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  1. Re:How is possession even illegal? on "Wiretapping" Charges May Be Oddest Ever Recorded · · Score: 1

    A possession charge will never stick unless you've also been charged with the wiretapping part. But if you have in fact used it to record a conversion illegally then clearly it is such a device and you possess it.

  2. Re:They are not CONSIDERING; They DID IT on China Considering Cuts In Rare-Earth Metal Exports · · Score: 1

    The westerners are the ones who don't like the pollution. If China is fine with it, then why would they bother changing it?

  3. Re:They are not CONSIDERING; They DID IT on China Considering Cuts In Rare-Earth Metal Exports · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What else are they supposed to do with all the foreign reserves they have?

    Wait for them to become worthless? Or use them now before they do to buy useful productive assets.

  4. Re:End free trade with non-free countries on China Considering Cuts In Rare-Earth Metal Exports · · Score: 1

    So funny.

    That's the end game anyway, you know where China wins the trade war it has been waging on the US for the last few decades.

    The US won't actually have to do anything, when the dollar collapses we won't be able to afford to buy anything from China anyway.

    And the day China stops buying US dollars is the day the dollar collapses.

  5. Re:What can I say. Slashdotters needs to get out m on China Considering Cuts In Rare-Earth Metal Exports · · Score: 1

    Yes because Muslim fundamentalists love the porn, that's why they make their women wear no clothes when they go outside.

  6. Re:Oops on China Considering Cuts In Rare-Earth Metal Exports · · Score: 1

    China already won the trade war. America gave away her productive base in exchange for cheap goods and debased her currency at the same time.

    Sure it cost China a lot too, but that's expected in "war".

  7. Re:Reciprocal regulations on China Considering Cuts In Rare-Earth Metal Exports · · Score: 1

    After all what would China do without all those worthless IOUs it gets in exchange for useful products.

  8. Re:GA on The Future of Indie MMOGs · · Score: 1

    If you just ignore the "no player trade" requirement.

    Let me guess you are in development?

  9. Re:nonsense on Why Anonymized Data Isn't · · Score: 1

    It isn't a computer science article.

    "Bits" is being used perfectly correctly for English, given the "a small piece or quantity of anything" definition my dictionary has.

  10. Re:Uniquely ID 87% of 300 million Americans? on Why Anonymized Data Isn't · · Score: 1

    Everyone was not born in the same year...

    You have about 30,000 birth dates (that's about 80 years, so it's even bigger since people live longer than that often enough), 60,000 zip codes, and 2 sexes. So 3,600,000,000 combinations, 12 times the number of people.

    Of course given demographics (see the baby boomers...) there's not exactly a good distribution of those birth dates. Far fewer living people were born on 1/1/1910 than on 1/1/1970.

  11. Re:I don't get why this is a problem on Lawsuit Claims WGA Is Spyware · · Score: 1

    If you were dumb enough to buy a scanner designed and built by a text publisher it may very well do just that.

    Surprise surprise when you buy an OS designed and built by Microsoft it has features that serve Microsoft's interest.

  12. Re:How to secure against this on Password Hackers Do Big Business With Ex-Lovers · · Score: 1

    Because if someone finds that your slashdot password is "25bf4e9796" it doesn't really help them work out that your amazon password is "ebf97d7aa8".

    But you only need to remember one password, hopefully a slightly better one than that example...

    And of course you would not usually use the actual md5 sum hex output, you'd use an encoding that gives you more than 4 bits per byte and manages meet the usual password restrictions.

  13. Re:There is a lot new in Windows 7 on Steve Ballmer Directing "House Party 7" · · Score: 1

    Surely not being able to play video and not being able to output the sound are show stoppers for a "media center"?

  14. Re:awesome: on "Overwhelming" Evidence For Magnetic Monopoles · · Score: 1

    They were proposed by one of the greatest physicists of all time, in his area of expertise and their existence makes things "nicer" in terms of symmetry.

    Yes they may not exist. But you declaring they can't because you can't conceive how they would work doesn't cut it. Especially given physicists who know way more than you about their field of expertise that is this area can conceive of them.

    Time dilation makes no fucking sense either, so that's impossible then?

    Amazing that you in your wisdom can determine something can't exist, while those idiot physicists build huge underground detectors to look for them

  15. Re:a magnetic monopole is like a one-sided coin: on "Overwhelming" Evidence For Magnetic Monopoles · · Score: 1

    Because you are better at physics and Paul Dirac was.

  16. Re:Again - people were paid to study this? on Attractive Women Make Men Temporarily Stupid · · Score: 1

    No, it would also need to be funny.

  17. Re:I have found it works both ways on Attractive Women Make Men Temporarily Stupid · · Score: 1

    Whereas in their study they didn't find a performance difference in the women at all.

    Of course maybe all the men they had them talk to were ugly...

  18. Re:How does this work? on Take-Two Faces $20 Million Settlement For "Hot Coffee" Scandal · · Score: 1

    It moves money from current shareholders to people who were shareholders at the time, most likely.

    Well since 3/4 was covered by insurance it moves money from future shareholders to current and prior shareholders.

  19. Re:Google Reality Check on Google Patents Its Home Page · · Score: 1

    Private companies are also obligated to perform as shareholders demand. So how is that different?

    A profit clearly isn't obligated. See Amazon in the early years for happy share holders not obligating the company to make a profit.

    And what if the shareholders don't demand a profit, is it still obligated in your world?

  20. Re:Google Reality Check on Google Patents Its Home Page · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No.

    There are numerous public companies that won't make a profit this year. In fact there are numerous public companies that have never made a profit.

    The obligations of a public company are to file various securities reports. The rest is the same for public and private companies.

  21. Re:For Earthbound, mebbe... on Astronomers Find the Calmest Place On Earth · · Score: 1

    Since the word "dark" doesn't appear in the post you are replying to and the fact that the telescope would be in sunlight half the time is explicitly mentioned in the damn post. I can only conclude that you are a drooling idiot who found that out yesterday and can't be bothered reading what is written before leaping at the chance to spout off your useless trivia at the first mention of the word "moon".

  22. Re:Uhm on Military To Spend $42M To Build Advanced Network Control · · Score: 1

    That I would likely take the highest bid when selling something says nothing about what I would do when buying something.

    So I fail to see the relevance.

  23. Re:Uhm on Military To Spend $42M To Build Advanced Network Control · · Score: 1

    Since the context is someone paying you for a limited resource, then yes I usually would...

  24. Re:Playing games on Tetris Improves Your Brain · · Score: 1

    Please, I want to remain smart, that's why I hang out here!

    I think I see the problem.

  25. Re:Bad science on British Company Takes Lead To Stop Asteroids · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Holy crap, decimate used with the original definition.

    OK, now I've seen everything.