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  1. Re:Could they get any more special treatment? on Senators Threaten To Rescind NFL Antitrust Exemption · · Score: 1

    People pay taxes on their salaries.

  2. Re:Math is hard? on Conservative Groups Accuse FCC of Helping Net Neutrality Advocates File Comments · · Score: 4, Informative

    It isn't a return rate, it's cause and effect. They got 814,000 people to sign up to have them send 3 messages for each person, one to each congressman representing them.

  3. Re:Where is the misuse of military equipment charg on Navy Guilty of Illegally Broad Online Searches: Child Porn Conviction Overturned · · Score: 1

    I don't know about that, Michael Dreyer probably feels like a winner.

  4. Re:Standing Desks? on 3 Short Walking Breaks Can Reverse Harm From 3 Hours of Sitting · · Score: 1

    The suggestion was desks that converted between states easily. Around here the best I get is a desk that's not quite tall enough to stand at comfortably and a chair that's too tall to sit in comfortably. Taken together, it's roughly equally comfortable standing or sitting.

  5. Re:What's "Easy" About This? on 3 Short Walking Breaks Can Reverse Harm From 3 Hours of Sitting · · Score: 1

    Why would you want to work somewhere else when you can get paid for just sitting around? If you're worried about the company going out of business, there's not much difference between looking for a new job now and looking for one later.

  6. Re:Around or on top of millitary bases? on Mysterious, Phony Cell Towers Found Throughout US · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily, they could have been allowed to make it easy to feed them false information.

  7. Re:sensationalism, ahoy on Mysterious, Phony Cell Towers Found Throughout US · · Score: 1

    As long as they don't feel the need to respond that is. Unless that sort of approach becomes common it's almost trivial to figure out who's talking to whom.

  8. Re:So... outsource ALL OF IT on UK Prisons Ministry Fined For Lack of Encryption At Prisons · · Score: 1

    They just have to work shifts, taking turns being the guards.

  9. Re:Don't worry, if they encrypt it... on UK Prisons Ministry Fined For Lack of Encryption At Prisons · · Score: 1

    It's only unbreakable through a computer science approach, it's still vulnerable to social engineering.

  10. Re:The blame lies with Oregon on Oregon Sues Oracle For "Abysmal" Healthcare Website · · Score: 1

    Given Oracle's reputation, I doubt they noticed the hit.

  11. Re:ignorance on Scientists Baffled By Unknown Source of Ozone-Depleting Chemical · · Score: 1

    So you are of the opinion that these chemicals were used in the US with full knowledge of what they would do to the ozone layer?

  12. Re:Easy, India or China on Scientists Baffled By Unknown Source of Ozone-Depleting Chemical · · Score: 0

    Because the Democrats are backed by corporations that profit from "environmentally friendly" legislation.

  13. Re:No, you don't need AV, even on Windows on Ask Slashdot: How Dead Is Antivirus, Exactly? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While I agree with the general sentiment, it would be more accurate to say that you've never noticed a virus or malware on the machines, rather than you've never gotten them.

  14. Re:End state and private capitalism. on Ask Slashdot: How Dead Is Antivirus, Exactly? · · Score: 1

    Excessive reproduction isn't really a problem in countries with relatively high standards of living, lack of reproduction is closer to being a problem.

    Illegal immigration wouldn't be a problem if the basic income were only provided to citizens. Especially if it meant that jobs paid considerably less.

    The bigger problem is paying for it. Since workers wouldn't need to be paid as much, employers would be the likely targets. However, taxing by headcount would result in under-the-table employment. Taxing by income would be bad for companies with few employees as they wouldn't be able to take advantage of the savings.

  15. Re: End state and private capitalism. on Ask Slashdot: How Dead Is Antivirus, Exactly? · · Score: 1

    The experiments in large scale communism have been the opposite of what the GP requested. They typically have reinforced selfishness and greed even more than capitalism as they are needed to survive rather than just to thrive.

  16. Re:Or don't be... on Apple's Diversity Numbers: 70% Male, 55% White · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How about, what's the percentage of qualified job applicants?

  17. Re:Subjective on Online Tool Flagged Ebola Outbreak Before Formal WHO Announcement · · Score: 1

    Don't know where you got that figure. The current death rate looks to be around 50%, which is going to go way up as the disease runs its course since it includes newly infected people as survivors. It would be much the same as saying humans only have an 88% mortality rate.

  18. Re:Half story on Online Tool Flagged Ebola Outbreak Before Formal WHO Announcement · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It may be a useful tool, but it's unsurprising if a tool that gets a lot of false positives identifies an outbreak before an official announcement. If it doesn't have all those false positives, then it becomes useful to the general public rather than just to people who can actually figure out if it's an outbreak.

  19. Re:Sell BandWIDTH not data on Verizon Throttles Data To "Provide Incentive To Limit Usage" · · Score: 1

    How do you know which tower a cell user is going to be using their data from? Keep in mind that people will tend to use more data when they aren't at home since they can't use their wi-fi.

  20. Re:Vote Selling? on Ask Slashdot: Should I Fight Against Online Voting In Our Municipality? · · Score: 1

    Twelve states have wiretapping laws (which apply even for face to face conversations) that require all parties consent to a recording when they have a reasonable expectation of privacy. More have requirements that all parties be informed of the recording, but I'm having trouble finding out exactly how many.

  21. Re:Funny on Cell Phone Unlocking Is Legal -- For Now · · Score: 2

    This doesn't create a barrier, if anything it destroys one, not that it matters given how high the barrier for entry in the cell carrier business is.

  22. Re:The Free Market has the Technology Now on The Great Taxi Upheaval · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You don't have to get all your information from one source.

  23. You have that backwards, it's a slight increase in voter participation for a significant increase in the possibilities for fraud.

  24. Re:Vote Selling? on Ask Slashdot: Should I Fight Against Online Voting In Our Municipality? · · Score: 1

    As one person said, it isn't exactly the buying of votes that's the problem, it's coerced voting that's the problem. If you let people prove their vote in a way that would let people buy votes, they can also be forced to prove it to keep their job or avoid having their kneecaps broken.

  25. Re:Vote Selling? on Ask Slashdot: Should I Fight Against Online Voting In Our Municipality? · · Score: 1

    Except if you take the tape recorder you go to jail for making the recording (depending on state law) and there's no evidence to charge them with.