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  1. Re:quiet mechanical keyboard on Ask Slashdot: Good Keyboard? · · Score: 2

    If you're willing to go ergonomic, and split, spend some money, and do some soldering. Massdrop also does drops of the Ergodox. There are mechanical switch options that don't make all the noise if it's your preference. It lets you customize to your hearts content, and after a little learning-curve, won't be able to stand the idea of going back to something else.

  2. Saved man hours on The Internet's Network Efficiencies Are Destroying the Middle Class · · Score: 1

    cost competitors and suppliers hundreds of thousands of jobs => Saved millions of man-hours labor.

  3. 2 absurdities here on US Federal Judge Rules NSA Data Collection Legal · · Score: 1

    There are two glaring absurdities in this ruling: 1) This is making the absurd assumption that NSA wasn't collecting any of this junk prior to 911, let alone that they "could" have done anything about it (if we're going to find this needle, we need MOAR HAY!!!). 2) The question before the court was "is this a constitutional seizure of Americans private information?" not "can we imagine a scenario in which this could have been applied to 911 investigations?". Absurd.

  4. Re:Picking up shape from randomized patterns on Did Snakes Help Build the Primate Brain? · · Score: 1

    I'm going to go with the opposite here. Clearly the snake in the Garden of Eden is just a manifestation of this deep primate-brain evolution.

  5. Re:Reading, writing math, music and ball sports. on How Early Should Kids Learn To Code? · · Score: 1

    "Many trades nowadays seems to involve some programming in some sort of language" "is that [programming] really important for a child's future?" Looks like you answered the question before you asked it.

  6. Re:Aren't they just... on Verizon's Plan To Turn the Web Into Pay-Per-View · · Score: 1

    Not just pay per packet, but pay per word. And "premium words" cost extra. Imagine having to pay an extra fee for texts saying things like, "I'm here now", "love you", etc.

  7. Saw a case on this a few years back. A kid was being bullied (bully stealing his lunch). So, one day kid peed in his own thermos... and waited. TL;DR, charges on account of special knowledge that bully would consume said pee.

  8. Re:NSA has cribs? on Wikileaks Releases A Massive "Insurance" File That No One Can Open · · Score: 1

    Once NSA cracks the keys, they can make better assumptions of the set of leaked files. And can make more informed decisions on what lies won't be contradicted through future leaks.

  9. Re: If its good on Elon Musk Admits He Is Too Busy To Build Hyperloop · · Score: 1

    Similar to Psych 101 syndrome. Running around diagnosing everyone with no idea what you're talking about.

  10. Re:Cobol is self-documenting on The Pentagon's Seven Million Lines of Cobol · · Score: 3, Insightful

    exactly how much of it is actually active?

    For every line of active duty Cobol code, there are seven support lines behind the front.

  11. Re:More regulation = less choices on Amazon Delivering Groceries? It's Coming, Thanks To Sales-Tax Politics · · Score: 1

    Who pays the tax is a matter of price elasticity. When the tax is levied the cost is divided up between all of the parties to the transaction (shareholders, employees, customers). What proportion of the new cost to make transaction is born by which party has everything to do with their relative price elasticities.

  12. Re:You know... on Google Gets Consumer Service Ultimatum From German Consumer Groups · · Score: 1

    I'm a Google customer, I don't pay cash, but I give them tons of personal information from my searches and email that they use as inputs to build their monetize-able products. "Customer" in barter is just as legitimate a relationship. We've done a bit of a disservice by pushing the meme that no cash transfer makes you the product, not the customer. It's more interesting than that.

    Late to the party, I know.

  13. Why first amendment on Supreme Court Blocks Illinois Law Against Recording Police · · Score: 1

    I know it's all press-like and maybe you want to publish someday. But wouldn't it make more sense to classify it as 2nd and 4th amendment breach? A camera as reasonable, non-violent armament for defense, and taking/destroying the evidence recorded on it being an unreasonable search and seizure(hell, if not out right evidence tampering)?

  14. Re:Math on All of Nate Silver's State-Level Polling Predictions Proved True · · Score: 1
  15. Corporations can't don't have "alone time" on Seattle's Creepy Cameraman Pushes Public Surveillance Buttons · · Score: 1

    Trying to fire up my euphemism engine here at work. I think that an individual recording you causes you to think of all the unseemly things that individual might do with pictures of you in their private collection. Law enforcement and corporations are just abstract enough that we can't easily imagine them doing gross things while looking at them. (Just one idea)

  16. Turn the tables, be labeled a terrorist on The Rapid Rise of License Plate Readers · · Score: 1

    Imagine a FOSS project that does this in reverse. Regular citizens point their webcams out the window at smart-phones out the windshield. Some fancy P2P shenanigans and there is a huge public database that shows the locations of everyone. Now we all see where our police and pols are at all times too. How many hours before our masters are knocking at our front doors to shut down this egregious violation of their essential rights to privacy?

  17. Re:More tolerent of human error on Google's Driverless Car and the Logic of Safety · · Score: 1

    I blew it by not being here earlier. The US system of at fault driver liability isn't the only model out there. Some countries have a 50/50 rule. Then there's the NZ system that has the insurance being a government function, you have an accident and your reimbursement schedule is a national standard (pittance compared to the payouts here in the US). A new model could evolve to deal with this new development. (I realize I'm way too late to this thread.)

  18. Dinosaurs did it on Iceland Eyes Liquid Magma As Energy Source · · Score: 1

    I think it's adapted from a really big Jello mold: http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_215:_Power_Erupts

  19. Balance nothing on Employer Demands Facebook Login From Job Applicants · · Score: 1

    This is the kind of threat that security is supposed to protect us from!

  20. Re:A Few Logical Problems on The Fall of Wintel and the Rise of Armdroid · · Score: 1

    I don't see buying a keyboard as a hack. I could see nice keyboard/mouse sets being sold specifically as a docking station for a an Android tablet. Really, a tablet is going to be more like the monitor/TV that you carry with you to more and more people.

  21. Re:Great on Interactive, Emotion-Detecting Robot Developed · · Score: 1

    But will it get me into the carpool lane?

  22. Re:Insilvent? So what? on A Blue-Sky Idea For the USPS — Postal Trucks As Sensors · · Score: 1

    Article I, Section 8, clause 7: "to establish post offices and post roads" It is specifically listed as a power that the congress is allowed to exercise. However is says nothing about it being mandated to. Nor who runs and provides services in those offices or on those roads.

  23. Re:Said it once... on Digging Into the WikiLeaks Cables · · Score: 1

    Governments don't have rights, they have powers. This whole debate is fraught with fallacy of false analogy. Under this analogy, it's more like when that college kid "hacked" Palin's email and posted it ot 4chan. The kid got busted, but nobody prosecuted Moot for maintaining the forum.

  24. tempting moral rectitude on UK Law Body Targets RIAA-Style Settlement Letters · · Score: 1

    I am nephew of most glorious king of Nigeria. We have on good authority that by electronic means you having received illegal copy of wedding video featuring your music stars performance of Britney Spears. Wire $1,000US to account now to avoid embarrassing expensive litigation.

  25. Re:Abandon all your cash on Estonian Economist Suggests Abandoning Cash · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I worked at a small community bank for a number of years. The software we used actually did track the decimal out a few places beyond what you see (used mostly for interest calculations). However, the larger infrastructure isn't built (yet) to handle those sub-cent values between banks. Also, smaller institutions have a tendency to have a lot of those transactions printed on paper and stored as per federal regulations (paperless is always almost here!) so there is an actual cost to tracking those little tiny transactions, not to mention that small unnoticeable transactions are the floater transactions that fraudsters use to test the viability of raiding an account. When it comes to cash, it's time to move the opposite direction, nothing less than deci-dollars is worth striking up in coin, drop pennies, nickels and quarters.