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  1. Re:Time for the Judges ruling? on Jury Rules Google Violated Java Copyright, Google Moves For Mistrial · · Score: 2

    The fact that they bill for access to their own services doesn't mean they will necessarily prevent you from using an API with the same commands to sell a service you've made yourself.

  2. Re:Odd... on NY Times: 'FBI Foils Its Own Terrorist Plots' · · Score: 1

    Which scares the hell out of people, and convinces Americans to give the FBI more taxpayer dollars

    We don't control the budget. At all. Almost nobody who isn't either a politician, arms manufacturer, prison operator, or mass media drone wants to grow the FBI.

  3. Re:US, nobody gives a shit on Stop Being Poor: U.S. Piracy Watch List Hits a New Low With 2012 Report · · Score: 1

    No. Read Marx.

  4. Re:US, nobody gives a shit on Stop Being Poor: U.S. Piracy Watch List Hits a New Low With 2012 Report · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm pretty fed up with it and I want things to change but I really don't see what I can do

    Organize.

    There are probably people near you who are organizing political events that work for real people rather than the powers that be. Seek them out.

  5. Re:What's up with the trolls? on 1 World Trade Center Becomes the Tallest Building In NYC · · Score: 5, Funny

    Knock Knock
    Who's there?
    9/11
    9/11 who?
    You said you'd never forget!

  6. Re:Original NES on Gaming Clichés That Need To Die · · Score: 0

    Some guy who slaved through all the levels gets no respect when some 14 year old with daddy's credit card comes in, curb stomps him, and then steals all his hard-earned equipmen

    If you want respect, stop playing so many goddamn video games!

  7. Re:Meanwhile... on University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department · · Score: 1

    You don't build strength in your movement by turning students and faculty from different departments against each other. You say a tax revolt is "needed", but so far it's only in your imagination. There's no course charted for it, and it won't happen. The most likely way to keep the CS department intact is for the students and faculty to continue the organizing around the issue that they've already been doing. Once they're organized, they can shut the whole university down until their demands are met. That's how collective power works, not by sitting at home deciding not to pay taxes and praying that everyone else is doing the same.

    By the way, I'm sure those 3 music degrees don't actually represent 3 whole separate departments, just different course arrangements.

  8. Re:Finally on Feds Shut Down Tor-Using Narcotics Store · · Score: 0

    hahaha "not a legitimate use" of fake money

  9. Finally on Feds Shut Down Tor-Using Narcotics Store · · Score: 5, Funny

    Someone's finally found a good reason to use bitcoin

  10. Re:What I take on Baboons Learn To Identify Words · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This approach of meeting the student's needs is central to Paulo Freire's radical pedagogy. Trying to stuff people full of facts doesn't really work very well and is frustrating to both the teacher and the student. Create a space where people learn to do things because they have a curiosity or a need for them and have the tools, time, and space to work and they will teach themselves and each other.

    I found this excerpt from a book on the topic interesting: http://www.scribd.com/doc/85646832/Education-and-Capitalism-Excerpt

  11. Basic Office Skills on Ask Slashdot: My Company Wants Me To Astroturf, Should I? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When marketing (or most anyone else) sends an email to the entire company, ignore it. Duh.

  12. Re:Was anyone suprised? on House Kills Effort To Stop Workplace Requests For Facebook Passwords · · Score: 3, Insightful

    consumers

    It's a labor issue, not a consumer issue.

  13. Re:what bothered me about that article on Parlez-vous Python? · · Score: 1

    Not in my experience. The horrible code being written in the first place means that it was written for someone who wasn't willing to pay enough money to hire someone who actually knew how to do it right.

  14. Re:Executive Order 12333 on NSA Chief Denies Claims of Domestic Spying · · Score: 2

    He's the head of the executive branch. This means he gets to decide the particulars of how the laws congress passes will be carried out and boss around all the agencies under him. Bureaucrats follow the orders because it's their job, of course.

  15. Re:They must have used the wrong cable on LED's Efficiency Exceeds 100% · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ah! Monster cables are good for something after all.

  16. Re:Slouching toward Fascism on Photographing Police: Deletion Is Not Forever · · Score: 5, Informative

    Also when your country has one of the highest incarceration rates you can't really claim to be very free.

    It's actually the highest. The highest in any place on the planet at any time in history.

  17. Re:America is a BIG Country on The Specter of Gasoline At $5 a Gallon · · Score: 1

    Give up that fancy home 30 miles outside of town, and buy an older home in the City center where things are within walking distance.

    What's funny is those "fancy" houses on the outskirts are ugly, overpriced, and poorly built. I've got a house for the same price only a mile from downtown that was built in 1895. It's better looking than all those new houses, has loads of charm, and it certainly isn't going to fall apart. What's more, there's no HOA and my property value has nowhere to go but upwards as driving becomes less practical.

  18. Re:wake me in a few years on Is It Time For NoSQL 2.0? · · Score: 1

    Dealing with managers and coding up job security are certainly linked skills.

  19. Re:It's the right move, unfortuntately on KDE KWin May Drop Support For AMD Catalyst Drivers · · Score: 1

    No need to switch. KDE will work fine, you just won't have all the fancy effects you may have become accustomed to.

  20. Re:Interesting idea... on Making a Better Solar Cooker · · Score: 1, Informative

    My comment took into account superheating. This is why I called it the minimum temperature, you barely literate angry teenager.

  21. Re:All you need... on Making a Better Solar Cooker · · Score: 2

    Is there anything better?

    Yes. Singing anything other than The Eagles would be better.

  22. Re:Interesting idea... on Making a Better Solar Cooker · · Score: 3, Informative

    Steam can certainly be much hotter than 212F; that's just the minimum temperature to get your reservoir boiling.

  23. Re:DropBox? on LibreOffice 3.5 Released · · Score: 1

    lmao

  24. Re:DropBox? on LibreOffice 3.5 Released · · Score: 2

    No problem. Can't imagine what the hell the submitter and editors were thinking. Business as usual for this place, I guess...

  25. Re:DropBox? on LibreOffice 3.5 Released · · Score: 5, Informative