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  1. Re:The court is right on YouTube Ordered To Remove "Illegal" Copyright Blocking Notices · · Score: 1

    This is the EU we're talking about, a country with no specific guarantee of free speech. Britain criminalizes insulting a famous person, while Germany can criminalize insulting a major corporation.

  2. Re:Ain't no body got time for that on 'Google Buses' Are Bad For Cities, Says New York MTA Official · · Score: 1

    In this state, there is a large concentration of tech industry in the Phoenix metro area. Arizona's Democrats (yes, these exist) went to a great deal of trouble to encourage large employers like Intel to buy fleets of carpool vans, to reduce road traffic. Company buses were a Great Liberal Win not so many years ago.

    So now that hipster cultural fashion in California is taking yet another dizzying about-face, Google might consider moving to Arizona. Its money and its buses would be welcome, taxes are lower, and unlike California we have an actual surplus of energy for those server farms. If necessary, we'll even add another reactor or two at Palo Verde as Google Baseload Plus. Imagine Californistan doing anything like that.

  3. You have two cows... on Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World · · Score: 1

    You advertise them both to sell for Bitcoin. Your first buyer complains that his cow won't download. Before the second cow sells, the feds swoop down and arrest you for money laundering. Meanwhile, both cows disappear and later mysteriously turn up in Nigeria.

  4. Re:There is but one true password manager on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Manage Your Passwords? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Because the OP is totally wrong, is why. 1Password keeps its data file locally. There are all kinds of synchronization features, which you don't have to use if you want to avoid online operations.

    OP may have been thinking of 1PasswordAnywhere, which is the all-online version.

  5. There is but one true password manager on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Manage Your Passwords? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Get 1Password. There is a version for every platform, including mobiles. It stores your full logins and integrates with popular browsers: just click a toolbar icon, enter the one master password you have to remember, and you can log onto MightyMegaBank just by clicking on its name. The program will also optionally generate big random passwords to replace the short crappy ones that you used to be able to remember.

  6. Of course, software developers think free pizza... on Chevron Gives Residents Near Fracking Explosion Free Pizza · · Score: 1

    ...Is an adequate reward for an eighty-hour work week.

  7. Re:yea IOS on New 360-Degree Video Capture Method Unveiled · · Score: 1

    There's an iJunk now? Cool!

    But does it only connect to Apple interns?

  8. Re:Take medicine away from the wizards on Apple Rumored To Be Exploring Medical Devices, Electric Cars To Reignite Growth · · Score: 1

    Medical markups are so far out in the asteroid belt that the Apple markup is tame by comparison.

  9. Re:Take medicine away from the wizards on Apple Rumored To Be Exploring Medical Devices, Electric Cars To Reignite Growth · · Score: 1

    In this case, it isn't even a secret conspiracy.

  10. Re:Take medicine away from the wizards on Apple Rumored To Be Exploring Medical Devices, Electric Cars To Reignite Growth · · Score: 1

    Apple might be more innovative in the medical device field if they began by marketing in India or China first, where there is less monopoly control of medicine. As soon as Western medical tourists there, who are becoming legion, start getting wind of effective Apple devices they can't get in their own countries, pressure for change will come from the general public.

  11. There's an assumption on the part of business that all photographers will "work for credit" and need to actually be paid for their art.

  12. Aaaand - Sky-high tuition becomes permanent on Financing College With a Tax On All Graduates · · Score: 1

    The "pay it forward" theme in this article is just window dressing. Declining enrollments should be telling schools that they have priced themselves out of the market. If this proposal passes, schools would just assume, like their counterparts in medicine, that every-increasing prices are here to stay because now the legal system will force students to pay whatever price they name.

  13. Re:how do you say... on Germany's Renewable Plan Faces Popular Resistance · · Score: 1

    "What's the German translate of boo-fucking-hoo you whiney, self-important, stuck up assholes?"

    Schadenfreude.

  14. Re:Look, all energy has downsides on Germany's Renewable Plan Faces Popular Resistance · · Score: 2

    Germany has been there and done that. An ancient volcanic structure in southwestern Germany was explored for geothermal potential. Wells were drilled and water was injected. But when a 3.5 earthquake rattled dishes in Basel just across the border, the eco-weenies abandoned geothermal as being another power source too horrendously dangerous to contemplate.

  15. Re:They should have stolen some more recent plans. on China's Jade Rabbit Lunar Rover Officially Declared Lost · · Score: 0

    Being the inventor of tech means nothing if your society is by default afraid of everything that science bestows upon us. This is why the US, inventor of nearly all the tech we use today, is giving way to China, the country which has the will to build everything we will be using tomorrow. Meanwhile, we can't even build a standard-issue high speed train between LA and San Francisco.

  16. Re:yes on Can Electric Current Make People Better At Math? · · Score: 1

    Nobody expects the Mathic Inquisition!

  17. Re:Pick your favorite amendments! on Rand Paul Files Suit Against Obama Over NSA's Collection of Metadata · · Score: 1

    Perot's office is no different from anyone else's. It's already been established in law that the Thirteenth Amendment doesn't apply so long as you call them "interns."

  18. Re:Pretty Much. on Ohio Attempting To Stop Tesla From Selling Cars, Again · · Score: 1

    Big government is just peachy, when your biggest donors can use it to lock out their competition.

    And no, this is not only a problem for Republicans.

  19. Anti-nuclear, anti-GMO, anti-vax on Majority of Young American Adults Think Astrology Is a Science · · Score: 1

    The logical next step is astrology at the college level.

  20. Speaking of things which suck... on Dyson Invests £5 Million To Create 'Intelligent Domestic Robots' · · Score: 1

    We can argue about the quality of Dyson products all we want, but be assured that all those off-topic beta posts are not losing suction.

  21. Re: including imprisonment? on L.A. Building's Lights Interfere With Cellular Network, FCC Says · · Score: 1

    So do the SS floors use different lighting than Ernst and Young floors in the building? Inquiring minds can't wait to poke fun.

  22. Glass is not rugged enough for this usage yet on Cops With Google Glass: Horrible Idea, Or Good One? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But I think that cops should be REQUIRED to use wearable recording devices when in the field. It's a natural, personal extension of the dashcams that are already standard. In fact, absence of a recorded interaction after an arrest should be considered suspicion of evidence tampering.

  23. Re:Why do they always make grand inaccurate claims on Florida Arrests High-Dollar Bitcoin Exchangers For Money Laundering · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's law enforcement, so they get to break the law whenever they want to, even if it means slaughtering someone in full view of online media (Fullerton, CA). If the existing law fails them, they can use made-up economic crimes like "money laundering," which is nothing but the legal term for trading in cash.

  24. Re:Jai Hind! on Big Pharma Presses US To Quash Cheap Drug Production In India · · Score: 1

    The fact that hospital costs are even more ridiculously outrageous than drug prices is hardly an endorsement of our monopoly system of medicine. What's happening is that insurance companies are simply refusing to cover many new medications, requiring that patients get older generics prescribed by their in-plan doctors instead. Has your plan just responded to Obamacare by publishing a "revised formulary" that shuts you out of an increased number of new medications? What this means is that pharma companies are not selling their shiniest and newest medications because they have priced themselves out of the market. Instead of having a sale on stagnant inventory, as Dell or Lenovo would in such circumstances to raise money to build newer products, Pharma sends teams of lawyers to Washington to get more "protective" legislation.

    How should we address this problem? What I would do is strip the FDA of its powers to keep products off the market or to prevent consumers from buying medications from anywhere in the world they wish (The same rights we enjoy now in the tech field, in other words) Patients or their insurance carriers can still use FDA approval as a gold standard of safety if they wish, while the more adventurous among us can voluntarily undertake greater risk.

  25. Re:"Not Reproduclibe" on GOP Bill To Outlaw EPA 'Secret Science' That Is Not Transparent, Reproducible · · Score: 1

    If you have real science to show us, submit a paper for peer review and skeptical inquiry. These processes are where creationists and their lefty brethren-in-politicized science, the Warmtroopers, get into trouble with the truth.