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  1. This actually has a name. on Computer Scientists Develop 'Mathematical Jigsaw Puzzles' To Encrypt Software · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    It's called Forth

  2. Re:Let's fix the problems with Law School on Attorney Jim Hazard is Working to Open-Source Law (Video) · · Score: 1

    >Reduce the graduation rate, supply and demand will increase their fees.

    Yes, then we have a large number of $500/hr attorneys that no one can afford, except for the wealthiest among us and large corporations. Making the problem worse.

    As I said, one thing that would help is getting the ABA stranglehold of the two day hazing exercise known as the bar exam. I know that most in the legal profession (and yourself) will hate this, but their emperor has no clothes.

  3. Let's fix the problems with Law School on Attorney Jim Hazard is Working to Open-Source Law (Video) · · Score: 1

    The problem is we are graduating a lot of attorneys with $150K+ school debt so they charge $300 an hour for their services. Simply, we have too many attorneys that no one can afford!

    I would submit that the stranglehold on the bar exam that the ABA has be loosened and allow accredited online law schools. I know that many believe in the "socratic method", but it doesn't mean a hill of beans if no one can afford it!

  4. Re:The shortage is an intentionally perpetuated my on Electrical Engineering Labor Pool Shrinking · · Score: 1

    We need plumbers, electricians, and carpenters, and they can earn a good living, but nobody seems to care about them.

    So we can re-inflate the housing bubble with a lot of new homes that no one can really afford to buy?? The fact is all those who were in the construction/housing market are struggling themselves.

    There was a day that as a nation we would take on national infrastructure projects to help stimulate the economy. But we have a congress much more willing to sit on their hands than account for themselves.

  5. Re:Braaaaaaaiiiinnns! on SCO v. IBM Is Officially Reopened · · Score: 1

    My suggested tag for this story;

    diediedie

  6. Re:This is horrible on Matt Smith Leaves "Doctor Who" · · Score: 1

    That may not be a bad idea. Forget regenerating, Matt Smith leaves some huge shoes to fill.

  7. Re:Thanks on Slashdot Killed My Kickstarter Campaign · · Score: 1

    Why is Slashdot so much better than reddit?

    Because CowboyNeal and a large chunk of his Slashdot friends is now on Reddit now looking at cat pictures, leaving Slashdot a much quieter place?

  8. Solution on PayPal Denies Teen Reward For Finding Bug · · Score: 1

    When he turns 18, he should resubmit the bug for reward, and he should get the reward as he is demonstrably the first person who found it.

  9. Re:Still? on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Offers 2,304 Cores For $650 · · Score: 1

    The chips that come out of the fab are not 100% perfect.

    While this may be true for these graphics cores, I don't think it's necessarily true for Intel's CPU chips. I think they have their design so refined that their yield is close to 100% for all but the highest density cores.

    Otherwise they simply would not be able to offer multi core chips. Maybe someone in the know could comment on this.

  10. Re:I look forward to hearing about why this will f on Microsoft Unveils Xbox One · · Score: 1

    Because the next console will be the X Box Zero ??

  11. Re:On-Die die risk? on Intel's Haswell Moves Voltage Regulator On-Die · · Score: 1

    I suggest the tag for this story be 'whatcouldpossiblygowrong"

  12. Re:Richard Feynman on How to Get Conjurer James Randi to Give You $1 Million (Video) · · Score: 1

    please renew your geek card.

    Actually more like burn it. Any consistent reader of reader of Slashdot would know about Feynman at this point. Really, nerd cred goes to zero on that one.

  13. Re:Keep em Banned on FAA Pushed To Review Ban On Electronics · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Well said. Clearly a new generation is posting to slashdot. Because in the past when this issue has come up (as it continually does now with increasing frequency) the engineers of old would explain with numerous posts that it's impossible for the FAA or anyone else to keep track of the countless electronic devices made and assure that each and every one does not jam the systems.

    But apparently the 15 year olds of today can't live for a few minutes with their devices turned off.

  14. Re:Beginning to feel sorry for Microsoft. on Microsoft Fined €561 Million For Non-compliance With EU Browser Settlement · · Score: 1

    Even as a Microsoft hater of old, I'm beginning to feel sorry for MS.

    Not really for me. Just wait until you can't boot Linux on your computer because of some form of secure boot

  15. Re:Pilots... on FAA Device Rules Illustrate the Folly of a Regulated Internet · · Score: 1

    Also, the onus would be upon the FAA (not just the FCC) to make sure every device in the world wouldn't hurt the avionics - a now impossible task when you consider the sheer magnitude of things that have batteries.

    This argument appears every few months. It just doesn't make sense to risk a bad GPS airplane reading that leads to a collision so someone can play with their phone.

  16. Re:Actually, a cool thing on Debian m68k Port Resurrected · · Score: 1

    I'm glad there is an apparent consensus on "cool." I just went through a recent horrible forced move and I was thinking how much of an idiot I could be for hanging onto all the really old mac stuff plus documentation.

  17. Citations, references, templates on How Can Wikipedia's Visual Editor Top Other Word Processors? · · Score: 1

    All these need to be much easier to use than they presently are. Perhaps have a dialog for the different type of templates used.

  18. Re:expanding on your words: on Pakistan's PM Demands International Blasphemy Laws From UN · · Score: 1

    debates in which the person supposedly representing our voice is apologizing for us and accusing us of being extremists.

    It's because of the worst kind of arrogant ignorance, you are extremists.

    For whoever sees me as missing the humor, Poe's law is in effect. Regardless, there is a section of the republican party that is a joke

  19. Hot date on Canadian Scientists Bind High-Temp Superconductor Components With Scotch Tape · · Score: 5, Funny

    a semiconductor that does not typically enjoy superconductivity.

    I didn't know semiconductors have fun.

  20. They can compete with Amazon on Judge Approves Settlement In eBook Price-Fixing Case · · Score: 2

    They need to make it easier to download their ebooks, in more formats, without DRM (which Amazon has)so third party applications can organize the downloads better. In other words, provide more value than Amazon currently offers.

  21. Re:We're running out of planets! on Earth's Corner of the Galaxy Just Got a Little Lonelier · · Score: 1

    The moon doesn't have enough gravity to hold any usable atmosphere that you would think to create.

  22. Greatest wrong on eBay Bans the Sale of Spells and Magic Items · · Score: 1

    Is ebay's terms of service that prevents the selling of "ghosts in a jar." The outrage.

  23. Re:A much more accurate prediction on Meat the Food of the Future · · Score: 2

    which will cause more people to raise more livestock for meat,

    Expect to see the return and rise of the local family farm. If chickens cost $100 each, suddenly they will become very lucrative. Also, more less desirable meat cuts of an animal become marketable in one form or another. And let's not forget that the current more agrarian third world countries will see a boon in the export of their farm products including meat.

    All of which leads to a stabilization of meat prices.

  24. One critical difference on What If There Was a Microsoft Appreciation Day? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Chic-Fil-A is a private company serving the interests of a private owner. Microsoft soft is a publicly held company which primarily exists to serve the interests of their shareholders.

    The same sex marriage debate is divisive and there are strong beliefs on both sides. Does a public company exist to sell a product and provide a profit to its shareholders, or help enact social change even if it means the cost of business? Even if it hurts shareholders?

    It simply does not make sense to take sides on a on a highly divisive social issue.

    In Chic-Fil-A's case, Rahm Emmanuel shot his mouth off saying "Their values are not our values" and supported his alderman's postion to stop Chic--Fil-A from building a restaurant based on Chic Fil A's president stance on opposing same sex marriage. Which subsequently led to the anti-boycott and Chic-Fil-A's single biggest sales day in the history of the company Aug 1

  25. Maybe on Higgs Data Offers Joy and Pain For Particle Physicists · · Score: 1

    So now that we've pretty much found the Higgs Boson

    Maybe the Higgs Boson wanted us to think we found it.