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  1. Socialism!

  2. Cory Doctorow is right There is a war... on The Android SDK Is No Longer Free Software · · Score: 1

    ...on general computing going on. If you can't load this onto a 'handset' what is there stopping google from broadening what is defined as a handset as to restrict developers to specific closed development platforms. We are back to paying 10000 for an intellec8 dev station; living in the nintendo and sony world...

  3. The FT857d and the trailer are loaded.... on Slashdot Asks: Are You Preparing For Hurricane Sandy? · · Score: 1

    ...and I'm getting the ft817nd charged and set up for NVIS operation. Of course, I'm in cape may county, NJ, so basically I'll be flattened.

  4. Re:oh wow on Why America's School "Lag" Has Never Mattered · · Score: 1

    The talent most businesses value the most is getting people to give them money for goods and services, and getting employees to work productively for less than the economic value they produce.

  5. I haven't thought this all the way through... on Quantum Teleportation Sends Information 143 Kilometers · · Score: 1

    ...but doesn't that mean that information from the frame of reference of the sattelite will arrive 300ms in the future, or however long the dilatation of the gravity well of earth allows?

  6. As if the truth about all that isn't just as... on Judge Orders Release of Ex-Marine Detained Over Facebook Posts · · Score: 2

    ... bizarre as his fantasy world.

  7. Congratulations on Ex-Marine Detained For Facebook Posts Deemed "Terrorist in Nature" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You have now just validated what this paranoid individual has been saying to his mentally unstable friends. Good job!

  8. Translation? Put this on your phone or we will... on Insurer Measures Driver Safety With Smartphone App To Calculate Premiums · · Score: 1

    raise your rates 20%.

  9. Re:Hansen again? on NASA Scientist: Heat Waves Really Are From Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Good for you :)

  10. Re:Hansen again? on NASA Scientist: Heat Waves Really Are From Global Warming · · Score: 2

    Have you ever produced peer reviewed work? The massive amount of politics that goes into getting published turned me away from a career in academics. It literally has more to do with who you know and how your paper fits into their world view than the merits of your paper.

  11. Got my guinea pigs. on Meat the Food of the Future · · Score: 1

    Chile raises them for meat, and supposedly they have a flavor similar to chicken dark meat. The non-emotion inducing name for them is Cavys. 2 males and 3 females are enough to produce meat for a family of 4 supposedly. They eat grass too.

  12. Protectionism.... on Why Bad Jobs (or No Jobs) Happen To Good Workers · · Score: 2

    If you won't protect the wages of your skilled workers who you claim to need by not allowing foreigners into the country, then you must not protect the intellectual property of companies offering patent and copyright and tariffs to protect against dumping. Period. The USA is prohibited from treating one individual different than another by the 14th amendment. Precisely analogous to not allowing minorities equal civil rights is not allowing workers equal economic rights--sometimes they overlap.

  13. The million dollar question on James Randi's Latest Debunking Operation · · Score: 1

    If someone could truly use some form of telepathy or telekinesis, why the hell would they expose it for 1 million dollars when they can use it to make billions in investment, trading, or gambling? I am glad that he puts that million dollar barrier up for frauds, but I'm not sure he's ever going to find someone with demonstratable abilities to risk being exposed for a mere million bucks. I know if I had the ability to read minds or see through walls or see into the future or bend spoons with my mind, I'd be playing blackjack or poker, investing in high risk securities or playing roulette respectively.

  14. While I'll gladly build a cloud based system... on What Happens To Your Files When a Cloud Service Shuts Down? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...for a client, I'm not going to fool them into believing its any more secure than offsite copies in C level officer's homes or other safe location with physical access. In fact, given what happened with Megaupload, I'm not sure I could, in good conscience, convince a customer that cloud computing is secure for them.

  15. Forget that man! What happens to on Facebook Prepping For Massive Hiring Spree · · Score: 3, Insightful

    all of the information when it goes to a creditor who might claim that the privacy policy no longer applies....

  16. Re:Correction. on The 147 Corporations Controlling Most of the Global Economy · · Score: 1

    The EPA exists solely to keep poor people from encroaching on rich people. A rich person wants to build a road through a patch of swamp they own? Pay a usage fee and go about your business. A poor person wants to do that? Say what? My entire salary for a year just to drain a little bit of wetlands to keep my kids from being bitten by mosquitos? 33 thousand dollars per acre of disturbance. To a rich person, that's a nuisance. To a poor person, that makes anything they wish to do impossible. This keeps rich people's lands from being overdeveloped and being taxed as high density, thus letting poor people move in.

  17. Re:I remember a friend racking up a huge phone bil on Reminiscing Old School Linux · · Score: 1

    Spent hours myself back in the 90s in college downloading all of the slackware disks to install it on my crappy packard bell during college. X did not want to work on that machine....

  18. Gosh darnit. Two guys I'd like to do my PhD under on New Theory of Gravity Decouples Space & Time · · Score: 3, Funny

    In one day, and they are both in California. I am stuck here in New Jersey. New Jersey is Hell. When people die, they don't go under the ground, they just pop up somewhere in Newark. See, us citizens of New Jersey are immortal because if we are killed, we just pop up back again in New Jersey. Its just really hard to navigate around Newark, so that's why you don't see us again..................

  19. Att out now! on AT&T To Allow VoIP On iPhone · · Score: 1

    I guess all of the skyping was too much for the nj/pa/de area 3g network! No internet fix for about 8 hours :(

  20. Re:Gandhi isn't always right on Iran Moves To End "Facebook Revolution" · · Score: 1

    Umm, try, "because we know we need a standing militia and they can help out a tyranical internal power taker" comma "we are going to make sure that the people have the teeth to repel such tyranical power taker and standing militia in the event that this crap happens to us again" not, we need militias to protect ourselves, so we need to let people have guns to form those militias. the latter is a completely obvious statement that wouldn't be needed to be pointed out! why in the heck would we need to codify that we need guns to have an army, right alongside a clause that tells us that we won't let our right to protest unfair treatment be taken away and we won't let any institutions like religion be nationalized in order to control us again.

  21. Unfortunately.... on North Korea Missile Launch Fails · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...even by failing, they obviously learned something about the performance of that missile, and will draw conclusions that will allow them to build better missiles in the future. This reflects poorly on the United States, NATO, China, Japan, and S. Korea, since they couldn't prevent this clearly provocative activity from occuring and get N. Korea back to the table. The UN will do nothing, even with Ban as the secretary general.

  22. Re:i'll play counterpoint to the inevitable on Inside the New Science of Neuroengineering · · Score: 1

    Ok, I'll Bite. If you put an extra 8g into your server and it runs faster, is your server faster or is it just the 8g of ram you added? Do you say, my fps are up on on my 8g of ram, or on my gaming machine? It's not the 'performance enhancing substance' that wins any more than the balanced diet that you eat that keeps you from experiencing performance deficits. By that logic, we should force athletes to starve themselves--well, wrestling, haha--so they are not taking performance enhancing vitamins and minerals that their own body cannot produce.

  23. Re:How to adapt Ipod Touch w/Verison Wireless Card on We're Just Not That Into You, iPhone Apps · · Score: 1

    Why not just get a used i730 off of ebay and get the unlimited internet. there should be wmwifirouter app available that will turn the i730 into a wireless router and allow you to use your IPT2G with it like a phone using skype or one of the other voip apps on the app store. I just hide my smartphone in another pocket and pretend like my touch is an iphone.

  24. Re:I knew it!!! on We're Just Not That Into You, iPhone Apps · · Score: 1

    I agree! Safari on my IPT2G is so much better than PIE on my tilt. I find myself bringing up internet sharing on my phone and looking stuff up on my ipod instead.

  25. Kind of makes sense on Science's Alternative To an Intelligent Creator · · Score: 1

    I have always pondered the universal significance of being born in the bottom of NJ, the terminus of the digestive system of the united states. I wonder what it would be like to have been born in europe or africa, but yet I am born here. I guess I could have been born in the middle of the air on an airplane, or at the bottom of the ocean, but I couldn't continue to exist there very long. I guess the same applies here. We apply extra significance to ourselves and our existence here in this universe in this solar system, but it just happens that we were born in the NJ of the multiverse, instead of the Europe of the multiverse, and could not have possibly continued to exist at the bottom of the sea if we were born there. Nothing special about here and now, just a possible solution that we as observers are uniquely aware of. I am just glad I wasn't born in the Africa of the universe.