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  1. Re:Why is this legal in the U.S.? on Direct Sales OK Baked Into Nevada's $1.3 Billion Incentive Deal With Tesla · · Score: 1

    One could argue that he and his State are competing in a free market against other states. There are obviously benefits to having these business operate in your state. If the people of his State didn't support these deals they would almost certainly discontinue electing assembly people and governors who support it.

  2. Re:Lots of class actions on Target Admits Data Breach May Have Up To 110 Million Victims · · Score: 1

    To play devils advocate the person whom you are accusing of fraudulently making charges on to your account is innocent until it can be proven that they are guilty. You're reporting a crime; you're not being accused of a crime and thus the state of your guilt is not in question. A more "appropriate" statement would be "I thought the customer was always right". However, I think we both know that isn't always true either :/

  3. Re:Understandable, but... on Surge In Online Orders Overwhelms UPS Christmas Deliveries · · Score: 1

    Amazon is responding by offering some affected customers refunded shipping costs and provide gift cards. http://nation.time.com/2013/12/26/ups-blames-bad-weather-more-packages-and-online-shopping-for-delays/

  4. Re:Bravo EFF on EFF Sues NSA, Justice Department, FBI · · Score: 4, Funny

    But then the government will know who I associate with!

  5. Re:Getters and setters on Visual Studio vs. Eclipse: a Programmer's Comparison · · Score: 1

    You may only want to be able to get the variable but not set the variable. Plus you can do data checking in the Set function and what not.

    In the case of his example it was probably a little weak because you're right he could've just used a public int member variable to the same affect. A better example would be public int MyField { get; private set; }

  6. Re:lack of unions and workers rights on America's Second-largest Employer Is a Temp Agency · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen a legitimate use of a 1099 in my life.

    I use to do some contract development work in my spare time (Scripting and putting together Winamp3/5 skins) and would get a 1099-MISC form at the end of the year. It was pretty darn legitimate. Wasn't constant work and was on a per-skin basis.

  7. Re:Now where's the cheap monitors? on High End Graphics Cards Tested At 4K Resolutions · · Score: 3, Informative

    4K Ultra high definition television 3840 × 2160 which is, as I'm sure you can figure out, double the resolution of current HD content. That said, I will agree that calling it "4K Ultra HD" is kind of misleading :) See, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4K_resolution

  8. Re:CNET overviews the removed features on Apple Declutters, Speeds Up iTunes With Major Upgrade · · Score: 2

    Winamp has supported gapless playback for a decade now. I honestly can't understand how gapless playback isn't a default feature/setting in any music playing software.

  9. Re:Case dismissed? on Bradley Manning (WikiLeaks Source) Given Hearing After 2 Years In Jail · · Score: -1, Troll

    Congress authorized both Military Actions. Use the whole quote, "To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;"

  10. Re:I still can't tell the difference betwen DX9 an on Microsoft Makes Direct X 11.1 a Windows 8 Exclusive · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not just about visuals, it's also about performance. It is now much cheaper (GPU utilization wise) to do today what was done yesterday. Also, keep in mind that a lot of games don't have that great of visuals because they limit themselves to match consoles. The Call of Duty franchise is a perfect example of this. Anyway, take a look at this to see what is new. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh404562(v=vs.85).aspx Also, this is what games could be doing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duSIE2TkpH4

  11. Re:Obligatory Simpsons on Space Station Saved By a Toothbrush? · · Score: 1

    Honest to god that is the first thing I thought of when I saw this story. 3

  12. Re:Oh come on. on LightSquared Hires Lawyers To Prep For GPS Battle · · Score: 5, Informative

    When the FCC first got involved they gave them a provisional approval which required LightSquared to prove that it would not affect GPS devices. LightSquared was unable to prove it. Ars Technica explains it pretty well here: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/why-lightsquared-failed.ars

  13. Re:Solution to US debt problem on Satellite Spots China's First Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 1

    Actualy, the second Ford class will replace the Nimitz and be called the John F Kennedy...which btw will be his 2nd carrier. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_John_F._Kennedy_(CVN-79)

  14. Re:Jedi? on Ask Slashdot: Best Flash-Friendly Router To Replace Aging WRT54GS? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How do you know they are complete trash? If you didn't get the reference you clearly didn't see all of them :)

  15. Re:Google+ does this already on Facebook To Launch In-Browser Video Chat With Skype · · Score: 2

    You can already create "friend" groups on facebook. I don't see how they're any different tbh.

  16. Re:It's not a law! on Military Drone Attacks Are Not 'Hostile' · · Score: 1

    You need to do some reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Powers_Resolution Vetoed by President Richard Nixon on October 24, 1973 Overridden by the House on November 7, 1973 (284â"135) Overridden by the Senate and became law on November 7, 1973 (75â"18)

  17. Re:110% ?? on UK's Two Biggest ISPs Rip Up Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Hypnotist: You will give 110 percent. Team: That's impossible no one can give more than 100 percent. By definition that's the most any one can give. 3 Simpsons (Homer at the Bat)

  18. Re:Do they not already have restrictions? on 72% of US Adults Support Violent-Game Ban For Minors · · Score: 1

    I'd just like to point out that the movie rating system isn't actually a law. It's just corporate policy. The video game thing they want to be a mandatory law which in many peoples opinion (and I think rightfully so) a violation of the first amendment's freedom of speech.

  19. First Contact on Two Research Groups Create 'Electric Skin' · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nerd point of order: Data's new skin in First Contact was actual organic human skin grafted over his exoskeleton.

  20. Holodeck on The New Difficulties In Making a 3D Game · · Score: 1

    All I know is that I won't be happy till I can play games on a holodeck. That said, 3D for games makes way more sense to me then for movies or TV's.

  21. Cloaking device malfunction?! on Neutrino Data Could Spell Trouble For Relativity · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think we need to reroute power through the main deflector dish to correctly mask the neutrino particle dispersion.

  22. Camel! on Developers' New Opportunity — Retailers' Open APIs · · Score: 1

    http://camelcamelcamel.com/ Great example. They also have one for newegg, bestbuy, backcountry and zzounds.

  23. He still hasn't seen royalties from ROTJ on The People vs. George Lucas To Premiere At SXSW · · Score: 4, Interesting
  24. Never Fear!!!! on US Blocking Costa Rican Sugar Trade To Force IP Laws · · Score: 5, Funny

    We still have corn syrup!

  25. I'll just wait longer... on Netflix Will Delay Renting New WB Releases · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If I really want the movie on dvd I'm gonna buy it anyway. If I was just gonna rent it when it comes out on dvd what makes you think I'll want to buy it instead of waiting 28 extra days? Or at worse one could always pirate it since I'm sure there will be dvd rips on the net. Anyway, this isn't all bad... more streaming stuff :)