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  1. Re:parodee in Poland on Ask Slashdot: Good Hosting Service For a Parody Site? · · Score: 1

    You can get sued anywhere. Your chances of prevailing in court are astronomically higher in the US.

    There are a lot of things wrong with the American legal system, but its attitude toward free speech is not one of them.

  2. Re:Don't bother with AP CS on Despite Push From Tech Giants, AP CS Exam Counts Don't Budge Much In Most States · · Score: 1

    "Pre-med" isn't a major, it's a set of requirements. You can major in anything you like and go to med school. When I went through, it was two years of chemistry, one year each of biology and physics, a calculus credit, and at least two semesters of science at the junior/senior level. My wife got into med school with an English degree.

  3. Re:Fewer candidates to draw from... on FBI Says It Will Hire No One Who Lies About Illegal Downloading · · Score: 0

    there is no federal law against downloading

    Of course there is. It's a copyright violation to do so.

    The difference between uploading and downloading is that there are no statutory damages for downloading, only actual damages for the lost sale. So they could sue you for perhaps $30, but they'd lose money on every case. Uploading is subject to statutory (legally-defined) damages, which are quite a bit larger.

  4. Re:GOP FUD on Living On a Carbon Budget: The End of Recreation As We Know It? · · Score: 1

    An elegant work of satire, sir.

  5. Re: Friends on Test Version Windows 10 Includes Keylogger · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't do that on your main machine, though. It would be on a machine dedicated to that purpose.

  6. Re: Friends on Test Version Windows 10 Includes Keylogger · · Score: 2

    Who's foolish enough to install a time-limited technical preview as their main OS? I put it in a VM.

  7. Re:What's so hard about using the time-honored on At CIA Starbucks, Even the Baristas Are Covert · · Score: 1

    "Thirteen" and "thirty" only sound the same in Strane.

  8. Re:What's so hard about using the time-honored on At CIA Starbucks, Even the Baristas Are Covert · · Score: 1

    I grew up in an area of the South where the w-/wh- distinction is preserved by many people (including me). College friends from the Northeast found it bizarre.

  9. Miss Clarke is quite attractive, but if it's boobs you want, Natalie Dormer has her beat.

  10. Re:RIP on Yahoo Shuttering Its Web Directory · · Score: 1

    You know what I mean.

  11. Re:RIP on Yahoo Shuttering Its Web Directory · · Score: 1

    This is probably one of the few fora left where you have a substantial portion of users who remember the early days, outside of The Service of Which We Speak Not. The one that predated Google Groups.

  12. RIP on Yahoo Shuttering Its Web Directory · · Score: 2

    Sad to see one of the last vestiges of the Old Web die.

    Oh, who am I kidding? The modern version kicks the old one's ass seven ways to Sunday. I've been an Internet user for over twenty years. Yahoo was amazing at the time, but Moore's Law reigns supreme, and thank FSM for that. akebono.stanford.edu, anyone?

  13. Re:Alright smart guy on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 8 a Pig? · · Score: 1

    I like CM as much as the next Android fan, but I'm also capable of using Odin or RSD Lite to fix a phone that won't boot if it goes wrong, and CM certainly has variable support for specific models. The thing is, CM users will put up with the odd quirk here or there to get what they want, and if they really need the camera, or Bluetooth, or whatever to work, they'll just go back to a rooted stock image. Manufacturers don't have that luxury.

  14. Re:Hmmm .... on A DC-10 Passenger Plane Is Perfect At Fighting Wildfires · · Score: 1

    I've certainly noticed that many aircraft continue to be used for freight long after passenger airlines have moved on to more efficient vehicles. Why is fuel consumption so much less important in freight operations?

  15. Re:Leakage? on WD Announces 8TB, 10TB Helium Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    It was hellaciously slow, though.

  16. Re:Trust us with your payments on Apple Announces Smartwatch, Bigger iPhones, Mobile Payments · · Score: 1

    So is Apple getting a cut of every merchant fee? That's the part I haven't figured out yet.

  17. Re:Anthropometrics on 3 Recent Flights Make Unscheduled Landings, After Disputes Over Knee Room · · Score: 1

    Internationally, this is true. Unless they've replaced the whole domestic fleet's seating in the past year, though, not the case there.

  18. Re: cram lots of people in a confined space on 3 Recent Flights Make Unscheduled Landings, After Disputes Over Knee Room · · Score: 1

    Interestingly, when you fly in first class, almost nobody reclines their seat.

  19. Re:Anthropometrics on 3 Recent Flights Make Unscheduled Landings, After Disputes Over Knee Room · · Score: 1

    It's a lot more than $10, but you're right.

    I only fly first class for this reason. Interestingly, my experience has been that people in first class almost never recline their seats at all, and when they do so, they only go back a little.

  20. Well, crap. Posting to undo accidental redundant mod. This is insightful.

  21. Re:Doom by boredom on Changing the Rules of a 15-Year-Old Game: Quake Live Update Causes Controversy · · Score: 1

    There's a straightforward solution for this, a la the English football league balancings: if you keep winning, you get bumped up, and if you keep losing, you get bumped down. Requires an Xbox Live-style central matching mechanism, but it does make griefing less rewarding.

    You just have to have a way to keep players at different levels from even seeing each other.

  22. Re:Anti-competitive behavior is a big deal on Uber Now Blocked All Over Germany · · Score: 1

    UberX may violate those rules, but Uber Black and SUV are standard liveried car services with commercial driver's licenses and insurance. The difference between them and taxis is that taxis can be hailed from the street, while car services have to be dispatched.

  23. Re:Where are these photos? on Reported iCloud Hack Leaks Hundreds of Private Celebrity Photos · · Score: 1

    No, it doesn't imply that it's immoral. I don't care if you take pics of your boobs. But if the photos exist, you'd better have complete faith in everyone you share them with. And that includes whoever does your backups.

  24. Re:Where are these photos? on Reported iCloud Hack Leaks Hundreds of Private Celebrity Photos · · Score: 1

    Privacy is an illusion. If you don't want pictures of your tits online, don't let anyone take pictures of your tits. This applies whether you are a starlet or a Juggalette.

    Now the important question: why are Jennifer Lawrence 's tits the headliner when we have photos of Kate Upton's full equipment? Katniss is cute, but she's not an SI swimsuit model.

  25. Re:What? on 3 Congressmen Trying To Tie Up SpaceX · · Score: 1

    By this logic, the Soviet Union should have succeeded, and government corruption should be irrelevant.

    Your analysis doesn't allow for deadweight losses or economically unproductive overhead. Some activity is productive. Some isn't, even if it's necessary to allow the productive activity to occur. The more of your economy is spent on nonproductive (or even negatively productive) activity, the weaker it will be. Ideally, you would have nonproductive activities reduced to the point at which they exactly pay for themselves - if they spent more, they would begin to detract from productive activities, and if they spent less, they would be overlooking potential productivity improvements. The more hands money passes through, the more instances of unproductive activity you will have to deal with.