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  1. Short, Fiction, with simple words on Ask Slashdot: Best Science-Fiction/Fantasy For Kids? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Republican talking points

  2. Thats what I have been waiting for. on Book Review: Elemental Design Patterns · · Score: 1

    Given a design language, the next step is to design a design pattern optimizing compiler, using a set of transforms to reduce canonical forms to optimized merged patterns.

  3. contact the FCC and Obama on FCC Boss Backs Metering the Internet · · Score: 1

    Let them know how you feel. I personally think that when you start differential charging you start to have a haves network and a have nots network. Since access to information is so vital to our everyday lifes now, this move makes that have and have not status unstable, the haves will have even more and the have nots will have a harder time. Network neutrality at least gives a level playing field which is what the American Dream opportunity is all about. Too sad that after those that start to have a little they try to close the door after them.

  4. Re:Too much money on MPAA Agent Poses As Homebuyer To Catch Pirates · · Score: 2

    It funny too with the Republican party trying to capture the center of the religious board with the DOMA and anti gay and anti woman (see Roman church's suit against contraception and the health insurance), at the same time abandoning the least of us Social Security, Medicare , Medicaid, food stamps, national health care. Seems like a selective reading of the religious texts. But then we know Heaven won't be crowded by fat rich people, only those skinny enough to get through the eye of a needle.

    The profit motive is greed which leads to avarice. Those in the markets say its run on Greed and Fear. What a sand pit to build our economy on.

  5. Re:Too much money on MPAA Agent Poses As Homebuyer To Catch Pirates · · Score: 2

    Its obvious that the movie industry is too flushed with cash. They have been able to get fines and punishments in the laws that far outweigh the size of the crime. Like making the fine for say a speeding violation $20,000.

    The is a principle that has been lost here that the punishment needs to fit the crime.

    The other red flag is all the independent detective work by them which ain't cheap.

    We have a classic case of unstable wealth divide where when the wealthy get enough extra cash to start to heavy handedly suppress any competition or threat to their profits, we end up with more of a seperation of weath and things like debtors prisons.

    We sort of have that now with private prisons who have a vested interest in keeping people in jail, not rehabilitating them. Or hospitals that are for profit that either cut you up and send you out so they can turn over beds and fees rather than whats best for the patient. The profit motive does not always benefit society as a whole, just those with a money interest.

  6. As a programmer on Ask Slashdot: Is Outsourcing Development a Good Idea? · · Score: 1

    No its not alright. Sure you can get it cheap somewhere else but you also don't get to contribute to the strength of our country. We working programmers are contributing, and getting a wage for that out of which we pay taxes that help pay for the services you enjoy too. Fire me and send that money out of the country and pocket the little difference and you actually loose some of your own because I am not earning a wage and paying taxes. It seems fine if one or two do it, it does not effect us but when it becomes a general practice then we all suffer. Its the same with pouring pollution into the lake. If you pee in the lake no problem, but if everyone pee's in the lake then you start to not be able to drink it, you have to invest in water purification.. and your costs go up. Its an ethical community thing.

  7. Re:Neat but expected on World's Subways Share Common Mathematical Structure · · Score: 1

    I agree, and the calculation would be the trade off of walking distance, or bike distance that would make people choose to pay for a ride vs their own trip. For areas where people can and will go longer distances on foot of bike, the central core would be further out and stations further apart because people would not choose them.

    The one part of the article that seemed like a wrong conclusion was the implied assumptions that these systems were built and evolved in isolation. What I suspect is the case is that the information about the success / failures design and construction were shared between these various cities (they are call consultants, or textbooks, or papers, or research). These projects are so big and the risks great that the average engineer and politician would do the research.

  8. I'm going to patent i=0 on Judge to Oracle: A High Schooler Could Write rangeCheck · · Score: 1, Informative

    In for loops, and anyone who uses it has to pay me lots of money. I'll let them use it and as soon as they start making money I'll show up at their door to collect their soul.

  9. Re:Ender would be thrilled. on Chinese Physicists Achieve Quantum Teleportation Over 60 Miles · · Score: 1

    I'd just run a fiber cable through Hollow Earth.

  10. Re:(Self-replying, I apologize) on Chinese Physicists Achieve Quantum Teleportation Over 60 Miles · · Score: 1

    So I can see the popularity of quantum DOS attacks on the increase. Maybe you can't know what they are trying to send but you sure as hell can stop them from sending. A limited form of communication at best.

  11. Re:Lord? on Chinese Physicists Achieve Quantum Teleportation Over 60 Miles · · Score: 1

    I got it. We do broadcast our age. I remember when it came out.

          You and me lord.

  12. Re:DUI's and balance sheets. on How Would Driver-less Cars Change Motoring? · · Score: 1

    That will work until the parking lot at the jail is filled up. Then they might just switch to automatically deducting the fine for an infraction. You could have a wealth gauge in the car that would show you how much you had left and an estimate to how long you can go before your broke and thrown into debtors prison.

  13. Re:DUI's and balance sheets. on How Would Driver-less Cars Change Motoring? · · Score: 1

    Horse shoes are a good example, carriages replaced by horseless carriages.

    I suspect that the taxi's will be replaced by a fleet of auto taxi's. The problem of job loss could be fixed by having those drivers own the taxi's so the continue to earn their living that way. Same with truckers, it might be that a retrofit on the cab they own and they can run the business from home, or have other incomes as well. There is no reason that these small businessmen need to change professions.

  14. Re:They are not stupid.. on Wear a Mask During a Protest In Canada: 10 Years In Jail · · Score: 1

    "They were just the first to awaken and take action" not sure if your saying the people in the street or the Governments in place are taking action.

    Unfortunately marketing works. What most of these bozo's understand in how to sell (focus groups, psychological profiling of populations... ala Karl Rove) and know how to say what will sell and keep hidden what their true intentions are and what their agenda's are until they are elected. Well there can be effective reactions to that as we are seeing in the States in Wisconsin where the governor is about to be recalled by the electorate after his true face was revealed.

    Go Walker! (somewhere else than Wisconsin)

  15. Re:Corrections on Wear a Mask During a Protest In Canada: 10 Years In Jail · · Score: 1

    I have to say it is true that the US and Canada (like Great Britain) are divided by a common language.

  16. What about the swat teams on Wear a Mask During a Protest In Canada: 10 Years In Jail · · Score: 1

    I would assume that all the swat teams would receive equal treatment, with their face masks. I'm sure the prison population will welcome their visits with relish.

    Now I would also say that many politicians would be considered arrestable if they showed up to a demonstration on face value.

  17. Re:What a scam on Adobe Introduces the Paid Security Fix · · Score: 1

    Sorry your wrong, the exploits in photoshop can get someone into a pc then into a network then into the elevator system, steal your companies IP, steal you and your clients identities,...

    It a hole, once they go through anything connected is at risk.

    You bought it originally with the expectation that it was not a risk. When the risk is discovered then maybe they should give you your money back, or fix it instead of making you pay more, for something that you are not as sure about anymore

  18. Re:Very Sad on Heathkit Educational Systems Closes Shop For Good · · Score: 1

    Yes, true, but the issue I can across was the tubes were not readily available. They use to be available in almost any drug store, and they had a tester. Now not so much. The cost and time to repair has gone up considerably.

  19. Re:DUI's and balance sheets. on How Would Driver-less Cars Change Motoring? · · Score: 1

    There would be no reason to look out of the car, car theater equipment would become prevalent and internet access and skype like apps.

    Small fruit stands and side of the road attactions would probably become things of the past (at least in those area's where the automatic cars are).

    GPS business ad's for business's close to your route would be the new advertisment for the movies and shows you were watching as the car made its way down the road.

    Car to car (in proximity) chatting would come in like texting to match.com and friend networks or special interest networks.

    whole new industries and business models would sprout from the new mode of transportation.

  20. DUI's and balance sheets. on How Would Driver-less Cars Change Motoring? · · Score: 1

    There would be a change in the law enforment economy as there would not be DUI arrests, and they would loose the fines and the cost for jailing would go down. So both sides of the law enformement balance sheet would be affected.

    Drinking would become more rampent as there would be no need to stop drinking, just sleep it off in your car in your driveway.

    Speeding tickets might go away if the software required speed limit driving only. So that source of income would dry up. They could still stop you for lights not working etc. But we would see a whole new set of taxes and fees increased or created to cover that shortfall (possibly a auto car tax).

    A whole segment of lawyers will have to find other things to take a percentage of in court. The courts will have much smaller traffic court activity.

    Terroists would only have to hack into your car and cause multi-car accidents on busy expressways to cause havok or run trucks into buildings, possibly in swarms. It will be interesting how the systems will be hardened.

    A new equilibrium in the society will have to be reached. I suspect it would take 10 years.

    It will be interesting.

  21. What a scam on Adobe Introduces the Paid Security Fix · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I can see it now, all software vendors are going to introduce security flaws or wait until one is discovered to release the next paid upgrade release.

    I think a class action suit is in order for all the holders of the older version. It their software causes a security hole and if one person gets hammered by it then like the car companies having to recall and fix cars, software vendors will have to do likewise.

    Are you listening Adobe.

  22. Very Sad on Heathkit Educational Systems Closes Shop For Good · · Score: 2

    My HW101 and my 35mhz scope will be ophaned at last. Fond memories and fund times. That 100 watt radio let me talk with Sidney from Chicago like they were in the next room, and Argentina. That was wonderful and using the first microcomputer I built myself and turned into a terminal. Sigh

  23. Terroists also use AIR on Government Asks When It Can Shut Down Wireless Communications · · Score: 1

    It is weak argument that terroist use something so it can be denied everyone. It is one step closer to a police state. Closing down communications also closes down 911 calls, which in that city are I believe numerous and important. If something goes down in a tunnel, people have a right to protect themselves with communications, (like they seem to be able to with concealed weapons in other states).

  24. Re:So, they returned a server on FBI Caught On Camera Returning Seized Server · · Score: 1

    If I was the servers owner. I would take the server out and take a sledge hammer to it. I am sure that it has traps and taps and I would not put it past them to have trojans and viruses that would infect and echo back from people who access that server.

    Sledge hammer is the only way.

  25. Re:Email your legistators on Mozilla Calls CISPA an "Alarming" Threat to Privacy · · Score: 1

    All generalizations are false, including this one.

    All incumbents are not bad. Actually the mess we have been in the last few years voting in Tea Party members shows that new or change is not always good. The process of governing is one that is complex and involved and people who have been in it for a couple of years already can be better at it.

    So the simplification of all incumbents is dangerous. Certainly we should throw all the bums out, we just have to make sure its the bums we are throwing out and that we are not throwing in other bums.

    The parties do serve a purpose for like minded people to get together as a force with more muscle rather than individuals fighting alone. We have a natural tendency to band together in interest groups (evolution and survival) so it is natural and inevitable that parties exist or they will form. We have seen in the past 30 years or so a party can change, the republicans have been pulling a hard right, I expect to see soon a group of them pull away and form a new party, but not sure if it will be the conservatives that want to govern pulling back left or the crazies pulling out to the extremer right. It will be intersting. They could take a cue from that other Republican Teddy Roosevelt and call it the Bull party. (Mooses look too much like the democratic mascot)