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  1. Re:Wouildn't his kids inherit his money anyway? on Hans Reiser Sued By Own Kids For $15 Million · · Score: 1

    The money given to the bank, whether or not they are put into a new loan, becomes pure profit. Usually banks earn a couple cents for every dollar deposited, now they earn the whole dollar.

  2. Re:Pretty Fast on Fujitsu Cracks Next-Gen Cryptography Standard · · Score: 2

    Does everyone use randomized quick sort?

  3. Very well agreed on Why Young Males Are No Longer the Most Important Tech Demographic · · Score: 1

    But I see no action. Please, please, send more women to my office.

  4. Re:Peer review? on UK To Give Peer-Reviewed Science Libel Protection · · Score: 1

    He means a tendency to assume, without consulting evidence, malicious intent rather than good faith.

  5. Re:Same with Megaupload on Feds Seized Website For a Year Without Piracy Proof · · Score: 1

    You can be blamed for not locking your home, but the thief still goes to jail.

  6. Re:But do we really need a separate CS dept anymor on Univ. of Florida Announces Plan To Save CS Department · · Score: 2

    But they don't then combine all the degrees and ditch "pure" CS, which was the point.

  7. Re:Fair Share? on How To Share a Cake Over the Internet · · Score: 1

    *what needs to be solved

  8. Re:Fair Share? on How To Share a Cake Over the Internet · · Score: 1

    Something like this could at least work in simple cases like sharing bandwidth over a network, where bids are often made by machines on behalf of people, and when most people are somewhat separated apart from what they get. Just like there are many different views on what's fair or not, there is also an abundance of problems and what's needed to solve.

  9. Re:Kill the used game market, help developers on PlayStation 4 'Orbis' Rumors: AMD Hardware, Hostile To Used Games · · Score: 1

    You save $15 and the industry loses $60.

    Very well. Here is your Licence to Sue, jointly certified by MAFIAA.

  10. Re:oh boy on Chinese Spies Used Fake Facebook Profile To Friend NATO Officials · · Score: 1

    No. It's more like turning off the radar and shutting down artillery at a front-line base.

  11. Old News on The Math of Leap Days · · Score: 1

    So we're going to see this every four years? Except every hundred years? Except every four hundred years?

  12. Re:Why is publishing a measure of productivity? on Academics Not Productive Enough? Sack 'em · · Score: 1

    As subtle as it might seem, in many cases good university-level teaching also relies on the constant intake of information via a continued effort on research. Stuff could get old really quickly these days. Professors have to learn before they teach, and it is the thorough, rigorous investigation in some topic that gives them sufficient insight to keep their authority. If it's not done by themselves, it was already done by others. It is especially true for courses that deal with cutting-edge technology, or when courses have to be designed to educate students to meet new academic or industrial demands.

  13. Re:Publications bad measuring tool for productivit on Academics Not Productive Enough? Sack 'em · · Score: 1

    At somewhere I worked previously, a mathematician was refused professorship. Some people on the committee were chosen from the design school and the business school, and they unanimously blamed the mathematician for his low cumulative impact factor, comparing him to themselves, which was actually a significant cause of his rejection. All evaluation was based on metrics and simple rules such as "number of papers in a top X journal in the past Y years". Just like the case with frat traditions, people who survive this stupid system feel justified to stick to it. It was not long ago that the department of mathematics was at the edge of collapse

  14. Re:Tenure on Academics Not Productive Enough? Sack 'em · · Score: 1

    Do you know of the basic responsibilities of a university professor? Ever heard of the word "research"? Looked in a dictionary about it? I'm sure the first search page at Google would give you plenty of answers. How could you be so condescending when you say you don't know something and apparently haven't used the search engine? If I'm missing something, please explain it to me.

  15. Re:That'll work well. on Academics Not Productive Enough? Sack 'em · · Score: 1

    It also makes good sense to to negotiate and explain, even with a massive concerted effort. The scenario isn't take-it-or-die; a businessman that doesn't negotiate can't live long, and we want to use that fact.

  16. Re:At least they didn't make Stringer commit seppu on Kazuo Hirai To Assume CEO Position At Sony · · Score: 1

    Whatever, his first speech is going to be delivered on 1st April.

  17. It's a business negotiation. on NTT DoCoMo Asks Google To Limit Android Data Use · · Score: 1

    DoCoMo would be stupid to just sit there and yell, but it's never wrong to ask Google to take some burden, especially as they make money from each other.

  18. DHS Sends ... on DHS Sends Tourists Home Over Twitter Jokes · · Score: 1

    T____rists Home. Sounds fair to me.

  19. Re:This is why I no longer buy music on Copyright Industry Calls For Broad Search Engine Controls · · Score: 1

    Nodding on the first day in court kinda kills chances to go public, and the judge could hand you a fair, if not more generous, sentence because you were quick. If publicity is a goal, there are lots of means, which includes giving a fierce fight and helping journalists effectively.

  20. Re:Home porn videos? on Ask Slashdot: Money-Making Home-Based Tech Skills? · · Score: 2

    The "porn" comments can be considered rude and vulgar, but they only appeal to the prevalent demand for female pornography actors, rather than being intrinsically sexual. If male pornography actors were more marketable, the same thing would happen to a stay-at-home dad, and people might even talk about gay porn. Moreover, I believe the first post was first mostly because it was short, and indeed many people follow the headlines closely. You also made two sweeping generalizations, before and after you saw the first post.

  21. Re:Yeah, I'm an AC - so what. on White House Petition To Investigate Dodd For Bribery · · Score: 2

    Experts on any field are a minority; they aren't that strong when it comes to lobbying. It's probably better to ask for transparency in the lobbying process.

  22. Re:"Tenfold"? on Faster-Than-Fast Fourier Transform · · Score: 1

    Typo: A reduction of up to 90% the "time"...

  23. "Tenfold"? on Faster-Than-Fast Fourier Transform · · Score: 1

    TFA trivializes the result. A reduction of up to 90% the speed is not theoretically interesting at all - it could always be overridden by difference in architecture and implementation, often making older algorithms faster. There are many better ways to describe the reduction in time complexity to the laymen.

  24. Re:Chicken! on Wikipedia Still Set For Full Blackout Wednesday · · Score: 1

    Twitter isn't a big deal, Facebook is probably only marginally more important, but shutting down Google would generate all kinds of losses pretty much everywhere...

  25. Re:To the ignorants: on China Internet Users Hit Half a Billion · · Score: 1

    The generic household Chinese dictionary would not have nearly as much as 50000 characters, and most people do not know more much than 5000. Some characters are also more popular than others. Parents won't usually use "death" and "sickness"; instead they would prefer "affluence" and "happiness". The actual pool of characters for naming is not that large.