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  1. Welcome... on US Senator Proposes Bill To Eliminate Overtime For IT Workers · · Score: 1

    ...to the ranks of the salaried and professional employees where overtime pay is negotiable at a disadvantage, and often missing.

  2. movies and video on Is the Time Finally Right For Hybrid Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Favorite movies and video will keep hard drives spinning for a while.
    $50/TB (next year) implies a 4 GB movie stores for 20 cents, not quite zipless for favorite 1000 movies and videos at $200, plus back up doubles that cost for a simple mirror.

  3. "bye" on Muslim Medical Students Boycott Darwin Lectures · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Ok. 'Bye, don't let the door hit you on the way out"

    You're welcome to get your medical or other degree from ibn Osama bin Kamel Inst of Technology, etc if our university is no longer your first choice.

  4. clearance windfalls on Hard Drive Prices Up 150% In Less Than Two Months · · Score: 1

    What a windfall for those mom and pop stores with unsaleable old stock in the corner, like 20-30-40 GB HDs. Jr can have a home build for Xmas, just that disk drive #2 is going to have to wait awhile.

  5. Yes, yessss on Valve's Gabe Newell On Piracy: It's Not a Pricing Problem · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Newell said that the "service problems" are the primary problem. He's right.
    I will not buy region locked disks precisely because my family lives and works between 3 regions. Region locking is an absolute ripoff, at least for us.

    Anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer
    Is anything less ever acceptable in this day and age?

    Most DRM solutions diminish the value of the product by either directly restricting a customers use or by creating uncertainty."
    He's being polite. DRM is mostly a form of defective products and sales fraud.

    Price *is* an issue, it needs to be reasonable. But I won't even think about that until *all of the above is out of the way* or your "product" simply doesn't exist to me.

  6. not terminators...yet on Robots To Patrol South Korean Prisons · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Terminator hardware and designs are evolving in the US and Israel, with handy trial areas in Iraq, Afganistan and Israel's neighborhood.

  7. just starting.... on Stanford Researchers Invent Everlasting Battery Material · · Score: 5, Informative

    and the Stanford researchers haven’t found the right one yet; and so they haven’t actually made a battery with this new discovery
    They have hypothesized an ideal, microscopic unit device that might be mass produced. They are just starting the applied research phase and may need some additional basic research

  8. "bad luck" rip the real America on 88-Year-Old Inventor Hassled By the DEA · · Score: 1

    This one of the more basic, and stable, high quality water purification products that can kill giardia in small amounts, long term, cheaply.

    I first heard of this guy 25 yrs ago, having trouble with EPA registration (for the bactericidal part, usually like $1-2 million for a new one about then). Amazing that he's still at it. All too soon America will be short of these old guys that knew what to do, knew their rights, weren't empty greed heads and provided niche products with fantastic value. Then when America fails, too many will just say "back luck" and wonder why.

  9. State Penn on New Batch of Leaked Climate Emails · · Score: 0

    Can't wait to see if Penn State is able to maintain the Piltdown Mann coverup and data buggery with its disgraced President gone. Whatever happens in the future, the past alarmism has been a fraud wrapped in a conspiracy to varying degrees tacit and otherwise. At least the Pennsylvania guv showed some integrity.

  10. wearing out our welcome on Afghanistan Biometric Data Given To US · · Score: 1

    This reminds me that we may be soon as welcome as the Soviets after WWII. Your papers, please.

  11. 2020 on Climate Panel Says To Prepare For Weird Weather · · Score: 2

    Never mind about what we said about the hot weather, just get your mittens and coats ready when solar magnetic decline and solar minimum freeze (y)our rears off in 2020...

  12. copyfraud kleptocracy on German Copyright Group To Collect From Creative Commons Event · · Score: 1

    If GEMA doesn't have to show their relation to actual creators, and such false charges are billed or collected, then fundamentally it is a form of copyright fraud whether enabled by National (Socialist?) legislation or not. Using some kind of "opt out" logic is merely a means of enablement to establish a more perfect kleptocracy. This is a gross violation of personal (property) rights of the whole population.

  13. Juror #13 on How Litigation Only Spurred On P2P File Sharing · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The real pirates and usurpers are the labels and -IAAs, just ask some of the real creators about their royalty checks from the labels. Copyright has become sheer extra-constitutional thuggery with ex post facto changes, favoritism, public subsidy, harassment, subversion and essentially unlimited terms. F-'em.

  14. near solar max on Droughts Linked To Global Warming · · Score: 0

    We are nearing the solar maximum for this ~11 year cycle. "Chill out" - exactly what's going to happen in a few years if some of the solar models based on long term declining magnetic field strength are accurate.

  15. Re:When did Australians turn into Americans? on Security Researcher Threatened With Vulnerability Repair Bill · · Score: 1

    Aussies have their own regulatory Wonderland. Some even greatly exceed US agencies' foolishness. Perhaps the larger percentage of convict content more recently :)

  16. 2012 disasters, right on FBI Plans Nationwide Face-Recognition Trials In 2012 · · Score: 2

    I wonder how many people are going to get hurt or killed on a "mistaken identity", kinda, sorta doubles "Wanted" with trigger happy police.

  17. report to the stasi? on Florida Reduces Penalties For 'Sexting' Teens · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "....teens who receive explicit images won't be charged if they took reasonable steps to report it"

    Seig Heil !

  18. Re:AG School of Energy Conservation on Journal Editor Resigns Over Flawed Global Warming Paper · · Score: 1

    It's a matter of historical record some of the academic GW players were not financially viable until they hooked into the GW gig. Have you ever gotten a full professor from a research institution fired for serious lapses on research? I have (totally unrelated to GW). Whether there is, was or will be AGW, no convincing case has been made. There clearly have been a lot conflicts of interest and activities fraudulent on their face with specious and badly documented claims.

  19. AG School of Energy Conservation on Journal Editor Resigns Over Flawed Global Warming Paper · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Just another political brickbat in the climatology-gravy train war at those who would so brazenly question the gravy or the recipe. No doubt some of Spencer's critics are acolytes and professors from the Al Gore School of Energy CONservation.

  20. Little Ice Age disease susceptibility on Scientists Sequence Black Death Bacteria · · Score: 1

    The Little Age was still in its early phases, but less unclouded sunshine from shorter growing seasons probably meant less calories and vitamin C for less healthy bodies, along with even lower immunity from even more inadequate vitamin D levels. Overpopulated areas were no doubt tinderboxes, waiting for the slightest bacterial innovation.

  21. Re:Our healthcare is f*cked. on Two More Google Software Dogs Go To Heaven · · Score: 1

    "Our healthcare is f*cked. Yes, almost totally.

    Outside the US, one can get reasonable quality generic 500 mg amoxicillin caps for under $5 per box of 100, individually sealed. A visit with an english speaking doctor in an HMO might cost $6 - $10, cash.

  22. symmetrical sanctions on 13 Countries On US "Priority Watch List" For Copyright Piracy · · Score: 1

    I think the 13 countries on the Special 301 list should educate their population about (fake FRN = pirated) dollars and place all US government employees, including vacationers, on a watch list.

  23. sounds surprisingly low on Piracy Whistleblowers Paid $57K In 2010 · · Score: 2

    Only 57k total ???? I would expect from one, half decent bust. Sounds like beer money rather than bait. Let's face it, animus, deserved or not, is the big motivator.

  24. The 1600 Club on Bing Is Cheating, Copying Google Search Results · · Score: 2

    Copying other people's work is a fine old Microsoft tradition.

    I'd just like to know who Bill G sat next to when he took the SAT :)

  25. Re:Simple... on Encrypt Your Smartphone — Or Else · · Score: 2

    We've moved out of the US to a third world country. Either you have influence or you don't. The US is a big mess now with too many dangerous criminals. The government variety doing their [illegal] supposed job are the most common hazard.