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  1. no on Ask Slashdot: Is Tech Talent More Important Than Skill? · · Score: 1

    if it were, I'd be working.

  2. Re:Better plots? on Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops · · Score: 1

    There's a reason why most people have turned away from playing sports.

    You are forced to interact with knuckleheads, dudebros, and roid rangers.

    And most of us would really prefer to interact with these types when we have to, like getting stopped at a checkpoint, or when getting on an airplane.

  3. Re: florida's governor is a criminal on Florida Law May Accidentally Ban Computers and Smartphones · · Score: 1

    90% of the residents of FL came from other places, in my case, New Jersey when I was 4.

  4. Re:Fuck 'em on Police, Copyright Industry Raid Movie Subtitle Fansite · · Score: 1

    I believe there are other special laws which apply, such as the FCC rules regarding captioning.

    This service was providing translation services for the closed captions.

    Subtitles in Lieu of Captioning
    The rules provide that open captioning or subtitles in the language of the target audience may be used in lieu of closed captioning.

  5. Re: florida's governor is a criminal on Florida Law May Accidentally Ban Computers and Smartphones · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well Florida is the "right to scam" state.

    As a naturalized FL native, I can honestly say I've seen scammers at work. I've contracted for scammers, I've been stiffed contracting payment by scammers. I've been paid by scammers for legitimate work.

    Florida is the place everyone comes to bleed through investors before opening up a new LLC when the money runs dry. I've seen it in at least 3 separate occasions over the past 10 years. Some businesses will change names and locations when they stiff too many people. They still called to get new cables run for their new offices.

    Lest you forget about FL pill mills.

    So when the state tries to ban Internet cafes, despite the verbiage being off, it's a good thing. Such businesses exist only to scam people.

  6. Re:This is years old on What Does Six Months of Meta-Data Look Like? · · Score: 1

    That's not a rule.

    But rule #41 is a rule.

  7. Re:Well, on Steve Ballmer Replaces Don Mattrick As Xbox One Chief · · Score: 2

    There goes the company.

    Ballmer has been in charge of the company during some of it's worst screwups.

    Xbox was really the last bastion of hope for MS to not be a total failure.

    They are very good at putting the cart before the horse.

    When Xbox goes down in flames due to inflexibility, They can no longer blame Mattrick.

    I guess this is what the modern corporation doesn't understand. They fight against unionized workers every day, but fighting against unionized consumers is a losing prospect every time.

  8. Re:Oh please on Telescopic Contact Lens With Switchable Magnification To Help AMD Patients · · Score: 1

    sadly you will still lack the brain power necessary to calculate trajectories that fast.

  9. Re:Some fundamental, unchecked assumption here ? on Patents Vs Innovation - the Tabarrok Curve · · Score: 1

    When Kennedy said he wanted a man on the moon, were there not laws passed to facilitate the budget required?

    That single goal inspired a generation of scientists and the most innovative period in the history of the world.

  10. Re:Richard Dawson: Surveillance...says! on The Return of Surveillance Camera Man · · Score: 1

    can't wear hats or sunglasses in a bank.

  11. Re:Richard Dawson: Surveillance...says! on The Return of Surveillance Camera Man · · Score: 1

    flash back 250 years.

    If anything saves us from the Tyranny of the King, it will surely be having regulars quartered in our houses.
    If those soldiers abuse and harm us, that's the problem

  12. Re:Guy deserves getting beaten on The Return of Surveillance Camera Man · · Score: 2

    the point is, you have no expectation of privacy in public.

    You can be filmed and are filmed on a daily basis without your explicit consent.

    But by entering a public place you're giving up your privacy.

  13. Re:Guy deserves getting beaten on The Return of Surveillance Camera Man · · Score: 1

    and yet no one blinks an eye when they can't see the man behind the camera.

  14. Re:thats what you get for being stupid on Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Halts USD Withdrawals · · Score: 2

    I can appreciate your interest. The paraphrasing is much like the original and it's not wrong.

    But you left out two key points.

    GS knew the instruments were bad investments when they sold them to customers.(there are internal documents proving this).
    GS also used the insurance money paid by the government bailout of AIG to buy securities.

    The public at large didn't defraud the government, the government didn't defraud itself.
    GS engaged in fraud.

    So when you say everyone is to blame, you really mean financial institutions who invented the credit default swap. The ratings agencies who rated them AAA. The regulators who allowed insurance policies on such instruments. The mortgage broker who matched bad candidates. And finally the lenders for loaning with dodgy terms without due diligence of candidates.

  15. Re:thats what you get for being stupid on Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Halts USD Withdrawals · · Score: 5, Informative

    It would be nice if that were the truth. Yes, the Bush administration made it a priority to get people into homes.
    The mortgage brokers cheated lenders with subprime mortgages. They got their commissions and people lost the houses they couldn't afford in the first place.
    The lenders then sold bad loans to investors like Goldman Sachs.
    When the bottom finally fell out, two financial instruments companies went down. The rest got their money back from the government.
    To explain exactly how much cheating was going on, the utter trash that GS knew was trash, they sold to investors. They also took out insurance policies on it.
    Then AIG collapsed because of those policies and the government paid their policies. GS took that money and used it to buy securities.

    So, GS engaged in quasi-criminal behavior and fraud. They bought, packaged, and sold turds. Took out turd insurance and then used the insurance to buy money.

    In case some can't follow along, the took the government bailout and loaned it back to the government with interest.

    So, no, the crash of 2008 wasn't due to regulation, it was due to fraud. And no one went to jail.

  16. Re:thats what you get for being stupid on Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Halts USD Withdrawals · · Score: 1

    cash is a tool for real criminals.

  17. Re:Throw the Book on Former TigerDirect President Indicted In $230 Million Laundering Scheme · · Score: 1

    how is anyone surprised that the Type A personality was selfish?

  18. Re:And yet TPB lives on Pirate Bay Founder Sentenced To Jail · · Score: 1

    Why would you get a Linux ISO on tpb?

    Unless you plan to verify md5 on every single package, I'd go to the vendor's site.

    You just don't know what you're getting from tpb. It could be a rootkit with a side of worm.

  19. Re:Proofreading? on Monsanto Executive Wins World Food Prize · · Score: 2

    it's more like Dr. Frankenstein winning the Nobel prize in medicine.

  20. Re:Proofreading? on Monsanto Executive Wins World Food Prize · · Score: 2, Insightful

    so let me get this straight, a guy was given a food prize for making food less food-like?

  21. so now they're subverting the right to fair trial? on NSA's Role In Terror Cases Concealed From Defense Lawyers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    withholding evidence from the defense because it's classified? That's akin to a show trial.

  22. Re:aren't there laws against monopolistic practice on Verizon Accused of Intentionally Slowing Netflix Video Streaming · · Score: 1

    you're missing the point.

    Other ISPs have already setup their own CDNs for netflix because it's simply cheaper. Verizon is in direct competition with netflix now with Redbox's streaming service.

    I have comcast. Trying using netflix on your cable modem with and without comcast DNS servers. When using OpenDNS, the streams are stalled for minutes. Using comcasts own DNS servers, the streams start quickly.

  23. Re:aren't there laws against monopolistic practice on Verizon Accused of Intentionally Slowing Netflix Video Streaming · · Score: 1

    apparently the OP doesn't realize Redbox now has a streaming service.

  24. Re:I'm sure it's effective on Officials Say NSA Probed Fewer Than 300 Numbers - Broke Plots In 20 Nations · · Score: 3, Insightful

    what they're doing is storing everything. Whether they probed it or not isn't the question. They are storing it.

  25. Re:Better security might help on Confirmed: CBS News Reporter's Computer Compromised · · Score: 0

    just where do you think SELinux came from?

    Just why do you think a secret agency would go through the trouble?

    NSA have a secret API into all 4 major OS platforms.