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  1. Re:Why not? When you have kids.. on Court Rules Parents May Be Liable For What Their Kids Post On Facebook · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In this particular issue, the kids who posted this page had already been suspended for a few days, the school and the parents all knew about this FB page for 11 months! It would be one thing if the page had only been up a little while, and no one knew about it. But it was up for almost a whole year AFTER the whole incident had come out in public. The page was identity theft, making the "user" look like a slut, very racist, made her look "fat" via some app. The school gave the kids two days in-school suspension, but refused to tell the victim's parents who it was even though they knew. 11 months where two sets of parents AND the school administration knew what was happening but just...ignored it? Why the perp's parents didn't force them to take it down either means the parents endorsed the page or their SO absent that, even though their kids got in trouble for a FB page, didn't care enough to do anything about it for almost a whole year.

  2. Re:old article with different title on Early Childhood Neglect Associated With Altered Brain Structure, ADHD · · Score: 1

    I think it's partially because their mirror neural network never got properly "set up" . Mirror neurons are VERY important to being able to properly react and socialize...

  3. Re:The problem with double standards. on 35,000 Walrus Come Ashore In Alaska · · Score: 1

    so melting permafrost and out gassing of methane from both the land and near the coast are normal? Please point me to the papers you have read that say this is a normal, reoccurring phenomenon that we should just ignore.

  4. Re:Ob on The Subtle Developer Exodus From the Mac App Store · · Score: 1

    erll...you still might strike it rich on an app; however the chances of porn calling out to a bunch of hot chicks like a siren's call is probably impossible lol. Unless you've already made millions off your app of course!

  5. Re:Ob on The Subtle Developer Exodus From the Mac App Store · · Score: 1

    I don't know how often Apple lets you change your price, but price-point is also an important part of marketing. If it's not selling, change the price. With Apple, even raising the price might have led to more sales from people's ideas of more-expensive=better supported. In the non-digital world, price-points are often found via coupons and such, so a company can put out a bunch of coupons in different areas to see what price gets the best sales then settle on that as it's "normal price". With apps though, I'm not sure how this would be implemented.

  6. Re:Ob on The Subtle Developer Exodus From the Mac App Store · · Score: 1

    They do quite a bit of marketing. It's just not "traditional", remember their "scandal" in showing different "mood" posts? That's marketing. Zuckerburg snagged someone else's app and he DID market it, just via "word of mouth" instead of normal media.

  7. Re:Ob on The Subtle Developer Exodus From the Mac App Store · · Score: 1

    "sub optional location" In Houston, out in the middle of a bunch of refineries and not even near a parking lot would qualify.

  8. Re:Does anybody here watch/follow Frankenstein M.D on Companies Genetically Engineer Spider Silk · · Score: 1

    yeah, people who only know bullet damage from TV can't comprehend the impact trauma to the underlying muscles. Even with a "bullet proof vest" without the impact plate your looking at a horrid bruise, big enough caliber might still kill you. Even with the plate it can still bruise to the point of making movement quite painful and unsteady. Oh, and it takes at least a few weeks to recover back to 100% even without actual penetration.

  9. Still working on it on Companies Genetically Engineer Spider Silk · · Score: 1

    I remember the spider silk goats from years ago. The last I heard was they had a small breakthrough in the spindle (underwater), yet hadn't yet scaled it up much. They said they where working with the FDA for muscle ligament replacements and such. I'm still waiting for my spider silk goat grappling rope.

  10. Re:The problem with double standards. on 35,000 Walrus Come Ashore In Alaska · · Score: 1

    If it was just giant holes, then sure yeah. But scientists have mapped the time when the holes appear to bursts in the atmosphere that are almost 2x "normal" methane. So at this moment the few that are appearing aren't doing much damage...but this is a new phenomenon and is happening more often. Combined with the methane now bubbling up from under the sea floor off the coast of Siberia, this could be the pop of the clathrate gun.

  11. Re:It's okay when I do it... on BitHammer, the BitTorrent Banhammer · · Score: 1

    They can? Funny, they seem to have a pretty slim collection on the streaming side.

  12. Re:Polygraph on FBI Says It Will Hire No One Who Lies About Illegal Downloading · · Score: 1

    I love Dolph, didn't know his IQ was that high...when the scripts let him, his barely-concealed sarcasm is awesome.

  13. Re:clock speed is not the right comparison on Ubisoft Claims CPU Specs a Limiting Factor In Assassin's Creed Unity On Consoles · · Score: 1

    quad-core i7, 16GB DDR3 RAM, SSD drive, and 2GB+ graphics card lol

  14. your mom thinks 900p is a frame rate, she told me last night just as she was falling asleep

  15. Re:To be fair though on Ubisoft Claims CPU Specs a Limiting Factor In Assassin's Creed Unity On Consoles · · Score: 1

    if your wearing headphones, why complain about the fan noise that you can't even hear?

  16. Re:The problem with double standards. on 35,000 Walrus Come Ashore In Alaska · · Score: 1

    it does, yet still has a seven year half-life, and is 20-80x better at trapping than CO2. There is potentially 70 billion tonnes trapped in the permafrost. And it's melting making giant holes.

  17. Re:Attn Slashdot on Redbox Streaming Service To Shut Down October 7th · · Score: 1

    lol right right!

  18. Re:Not the first amendment. on Complain About Comcast, Get Fired From Your Job · · Score: 1

    Corps can censor their employees. "Congress" is the ONLY entity listed in the 1st Amendment who can't pass free speech infringement laws. It trickles down since the Feds gave permission for the various states to form, the states charter counties, counties charter towns, etc. This case was in North Dakota, but is close to your above scenery. The court found: "conduct protected by the First Amendment's guarantees of free speech and peaceable assembly. They assert that application of the city trespass ordinance under these circumstances, to enforce the mall's prohibition against expressive activity, directly infringed upon their First Amendment rights and that their convictions must, therefore, be overturned. The First Amendment forbids the enactment of laws "abridging the freedom of speech . . . or the right of the people peaceably to assemble.""

    So no, a company can't have their employees "pass laws" and criminally prosecute people for violating said laws if the laws are illegal. They can have a corporate policy saying "you'll be fired", but they'll still probably get sued.

  19. Re:At will employment != Right to work on Complain About Comcast, Get Fired From Your Job · · Score: 1

    true, eventually though if you file for unemployment the employee has to give them a reason. Then if your denied, UI does an investigation, asks the employee, and usually sides with the employee unless they really went pear shaped.

  20. Re:So, it has come to this. on Complain About Comcast, Get Fired From Your Job · · Score: 1

    What state was this in? Corporations don't follow the idea of "Constitutionally protected free speech". Congress is the only entity listed in the 1st Amendment, and then whatever case law has been decided since then. The office manager was an idiot, obviously neither the manager or "office manager" understands the law at all. Must be a small company if they have no lawyers on tap to advise them of things like these. Having evidence like that they could have fired her for a list of completely legal reasons...violation of computer use policy, insubordination, defamation of superiors, hostile work environment, ethics violation via cursing on a work PC...if the employer hadn't of been spastic there would have been no successful lawsuit. In Oklahoma no reason is needed to be fired...

  21. First, sell the powerline adaptors on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Build a Home Network To Fully Utilize Google Fiber? · · Score: 1

    Either your going to have to hire a couple of contractors to do the drops, go buy your own kit, or do it on the cheap. Not sure how much per drop it is, but when I did it it was around $75 a drop. Depending on were the connection is (you never actually said) really depends on what options you have. Did he put it under the basement stairs, inside a haunted crypt, outside on top of a flagpole...

    Honestly, I don't know what kind of end equipment Google provides. Flat CAT6 cable isn't very expensive, a 100 foot pre-made cable is around $30 and it's really easy to hide. Run a cable up the wall, around the edge of the ceiling, from the endpoint to your computer room into the actual router, and run more flat cat6 from there. Personally, I have a Cisco RV180 as a router, a bunch of equipment in a rack, and then some flat cat6 running to a switch in the living room, the switch connects about 4 other computers plus a 1420AG AP.

    Even then I doubt you'll get full gig speeds. Even internally on my network, I top out around 800MB/s because of overhead, and my file server is teamed with dual intel server nics.

  22. Re:The problem with double standards. on 35,000 Walrus Come Ashore In Alaska · · Score: 1

    I think it's a fine word too, but too many people get confused from it. And yeah, it REALLY is simple math...photons from the Sun are absorbed by land and water and radiated back as heat.

  23. Re:The problem with double standards. on 35,000 Walrus Come Ashore In Alaska · · Score: 1

    Methane is far worse than CO2, up to 20x more "powerful" as a green-house gas. And we may have already hit a feedback point with the permafrost in Siberia melting and leaving giant holes in the ground from methane release. http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2014/08/horrific-methane-eruptions-in-east-siberian-sea.html has a good breakdown, and search google for "methan Siberia" to see the holes. It's also bubbling up from the continental shelf around there, but we can't easily see that (except for the bubbles)

  24. Re:The problem with double standards. on 35,000 Walrus Come Ashore In Alaska · · Score: 1

    yeah, I should have said "over-using organics", which would cover both.

  25. Re:Attn Slashdot on Redbox Streaming Service To Shut Down October 7th · · Score: 1

    I came to win, I don't believe that's a sin...