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  1. Re:Candidate not for sale on 145 Tech Leaders Say 'Trump Would Be A Disaster For Innovation' (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    While that might be the case up to this point, it will not be going further into this election cycle. Predictions are that unless he picks up a massive groundswell of donations from his supporter he will be in the same boat as Hillary within weeks. He will quickly loose the most appealing thing about him: he was self funded for the most part. There is know way he can afford to spend, the predicted 2 billion it is expected to run a successful campaign to completion, out of his own pockets and he doesn't (from what I've seen) picked up a donor base like Sanders did. Maybe he can talk Sanders into turning over his supporters, but he's already backed Hillary so this would be a dream at this point.

  2. Sounds like it worked exactly as designed. Should have consulted your dev team before changing the way you name things. Maybe have IT in these meetings?

  3. You are mostly correct: The Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) of 1998 extended copyright terms in the United States. Since the Copyright Act of 1976, copyright would last for the life of the author plus 50 years, or 75 years for a work of corporate authorship. The 1976 Act also increased the extension term for works copyrighted before 1978 that had not already entered the public domain from twenty-eight years to forty-seven years, giving a total term of seventy-five years. The 1998 Act extended these terms to life of the author plus 70 years and for works of corporate authorship to 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever endpoint is earlier.[1] Copyright protection for works published prior to January 1, 1978, was increased by 20 years to a total of 95 years from their publication date. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  4. "Literacy rates have been rather high for well over a century in the US, particularly for white americans. Literacy in the 1950s was well above 90%. The percentage of the population that couldn't read a newspaper in the US hasn't been over 10% since before 1910." This is incorrect and does not include functionally illiterate. https://www.google.com/search?... How many people are illiterate in the US? According to a study conducted in late April by the U.S. Department of Education and the National Institute of Literacy, 32 million adults in the U.S. can't read. That's 14 percent of the population. 21 percent of adults in the U.S. read below a 5th grade level, and 19 percent of high school graduates can't read. The U.S. Illiteracy Rate Hasn't Changed In 10 Years www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/06/illiteracy-rate_n_3880355.html What percent of American adults are functionally illiterate? Over 60% of adults in the US prison system read at or below the fourth grade level. 85% of US juvenile inmates are functionally illiterate. 43% of adults at the lowest level of literacy lived below the poverty line, as opposed to 4% of those with the highest levels of literacy. Functional illiteracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_illiteracy Search for: What percent of American adults are functionally illiterate? What is the definition of illiteracy? What is the average reading level of adults in the US? The 15% figure for full literacy, equivalent to a university undergraduate level, is consistent with the notion that the "average" American reads at a 7th or 8th grade level which is also consistent with recommendations, guidelines, and norms of readability for medication directions, product information, and popular ... Literacy in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States

  5. Reminds me of lan parties back in the day. Almost brought tears of joy to my eyes!

  6. Re:You oppose offering help? Promote abortion? Hon on Smartphone Surveillance Tech Used To Target Anti-Abortion Ads At Pregnant Women (rewire.news) · · Score: 2

    This is a farce and you know it. After growing up in one of these religious families, protesting, and volunteering for five years at one of these centers, these organization are fooling you. It is an emotional draw to influence political opinion and nothing else. These centers provide vague and borderline false information to these struggling you children who generally get into this situation because nobody ever told them about how things work. Sorry. Abstinence works when it can be enforce or theory, but not in real life. So, you give them some diapers and some formula. That's going to help a lot. What's this young mom going to do in 2 weeks when she has to go back to work. She already dropped out of school for the semester. You going to provide child care? Health care? I think not. That's when we dump them on the welfare rolls and then call them worthless because they can't afford the time to better themselves because we lied to them about some personal feel good agenda. We never stop to think of how the consequences truly affect things. Now we've just caused a promising you life to be relegated to some second rate citizen that we scoff at because they got pregnant. Hypocritical much?

  7. Re:Predictable and self-inflicted on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know where you live but you might want to double check your numbers. Where I live teachers start at 22 and cops 28. Garbage men start at 24. See, the problem is, these jobs used to be desirable because of the hours and benefits. Pay has historically never been a key factor for civil servant jobs. It has been since Reagan and his drive to the bottom with "trickle down" when this started and the salaries for the more desirable jobs began to slip. Now, they have slipped so far that teachers and cops look like good paying jobs. That is sad and people not realizing it and slamming these profession need to take a step back and re-evaluate some things.

  8. Re:How about adding back ip over firewire? on Microsoft Removes Wi-Fi Sense Feature From Windows 10 Which Shared Your Wi-Fi Password · · Score: 1

    I didn't think you were trolling, but alas, I have no points today. Just wanted to check on the second sentence though. I think you meant irrelevant.

  9. What? No "I welcome our new fighting robot overlords!" In spite of all the goodness new management is bring, man the crowd is slow sometimes. Maybe they'll put lasers on them too!

  10. Re:Dear Microsoft, on Windows 10 Updates Are Now Ruining Pro-Gaming Streams (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I so wish i had points. I gave ms a similar rant last week to a rep and got crickets.

  11. A good start on SpaceX Intends To Send a Red Dragon To Mars As Early As 2018 (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think he is off to a good start. Don't know about the time table. He has successfully shown that he can perform this type of lift and landing. He's not demonstrated reliability just yet, but he has been successful and this looks to be the beginning of a pattern. He has shown that he can perform second stage upper orbit capabilities so this one should just require the larger rocket. It's a little behind schedule, but barring any major setbacks, he and his crew should be able to perform a limited landing in the near future. Less than two years? Hopeful but not optimistic.

  12. Re:Do we need to post Ars and Verge stories? on YouTube To Roll Out 6-Second Ads That You Can't Skip (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe so, but the comments on here are always more entertaining. The discussions get pretty good sometime too!

  13. Did I read that correctly? on Europe Is Going After Google For Anti-Competitive Behavior With Android · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Rival search engines and mobile operating systems have not been able to compete on their merits. This is not good." I don't even know what to say about this! If you can't compete on your own merits then where is the problem? Give me something better and maybe I'll try it. WebOS was pretty good, but it couldn't compete on it's merits either. We all see where it is. Make a better product. Google and Apple did and they are winning. On their own merits.

  14. Re:First you need the science educated people on Bill Gates Calls On the US Government To Invest More In Research and Development (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    This hit the nail on the head.

  15. I did read the second link. It was just copied for the summary. Thus being incorrect also. As you posted originally in the wikipidea link, I was agreeing that SIMM's haven't been used for many years and were incorrect. At least that's what I though you meant. I see how my comment could have been misinterpreted now. It was not directed at you, but the editor. My apologies if I came off that way.

  16. Yes. The summary does say that, but the article doesn't so maybe somebody should have rta. Either way, the summary is incorrect. Technically and based on content.

  17. Seems somebody should have at least read the article. No mention of SIMM that I found.

  18. Re:Universal Service on AT&T Wants $100 Million From California Taxpayers For Aging DSL (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    I wish I had points left. This so needs to be modded up!

  19. Sponsored Articles on CodeWeavers CrossOver Can Now Run Steam On Android Remix (wine-reviews.net) · · Score: 1

    I'm liking the coloring on the sponsored stuff. Nice touch!

  20. Re:Wait...what? on Infamous French Hacker Calls Internet a "Digital Shantytown" (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    I wish I had more mod points. I would give you all of them.

  21. Re:Greater moderation transparency? on The State of Slashdot: Https, Poll Changes, Auto-Refresh, Videos, and More · · Score: 1

    How about the option for Moderators to comment on down votes? I had my first down vote today, while i don't care one way or the other on the anonymity, I would have happily added a "Dude! that was just inappropriate" comment. Anonymity is nice and all when moderating a public forum such as this. Especially since it a rotating privilege, but I'll keep using mine to up vote. But some comments...

  22. Re:Where's my UTF8? on The State of Slashdot: Https, Poll Changes, Auto-Refresh, Videos, and More · · Score: 1

    I only I still had mod points. This should be +10

  23. Nice they keep upgrading their product, but some of their security changes have just left a bad taste in my mouth for Opera. Loved the browser. Had to move on.

  24. Re:"you can indeed run into regular air traffic" on Record-Breaking 11000ft Flight Sparks Criticism In Pilot Community · · Score: 2

    You make the assumption that numbers are everything. In the Marine Corps, as an Artillery Operation Chief, we had to calculate air corridors for just this reason. While it is actually "little bullet big sky", the planning is "big bullet little sky". Why? Because the probability may be low. The possibility is always catastrophic. It is easy for an artillery man (or drone) to adjust his trajectory to avoid these corridors, it is impossible for a pilot to avoid something he cannot see. Even if you see the plane, traveling at 500+ mph doesn't leave one much time to get out of the way. Let's eliminate the possibility and play nice. Just my $.02

  25. didn't expect this on Brazil Facebook Head Arrested For Refusing To Share WhatsApp Data (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice change of events for Facebook. Never expected them to not gush all the data they collect.