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  1. actually given the size of mexico... on Anonymous Kills Websites, Cartels Kill Bloggers · · Score: 1

    it would have to be 51st through 5Nth state (N is somewhere around 7 i think) and mostly the problem would just get pushed south.

  2. Not Happening on New Sony PSN ToS: Class Action Waiver Included · · Score: 1

    given that any lawyer worth his bar tabs will even try to give any kind of advise outside of the state(s) he practices in. And to do a decent job he would have to have tabs in all fifty-one* states and burn billable hours (most likely also involving a clerk and a paralegal).

    *51 includes DC/federal

  3. Re:and it's thwarted with...... on Ask Slashdot: Low-Cost Tools To Track Employees' Web Use? · · Score: 2

    which brings the point that unless your computers are very expensively locked down just about everything you could do is useless

    you might be able to to something at the gateway but then again you will still have problems. i would say that this law has mandated the purchase of some very expensive hardware. Even if you find something cheap that would work you still could be tagged for not complying with the law due to "not having the required certified hardware".

  4. what should happen on How Game Makers Like EA Mine for Tax Breaks · · Score: 1

    Companies should be encouraged to provide Medical Insurance for their workers. On a yearly basis this could of course be partly written off as a "cost of business" (this will get companies to actually do it). Then we get the insurance companies to provide "wellness" coverage and things roll forward to the point where if somebody falls off a ladder or just gets sick then that cost is still covered.

    BTW a company should cover any kind of injury that happened WHILE ON THE CLOCK. (personally i think somebody keeling over because of stress/long hours should also be covered)

  5. Re:From who? on Ask Slashdot: Where Can I Buy Legal Game ROMs? · · Score: 1

    in the case of Doctor Who the BBC would pay you for your copy so that they could replace the "reconstruction" for that episode on the ROM sets.

    if you happen to have the Episode with the First Regeneration then the BBC will pay you a very literal TON of money.

    i think DR Who is one of the only shows that the original broadcaster actually cares about shows that got erased.

  6. And On the SecondLife grid on Bill Gates Patents 'Virtual Entertainment' · · Score: 1

    you actually can have all of that

    Now With Collada Mesh Support!!

    the only thing thats a bit iffy is the virtual utilities but you can have scripted objects that have to be "refilled" at intervals so that can be done. And SL has had Media On A Prim for months now

    Holy Prior Art BOFHman!!

  7. Re:Here's how it works. on Rent Your Own Botnet · · Score: 1

    or better yet if you introduce your self as Special Agent Mug Funky (or whatever your DL says) and state that you are currently investigating a possible crime then maybe you might get some action (and if you are actually SA Funky it might be legal to do so :) )

  8. Everybody has the right to be "Wrong" on Rent Your Own Botnet · · Score: 1

    Its like the saying round the armed services

    "Just to be Honest with you i hate you and everything you stand for but I WILL DEFEND WITH MY LAST BREATH AND ONCE OF WILL YOUR RIGHT TO EXIST (until i am ordered otherwise)."

    now that does not say that if i know of the KKK planning to make trouble somewhere i would not arrange for say the Black Panthers (or some similar group) to also be present but they have a right to their opinion.

  9. On Legal Staff on Sprint Files Suit Against AT&T T-Mobile Merger · · Score: 1

    most likely if your company is big enough that having a meeting with the whole staff would need a PA system in the room you should have at least one lawyer on staff. Now most of the time that lawyer should be working on defining "unacceptable liability" and not working on suing different people.

    A company the size of SPRINT should have a whole department of lawyers (and clerks and paralegal ect) so the head of that department would be a VP just on principle alone (and so that the VP of litigation can tell the VP of marketing that the campaign they are starting up could get The Company sued in %region or Country%).

  10. Re:Nothing new on Google's Real Name Policy, Why You Are the Product · · Score: 2

    An example of this is Reverend Fred McFeely Rogers i would bet that the number of folks that know him BY THIS NAME are a lot fewer than the ones that would recognize MR Rogers.

    If 95% of persons polled do not know you by your given name then G+ should allow you to ID as the nickname you are known by.

  11. Re:More info not linked from the article on Cryogenic Truck Services Remote Telescopes · · Score: 1

    the meter of awesome on a subject goes like

    had somebody read the "dummies" book to you
    read the dummies book
    wrote the dummies book
    had somebody read the "Bible" to you
    read the "Bible"
    Wrote the "Bible"
    is the God of the subject (earliest Authority on the subject and still considered "current")

    i would bet that most of these folks rate in the last two brackets

  12. Re:Insane premise on The iPhone's Role In Crippling T-Mobile · · Score: 1

    maybe its one of those things you have to ASK for?? its rumoured that you can get the procedure to un-carrier lock a phone after you have had it for a while but thats also something that you have to call in (and get the right tech) for

    or maybe t-mobile had that as a policy in certain markets or you didn't have them on the right dates??

  13. Re:Eh? on The iPhone's Role In Crippling T-Mobile · · Score: 1

    "far out in the wilds customers wouldn't need a tower for each network,"

    actually the situation is a bit more complex than that.

    the actual tower itself may not be the problem since its the backhaul lines and being the FIRST to put up a tower thats the real killer.

    a lot of towers actually have multiple transmitters since once you have the permits to put the tower up its a lot easier to have multiple transmitters (which could be owned by multiple companies) on one tower. plus of course there are "roaming" arrangements and such with the CDMA and GSM carriers (sprint and verizon often trade connections and i would bet that T-Mobile and AT&T do also where they have a common frequency)

  14. Big difference in the two on Biological 'Logic Circuit' Destroys Cancer Cells · · Score: 1

    One is the fact that the "Man In Black" will be visiting you (unless you are immortal)

    the other is that the "Man In Black" has penciled you in for a date in the near future for his visit.

    but yes Live with as little fear as possible so that the record shows you had a WILD RIDE (and most likely skidded for a week afterwards).

  15. But they CAN FLY!! on Did Apple Impersonate Police To Recover the Lost iPhone 5? · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-10

    of course anything can fly given enough thrust

  16. Re:Fantastic, stunning deceit by The Guardian on WikiLeaks Publishes Cable Archive In Full · · Score: 1

    the problem comes when a given person is a "high value target" (or you have info on a buncha folks) or when a certain person gives you info on a certain thing happening because of their skills.

    Do you really think that "Terrorists" would like to know that they could "win" by getting to the families of servicemen??
    or that they wouldn't get extra whackadoodles into an area if they knew that General US Grant was in the area??

  17. Re:Please, learn statistics before posting BS on Measles Resurgent Due To Fear of Vaccination · · Score: 1

    I think the common practice is for the amendments to override the main text (in places where they are not written as a Diff like where the slaves where formally freed had a chunks where it said that the 5/8ths rule was to be stricken from the main text).

  18. Re:Please, learn statistics before posting BS on Measles Resurgent Due To Fear of Vaccination · · Score: 1

    "Public health trumps religious issues,"
    BZZT WRONG!

    In this case no the State Must Honor the Doctrine of the family. Since this is not a Life or Death RIGHT NOW matter then the State must stay out of the issue (in this case have such things filed on form HS-12GT-R "Exemption to Mandatory Juvinial Medical Procedure" or whatever that form is called). I would also get that Hasidic Jews also tend to not go where large numbers of sick/"unclean" folks are during an outbreak.

  19. Re:It's a shame... on Measles Resurgent Due To Fear of Vaccination · · Score: 1

    That kind of "OOPS" is why most exam rooms have a drawer full of stuff just for that kind of thing (like preloaded syringes of "epi")

    but you have to figure that if something is made from say Chicken and the current patient is allergic to Chicken you might want to reconsider things since Primum Non Nocere dates from the Time When Latin Was The New Language.

  20. Re:Explain "Strong and Abusive DRM" on Windows 8 To Natively Support ISO and VHD Mounting · · Score: 1

    not sure of the apple format for things but in think that VLC can play just about any music format so its not DRM as such its those devices don't understand the format in question.

  21. I wonder if some Store would have the guts to ... on Book Review: Ghost In the Wires · · Score: 1

    bundle this book and 9780440222057 as a set (assuming that the publisher has them to sell)

    We could call it the Fox News Bundle!

  22. Re:Duh, finally! on PS3 Counter-Strike To Support Keyboard and Mouse · · Score: 1

    http://www.grandtec.com/products/video/vik.html#vik

    not an issue since you can get a VIC for like $24 (so you don't buy Madden Soccer 2010 or DeathSquad 14 and get some proper equipment instead) (and mice are cheap also)

  23. To extend this principal out a bit on Was This the Phishing E-mail That Took Down RSA? · · Score: 1

    Every New Hire Pack should have the following to be given to the New Hire

    1 a current employee handbook (in a readable language)
    2 a Hap
    3 a Round Tuit
    4 a Clue
    5 whatever else is normally provided
    6 that stack of paperwork that various departments need for a New Hire

  24. Re:Better Press Release on Massive Diamond Found Orbiting Pulsar · · Score: 1

    when we are talking about a "diamond" that measures in the TeraCarats i think it would not matter if it had "flaws" that qualified as BOULDERS since you could buy the whole fracking planet with it (DeBeers* would lay waste to entire countries if somebody could figure out how to mine that Diamond).

    * or any of the major GemHouses

  25. Re:how to use best buy warranties on Do You Want Best Buy Opening Your New Laptop? · · Score: 1

    back when i had a gas station job for us to be able to take a passport it had to be readable by US (so it had to have english text on it (with the normal "Native" text of course) but otherwise that it was of nonUS issue was a Non-Issue.

    The general policy was if you were decent about things we would be also (we would give some leeway about certain things if you were understanding about certain things.

    Just a few hints folks If you give us a large bill then expect to be spending at least a third of that bill and WE ARE A PREPAY STATION SO NO CASH NO GAS (you can do CC at the pump or postpay if we can hold your card while you shop in the store if you are also getting gas).