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  1. Document, hire friendly hacker on Ask Slashdot: Application Security Non-existent, Boss Doesn't Care. What To Do? · · Score: 1

    Document the vulnerabilities and the impossibility to fix them so that nobody can tell you did not make your job. Then hire a friendly hacker to break the product without doing any harm beyond shame. And never tell anyone you did that!

  2. What's next? on Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So · · Score: 1

    I cannot wait until government puts a congressman on the no fly list to prevent him from voting..

  3. Re:Finally a flat playing ground on Supreme Court Declines Case On Making Online Retailers Collect Sales Taxes · · Score: 2

    The tax money of the 10,000,000 other peoples belongs to 10,000,000 people. In other words, you can more by being many than being alone. This is why society exists and taxes are acceptable. Now if taxes do not benefit tax payers, there is a problem to solve.

  4. Re:KGB tool? on The Quietest Place On Earth Will Cause You To Hallucinate In 45 Minutes · · Score: 1

    USA did it too. It was named project MkULTRA. And looking at prisonners with masks and headsets, I bet it is still used to day at gizmo.

  5. Re:Finally a flat playing ground on Supreme Court Declines Case On Making Online Retailers Collect Sales Taxes · · Score: 1

    Tax money is your money. It should not just vanish. It is supposed to build and maintain public goods and services. If it is not the case, then it means you failed your collective duty as a citizen to control what your government does with your money.

  6. Unpleasant freedom on Lawsuits Seek To Turn Chimpanzees Into Legal Persons · · Score: 1

    Why not giving up on the habit of incarcerating chimpanzees in zoo, but the transition will be troublesome. A chimpanzee who always lived in a zoo will find freedom in the jungle quite unpleasant — if he/she/it even survive the experience.

  7. Re:2700 degC? on How Much of ISON Survived Its Closest Approach To the Sun? · · Score: 1

    Is black body radiation reliable for something that is breaking up, with chunks turned into vapor? And I understood the comet wen hidden by the mask protecting the observing tools from direct sun light...

  8. Re:You're addressing the wrong problem. on White House Calls On Kids To Film High-Tech Education · · Score: 1

    The elite few--that is, intelligent people--have always brought about all the important innovation.

    And of course they did it alone, with no support from the surrounding society?

  9. How stupid on Mediterranean Sea To Possibly Become Site of Chemical Weapons Dump · · Score: 0

    How can people come to so stupid idea? Mediterranean sea is almost closed, and it feeds a lot of countries. At least when dumping in an open ocean, one can hope dilution will spare a catastrophe, but here?

  10. 2700 degC? on How Much of ISON Survived Its Closest Approach To the Sun? · · Score: 1

    How do they define temperature? The show happens in vacuum, there is no thermal agitation. Inside the comet this is another story, but are we able to measure the internal temperature?

  11. Re:Systematicity, and Fodor & Pylyshyn on Ask Slashdot: DIY Computational Neuroscience? · · Score: 1

    Too bad slashdot dos not let us re-edit comment after posting.

  12. Re:Space race anybody? on China's First Lunar Lander To Launch Today; Manned Mission Planned By 2030 · · Score: 1

    They have money to invest. A space programs seems less stupid that inflating another financial bubble. In the worst case it gives back nothing, but at least it does not destroy real economy.

  13. Re:Systematicity, and Fodor & Pylyshyn on Ask Slashdot: DIY Computational Neuroscience? · · Score: 1

    Have mercy for the rest of us, please learn how to format paragraphs!

  14. Re:MOOC for what? on Sebastian Thrun Pivots Udacity Toward Vocational Education · · Score: 1

    But there is a good point: with the subprime crisis, people that went banckrupt lost their home and the home's value colapsed, which means both the people and the banks were harmed. Here when the student go bankrupt, the bank will not be able to takes the acquired knowledge away, which means only the bank will be harmed.

  15. Next news on Study Linking GM Maize To Rat Tumors Is Retracted · · Score: 1

    The editor retracting a scientific paper is no usual business. What is the next step? Seralini being charged for rape in Sweden?

  16. MOOC for what? on Sebastian Thrun Pivots Udacity Toward Vocational Education · · Score: 1

    If I understand correctly TFA, MOOCs are not useful to students, no company found how to make money on them, and universities offer some of them just by fear someone else would and make them irrelevant.

    Is that the next bubble ready to explode?

  17. Innovation is a luxury on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Tech Job Requirements So Specific? · · Score: 1

    Most of the time, innovation is a luxury in IT. While it is nice to have someone that can change things for the better, the primary requirement is to run the shop. This is why requirement are very specific.

  18. Dup? on Google Wants To Write Your Social Media Responses For You · · Score: 1
  19. Re:A French Perspective on Geeks For Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries · · Score: 1

    Indeed the current situation is not sustainable. But the current situation is a consequence of EU treaties, and EU treaties forbid the People to fix them. This is why the People will throw away the treaties.

  20. Re:A French Perspective on Geeks For Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries · · Score: 1

    I hope for you that Swiss will never join the EU. European treaties cannot evolve any good way, as the project is designed from the beginning with a fundamental goal, which is to destroy democracy in order to enforce neoliberalism, a policy that Europan People would not accept if they had a word to say.

    As for France evolving in order to adapt EU, I really doubt it is possible. That would mean removing state influence from many things, while France had a very intervening state for more than a thousand years now. The idea that state is a major actor is deeply rooted in french citizen mind. Look at how strikes work in France: very few strikes by workers of a given company against their bosses, lots of strikes directed against the government, or asking government intervention.

  21. Biodegradable on EU Plastic Bag Debate Highlights a Wider Global Problem · · Score: 1

    People call for biodegradable plastic bags. I reuse all the plastic bags I get for garbage, and the city incinerate them. I bet this is quite common in urban areas. In that situation, a bag that burns without releasing toxic compound would just be enough.

  22. Re:A French Perspective on Geeks For Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries · · Score: 1

    Well, I used GDP because this is the easier available data, but other indicators will confirm what we agree on: the country produces enough wealth for its residents to live very nicely, but that wealth is shared in a very unfair way, leaving the greater number with a lowering living standard.

    And I agree with you that after destroying industrial jobs for years, it will be difficult to recover. IMO it cannot be done without throwing away EU treaties and going back to the setup where France had very nice successes: big industrial projects led by the state, such as Ariane, TGV, nuclear plants, and so on. That country seems unable to move forward within the current EU situation where the state is denied being an industrial strategist.

  23. Re:calories on Soylent: No Food For 30 Days · · Score: 1

    1) High insulin causes fat storage. Do thin carb-eating Janapanese makes this wrong? No they do not, as their insulin levels is not above other populations.

    Well, in fact I neglected a way to eat a lot of carbs, get a high insulin and not make fat : this is the diabetes where adipocytes get resistant to insulin. It seems to be a problem in Asia.

  24. Re:A French Perspective on Geeks For Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries · · Score: 1

    there is a lower amount of money moving in the country

    If you talk about France, this is wrong. The country has never produced as much wealth as today. Its GDP increased two fold since 1980. The problem is that this wealth is taken away from the general population. And here again, migrants are the culprits, they are just a symptom that it is worse in other places.

  25. Re:A French Perspective on Geeks For Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries · · Score: 1

    I think your reasoning misses a point. In most EU countries, and especially in France, migrants cannot work for arbitrary low wage, as there is a law enforced minimum wage. OTOH free trade pushes competition between local workers and foreign workers that may have no minimum wage at all.

    You are right noting that local jobs are preserved from foreign competition, but they can exist only if there is demand for what they produce. And each time jobs are lost because of free trade and financial predation, demand is slashed. And now even government's demand gets slashed because of austerity, which adds the pressure on local businesses, leading them to bankrupt. Migrants are not involved in this process.