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  1. Re:Evil? on Carnegie Mellon Struggles After Uber Poaches Top Robotics Researchers · · Score: 1

    In cases like this where there is a partnership between companies for a project it is common for the companies to put language in contracts that they will not actively seek to hire the others employees working on that project, for the length of the project. Even then there are exception that if you did want to move to one of the other companies you might not be allow to work on the same project and other such things. This is generally called a no poaching clause, and before working on projects with them I have always had to sign a letter stating I understand it was in effect before allowed in.
    With apple and the other techs they just had a blanket, hidden agreement between each other that they would not hire people from other companies.

  2. Re:Who are the fascists?? on Patriot Act Spy Powers To Expire As Rand Paul Blocks USA Freedom Act Vote · · Score: 1

    He is using the modern definition of fascism.
    In addition to what was brought up the two main aspects of it are:
    1) Are against communism, ok this is somewhat historical.
    2) You love the country you are a citizen of.
    3) You believe that people should have the rights to join together and petition their government.
    Bring up 2 or more of those in a conversation and you will be labeled a fascist. Just visit various kook sites like dailykos, huffington post, or similar and try it.

  3. Re:Open Source Windows on Windows 10 RTM In 6 Weeks · · Score: 2

    Nope, going by revenue from a few years ago, rough calculations which is why not at 100%.
    8% came from entertainment/devices so home
    70% from servers and offerings only available to businesses or similar.
    20% from windows and windows live so both home and business.

  4. Re:Finger prints on Chinese Nationals Accused of Taking SATs For Others · · Score: 2

    Took one of the high end security certifications a few weeks ago and they required that my photo be taken. That was printed on the pass certification and according to the test watcher sent up to the corporate office.
    Since it took multiple times until the software accepted the photo I am guessing they also do identification check.

  5. Re:Pleading the thirteenth on Clinton Foundation: Kids' Lack of CS Savvy Threatens the US Economy · · Score: 1

    They go with you having to work a number of years for the tuition relief or make minimum payments. So in the even you don't fulfill your obligation they don't pay it off in full so you are back to what you were at before.
    As for position that have structural unemployment as part of the position don't know. If you are talking something like teachers the ones I know that have done this fulfill their obligations with completing the school year as opposed to the physical year.

  6. Re:You know what would REALLY motivate kids? on Clinton Foundation: Kids' Lack of CS Savvy Threatens the US Economy · · Score: 1

    "Free" tuition would not fix it because there is already lots of ways of getting tuition paid for without running up any debt.
    From government programs that are under utilized where they will pay your tuition if you work, and get paid, in places they want you to and in position related to your degree for a few years. To programs that will give you the money with the provision that if you make a well above poverty income you have to pay them back a small percent. If you go help the needy and make no income, you have no obligation.
    There are plenty of other similar offers that are just begging for people.
    Where you don't have free tuition are for those vocal people who want to spend $100,000 on a degree, then demanded/expect they will paid $250,000 a year and don't want to pay back the loans.

  7. Re:WTF on Douglas Williams Pleads Guilty To Training Customers To Beat Polygraph · · Score: 4, Informative

    He could teach people how to defeat them all he wants with no problem. The problem was he had people come to him and they told him they were going to being taking a government issued test and need to know how to lie about specific crimes they had committed.
    At that point he is assisting in that person committing fraud.
    It is the same for lock picking. You can teach it all you want. However if a person comes up to you and says I want to learn how to pick lock type X so I can break into my neighbors house, you are now in trouble if you teach them how to do so.

  8. simpler solution on Researchers Make Spiders Produce Silk Strengthened With Graphene · · Score: 1

    Grow bigger spiders.

  9. Tell that to bruce jenner and the sorority he lives in.

  10. I'll guess that their colors are pink and black.
    Also isn't it a sexist to claim that some female released the information that was posted?

  11. Re:nonsense on The Medical Bill Mystery · · Score: 1

    As a person living in Germany I love single payer/single provider.
    I call up my doctor and dentist and make a reservation and am in with a few days and at a time I want, never fails.
    Do feel sorry for the people who actually are having to use that horrid system of single payer/single provider because when I was depend on that I was waiting weeks and months for similar visits, but since I don't have to use it any more all is good.

  12. Re:2-Butoxyethanol on Recent Paper Shows Fracking Chemicals In Drinking Water, Industry Attacks It · · Score: 1

    Currently, I think, drillers don't even have to disclose what they pump into the ground.
    That is a common false claim by the anti-science people. You can do a google search and find starting listings of chemicals and percentages for some states, other states don't require publicly listing but that they be filed with the states.
    However mixture percentages changes all the time based on the rock formation also the water picks up chemicals in the rocks and that gets reused so you have the anti-science people complaining that they are using toxic chemicals in fracking when they are present because those chemicals are found in nature.

  13. Re:a scientific approach in the land of personhood on Who Owns Pre-Embryos? · · Score: 2

    Actually it is a scientific term, it is common synonym for proembryo. But thanks for sharing your hate and ignorance.

  14. Re:Keeping warm? on Giant Survival Ball Will Help Explorer Survive a Year On an Iceberg · · Score: 1

    He has a team that will be with him providing supplies as needed. So would guess he will have generators, toilet, cooking heat source,elsewhere when not using those will stay in his ball.

  15. Re:Please, BCE/CE, not BC/AD on Ancient Hangover Cure Discovered In Greek Texts · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sometimes it seems like militant atheists
    Please get the terms right, the name of the religion is not militant atheism but evangelical atheism.

  16. Re:Wow!?!?! on Supreme Court Rules Extending Traffic Stop For Dog Sniff Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    That might be the case until you actually read the decision and the dissenting option, then it quickly because a case of why was this decision allowed.

  17. Re:Dissenting 3 votes on Supreme Court Rules Extending Traffic Stop For Dog Sniff Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    The dog was already there, the delay was that the officer requested backup before bring out the dog under fear that he was outnumbered and once we brought out the dog the people in the car would take action, such as attacking him or fleeing.

  18. This will be interesting, on Google Responds To EU Antitrust Claims In Android Blog Post · · Score: 1

    On one side you have Android and Google people who will complain that Google is not doing anything wrong and have the right to lobby that is the case and on the other side you have the people like the gyro-copter letter carrier who think companies have no such rights and just shut up and accept whatever government regulations get placed on them.

  19. Re:Managers need an algorithm for that? on Netflix Algorithm Tells You When Your Best Employee Is About To Leave You · · Score: 1

    Item 1 is really wrong. There is a list of items and times at the federal level that cannot be used as a reason for firing you, also in the at will states I have worked at they also have rules on items that cannot be used for firing. In addition if you have items in your contract that prevent it they cannot fire you with no notice, also if you have an employee handbook which talk about firing those are considered as being a contract in most states.

  20. Re:Not Surprising on How the Pentagon Wasted $10 Billion On Military Projects · · Score: 1

    They did a really bad job on not discussing it again http://www.defense.gov/news/ne... along with other press releases
    Also you think they would remove the original speech, along with the discussion of what happened with the money that you ignored, http://www.defense.gov/speeche...

  21. So being punched to the ground and attacked, then pulling a gun to defend your self and shooting then is hunting?
    Have you tried that against a bear in Alaska and seen what happens when you hunt that way?

  22. Re:What an Embarrassingly Vapid Article on Focusing On Tech Alone, You Miss How Autonomous Driving Will Change Society · · Score: 1

    Parking problems go away. Parking is a problem because of proximity of the parking to the places that people want to be. With autonomous cars your car can park 10 mins away and what do you care? As you want to leave you trigger the pickup app and the car drives to your designated pickup point. Also since you don't have to depend on the skills of the driver, just capabilities of the car you can design car parks that cram vehicles in shorter areas and with no space to open doors and have a centralized drop off/pick up point at the garage.

  23. Re:What does this actually solve? on Amazon Moves "Buy Now" Into the Physical World, With the Dash Button · · Score: 1

    No app, but amazon does sell rocks and burlap sacks.

  24. Re:How many passengers can it carry? on World's Largest Aircraft Seeks Investors To Begin Operation · · Score: 2

    In Friedrichshafen, Germany at the Zeppelin museum they have a full scale replica of a section Hindenburg passenger, and they are very plain and small. Bunk beds, metal frames, a small sink.
    However the plan was you would only sleep there and spend the rest of the time in the lounges, bars and dining rooms which were very nice and based on the reproduced lounge comfortable and roomy.

  25. Re:Idiocy, not betrayal on Broadband ISP Betrayal Forces Homeowner To Sell New House · · Score: 1

    Place I moved into two times before I checked with some neighbors I meet when looking it over, saw the boxes right across the street from the place and checked with Deutsche Telekom and after moving in found they did provide high speed, for the other side of the street only.