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  1. Re:Porn browsing? on NSA Planned To Discredit Radicals Based On Web-Browsing Habits · · Score: 2

    So porn today is like drinking back in the wild west, with regards to trusting people?

  2. Re:Non Traditional Employment For Women on Female Software Engineers May Be Even Scarcer Than We Thought · · Score: 1

    Issue that OP and article argue is the total number, not what they made.

    Men far out number women in garbage collection but you never see these articles address THAT inequality...

  3. Re:This is a problem because....? on Female Software Engineers May Be Even Scarcer Than We Thought · · Score: 1

    Odd how you never hear about the reverse of these studies. Where is the inequality for female garbage collectors, female oil rig workers, etc...

    > The idea that women need to be treated as equals is outdated?

    Strawman... What OP was arguing is that we dont need to have special programs to cater to one specific group to try and correct some perceived inequality when there is no evidence hat there is any; which you then argue yourself into a hole by suggesting that we need such programs while also stating we don't know if it even exists in the first place.

    If anything OP is being more favorable to equality then you by saying that it's been achieved for this field. Show me one college or company that has anything on the books about discriminating against women? Now shoe me how many have special scholarships, and women only classes to garner their attention?

    But I guess you're one of those who insist that a fire dept is being misogynistic becuase they refused to lower the psychical standards tests to increase the number of women on the force even though their biological differences would have made them unsuitable.

  4. Re:News for who? on Only 25% of Yahoo Staff "Eat Their Own Dog Food" · · Score: 1

    Yep, standard corporate buzzword speak for this kind of stuff.

    When stuff like that gets sent out either the Exec is so full of themselves they think they are being clever, or their so ignorant they don't see how stupid it'll make them seem.

  5. Re:Yahoo mail was recently ruined on Only 25% of Yahoo Staff "Eat Their Own Dog Food" · · Score: 1

    Same here, I hate how it's all been linked into some instant messaging format. And god forbid you get emails regularly with the same subject.

  6. Re:Wagging the dog. on Only 25% of Yahoo Staff "Eat Their Own Dog Food" · · Score: 1

    They hardly need spies to get copies of memos which talk about "eating their own dog food" to employees.
    It'd be news if such a memo wasn't forwarded around within seconds of being read.

    It's less about wanting to know what is being done right, and more about the morbid curiosity of watching a train wreck happen.

  7. Re:Bridgeman v. Corel; damage on Image Lifted From Twitter Leads to $1.2M Payout For Haitian Photog · · Score: 1

    Exactly what I was thinking, if you make a near perfect reproduction of an existing work, you cannot then claim it as an original. If that was the case I could make a near perfect reproduction of an mp3 and say it's original. I wonder how the RIAA would feel about that?

  8. Re:I'll buy one... on Electric Cars: Drivers Love 'Em, So Why Are Sales Still Low? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You're not considering the reduced maintenance costs.
    You have one $8,000 maintenance item with the battery, as opposed to twenty $800 items over those 14 years; of course by then you'd be ready for a trade in anyways.

  9. Re:Oh look! on US Government Embraces Bitcoin in Hearing on Virtual Currency · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Downside though is the extreme volatility of them.

    No one is going to convert their millions in a slush fund into bitcoins if it'll mean that the value will spike and dip on daily basis. Financial security means confidence in a currencies value.

  10. Re:No surprise on Supreme Court Refuses To Hear EPIC Challenge To NSA Surveillance · · Score: 1

    So... Why would a lawyer try and jump the line like that?
    Getting a case in front of SCOTUS is hard enough, why set yourself up to fail by not following procedure? One would think of all people lawyers could follow directions.

  11. Re:Sabotaged on Blue Light of Death Plagues PlayStation 4 · · Score: 1

    Realistically, you're right about manufacturing capacity of consumer electronics being pretty slim in the US.

    Companies would need to switch back to the US en masse to get more companies to open factories. Factories are expensive to build and maintain, having a single large contract come in is often not viable.

  12. Re:So? on Security Breach Forces Bitcoin Bank Inputs.io To Halt Operations · · Score: 1

    For larger amounts ,many will actually require you notify them in advance.
    Want $10,000 in actual cash at once? You need to call a day or two in advance so they can have a shipment made.

  13. Re:Photography from turn of the century - 19 th ce on Researchers Use Computer-Generated 10-Year-Old Girl To Catch Online Predators · · Score: 4, Funny

    You should try out for the Olympics, that's one hell of a leap.

  14. Re:The police are passing up a gem on Researchers Use Computer-Generated 10-Year-Old Girl To Catch Online Predators · · Score: 1

    So it's entrapment by way of having the person initiate contact and make the request to see CP, by third party not affiliated with any police organization?

    The article does say the researched never suggested anything, and waited to be asked first.

    Also police depts do have cyber crimes divisions like this which do the same deal, but with officers conversing with these people.

  15. Re:Ah So on Chinese Professor Builds Li-Fi System With Retail Parts · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Also, what's with all the racist jokes in this thread?
    Seems like an unusually high number compared to other stories involving Chinese people.

  16. Re:Don't forget cities that outlaw competition on Why Is Broadband More Expensive In the US Than Elsewhere? · · Score: 1

    As I recall not too long ago, some city tried setting up municipal internet, but the cable company that was local ended up suing and new laws got passed making all new startup ventures nigh impossible.

  17. Re:What the market will bear. on Why Is Broadband More Expensive In the US Than Elsewhere? · · Score: 1

    Maybe not entirely...

    Networking equipment on the enterprise scale is usually setup to handle users in the thousands; and is fucking expensive. A Cisco or Juniper firewall could run you around $60,000 just for that one device, not to mention all the other devices, laying fiber/copper, etc... Normally those kinds of devices can handle 10k concurrent users, etc... But you have less than 1/3 of what it's scaled for, so each of you have a higher share of the cost.

    Other providers probably are not too keen to get into that market due to there already being competition and to succeed they would need to charge at a rate that would not make them attractive unless they could subsidize that loss from other ventures.

  18. Re:Probably Obama. Or the Tea Party. on Why Is Broadband More Expensive In the US Than Elsewhere? · · Score: 1

    In Texas there is only one set of wires, for utilities, but are sold via brokers and the provider itself cannot sell direct. It's not that we need a second power company but that our current one is regulated while the brokers are more free to compete against each other.

    Basically the more volume they have the better rate they can get. So they compete to get customers to get themselves a better deal.

    http://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cfm?t=epmt_5_6_a

  19. Re:Nuclear Launch Detected on Nuclear Officers Napped With Blast Door Left Open · · Score: 1

    "Shall we play a game?"

  20. Re:Right-o on 35,000 vBulletin Sites Have Already Been Exploited By Week Old Hole · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yea, it seems like I am getting an email monthly from one site or another I use telling me they were compromised and to change my passwords.

  21. Re:Doesn't seem like the best idea on Glenn Greenwald Leaves the Guardian To Start His Own Site · · Score: 1

    Exactly, new sites, even for popular people can take awhile to get up and running. What's to stop someone from just flooding them in legal issues and cause them to bankrupt?

    The Guardian likely has a team of layers on staff to deal with them, but I doubt even Glenn would have the capital to pay for that for possibly months while his user base is built up.

  22. Re:No big deal for me. on For Playstation 4 Owners, Bad News On USB, Bluetooth Headsets · · Score: 2

    Guess you never heard of binaural recordings.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUDTlvagjJA

  23. Re:Short answer "NO" on Gravity: Can Film Ever Get the Science Right? · · Score: 1

    There was actually quite a few factual errors with Apollo 13, but most of them were nitpicky, which is the same level of stuff people whine about Gravity. Things include; their breath rising like normal instead of stright forward as happens in zero g, wrong NASA logo at one point, taking suits off before a docking maneuver which would be both not allowed and dumb.

    There was also a number of other deliberate mistakes which like Gravity were done in the name of entertainment.

  24. The temperature at which NAND memory burns!

  25. Re: "according to emails which Dr Lee screengrabbe on Scientific American In Blog Removal Controversy · · Score: 1

    Also it's a matter of the claims being presented.
    Weak evidence is still evidence; a claim has been made and evidence put forward to support it.