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  1. Re:More Efficient on Elon Musk: We Must Put a Million People On Mars To Safeguard Humanity · · Score: 1

    No, it is not the preferred path.
    Sending one women, and then having the inseminated with a hand picked material will have a greater chance of birth a genetically superior child.
    Birthing childern into a world where they will be force to be inseminated is barbaric, so his plan falls apart at that point.

    A group of a hundred people just leads to in breading, no mated who you try to combine it. 1000 would be cutting it close.

  2. Re:They need to lock this down now! on Ebola Has Made It To the United States · · Score: 1

    It would have been easier for you to just type "I don't know anything about Ebola."

  3. Re:Completely Contained? on Ebola Has Made It To the United States · · Score: 2

    "You can't get Ebola from someone sneezing in the room."
    if they're 9 feet away from you.
    Right next to you, and yes you can get it.unlikely but possible

    "You can't get Ebola from someone showing no symptoms."
    true, but bear in mind that includes running a fever. How well do you recognize someone with a slight fever? How any people at the beginning stages still continue their daily routine until the are too sick? I'ts just a cold, at first.

    "You typically can't get Ebola from very short term contact."
    Um..incorrect.

    Look, you are right, it is highly unlikely anyone on the plane got ill. Less s for any who came in contact after the flight.
    But lets stay aware that it is contagious, and all you need is some a little body fluid exchange...or a kiss on a dead persons lips.

    Simple risk analysis. Risk of getting it? very low. Impact if you do get it? likely death.

  4. Re:Fristy Pawst! on Ebola Has Made It To the United States · · Score: 1

    "Then lets say your neighbor is full of complete fucktards that spend more money then they have, "
    comparing home money and budget to government level money and budget lets us know you have no real clue, so Thanks.

  5. Re:SQL Injection? in 2014?sheesh on Four Charged With Stealing Army Helicopter Training Software · · Score: -1

    No. No One deserves to be a victim.
    It was unwise, but they are still victim and the people who took it are still the criminals.

  6. Re:Catching up with Fedora on Microsoft Announces Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    So how many computers are fucked becasue of Bash?
    I don't see a powershell hack making people do emergency patches.

  7. Re:OMFG, stupid on Microsoft Announces Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    "What car would he have made Windows 8 in that analogy?"
    I don't know, whats a really solid car the runs really well look innovative but people hate it because they hate change?

  8. SQL Injection? in 2014?sheesh on Four Charged With Stealing Army Helicopter Training Software · · Score: 2

    Between January 2011 and March of this year, the four men and others allegedly hacked into the computer networks of Epic Games, Valve, Zombie Studios and the U.S. Army, as well as partners of Microsoft, using methods including SQL injection and stolen user names and passwords of company employees and software development partners.

  9. Re:That's the market system... on Grooveshark Found Guilty of Massive Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    "Oh wait, intellectual property laws are completely incompatible with the free market. "
    and so are the poor and the sick. You're point?

  10. Re:Why? on Grooveshark Found Guilty of Massive Copyright Infringement · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because you are way out of the loop?

  11. Re:Funny, however.. on Grooveshark Found Guilty of Massive Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1, Redundant

    "Download as many MP3’s as possible, and add them to the folders you’re sharing on Grooveshark."

    Distributing copyrighted material without authorization is a crime.

  12. Re:Slashdot news for Nerds on FCC Rejects Blackout Rules · · Score: 1

    ". Discussing legal ramifications of a regulatory change seems pretty nerdy to me."
    ANd there are a lot of site that specialize in law that are discussing it. /. is the worse place to discuss it because there are no experts here, and most people haven't even read the FCC ruling itself.

    "Discussing legal ramifications of a regulatory change"
    I don't think people spouting off their incorrect interpretation of the ruling and having no legal background actually count as a discussion so much as it is angry wankery

    ". I doubt that a sports site would be as interested in the legal aspects of the change;"
    no, they have the same wankery going on on those site as slashdot does.

  13. Re:So nothing happened? on FCC Rejects Blackout Rules · · Score: 1

    It means if it's broadcast in non blackout area, the cable/sat can play it in the local area. here, the doc. explains better than I:

      The Federal Communications Commission today repealed its sports blackout rules, which prohibited cable and satellite operators from airing any sports event that had been blacked out on a local broadcast station. The action removes Commission protection of the NFL’s current private blackout policy, which requires local broadcast stations to black out a game if a team does not sell a certain percentage of tickets to the game at least 72 hours prior to the game. The Order finds that the Commission’s sports blackout rules are no longer justified in light of the significant changes in the sports industry since these rules were first adopted nearly forty years ago.

  14. Re:Goes to show on FCC Rejects Blackout Rules · · Score: 1

    Regulation is why the country is so stable. Yes it has ups and downs, but nothing compared to other countries that don't have regulation, or enforcement there of.

    "I am from the government"
    the most dangerous words in the English language are "I am from the government"

    These NFL regulations made sense initially, but should have ended a decade age.

  15. Re:Going Cable! on FCC Rejects Blackout Rules · · Score: 1

    If someone is a fan and doesn't have cable.Sat. then they aren't going to get it because of this ruling.
    The NFL needs to wake up and start selling streaming packages to whomever ants them.

    I know a lot of fans would would pay for that service, but since it's not offered, then end up going through UK sites.

  16. Re:Going Cable! on FCC Rejects Blackout Rules · · Score: 1

    We can all settle down now people, Serenissima isn't affected AND he felt like he had to let us know.
    I can sleep easy tonight.

  17. Re:A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare on Energy Utilities Trying To Stifle Growth of Solar Power · · Score: 1

    Less then 20k in most place in the US where I've looked into it, some place as low as 12K.
    If ytou want to take a couple of lesson to earn how to do it your self, now it's 6k
    My research was from a 20 panels on a home.

    You can also lay a track system that can expand. So you can add a panel when you have the money if you don't want to finance.

    "Oh and a majority of the US gets about 4-5 hours of usable sunlight a day"
    no.

    "In the US it 'almost' makes sense financially."
    long term, it makes sense right now for the vast majority of America.

    "Yes please tell me how totalitarian states have made my life so much better. "
    now you are blathering.

    A link to Henry Hazlitt? really?
    sheesh.

    capitalism has not failed. IT mkaes business owners money.
    The current incoarnation of capitalizm is failing, in that it's destroying the middle class.

    Look at the broken window situation. In that situation underlying assumption is that paying for a broken window means the owner won't buy something else. That's not true in most cases. In fact, if the shop owner has a billion dollars he isn't going to spend anyways, then it would make sense to break his windows every day.
    Money's real value is there ONLY when it's doing work.
    Hazlitt, and others, base their economic on a time where owners where local, small shops using local people.
    It no longer applies, and trying to apply it only gives an excuse for international corporations to horde more money.

    So, it you goal is to have a few rich giant corporations that dictate peoples live, then yes current capitalism works. For those of us that want a strong middle class, innovation, and industrious people it is not working.

    Now on the other side, there are compaie where breaking a window would mean money not spend elseware. But it isn't one for one since its a business expense.

    So we need a form of capitalism that can look at both sides of this, build a strong middle class in a country that's industrious. That means regulations and taxes.

  18. Re:A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare on Energy Utilities Trying To Stifle Growth of Solar Power · · Score: 1

    I like a good home made fruit cake. You know, with real dried fruit.

  19. Re:So? on Energy Utilities Trying To Stifle Growth of Solar Power · · Score: 2

    No politician is salivating to track out cars. That's just a nightmare on every front.
    Law Enforcement is a different ball of wax. Not that it matters.

    Just tax electricity.
    Everyone benefits from the highway system and roads.
    It's simple, removes tracking.

    Also, gas taxes pay for 50% of roads.
    75, billion out of about 150 billion
    in 2011 America used 4 TKw.
    So that would be a tax of .0019 cents for kw.
    Hell, make it a penny and 100% for roads, and a good mass transit system.

  20. Re: So? on Energy Utilities Trying To Stifle Growth of Solar Power · · Score: 1

    "China has invested nothing.
    blatantly false. The Chinese government spent a lot of money to allow there manufactures to flood the american market with solar for less then the cost to make.
    In 2013, China was the world's leading installer of solar photovoltaics.

  21. Re: So? on Energy Utilities Trying To Stifle Growth of Solar Power · · Score: 2

    You never use your companies electricity to charge a phone? to go to a non work website?
    You fail to take into account the change in pay. You didn't take into account ANY OTHER PERK.

  22. Re:So? on Energy Utilities Trying To Stifle Growth of Solar Power · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, it's most likely a lie.

  23. he left a secured area, and then returned without screening.
    That is a security risk becasue someone could have given him something that wasn't allowed past security..
    Of course, a security person walking over and talking to him wold have solve the whole issue.

  24. "kills oems ability to innovate and differentiate."
    except all they are doing is innovating ways to confuse customers, and put on crappy bloated software.
    They aren't really innovating.

    They will differentiate they way the do now: Hardware and style.

  25. It sounds like practicality and realization. I.e. You're not the important and no one gives a damn.
    You can't use a cell phone and have complete anonymity no matter how man spy movie you watch.

    Don't want to be tracked, then you should be online or using cell phones. or CC, or banks, or cars, or.. well anything.