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  1. Re:Totally would buy on HP Claims Their Moonshot System is a 'New Style of IT' (Video) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Shouldn't you be telling that to HP? from the site: "The HP ProLiant Moonshot Server is available with the Intel® Atom Processor S1260...."

  2. Re:I've always thought that the best way for Israe on A Skeptical View of Israel's Iron Dome Rocket Defense System · · Score: 1, Insightful

    They do that occasionally, and are universally condemned for it. Remember Israel is not allowed to defend itself. They have to just accept 100's or rockets a day lobbed at them and not react. If they do fire back, and go as far as to warn the targets, Hamas gathers their children and brings them to the target creating mini-martyr's and generating huge sympathy, especially from the west.

    They have a standing offer: it Hamas stops the rockets, they stop theirs. Not difficult, unless your Hamas

  3. Wait a second on Chinese State Media Declares iPhone a Threat To National Security · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I tired to find the original source. Don't see it. Instead all we have is "

    A report by broadcaster CCTV criticized the iPhone's "Frequent Locations" function for allowing users to be tracked and information about them revealed.

    "This is extremely sensitive data," said a researcher interviewed by the broadcaster. If the data were accessed, it could reveal an entire country's economic situation and "even state secrets," the researcher said."

    This is far, far from a government decree. The American equivalent would be an interview on PBS. Other than approving it to air, this has nothing to do with the government. I suspect most Chinese will see right through this, it may even help Apple sales.

  4. Re:Bad mashup between a tablet and phone on BlackBerry's Innovation: Square-Screened Smartphones · · Score: 1

    There was a time when BB didn't fit in pockets either, they were worn in little holders attached to your belt. Back to the future, man.

  5. Re:Que the outrage on BlackBerry's Innovation: Square-Screened Smartphones · · Score: 3

    And BB were always fat and square before the Bold models got slimmer. This is like the true successor to the click wheel line.

  6. Que the outrage on BlackBerry's Innovation: Square-Screened Smartphones · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Complaints of "no one is innovating anymore" followed closely by "look at BB, stupids, phones HAVE to be one handed and pocketable! No innovation allowed!"

    Me? I kind of like it. I use two hands anyway so why not make a true two handed device?

  7. Re:yes but on Wireless Contraception · · Score: 2

    The Hobby Lobby case was about a corporation demanding religious freedom to reject paying for the medical care of their employees based on the religious view of the company owners.

    It's a terrible decision, as it means that somehow not only are corporations 'persons', but they have the religious freedom to impose their will on their employees.

    The Hobby Lobby case is/was about individual owners of a company not losing their rights just because they formed a corporation for tax or liability purposes. It treats these individuals just like they were still a sole proprietorship or partnership. Simply put, the decision says that if you form a business, you do not give up any rights regardless of the form of that business.

    I have never heard of this case, but you've just described exactly the opposite of 300+ years of corporations. You DO trade in rights as an individual when you form a corporation and you gain tons of rights too - such as protection from personal asset seizure. The whole point of a corporation is that the corporation is separate and distinct from your personal assets and it is NOT a partnership or sole proprietorship that can have assets seized..

    The Hobby Lobby case did not bestow religious freedoms on corporations. It did, however, keep the owners of those corporations, if fewer than five individuals from losing their religious freedoms.

    Those are the same thing, so it does appears to have bestowed religious freedom on corporations if their owners want it. Again, if you want to own a corporation you ave to give something up in return. Size of the corporation is not relevant.

    Is this in appeal somewhere? Because a single judge just fundamentally changed the way the western world functions.

  8. it's nice that they are working on security, now on Wireless Contraception · · Score: 1

    sure they could have baked some security in, but that line item got cut in the budget. They'll just glue some encryption on later, it's easy to do.

  9. Re: Actually makes good sense on TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes · · Score: 1

    No it wouldn't. Most mid range laptops use standard 18650 Li-ion cells in a row. You could easily rewire a 6 cell battery to be 3 for the laptop, 3 for something else and it would be pretty much impossible to tell without a tear down. It would still charge and run normally, but for half the time. Unless the TSA agent was an electronics whiz with access to the Dell's schematics they won't be able to see anything wrong.

    It's theater folks, thanks for playing the game

  10. It is amazing the postoffice has lasted thing long on Austrian Tor Exit Node Operator Found Guilty As an Accomplice · · Score: 1

    Postal mail - the original pirate transport mechanism!

    they need to be shut down, stat!

  11. Re:Blaming Google on Following EU Ruling, BBC Article Excluded From Google Searches · · Score: 2

    You should let Alcoa know. Pretty embarrassing having the the name of one of their corporate directors wrong.

  12. Re:CASL case study right here... on Microsoft Suspending "Patch Tuesday" Emails · · Score: 1

    You sound like a case study in why the law was needed. You have no idea who is on your marketing list, no idea where they are in the world, or whether they even want your emails, or how they got on your lists in the first place. Bad law for you, great law for anyone you happen to be spamming. Be prepared for a flood of unsubscribe requests!

  13. Re:The Canadian law doesn't apply to these on Microsoft Suspending "Patch Tuesday" Emails · · Score: 1

    If you want to do business in countries that have laws like that, yes, of course. Why is that so hard for Americans to understand?

  14. Re:everything is commercial on Microsoft Suspending "Patch Tuesday" Emails · · Score: 1

    The definition of CEM is so broad, that just about anything from a vendor will be commercial. Even if there is no expectation of profit, simply inviting someone to do something is "commercial" and requires two stage opt-in.

    It's overly broad to prevent weaseling around it, but it will take a few court cases to actually define it better.

    Microsoft has no good, centralized, newsletter or list management system. So they are stuck with a blanket ban/switch to rss for now.

  15. we're already close to that! on New Chemical Process Could Make Ammonia a Practical Car Fuel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Uhm, we're pretty close to that already. About 700 miles give or take. Tesla can do 250 easy, some are pushing 300. So a 1 hr full charge stop (you do have to eat, right?) plus another 30 minute stop (pee break) to 50% charge would get you there. Next year, in the lighter Model X a single 1hr stop might do it.

    You'll need a new excuse soon. I suggest Miami to Seattle. People are *constantly* driving that route, so if an electric can't do it, it will never be a success.

  16. Re:FOOL Cells is what they are on Toyota's Fuel Cell Car To Launch In Japan Next March · · Score: 1

    ....there are coming innovations in materials and geometries for anodes and cathodes that in the next 5 years are going to make batteries staggeringly better not only in storage, but also in their ability to be recharged. ....

    That was ten years ago. Still waiting. Ye old 18650 are everywhere and don't seem to be going anywhere, anytime soon. Not even in the next 5 years.

  17. Hydrogen will be here next year... on Toyota's Fuel Cell Car To Launch In Japan Next March · · Score: 2

    ...a true statement in any year.

  18. Re:Is it also illegal.. on San Francisco Bans Parking Spot Auctioning App · · Score: 2

    To a 3rd party observer there is no difference. Person A gives money to Person B who moves their car so A can take their spot. How are you going to prove B would have moved earlier if not for A? Reading their mind?

  19. 30 and hit 100k "ages ago" on Age Discrimination In the Tech Industry · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I hope you are better at coding than you are at math...your shit attitude will catch up with you and you are exactly the kind of unemployable 40 year old demanding outrageous money I see every day. And never hire.

  20. If only there were regularly scheduled elections.. on IRS Recycled Lerner Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Except for the upcoming election, where surely, this time the REAL Americans (white, wealthy, republican) will elect us a new King who will Save Us All!

  21. Re:Protecting the Weak from the Strong on Interviews: Bruce Perens Answers Your Questions · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When the constitution was written the Weak (US residents) taking on the Strong state (the British crown) *was* a very real concern. It made sense then, it does't make as much sense now. Unless of course you plan on taking on 'the state' (United states military).

    Every gun used in a crime in America was purchased legally by a Law Abiding Gun Owner. Every. Single. One. Law Abiding Gun Owners have clearly demonstrated they are not capable of self regulation, and thus need to be better regulated.

  22. Re:You make it... on Teacher Tenure Laws Ruled Unconstitutional In California · · Score: 3, Informative

    Try firing a unionized teacher. You'll learn all about 'due process'...

    I'll try to keep posting this whenever you bring up "due Process" as if the ONLY recourse teachers have is tenure. They have all the same due process recourse everyone else has, for every other job, plus they are heavily unionized to boot.

  23. Re:You make it... on Teacher Tenure Laws Ruled Unconstitutional In California · · Score: 1

    Try firing a unionized teacher. You'll learn all about 'due process'...

  24. Re: Establishment of religion on Teacher Tenure Laws Ruled Unconstitutional In California · · Score: 1

    Until the supreme court reinterprets it (by picking it apart) over time, yes.

  25. Re:Hilarious Irony on Fixing the Humanities Ph.D. · · Score: 1

    I find it hilarious you associated "creative" with "humanities". Those two are as close to opposites as the English language allows.