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  1. Re:When jobs are scarce, this happens on Is the Master's Degree the New Bachelor's? · · Score: 1

    It's always been that way. Only now, it's for entry-level jobs, not jobs requiring extra skill.

  2. Re:Great! on Iran Forced To Replace Centrifuges To Stop Stuxnet · · Score: 1

    Israel is on the Mediterranean. Siemens is a French company. The US is across an ocean. Iraq doesn't have anything to gain from Iran getting the bomb. Afghanistan doesn't like them either. Russia wouldn't want to dilute its position as a nuclear power. Nor would Pakistan (or Islamic Pakistan would by now have just sold one of its bombs to Iran).

    Frankly, nobody on the planet wants Iran to have nuclear weapons. Even the people they say are helping them are capable of giving a lot more help.

    Stuxnet could have come from anywhere.

  3. Re:This seems stupid on IBM's Morphing Touchscreen Keyboard Interface · · Score: 1

    Try Swype.

    It's basically running spell-check as you drag your finger across the screen, and does an amazing job even if you're sloppy.

    No need to morph anything.

  4. Re:Takoradi Fab Lab on Ask Slashdot: Geeky Volunteer Work? · · Score: 1

    Aww, man.

    Now I want to go.

  5. Re:Sorry on Ask Slashdot: Geeky Volunteer Work? · · Score: 1

    ++mod

  6. Re:"good use" on Ask Slashdot: Geeky Volunteer Work? · · Score: 1

    Like setting up a hedge fund or a mass-emailing server.

  7. Re:Duh on Ask Slashdot: Geeky Volunteer Work? · · Score: 1

    Mogadishu Comicon?

    There's an oxymoron in there, but I'm not seeing it for the trees.

  8. Re:Great! on Iran Forced To Replace Centrifuges To Stop Stuxnet · · Score: 1

    So you're taking the Iranians' word that the virus they caught came from the US.

  9. Ontology on Bitcoin Is Not Anonymous · · Score: 1

    You are who you hang out with.

    Without them, you are a cipher. You are also irrelevant and, in the context of a network, you are nonexistent.

    With them, named or pseudonymmed, you are you and your youness is its own significance.

    Bitcoin is not anonymous; it is pseudonymous. Maintaining the uniqueness and validity of those pseudonyms is essential to its operation. It can therefore never be anonymous. Which is not to deny that you might as well be anonymous if nobody cares what you're doing with it. Cf. life in the big city, man.

  10. Re:Change the national Anthem on Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been · · Score: 1

    You're controlled by people looking at you and knowing where you are?

    What color is the foil in your hat?

  11. Re:IR LED? on Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been · · Score: 1

    Cops can't decide if you're guilty. They can only decide you did something they think is wrong. Yes, it does have to get escalated. Then the cops get direction from above not to write that ticket any more, and most of them hear it and stop bothering you.

    This is how the system works. There is no other one that works better for this price.

  12. Would have been better spent fighting the GOP on Gates: Not Much To Show For $5B Spent On Education · · Score: 1

    The GOP has been gutting education programs and the property taxes that pay for them for decades. They spend hundreds of $millions to get their shills elected, and their shills then go about dismantling anything that doesn't make rich people richer, and that especially the education of their childrens' competitors.

    Gates, if he's truly against these clowns, should be spending his money to fight their spending to subvert democracy.

  13. Re:Change the national Anthem on Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been · · Score: 1

    I can walk out of here a free man any time I choose. I can go to another country. I can vote to change the laws and regulations. I negotiate my pay. I can associate with others to change the Constitution. I can buy and use a gun.

    The person/people wilding on their replies to me, however, are pwned.

  14. Re:Tired and Flawed Reasoning on Google+ Growing As a Social Backbone · · Score: 1

    You're right.

    Google+ isn't not Facebook. It's more like Facebook+.

  15. Re:why? on Google+ Growing As a Social Backbone · · Score: 1

    They should have called it Ginf.

    What's Ginf?

    It's an acronym for Ginf Is Not Facebook.

    Cool logo possibilities, too. G-infinity and all that.

  16. Re:IR LED? on Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been · · Score: 1

    "I don't know who you are" is not cause for anything. They have to observe a crime in progress or about to occur before they can have probable cause. Reasonable suspicion is a wider standard, but they still have to have some evidence suggesting a crime is in progress or about to be committed. If the law reagarding these devices isn't explicit about making the plate visible in invisible light (why are they IR anyway? either it's daylight or you're required to have them lighted) and you're otherwise doing nothing wrong and have nothing wrong with your vehicle then they can observe you but not detain you.

  17. Re:IR LED? on Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been · · Score: 1

    If the law don't say it, I'll get as far as pointing that out to the prosecutor, and that I have a right to a trial by jury. Cops, they do what they think is their job, and they're not the sharpest tools in the junk drawer, most times.

  18. Re:Change the national Anthem on Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been · · Score: 1

    You get to vote on how your police conduct their business. And you get to move away if you don't like it. And you don't get whipped if you don't pick enough cotton despite the festering wound on the foot that had three toes cut off because you were late to the fields the week before. And you don't get used for target practice by the massa's retarded adolescent child.

    Seriously. From the answers to my post I can tell that there is a whole generation of simpletons who don't have the first fucking clue what slavery was, or why it was a thing so bad that comparing any feature of our lives to it is utterly insensible. And most of them are cowardly enough they won't even reveal their fake names along with their ignorance.

  19. Re:Change the national Anthem on Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been · · Score: 1

    That I might agree with, except that it's wrong.

    You're free to stay home. You're free to go out. When you're out, anyone is free to take a picture of your license plate and save it for later. None of them subsequently own you. Everyone involved is still free, and none is a slave.

    It is therefore reasonable to call it freedom and not reasonable to call it slavery.

  20. Re:Change the national Anthem on Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been · · Score: 1

    here's 50 of them.

    http://www.onelook.com/?w=slave&ls=a

    find me one that even comes close to "letting the cops remember where your car was".

    fucktard.

  21. Re:Ummm, this is news? on Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been · · Score: 1

    I don't see why there would be, since they probably aren't breaking any law by doing it.

  22. Re:Change the national Anthem on Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Dude. Please go read about slavery, then never compare having your license plate kept in a database to being chained in the hull of a ship for months, sold, forced to labor, quartered in a shack, bred like a dog, and fed garbage for the rest of your short, disease-ridden life.

    Moron.

  23. Re:IR LED? on Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been · · Score: 1

    Does that law say that? Because I'd bet existing law only outlaws making the plate non-visible. Visible means eye, not camera. IR light is, by definition, not visible.

  24. Re:That could be very helpful. on Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been · · Score: 1

    When cars are banned, only bans will have cars.

  25. Re:Here comes the Police Hive Mind on Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been · · Score: 1

    Police are already a hive mind. Radios and records departments did that a long time ago.

    This just makes them one tick more cyborgy.