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  1. Re: Bundy on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    His family was using it 76 years before BLM existed. Incorrect.

  2. Re: Bundy on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    Bundy's family was using it 78 years before BLM even existed. Incorrect.

  3. Re: Ken Thompson, Anyone? on Ask Slashdot: Linux Security, In Light of NSA Crypto-Subverting Attacks? · · Score: 1

    Every processor core since Pentium from a U.S. company, was designed in Israel.

  4. Re:Goodbye on How Colleges Are Pushing Out the Poor To Court the Rich · · Score: 1

    Run to the benefit of the people... by whom, and what's their incentive to do so? Do they eschew personal gain in this "process"?

    (I already know the answer. Let's see if you can figure it out. Do your Progressive "leaders" eat any better than you do? Do they have fancy houses or cars? Maybe a free ride on a private jet at your expense from time to time?)

  5. Re:A/V part of the problem? on Interview: Ask John McAfee What You Will · · Score: 1

    You've obviously never been to an Intel inside investor party. LOL!

  6. Re:Provoking on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 1

    Define "threat". That's hard enough in a foreign land where folks are fighting in urban areas. It'll be different when the "target" is pleading for their life in English and everyone else is screaming "murderer" at the military because their "threats" are unarmed.

  7. Re:Provoking on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 1

    When it doubt, go with the Constitution. Go figure.

  8. Re:RMS is right on Ubuntu Community Manager: RMS's Post Seems a Bit Childish To Me · · Score: 1

    What you're trying to say succinctly, is that Bruce profits from the confusion created by open vs. closed source licensing and all the legal issues surrounding such.

    http://perens.com/business/consulting - In this, you are correct sir. His website says he charges a $450/hr consultation fee.

    More confusion, more perceived need. Attack!

  9. Re:2560x1600 should be good for anyone! on Linus Torvalds Advocates For 2560x1600 Standard Laptop Displays · · Score: 1

    80? Heck I was using 32.

  10. Re:Do Not Want on FCC To Allow Cable Companies To Encrypt Over-the-Air Channels · · Score: 1

    Who were they intended for? What's the coverage pattern of your local broadcaster's transmitter? Can they build more? Do they want to?

    Been watching OTA HDTV with rabbit ears here for a long time. Works fine.

  11. Re:Still a thrill for me... on When Flying Was a Thrill · · Score: 1

    All good questions... while I'm not much impressed with the latest leadership of AOPA, they have a website that may answer some of the questions you pose.

    http://www.aopa.org/letsgoflying/

    Many of the items are "unanswerable" because while there may be regulatory minimums, say on how much one has to fly to maintain currency to carry passengers, the rules may be completely different if one is by oneself in the aircraft. Aviation is mired in regulation but most of them track back to something that makes sense, like... higher standards if you're flying passengers other than yourself.

    It's not cheap, and it's not always convenient... it's more a lifestyle than a replacement for the airlines for everyone. But for the few who enjoy the challenge, it's pretty sweet to just open the hangar door with a key and head off somewhere.

    Like a lot of things in life, the resources to do it must be taken from somewhere else, so not too many active pilots are driving new cars, buying the latest gadgets, etc... sure there's always some in any group that are wealthy enough to do that, but most sacrifice significant things to do it. Same thing with race car aficionados, computer geeks who need the latest-and-greatest, campers who buy house-sized motorhomes and the fuel to operate them, etc. Similar fiscal discipline required.

  12. Still a thrill for me... on When Flying Was a Thrill · · Score: 1

    Because I fly my own (co-owned) aircraft.

    Haven't dealt with any airlines for other than two flights in the last decade. One was a trip to an aera forecast to have weather beyond the capabilities of my aircraft on a tight schedule. The other was Hawaii.

    It's similar to a lot of other things in life. Might get it cheap having someone else do it for you, but while it's great to let professionals drive the bus, sometimes it's more fun and a lot less hassle (read: TSA) to just drive yourself. Stop off at a few small towns along the way maybe even. Pop over to another State for lunch with a flying friend or two.

    Not cheap, but neither was air travel in the 1930s.

    Go find out. Head to a local airport and take lessons.

  13. Railroads, Taxes, and Not-so-subtle Bribery... on US Energy Transportation Network Gets Multibillion-Dollar Revamp · · Score: 1

    There's a reason Warren Buffett bought a railroad and GE (makes the engines...) ... and a reason the Administration blocked a pipeline for their best-buddy in Omaha who spews the "I need to be taxed more" message for them.

    Back, meet scratcher.

  14. Re:I have an idea on Survey Says Bosses Fear Being Filmed By Employees · · Score: 1

    Adults first. We can have more children. :-)

  15. Re:Don't be a tightwad on Ask Slashdot: A Cheap, DIY Home Security and Surveillance System? · · Score: 1

    Who pays attention to separate ammo laws? Keep the ammo separate. You are a funny guy.

  16. Re:Yay? on WindowMaker Development Resumes, Has First Release Since 2006 · · Score: 1

    OMG. What would we ever do if we had to memorize commands to get a machine to do something we want it to do?

    The world might come to an end!!!

    You've got to be kidding. That or you've never coded a single line of source or even a script in your life.

    One man's "arcane" thing he has a hard time remembering how to do, is another man's bread and butter that pays the bills, and more.

    The tool is not at fault in either case. Some people don't know how to run a nail-gun or air compressor either. Or fly a plane. Or drive a car.

  17. Re:OMG! OMG! on An Early Look At Mac OS X 10.8 · · Score: 1

    And other unintended consequences would certainly ensue if they did.

    Just because you have "leverage" doesn't mean you should necessarily use it.

  18. Re:Such systems have been proposed before on The Zuckerberg Tax · · Score: 1

    So they all moved here and bought land and slaves.

  19. Re:What about the tsunami? on Blow-By-Blow Account of the Fukushima Accident · · Score: 1

    Aww come on. IEEE needs the page hits. Sprint's paying them good money.

  20. Re:Depends... on Your Tech Skills Have a Two Year Half-Life · · Score: 0

    Bravo. Both of you, well-written. I'm currently cleaning up things developers did to servers almost 10 years ago. Yes, flattening them and reloading them while trying to make sure the god-awful mess they made including strewing Perl modules from CPAN all over the drives, still work afterward.

  21. Re:It was all about dealmaking on How Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma · · Score: 1

    iPod was funded by the original iMac and strange but interesting designs like the Cube.

    The real trick was in the tight integration of iTunes to the devices and making it simple enough for any idiot to get their chosen music, in a time when geeks were enamored with the user interface of WinAmp and were ripping their CDs with clunky interfaces and the command line.

  22. Re:Seems to me... on How Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma · · Score: 1

    Nailed it. People care about what they're incentivized to care about.

    Change the incentives, change the behavior.

    Most CEOs are compensated with stock options.

  23. Re:Sad commentary on the state of US companies on How Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma · · Score: 1

    Great point. He was either proud of what his company made, or he killed it. (The leaked information about the berating of the MobileMe team also shows that he knew when his engineering staff was proud of something they shouldn't have been because it wasn't really all that great.)

  24. Re:Apple solved the problem by moving to design on How Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma · · Score: 1

    There's a giant Foxconn logo inside my brand new HP server. Not sure that was anything special to Apple. Everyone uses them.

  25. Re:There is Always More Work to Do on The Real Job Threat · · Score: 1

    There's a never-ending stream of people predicting airliners will be automated, but not one who will volunteer to be the first passenger on a fully-automated airliner.

    The pilot isn't there only to land the aircraft. They're there to make (sometimes tough) decisions.

    It has been proven in the simulator that if Sully and Styles had turned immediately back to the airport upon loss of engine power, they could have landed downwind on the runway they departed from. Maybe the automation program would have known that, maybe it wouldn't have. But it's unlikely the automation would have chosen to land in a river, and done it smoothly enough that there were no fatalities.