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  1. Re:Doesn't make a whole lot of sense on Judge Orders Verizon Subscriber Identities Sealed · · Score: 1

    Actually duplicating a song/movie/etc would cause its value to drop, thus making everyone who isn't duplicating a little less wealthy. If it was impossible to copy music files do you really think they'd be selling songs for 99c?

    And more seriously, your "everyone" is too broad. People who owe more money than they have (which is almost everyone with a mortgage on their home) will be made richer by the value of money being reduced.

  2. Re:Troubling signal, why? on Facebook Shares Retreat Below IPO Price · · Score: 1

    Do you expect them to not use call options if they get them?

  3. Re:Public money on Amazon Poised To Get Cut of CA Sales Taxes · · Score: 1

    It's more along the lines of the city would be getting $0 since amazon would likely locate in some other city. This way the city gets $1.6m and some jobs.

    And the costs you mention that go with them, but nobody thinks two steps ahead...

    Of course some other city loses out on $8m...

  4. Re:recipe for corruption on Amazon Poised To Get Cut of CA Sales Taxes · · Score: 1

    Sure they would. If that small startup will bring as many jobs and as much revenue with them as Amazon will.

  5. Re:About time on US Justice Dept Defends Right To Record Police · · Score: 1

    Of course. Did "the masses" arrest that "small percentile" when they abused their positions?

    No? So they're equally guilty then.

  6. No way! on World's Subways Share Common Mathematical Structure · · Score: 1

    Subway systems that move people from outside to the city center and back again for work/etc and also within the city center tend to have a set of core stations in the city center and branches to those outer areas that people live.

    The core tends to be a ring - something efficient for moving people from any station to any other station without producing a huge bottleneck.

    The bigger the city the more sprawling the residential areas around it are and so a bigger core ring gives longer branches.

    Rather than having trains that visit every station in the network the denser core stations often support transferring to other trains in order to get from one overlapping section to another.

    Who would have thunk that might happen?

  7. Re:Did you sign up for "up to" service? on Ask Slashdot: Holding ISPs Accountable For Contracted DSL Bandwidth · · Score: 1

    Sure, if you the contract uses that language for the price.

  8. Re:is google any different? on Facebook Adds 96 Million Shares, Will Privacy Get Worse After IPO? · · Score: 1

    "only explanation"???

    You need to get back on your medication pronto.

  9. Re:Not all Patents are the Same on Ask Slashdot: What If Intellectual Property Expired After Five Years? · · Score: 1

    The current system ties everyone's hands for 20 years in that case. So that idea doesn't make it worse, it just provides a shorter term in some cases.

    Have first sale start counting no matter who does it and it might work reasonably.

    So sueing or sending a cease and desist notice that claims a patent is being violated triggers the 5 year counter at the point thing was first sold.

    Of course that's really going to suck for people who actually do come up with fundamental game changers. And make for yet more assetless companies that exist merely to infringe a patent and trigger the counter.

    Or just use the existing handling of pharma patents, and keep a mechanism for extending them due to regulations requiring clinical trials/etc: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/documents/appxl_35_U_S_C_156.htm

  10. Re:AMD is done and gone... on AMD Trinity A10-4600M Processor Launched, Tested · · Score: -1

    The topic was integrated GPUs, which you must know since you brought it up when you wrote:

    Since Intel has comparatively worthless GPU designs, tacking GPUs onto CPU dice is a way for AMD to offer something that Intel cannot(and at a price lower than a discrete CPU + discrete GPU without totally cutting their own throat), and also happens to go well with today's enthusiasm for laptops and all-in-ones

    So the "any" is clearly restricted to the GPUs embedded in the CPUs not discrete GPUs in huge cards. Heck the "since ivy bridge" statement means you don't even need the context to work out what is being talked about.

    But apparently admitting you are wrong is too hard for you so moving the goal posts is the go to play.

    Of course you could also just argue that ivy bridge GPUs are worse than AMD's embedded GPUs if you think that, I guess that's harder than pretending the topic is something else.

  11. Re:How about an even easier solution on Ask Slashdot: Skype Setup For Toddler's Room? · · Score: 1

    For the "direct" flight (one flight number the whole way, but there's actually a land/go through immigration/reboard step in the middle) my parents would take to visit the grand kid the time difference between the scheduled departure and arrival times is 23 hours. I'm an hour or two (traffic and which airport makes a large difference) from the airport, they are 2.5 hours from the airport. Tickets are $2000 each or so.

    Visiting in person isn't really an option they can take too often.

    Of course I didn't mount a webcam and screen in the kids room since that's just insane.

  12. Re:Last 12 years were tough on Forbes Names Microsoft's Steve Ballmer Worst CEO · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure he'll take the $15 million over not playing.

    Of course when you $15 billion maybe $15 million doesn't see like much, then again greed knows no bounds.

  13. Re:Bargin Bin? on GAME Australia Now Also In Administration · · Score: 2

    Sure if what was being talked about was the cost of living (well of gaming) in various places, but the topic was whether $74 was a bargain.

    And all that matters for determining that is whether the usual price is more than $74. It makes no difference whether it takes one hour or 27 years to earn enough money to buy the thing. It makes no difference if the usual price is cheaper in some other country.

    In this case I wouldn't call it a bargain, 18% off is a discount but I'd be holding on for the usual steam summer sales... Again that has exactly nothing to do with minimum wages in various countries.

  14. Re:Bargin Bin? on GAME Australia Now Also In Administration · · Score: 1

    And what on earth does that have to do with whether a given price could be classified as a "special" or "bargain"?

    Surely all that matters is what the normal price is, you know the stuff I listed.

  15. Re:Bargin Bin? on GAME Australia Now Also In Administration · · Score: 1

    Not in Australia.

    On Steam now Skyrim is $49.99 in the US and $89.99 in AU. So $74 is 18% off, not what I'd call a bargain but for the crazies who don't keep a US billing presence...

  16. Re:Why all this rust-orange? on Russian Satellite Takes Most Detailed 121-Megapixel Image of Earth Yet · · Score: 1

    The article explains the color, maybe read it?

    It also says just how big an area each pixel covers.

  17. Re:establish the facts of your standing on High School Students Sue Federal Gov't Over Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. Do you always repeat garbage lies you've heard without doing any checking at all?

  18. Re:Who's Running Corporations? on Resumegate Continues At Yahoo: Thompson Out As CEO, Levinsohn In · · Score: 1

    But once upon a time he wasn't a CEO. Unless he is really stupid he didn't add it for this job, he added it long ago when it might have mattered.

    Then he didn't try changing it to be more generic over time and hoping the old references get lost, which is the bit I find strange.

    They're dropping him because he made them (the board) look bad. Or possibly they aren't lying and he really is resigning because he has cancer.

  19. Re:Good riddance indeed on Facebook Co-Founder Saverin Gives Up U.S. Citizenship Before IPO · · Score: 1

    Steve Jobs, Bill Gates Larry Ellison, and the Koch brothers all reside (well resided for that first one) in the US.

    If you don't reside in the US and don't plan to again then the ridiculous US tax rules provide a huge incentive to ditch the citizenship. Paying double taxes for the rest of your life isn't high on most peoples list of great things to do.

    And which part of his oath do you think he lied in?

    Given he resides in Singapore and not Brazil do you have more information that says he didn't really renounce his allegience to Brazil? Did he not bear arms when required to by law? Did he not perform noncombatant service for the amered forces when required by law? Did he not perform civilian duties of national importance when required by law? Did he not support and defend the constitution?

    There's no promise to never renounce your citizenship in the oath.

  20. Re:U.S. court systems on Oracle Not Satisfied With Potential $150,000; Goes Against Judge's Warning · · Score: 1

    So show the code using OR in boolean expressions if it is so simple.

  21. Re:Obviousness on Oracle Not Satisfied With Potential $150,000; Goes Against Judge's Warning · · Score: 1

    The range is [fromIndex, toIndex), so the end of the range is exclusive and hence checkRange(100, 17, 100) is supposed to be valid.

    Of course you would expect that to be documented in checkRange rather than having to look at all the callers and seeing how they use it, but apparently no one bothered. Which makes that it was copied pretty clear cut, I would hope two people couldn't be that silly.

  22. Re:U.S. court systems on Oracle Not Satisfied With Potential $150,000; Goes Against Judge's Warning · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because after the exception is thrown we magically just move on to the next if?

  23. Re:Don't add significant figures on Chinese Physicists Achieve Quantum Teleportation Over 60 Miles · · Score: 1

    I'm happy to have misinterpreted it. I'm not happy that a journal isn't using SI units but that's entirely unrelated .

  24. Don't add significant figures on Chinese Physicists Achieve Quantum Teleportation Over 60 Miles · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It shows a complete lack of understanding of science.

    And of course the actual distance will have been 100km which someone who does understand significant figures converted to 60 miles for Americans. Followed by a moron deciding to convert it to 97 km because they are scientifically illiterate.

  25. Re:WTF on West Virginia Buys $22K Routers With Stimulus, Puts Them In Small Schools · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That 200 student school better have the same number of classrooms, chairs, and desks as the 2000 student school.

    And the same number of teachers. The same quantity of lunch prepared each day. The same number of computers. Can't harm the opportunity of the people at a smaller school after all.