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  1. Re:NC is desperate for money on Amazon Fights For Privacy of Customer Records · · Score: 1

    Also state taxes on good sold across the border are unconstitutional. The use tax is a way of cheating and getting around the constitutional tax limit.

  2. Re:How many ways are there to do simple things? on Why Computer Science Students Cheat · · Score: 1

    Obviously I was attempting to correct his error, using "right" as a verb meaning to make right... Yep, that would be it exactly. Excuse me, I have more excuses to fabricate.

  3. Re:lol. fabulous architecture on Network Solutions Sites Hacked Again · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There are reasons to hate it, this isn't really one in my opinion. If their service did sanity checking between the database and the web page on outbound data, no one would see these exploits. If they had closed the attack vector they wouldn't have been affected at all. I don't know what the specific attack vector is, but js by itself won't compromise a server.

  4. Re:Why iframes? on Network Solutions Sites Hacked Again · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It is the easiest way to include the content from multiple html files into a single document. They are a pretty easy way to get data to and from an AJAX request. They are the ONLY way to transmit a file from a file dialog to the server without refreshing the entire page.

    The iframe isn't bad, it is the javascript exploiting the iframe that is bad.

  5. Re:How many ways are there to do simple things? on Why Computer Science Students Cheat · · Score: 1

    Funny but true story.

    My csc101 and csc102 classes didn't transfer credits from my community college to my senior college for some reason. So in my last year at university I had to rush and take these classes over again to satisfy the technical requirements of the degree.

    I intentionally wrote code that would be utterly impossible for anyone else in the class to replicate. Rarely used syntax like for(a,b;c;d,e); function pointers, recursion, etc. The TA's hated me.

  6. Re:I still blame Metallica on EU Piracy Estimates — Just How Inaccurate? · · Score: 1

    I'll have to take your word for it. After St Anger, I don't give a shit about them anymore, Utterly worthless. I won't even bother to risk wasting 60 minutes of my life to listen to their new music.

  7. Re:I see a whole bunch of people on Why Computer Science Students Cheat · · Score: 1

    First year cs is the topic of the article. First year cs is c++ or java and calculus with the rest of it filled out with general studies.

    You don't get to the meat and bones of algorithms, design, compilers, operating systems, language theory, ai, ethics, etc utill at least year 2 or 3.

  8. Re:How many ways are there to do simple things? on Why Computer Science Students Cheat · · Score: 1

    forgot slashdot would mistake a less than sign as partial html and escape it.

  9. Re:How many ways are there to do simple things? on Why Computer Science Students Cheat · · Score: 1

    for(int i = 0;i 10; System.out.println(++i));

    That is how I might right it.

  10. Re:Brutal civilization. on Cows On Treadmills Produce Clean Power For Farms · · Score: 1

    It is pretty easy to find, you just have to kill it yourself. I can guaranty that 95%+ of the time, an animal you shoot and butcher yourself will suffer less than something raised on a factory farm.

  11. Re:Spoil the meat? on Cows On Treadmills Produce Clean Power For Farms · · Score: 1

    In this case I think he is using dairy cows for his particular needs.

  12. Re:Bicycling on Life Recorder · · Score: 1

    A bike has every bit as much a right to the road as any other motor vehicle. As a bike rider, you are supposed to stay in the center of the traffic lane. It is a courtesy by the bike rider to move to the left and allow more room for passing. That said, if you can't drive in a strait line and refuse to obey traffic laws, you shouldn't be on the road. Most car drivers can't drive in as strait of a line as I typically bike and they utterly refuse to cede right of way as legally required to a bike rider and they never come to a complete stop at stop signs.

  13. Re:Let it begin on The Sopranos Meet H-1B In New Jersey · · Score: 1

    You are right, H1B has absolutely no effect on low end subsistence wages. But it does affect mid level wages in IT.

    Inflation would not matter much for people still working for a living if the real wages of the average person went up proportionally, though the retired would indeed see their savings dwindle. But it hasn't, no that difference has gone into the growth of the wealth of major corporations and the very wealthy people who own them.

  14. Re:Let it begin on The Sopranos Meet H-1B In New Jersey · · Score: 3, Informative

    In my grandfathers day, a bagboy's salary+tips was enough to support support an adult frugally. A clerk at a corner store could expect to support a small family (essentially the same as working at a 7/11).

    Now? A typical wal-mart employee working full time at minimum wage +$0.25 to $2 can pay rent on a 1 bedroom apartment, pay the electric bill and if lucky some food with nothing left for other necessities. Unless you already own a home outright or want to rent space in a crack house, you can not live on that without help. Realistically, it would take about 3 such incomes to support a family with children and that does not count the cost of child care or saving for college/retirement.

  15. Re:looks to be $75 to $100 per month on Still Little To Do About a Bad ISP · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There is no free market for internet service. I have lived in over a dozen cities in 5 states. In each one, high speed internet service was a monopoly or duopoly.

  16. Re:sounds like working off the clock and other job on Studying For Certification Exams On Company Time? · · Score: 1

    Not quite. Studying and taking a cert leaves the employee with resources that are useful even after he moves to another employer.

    A lot of places also require the employee to buy their own suit/uniform.

    In these cases, I find it much harder to fault the employer for not footing the bill.

    For your other examples, something there sounds pretty fishy though.

  17. Re:Give it up, Mozilla :) on Hardware-Accelerated Ogg Theora For Firefox Mobile · · Score: 2, Informative

    VP8 is RUMORED to be made open source sometime in the near future.

    We do not know for sure.

    Theora isn't very good, but that doesn't mean that it is utter crap.

    At youtube video quality it uses somewhere around 10% more bandwidth than h.264. It gets less efficient with HD content.

  18. Re:Necessity (Re:Apparently...) on HP's Moscow Offices Raided In Bribery Probe · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Productivity per capita? Sorry, but that is one of the few metrics with USA still at the top. Unfortunately the average American doesn't really benefit from that hard work, it mostly goes to make the top 5% even richer.

  19. Re:So lets do a hypothetical. on Crytek Thinks Free Game Demos Will Soon Be Extinct · · Score: 1

    There are two games, both of them are worthless shit that you wouldn't play if you got paid to do so, and they both cost $60 + $15/month + $5 for each DLC, no less than 4 of which are required to make the game stop crashing in the first hour. They both have DRM that rootkits your computer, makes your cd drive stop working and wipes your hard drive if it ever detects a debugger or compiler on your system. One has a free demo, the other does not. Guess which one I'm going to be buying? That is the future of the gaming industry as the big producers envision it.

  20. Loosing a lot of money to piracy? on Crytek Thinks Free Game Demos Will Soon Be Extinct · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Is someone forgetting that the video game industry is out grossing the movie theater industry? You are not loosing money, you are earning an English ass load of cash instead of a metric ass load of cash. You don't loose anything, you just gain slightly less.

  21. Re:Necessity (Re:Apparently...) on HP's Moscow Offices Raided In Bribery Probe · · Score: 1

    Somewhat.

    China is the new ideologically opposed super power, so it would still be 2nd world. Russia itself may soon be out of second world status though.

  22. Re:Necessity (Re:Apparently...) on HP's Moscow Offices Raided In Bribery Probe · · Score: 1

    If you are over the age of 15, you should know something about the cold war. Since your UID is lower than mine, I can safely assume you didn't join this site at the age of 9.

    [citation needed] indeed

    Was that so hard?

  23. Re:Seriously? on Oracle Wants Proof That Open Source Is Profitable · · Score: 1

    search isn't the part that makes money. Advertising and sale of mined data does.

  24. Re:Necessity (Re:Apparently...) on HP's Moscow Offices Raided In Bribery Probe · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wow. ok.
    History lesson:
    The US and its primary allies are the first world nations.
    Russia and its primary allies are the second world nations.
    Everyone else that isn't important enough to vaporize in a global thermo-nuclear war is a third world nation.

  25. Re:Ménage à trois on UK Scientists Create a Three-Parent Embryo · · Score: 4, Funny

    I prefer the old fashioned way of combining the genetic material of a man and two women personally.