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  1. Re: frosty piss on Death Wish Meets GPS: iPhone Theft Victims Confronting Perps · · Score: 1

    The points was to split the entity that is issuing tickets from the entity that is benefitting from them. Right now, they are, more or less, one and the same.

  2. Re: frosty piss on Death Wish Meets GPS: iPhone Theft Victims Confronting Perps · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think all funds generated through traffic tickets should go to an untouchable fund. Once a year citizens of the jurisdiction have the options of submitting a charity in which they would like the funds to go. Once the submissions are counted, the fund is split amoung the submitted charities based on the percentage split of the submissions, That way government jurisdictions can't use traffic violations as a means of funding.

  3. Re:I love the idea, but... on Lessig Launches a Super PAC To End All Super PACs · · Score: 1

    I am trying to figure out what their stances are also. If their only goals are to limit the power of PACs, make it so that only individuals (not businesses/corporations) can contribute to politicians, limit contributions from a single individual to a reasonable ceiling, and illegalize backroom dealings; I would think that almost anyone would get behing that, Their website alludes to that direction but not does not make their goals clear. No one wants to fund an organization that is going to do something against their stances.

  4. Re:Give up the keys on Ask Slashdot: Intelligently Moving From IT Into Management? · · Score: 1

    sudo su -

  5. Re:Repeat July 2011 on Netflix Plans To Raise Prices By "$1 or $2 a Month" · · Score: 1

    Compared to Netflix. Amazon Prime is a joke.

  6. Re:Professional Liability on The Ethical Dilemmas Today's Programmers Face · · Score: 1

    Liability for your code would also destroy open source libraries and collaberation. Why would you give something away for free if you knew someone could sue you over it?

  7. Re:Breaking News on Humans Are Taking Jobs From Robots In Japan · · Score: 1

    Because there is no guarantee that it will always work?

  8. Re:How does this simply not move the goalposts? on Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    Not all the trades. Just the timestamp of the last trade for each user.

  9. Re:How does this simply not move the goalposts? on Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    They could also use cooldowns rather than a delays. HFTs will then put themselves at a disadvantage if they are constantly making trades because they will have to wait the whole cooldown before they can react. Meanwhile, everyone else will have no delay since their last trade was long before (at scale).

  10. Re:Is it all about the license? on GNU C Library Alternative Musl Libc Hits 1.0 Milestone · · Score: 1

    GPL requires you make your chances available under the GPL license while MIT makes almost no requirements.

  11. You can easily put the gun somewhere safe. The lock does not need to be on the gun itself. Requiring fingerprint locks on all guns would increase the costs of guns for everyone when I would guess that most gun owners wouldn't want the feature (unlike airbags). Also, if you have children in the house, they should be taught gun safety and that if they even touch any gun without your permission, there will be hell to pay. Hell, they should probably be taught the same even if you don't keep a gun in the house. In any case, if I was going to use an electronic lock, I would much rather use a RFID lock over a fingerprint lock. There would be a much smaller chance for error.

  12. Re:Please.... on Google Sued Over Children's In-App Android Purchases · · Score: 1

    I just realize the timeout isn't configurable. Didn't it used to be? I could have sworn that you used to be able to require a password everytime or just once every X minutes.

  13. electronic fingerprint safeties on all new firearms

    No. Just no. Put yourself in imminent position on needing a gun for self-defense. Do you really want a gun that might not fire not because it can't read your fingerprints accurately enough?

  14. Re:So sad and pathetic on Popularity On Facebook Makes People Think You're Attractive · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that depend on how they use Facebook?

  15. Re:Take pictures, press charges. on Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass · · Score: 1

    Of course a single letter typo gets five replies.

  16. Re:Take pictures, press charges. on Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass · · Score: 2

    Pray you will have internet and get an steaming upload app?

  17. Re:Chicken little on Whatever Happened To the IPv4 Address Crisis? · · Score: 1

    The machines wouldn't be fully exposed. They should have their own firewalls. There just wouldn't be a need for port forwarding and NAT traversals.

  18. Danger! on Killing Net Neutrality Could Be Good For You · · Score: 1

    Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

  19. Re:Common Carrier issue on Killing Net Neutrality Could Be Good For You · · Score: 1

    I would mod you up if I could. I always thought the same thing. A requirement for common carrier protections should be neutrality.

  20. Re:Chicken little on Whatever Happened To the IPv4 Address Crisis? · · Score: 1

    There is not reason you can't have a ipv6 gateways/routers that filter incoming traffic. It would defeat a significant benefit of IPv6 but you can do it.

  21. Re:Wow on Star Trek Economics · · Score: 1

    True. But the first encourages the second.

  22. Re:Wow on Star Trek Economics · · Score: 1

    If the government wanted to control over-population, they would consider programs that reward those the have no or less than two biological children. Right now, we do the opposite. We give tax breaks to those that have children. A more politcal suicide approach would to also require those that are on any form of government aid to engage in some form of birth control. Instead of the government forcing everyone one to do something, they are making a trade: resources for your ability to reproduce.

  23. Re:Database Upgrades? on Facebook Debuts New Gender Options, Pronoun Choices · · Score: 1

    I don't know what database technology they are using but if they are using SQL, they are probably using an ENUM: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E179... https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refm... http://www.postgresql.org/docs...

  24. Re:brilliant! on Financing College With a Tax On All Graduates · · Score: 1

    He was talking about the fact that only the unveristy educated pay the tax. Those able will simply avoid traditional universities for another form of education that is not taxed.

  25. Re:Some issues I see on Financing College With a Tax On All Graduates · · Score: 1

    3. Dwindling population, in general, or just of graduates, will destroy the system.

    This was the first thing I thought. It would be exactly like social security. It works when the population is stable or increases but breaks down the population decreases. Actually, it would be even worse than social security seeing how the more educated tend to have less kids.

    Another problem that is shared with the current easy student loan access is that universities would probably try to overcharge since they known the people using their services are not going to discriminate on price.