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  1. Re:Manufacturing on When It's Time To Scale, US Manufacturing Hits a Wall · · Score: 1

    The other side of the coin is that there is an entire industry of design and manufacturing service providers intended to help local entrepreneurs negotiate the challenges of shifting to offshore production. Nothing like that exists on such a scale for incubating domestic production.

  2. Good old days on Editorial In ACM On Open Access Publishing In Computer Science · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sounds like things are slowly creeping back to the way they were in the good old days before print journals existed and scientific papers were freely distributed among colleagues. Only now your colleagues can be the entire world.

  3. Re:If Groupon was Battletoads on Groupon Still Losing Money, CEO Is Fired And Leaks Final Email · · Score: 1

    I played it like 25 years ago and don't remember much of it either so you're in good company.

  4. Re:The problem lies within you on Is Code.org Too Soulless To Make an Impact? · · Score: 1

    S-expressions are unambiguous (for a reason) but they're only clear until you get to more than a page of code. They are meant to be easy to parse for 50's era computers (slow, limited memory) and not for human entry. The fact that they persist in niche uses to this day is a quirk of academia more than any compelling reason to use them in spite of alternative syntax's.

  5. Re:soothing? verarschst Du? on Xiph Episode 2: Digital Show & Tell · · Score: 2

    SACDs are encoded with a 1-bit sigma-delta pulses. Those would be some pretty whopping staircases if sampling theory didn't work to eliminate them.

  6. ChromeOS will fail on Ask Slashdot: Can Quickoffice On Chromebooks Topple Microsoft's Office? · · Score: 0

    ChromeOS is Google's attempt to have a vertically integrated device that guarantees delivery of ads from their network. They're trying to create their equivalent of an ad supported Kindle with it's ability to drive more revenue growth.

    The Kindle's limitations stem from being optimized as an eReader with a low price point and customers will accept that. Chromebooks are deoptimized laptops at a ridiculous price point and customers will not adopt them en masse.

  7. Re:CD's ARE digital on Music Industry Sees First Revenue Increase Since 1999 · · Score: 1

    Technically, CDs don't have fingers or toes so their digital-ness is doubtful.

  8. It's still an overpriced thin client with a nice screen.

  9. Re:Portion of the proceeds? on For Sale: One Nobel Prize Medal (Slightly Used, By Francis Crick) · · Score: 2

    None of the Nobel committee's failings are Obama's fault. He was stuck accepting a prize any reasonable man would rather not receive. It boils down to a bunch of Europeans infatuated with a new magic negro.

  10. Re:But DEET and DDT are the miracle cure! on Mosquitoes Beginning To Ignore DEET Repellent · · Score: 1

    DDT is still used regularly in the 2nd and 3rd world.

  11. Re:Summary contains a lot of speculation on Millionaire Plans Mission To Mars In 2018 · · Score: 1

    Sign me up. 500 days in a tiny tin can bathed in interplanetary radiation sounds wonderful.

  12. Violated his oath, Kick him out on Illinois Politician Wants a Kill Switch For Anonymous Speech Online · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Every elected official in this country takes an oath to uphold the laws of the nation. By introducing the Internet Posting Removal Act Ira Silverstein his demonstrated his contempt for the constitution and is unfit to serve in the Illinois state senate.

  13. Re:Not guilty, perhaps, but... on Troll Complaint Dismissed; Subscriber Not Necessarily Infringer · · Score: 2

    From the opinion:

    However, the Court is concerned about the lack of facts establishing that Defendant
    was using that IP address at that particular time. Indeed, the FAC does not explain what
    link, if any, there is between Defendant and the IP address. It is possible that Plaintiff sued
    Defendant because he is the subscriber to IP address 68.8.137.53. (The Court notes that
    it is actually unclear whether the IP address is registered to Defendant). As recognized by
    many courts, just because an IP address is registered to an individual does not mean that
    he or she is guilty of infringement when that IP address is used to commit infringing activity.

    Basically the plaintiff needs to subpoena the ISP for logs indicating that the IP was assigned to the defendant at the time of the alleged infringement. The IP alone will not be considered proof. Hopefully this stands on appeal on the basis of common sense.

  14. Pwn him with a zero day on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Insert a Javascript zero day into his HTTP traffic and take care of his computer. He'll never know what took him out.

  15. If you truly paid for your phone then it is perfectly legal to jailbreak it. If you have a subsidized phone that you only partially paid for you can't just take it from your provider and hop to another network at will until you've paid off your debt to them for the phone.

    The only problem with the way things stand now is that no cell providers provide a clear line in the sand when your subsidy has been paid off since everything is run with telephone company accounting practices (heavily stilted in their favor).

  16. Re:Uh huh... on Bill Gates Says Windows Phone Strategy Was Inadequate · · Score: 1

    Courier could have been implemented on top of the WinCE kernel. Which incidentally had ARM support since 2.0 (1997).

    The NT kernel is imminently portable. The tricky bits are the hardware drivers. MS never had an impetus to bring the an ARM implementation to market before RT but they would have certainly had a basic internal build for testing and research.

  17. Re:He also admitted he is not happy with Balmer on Bill Gates Says Windows Phone Strategy Was Inadequate · · Score: 1

    Everyone locked into ActiveX did so willingly. MS never held a gun to anyone's head and the problems inherent with it were obvious from the day of release.

  18. Re:CSF is the answer on SSH Password Gropers Are Now Trying High Ports · · Score: 2

    Unlikely... unless the port scan is distributed across a botnet. Just 65K machines can scan the entire port space for any given protocol with one attempt apiece.

  19. What happened at 400 miles? on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The plots show a precipitous drop in charge level around the 400 mile mark that doesn't match the constant discharge slopes elsewhere. The only thing that happened at that time was the temperature increasing from 70F to 75F. It seems odd that at 35% charge the heaters would have that effect when nothing seemed to happen at other times with the temp above 74F.

  20. Re:Vintage software store? on Retail Copies of Office 2013 Are Tied To a Single Computer Forever · · Score: 1

    You can try eBay but most likely you'll end up with a (perfectly usable) bootleg copy. I tried to get a legit version of Visio 2003 a few years ago and was only able to get what turned out to be a bootleg.

  21. Re:What about the ACTUAL corn? on Monsanto Takes Home $23m From Small Farmers According To Report · · Score: 4, Informative

    When you buy GM seed from Monsanto and others you sign a contract agreeing not to hold over seed for replanting. That take care of the legal responsibilities of Monsanto's customers.

    In the case currently heading for the Supreme Court the farmer in question never planted GM seed purchased under contract. He unwittingly acquired GM seeds for use as a second planting by buying leftovers from local silos. Because all the granaries in the country are contaminated with GM seed it is effectively impossible to avoid buying product that doesn't "infringe" on someone's patents. That leaves a well meaning farmer with fields ready to be planted in a bit of a pickle if he doesn't want to pay the Monsanto tax.

  22. Re:I always wondered on Opera Picks Up Webkit Engine · · Score: 1

    Licensing for portable devices and Wii.

  23. Re:Well, it was a nice run on Missouri Legislation Redefines Science, Pushes Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    The problem is that their narcissistic drives lead them into positions of influence and power that allows them to fuck over the rest of us.

  24. Re:In a Vatican Statement. on Pope To Resign Citing Advanced Age · · Score: 1

    I did nazi that coming.

    Nice Godwin

  25. Re:Secret Plans on Deloitte: Use a Longer Password In 2013. Seriously. · · Score: 1

    I've run into issues where I signup to a site oblivious to the fact that there is a length limit because their validation is only done with local Javascript that I've usually got disabled by NoScript. It can be anoying to sucessfully sign up and then not be able to log in.