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  1. Re:4:3 comes back! on iPad 3 Confirmed To Have 2048x1536 Screen Resolution · · Score: 1

    I prefer 4:3 for multi-monitor setups. I have three 1600x1200 21" monitors laid out horizontally at work. I like having the consistent resolution so something fits the same regardless of which screen I drag it onto. My workflow wouldn't work so well if the resolutions didn't line up.

    You can certainly have multiple widescreen monitors at the same resolution. You may prefer a 4:3 for certain reasons but surely that isn't one of them.

  2. Re:outsourced cleaners with poor English don't kno on Stealing Laptops For Class Credit · · Score: 1
    So the social engineering aspect made me think of William James Clark.

    From Amarillo Globe News.

    ... he impersonated an army officer to take command of the launch site for nearly two days after 14 people were killed when an Interstate 40 bridge fell in eastern Oklahoma...

  3. Re:You can't eliminate them on Obama Pushes For Cheaper Pennies · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't cost $3.15 it would cost $3.20. When you get a gallon of gas do you pay the 9/10 of a cent? It's the same concept. However, you are correct that getting rid of the nickel would mean getting rid of the quarter. Without the acceptance of $1 coins or the even less used $.50 coins, this posses a significant barrier to dropping the second decimal place of the dollar and its associated coins.

  4. Re:You can't eliminate them on Obama Pushes For Cheaper Pennies · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Which is ok. Sometimes taxes go out to tenths of a penny but it doesn't cause any issues. Really we should drop the penny and the nickel. Just go the the next tenth; dimes. I believe there used to be mils that were tenths of a penny and we don't fret about it today.

  5. Re:Blegh on Ask Slashdot: Dividing Digital Assets In Divorce? · · Score: 1

    Same reason you don't share the same ID with your spouse. Accounts identify YOU as a single person.

    Are you really this ignorant, or are you just trolling?

    It was about more than IDs. It included other data. It wouldn't be that crazy to have a shared domain with a spouse. Plenty of people have individual emails and joint emails. Why so grumpy?

  6. Re:A fine initiative on EFF Launching 'Patent Fail' Campaign · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think after they patent Fail they shouldn't license it to anyone.

  7. Re:Seems reasonable.. on Doctors "Fire" Vaccine Refusers · · Score: 1

    Not all vaccines contain egg protein. At least according to this MMR is safe for egg allergies. For other vaccines (and other allergic reactions like those to gelatin) the recommendation is to see an allergist that can do skin-test of the vaccine to evaluate the reaction. Of course your doctor should have told you that and if he didn't you probably don't want to use him anyway.

  8. Re:Interesting. on Did Life Emerge In Ponds Rather Than Ocean Vents? · · Score: 1

    I've wondered how much temperature would affect early life. More specifically if the day/night cycle worked like a PCR machine on the early stages of life. If that were the case some other cyclical temperature change might need to occur where the sun is not as much of an influence. Of course I could just be talking out my ass.

  9. Re:Barking up the wrong tree on Against Online Surveillance? You Must Be 'For' Child Porn, Says Legislator · · Score: 1

    Power is merely a stepping stone to riches.

    In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.

  10. Ads can still be relavent on Will "Do Not Track" Kill the Free Internet? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just because a site can't track you doesn't mean they can't advertise to you. The content of the page you are viewing should provide enough context to provide an appropriate ad. Will it be less relevant to you? Possibly, but TV stations don't need to know everybody's individual viewing habits to know that Comedy Central should have ads aimed at young males while Lifetime shows ads for women.

  11. Re:Slashdot is dead on After Rewrites, Google Wallet Still Has Holes · · Score: 1

    what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

  12. Re:Technology Stoners on Smart Camera Tells Tobacco From Marijuana · · Score: 4, Funny

    At least in the short term...

    Yeah, wait, what are we talking about?

  13. Re:One more issue on The Zuckerberg Tax · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If selling assets dilutes it's value doesn't the converse hold true that holding assets would make their value go up? Which one is the real value of the asset? Is either?

  14. Re:One more issue on The Zuckerberg Tax · · Score: 2
    You seem knowledgeable o I though I might present some of my thoughts.

    substantial fraction of assets would have to be shed each year, thus diluting the market for that asset class

    If a party owns 50% of the stocks in a company it definitely makes sense that the more they have to sell the more the price would drop. However, is this dilution a reflection of real value lost or a move to a more accurate measurement of value? My economic thought experiment ponders. Given there are 1000 units of value and 10 people. If one person owns 900 of those units and the remaining 9 people share the other 100 does each unit become more valuable? Do wealth centers create an artificial scarcity of money and property thereby raising its worth?

    What are your thoughts on borrowing against wealth to avoid taxes? What about the difference between capital gains and income taxes. If the theory is leaving money in people's hands so that they will invest why not leave it in the hands of everybody? I believe historically the federal government has run at 18%-22% of GDP. What justifies so many people paying 30% and a few paying closer to 15% or under? Would you favor a flat tax applied to money made regardless of source?

    In mentioning the 18-22 figure for the fed's percentage of GDP I recognize it is currently higher. I believe our spending needs to be fixed as much as our tax code.

    PS Sorry about any non-sequiturs but I think most of my thoughts are at least related.

  15. Re:First Amendment isn't relevant here on Seattle Library Lets Man Watch Porn On Computers Despite Complaints · · Score: 1

    And normal, rational people shouldn't have to witness graphic sex acts

    I think the point is who decides what's graphic? Someone studying medicine could easily offend other patrons. At the same time I understand there are things that other people don't want to see. Seems instead of censoring content and instead of offending other patrons a simple solution might be privacy screens.

  16. Re:Slashdot double standards on How Far Should GPL Enforcement Go? · · Score: 2

    I love how so many people paint every disagreement is such terms. You see 99% of post as pro-piracy. I see the vast majority of posts being against insane copyright laws. I can certainly be for copyrights and at the same time think a copyright law that lasts multiple generations is stupid. Unfortunately, our leaders have painted everything in absolutes and enough people believe them.

  17. Re:Dart Maybe? on Self-Guided Bullet Can Hit Targets a Mile Away · · Score: 1

    I quoted the parent to my post. I made no assertion myself and my citation was to correct the assertion made by the parent to my post. Try not to be so quick in telling someone they are wrong and spreading misinformation if you're not going to read the thread.

  18. Re:Dart Maybe? on Self-Guided Bullet Can Hit Targets a Mile Away · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, laser guided implies that there are lasers on the bullet that are helping to measure its location wrt it's surroundings. Instead, the laser just paints a target; it guides itself to the target. Hence, self guided.

    Laser Guidance

  19. Re:Well that depends... on NTT DoCoMo Asks Google To Limit Android Data Use · · Score: 1

    Since the Internet was designed to be usable at a local level even if the national level was actually destroyed that is an epic fail of the Internet Protocol if what you say has any merit and even worse as an excuse.

  20. Re:Well that depends... on NTT DoCoMo Asks Google To Limit Android Data Use · · Score: 5, Informative

    They have a right to make money in return

    No, they have the right to try to make money in return. If they can't make money without constantly changing the rules instead of their strategy they should go out of business. I'm sure others could use the spectrum.

  21. Re:Ironic? on What If the Apollo Program Never Happened? · · Score: 5, Insightful
    When I look at Dictionary.com I find this for irony:

    5. an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.

    It seems reasonable that debating moon travel 40 years after Apollo might be considered unexpected. What am I missing?

  22. Re:Given Goldman Sachs' non-public/non-US offering on Facebook Expected To Go Public Next Week · · Score: 2

    $2 billion in 2010, around $4 billion for 2011(around half a billion from Facebook credits). At least according to this Bloomberg article. I don't know what their costs are though.

  23. Re:*Cricket cricket* on Lunar Base Foe Romney Endorsed By Lunar Base Supporters · · Score: 1

    Well it's nice to see Congress working to give the President, especially with such bi-partisan support.

  24. Re:*Cricket cricket* on Lunar Base Foe Romney Endorsed By Lunar Base Supporters · · Score: 1

    Signed into law a bill that would allow for indefinite detention of American citizens.

    Senate Vote

    HR Vote

    Although it doesn't look like it would have many any difference in the bill passing I wish he would have at least tried to veto it.

  25. Re:They rank these storms on Sun Blasts Another CME At Earth and Mars · · Score: 4, Funny

    It goes from C or M all the way up to X5

    Is that better than 11?