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  1. Re:But now... on Facebook: Legal Action Against Employers Asking For Your Password · · Score: 1

    I know stories about this are all the rage, but I've yet to be asked if I have a facebook acct and I've considered 8 jobs this year. Maybe it's different when you're being recruited than when you're going begging though.

  2. Re:Teenage _________ Ninja Turtles.... on Michael Bay To Remake TMNT As Aliens · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think that was called Peter Pan.

  3. Re:Quantum annealing on D-Wave Announces Commercially Available Quantum Computer · · Score: 1

    Again with your top-down we'll tell you what to think and how to say it mindset. Get it through your neanderthal skull that you don't control us!

  4. Re:Quantum annealing on D-Wave Announces Commercially Available Quantum Computer · · Score: 1

    Sorry, living languages are the purest form of democracy, your 1%er mindset just doesn't get to rule here.

  5. Re:binary fetishism on D-Wave Announces Commercially Available Quantum Computer · · Score: 1

    Feel free to provide some contrary evidence.

  6. Re:Quantum annealing on D-Wave Announces Commercially Available Quantum Computer · · Score: 1

    Whoosh!

  7. Re:binary fetishism on D-Wave Announces Commercially Available Quantum Computer · · Score: 1

    Because at some point you have to translate the solution to a binary format in order to realize it. Also, it's still easier to lay out the circuits that way, basically all of the tools are optimized for binary layouts.

  8. Re:Quantum annealing on D-Wave Announces Commercially Available Quantum Computer · · Score: -1

    You really shouldn't of. Since English is a non-dead language, and this usage is now more common then the other, it is now the correct usage.

  9. Re:This is not about controlling people on Using Apps To 'Soft Control' People's Movements · · Score: 1

    I don't know what to say. Your effort to misunderstand me seems deliberate at this point, which makes me think I'm being trolled. I think I've adequately clarified the meaning I intended at this point for anyone else in the non-existent audience at this point. :-)

  10. Re:This is not about controlling people on Using Apps To 'Soft Control' People's Movements · · Score: 1

    That's can interpret, not must interpret.

  11. Re:Context? on Apple to Buy Back $10bn of Its Shares and Pay Dividend · · Score: 1

    The market isn't that efficient. It wishes it was, but it isn't.

  12. Re:This is not about controlling people on Using Apps To 'Soft Control' People's Movements · · Score: 1

    I don't interpret cause and compel as the same word.

  13. Re:Good on Google Is Planning To Penalize Overly Optimized Sites · · Score: 1

    How about one search engine with multiple algorithms, giving you the first N hits based on different ranking algorithms.

  14. Re:Good on Google Is Planning To Penalize Overly Optimized Sites · · Score: 1

    Bleah, I'm lucky if I can find what I'm looking for before page 5 on Google these days. I remember when it was almost always in the first 3 results.

  15. Re:This is not about controlling people on Using Apps To 'Soft Control' People's Movements · · Score: 1

    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/made

    I meant 2a, or more precisely 15.

  16. Re:almighty dollar on Bring Back the 40-Hour Work Week · · Score: 1

    Nah, training period just means a time of typically zero productivity. Paying more for zero productivity is still better than paying less for negative productivity.

  17. Re:you insensIti7e clod! on Using Apps To 'Soft Control' People's Movements · · Score: 1

    Is this some sort of encryption program embedding data in slashdot?

  18. Re:This is not about controlling people on Using Apps To 'Soft Control' People's Movements · · Score: 2

    What made you sign the contract? Was it an incentive by any chance?

  19. Re:This is not about controlling people on Using Apps To 'Soft Control' People's Movements · · Score: 1

    But at some level this isn't different from any other control exerted by any other game. Angry birds incents you to push certain buttons. Would you push those buttons in that way without Angry Birds? No.

  20. Re:Jailbreaks on New iPad Jailbroken Already · · Score: 1

    This is exactly why the NSA suffers from chronic breakins. There's just no way to fully secure software.

  21. Re: who will pay? on Canadian Police Recommend Online Spying Tax For Internet Bills · · Score: 2

    Big companies are rarely based on big ideas. Instead, they are based on ruthlessly destroying competition. Take Google for example. Lots of people had their ideas, but Google had the funding to put down their competitors.

  22. get a summer internship on Ask Slashdot: Getting Feedback On Programming? · · Score: 1

    That's pretty much the way to both start networking, and get some feedback on your skills so you can improve.

  23. Re: who will pay? on Canadian Police Recommend Online Spying Tax For Internet Bills · · Score: 2

    Statistically speaking, the problem is that the 40M CEO never worked for $1. Most (and we're not even near 50% here) of the rich were born that way. If mobility into the 1% were significant, people would be much less upset about it.

  24. Re: who will pay? on Canadian Police Recommend Online Spying Tax For Internet Bills · · Score: 0

    Yeah, but do it for long enough, and people will start to think twice about getting in line.

  25. Re: who will pay? on Canadian Police Recommend Online Spying Tax For Internet Bills · · Score: -1, Troll

    There's a simpler way to look at it:

    Taxes, prices, consumption, production, it all comes down to labor producing assets and those assets (proxied by money) flowing around the system. In the end, who winds up with the assets that are produced by the labor? The 1%. Arguing over any of the rest is just fighting over the scraps. If you're unhappy with the way the world works, find a way to kill a 1%er. It's the only way things will actually improve.