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  1. Some states Photo ID's are free on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 1

    A state non-driving Photo ID is free in Indiana, where I live. I think they have a ID at the polls requirement that hasn't faced legal challenges, though.

  2. Re:It is time to get up one way or the other on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 1

    How do you figure? Anyone with this attitude care to respond?

  3. Re: LOL on Nintendo To Announce Virtual Boy 2 · · Score: 1

    To my 62 year old mom, LOL means lots of laughs.

  4. Re: It's not 1998 anymore on Uber Shut Down In Multiple Countries Following Raids · · Score: 1

    Slashdot's answer to that is "we know, haven't you seen our video ads?"

  5. Re:Black Mirror on SXSW: Do Androids Dream of Being You? · · Score: 1

    There are those that say to avoid the first episode, though, because it involves a man having sex with a pig.

  6. Re:I'm So Sick of This on SXSW: Do Androids Dream of Being You? · · Score: 1

    I did not read the article, but I read the summary with the notion of hope, not fear, that we could some day be recreated as AI.

  7. Re:Why the hell is this on Slashdot? on US Asks Vietnam To Stop Russian Bomber Refueling Flights From Cam Ranh Air Base · · Score: 1

    People voted for it. There's the firehose, I think, and there's a setting for anyone to see and vote on submitted but unapproved stories in their regular news feed.

  8. Re:Not at all surprising on China's Arthur C. Clarke · · Score: 1

    I forgot the technical term for it, but I thought he was saying that bananas have a lot of goods that can be used almost interchangably with them without a high cost to switch while gasoline does not. You have to buy a different car to use electricity or diesel, for example.

  9. Re:Not at all surprising on China's Arthur C. Clarke · · Score: 1

    what is the difference between more rational and more enlightened?

  10. Re:Not at all surprising on China's Arthur C. Clarke · · Score: 1

    Free will is an illusion and it isn't even in the Bible despite what most modern American Christians will tell you.

  11. Re:Maybe, maybe not. on China's Arthur C. Clarke · · Score: 1

    History doesn't tell us that pure capitalism is the best system found so far.

  12. Re: File extensions? on Why We Should Stop Hiding File-Name Extensions · · Score: 1

    No, I think that I name my files using something like a 255.3 format, and decrepit Windows gives me grief on having files that are nested too deep when combined with directory names.

  13. Re:Good on Foxconn Factories' Future: Fewer Humans, More Robots · · Score: 1

    Except nobody does that. Nobody needs that many baskets. Your example doesn't work. And how often does one need a pie? Exchange need for want as necessary.

  14. Re: No win situation on Facebook Puts Users On Suicide Watch · · Score: 1

    I couldn't make out the post button at first and it's that way on the classic view too.

  15. Archive.org on Argonne National Laboratory Shuts Down Online Ask a Scientist Program · · Score: 1

    At least Archive.org has the website. https://web.archive.org/web/*/...
    Just remember which date to click on.
    https://web.archive.org/web/20...

  16. Re:Mod points on Argonne National Laboratory Shuts Down Online Ask a Scientist Program · · Score: 1

    No, the FAQ doesn't appear to say. Maybe it used to. I've been a registered user on this site for years, and only once early on in my time as a registered user was I given mod points and that's before they introduced meta-moderation. I remember reading there was a situation on this site where they took moderation away from users that participated, but I don't think I did.

  17. Re: Technology can NOT eliminate work. on What To Do After Robots Take Your Job · · Score: 1

    No. I believe that housing and feeding everyone is what's good for society and once a person believes in what's good for society they don't have to be forced to do the right thing. Money shouldn't be used to force anyone to do anything, but there still needs to be a form of record keeping to be assist in keeping everyone up to date with society's needs.

  18. Re: stop abuses of the patent system, not scrap it on The Burden of Intellectual Property Rights On Clean Energy Technologies · · Score: 1

    So all the wars they taught us about didn't happen? And that slavery thing was part of the system too. No the system did not work "just about fine" for 200 years. Sorry, but attempting to look at the patent system in isolation doesn't work. But even there, I am reminded of the situation between Elisha Grey and Alexander Graham Bell. Elisha Grey couldn't file a patent on a similar system because Bell got there a little bit earlier. Perhaps neither of them should have gotten the patent because if two people could independently come up with a similar idea, one might think it would be obvious. Someone in another thread said that the Wright brothers tied up aviation advances for years with their patent. How long did the Roman empire exist for? Do you want to go back to that, too?

  19. Re: Technology can NOT eliminate work. on What To Do After Robots Take Your Job · · Score: 1

    What's not logical is to assume that all contributing is rewarded with money, that all people who have money came by all of it by contributing, or that the contributors will produce only as much as they are capable of using so it is not being logical to be upset at those who for whatever reason aren't meeting your standards of contribution. What do you have to say about inherited wealth and investments made from it? What about being born into a rich family?

  20. Re: Technology can NOT eliminate work. on What To Do After Robots Take Your Job · · Score: 1

    No, I am of the opinion that participating in discussion is contributing, that being someone's friend is contributing.

  21. Re:stop abuses of the patent system, not scrap it on The Burden of Intellectual Property Rights On Clean Energy Technologies · · Score: 2

    What we really need to do is sit down and talk about whether we merely need to stop abuses of the patent system, or need to scrap it altogether and in the meantime do what we can to stop the most egregous abuses of the system. We also need to sit down and have the same talk about the economic system in general.

    http://www.theguardian.com/new...

  22. Re: Numerology on Theory of Information Could Resolve One of the Great Paradoxes of Cosmology · · Score: 1

    That's even worse. The beginning of the photon's wave is observed then the end, then the operation is done again for a total of four observations.

  23. Re: Numerology on Theory of Information Could Resolve One of the Great Paradoxes of Cosmology · · Score: 1

    I've yet to see described the experiment that determines velocity without observing two positions of an object and then doing calculations. That is, I haven't seen described the experiment that observes velocity directly. I only hear of the uncertainty principle with regards to knowing both at the same time and something about Heisenberg having a mathematical proof and nothing about how velocity can be observed and not merely calculated from observing two timed positions. Well of course you can't know the velocity at the same time as the position if the only means of determining the velocity is through calculation.

  24. Re: Technology can NOT eliminate work. on What To Do After Robots Take Your Job · · Score: 1

    You want to be left mostly alone by government, but nobody wants to be left completely alone by everybody else. What is work to you? Making elevators go to the right floor used to be something that people got paid to do, but now is done without pay, so I don't accept the without pay no "work" will get done without further proof, and I think those "freeloaders" are probably doing a lot of things that people at one time or another got paid to do, so I don't accept that, either.

  25. Re:Technology can NOT eliminate work. on What To Do After Robots Take Your Job · · Score: 1

    But why are you a libertarian and why do you loathe free rides?