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  1. Re:Not so bad on Satellite Images Show Russians Shelling Ukraine · · Score: 1

    Then since Donetsk's people handed over the flight recorder black boxes, you must be speaking about Ukrainian government that confiscated recordings of conversations between Ukrainian air traffic control officers and the plane. And the recordings may shed light on the reason why Ukrainian air control traffic sent the plane over a civil war zone while that was not its original flight path

  2. Re:Not so bad on Satellite Images Show Russians Shelling Ukraine · · Score: 1

    Well, when somebody invades a city, and you want to drive them out, how do you do it without shelling the city?

    Except that this is civil war and nobody invaded eastern Ukraine cities; the one at fight are usual city residents.

    Western Ukraine armies have no way to tell apart what is a fighter home and what is not. Do you suggest they need to destroy the whole city and kill and kill everyone to fix the problem?

  3. Government position on In France, Most Comments on Gaza Conflict Yanked From Mainstream News Sites · · Score: 1

    One problem is that while the french government (and therefore the mainstream medias) supports Israel, most french people consider palestinian people as the victims.

  4. Profits on SpaceX Executive Calls For $22-25 Billion NASA Budget · · Score: 1

    Usual trick: have taxpayers subsiding the support stuff you need, and make profit with activities on top of it. If you can afford a law preventing public service from competing with your business, it is even better.

  5. Not so bad on Satellite Images Show Russians Shelling Ukraine · · Score: 0, Troll

    At least Russia shoots on military units, while on the other side, the army of Ukraine has been shelling cities full of civilians. And I cannot wait to learn who really shot down MH 17.

  6. Priority on Verizon Now Throttling Top 'Unlimited' Subscribers On 4G LTE · · Score: 1

    I understand this is just about priority: once you reach a threshold, your traffic has lower priority than others. It seems a reasonable way of implementing unlimited plan on finite network capacity.

  7. Portability on Firefox 33 Integrates Cisco's OpenH264 · · Score: 1

    That seems to kill Firefox portability. For what CPU is the Cisco binary blog available? And does it depends on system-specific libraries or system calls?

  8. Illegitmate power on Experiment Shows People Exposed To East German Socialism Cheat More · · Score: 1

    IMO this is not about capitalism vs socialism, but whether people consider the power legitimate or not.

  9. Another invisible hand failure on Amazon Isn't Killing Writing, the Market Is · · Score: 1

    Market invisible hand fails here, it seems better suited at destroying value than creating it.

    And we even know why: market invisible hand theory relies on a few assumptions, one of them being that products are identical and that buyers' choices are only driven by price. Once we say that "book prices don't seem to be the deciding factor on whether someone reads a book", we know it will not work. If producing books is considered important, then the market should be regulated.

  10. Re:Not actually accepting bitcoins. RTFA on Dell Starts Accepting Bitcoin · · Score: 2

    The ECB created 1 trillion euros within 2 months to save the banks, while 30 trillions euros existed. Tthis is a 1/30 increase, this is rather huge.

    I agree with you about inflation, but we are very far from the point where USD or EUR are dumped for other currencies. We live the opposite excess, in fact.

  11. Re:Not actually accepting bitcoins. RTFA on Dell Starts Accepting Bitcoin · · Score: 2

    if the government thinks it's a good idea to create itself an enormous amount of new money, that currency will likely fail.

    Not always. Central banks created huge amount of money to save banks after the subprime crisis, and it did not hurt the currencies. Economists tells us the increase of currency will not hurt when used during a depression, because it will not fuel prices increases.

  12. Re: Rather far north. on Scotland Could Become Home To Britain's First Spaceport · · Score: 2

    People of Algeria never got french citizen rights, this is why it was a colony. On the other hand, people of French Guiana are french citizen, with the same rights as french citizen from other France's territories.

  13. Increase goods movements on Fighting Climate Change With Trade · · Score: 0

    Increasing goods movement seems counterproductive if this is about fighting CO2 emissions.

  14. Parasite elite on Elite Group of Researchers Rule Scientific Publishing · · Score: 1

    Elite scientists? In that 1% group we will find heads of labs that sign the papers of any of their underlying. They also file patents and have stocks in statups. This kind of "elite" is the parasite kind.

    Now I find no way to find in publication data who are the really exceptional scientists. We would have to look at paper quality to tell that.

  15. Re:Whenever you can on Ask Slashdot: How Often Should You Change Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Your point is valid, but it does not explain everything. If that was the only explanation, European countries with socialized pensions would see a hellish instability, which is not the case.

  16. most of the human race will have more leisure time on By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' and That Could Be a Problem · · Score: 3, Funny

    TFA says

    most of the human race will have more leisure time

    Or they will struggle to survive by working in jobs the intelligent machine do not want to do

  17. What software? on Use of Encryption Foiled the Cops a Record 9 Times In 2013 · · Score: 1

    Too bad they do not tell what are the resistant softwares.

  18. What about if they inject signal? on Can the NSA Really Track You Through Power Lines? · · Score: 1

    TFA says it would be difficult to tap every transformer to get the data, but what about if the NSA is able to inject signal they can recognize later?

  19. Re:Emperor Norton on California Legalizes Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    For example, the Euro is not legal tender within the United States. It remains legal tender in the EU.

    Just in some EU member states. Some lucky country managed to remain out of this trap, and experience shows economy works much better without it.

  20. open APIs on Tom's Hardware: Microsoft Smartband Coming In October With 11 Sensors · · Score: 1

    The source confirmed previous rumors that the device is cross-platform compatible, and added there would be open APIs as well

    At least, on the beginning. It would be surprising that Microsoft do not act as being Microsoft. Perhaps they start open becausethere is no existing standard to embrace and (proprietary) extend?

  21. C and vi, what else?

    And by vi, I mean nvi, not vim

  22. Nitric acid on New Chemical Process Could Make Ammonia a Practical Car Fuel · · Score: 1

    When removing hydrogen from ammonia (NH4), we create nitric oxide, which will absorb water to form nitric acid.

    What are they going to do with it?

  23. What about themselves? on Germany Scores First: Ends Verizon Contract Over NSA Concerns · · Score: 1

    Is it the same Germany whose BND secret service collaborated with NSA to spy on internet backbone links?

  24. Re:What about the macBook? on Microsoft Wants You To Trade Your MacBook Air In For a Surface Pro 3 · · Score: 1

    Are you sure you know how to really wipe it?

    And moreover that does not tell us what MS will do with the hardware? Trash it?

  25. Where? on China Leads In Graphene Patent Applications · · Score: 1

    TFA does not says in what country the patent were filed. Are they US patent? Chineese patents? Sum of patent filed in every countries?