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  1. Speculation on Investing In Lego Bricks For Fun But Mostly Profit · · Score: 1

    You invest in something that can create wealth.
    You speculate in something whose market value might change.

    LEGO sealed off in a tub doesn't produce wealth. Speculating in the LEGO market isn't investing.

    LEGO does have value, because it is fun and educational, but only in the quantities that you are actually using.

  2. asking for trouble on Companies Getting Rid of Reply-all · · Score: 5, Funny

    A company that's come close to abolishing Reply All is the global information and measurement firm Nielsen. On its screens, the button is visible but inactive, covered with a fuzzy gray. It can be reactivated with an override function on the keyboard. Chief Information Officer Andrew Cawood explained in a memo to 35,000 employees the reason behind Nielsen's decision: eliminating "bureaucracy and inefficiency."'

    I hope somebody replied to all, quoting this entire memo and putting "OK" at the bottom.

  3. Re:Better get used to it, THQ on THQ Clarifies Claims of "Horrible, Slow" Wii U CPU · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've never understood why consoles don't simply have more RAM. Even in 2006, it was cheap enough to put in more than what the PS3 and 360 have. Right now, you can get 16GB of DDR3 RAM for $50 from Newegg, which is obviously higher than what manufacturers pay. Will it make the system cost a bit more to produce? Yes. Would it cost that much more to produce? Probably not.

    $25 x 70 million units = $1.75 billion

  4. of course on Why Would a Mouse Need To Connect To the Internet? · · Score: 1

    Of course it needs internet access! How else do you think it will keep its anti-virus software current?

  5. Re:From someone who has read slashdots comment bef on NetFlix Caught Stealing DivX Subtitles From Finnish Pirates · · Score: 1

    Regardless, it's not stealing because the DivX community still have them.

  6. From someone who has read slashdots comment before on NetFlix Caught Stealing DivX Subtitles From Finnish Pirates · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh no! What will the local DivX community do without their subtitles, now that they've been stolen!!

    Oh wait, not really.

  7. Re:Never had that experience... on Smartphone Mugging More Popular Than Ever · · Score: 1

    I'm sure many people like them, but a big reason for an iPhone is status symbol, so include faux iPhone gel covers for trac phones.

  8. Ignoring the moderator & clock on US Presidential Debate #2 Tonight: Discuss Here · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They need a mechanism like a chess clock . When a candidate presses his button, his microphone turns off and his opponent's clock starts running. If a candidate runs out of time on his clock, then he can't talk for the rest of the debate.

  9. Re:Good on Lawsuit Challenges New York Sugary Drink Ban · · Score: 1

    Replacing HFCS with sugar isn't going to reduce consumption.

    http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/86/1/116.full

  10. Paper what? on Amazon Kindle Paperwhite Jailbroken · · Score: 2

    Isn't there a marketing danger to naming your product almost "paper weight"?

  11. Re:Self-Insure on Ask Slashdot: Best Protection Plan For Your Phone? · · Score: 1

    You have to insure the car, and you probably want to insure the house, because that would be crippling if it burned down.

    You don't have to insure cars either. You have to insure against the liability of damage done with a car.

  12. Not so bad on The Algorithmic Copyright Cops: Streaming Video's Robotic Overlords · · Score: 1

    I would support my son taking an iPhone-building internship. Foxconn conditions might suck, but I'm not fundamentally opposed to students doing physical work.

  13. Re:If we exterminated them... on If Extinct Species Can Be Brought Back... Should We? · · Score: 1

    No, if we, as natural animals, cause the extinction of another species it is because it was unfit to survive and should be left extinct. Human beings are not outside nature and its methods of determining which species are worthy of survival.

    So is if we, as natural animals, cause the resurrection of another species, it is because we deemed it fit to survive. Who are you to stop the natural processes of scientists?

     

  14. Re:DRM For Action Figures on Harvard Software 3D Prints Articulated Action Figures · · Score: 1

    So now that we're past plastic plates, here we really go to Star Trek's Replicator. All that remains now is the ever growing list of "objects supported".

    I'm waiting for Paramount to sue a person for printing pirate copies of a toy replicator.

  15. Like they say . . . on Would You Trust an 80-Year-Old Nuclear Reactor? · · Score: 1

    Never trust a reactor over 30.

  16. Re:Why 2 Hobbit movies? on Hollywood Acts Warily At Comic-Con · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's two movies in the same way the last Harry Potter book was two movies. Quite literally, more bang for buck.

    Or perhaps more buck for bang.

  17. Re:In the USA? on Foxconn Invests $210 Million To Build New Production Line For Apple · · Score: 1

    You didn't pose a question at all.

    And it was a joke.

  18. Re:In the USA? on Foxconn Invests $210 Million To Build New Production Line For Apple · · Score: 1

    If you were a hard-working Asian, you would have RTFA and not have to guess.

  19. Low tech start on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Monitor Traffic? · · Score: 1

    As has been pointed out, deep packet inspection of everything isn't realistic.

    You might start by logging websites visited, either with local monitoring or using open dns.

  20. Re:recipe for corruption on Amazon Poised To Get Cut of CA Sales Taxes · · Score: 1

    Talks with Amazon about a so-called sales-tax rebate are still in the early stages.

    Amazon is negotiating a special deal. If everyone gets the same special deal, it's not a special deal (just the law) and no one has to negotiate it.

    The fact that they are negotiating tells us that they are not applying the tax code uniformly.
     

  21. recipe for corruption on Amazon Poised To Get Cut of CA Sales Taxes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Special tax deals for individual companies is a recipe for corruption.

  22. bundling on Windows 8 Won't Play DVDs Unless You Pay For the Media Center Pack · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If Microsoft bundles software, that's bad.
    If Microsoft doesn't bundle software, that bad.

    Is everything Microsoft does wrong by definition?

  23. Re:That means we lefties on The Science of Handedness · · Score: 1

    That Baseball was able to capitalize on left handed pitchers throwing to much more common right handed hitters is a rather late innovation in the annals of human endeavor.

    Your point still stands, but you have the baseball backwards. Opposite handedness favors the batter.

  24. Re:Failed experiment? on Navy To Auction Stealth Ship · · Score: 2

    It still would save a step for a foreign military if the design had some plausible design features. Instead of having to build it and test it, they would just have to test it to learn that what doesn't work.

  25. Re:nope on Studies Suggest Massive Increase In Scientific Fraud · · Score: 2

    retractions is a bad measurement.

    Good point. Contradictory religions have a low rate of retractions. This doesn't mean they're all reliable.