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  1. Re:Say What? on Student Expelled From Montreal College For Finding "Sloppy Coding" · · Score: 1

    That would be dumb, of course that's not what happened so that's irrelevant to this particular case.

  2. How to go bankrupt? on Atari Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    Name your company Atari.

  3. Re:Try Minecraft on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Get My Spouse To Start Gaming With Me? · · Score: 1

    You don't have to have the browser plugin running in order to have java installed and working for local applications.

  4. Re:This is a country that wants in the EU on Turkey's Science Research Council Stops Publication of Evolution Books · · Score: 4, Informative

    Did they even try?

    Yes. Very hard indeed for a nation so closely tied with religion - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atat%C3%BCrk's_Reforms

  5. Re:Depends on... on Aaron's Law: Violating a Site's ToS Should Not Land You in Jail · · Score: 1

    Well duh. If you do something illegal, it doesn't matter what the ToS say about it, since you broke some law (that's what illegal means after all) and can be charged under that law.

    So nothing you said is relevant to the proposed legislation change.

  6. Re:Belgians drilling a hole in the ocean?? on Belgium Plans Artificial Island To Store Wind Power · · Score: 2

    Lots of peope would mine sand - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_mining

  7. Re:Belgians drilling a hole in the ocean?? on Belgium Plans Artificial Island To Store Wind Power · · Score: 4, Insightful

    An environmental impact study isn't a cost analysis so that's irrelevant. They aren't trying to determine the most cost effective method of doing something (in which case spending more on the determining that then a particular method would cost is really stupid), they are trying to determine if they'll screw anything up by doing the work.

    You can think it's a silly to do and that there's no need to care what the environmental impact is, or that any impact will worth the benefits, or whatever. But the time and cost compared to the time and cost to do the work isn't an argument for that.

  8. Re:How does cuba have an embargo on Thailand Jails Dissident For What People Thought He Would Have Said · · Score: 4, Funny

    Remember how hard drive prices shot up a while ago? And how there was flooding in Thailand just prior to that happening?

    That wasn't just a coincidence.

  9. Re:How do RTGs work? on China's Nuclear Rover Will Sample the Moon · · Score: 1

    Obviously since it was in the quote I replied to. Length of the night only makes it more likely they are doing what I said - powering down for the night due to not having enough juice. Not that I've read the summary yet of course.

  10. Re:How do RTGs work? on China's Nuclear Rover Will Sample the Moon · · Score: 4, Informative

    All I can guess is that it doesn't provide enough power, and they are either powering down some components during the night or charging batteries during the day?

    But I'm guessing without even reading the summary.

  11. Re:Here's how on A Humanoid Robot Named "Baxter" Could Revive US Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    Which was the point of the one line post you somehow managed to not comprehend.

  12. Re:Sounds on Meet "Ophelia," Dell's Plan To Reinvent Itself · · Score: 2

    Why not? "USB-sized" is a meaningless term after all.

    Surely a raspberry pi is larger than the tiny USB dongle that does bluetooth plugged into my laptop, but smaller than the USB HDD also plugged into the same laptop.

  13. Re:I feel safer already. on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 1

    An assault weapon is not an assault rifle. One bullet per trigger pull is the main defining feature of an assault weapon (it needs a few, so saying that an AR-15 isn't one because it has that feature is just a tad self defeating.

  14. Re:I feel safer already. on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 1

    10 round magazine isn't an assault weapon, and is less effective at killing lots of people quickly than a crowbar, so what was your point again?

  15. Why would you not setup a US based tunnel??? on Employee Outsourced Programming Job To China, Spent Days Websurfing · · Score: 1

    If your home internet isn't stable/fast enough then dedicated servers or even just a VPS are cheap. A little more effort to setup, but having conections to the company come direct from overseas seems an obvious way to get noticed.

    Heck, it might even be tax deductable - though if you are an employee not a contractor that might be harder to manage.

  16. Re:Shock Doctrine on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 1

    That scratching sound you heard, that was you being added to the watch list. Clearly you are on the path to a video game inspired shooting spree. Heck, the NRA seems to agree on that item.

  17. Re:I feel safer already. on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 0, Troll

    Way to miss the point.

    Murder and assault harm other people, they are against the law for four main reasons (not all of which everyone believes in but there's overlap in the methods so it works out). To discourage people from doing them, so we can punish those that do them, so we can rehabilitate them, and so we can lock people up who show they will do them and hence prevent future repeats.

    Possessing a 10 round magazine does not harm other people. Using a 10 round magazine to shoot more people that you could manage with a 7 round magazine does harm other people - but the shooting people part is the crime and that's already covered by the two items you already mentioned.

    A better idea than banning 10 round magazines would be banning private ownership and use of cars, clothing, and bags/suitcases. Just how is the shooter going to get his assault rifle to the school without being seen and reported to the police and hence stopped before he can start? I admit it gets a little cold in New York State in the winter but I'm sure they can work something out.

  18. Re:lol on Pot Smokers Might Not Turn Into Dopes After All · · Score: 1

    I didn't. But fuck you too anyway.

  19. Re:lol on Pot Smokers Might Not Turn Into Dopes After All · · Score: 1

    And a relative of mine is 90 years and has smoked all her life. So you must have realized from that that smoking doesn't cause cancer or reduce life expectancy, right?

  20. Re:In Financial Crisis, No Prosecutions of Top Fig on Nortel Executives Found Not Guilty On Fraud Charges · · Score: 1

    How is that not working?

    Does GDP not go up? What does income and wealth distribution have to do with it?

    Or are you referring to what the "will trickle down to the poor" part of the name, but everyone knows that's garbage so why resurrect it?

  21. Re:So what? on 3D Printable Ammo Clip Skirts New Proposed Gun Laws · · Score: 1

    Then he would use the smaller capacity magazines she would have obviously.

    We don't put dead people in jail.

    I didn't use the word crazy. But anyway, exactly the point, that 35 year old unstable person is going to use the guns the 25 year old bought which won't have high capacity magazines because those were illegal and at 25 they got a permit and did everything legally.

  22. Re:In Financial Crisis, No Prosecutions of Top Fig on Nortel Executives Found Not Guilty On Fraud Charges · · Score: 1

    If the topic is how can the government best inject money into the economy, then that money directly coming back to the government without circulating is clearly a bad thing - it defeats the entire purpose.

    Lots of the spending to "game markets" ends up in the local country as well. Accountants and lawyers and brokers are people just like shop assistants.

  23. Re:Cheating techniques ... on How Do You Detect Cheating In Chess? Watch the Computer · · Score: 1

    It doesn't apply. Since you think it does how about explaining how exactly ot applies to chess as I've already asked.

    None of the "other fields" tacked on to the end of the beginners guide to card tricks that is that document apply to chess.

  24. So what? on 3D Printable Ammo Clip Skirts New Proposed Gun Laws · · Score: 1

    The Newtown shooter used his mother's guns, right? Guns which were legally purchased and registered.

    So sure someone who is going to go on a shooting spree isn't likely to care much about what the law says they can and can't have. However, the guns and magazines they manage to get their hands on are likely to be restricted by such laws since that's what will be easiest to get.

  25. Re:In Financial Crisis, No Prosecutions of Top Fig on Nortel Executives Found Not Guilty On Fraud Charges · · Score: 1

    They both make sense. Trickle down is supply side. Trickle up is demand side.

    "Add it to the pile" is the desired outcome of "trickle down", since adding it to the pile mean investing it. That investment ends up funding businesses and the economy grows.

    Trickle up would increase spending and hence demand which businesses will hopefully then meet by expanding.

    Trickle down has problems of course. The most obvious being that not all investment goes to businesses - the US government, for example, also borrows a fairly large amount of money - that comes from the pool of investment and is going to the government rather than to businesses.

    Trickle up has problems too. Increased demand can be satisifed by foreign producers and hence the economic benefits of more jobs and more production end up happening elsewhere.

    Of course those investments can be made overseas, and increased spending can be directed to bidding up the price of things like real estate - so both those example problems cut both ways.