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  1. How is it overseas? on Tech's Dark Secret, It's All About Age · · Score: 1

    Specificially, how much of this is going on in countries where employers are not expected to pay for health insurance?

  2. Re:Ah yes, Wertham on Library of Congress Opens Records of Anti-Comic Book Shrink · · Score: 1

    See: Nickelodeon Ren and Stimpy vs. SpikeTV Ren and Stimpy.

  3. Re:terminated under duress on Searching For Backdoors From Rogue IT Staff · · Score: 1

    Umm...actually, that's pretty good advice for countries as well. Asking how to deal with disgruntled employees when you're treating people like shit is like asking for advice on stopping yellowjackets from stinging you when you're in the habit of throwing rocks and their nests.

  4. Or... on Toyota Adds External Speakers To Warn Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    you could get bull bars.

  5. Re:It gets sillier all the time. on Look For AI, Not Aliens · · Score: 1

    Fake or real, if you find it, you've found evidence of intelligence.

  6. Thanks for crying wolf, ladies on Julian Assange Faces Rape Investigation In Sweden — Updated · · Score: 1

    Now Assange has a license to rape.

  7. Re:Coordination? on Portal On the Booklist At Wabash College · · Score: 1

    I doubt that. I'm pretty sure most of them would be more used to playing with a game pad.

  8. Next: on Apple Patents Remotely Disabling Jailbroken Phones · · Score: 1

    Apple patents getting sued by their customers.

  9. Re:"insecure electronic voting" on Researchers Reprogram Voting Machine To Run Pac-man · · Score: 1

    There are records of how many voters entered which are separate from the ballots. The vulnerability is if you can control both the count AND any possible recounts. If you can't, and you can't alter or replace the ballots en masse, and you can't control any judicial or regulatory review of the election (like, make them overlook a few thousand extra ballots or something), you can't steal the election.

    Insecure electronic voting machines with no paper trail cut out a whole lot of middlemen. They don't make a secure process insecure, they make an insecure process MORE insecure.

  10. Re:No. on Is a US High-Speed Railway Economically Feasible? · · Score: 1

    Cars and planes are not economically feasible.

  11. Relinquish cars? Not a bad idea, but... on Is a US High-Speed Railway Economically Feasible? · · Score: 3, Informative

    High speed rail is not to replace cars. It is to replace regional airlines.

  12. Re:Faster Solution on Is a US High-Speed Railway Economically Feasible? · · Score: 1

    It doesn't take very long. I've ridden on a car train in the US, before. (Portage, AK to Whittier, IIRC, it was in the 80s.)

  13. Re:So. on Employees Would Steal Data When Leaving a Job · · Score: 1

    It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. (Rather, the attitude that leads to that is.)

  14. Speaking of Avatar. on First 3-D IMAX Porn Movie Made In Hong Kong · · Score: 1

    James Cameron should make an Avatar porno, and thus another billion dollars.

  15. Re:Personally? on The Case Against Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Do you go to the same DMV? What a coincidence.

  16. Re:Personally? on The Case Against Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    I wasn't being serious. (Sh...don't tell anyone.)

  17. Re:Personally? on The Case Against Net Neutrality · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Uh, excuse me but when has government ever been good at doing anything? Look at the DMV! QED

  18. Re:Switch to another one...? on The Case Against Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Still few? Once line-sharing went away, a lot of options that people formerly had went with it.

  19. Re:did i read that right on Microsoft & Intel Get a Pass On Higher H-1B Fees · · Score: 1

    That would be nice, wouldn't it. Better for the H1-B holders, better for their non-immigrant coworkers. Not necessarily better for people trying to get H1-Bs, though, because all of a sudden they're less attractive to employers unless they actually have a legitimate need.

  20. Re:Huh on Kids Who Watch Popeye Cartoons Eat More Vegetables · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be too worried. I don't think many kindergarteners are physically capable of carjacking.

  21. Re:waitasec on Buried By The Brigade At Digg · · Score: 1

    The appearance of political bias is great for getting a loyal audience of users with the same bias.

  22. waitasec on Buried By The Brigade At Digg · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't a random sample just increase the size of the brigade needed to bury or promote a story? I mean they're still going to have the same access to the story that everyone else does.

  23. Re:did i read that right on Microsoft & Intel Get a Pass On Higher H-1B Fees · · Score: 2, Insightful

    H1-Bs are a unique position protected from competition. If you aren't allowed to freely leave your employer without serious consequences (other than the unavoidable possibility of not finding another job quickly), no one else but the employer who sponsor is allowed to compete for your labor.

    I'm sorry, but while that argument might work generally, this is a special case where it does not.

  24. Re:did i read that right on Microsoft & Intel Get a Pass On Higher H-1B Fees · · Score: 1

    They sound alright...I mean they probably wrote the rules.

  25. Re:as price(labour) goes to zero... on Inside the Mechanical Turk Sweatshop · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That is a shit definition. A used SUV or a 50" TV costs essentially nothing compared to what the poor in the US really need. Education. Health care. Housing. Quality food. Security. The TV example is and always has been a red herring. It's a one-time expense that lasts for years, and would barely cover any of the ongoing expenses. The SUV is even worse, given that in many used car markets that's all that may be available at the time of purchase, and in the US, in most areas, if you don't have a car, you don't have a job. The poor in the US, even if they have the possessions that you point to as evidence that they can't be poor, still lack most of the things that the poor elsewhere lack.