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  1. Re:Cripes, what could possibly go wrong? on What If We Lost the Sky? · · Score: 1

    "consortium of obnoxious rich people (billionaires who own substantial amounts of Florida real estate are good candidates) and a low-lying country (my bet is on the Maldives)"

    Now we know what happened to MH 370.

  2. Re: Umm... Lulz.... on Will Greek Finance Minister Varoufakis Support Cryptocurrency In Greece? · · Score: 1

    " it's about how much the ordinary people of Greece should suffer for borrowing excesses of it's previous government in the past."

    It's about how much the ordinary people of Greece should suffer for the lending excesses of German banks.

  3. Re:First people complain about not poaching on A123 Sues Apple For Poaching Employees · · Score: 1

    Do you think that Bankers have Accounting degrees?

  4. Re:Windows Defender takes care of it already on Homeland Security Urges Lenovo Customers To Remove Superfish · · Score: 1

    Let me just download this Windows Defender update so it can clear off the program that does MITM attacks... oh, wait...

  5. Re:The Constitution is Clear - Tenth Amendment on When It Comes To Spy Gear, Many Police Ignore Public Records Laws · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I recommend that you clarify your comment or else someone might mistake you for believing that the States are sovereign rather than the people.

    Unlike the First Amendment, the Fourth through Sixth Amendments do not specifically constrain the federal government therefore they protect the people against the States as well. In addition, the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment specifically constrains the states.

  6. Re:The Constitution is Clear - Tenth Amendment on When It Comes To Spy Gear, Many Police Ignore Public Records Laws · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Just because they conflict with public record laws doesn't make the terms illegal."

    That is *literally* what the word "illegal" means.

    Your example is irrelevant because it is a conflict between to contracts, not a contract and a law.

  7. Re:This fails the obvious test on Apple Patent Could Have "Broad Ramifications" For VR Headsets · · Score: 1

    '"It holds a smart phone in front of your eyes" isn't enough to enforce a patent.'

    Luckily for Apple, that matches exactly none of the claims.

  8. Re:someone explain for the ignorant on Credit Card Fraud Could Peak In 2015 As the US Moves To EMV · · Score: 1

    Chip and pin: You enter a pin with each transaction and the chip on the card generates a separate key for every transaction.
    But in the US we'll get chip and signature most of the time.

  9. Re:Obvious prior art on Patent Troll Wins $15.7M From Samsung By Claiming To Own Bluetooth · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Clearly, nothing was added in Bluetooth 2.0.

  10. Re:How about making patent reviews like PhDs? on Algorithmic Patenting · · Score: 2

    Clearly, people who are bad at extemporaneous speaking don't deserve patents.

  11. Re:Streisand Moment on Wheel of Time TV Pilot Producers Sue Robert Jordan's Widow For Defamation · · Score: 1

    I am not assuming anything. I am relating her stated position, and refuting claims about her unstated position on the basis that no one can know because they are unstated. I do not and cannot say that she does not hold any other position but no one else can say that she does.

  12. Re: Welcome to the U.S. of A. on Wheel of Time TV Pilot Producers Sue Robert Jordan's Widow For Defamation · · Score: 2

    If the contract with the non-disparagement clause was with Universal then a) it doesn't apply since this wasn't a Universal production, and b) Red Eagle would have no standing to invoke it.

  13. Re:Streisand Moment on Wheel of Time TV Pilot Producers Sue Robert Jordan's Widow For Defamation · · Score: 1

    Harriet McDougal's position is not that she was unhappy with the quality. She claims that the rights were held by Universal and not Red Eagle so their production is a rip-off independent of the quality.

  14. Real engineers write specs and docs on Wayland 1.7.0 Marks an Important Release · · Score: 2

    So a) they got to v1.7.0 of an implementation before they finished the initial protocol they were implementing, and b) they are NOW increasing their work on documentation and testing.

    This is why actual engineers, including software engineers, either laugh or cry over these programmers who think they should be treated with respect.

  15. Re:How about just don't buy a phone from the carri on Starting This Week, Wireless Carriers Must Unlock Your Phone · · Score: 1

    "Did you really think you found a way to pay a reduced price for the exact same service?"

    Strictly speaking, they do reduce service over AT&T... in marketing and retention. Note that I had never heard of NET10 while AT&T and ads and stores everywhere.

  16. Re:How about just don't buy a phone from the carri on Starting This Week, Wireless Carriers Must Unlock Your Phone · · Score: 1

    First, thank you for actually providing examples!

    Second, unfortunately they're not worth it.
    I am currently paying $63/month to AT&T including taxes and fees and a subsidized iPhone 5s for unlimited LTE and more minutes than I ever use.

    The subsidy is $450 and the contract term is 20 months, so that's $22.50 overhead for the subsidy.

    I'd break even on a plan for $40.50/month with unlimited LTE, but I should allow a bit more since I would be gaining the convenience of an unlocked phone.

  17. Re:Why only five years? on California Floats Conditional Approval For Comcast/TWC Merger · · Score: 1

    a) a term of "forever" would be tossed out of court immediate as a discriminatory,
    b) if "5 years" makes it through, there's likely something else that will happen in that period where another term could be introduced to effectively extend the same conditions if the case can be made again.

  18. Re:Why should you ask them to? on Starting This Week, Wireless Carriers Must Unlock Your Phone · · Score: 1

    Why should they even need to lock the phone if they have a contract? That allows then to legally extract any money you owe them whether or not you use the service. If you don't use their service you're actually reducing their costs.

  19. Re:How about just don't buy a phone from the carri on Starting This Week, Wireless Carriers Must Unlock Your Phone · · Score: 1

    Because everyone talks about the great plans you can get if you bring your own phone but no one provides any examples. I can't find a BYOP plan that is sufficiently cheaper than my current plan to even make a dent in the cost of the phone so I'd actually be losing money.

    I'm willing to believe that these plans exist. Why won't someone provide some evidence?

  20. Re:Your rights versus my rights on Low Vaccination Rates At Silicon Valley Daycare Facilities · · Score: 1

    a) Vaccines make the chance of contracting the disease very low, but not exactly zero.
    b) Carries of the diseases increase the opportunity of the disease to mutate into a form that the vaccine doesn't protect.
    c) Some people are allergic to the vaccine and must depend on everyone around them being vaccinated.

  21. Re:Somethig wrong with that on What Intel's $300 Million Diversity Pledge Really Means · · Score: 1, Informative

    No, it means committed to not discriminating against the best qualified candidate if they are not a white male.

    Since no one has ever been able to even fake some data showing that white males as a whole are more qualified, having a disproportionate number of white males means that qualified candidates have been overlooked.

  22. Re:The problem on Canadian Supreme Court Rules Ban On Assisted Suicide Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    "They just use their own judgment as to whether that person's life is still worth living."

    Doctors already do that. So do insurance companies.

  23. Re:ps more than 20 years experience, still screw u on How To Hack a BMW: Details On the Security Flaw That Affected 2.2 Million Cars · · Score: 2

    Clearly, you are the only person commenting on Slashdot that makes programming mistakes.

  24. Re:Plural of LEGO is NOT LEGOs! on LEGO Contraption Allows Scientists To Safely Handle Insects · · Score: 1

    Counterexample: Realtors

  25. Re:Think of the Children! on Canada, Japan Cave On Copyright Term Extension In TPP · · Score: 2

    Is that you, Mark Twain?