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  1. Greyhound Bus Station - Locker 36 on Former Anonymous Spokesperson Indicted · · Score: 1

    So if I tell you that at

    GREYHOUND BUS STATION LOCKER 36 COMBO X,Y,Z

    I'm now "trafficking" in whatever is in that locker? Further if the materials in that locker are stolen I'm "trafficking in stolen goods"? If they are unlawful drugs I'm "trafficking in narcotics"? If there are firearms am I "part of a terrorist act"? ...or did I just share a link.

    I hope the courts see through this subterfuge and reject that "posting a link" is equivalent to "trafficing in" whatever that link points to.

    Ehud

  2. Machining enables a level of precision.... on A US Apple Factory May Be Robot City · · Score: 1

    "Machining enables a level of precision that is just completely unheard of in this industry."

    Level of precision making squares with round corners? Stone artists in the Roman era were marking arches like that all day long.

    OOOPS MY BAD, I misread "in this industry" as implying actually making something.

    IN FILING TRIVIAL LAWSUITS and engaging in ANTICOMPETITIVE CONDUCT being entirely UNABLE TO COMPETE IN THE MARKET and LOSING MARKET SHARE DAILY then yes APPLES's level of EVIL LEGAL PRECISION IS just completely unheard of. Even antitrust giant Microsoft shudders at how Apple manipulates the courts and the market.

    What a level of precision Apple is reaching for.

    Quick someone spray more kittie litter on the floor. Apple's coming to mark more territory.

    M

  3. Lazy people trying to make others do their work on Apple Patents Wireless Charging · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "I skimmed through the patent text, can't tell what is new and what is old."

    Clearly you're not someone who should be evaulating patents.

    "...please com back and let me know exactly..."

    No. YOU come back and let US know exactly. YOU chose to post here. If you have nothing new to add other than you're lazy, unqualified, and unable to evaluate the talent, you're surely not going to elicit everyone else doing the work to "come back to you" and "give you" the results.

    Troll elsewhere. When you have something to contribute y'all come on back here.

    Ehud
    Tucson AZ US

  4. Re:windows? what were you thinking? on Ask Slashdot: Should Hosting Companies Have Change Freezes? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No. Everyone else who switched to linux is doing fine. It didn't work for you and somehow this translates to the whole industry, or that everyone else is crazy and foam at the mouth.

    The world runs on Linux servers. I'm sorry your experience didn't bear that out. It's ok. Not everyone is cut out to be a server admin. Only idiots use Windows.

    I guess you know your place now.

    E

  5. Re:windows? what were you thinking? on Ask Slashdot: Should Hosting Companies Have Change Freezes? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What he said.

    I'm sorry the Windows-mods modded it down. It's instructional and it's informational. NOBODY should EVER use windows servers as Internet-facing devices.

    Sorry, mods. Reality suggests the 0 is your score for having a clue.

    E

  6. "Genius" takes all forms on Mark Cuban: Facebook Is Driving Away Brands — Starting With Mine · · Score: 0

    Mark Cuban has been at the right place at the right time for lots of things, including Real Networks.

    He's also missed the boat on several, but can afford to do so, as he's shown with HDnet and the Dallas Mavericks.
    [Don't get me wrong, I love NBA basketball, just that his "investments" in both are duds.]

    Now he wants to move his properties from the hottest sites on the web to the hottest sites of 2003.
    I wish him well, and perhaps he and his influence can bring Myspace back into meaningful-land.

    THE MOST IMPORTANT THING that you'd think a successful businessman like Mark Cuban would
    realize is that Facebook *DOES* charge $3,000 because they *CAN* charge $3,000 because they
    *DO* provide a value for it.

    Best wishes to Captain Dunsel.

    Ehud

  7. Unions are archaic on Ask Slashdot: What Would It Take For Developers To Start Their Own Union? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Before the Internet, and before the common man had access to rally others, communicate to the masses, and see others' opinions, unions had value.
    They kept child labor in the mines but made more money for the children's parents and for the union bosses.

    Today unions are obsolete. The only people who advocate unions are the unions themselves, and those who've already joined that now want to "haze" everyone else because "they got hazed."

    Sorry, jack. No unions.

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  8. Levenger on Ask Slashdot: The Search For the Ultimate Engineer's Pen · · Score: 0

    Levenger. Fountain or roller-ball. (not to be confused with "ballpoint").

    Good news: your question has been answered.

    Bad news: once you get addicted to great pens (no, "Parker" is not on the list) you will spend $$$$$$$!!!

    Other good news: if you communicate properly then your friends and family can accessorize you for holiday/birthday gifts.

    Ehud
    Tucson AZ
    P.S. For the person who said "Pencil"... pencils are for people who make mistakes.

  9. Re:Physics on Ask Slashdot: What Stands In the Way of a Truly Solar-Powered Airliner? · · Score: 1

    You are technically correct... in that the reason they maintain flight is caused by the initial heating of the [earth's crust which heats the] air which rises.

    That's using stored solar energy because the air has been heated prior to the aircraft using it.

    If we could guarantee thermals everywhere [physical impossibility] or an alternate method of storing solar energy to be tapped/released when the aircraft needs it... that would provide better functionality.

    A pure "solar-powered" aircraft using today's tech is out of the question. But everyone in this thread pretty much agrees with that already :)

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  10. Re:Physics on Ask Slashdot: What Stands In the Way of a Truly Solar-Powered Airliner? · · Score: 1

    LOL +1
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  11. Re:Physics on Ask Slashdot: What Stands In the Way of a Truly Solar-Powered Airliner? · · Score: 0

    You make some excellent points... but I disagree with a couple of things:

    1. Electric motors are inefficient [so not 100%]
    2. Electric motors are insufficiently powered to fly a plane. If the torque is converted to RPM then the torque is too little to move the air. [this is an advantage of fossil fuel combustion]. Like you say - if we move slower we can do something, but an aircraft needs a minimum speed to stay aloft.
    3. NOT ALL the wings' surface is available to you. The flaps and the strakes and the elevators prevent a "flat solar catching surface" from being a reality.
    4. If you make the wings larger you must reduce the weight of the aircraft, as they are *perfectly* sized for its carriage capacity on fossil fuel. If you raise their size, you reduce the number of passengers or cargo weight; the cost per pax goes up; it goes above the "sweet spot"; nobody flies except rich jerks. etc. :)

    Good thoughts tho!

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  12. I'll try not to make this boring. I'm a pilot.

    Aircraft require a LOT of power to stay up. The most efficient aircraft are gliders. Even they require a lot of power to maintain flight. An airliner burns between 700-900 gallons per hour of fuel. Jet fuel is not the most efficient fossil fuel (gasoline IS more refined) but it still contains a LOT of BTUs.

    In simple terms 128,000 BTUs per gallon times 700 gallons means 89 MILLION BTUs per hour of flight. [data sources - wikipedia]

    At 429 BTUs per square foot, getting those 89 million BTUs would require 208K square feet per hour, or 3500 square feet per second.
    A 737 has half that.

    So if there were no such things as clouds.
    If there was no such thing as night.
    If there was no dropoff on photoelectric cells due to the cold of the upper atmosphere.
    If energy delivery was 100% efficient.
    Then a solar plane would only be half short on power to ever fly.

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  13. Re:No such time zone on CodeWeavers Announces Flock the Vote Software Giveaway · · Score: 1

    0600z

    0600UTC

    0000 (UTC-0600)

    0000 (GMT-0600 give or take sixteen seconds)

    But not "+6" or anything crazy like that :)

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  14. No such time zone on CodeWeavers Announces Flock the Vote Software Giveaway · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Central Time" is not a time zone.

    "Central Daylight Time" is likely what the OP meant.

    That's not "+6 GMT" (whatever that is).

    It's UTC-0600 or GMT-0600 if you don't believe in leap-seconds.

    If you don't understand time zones just DON'T POST?

    Thanksbye

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  15. Fuck the UN on Showdown Set On Bid To Give UN Control of Internet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The Internet thrives because it's free of the bullshit that the UN and the ITU would impose on it. If they had a hand in it, it wouldn't be what it is today.

    FUCK THE UN. Let the ITU continue to manage international phone calls. They tariff'd those to expensive death.

    The United States invented the Internet. The United States BUILT the Internet. The UN can go take a flying leap.

    Please don't mod me down for language. English is my second language and perhaps I don't express myself as well as I might if I could speak my native tongue. When I say FUCK THE UN what I'm trying to say is "FUCK THE UN!!!"

    Ehud

  16. Wow let's all do like Microsoft. on Microsoft Wants To Nix Data Center Backup Generators · · Score: 1

    So eBay bought five boxes ($3.5M-$M) and in 9 months saved $100K.

    Perhaps if those boxes keep running without needing any maintenance or fuel
    and nobody invents anything newer or more efficient in the meanwhile,
    in 90 months they'll save $1M, and in 360 months they'll make up their
    original investment.

    Can't wait 30 years to find out.

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  17. A motor on Ask Slashdot: What Tech For a Sailing Ship? · · Score: 1

    Definitely a motor. No good sailboat ever got anywhere within a reasonable attention span without a motor. Ever.

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  18. Can you imagine... on Microsoft Disrupts Nitol Botnet · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If only back in 1998 when Microsoft knew that Windows 95 was open to all malware,
    if they'd modified their thinking.

    Instead of "let's make it so Win3.1 software can run on all our machines" and "Let's
    make it so Win95 can run on all our machines" and propagating that so EVEN THE
    Win2K (NT) kernel was vulnerable... ...they could have used a real security model, locked down the system, and there
    would be no malware, no virus, no antivirus, no UEFI, no nothing today.

    If there is one company that MADE A CONSCIOUS DECISION to let malware live
    so that old software [you know, like your restaurant's point-of-sale system] run on
    W95,W98, WME, W2K, Vista, 8, etc., and because of that decision the world is
    overrun with malware, malware writers, mafias of malware writers, bitcoin thieves,
    credit card thieves, wire-transfer thieves... that one company COULD HAVE made
    a difference.

    But they chose not to.

    So today they "disrupted" (nonsense word) a botnet? That's good. Even if they
    ELIMINATED the ENTIRE botnet, it's just one of many.

    Useless. Microsoft.

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  19. A legal answer on Ask Slashdot: When Is It a Good Idea To Incorporate? · · Score: 5, Informative

    24 people have posted before I did. They all had some input. From a US Legal perspective none of them adressed the real issue.

    "When to incorporate?" -- When you need to.

    The purpose of a corporation is to create an "entity" (some mistakenly call this "person") that is the true wage earner,
    whose assets are the only ones impacted by the acts of the corporation.

    If you're a sole practitioner, and every dollar that comes in goes to you, a corporation will not shield your personal assets from anything.

    For a sole practitioner to effectively use a corporation you'd need to
    - make sure the corporation collects all fees and pays all expenses related to the consulting work AND NOTHING ELSE
    - make sure the corporation 1099s you or W-2s you or in some way tax-wise indicates it pays you legal wages, not under-table money transfers
    - never comingle coporate resources and your own needs (in other words, no corporate paying your gasoline refill enroute to the customer or your lunch) ...and finally... the expensive part...
    Have D&O E&O insurance.

    If you're willing to go through all that, a corporation can shield your assets.

    For one guy, far cheaper not to be a screwup and not get sued, and not mess with any of that.

    The law is pretty clear. If it's a separate entity ("person") then it needs to be separate. If you keep it so, and keep it insured, it will protect you.

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    P.S. All I've said is specific to United States corporation and contract law.

  20. What pure made up bull output. on Arma III Developers Arrested In Greece For 'Spying' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    >Eh?

    Yes, the OP is right.

    > The Czech Republic is an honored member of NATO.
    Czechosolovakia has won no honors in NATO. http://tinyurl.com/9v6ec6b

    > The U.S. has already sworn to shed its own blood and spend its own treasury to defend it.
    The U.S. has not sworn to shed its own blood or spend its own treasury to defend it. http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/official_texts_17120.htm

    >One NATO member spying on another is none of the U.S.'s business,
    Then in that case your previous statement falls. Either it IS the U.S. and other NATO member states' business in which case it IS the U.S.'s business OR it's none of anyone else's business in which case the whole falacious comment about blood and treasury (false as it is) is inapplicable.

    >except for the diplomatic pressure...
    Yeah you made that up for your convenience. I've shown you the NATO charter. Please
    demonstrate where it says any of that.

    Such rabid conflictory justification of "The US Must Shed Blood and Treasury" but oh wait "It's none of the US business" but wait "The US should exert diplomatic pressure."

    I see the horns waggling and I'm not stepping in your words.

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  21. Voluntary - Mandatory on White House Circulating Draft of Executive Order On Cybersecurity · · Score: 4, Insightful

    First it's purely voluntary.

    Then it's voluntary... but if you want to be a supplier to the US Government, you must implement it.

    Then if you want to continue being a supplier, you MUST implement it AND your own suppliers must do it, or you can't be a supplier.

    By this point since "almost everyone is doing it anyway" and "those who aren't are clearly a threat to security" it will be mandatory.

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  22. Re:The US FCC does not have the authority on The Danger In Exempting Wireless From Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    "Commission". They are given a specific charter and mandate, and "information services" are SPECIFICALLY EXCLUDED. Of course you ignored the google link I provided, as well as reading the FCC's charter... so you could focus on "the Internet is a form of communication." Yeah, actually it's not. The Internet is a _medium_ for communication. It is not "a form of communication."

    "The only people that don't want..." is an absurd generalization. I, for one, don't want the FCC regulating the Internet. Similarly I, for one, am for net neutrality. It takes one exception to get rid of your absurd generalization.

    "Congress doesn't care..." is another absurd generalization. Congress is the sum of two houses and more than 500 people who have things that _they_ find more important than regulating something that works just fine by itself. Poverty, joblessness, interest rates, corporate greed, Iran's nuclear ambitions, are all a bit more important than how your download works.

    "Thankfully the FCC does." Thankfully they are not permitted to.

    Feel free to look at the google link I already posted or the authorization for what the FCC is allowed to do and what it's not. Then fix your attitude problem.

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  23. The US FCC does not have the authority on The Danger In Exempting Wireless From Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    The US FCC has no authority to do anything with regards to the Internet.

    Discussing "how" and "how much" and "when" begs that question. Stop it.
    The FCC is an irrelevant dinosaur that regulates television and radio. It is
    specifically prohibited from interfering in useful networks -- including the Internet.

    http://tinyurl.com/9p4z35p

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  24. Privacy - that's what we expect in Russia (and US) on Russia's New Secure Android Tablet Keeps Data From Google · · Score: 4, Informative

    The first thing we learn in security training is that if you don't want your data found,
    make sure there's no such data to begin with. If you read nothing else, read the paragraph
    following this one, and the last one.

    People's personal devices are being used to spy on them on a regular basis. In the US it
    was recently rules your smartphone CAN and WILL be used against you without a warrant.
    http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/federal-court-rules-cops-can-warantlessly-track-suspects-via-cellphone/

    In Russia it was recently rules you don't need a smartphone to go to jail for "free expression"
    only in a church.
    http://articles.cnn.com/2012-08-17/world/world_europe_russia-pussy-riot-trial_1_band-members-nadezhda-tolokonnikova-russian-court

    Now that we've covered the facts, more facts are that your smartphone DOES send information
    about you SOMEWHERE. Be it google (standard US Android device, data sending enabled) or
    Mother Russia (Russian version of Android device) if you have GPS enabled and outbound data
    sending enabled... someone out there has access to the data, whether or not they keep it,
    catalog it, database[ify] it, store it, or analyze it [later].

    If you want your information to be kept private... KEEP IT PRIVATE. That means don't use a device that
    sends that information ANYWHERE ELSE. Even if you think it "shouldn't" send it somewhere it MAY.
    MAY is a percentage between 0 and 100% that if you can't afford it should be ALWAYS zero.

    GPS -there are plenty of devices that will plot your location, show you a route to a destination, and have
    no capability for transmission.

    PHONE -there are plenty of phones that WILL GIVE YOUR LOCATION TO CELL COMPANIES WHICH
    IN THE USE WILL GIVE THEM to law enforcement without a warrant.
    http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/warrantless-gps-phone-tracking/
    Feel free to have your phone either OFF or covered in a Faraday cage (aluminum foil works) until you must use it.

    DATA -there is no way you can use data [which requires bidirectional packet flow] without giving away your
    location unless you are using a local WiFi hotspot.

    In short... in summary... put your smartphone into airplane-mode. Turn on wifi-only (android phones will allow
    you to enable WiFi in airplane-mode but will leave other radios disabled). Use local hotspots. Don't install
    applications that require "access to the physical device such as speaker or microphone or location-based information"... ...and welcome to the 21st Century.

    E

  25. Sociopath war monger idiot. on Steve Jobs Reincarnated As a Warrior-Philosopher, Thai Group Says · · Score: 1, Insightful

    He didn't play within the rules of society. He went against it.
    He stole a liver to which he wasn't entitled. He declared a thermonuclear
    war on android.

    He was a sociopath. Society's laws didn't apply to him.
    That makes him a sick guy like Iran, North Korea, and other nations that would threaten those weapons.

    Steve Jobs is someone to admire if you're a sick apple fanboy thermonuclear war puppy.
    Good thing he's dead. Now if only Achmedinejad and Kim Jong-Un could only join him, this Earth
    would be a better place.

    So long, Steve "Thermonuclear war" Jobs. Hopefuly your'e enjoying innocent kitties in hell.
    Because you're not in heaven. And you can't rape anyone on this earth.

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