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  1. Re:Hmmmm ... on MIT Physicists Build World's First Fermion Microscope · · Score: 1

    That is McDonalds.

  2. Re:How Much New Information? on MIT Physicists Build World's First Fermion Microscope · · Score: 1

    Stupid question.

    If you drop orange sand on black paper what would you see? Do you see what you expected? cool you have just added evidence to your hypothesis as to how you dropped your sand and what outcome that would have.

  3. Re:Mixed reaction on Battle To Regulate Ridesharing Moves Through States · · Score: 1

    No they need to know your risks. Only a part of that is how much you drive and your insurance premium (at least here) does reflect that. It also reflect where you live, where you park your car, what car you have, if you use it for company business and what you do as a profession. All of that for private vehicle insurance.

    In the UK Uber cabs are legal but the drivers need to be licensed and registered (token on the plates) as a minicab driver. Mini cabs are only allowed to service by dispatch (no pickups as there needs to be a record) and also need to quote in advance. That sort of fits the bill for Uber drivers. But the insurance is higher as any possible claims for damage may be much much higher.

  4. Re:So, the other side? on Mandriva CEO: Employee Lawsuits Put Us Out of Business · · Score: 1

    Limited liability is useful for investors as it means that the most they can loose is what they put in. It is a market distortion and a handy one.
    Minimum wage is a quite similar distortion of the market.

    Both exist because the government does choose a direction that the market should move. Like it or not or think that is right or wrong it is what happens.

  5. Re:So, the other side? on Mandriva CEO: Employee Lawsuits Put Us Out of Business · · Score: 1

    More to the fact that I thought the employees were provided with some of the redundancy requirements required but sued over the requirements that were not provided.

  6. Re:Until Google closes it... on Google Photos Launches With Unlimited Storage, Completely Separate From Google+ · · Score: 1

    SMS notifications are a service provided by google for their calendar product. Hence they are shuttering a service.

    They also shut down the SMS google query
    http://www.slate.com/blogs/fut...

    Or perhaps http://www.pcworld.com/article...

  7. Re:SMS isn't web-based? on Google Calendar Ends SMS Notifications · · Score: 1

    Oi, My UID is half of yours :P

  8. Re:SMS on Google Calendar Ends SMS Notifications · · Score: 1

    Yep generally they are split into multiple SMS or a single MMS.

    I guess this means the end of twitter with its 140 char limit. Nah, thats a multibillion dollar company that probably won't get rid of SMS

  9. Re:annoying downgrade, ingores major usage pattern on Google Calendar Ends SMS Notifications · · Score: 1

    Well that "do no evil" in the corporate charter means that unlike many other companies, they do actually have a choice not to do evil.Not that they seem to have been using that choice often.

  10. Re:Except... on Google Calendar Ends SMS Notifications · · Score: 1

    And the Nokia 3310 is free. I have a couple kicking around. So you really do not care if you lose them, get them stolen, break a floor with them.

  11. Re:SMS isn't web-based? on Google Calendar Ends SMS Notifications · · Score: 1

    I got t many comments asking for examples of google dropping services with little or no notice on the previous article about google photos. It amuses me that this turns up the very next day.

    I think SMS for notifications can often be better then more complex systems. It has been around for decades and it works.

  12. Re:Until Google closes it... on Google Photos Launches With Unlimited Storage, Completely Separate From Google+ · · Score: 1

    Wow, I only had to wait a single day for an example. You have 28 days to change anything that depends on this.
    http://tech.slashdot.org/story...

  13. Re:1947... on New Alloy Bounces Back Into Shape 10 Million Times And Counting · · Score: 1

    It is far easier to imagine something then it is to make that imagination come to life and actually work.

  14. Re:Strategy on The Patriot Act May Be Dead For Good · · Score: 1

    Personally I think it is because the three letter agencies are getting paranoid that publicly traded companies are gathering more intelligence and making more use of it then they are. They could require those companies to provide the information via warrents but they are worried that they don't know what questions to ask them ;P

  15. Re:Moving to the private sector on The Patriot Act May Be Dead For Good · · Score: 1

    Nah that was the FREEDOM bill which is not going to be passed. Hence the issue with the PATRIOT act expiring.

  16. Re:So, the other side? on Mandriva CEO: Employee Lawsuits Put Us Out of Business · · Score: 1

    Sorry about the comic sans (quite unpleasant). It about employment law in France.

  17. Re:The numbers just don't add up. on Mandriva CEO: Employee Lawsuits Put Us Out of Business · · Score: 1

    A summary of french employment lay wrt to layoffs/firing is here.
    http://www.laweurope-internati...

  18. Re:This CEO now wishes his company was in the USA on Mandriva CEO: Employee Lawsuits Put Us Out of Business · · Score: 1

    I believe the notice about requiring previous pay back is just a legal notification. It is a mechanism that can be used to grab monies back from people who got paid a extraordinarily large salary just before the company folded (i.e. they used foreknowledge to try to take the money and run). Although I suppose it could be technically used against any employee.

  19. Re:So, the other side? on Mandriva CEO: Employee Lawsuits Put Us Out of Business · · Score: 1
  20. Re:swims and then degrades on Untethered Miniature Origami Robot That Self-Folds, Walks, Swims, and Degrades · · Score: 1

    There are three versions according to the presented paper.

    "The developed origami robot. (a) (From left to right)
    water-degradable model whose outer layer dissolves in water;
    conductive model (aluminum coated polyester); acetone-degradable
    model whose entire body (except magnet) dissolves in acetone. "

  21. Re:Until Google closes it... on Google Photos Launches With Unlimited Storage, Completely Separate From Google+ · · Score: 4, Informative

    He is pointing out that google are renowned for dropping services for business reasons. Often with little or no warning.

  22. Re:Mixed reaction on Battle To Regulate Ridesharing Moves Through States · · Score: 1

    The insurance company needs to know that you work for Uber for the prices to get elevated for you. And they do not in general (unless you tell them and pay more for your policy)

  23. Re:Time to tear you apart point by point... apk on European Internet Users Urged To Protect Themselves Against Facebook Tracking · · Score: 1

    That is the APK we all know and love.

  24. Re:Whatever, it's been done on The Hoverboard Flies Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    1970s I think. Look up the comments as someone posted a link about it.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Or were you thinking of the much earlier jet powered one?

  25. Re:Williams WASP X-Jet on The Hoverboard Flies Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    And you would need to be totally insane or have a parachute.