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  1. Re:Rule of acquisition 18 on Star Trek Economics · · Score: 1

    I think it has a better chance than anarcho capitalism, which needs land to magically appear infinitely cheaply.

  2. Re:Lifers? on Financing College With a Tax On All Graduates · · Score: 1

    You can use a single payer voucher system, the university will compete for the vouchers (either by excellence or by ease, some type of supervision might be necessary to keep the easy ones from turning into 4 year vacations). Of course the republicans don't like single payer and democrats don't like vouchers, so that doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell.

  3. Re:Lifers? on Financing College With a Tax On All Graduates · · Score: 1

    AFAICS the university will only verify your GPA, without verification your transcripts are just easily faked paper.

    The tuition subsidy scheme in my country already makes part of the gift a loan if you don't graduate BTW.

  4. Re:Just don't do it on Customer: Dell Denies Speaker Repair Under Warranty, Blames VLC · · Score: 1

    You can put a temperature protection on the voice coils, you can measure the power in the signal and reduce volume (either on the digital or the analogue side).

  5. Re:CALL A LAWYER on Customer: Dell Denies Speaker Repair Under Warranty, Blames VLC · · Score: 1

    Fuck lawyers, if you lose you're out a fuckton of money ... if you lose in small claims court you're just out some time and a small fee.

  6. Re:physcial damage on Customer: Dell Denies Speaker Repair Under Warranty, Blames VLC · · Score: 2

    Playing a youtube video with some heavily compressed sound could do the same thing.

  7. Re:READY OR NOT IS NOT THE ISSUE!!! on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    One failed conversion project can pay for a whole lot of cobol programmers to keep that back end running ... as highly paid as cobol programmers are it's nothing compared to the multitude layers of management in outside contractors for most IT projects ... which of course mostly fail to begin with.

  8. Re: Nvidia has NOTHING to lose at this stage on NVIDIA Open-Sources Tegra K1 Graphics Support · · Score: 1

    You mean last gen consoles ... current gen consoles are nearly an order of magnitude removed from the K1.

  9. Re:Go after the real thieves lol on Press Used To Print Millions of US Banknotes Seized In Quebec · · Score: 2

    It's roundabout taxation and debt relief for a government too grid locked to supply those with fiscal means.

    It has some unfortunate side effects, allowing interest rates to rise would as well though ... sure a deep enough deflationary bust can clear the US debt overhang, I'm betting fascist would come to power before it runs it's course though because it's not going to be pretty.

  10. Re:bahahahh on ARM Researching Novel Chip Memory · · Score: 2

    Intel has good technology ... but everyone is going to be a loser in the coming years and Intel is becoming a tempting target for a leveraged buyout, which might well destroy them as an IDM.

  11. Re:Ridiculous premise on When Cars Go Driverless, What Happens To the Honking? · · Score: 1

    Don't you people spend any time on the road? Human drivers have to take calculated risks all the time you would never allow an AI to take.

    - Taking the hard shoulder with the wheel crossing over the tarmac into the dirt.
    - Taking a nearly blind corner next when one side of the road is blocked.
    - Responding to directions of non official traffic directors.

    Hell I wouldn't trust a programmer to create an algorithm for taking a left turn on a crossroads in busy traffic. We'll get driverless cars when we get human level AI.

  12. Re:But but there has been no inflation in 10 years on Price of Amazon Prime May Jump To $119 a Year · · Score: 1

    They are printing billion of dollars so everyone (not the least of which is the federal and local governments) doesn't go bankrupt ...

  13. Re:Both on Price of Amazon Prime May Jump To $119 a Year · · Score: 2

    I agree with you for the most part ... but increased parcel volume should reduce the cost per parcel (smaller distances between drops).

  14. Re:It's called perspective on VC Likens Google Bus Backlash To Nazi Rampage · · Score: 1

    If they are so smart how about they figure out how to guarantee the fucking most basic necessity for social stability? Full employment. Oh wait, I know the problem ... minimum wage right? Lets erode wages to their true globalized values, a complete collapse of living standard and the global economy is just what the doctor ordered right?

    In the end the rich are just puppets too, more capable puppets than most but with no more overarching vision than a single mom who spent her entire life on welfare ... the invisible hand has turned against us, the rich can't help us now. Only capable people in government can ... so we're fucked.

  15. Re:LLVM didn't start at Apple on FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback' · · Score: 1

    GCC is not strictly superior, LTO is running into a lot of the problems Chris predicted a long time ago now people are trying to apply it to large code bases ... I think the results of the race between LTO compiled Linux and LLVM compiled Linux will be a big inflection point.

  16. Re:LLVM didn't start at Apple on FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback' · · Score: 1

    Imagine if Stallman had taken Chriss up on his offer to make LLVM part of GCC (with FSF assigned copyright) even after starting work at Apple ... the whole situation is a problem of his own creation and he doesn't own up to it.

    I imagine that without LLVM the plugin API politics would have dragged on indefinitely and LTO wouldn't have gone mainline, that's what I imagine.

  17. Re:NOW he realizes this? on FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback' · · Score: 1

    "LLVM/Clang has existed for a while now, and one of the primary motivations behind it was the license"

    Complete and utter bullshit ...

    " If people are seriously in favor of LLVM being a long-term part of GCC, I personally believe that the LLVM community would agree to assign the copyright of LLVM itself to the FSF and we can work through these details."

    http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005...

  18. Re:RMS Right, Again on FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback' · · Score: 0

    He always objected to the use of easy to parse intermediary representations on disc to avoid proprietary front/backends, that's why it wasn't done in the first place.

  19. LLVM was offered for GCC-Next on FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It would behove Stallman to admit that his/GCCs insistence on obfuscated/incomplete intermediary representations was never tenable in the long term. If they had just adopted LLVM for GCC-Next when it was offered this wouldn't have been a problem ... in the end GCC had no choice to follow their lead any way with LTO, proving that the argument that it made proprietary backends too easy should have never been used.

  20. How? Simply wait a decade.

  21. The US has plenty of desert to generate everything from solar, for HVDC the distances in the US are not relevant ... storage is a problem but I'd personally give you as much chance of making molten salt reactors commercially viable as bridging solar powers with a couple days of storage.

  22. Re:Switched to Icinga a long time ago on Nagios-Plugins Web Site Taken Over By Nagios · · Score: 1

    I doubt there are many distributions which will go with what Nagios Enterprises want, I assume most of them will just make nagios-plugins some type of transitional to monitoring-plugins and force a name change on Nagios Enterprises's package ... if they include it at all. At Redhat you have employees just coming forward (thank you DJ Delorie) and calling them on their bullshit copying of the website.

  23. Re:Hipsters are killing (have killed?) SV. on Actually, It's Google That's Eating the World · · Score: 2

    It's the market which picked the winners.

  24. Re:Northern Hemisphere bias on Solar Lull Could Cause Colder Winters In Europe · · Score: 1

    Europe hasn't seen any real winter yet either, just lots and lots of storms ... birds think it's spring already.

  25. Re: I find this strange on Electrical Engineering Lost 35,000 Jobs Last Year In the US · · Score: 1

    There are limits to consumption and how short product cycles can get before the consumer refuses to buy each improved mousetrap.

    Lately the only good economic times we have had were ones of massive malinvestment, it certainly is easy to employ a lot of EEs if their products never have to recover cost.