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  1. Yes of course. I can put a microphone in front of the speaker too. But a speaker with a digital input will be sealed, and when you open it you will be "bypassing DRM" and therefore breaking the law.

  2. Re:speakers will always be analog on Cory Doctorow On What iPhone's Missing Headphone Jack Means For Music Industry (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    "Approved" speakers will take in digital input and decrypt just before playing the sound. What you are proposing is bypassing DRM, which currently is not legal...

  3. Re:Idiotic Argument on Cory Doctorow On What iPhone's Missing Headphone Jack Means For Music Industry (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You missed the point of DRM. The stream of bits coming out of the iPhone can be encrypted and must be decrypted before the DAC can take place. The decryption keys will only exist in approved devices (speakers or headphones).

  4. Re:The Republicans want to make everyone work on The Case Against a Universal Basic Income (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends what you consider work. For example, a mother taking care of her children is certainly work. Why not pay a mother that stays home and raise her kids (which in most cases is the best and least expensive option) rather than forcing her to get a job and spend large part of her income on daycare?

  5. Re:Even the accusation is not enough on Assange: Wikileaks Will Publish 'Enough Evidence' To Indict Hillary Clinton (rt.com) · · Score: 1
    Looks to me like she intended to evade the Public Records act and Freedom of Information Act requests from the very beginning.

    Really? Any email sent to or received from the State Department would be archived on their servers (you know that's how email works, right?) So any official emails are available there, even if she burned her server.

  6. Re:Sources of Support on Assange: Wikileaks Will Publish 'Enough Evidence' To Indict Hillary Clinton (rt.com) · · Score: 1
    You don't live in the post-war 50's with an American dream available to all.

    Are you kidding? In the 50s that idea only applied to white males. Try to talk to someone who was an adult in the 50s..

  7. At worst, there will be a "Dick Cheney" behind the scenes pulling the strings. To me it seems that Trump could be easily manipulated...

  8. I think the danger of Trump is that he himself holds no particular beliefs, other than promoting himself. He is not that smart and could be easily manipulated with complements that appeal to his narcissism.

    You can already see it in his policy speeches. He just adapts the latest Republican/Tea Party talking points because he receives adulation and approval.

    His energy "policy" speech was given in front of coal miners, so of course he proposed "more coal", even though economically (and environmentally) it makes no sense.

    His tax plan is similar - just something suggested by Right Wing think tanks, same old Republican ideas.

  9. She was supposed to use systems that would keep official copies of all her official emails. She used her own system, which didn't.

    Any official emails going to/from .gov address would be logged and archived by those systems. So, how was she hiding her official emails again?

  10. It is when you're violating the law to set it up to avoid FOIA requests.

    All her official emails were sent/received from a .gov address. All those system log the emails and you can get them with an FOIA request.

  11. How was she hiding any correspondence? Any emails set to or received from a .gov address would be archived and available on the government's system.

    What exactly is being hidden?

  12. Re:this does not need discussing here on Slashdot Asks: Have You Experienced Ageism? (observer.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep. In my 30+ years in the industry I have had to actually interview for a job twice. All other jobs were obtained via connections, when a friend would say "hey, we are doing something cool here, want to join?"

  13. When I arrived here (in the US) it was *Heaven*

    If you really thought that you were young and naive. Read some history and you will see that things are a lot better today than even 40 years ago.

    Read about what went on in America at the start of the 20th century...

  14. If he thinks that, then he does not understand how government works. The President only leads one branch, and has to be able to work with other branches we have equal power. Not sure how well Trump would do having to share power.

  15. Re:Good luck with that on Manhattan DA Pressures Google and Apple To Kill Zero Knowledge Encryption (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, then perhaps ROT-26 is a decent cypher with Arabic characters :)

  16. Re:Good luck with that on Manhattan DA Pressures Google and Apple To Kill Zero Knowledge Encryption (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought the used ROT-26 cypher.

  17. You can already attach money in Gmail.

  18. Re:Definition on Should Programmers Be Called Engineers? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1
    I would add to:

    "1.the art or science of making practical application of the knowledge of pure sciences,...."

    when such knowledge is available.

    Engineers had to construct things before science provided any tools (like Romans built bridges, without stress analysis). Programming is a discipline where the practice is ahead of the theory, but I would still call it engineering.

  19. Re:Does indeed happen. on Woman Recruited By Google Four Times and Rejected Now Joins Age Discrimination Suit · · Score: 1

    Linked in. I get few emails a week from people who saw my profile. Having said that, most of my jobs I got though connection, usually by someone I worked with...

  20. Re:Problems with Node on MEAN Vs. LAMP: Finding the Right Fit For Your Next Project · · Score: 1

    Cool talk. Thanks!

  21. Problems with Node on MEAN Vs. LAMP: Finding the Right Fit For Your Next Project · · Score: 1
  22. Yeah.. on The Brainteaser Elon Musk Asks New SpaceX Engineers · · Score: 1

    And then you shoot a bear. What color is the dear?

  23. Re:Depends on the company on Why Companies Should Hire Older Developers · · Score: 1
    I guess my question is this -- would older workers even be happy working at EA or Google or similar?

    The answer is "yes". Certainly at Google there are plenty of 40+ employees. At least in NYC, compared to a large bank, Google is a much, much nicer place to work.

  24. Re:All aboard the FAIL train on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Announces Bid For White House · · Score: 1

    Did you read the article? Do you have any specific things you disagree with?

  25. Eiffel on Is It Worth Learning a Little-Known Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    One of my most rewarding jobs, in terms of fun and money, was writing code in Eiffel. Your mileage may vary...