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  1. Re:Right vs Good Idea on Is Mobile Broadband a Luxury Or a Human Right? · · Score: 1

    You have yet to show that those spillover benefits exceed the cost of the bureaucracy required to administer this new "right". This is a bit beyond economics 101, I won't wait around for you to complete your undergrad degree in economics.

  2. Re:Right vs Good Idea on Is Mobile Broadband a Luxury Or a Human Right? · · Score: 1

    Well yes, of course, although I would call the public police and fire services "necessary" rather than merely "worthwhile". Education and health *insurance* can be quite profitable, as demonstrated by the existence of private ventures in both areas, even in places where public subsidies have been commonplace for years.

  3. Re:Right vs Good Idea on Is Mobile Broadband a Luxury Or a Human Right? · · Score: 1

    If it's worth the cost to "society" then it's worth the cost to the private entrepreneur who will invest his own money to set it up in the expectation of future profits from people who are willing to pay for the service.

  4. It's an Illudium-Q36 explosive space modulator on Curiosity Spies Unidentified, Metallic Object On Mars · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm expecting an earth-shattering kaboom!

  5. A billion here, a billion there... on National Ignition Facility Fails To Ignite Support In Congress · · Score: 1

    Pretty soon you're talking about real money.

  6. My sentiments exactly... on Game Review: Torchlight 2 · · Score: 2

    I think I had exactly the same experience with this game. I like the cartoony art style and the fast chaotic battles. "Normal" difficulty seemed like Easy Mode, and I ran through it with an Embermage in about 23 hours of play. "Veteran" difficulty, on the other hand, requires some attention to get the build right and constantly keeping up with weapon and armor upgrades. But there is plenty of all that to choose from, and each of the character types can win with one of several different build styles. I might even stick my toe into the Elite waters.

  7. DUI, collision, no jail time? on Can a Court Order You To Delete a Facebook Account? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    She got off easy, after a DUI collision she should be in jail for a year or two.

  8. Re:The Logica hacking ... on Pirate Bay Co-Founder Detained In Sweden · · Score: 1

    IANAL but the way I understand it, if you are trying to defend yourself against a claim of defamation by saying that you told the truth, it then becomes your burden to prove that what you said was in fact the truth. Not just something you believed at the time, but actually true in fact.

  9. Re:"we are ready to sacrifice millions" on EVE Online CSM and Diplomat Killed in Libyan Consulate Attacks · · Score: 1

    Once we light enough of them on fire they'll all be extremists. That will make target selection a lot easier.

  10. Re:I visited the National Ignition Facility this y on Paul Ryan's Record On Science and Government · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The article acknowledges that the LINL project still suffers from some of the fiscal management problems which Ryan objected to, which were some of the same problems the SSC suffered from as well. I guess we are to conclude that wasting taxpayer money on bureaucratic snafus is necessary for the advancement of science.

  11. uTorrent 2.2.1 FTW on BitTorrent Tries To Appease Users By Making Torrent Ads Optional · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Besides the increasingly intrusive ads, uTorrent 3.x.x just sucks. It randomly consumes 100% of one cpu core and is highly unpredictable on bandwidth usage when downloading. I'm sticking with 2.2.1 until hell freezes over.

  12. They don't have to be noisy on Cherry MX Mechanical Keyboard Switches Compared · · Score: 2

    You can get foam "landing pads" which eliminate the bottoming-out clackiness of all the cherry-type keyboards. That makes all but the blue switches almost entirely silent.

    http://elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=access,slpads

  13. How many parts per billion is "polluted"? on The Pacific Ocean Is Polluted With Coffee · · Score: 1

    From the article: 44.7 nanograms of caffeine per liter of seawater.
    That's the equivalent of one Red Bull in 1.7 million liters of water.

  14. Re:Ordered to explain why it ignored the order on Federal Appeals Court Orders TSA To Explain Delay In Body Scan Public Hearing · · Score: 2

    7. We'll investigate that right away. Get back to us after the election, OK?

  15. Re:kent brockman: on Senate Cybersecurity Bill Stalled By Ridiculous Amendments · · Score: 1

    That's not a bug, that's a feature.

  16. Re:Yes, I am suspicious on Facebook Abstainers Could Be Labeled Suspicious · · Score: 1

    Godwin is everywhere.

  17. Yes, I am suspicious on Facebook Abstainers Could Be Labeled Suspicious · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know who else never used Facebook? Hitler!

  18. Re:Fracking best hope for reducing CO2 output on Koch Bros Study Finds Global Warming Is Real And Man-Made · · Score: 1

    What Obama says in public, and what his administration does in reality, are two different, and usually diametrically opposed things. Giant energy companies don't care what they sell, as long as they make a profit doing it. The coal lobby is bipartisan. It's not just red states which are dependent on coal for electric generation capacity. And science denialism is bipartisan too. There is more to science than just CAGW and the Democrats are very, very, good at denying reality when it suits them. It's not at all weird to blame the party in power for what is happening on their watch.

  19. Re:But the real question is... on Koch Bros Study Finds Global Warming Is Real And Man-Made · · Score: 1

    Only if there's big bucks in it for the Politically Connected.

  20. Re:Format the hard drive on Ask Slashdot: How To Clean Up My Work Computer Before I Leave? · · Score: 1

    If you're being fired and they left you alone with your computer long enough to do a format wipe they've got more to worry about than whether you stole confidential information.

  21. Re:Chief? on Man Claims Cell Phone Taken By DC Police For Taking Photos · · Score: 1

    The cops always have the "by my training and experience" excuse for how they came up with probable cause, which is almost like the lawyers' "upon information and belief" excuse for asking for discovery in a fishing expedition lawsuit.

  22. Re:Chief? on Man Claims Cell Phone Taken By DC Police For Taking Photos · · Score: 5, Interesting

    By making it official policy, it opens up lawsuits that can break the usual qualified immunity that cops get.

  23. Format the hard drive on Ask Slashdot: How To Clean Up My Work Computer Before I Leave? · · Score: 1

    Wipe the whole thing. Don't worry about causing problems for the next user of the machine, tech support would probably do a format-and-reinstall anyway just to be sure that it's back to company standards.

  24. Re:SO WHAT? on Correcting the Record: the Government's Role In the Internet · · Score: 1

    And they have control over exactly that work product. Nothing more. What somebody else does with that work is not within the scope of their control.
    The MPEG standards group that defined video standards does not have the right to control what porn is encoded with MPEG-4 AVC.

  25. Re:SO WHAT? on Correcting the Record: the Government's Role In the Internet · · Score: 1

    They already control the part they built. Just like I control the part I built: this computer right here in front of me.
    Nobody controls the whole thing, and that's the way it should be.