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  1. Re:Legalities on Police Body Cam Privacy Exploitation · · Score: 1

    More interesting: what happens to the footage actually contains something covered by DMCA?

  2. I'm really confused here. We've got the bankers pressuring the retailers for higher security or they will legally pursue them to cover the damages. Isn't this the picture perfect case where capitalism should solve the problem? Why are the retailers running to the government for regulation? Shouldn't the market solution be cheapest for the pure blooded capitalists of retail?

  3. Re:Yup on What People Want From Smart Homes · · Score: 1

    I've got a couple places where I would really like some smart bulbs but it is just under the threshold that the price isn't worth the convenience.

  4. Re:my kid on Too Many Kids Quit Science Because They Don't Think They're Smart · · Score: 1

    I found my parents' praise over my intelligence just pointless. I haven't continued the tradition with my children. Not that I don't praise them, just that I don't go out of my way to praise them over intelligence when it is irrelevant. My oldest is in school and more practical praise doesn't seem to give him any more interest in school tasks than I had.

  5. Re:KISS on The Effect of Programming Language On Software Quality · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The motivation behind this paper was probably the intuition that language choice greatly influences KISS. But frankly, I've never had a real project where language choice wasn't driven by external forces.

  6. Re:New and interesting failure methods? on Smartphone App To Be Used As Hotel Room Keys · · Score: 5, Informative

    I work in a building secured with magnetic doors. The reasoning behind default open is that if an emergency happens and the power system fails there is a higher liability for the doors to fail closed and rescuers be unable to reach victims than for the doors to fail open and someone break in.

  7. Re:Have to take personal time to vote... on US Midterm Elections Discussion · · Score: 1

    People are paid to serve on juries without any question of partiality. I personally don't mind using my free time to vote, but I can see the problem with forcing low income voters to use unpaid leave to vote. If I've got to choose between the rent and voting, then it makes my choice pretty clear. Higher income voters are going to get more flexibility to vote and that will probably swing things to the Republicans to an extent.

  8. Re:Who cares if it makes sense,,, on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Stand on Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 1

    We will see what you have to say about it when Ben Franklin brings out his cannons...

  9. Re:Price of commercials on A Mixed Review For CBS's "All Access" Online Video Streaming · · Score: 1

    Don't worry. Once all the networks have viable streaming avenues on their own, then they will renegotiate their contracts in time to price in your commercial free access.

  10. Re:No we don't on We Need Distributed Social Networks More Than Ello · · Score: 1

    Voldemort has sent you a friend request. Confirm Not Now

  11. Re:All the movies had women in business on NPR: '80s Ads Are Responsible For the Lack of Women Coders · · Score: 3, Interesting

    For all the talk about the differences in socialization, I know just as many introverted women as I do men. So the question for me is the problem with associating computing careers with being non-social or is the problem telling women they are broken if they aren't social.

  12. Lucky. You've only had to deal with the eureka moments when they discover something old. The trouble comes when they've wasted a week on a problem that a 2nd year CS student would know from sight or worse they've put it in the code and now someone has to find their race condition.

  13. Re:Statistics and.. on As Prison Population Sinks, Jails Are a Steal · · Score: 2

    I'm not finding very good data but it looks like California is possibly responsible for as much as half of the drop in prison population assuming the numbers that I'm finding are actually using the same definition for prison.

  14. California on As Prison Population Sinks, Jails Are a Steal · · Score: 1

    Hasn't California been under a federal order to reduce its prison population because the overcrowding situation was considered at a level to be cruel and unusual?

  15. Re:Why Not???? on Scanning Embryos For Super-Intelligent Kids Is On the Horizon · · Score: 1

    Apart from the other excellent reasons. It is optional and beneficial so it will cost money. That means you are going to have some that will participate and some that won't and that will at least loosely be tied to existing intelligence between the couple. You aren't going to have zero dumb people after this. You will have a generally dumb group maintaining their birth rates. Some super rich folks who will have more intelligent kids at the same rate. Some middle income folks who will have fewer kids who are more intelligent.

  16. Re:What's the big deal with intelligence? on Scanning Embryos For Super-Intelligent Kids Is On the Horizon · · Score: 1

    Where do you live/work that intelligence is more important than social skills for success in professional and personal endevours? I'd like to be there.

  17. Re:More feminist FUD on How Women Became Gamers Through D&D · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My brother worked construction with a guy who used pink tools because pink tools won't walk off with the other guys on the crew. Other than that, what difference does handle color make?

  18. Re:Does that mean they'll get to vote? on Chimpanzee "Personhood" Is Back In Court · · Score: 1

    I'm confused. I was pretty sure the chimps were specifically bred to hold political office. What have I been voting for all this time?

  19. What was automated? on Outsourced Tech Jobs Are Increasingly Being Automated · · Score: 2

    The problem with that scenario is that unless the machine has to call over a person then I have never gone through a self checkout line that is slower than going through a clerk's line. A clerk has zero incentive to get you through the line as quickly as possible.

  20. Re:Recommended documentary on eyewitness testamony on Study Weighs In On the Reliability of Eyewitness Testimony · · Score: 1

    Thank you. Not the same article but the same case.

  21. Re:Recommended documentary on eyewitness testamony on Study Weighs In On the Reliability of Eyewitness Testimony · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I read a very interesting piece just this morning where a man who was not talking to police without a lawyer ended up having his silence used to prove that he was lacked basic human empathy in a fatal hit and run. Of course, now I can't find the article.

  22. Re:The whole juror system needs to be abandoned on Study Weighs In On the Reliability of Eyewitness Testimony · · Score: 1

    Wish I had some mod points today.

  23. Re:uhm on Microsoft's "RoomAlive" Transforms Any Room Into a Giant Xbox Game · · Score: 1

    Not sure I want a living room that is completely white unless I have an Xbox on.

  24. Re:$1000!? on Marriott Fined $600,000 For Jamming Guest Hotspots · · Score: 1

    The story specifically is about Nashville. I've been places like this but the Opryland Gaylord is not one of them.

  25. Re:$1000!? on Marriott Fined $600,000 For Jamming Guest Hotspots · · Score: 1

    I'm sure it is. I support a customer every few years at a 4 day convention there. Last time they bought a brand new dyson vaccuum for less than the price of the cleaning crew vaccuuming the booth at night. Another vendor bought a full set of very nice folding chairs for their booth for the price of chair rental. The service prices are just absurd.