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  1. Re:'Hidden city' explanation on Judge Tosses United Airlines Lawsuit Over 'Hidden City' Tickets · · Score: 1

    This is not true. Airlines routinely put luggage on different planes. Doesn't meant that the first choice is any different(ship it with you), but it happens all the time.

  2. Re:'Hidden city' explanation on Judge Tosses United Airlines Lawsuit Over 'Hidden City' Tickets · · Score: 1

    Some of those routes aren't profitable, but they're required by the Essential Air Service regulation.

    And some of those routes are just a factor of supply and demand. Lots of people want to fly to Salt Lake City, but very few want to fly to Rapid City. Granted, you could say that you could gouge people who want to fly to a remote destination, but most airports have multiple carriers and competition has shown to work on pricing(the Southwest/Jetblue effect).

  3. Re:'Hidden city' explanation on Judge Tosses United Airlines Lawsuit Over 'Hidden City' Tickets · · Score: 2

    You can't do it with checked luggage. You fedex your luggage if you have that much.

  4. Re:Okay? on Verizon Tells Customer He Needs 75Mbps For Smoother Netflix Video · · Score: 1

    Some do. Verizon doesn't.

  5. It's almost as if your maximum potential bandwidth to a third party destination isn't just constrained by the network you start in.

  6. Re:I know what will happen... on Researchers Mount Cyberattacks Against Surgery Robot · · Score: 1

    Not just that. Humans are corruptible. Send a doctor in to do it live and there's no reason that a doctor couldn't be compromised and kill the person anyways.

  7. Re:Attempting with existing title was a mistake on Valve Pulls the Plug On Paid Mods For Skyrim · · Score: 1

    We understand our own game's communities pretty well, but stepping into an established, years old modding community in Skyrim was probably not the right place to start iterating. We think this made us miss the mark pretty badly, even though we believe there's a useful feature somewhere here.

    Most important quote. They want to monetize the mods, like they did when they bought DoD, CS, etc. They just made the mistake of trying to monetize the mods of an established game of a different publisher/developer.

  8. Re:Google should just buy Sprint and T-Mo on Google Launches Project Fi Mobile Phone Service · · Score: 1

    TMobile is GSM and Sprint isn't?

  9. Re:Good for her! on Astronaut Snaps Epic Star Trek Selfie In Space · · Score: 1

    They lacked a visible leader. They had direction, purpose.

  10. Re:Good for her! on Astronaut Snaps Epic Star Trek Selfie In Space · · Score: 1

    The hive mind always needs a leader. My space scifi reading history isn't up to snuff, but at least since Ender's Game 30 years ago, it's been common for hive minds to have a centralized authority figure, either as the host/transmitter of the mind, or something else. A hive mind without a leader ends up like the Force. Interconnected but with no purpose and no direction. We can't say the Borg were without direction. They've had direction since their first appearance.

  11. Re:after I destroy Washington D.C... I will destro on ISS Could Be Fitted With Lasers To Shoot Down Space Junk · · Score: 2

    Everyone would cheer if they went after Martha's Vineyard or Cape Cod. It would solve more problems than it causes

  12. Re:Wow. Just wow. on LA Schools Seeking Refund Over Botched iPad Plan · · Score: 1

    Teachers wanted good test scores, so they did the only thing that worked with the hand they were dealt, they cheated. Standardized testing as a grading mechanism for teachers doesn't fix anything.

    The responsibility of school is not to provide a supplement or replacement for bad parenting. Bad parenting, love it or hate it, is a right we've given as a society to people along with the rest of our freedoms. Making the school responsible for this in the way you are saying is overreach and a violation of civil liberties.

  13. Re:Wow. Just wow. on LA Schools Seeking Refund Over Botched iPad Plan · · Score: 2

    Look to Atlanta to see what being objectively measured means. You're requiring teachers to be parents. You can only educate so much when the home life is a disaster

  14. Re:Wow. Just wow. on LA Schools Seeking Refund Over Botched iPad Plan · · Score: 1

    I work with public contracts all the time. Company sales submits an RFP response that meets the RFP goals with very vague language, the public customer does no homework and signs the contract, then the first thing the company project manager does is review the RFP and come up with a fit/gap analysis where they tell the customer that 30% of what company sales agreed to can't be done, then they proceed anyways and the public customer asks for everything out of scope they can think of to make up for the 30% loss on functionality, then they deliver a pilot that barely works and the customer either does what happened here or decide to say fuck it and roll the project out to everyone or even spend a few million more to expand it to people not originally in scope.

  15. Re:Wow. Just wow. on LA Schools Seeking Refund Over Botched iPad Plan · · Score: 1

    Well, yea, look at Everyday Math and Common Core. Theory bullshit that educated professionals and real educators hate, but politicians and executives-in-education love.

  16. So..? on Patent Case Could Shift Power Balance In Tech Industry · · Score: 1

    So is the summary stating that Apple is trying to obfuscate the fee structure or trying to obfuscate which patents are subject to RAND terms?

  17. Re:Unnecessary, but profitable. on The Dystopian Lake Filled By the World's Tech Sludge · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Rare earth minerals actually aren't rare and we have tons of proven reserves. We just stopped because it's a dirty business.

  18. CBP on DHS Wants Access To License-plate Tracking System, Again · · Score: 2

    Customs and Border Protection is a division of DHS and they have this already. Kind of strange.

  19. Re:Meh on How Malvertising Abuses Real-Time Bidding On Ad Networks · · Score: 1

    ABP and NoScript basically handle most of that. Flashblock isn't necessary with NoScript unless you want to enable a website and keep Flash disabled until you want to use it

  20. Re: Not everyone on NSA: We Mulled Ending Phone Program Before Edward Snowden Leaks · · Score: 4, Informative

    Err, not the only force. Revolution works pretty well on occasion, too.

  21. In the end, these people can still claim they have MBAs. Just because it's not from an accredited school doesn't mean that they don't have one. It's up to the perspective employer to verify education. They'll get tossed out of a few opportunities, but many won't even notice.

  22. No on Ask Slashdot: What Happened To Semantic Publishing? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't want Symantec publishing. Costs too much to renew every year while hogging all my available CPU and RAM

  23. Re:I'm disappointed in Canada on Leaked Snowden Docs Show Canada's "False Flag" Operations · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is the worst type of behavior. Hopefully it's not true. Plotting against your own citizens for gains, whether it's political, monetary, or whatever, is worthy of revolution

  24. Re:Arbitrary on UK Chancellor Confirms Introduction of 'Google Tax' · · Score: 1

    Creative accounting still allows for more accountability than "because I said so". The ledger is still going to show what it shows, regardless of how creative they get.

  25. Arbitrary on UK Chancellor Confirms Introduction of 'Google Tax' · · Score: 1

    Under the new tax regime, companies with an annual turnover of £10m will have to tell HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) if they think their company structure could make them liable for diverted profit tax. Once HMRC has assessed the structures, and decided how much profit has been artificially diverted from the UK, multinationals will have only 30 days to object to the 25% tax.

    The arbitrary nature of this opens up a whole lot for corruption and mistakes. It would be much better if they can establish actual calculations rather than arbitrary distinctions.