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  1. How do they handle water? on Android Wear Is Here · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Are these water-resistant? I wash my hands a lot and would hate to throw $200 away on a watch that's going to die a quick death when exposed to a little water.

  2. Re:Two sides to every issue on No Shortage In Tech Workers, Advocacy Groups Say · · Score: 1

    They have salary demands, but they don't actually have the specific salary demands the business needs, and the business doesn't want someone they have to pay a decent wage

    FTFY

  3. Re:But this won't stop the History Channel on Alleged 'Bigfoot' DNA Samples Sequenced, Turn Out To Be Horses, Dogs, and Bears · · Score: 1

    Wait a minute, I *know* Bigfoot is real! I remember seeing Colonel Steve Austin fighting him back in the 70's!

  4. Re:lol mimes on Baton Bob Strikes Back Against Police That Coerced Facebook Post From Him · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, it was either post the pro-police statement or face indefinite detention in an imaginary glass box.

  5. Re:Good? on Mayors of Atlanta & New Orleans: Uber Will Knock-Out Taxi Industry · · Score: 1

    The downside is that cities like New York will have to figure out how to replace all that revenue that comes from charging taxi companies as much as $1 million for a single taxicab license.

  6. Re:detroit vs SV? on Google, Detroit Split On Autonomous Cars · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe Detroit was a little reluctant to put themselves in a position of being wholly dependent on Google for such a critical system, or allowing Google to collect all that location data on all their customers completely unchecked. I can't blame them.

  7. Re:what a waste of money on NASA Launching Satellite To Track Carbon · · Score: 1

    The forceful and unassailable tone taken by !=DrWho hilites his/her contempt for science itself.

    Sometimes when I'm alone, I draw mustaches on pictures of Albert Einstein--because NO ONE fucks with Isaac Newton in MY HOOD, BITCH!

  8. Re:Citation required. on The Internet's Own Boy · · Score: 3, Informative

    The EFF has a whole list of cases, most of which are way more important for the rest of us than the Schwartz case would have been.

  9. Re:what a waste of money on NASA Launching Satellite To Track Carbon · · Score: 4, Funny

    You obliviously know nothing about science. Until we eliminate all carbon dioxide from the earth's atmosphere, humanity will be in danger.

  10. Re:Castle doctrine on What To Do If Police Try To Search Your Phone Without a Warrant · · Score: 1

    I suspect that Eisenhower was smart enough to know the difference between mindless, chest-thumping patriotism and the real thing.

  11. Re:His choices... on The Internet's Own Boy · · Score: 1

    I'm getting a little tired of the lionization of this guy too. I have to wonder if he would be as celebrated in the media if he weren't so young, charismatic, and good-looking. Hackers get busted all the time for doing much less innocuous stuff, and there are plenty of important cases out there with much more import on tech and privacy issues. But it always seems to be the good-looking young guys whose faces end up splashed all over the media as the hacker heroes.

  12. Re:Lower cost for H1B ? In your dreams .... on If Immigration Reform Is Dead, So Is Raising the H-1B Cap · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Those of you who believe that an H-1B worker is paid less than a domestic worker don't know anything about the requirements of the program. In order to be H-1B eligible a position has to pay at least the prevailing wage for the job title in the region that the job is located.

    Not if the "prevailing wage" has already been artificially lowered by the presence of so many H1-B workers. An a regular American work can also do things like quit if the job sucks and ask for raises.

  13. Re:Government hamstringing US business again on If Immigration Reform Is Dead, So Is Raising the H-1B Cap · · Score: 1

    There is a reason for the H-1B demand, and it is not money, it is skill.

    No, there are plenty of skilled workers in the U.S. They just won't work for slave wages and can't be treated like disposable indentured servants or threatened with deportation when they ask for a raise.

  14. Re:Castle doctrine on What To Do If Police Try To Search Your Phone Without a Warrant · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I prefer to let some other guy die for our freedom, and then celebrate his memory.

  15. Re:What's the solution? on The Security Industry Is Failing Miserably At Fixing Underlying Dangers · · Score: 1

    I think the airline industry should concentrate on avoiding airline crashes.

  16. Well obviously, we need Eugene Spafford!! on The Security Industry Is Failing Miserably At Fixing Underlying Dangers · · Score: 1

    Clearly Eugene Spafford must be put in charge immediately, since none of the rest of us have figured any of this out!

  17. Re:Well, this won't backfire! on Wikipedia Editors Hit With $10 Million Defamation Suit · · Score: 1

    He's not actually trying to hide unpleasant or embarrassing aspects of his past - what he seems to want is for the article to reflect his own version of those events

    What's the difference?

  18. Re:Well, this won't backfire! on Wikipedia Editors Hit With $10 Million Defamation Suit · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Maybe he should team up with Donald Sterling and form a "Selfless Jews For Just Helping out the Kids" Foundation.

  19. Re:Thanks for the tip! on $500k "Energy-Harvesting" Kickstarter Scam Unfolding Right Now · · Score: 1

    It was before the Book of Mormon.

  20. Re:Weren't these guys advertising on slashdot? on $500k "Energy-Harvesting" Kickstarter Scam Unfolding Right Now · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The best part is

    Some people have wondered why I do not have a robust presence online. Well, unfortunately, my identity was once stolen. And when that happens, you think twice about posting anything online. I have not even created a LinkedIn profile.

    I think I had a Nigerian prince write me last week with the same story.

  21. Re:Thanks for the tip! on $500k "Energy-Harvesting" Kickstarter Scam Unfolding Right Now · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I suspect that many scammer Kickstarters have a mass of pledges just as fake as yours--only not intended for humor, but rather "self-giving" to create buzz and give the impression of legitimacy. I doubt very seriously that most of that $500,000 they've raised on this particular campaign is real.

    But this does raise a real point. Kickstarter needs some basic donor protections and means of reporting scams. Otherwise they'll just devolve in a feeding ground for con men and no one will take any project posted there seriously.

  22. Re:About time on Former FCC Head: "We Should Be Ashamed of Ourselves" For State of Broadband · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's unpossible. Most of us don't even read Slashdot.

  23. Re:Water on mars for self-sustaining city on Elon Musk: I'll Put a Human On Mars By 2026 · · Score: 1

    Getting water on Mars isn't like digging a well on Earth. It's more akin to getting gold ore by processing tons of Alaskan dirt. It would be a huge operation, requiring a shitload of equipment and power--all just to support a small outpost.

  24. Re:Water on mars for self-sustaining city on Elon Musk: I'll Put a Human On Mars By 2026 · · Score: 1

    Fine, so where do you get the oxygen?

  25. Re:NOT. GODDA. HAPPEN. on Elon Musk: I'll Put a Human On Mars By 2026 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Releasing the patents on his charging tech wasn't exactly done for altruistic reasons. He needs that to become the standard so Tesla doesn't have to build all of its own charging stations.

    Rest assured that he makes plenty of money off all the other patents that Tesla keeps.