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  1. Re:also forced OT pay for h1-B's on US Senator Blasts Microsoft's H-1B Push As It Lays 18,000 Off Workers · · Score: 2

    Programmers are exempt from overtime, there's specific language in the overtime law to not include them and managers. here's the details on it. http://www.dol.gov/whd/overtim...

  2. whut? on Does Google Have Too Much Influence Over K-12 CS Education? · · Score: 1

    Influence? They own what they fund. If you don't like it put money down.

  3. Re:In the right direction on South African Schools To Go Textbook Free · · Score: 1

    Students don't own the textbooks in a lot of schools, they're returned to the school at the end of the year. Writing in it is a quick way to end up with the student paying for the book.

  4. Re:Selection bias on General Anesthesia Exposure In Infancy Causes Long-Term Memory Deficits · · Score: 1

    That's why they did the control study with rats. Needs more to be certain it's causal sure, but that's a good indication it might be.

  5. Re:Gravity on Turning Soap Film Into a Projector Screen · · Score: 2

    spin it with a slight shake maybe to geek the center thick? or use the frequencies they're using to mix it to evenly distribute it.

  6. Re:Define "charges" on Auto Makers Announce Electric Car Charging Standard · · Score: 1

    Another thing this could solve is security your not going to sit at your car for the 30 min to charge someone can walk by pop the plug out of your car and into there's for free power; can even set it up so you don't even need to swipe a card. (i'm not sure if they already do this entirly unfamiliar with the standard)

  7. simple why this happens with games on Gaming Clichés That Need To Die · · Score: 1

    if you realize you get x increase in sales for spending y in motion capturing hookers. That's an easy number for a buisness major/investor to work with. However writing a good story, ai or gameplay takes thought, thought isn't as consistent on cost to outcome. Much easier to recycle the stuff you did a decade ago with shinier graphics.

  8. Re:Overloaded or Preparing for Future? Neither! on How Much Tech Can Kids Take? · · Score: 1

    a citation wouldn't hurt that assertion >.>

  9. Re:Controlled for all factors? on Sand Dunes On Mars In Motion · · Score: 1

    that's a really loose approximation O.o the density is off and the friction between the particles is different. they'd get better results doing a test in one of those low gravity flights the cabins are already pressure controlled not much equipment modification to add a wind tunnel. and are they sure it's silicate sand.

  10. Re:Religious groups on Two Porn Companies Take ICANN and .xxx Registrar To Court · · Score: 1

    The parent naked picture thing is kind of creepy, do you want your parents running around with naked baby pictures of you. not really child porn bad but it is nice you have don't run around with naked baby pictures of me recourse.

  11. Re:It's a ridiculous idea on Ask Slashdot: Good, Useful Free Software For Gifts? · · Score: 1

    He didn't give them this software on a cd for fuck sake he just wanted something to pop on a stick to add thought to the gift he could've given something like pictures, yes, but who wants another copy of grammas photo album of dead people, pay software kinda takes it out of the stocking stuffer realm too. There isn't any Foss religious hoopla for these people if they can't appreciate a usb stick then they're not technical enough to even realize that's what happened. The niece and apparently a few of the adults were in that category they should have gotten candy bars (or if i was called a nerdy ass-fagot over a gift nothing) the ones who wiped the disks gave there answer to the included software that's fine, but at least liked the stick.

  12. Re:In the middle of the greatest deficit... on US Gives Raytheon $10.5M For 'Serious Games' · · Score: 1

    vs the us military the choice is psychological warfare or die like a dog =/

  13. Re:In the middle of the greatest deficit... on US Gives Raytheon $10.5M For 'Serious Games' · · Score: 1

    Well they're killed by drones so I'd assume that means the bodies would be in a location unrecoverable; they really could make up any number they danm well please. and i didn't know 1/20 was considered a good civilian attrition rate wtf is every other method pulling D:

  14. Re:Light absorbing = cooler? on NASA Creates Super-Black Carbon Nanotube Coating · · Score: 1

    it's thinner so it allows for faster thermal disipation. less mass to act like an insulator.

  15. Re:stop calling it 'critical' on Spontaneous Fission In Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 · · Score: 1

    maybe the problem is they don't use the word critical enough then if it means it's functioning normally (i think that's what you just said means) nuclear reactor guys should start joking with news outlets and calling em up every time the reactor goes critical to mess with em :p

  16. support contracts on How Can I Justify Using Red Hat When CentOS Exists? · · Score: 1

    you can call red hat if you have questions you can't call centos it's the biggest don't use linux argument that support contracts for free software are hard to find

  17. Re:It infringes on my patent.... on Apple Granted Patent For Slide To Unlock · · Score: 1

    your mom has prior art on that :o

  18. so? on Value of Bitcoin "Crashes" · · Score: 1

    it's a new currency and currency concept expect fluctuation it probably won't be stable for a while

  19. maybe a nice use for those electric/solar planes on Stroke Victim Stranded At South Pole Base · · Score: 1

    I think they use lithium batteries in which case there are some that can operate at very very low temperatures so fuel freezing wouldn't be a problem

  20. yay art class on Florida School District Begins Fingerprinting Students · · Score: 1

    what stops a kid from making a mold from their finger :P

  21. Re:Oh Good, A Backdoor on DOS, Backdoor, and Easter Egg Found In Siemens S7 · · Score: 1

    even more so if the controller is controlling the locks on there back door :(

  22. Re:I would fire you for that on IT Crises vs. Vacation: Sometimes It Isn't Pretty · · Score: 1

    That's nice and all, but redundancy is an easy place to remove someone if the budget comes up short. There are plenty of managers/mba's who would fire someone just to look good saving money next quarter.

  23. Re:The Ultimate Peripheral on Adding an Olfactory Dimension To Games · · Score: 1

    i think the wide screen tv's or the 3d glasses guys are covering that 3d glasses with a motion detector for when you turn your head would be awesome for video games much better next logical step than 3d glasses alone or smellovision can even pop some high def headphones in em if you get cleaning down and get em to not look like the product of some dystopian sci-fi future i imagine those would sell

  24. this might be the worst idea ever on Adding an Olfactory Dimension To Games · · Score: 1

    That's what i want a peripheral that makes my house smell imagine a first person shooter like call of duty on that have your house smell like gunpowder, fear, blood, and shit that sounds pleasant or resident evil rotting corpse smell. Even if it's not an obvious bad idea video game what happens when you get smell cartridges running low, bad programming or a faulty smell thingy what awful smells will it produce then.

  25. Re:Or they flew over a CAFO on Thousands of Blackbirds Fall From Sky Dead · · Score: 1

    I dunno how well methane hovers around maybe on a windless day or if cafo puts out enough for this to be feasible. However the possibility that the birds could have flown through a methane cloud large enough to gas them seems worth investigating. Least more likely than fireworks in New York if it blew the birds ear drums they'd just start flying into crap or high altitude hail/lightning there not retarded they'd land for apocalyptic bird massacring high altitude weather.