compromise is or is not a feature of reasonable adult's behavioral process.

  23. Re:Once you have discovered on Why Your Dad's 30-Year-Old Stereo Sounds Better Than Yours · · Score: 1

    Yes, all criticism of modern musical taste aside I should have added to the original post; the willful destruction of dynamic range in the quest for loudness or the poor recoding of original sources due to laziness of the desire to compress them ever smaller. But you clearly get my point, it's not that these concepts are misunderstood by audio engineers or that the lessons have been lost, in fact the body of knowledge especially on digital audio coding has grown immensely in the past generation.

  24. Once you have discovered on Why Your Dad's 30-Year-Old Stereo Sounds Better Than Yours · · Score: 5, Insightful

    what makes it sound good. Surely there's no need for more R&D to maintain the status quo. What sunk good sound was a desire to push down the costs.

  25. Re:Smeagol on McCain Decries "Hobbits," Accused of Ringbearing · · Score: 1

    Whatever you think of the tea party it has been spectacularly successful at "wagging the dog". Either the traditional parties will learn to get their tails back in control, or other "tails" will emerge on the far right or the far left spurred on by the success of the tea party. I rather suspect the main parties will find a way to control this better because some of the trends that have helped this along (like signing pledges) that seemed initially to be zero cost are now being seen as burdensome.