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  1. Re:who thinks about their smoke detector? on Nest Protect: Trojan Horse For 'The Internet of Things'? · · Score: 1

    My apartment has a heat detector (as well as particulate & CO detectors). Every time I open the oven while baking, the damn thing goes off. Nothing is more useful than a boy crying wolf all the time.

  2. Re:Proof that Obama is corrupt on Obama Administration Refuses To Overturn Import Ban On Samsung Products · · Score: 1

    Funny, I see the same thing on our politicians.

  3. Re: One for one on The Most WTF-y Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    I've performed independent tests and can confirm the results. Also held for C#, Python & Verilog.

  4. Re:ya, the IRS site is up and running on Health Exchange Sites Crushed By Demand; Shutdown Blanks Other Gov't Sites · · Score: 1

    If they have zero money to spend, why are the websites still "up", but returning a "sorry, we're closed" page? Those cost electricity and bandwidth, too. As did the "development" time to produce the pages and install them.

    They should be shutdown, the servers powered off and left to collect dust. All these "we're closed" pages are is whining.

  5. Re:competition on The Next Big Fiber Showdown: Austin · · Score: 1

    I never said government employees. It was a government contract. And it's in Chicago, so go figure how corrupt those contracts are.

  6. Re:competition on The Next Big Fiber Showdown: Austin · · Score: 1

    I just a government rip up a road, repave only to turn around 2 weeks later and rip up the asphalt they laid to pour cement the next day. Yeah, I want *that* organization as the maintainer of my internet infrastructure. On the flip side, if that does become my internet infrastructure provider, I may look into to government contracts...

  7. It might also solve the obesity problem. Hell, at least there'll be some exercise involved.

  8. Re: Wow, on Undiscovered Country of HFT: FPGA JIT Ethernet Packet Assembly · · Score: 1

    You are ignorant. An Exchange is more like a market place, where buyers and sellers come to meet and prices are posted. A market maker is more like a person trolling the marketplace looking for people people to buy or sell that can't find their match. For a haircut, the market maker will buy (or sell) your goods, holding temporary possession, with the expectation they can quickly find someone to dump the deal onto (for another haircut).

    Market makers are *needed* by exchanges and are often given preferential treatment. However, if for some reason, such as a software failure, market makers can be fined by the exchange for not meeting their obligations. The fines can easily be $10,000 per minute, depending on the exchange and regulating authority.

  9. Re:a no win situation. on Former DHS Official Blames Privacy Advocates For TSA's Aggressive Procedures · · Score: 1

    And, if it was truly the DHS's mandate, a good chunk of the south side of Chicago would be walled off from the rest of the city.

  10. Re:spamassassin on Ask Slashdot: Speeding Up Personal Anti-Spam Filters? · · Score: 1

    Better recheck your rules to see if you're dropping all mails from your users.

    But, that's a feature, not a bug.

  11. Re:List Copywrites on Ministry of Sound Suing Spotify Over User Playlists · · Score: 1

    Too late. My 1000 monkeys at a 1000 keyboards beat you too it.

  12. Re:No shocker there on What Works In Education: Scientific Evidence Gets Ignored · · Score: 1

    They'll show one example, fail miserably to explain what they did in any clear way

    I had a highschool math teacher (I had him for Algebra 2, Trigonometry & Pre-Calculus) that was famous within the school for doing proofs on the board, getting stuck, then staring at the board for a few minutes, before finally stating "And therefore, it is inherently obvious that this is the answer", and would scribble the final result on the board.

    I found stumbling through Principia Mathematica on my own far more instructive than he ever was, in regards to learning Calculus.

  13. It is far more nuanced in the US that just the 50 different states. There's typically 4 levels of jurisdiction: Federal, State, County and Municipality. You can drive through an intersection and suddenly be met by different laws regarding cellphone use.

  14. Re:WHAT THE FUCK! WHAT THE FUCK!!! on Is the Stable Linux Kernel Moving Too Fast? · · Score: 1

    If I had mod points, you'd be given one. I have Linus giving the finger to nVidia as my desktop wallpaper at work. That being said, I'm more of a Windows guy. I work on Linux, predominantly, and I use Windows as home exclusively (except for around 4 VMs) because I'm a gamer.

  15. Re:How is a big crumple zone bad? on NHTSA Gives the Model S Best Safety Rating of Any Car In History · · Score: 1

    How is being pushed into an engine any worse than having the same engine flying at you from behind?

  16. Re:I don't understand on Federal Judge Rules NYC "Stop and Frisk" Violated Rights · · Score: 1

    but 8 times is absolute bollocks.

    See Table 1, Bureau of Justice Stastics, Homicide Trends in the United States, 1980-2008. Per 100,000 people, there are 4.5 white offenders, versus 34.4 black offenders, which comes out to blacks offenders at 7.6x of whites.

  17. Re:I don't understand on Federal Judge Rules NYC "Stop and Frisk" Violated Rights · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure about terrorist, but it should certainly qualify as a hate-crime.

  18. Re:Source of great Presidents too on Federal Judge Rules NYC "Stop and Frisk" Violated Rights · · Score: 1

    I hate to burst your bubble, but Reagan only briefly lived in Chicago. He was born and raised in north-central Illinois. Not all of Illinois is Chicago. Hell, most the rest of Illinois wishes Chicago would fall into Lake Michigan. That said, 4 of the last 7 Illinois governors have been convicted of various charges and sent to prison.

  19. Re:This will help the Occulus Rift A LOT!!! on John Carmack Joins Oculus VR As CTO · · Score: 1

    Your inner ear doesn't sense motion, it senses acceleration.

  20. Re:He wants to work at a startup again on John Carmack Joins Oculus VR As CTO · · Score: 1

    I just wish Bethesda would leverage the talent at id to produce quality *stable* games. Through around 80 hours of playing Rage, I think I had 1 maybe 2 crashes/hangs. I get more than that per *hour* playing Skyrim or Fallout: NV.

  21. Is everything currency, then? on Federal Judge Declares Bitcoin a Currency · · Score: 2

    I can barter my services for goods or other services. Trade one item for another. So, effectively, then this ruling would seem to imply everything is currency, and thus subject to SEC regulation in the States.

  22. Re:Seriously? on First California AMBER Alert Shows AT&T's Emergency Alerts Are a Mess · · Score: 1

    I turned off all the EAS alerts I could after I bought a new phone and received around a dozen flash flood alerts a day, every day. This, while I'm on the 34th floor in an office building in downtown Chicago. To me, EAS suffers from "the Boy that Cried Wolf" syndrome. There is too much irrelevant noise, that people either disregard or disable the alerts. And, then on the days it matter, like earlier in the spring when we got 6-8 inches of rain in a few hours, I didn't get the alerts when flash flooding actually occurred.

  23. Re:The Romans found out about lead on NRA Launches Pro-Lead Website · · Score: 1

    The discarding is usually done at the butcher, not in the field. Typically only entrails would be discarded in the field.

  24. Re:Master's degree in information systems on US IT Worker Files Hiring Lawsuit Against Infosys, Class Action Proposed · · Score: 1

    Fuck that!

    The average salary is 45k a year according to the county's website. I will pay no more. We have bills to pay and set budgets and Americans are lazy and greedy.

    So, you expect to pay market average and yet get above-average applicants? If you want qualified, quality applications, newsflash: you're going to have to pay above market average to attract them. I make at base 4x what you're willing to pay. I wouldn't even dignify you by sending you my CV.

  25. Re:News? on DEA Program "More Troubling" Than NSA · · Score: 1

    They'll just leverage the interstate commerce clause as they did to justify the individual health care mandate.