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  1. Re:I wil pay my fair share on Microsoft Offers Washington a Bargain: More State Taxes, For More Education · · Score: 1

    The best you can hope for is to benefit from a martyr effect: Go to jail for a 'cause' and when you get out you might be able to build them into a decent fanbase. Claim your conviction was persecution and make a tidy sum on the talk circuits and endorsements with your niche fame.

  2. Re:Very similar strategy to Cisco on Microsoft Offers Washington a Bargain: More State Taxes, For More Education · · Score: 1

    It's business. You have to cheat as hard as you can just to stay where you are.

  3. Re:What about the conductors? on Robot Performs Prostate Surgery Inside an MRI · · Score: 2

    I'm just speculating, but if I were designing it the first thing I'd try would be twisted pair wiring. It's highly resistant to magnetic interference because the induction in one wire is perfectly balanced by induction in another - and you only need to get the connections made to piezo elements, which run off a voltage differential. All the sophisticated electronics can sit in a box some distance away.

  4. Re:Missing something on Extreme Reduction Gearing Device Offers an Amazing Gear Ratio · · Score: 1

    Size is most notable - you could achieve the same ratio with a chain of screws or stacked gears loose on two shafts, but it would take up a lot more space.

    The plastic is too weak for use with serious force, but a variation of the design might find some application as a mechanical counter.

  5. Re:Seen this before. on Brazilian Evangelicals Set Up a "Sin Free" Version of Facebook · · Score: 1

    They all try to do what Jesus would have. They just disagree greatly as to what he would have done.

    Some like to look at Jesus urging followers to turn the other cheek. They see a Jesus who strives to be above petty, worldly concerns. Others look at Jesus overturning the money-lenders. They see a Jesus who wasn't afraid to stand up for what is right, even by force and in defiance of the law. Two very different Jesuses, depanding which story you like most.

  6. Re:pardon my french, but "duh" on How Bad User Interfaces Can Ruin Lives · · Score: 1

    In seventy years we'll probably still be running IPv4 - with a quadruple-level NAT between the end users and the few datacenters where the precious addresses are allocated.

  7. Re:Foreign interests? on Proposed Regulation Could Keep 3D-printed Gun Blueprints Offline For Good · · Score: 1

    Not better. More available.

    Here in the UK, it's pretty hard to get an illegal gun. You need connections - a contact in organized crime who can put you in touch with the right people. That means your common street gang member doesn't have a gun - they have to make do with knives. If 3D printed guns became more practical, every gangsta-wannabe would have one.

  8. Re:Of course it will on Proposed Regulation Could Keep 3D-printed Gun Blueprints Offline For Good · · Score: 1

    In some US states, 2) is legally equivalent to 3). The camera makes no difference: If they get paid to have sex, it's considered prostitution.

  9. Re:Yay, regulation!! on Proposed Regulation Could Keep 3D-printed Gun Blueprints Offline For Good · · Score: 1

    I view copyright law as intrinsically flawed today. It was a good idea pre-internet - but today it can't possibly be enforced without resorting to draconian measures. An unenforceable law is a very bad thing indeed, as it becomes easily abused, and such a law should be either repealed or reworked into a more practical form.

  10. Re:Judges aren't all dicks on Proposed Regulation Could Keep 3D-printed Gun Blueprints Offline For Good · · Score: 1

    There is a comma in the second amendment to the US constitution that has been the subject of many long debates.

  11. Re:How do you define a "gun part"? on Proposed Regulation Could Keep 3D-printed Gun Blueprints Offline For Good · · Score: 1

    The most basic guns don't have a receiver. A zip gun might only fire one shot, but one is enough - and they can be made disposable-cheap, so you are limited only by the capacity of your pockets.

  12. Re:Because...it's the LAW! on Proposed Regulation Could Keep 3D-printed Gun Blueprints Offline For Good · · Score: 1

    It does bring the cost down. Metalworking and welding tools will set someone back a few thousand dollars - a 3D printer can be obtained for a tenth that much.

    The 3D printed gun will probably explode on the second shot, but that's ok. Use the old flintlock method and carry six of them. The technology will improve eventually anyway.

  13. Re:Seen this before. on Brazilian Evangelicals Set Up a "Sin Free" Version of Facebook · · Score: 1

    You've not argued with many religious people, I see. You make a common mistake of assuming they actually do as their religion says, rather than interpreting their religion so say what they want to do.

    Brazil is also a heavily-Christian country, so there isn't much evangelizing to do there. The best anyone can aim for locally is poaching some followers from a rival church.

  14. Seen this before. on Brazilian Evangelicals Set Up a "Sin Free" Version of Facebook · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The 'Christian version' is a pretty common concept.

    http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmw...

    It'll fail, I expect, for the same reason that most social networks fail: They depend on users to draw users, so it's very hard to get them established. For every Facebook, there are thousand Orkuts.

  15. Re:All possible languages? on Brazilian Evangelicals Set Up a "Sin Free" Version of Facebook · · Score: 2

    Faceglory.jp also not found. They might want to get that one quickly.

  16. Re:Russian ship. on Russian Progress Cargo Ship Docks With Space Station · · Score: 1

    A microgravity still sounds like a fun thing to design. I can see a few possibilities - you could try a hydrophilic mesh to keep the liquid place, or a super-fine net relying on surface tension to keep liquids from passing through the holes.

  17. Russian ship. on Russian Progress Cargo Ship Docks With Space Station · · Score: 0

    I'm imagining a zero-grav race for the control panel with the hidden bottle of vodka inside.

  18. Re:I'm surprised on Theresa May Named UK's Internet Villain of the Year · · Score: 1

    He is sensible enough not to personally talk about this issue.

  19. Re:As nobody knows how the brain works... on Brain-Inspired 'Memcomputer' Constructed · · Score: 1

    Another possibility is that the research has been over-hyped - the article reads like a journalist trying to describe something they don't understand to and audience they expect to understand even less.

  20. The most obvious parallel: on Frank Herbert's Dune, 50 Years On · · Score: 1

    If there is a small area which contains an essential resource of which a global shortage exists, there will inevitably be some form of political or military conflict for that area. This situation will last until the resource is depleted or the resource becomes non-essential.

  21. Re:No on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 1

    I have a device on mine - a WDTV box. Thing beneath the TV that plays media. When I connected it up, I discovered that it's search for network shares is quite aggressive: It actually portscanned the entire subnet range in search of NFS an SMB shares. All very well, except that I have some rather embarrassing media shared on NFS - as no-one else in the house uses linux, I hadn't seen reason to secure it in any way. An incident was narrowly avoided.

  22. Re:Clearly bitcoin is the answer on Greek Financial Crisis Is an Opportunity For Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    I'd rather have the dollar each day.

  23. Re:Irrelevant on Greek Financial Crisis Is an Opportunity For Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    But it's also had only one big bubble, and hasn't been around that long. There isn't enough historical data to make any prediction for the future based on that alone.

  24. Re:Austerity or... on Greek Financial Crisis Is an Opportunity For Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    " Only a Sith deals in absolutes."

    This statement is itsself an absolute. Thus anyone who makes this claim must be a sith.

  25. Re:plastic is for junk on Ask Slashdot: For What Are You Using 3-D Printing? · · Score: 1

    And some pedestrian-pounder bars at the front.