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  1. Re:Timmay! on Why Internet Explorer Still Dominates South Korea. · · Score: 1

    He also spells Internet without the capital I. It's a proper noun.

  2. Re:Sooo.... on TSA Union Calls For Armed Guards At Every Checkpoint · · Score: 1

    You know. That suddenly makes a lot of things make sense to me.

  3. Re:Impaired Driving Abilities? on Drive With Google Glass: Get a Ticket · · Score: 1

    The individual in this story was pulled over for speeding and received the citation regarding google glass as a secondary offense.

  4. Re:Impaired Driving Abilities? on Drive With Google Glass: Get a Ticket · · Score: 1

    A pilot's HUD only displays information relevant to the operation of the aircraft. Google Glass can display information irrelevant to the operation of a motor vehicle.

  5. Re:Health exchange sabotage on How Kentucky Built the Country's Best ACA Exchange · · Score: 1

    Wow, somebody didn't read the post I was replying to. Newsflash, embargos are a form of interventionism as they are an attempt to influence a foreign government towards commiting one action or another. Had the US actually followed the non-interventionism the post had claimed they were attempting there would never have been an embargo against Japan which likely meant America would have never been involved in World War II.

  6. Re:Health exchange sabotage on How Kentucky Built the Country's Best ACA Exchange · · Score: 1

    You mean the whole bit where the United States decided to embargo Japan instead of leaving them the fuck alone which prompted Japan to contemplate an attack on Pearl Harbor?

  7. Re:Still Bad Patents on Finally, a Bill To End Patent Trolling · · Score: 1

    If I invent a method that makes the brakes in your car more effective and reduces your stopping time, I should get a patent on that method, but not a patent on making cars stop quicker. Anyone else should be free to use a different method.

    I have a patent on quickly stopping your car by ramming semi trucks into it.

  8. Re:Good start, but... on Finally, a Bill To End Patent Trolling · · Score: 4, Informative

    A NPE can still file suit. It's just they have to bring suit over a specific infringing product and be capable of identifying said product. Do you recall a slashdot story not too long ago about a patent troll that carpet bombed small businesses with letters asking if they used a printer with a scanning feature that would use a network to send a PDF file to be email out? That would not be a valid lawsuit under the law as the troll would not be able to identify a specific product in use by the businesses they are writing letters to.

  9. Re:Trolling will end only when the patent system e on Finally, a Bill To End Patent Trolling · · Score: 1

    I think importantly this law is going to protect the end consumers of products. Slashdot had an article a while back where a troll was essentially carpet bombing small businesses looking for licensing fees if they used X and Y types of products and connected them with a Z network to perform A task. Since the troll can't actually identify a specific infringing product any lawsuit would fall flat on its face.

  10. Re:Isn't this universal? on ACA Health Exchange Contractors Have History of Security Failures · · Score: 2

    All nations have a de facto national language. Whatever language is used for writing the documents that establish the government/nation is essentially de facto.

  11. Re:Can someone please explain ... on Oregon Extends Push To Track, Tax Drivers Per Mile · · Score: 1

    I work for a company that sells just those services you're talking about. It is expensive and it's all the ancillary cost savings that you're realizing that makes it viable to do and that's only because of the volume and the types of data that are actually acquired. That's on the vehicle specific cost savings. They you have the fleet savings that are realized on top of it where aggregating all the data lets you develop a better usage report for your fleet which allows you to better budget your expenses. All of those things are what net you cost savings.

    None of those things would be available to the individual consumer or small fleets. So you end up with a cost to the end user to install the devices, unless the state picks up the tab, that is large enough with the threat of additional and extra taxes that people will do precisely what you describe and seek ways to avoid the issue entirely.

  12. Re:Fourth Amendment Rights? on Call Yourself a Hacker, Lose Your 4th Amendment Rights · · Score: 1

    The number of individuals who believe rights are granted by the Constitution is staggering. Many of them work in Congress.

  13. Re:Easy on Ask Slashdot: Can Bruce Schneier Be Trusted? · · Score: 1

    If they're 100% trusted we should then have it notarized that they wrote every document that their name is attached to.

  14. Re:Innovation? on Full Screen Mario: Making the Case For Shorter Copyrights · · Score: 2

    Even if this isn't a copyright violation it's still a trademark violation.

  15. Re:A deal at twice the price on Cost of Healthcare.gov: $634 Million — So Far · · Score: 1

    If I recall correctly, there's been at least 2 bills to get rid of the government shutdown passed by the house that wouldn't defund ACA. One removed the exemption that was put in place for Congress and its staff and the other was to delay the individual mandate. Neither of these were brought up in the Senate.

  16. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on 90% of Nuclear Regulators Sent Home Due To Shutdown · · Score: 2

    Read the article. The onsite inspectors and regulators aren't being furloughed.

  17. Re:Unsafe Under 30 Days? on 90% of Nuclear Regulators Sent Home Due To Shutdown · · Score: 1

    Sounds more like, "We get to raid NRC fees for funds for other shit and starve the NRC whenever we feel like it." -Congress

  18. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on 90% of Nuclear Regulators Sent Home Due To Shutdown · · Score: 1

    Very little as apparently the article thinks the NRC is responsible for foiling terrorist plots to go after nuclear reactors.

  19. Re:most places in las vegas have forced resort fee on The Ridiculous Tech Fees You're Still Paying · · Score: 1

    Vegas, especially the casino hotels, is going to charge you for WiFi and they're charging you not with the intent to make extra cash. They charging you for WiFi to discourage you from sitting in your hotel room on the Internet and instead trying to get you to go out on the casino floor where you'll lose your money on the games.

  20. Re:Economics 101 on The Ridiculous Tech Fees You're Still Paying · · Score: 1

    Drinks come from relatively non-perishable items that can be stored for long periods of time. Food items for any restaurant worth their stuff can't be kept for more than a week. While the markup on a dish would be great profit if they utilized 100% of perishables, this is rarely the case so the overall margins on food isn't that good. Drinks are used to shore up profits because of their low cost and high sell price.

  21. Re:Economics 101 on The Ridiculous Tech Fees You're Still Paying · · Score: 1

    The term complementary is completely unknown in Las Vegas.

  22. Re:Suddenly.... on Administration Admits Obamacare Website Stinks · · Score: 1

    It seemed like a prudent decision anyway. A lot of the consumer protection bits put up in Obamacare we're being delayed. Meanwhile they were still going to require the consumers to get health insurance.

  23. Re:Computer ? Website ? on Administration Admits Obamacare Website Stinks · · Score: 1

    So the answer to how to enroll without the aid of a computer requires a computer?

  24. Re:not the first time they remove features. on Nvidia Removed Linux Driver Feature For Feature Parity With Windows · · Score: 1

    Thank god. It was bothering me that I was seeing this and yet when I described it to others no one knew what they hell I was talking about.

  25. Re:Isn't it empty? on Shots Fired At US Capitol · · Score: 1

    I'd take that bet and up the ante that all shots were fired by the police.