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  1. Re:Last century stuff on Predicting a Future Free of Dollar Bills · · Score: 1

    Have to say this is pretty much false everywhere I shop, but will add I wouldn't shop anywhere where this is true. Any business whose survival depends on saving a few pennies on credit card fees is destined for failure around here because there are very few willing to walk around with cash just to keep them alive.

  2. Re:Not me... on Predicting a Future Free of Dollar Bills · · Score: 1

    So the benefits to those who are totally 180 degrees opposite your opinion is, what!? Pretending we are still a democracy, just what would it take to cause those who want their legally protected to side with yours? Are you sure you understand the bottom line here? If I give you $x I want an authoriatory to guarantee the I get $X back if I give it to you. Maybe some laws that force you to make me at lease break even when you go under? Don't know for sure, but people are generallly okay with accepting loss as long as they don't lose.

  3. Re:Why? on Predicting a Future Free of Dollar Bills · · Score: 1

    First thought, if your "business" couldn't survive for a mere 45 days without income then your business was was underfunded to start with, and I believe that underfunding is one of the biggest causes of new business failures. I would hope that you should consider your "been there, done that" as a lesson that you should never start an enterprise that you can't fund without income for at least a year.

  4. Re:Wrong question on Slashdot Asks: Do You Want a Smart Watch? · · Score: 1

    The question should be, can a smart watch replace your smart phone?

    To me, at least, the answer to question would determine whether I would invest in smart watch. Any device that requires me to carry another to work how i expect it to work is just a non-starter in my book.

  5. Re:14 yrs would be good on Single European Copyright Title On the Horizon · · Score: 1

    What does that have to do with the price of rice in China? The man in is dead, his rights are dead.

  6. 14 yrs would be good on Single European Copyright Title On the Horizon · · Score: 1

    What with the internet lightspeed and all it doesn't take much more than that to distribute your works. Hell, it was good enogh in the whip and buggy days, right?

  7. KDE announces releases... on Plasma 5 Release Candidate Announced · · Score: 1

    ....that are not releases. Really wish they would stop that. I went to XFCE with the great "4" announcement. that screwed up everything that I expect a finished window manager to do. Anyway, isn't this a dupe?

  8. Allow "None" on Nest Announces New Smart Home API · · Score: 1

    I would certainly hope that is their devices default. Yes, I know most people will just give whatever permissions are requested, but that would at least give a few of a chance.

  9. Re:Built-in resuscitator, please on What Happens If You Have a Heart Attack In Space? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be much more expedient to only allow those who don't worry about such things to go into space? This really is such a low priority issue it is almost laughable. There is so much more important survival factors to focus research on instead of wasting it whether someone with undected artheroscralosis survives.

  10. Re:huh on What Happens If You Have a Heart Attack In Space? · · Score: 1

    None have diied of a heart attack so far, and there's no reason for the great unwashed to fund research/technology to handle some future hypothetical event. If that's an issue for you, simply don't volunteer. No one has ever been forced onto a ride to space, non-humans excluded.

    Exactly! It way too early to worry about anything except perhaps to screen out those most likely to have an MI during spaceflight.

  11. Re:huh on What Happens If You Have a Heart Attack In Space? · · Score: 1

    Then that is where research should be focused, how to better screen those who are apt to have a heart attack in space. Better biometric data recorders ;perhaps?

  12. Prescreening still best on What Happens If You Have a Heart Attack In Space? · · Score: 1

    At this stage of the game it would probably make more sense to limit space travel to those with the lowest risk factors rather than waste money on treatment. First and foremost, research today should be 100% geared to how to successfully and consistently move humans from this planet to another. Treatments for the less than healthy can wait until that is accomplished.

  13. Re:Illegal, but very useful. on Emails Show Feds Asking Florida Cops To Deceive Judges About Surveillance Tech · · Score: 0

    "Activist" judges, the ones who are willing to overrule laws based on Constitutionality no matter what Congress or the President says, have been pretty much shackled by will of the people who want their personal prejudices enforced.

  14. Re:Clearly illegal? on Emails Show Feds Asking Florida Cops To Deceive Judges About Surveillance Tech · · Score: 1

    Probably, but these guys are from the branch of government that determines what is constitutional and what is not.

  15. Electric motors are awesome! on Harley-Davidson Unveils Their First Electric Motorcycle · · Score: 1

    It's electric storage that is the problem. Fix the range problem, and I'm not talking about the average or median range here, and we"ll all be golden.

  16. Guy Fawkes on Google and Facebook Can Be Legally Intercepted, Says UK Spy Boss · · Score: 2

    I foresee an uptick in the sales of Guy Fawkes masks, and it isn't even November.

  17. IE is irrelevant! on Microsoft Releases Early IE12 Preview As Part of Its New Developer Channel · · Score: 0

    It fails to run on all my devices, and most of my friends say it won't run on the majority of theirs either. Funny how MS still thinks it rules the world, isn't it?

  18. It's all good! on Microsoft Releases Early IE12 Preview As Part of Its New Developer Channel · · Score: 1

    If IE follows web standards it will remain relevant. Trying to lock developers into supporting a certain OS will only hasten its death though. Oh, and just a reminder to Microsoft, there are more devices running other systems than there are devices running Windows nowadays.

  19. Re:Water is wet on Bill Gates To Stanford Grads: Don't (Only) Focus On Profit · · Score: 1

    So removing the benefits of making a profit would do away with scientists seeking to make a profit? I guess that makes sense, but how could it be accomplished? Even MickeyD's won't poney up a burger if you don't have coin.

  20. Profiteers on Bill Gates To Stanford Grads: Don't (Only) Focus On Profit · · Score: 1

    Profiteers make their money on the innovations and discoveries of others. Their whole purpose is to thrive off the work of others. They are parasetical in this regard.

  21. Re:Water is wet on Bill Gates To Stanford Grads: Don't (Only) Focus On Profit · · Score: 1

    If it weren't for proiteers, you might have achieved you goal already.

  22. Pain and suffering on Bill Gates To Stanford Grads: Don't (Only) Focus On Profit · · Score: 2

    The same could be said for human pain and suffering. How many people today would be alive if someone else didn't suck the life out of them to increase their own wealth? Whether under the guise of Democracy, Communism, or Facism, those who seek personal gain suck something from someone. They have to because, in order to profit they have to have someone to profit from.

  23. I hope they get whatever they can for them on US To Auction 29,656 Bitcoins Seized From Silk Road · · Score: 0

    It really isn't a governments job to sell of fake currency though. They should be only dealing in whatever is accepted as the coin of the realm as it would be, and imprisoning all those who try to subvert it.

  24. Re:It's a BS excuse on America 'Has Become a War Zone' · · Score: 2

    So it couldn't possibly be that local law enforcement is arming itself to defend against paranoid homeland security? Things have been way to one sided towards the feds forces for way too long now.

  25. Not so bad on Rising Sea Levels Uncover Japanese War Dead In Marshall Islands · · Score: 0

    People need to reminded every now and then why a certain day every year is set aside for them to cook hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill. The Japanese died for one false god, the Allies whose bones are sure to be uncovered for another.