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  1. Re:It's called the key on Driver Trapped In Speeding Car At 125 Mph · · Score: 1

    Actually it probably has something more akin to a credit card and button take a look on YouTube

    this is almost comical, just yesterday someone posted in response to the technology of cars the more "digital" they get the less reliable they will become. So sure the idea of digital is wrong but the difference between the kind of digital that We're used to and now is that the amount of variables the computer will eventually have to account for will increment exponentially, in a world where all the computer has to do is calculate air fuel ratios it can account for all the reasonable variables. But when they start making decisions about things your not allowed to do to prevent condition 'X' like say turning the engine off at Speed.

  2. Re:Not going to happen. on Intel To Launch Paid Web TV Service With Set-Top Box · · Score: 1

    Hah we're watching it right now. I ant imagine there's that much money in selling a tiny linux box though.

  3. Now on sale! on Ask Slashdot: Why Is It So Hard To Make An Accurate Progress Bar? · · Score: 1

    The best styrofoam cup in the world, you won't want to use it just once! When was the last time you bought something because of the quality of its progress bars?

  4. Re:Really? on Ask Slashdot: Making Side-Money As a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    It was an app that fixed grammatical errors for you. *zing*

  5. Don't screw yourself out of the education on Ask Slashdot: Best Alternative To the Canonical Computer Science Degree? · · Score: 2

    This may be the last best chance you get to learn what you can in a college setting. Take it for all its worth, you could end up getting to the market place and finding out how un-interested you are in your past passion. Or find that you actually could use a lot of CS knowledge for web "insert fad here".

  6. Re:Who cares if we are hungry... on Corn Shortage Hampers US Ethanol Production · · Score: 1

    Hail fellow Iowan! I moved away but I have family there, and I found the saddest part of it was that since the corn crops where so much more valuable farmers would plow up conservation land (CRP) to farm it.

  7. Re:Who cares if we are hungry... on Corn Shortage Hampers US Ethanol Production · · Score: 1

    Until you realize the machinery it takes to process, grow and continue the cycle is just as bad if not worse. and that its propped up by the government, and on top of that even with a measly 15% mix we cant even keep up with demand!

  8. Re:Demand More on As Music Streaming Grows, Royalties Slow To a Trickle · · Score: 2
    I'd hesitate to call it a problem, conceivably she signed a contract and had time to understand what she was going to be paid and how. I play pandora all the time some songs circulate on there several times, so a million is probably easy to achieve.

    This is probably also a case of not enough data she only actually posted one month (the first) of returns. here not to mention she notes it was only her older works.

    I’ve posted all my streaming data for the month my “content” went live.

    Just take a look at the typical compensation

    Internet royalties With the explosion of the Internet and the ease of downloading music onto your computer, a whole new royalty arena has opened up in recent years. Record companies usually treat downloads as "new media/technology," which means they can reduce the royalty by 20% to 50%. This means that rather than paying artists a 10% royalty on recording sales, they can pay them a 5% to 8% rate when their song is downloaded from the Internet. In the case of downloaded music, although there is no packaging expense, many record company contracts still state that the 25% packaging fee will be deducted.

    this reeks of non-news trumped up (by the new York times) with a jab at the scale goat, I mean piracy, for good measure..

  9. Re:Java sucks. on Oracle Responds To Java Security Critics With Massive 50 Flaw Patch Update · · Score: 1

    Because its easier than brainfuck?

  10. That's proposterous! Your saying there are other programming languages?! But I want one thats riddled with gaping security holes that I have no control over, of which event the maintainers of say will take years to actually fix! If we didn't have to disable java every week what would the (nearly) useless people in our IT department do with their time!

  11. Until your raided by the FBI... on Free Wi-Fi: the Movement To Give Away Your Internet For the Good of Humanity · · Score: 0

    Like one individual oops sure he'll survive but he probably had to pay a lawyer to prove his innocence, the problem is the burden of proof is on you at that point. I'd be happy to share it for a select few services however, like Google maps or something, sure have at it! If the hardware kept some kind of record of who connected and when it may go a long way to making it FBI raid friendly.

  12. Re:What is Perl? on Perl's Glory Days Are Behind It, But It Isn't Going Anywhere · · Score: 1

    Perl can do web Like CGI math system admin Perl has syntax rules, but it doesn't limit you to an imaginary box, that's its power, and some would suggest its flaw.

  13. Re:They can do a heck of a lot more than that on Anonymous Warhead Targets US Sentencing Commission · · Score: 1

    A corrupt or bad judge can change the interpretation, enforcement and meaning of a law with the tap of a wooden hammer, not even the president can claim that divine right. Which means we all have to step up and take our government enforced "Broccoli".

  14. Re:Well... on 'Bankrupt' Australian Surgeon Sues Google For Auto-Complete · · Score: 1

    He didn't. His personal bankruptcy was annulled.

    But even if he did go bankrupt from the CoastJet business failing, should that be broadcast to everyone as soon as they even type in his name into Google? It's completely out of context. He didn't go bankrupt from being sued by patients. He didn't go bankrupt by gambling his money at the casino (although buying into aviation at this stage of the game could be argued as riskier) - the guy is being punished needlessly.

    But is it not true that he has some association with bankruptcy?
    Is it false information in the leas that he was involved in one?
    Its a matter of public record, and if he doesn't want his name associated with bankruptcy he should have run a more stressful business, he purchased a company and that company just happened to go bankrupt, meaning he most likely was the one to cause it to go bankrupt! in fact CoastJet Group, seven companies Hingston "principally controlled, don't shoot the messenger. The very definition of defamation is that its untrue, but by its nature the auto complete mechanism is grouping like terms. So its a little ridiculous.

    Anyone who claims this is about freedom of speech are being ridiculous.

    Your correct this has absolutely nothing to do with freedom of speech that would imply the the "G" in Google stood for Government, in such cases your typically protected being put in jail for speaking out about the government, that doesn't bar a private entity from firing you for speaking out however.

    Should people be able to buy billboard space around the world and declare to the world that you are pedophile? Or something true, a compulsive masturbator?

    Yes if it's true, would you like a link to the Public sex offender database?

  15. Just encourage it! on Ask Slashdot: How To Convince a Team To Write Good Code? · · Score: 1

    Reward good behavior and push people in the direction your trying to go, get rid of the people who are blocking your attempts to make things cleaner.

    but the attitude may be that way because the typical demand is "push push push" until the goal is met, I see a lot of people fall into this trap where they believe that if they can just get to "X" we'll be O.K. and we can stop making the developers life hell. If that's the case then its a managerial problem, the environment will tell you a lot about how things operate day to day.

  16. So your saying on Canonical Could Switch To Rolling Releases For Ubuntu 14.04 and Beyond · · Score: 1

    The amazon search bar will re-install itself every 6 months!

    the best thing about Ubuntu are the forks made from it

  17. I cant say I disagree on Will Microsoft Sell Off Its Entertainment Division? · · Score: 1
    Well I thought it silly for them to sell but FTA Cached on google

    Microsoft makes more than 75% of its profits from Windows and Office. Less than 25% comes from its vaunted servers and tools. And Microsoft makes nothing from its xBox/Kinect entertainment division, while losing vast sums in its on-line division (negative $350M-$750M/quarter). No matter how much anyone likes the non-Windows Microsoft products, without the historical Windows/Office sales and profits Microsoft is not sustainable.

    To be quite honest he makes a good case.

  18. It works! on Loss of a Single Laptop Leads to $50k Fine Against Idaho Hospice · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    All those nay Sayers that government doesn't work, well look at this!

  19. Yea sure... on Blizzard Reportedly Planning A Linux Game For 2013 · · Score: 2

    Ok so a lot of people seem to be critical of the "Ubuntu is not the summation of linux!" but come on seriously, a real game development company isn't going to maintain their own libraries to run the game, that's what the distribution is for. So they picked one distro to support and went with it. If the solution for every single commercial developer is to "just release your own libraries" then I'm sorry to say we might as well just relegate this whole Linux thing to a neat geeks OS. Because that's the same kind of crap they're facing with Microsoft, except they probably make a lot more money on M$ derivatives. This touches on something that Linux so desperately needs, standardization, not that we should all run the same standard libraries or that everything has to be correct, but things need to be planned out more effectively to support a huge swath of companies that develop products that are hugely dependent on the OS.

  20. Re:Nazi America on TSA 'Secured' Metrodome During Recent Football Game · · Score: 1

    Well we also need to add disinformation and propaganda to public schools too.

  21. Re:But Android is open on The Android SDK Is No Longer Free Software · · Score: 1

    To interpretation, see you missed the bit after the coma.

  22. Write a post on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Explain To a Coworker That He Writes Bad Code? · · Score: 1

    And send it to Slashdot for him to read, then again, your the one that's having problems reading his code so maybe your stuck in a mode of trying to get everything perfect! *har*

  23. well now on European Commission Support of FRAND Licenses Hurts Open Standards · · Score: 2

    Realistically there's a lot of money behind closed source, not just the company producing it but the countless lawyers and political institutions that maintain and write patents. What about the big box stores that sell it and promote it, advertisers won't be left out in the cold either! Free and open source will continue to fight this uphill battle, not that it necessarily can't or shouldn't, but a company that could commercialize this and genuinely play nice with the community and markets would do quite well.

  24. And PTSD on Researcher Warns That Military Must Prepare For "Mutant" Future · · Score: 1

    Seriously we cant even get over the mental issues that soldiers face, and it's horribly underfunded to accommodate the vast number of people who "shrug it off" because there's already a strain on the system. This is probably a better thing to solve with technology than possibly pertinently destroying our own gene pool.

  25. meh on 'Connected' TVs Mostly Used Just Like the Unconnected Kind · · Score: 1

    TV's have a bit of an interface problem when it comes to that, not many average consumers really want a keyboard sitting around in their living room and a lot of the apps that just require the remote tend to suck a lot in days past, such as the youtube search that was woefully underwhelming. I know my grandfather bought a web enabled TV, they just switched from dial-up to get on it, but he didn't use the web before...