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  1. Unlikely on Watching the Police: Will Two-Way Surveillance Reduce Crime? · · Score: 1

    As surveillance technologies have matured in both their sophistication and usage, some are starting to ask the question: is it time we start using them to watch the watchers? The proliferation of dashboard cameras has reduced liability costs, provided valuable evidence, and made police officers safer. The next progression would naturally be for the camera to move out of the car and onto the officer's uniform itself.

    Unlikely.. Police unions are pushing to take cameras out of vehicles because they are frequently used against cops.

  2. Re:Agile doesn't mean that the project won't fail on World's Biggest 'Agile' Software Project Close To Failure · · Score: 1

    In the end, buy COTS and change your business to fit your COTS implementation.

  3. Re:Principles on Eric Schmidt: Google Will Continue Investing In UK Even If Taxes Raised · · Score: 1

    Not a universal rule. GM is doing exceptionally well in China.

  4. Re:unique vs total? on Apache OpenOffice Downloaded 50 Million Times In a Year · · Score: 1

    Not to the tune of 35million

  5. Re:Why not just 0? on NTSB Recommends Lower Drunk Driving Threshold Nationwide: 0.05 BAC · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Probably so that people that just washed their mouth with Listerine aren't driving illegally

  6. Re:living in america :( on How Colleges Are Pushing Out the Poor To Court the Rich · · Score: 2

    Send your kid into the Armed Forces. He'll get a free(or heavily subsidized education), businesses will want to hire him(since they get incentives for hiring veterans), and he'll get plenty of ancillary benefits(VA loans, VA health care, hot chicks, etc)

  7. Duh on Ask Slashdot: Why Won't Companies Upgrade Old Software? · · Score: 1

    Several governments and big companies I know use software dependent on IE6.

    Aren't they also losing money by working with inefficient, outdated systems?

    Err, government doesn't give a shit about efficiency. That's not the point of government.

  8. Re:No on High End Graphics Cards Tested At 4K Resolutions · · Score: 1

    Yea, no letter boxing because on a 16:9 screen you don't have the real estate. The size of the picture is the same, it's just that you have a black banner because you have more screen to work with.

  9. No on High End Graphics Cards Tested At 4K Resolutions · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One of the drawbacks to high end graphics has been the lack of low cost and massively-available displays with a resolution higher than 1920x1080.

    Really? You've never heard of the Dell U2410? Fuck 16:9

  10. Re:Not all programmers are suitable for all projec on Hiring Developers By Algorithm · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough I've had opposite results(unless you talk about people that got their degrees while they were working because of one reason or another[required to advance, just wanted to, whatever], who are largely the most adaptable I've seen). The problem with self-learning is habits, structure, etc, not adaptability and potential.

  11. Re:Err on Ubuntu Touch Beta Images Available For Testing · · Score: 1

    Unity looks like a touch interface. As a netbook owner, I ditched it because it was bad compared to Gnome. And Canonical's release for 11.04 stated Unity was "inspired by smartphone and tablet design thinking."

  12. Err on Ubuntu Touch Beta Images Available For Testing · · Score: 1

    Isn't Unity "Ubuntu Touch"?

  13. Re:Bullshit!! on Secret Chat Between Julian Assange and Eric Schmidt Published By WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    That has nothing to do with technology. It's complete social engineering.

  14. Re:Bullshit!! on Secret Chat Between Julian Assange and Eric Schmidt Published By WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    That's why it's not measurable. There is nothing to measure

  15. Re:Parent poster just summed it all up! on Why Local Is So Damn Hard For Startups: Foursquare Borrows $41M To Try Again · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't wholly agree. Traditional advertising is bad(web ads, tv, some radio). Local advertising(signage, newspapers, some radio) can be useful for certain local products(a paintball store, for instance, not someone doing web dev).

    And more than anything else, if there are trade shows for your target demographic, spend the money to go and put up an exhibit. Over the first 10 years the software company I work for(60 people, a small business) existed the vast majority of sales started or closed at trade shows for the target industry(public safety). Trade shows are expensive to attend as an attendee, and even more costly as an exhibitor, but they work very well because your entire audience is your target demographic.

  16. Re:Surveillance on Bin Laden Raid Member To Be WikiLeaks Witness · · Score: 2

    I have, and while templates are nice, reality is different. There may be perfect systems in philosophy, but none of those perfect systems have ever successfully been implemented because it is impossible to do so with so many inputs with different motivations. Compromises must be made. There is no perfect system of governance and there is no perfect economic system, despite volumes upon volumes of work from philosophers for thousands of years. Reality dictates that there must be secrets and that they must be kept. The fact that ugly things are hidden on occasion doesn't change the fact that there are secrets that must be kept secret for the benefit of the nation.

  17. Re:Surveillance on Bin Laden Raid Member To Be WikiLeaks Witness · · Score: 2

    It's easy to determine, actually. Fighting a war. There is no requirement for "open government" in a Republic.

  18. Re:Surveillance on Bin Laden Raid Member To Be WikiLeaks Witness · · Score: 1

    It wasn't snark. The fact that it doesn't say it means that it could be the case if a law were drafted so. The Freedom of Information Act was drafted to accomplish this desire, yet it is limited in what is considered "free information". The data leaked definitely was not covered by FOIA. To say we have the right to know everything is false

  19. Re:So true on Bin Laden Raid Member To Be WikiLeaks Witness · · Score: 1

    > The guy is guilty of having no brains, but wasn't he an intellegence clerk? Here is why I say honeypot, a simple clerk, by the definition of his job, would not have had the security clearance to get to that information, no matter what the system 1) A friend of mine couldn't get into a college because he had terrible grades and wasn't terribly bright. So what did he do? Enlist out of high school into Army intelligence and became some type of intelligence clerk. 2) Intelligence clerks have security clearances and can get access to that information.

  20. Re:Surveillance on Bin Laden Raid Member To Be WikiLeaks Witness · · Score: 1

    Where does it say that in the Constitution?

  21. Summertime Song on Scientists Study Getting an Unwanted Tune Out of Your Head · · Score: 2

    Better watch out for Summertime Song. That dude is dangerous

  22. Re:Forced convergence is all the rage. on We Didn't Need Google's Schmidt To Tell Us Android and Chrome Wouldn't Merge · · Score: 1

    To be fair, you can infer iProduct from "Apple devices" simply because of sales numbers. Macbooks are a tiny sliver of the Apple retail pie

  23. Re:Forced convergence is all the rage. on We Didn't Need Google's Schmidt To Tell Us Android and Chrome Wouldn't Merge · · Score: 1

    Which is why it's not unbelievable that people would believe it, joke or not. It simply is the unfortunate wave of the stupid tech corporate overlord future.

  24. Re:will not stop the publishers from making DMCA r on Supreme Court Upholds First Sale Doctrine · · Score: 4, Informative

    Err, electronic versions make them more relevant. Lazy college professors require you to purchase the online license from publishers like those in question(Wiley) because the website comes setup already with all the quizzes, homework, and tests preconfigured. This is basically standard in every university and community college I've researched in the past 6 years or so. It's too easy for the professor to pass up

  25. Re:Speed and cost on Do Kiosks and IVRs Threaten Human Interaction? · · Score: 1

    Because there are too many damned people in our concrete jungles and many of us spend all day talking to customers and coworkers via face-to-face, phone, email, IM, and other means. The brain needs downtime to process things and rejuvenate our state of mind.