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  1. Hard to copy? on Blowing On Money To Tell If It Is Counterfeit · · Score: 2

    They did it in the lab and published about the method, then how would it be hard to copy?

  2. The informative URL on Launching 2015: a New Certificate Authority To Encrypt the Entire Web · · Score: 1

    Here is the informative URL, which explains how validation and automation is handled: https://letsencrypt.org/howitworks/technology/

  3. Recycle on Robots Put To Work On E-Waste · · Score: 1

    Are they actually able to recycle electronic components? The industrial cutter can takes apart a LCD screen, but they do not mention un-soldering.

  4. Salesperson again on Do Good Programmers Need Agents? · · Score: 1

    This is just the salesperson re-branded as agent. But perhaps as an agent the salesperson will stop selling impossible things?

  5. Re:how does JavaScript work without computers? on Ask Slashdot: Who's the Doctors Without Borders of Technology? · · Score: 1

    Are you SURE that's just Africa? It sounds pretty familiar.

    The biggest difference is that African corrupted officials are appointed by western powers, while I am not sure who decide about our corrupted officials in western powers

  6. kph? on Japanese Maglev Train Hits 500kph · · Score: 4, Informative

    It is nice to pick international system units, however it would be better to do it right. This should be km/h, not kph.

  7. Security? on An Applied Investigation Into Graphics Card Coil Whine · · Score: 1

    How much internal state information is leaked in the noises?

  8. Re:yacc, of course on Ask Slashdot: Programming Education Resources For a Year Offline? · · Score: 2

    Apart from the joke, mastering awk, lex and yacc seems a very modest goal for a full year.

  9. Re:Public transit does not have to make money on Will Lyft and Uber's Shared-Ride Service Hurt Public Transit? · · Score: 1

    If uber can come in at lower cost without subsidy, then the question, I think, is what is public transportation doing wrong?

    They grab the profitable lines, leaving the unprofitable to public transport. This means public transport deficit increase and must be funded. Since the gap was created by Uber's benefit, it makes sense to tax them to fund unprofitable lines.

    Alternatively, Uber could be mandated to operate both profitable and unprofitable lines, but since the sum is not profitable...

  10. Re:I don't get it... on US Gov't Issues Alert About iOS "Masque Attack" Threat · · Score: 1

    How do you install an app from an untrusted source if the iOS device is not jailbroken?

  11. Public transit does not have to make money on Will Lyft and Uber's Shared-Ride Service Hurt Public Transit? · · Score: 1

    The goal of public transit is not to make money. Money paid from passengers may not pay the trip, and taxpayers money may be used to fill the gap.

    If Uber widens the gap, when why not tax it? Uber benefits are just taken from taxpayer money use to finance public transit, after all.

  12. Re:Cost per wafer? on Intel Claims Chip Suppliers Will Flock To Its Mobile Tech · · Score: 1

    I have trouble to grasp what code you are talking about. A non portable, non Windows program that you would want to run on a tablet? Which one is it?

  13. Re:Proprietary seeds on How 4H Is Helping Big Ag Take Over Africa · · Score: 1

    Indeed, farmers don't have debt right now, but that can change.

    If some company wants to sell them proprietary seeds that cost ten time the cost of the regular ones, then there is obviously a plan to extract money. Since farmers have no money, one can loan them some to buy seeds and pay the debt over the production enabled by the wonderful proprietary seeds. At least if market price help.

    Of course you could argue that there is a huge chance of failure, but this is not a problem for finance genius. There are many financial product that will let them make money whatever happens.

  14. Re:Cost per wafer? on Intel Claims Chip Suppliers Will Flock To Its Mobile Tech · · Score: 1

    But who wants a Windows tablet? You get apps designed for a computer with a keyboard and mouse on hardware that has neither.

  15. Re:See? He's good for something.. on Internet Sales Tax Bill Dead In Congress · · Score: 1

    You obviously need a recall procedure for US house member and senators. And while there, for US president.

  16. Scarce information on US Weather System and Satellite Network Hacked · · Score: 1

    TFA contains nothing about how they broke in (through US control center or through their own antenna?) and how they were evicted from the satellite.

  17. Re:Cost per wafer? on Intel Claims Chip Suppliers Will Flock To Its Mobile Tech · · Score: 0

    Isn't x86/x64 notorious for wasting a crap ton of silicon for stupid functionality no one wants or needs?

    Indeed, the cost of backward x86 compatibility is huge, and it is not easy to say what it can be used for on a tablet or smart phone.

  18. Proprietary seeds on How 4H Is Helping Big Ag Take Over Africa · · Score: 1

    Proprietary seeds are an obvious trap. Perhaps it lets produce more, but they are expensive, and if farmer have to take debt for it, they become dependent on international market price for the goods the produce. If it drops, they are toasted. It will drop at some time.

  19. Re:Can Luxemborg enforce the IP rights? on Apple's Luxembourg Tax Deals · · Score: 1

    It's why deflation is not a good thing (it slows down the economy because people save), slight inflation is desirable (under 2% or so), and massive inflation is horrible (because it results in people not being able to spend their money, slowing down the economy).

    I agree but the "inflation below 2%" rule is not always appropriate. France knew a huge economic growth with 10-15% inflation rate until the beginning of the eighties, and today it is unable to perform with 3-5% (European treaties mandates 3%, and now 0.5%, something France will never achieve without destroying itself)

  20. Re:Can Luxemborg enforce the IP rights? on Apple's Luxembourg Tax Deals · · Score: 1

    The government of the USA is the largest spending thing. Ever.

    During a crisis, everyone lower expenses, and the economy enter a vicious slow down cycle. The government is the only actor able to act counter-cyclically. By maintaining expenses, it can restart activity. Hence it is not surprising we see a peak of government expenses these years. Remove it and things will get really ugly. See Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and now even Germany and France.

  21. Leak source? on Apple's Luxembourg Tax Deals · · Score: 1

    Do we know anything about the leak source?

  22. Re:New Name Time on New Facebook Update Lets You Choose News Feed Content · · Score: 1

    But according to Wikitionary, "Ars" meant "burn" in ancient french.

    It makes also sense after all.

  23. I wonder if there is a difference between (playing FPS) and (playing FPS and having access to a gun IRL) when it comes to IRL violence.

  24. Is there a cure? on Human Clinical Trials To Begin On Drug That Reverses Diabetes In Animal Models · · Score: 1

    Can there be a real cure for diabetes? The glucose eaten can only have a few destinations:

    • 1. Get burnt,but obviously the limitation is how much physical activity the subject has
    • 2. Glycogene storage, which is limited
    • 3. Fat storage, almost unlimited
    • 4. Stay in blood for the kidney to remove it, this is diabetes

    What can we expect from a drug? Moving more glucose to fat storage? It is better than diabetes, but still much less desirable result than eating less carbs..

  25. Re:I'm not a scientist... on French Health Watchdog: 3D Viewing May Damage Eyesight In Children · · Score: 1

    French are indeed republicans, but the word does not have the same meaning as in the US: the whole political spectrum claim to be republican, even the communists.