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  1. Re:No more prior art? on Patent Reform Bill Passes Senate · · Score: 2

    Nope. If you were selling it, and can prove you were doing so to the public before the other guy filed the patent, you still win. Of course now you can't get the patent, but neither can they.

  2. Re:Yahoo is Irrelevant on Carol Bartz Is Out As Yahoo's CEO · · Score: 1

    Nope. If you haven't seen it since the last version came out, it is now a couple of steps ahead of gmail.

  3. only 15k people? on Smartphones Can't Cure Acne, FTC Rules · · Score: 2

    I'm actually surprised teens turned out to be that smart. That seems like a very low number of suckers to me.

  4. Re:4 more years on IBM, 3M Team To Glue Together Silicon "Bricks" · · Score: 1

    If we're not dealing with transistors, it's also the end of Moore's law, which is pretty explicitly about transistor density.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law

  5. Re:4 more years on IBM, 3M Team To Glue Together Silicon "Bricks" · · Score: 1

    Moore's law is ending in most of our lifetimes. When, exactly, is somewhat unclear, but the horizon is less than 40 years, at which point our single-atom transistors will be so numerous they will occupy the volume of our houses.

  6. Re:Not the only one on IBM, 3M Team To Glue Together Silicon "Bricks" · · Score: 1

    Not at all! After all, what purpose do the comments serve if not to clarify the summary for all who skipped reading the article?

  7. Re:Vaporware? on IBM, 3M Team To Glue Together Silicon "Bricks" · · Score: 1

    It's completely vaporware, except for the fact that the two companies involved have the kind of reputation that suggests that if they think this is a good thing to invest in, they already have scientists on staff staking their careers on telling them they will reach the destination.

  8. Re:Not the only one on IBM, 3M Team To Glue Together Silicon "Bricks" · · Score: 1

    The announcement says that the glue itself will be heat dissipating. That's pretty much the focus of the whole project.

  9. Re:Moore's Law on IBM, 3M Team To Glue Together Silicon "Bricks" · · Score: 1

    It's #2. This isn't something they've built, it's something they're aiming to build. Perhaps they have good reason to believe they'll succeed, but that doesn't change the fact that this is a vaporware initiative announcement.

  10. Re:Gee no bias here. on TSA Groper Files Suit Against Blogger · · Score: 1

    I don't see that that is true. Why can't you report the claims of each side without advocating that you believe one position or the other, or do I misunderstand what you are claiming here?

  11. Re:Rough Decisions on TSA Groper Files Suit Against Blogger · · Score: 1

    There's this Contagion movie coming out where spitting on each other would probably eliminate the threat that humanity might survive to produce more TSA agents.

  12. Re:Yahoo is Irrelevant on Carol Bartz Is Out As Yahoo's CEO · · Score: 1

    I don't know how it works for their outsourced mail, I was referring to actual @yahoo.com email. I don't have any ads or other garbage there.

  13. Re:Yahoo is Irrelevant on Carol Bartz Is Out As Yahoo's CEO · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough, yahoo mail is now probably their single decently designed property. A lot better than gmail anyway.

  14. Re:It is about programming on What Is the Most Influential Programming Book? · · Score: 1

    You're definitely working with the wrong managers then. Time to jump ship for a place with good management.

  15. Re:Bah! Pretenders! on What Is the Most Influential Programming Book? · · Score: 1

    Ever tried to maintain that assembly code? That's why jmp/goto is bad.

  16. Re:Ya right on Intel and AMD May Both Delay Next-Generation CPUs · · Score: 1

    It may not have been that exciting, but it had AMD beat in pure performance by a comfortable margin.

  17. Re:No, Apple is WAY more powerful than the SFPD on Did Apple Impersonate Police To Recover the Lost iPhone 5? · · Score: 1

    He'd have a good case against them for wrongful termination. Could make some good money from it if it has been less than 3 years.

  18. Re:Forecasting our future on Did Apple Impersonate Police To Recover the Lost iPhone 5? · · Score: 1

    This isn't new. MS corporate security has carried full auto since the 90s.

  19. Re:No, Apple is WAY more powerful than the SFPD on Did Apple Impersonate Police To Recover the Lost iPhone 5? · · Score: 1

    Well, they'd have to prove the impersonation, and without corroboration, it'll be one guy's (The homeowner) claimed recollection against more than one guy's claimed recollections (the officer impersonatorS). And then for the company to be fined, they'd have to further prove that the company directed them to do this. A company isn't automatically responsible for any action some rogue employee takes.

  20. Re:Shortage of engineering jobs, on Mr. President, There Is No (US) Engineer Shortage · · Score: 1

    That's the meaning of exchange. We traded to get short term profits and gave up long term economic viability in exchange.

  21. Re:Shortage of engineering jobs, on Mr. President, There Is No (US) Engineer Shortage · · Score: 2

    http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/32gb-ipad-2-costs-336-60-to-manufacture-20110314/

    (Estimates the component (326) + manufacturing (10) = 336 as the cost of an ipad 2 to apple.)

  22. Re:$150k per year!? on Age Bias In IT: the Reality Behind the Rumors · · Score: 1

    15k to live tells me you're not in the area that pays 150k. In SF a non-shithole studio of 600sf runs about 1200 right now (and you'll have to commute, that's the outside the city central price). That's all of your 15k right there, and that's for a very small apartment. If you want something more sane, be prepared to pay about 1800.

  23. Re:C programmers? Wanted! on Age Bias In IT: the Reality Behind the Rumors · · Score: 1

    It's hard to see how picking the android platform could backfire. They would have to work hard to lose the battle to ios at this point, and there's no one else on the field.

  24. Re:Is Slashdot really that tough on older posts? on Age Bias In IT: the Reality Behind the Rumors · · Score: 1

    I expect you to do whatever you want to in your spare time, so that you can then list it on your resume, and prove it during the interview.

  25. Re:Insulting article on Age Bias In IT: the Reality Behind the Rumors · · Score: 1

    Be willing to move. In either SF or NY, you can make 100K right out of college. Google is giving fresh college grads offers over 120 for mediocre grads.