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  1. Re:All about tha Benjamins on Cocaine Use Can Now Be Tested In Fingerprints Using Ambient Mass Spectrometry · · Score: 1

    Why do you care if someone uses cocaine when you hire them? Aren't you hiring them for their skills, not their 'hobbies'?

  2. Re:Pope Francis - fuck your mother on Pope Francis: There Are Limits To Freedom of Expression · · Score: 1

    Nice straw-man. Let's see what other fallacies you can come up with.

    We don't know how the universe 'started'. This doesn't mean that everything came from nothing, it means we don't know. It certainly doesn't mean "we don't know, so a magic being who knows everything and can do anything created the universe".

    Religion, which claims to have all the answers, can never accept "I don't know". They just instantly translate it to "God did it".

  3. This isn't IT on Amazon Embodies the Gender Gap in Tech · · Score: 1

    This is management. What does that have to do with IT?

  4. Re:Double standards... on Getting Evolution In Science Textbooks For Texas Schools · · Score: 1

    Many folks would be wrong then.

    Why? Because for biologists, there is no relevant difference between microevolution and macroevolution. Both happen in the same way and for the same reasons, so there is no real reason to differentiate them. When biologists do use different terms, it is simply for descriptive reasons. When creationists use the terms, however, it is for ontological reasons — this means that they are trying to describe two fundamentally different processes. The essence of what constitutes microevolution is, for creationists, different from the essence of what constitutes macroevolution. Creationists act as if there is some magic line between microevolution and macroevolution, but no such line exists as far as science is concerned. Macroevolution is merely the result of a lot of microevolution over a long period of time.

    Evolution Explained - Micro vs Macro

  5. Re:Better plots? on Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops · · Score: 5, Informative
  6. Internet connection on Chinese Hackers Steal Top US Weapons Designs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why is information like this on computers that are connected to the internet?

  7. Re:I'm curious on Coursera Partners With Chegg To Offer Gratis, DRMed Textbooks for Courses · · Score: 1

    I'm curious as to why in the article they didn't mention exactly what model of e-reader is used.

    It does, and I quote " ... delivered via Chegg’s DRM-protected e-Reader ...", which is, according to this page, just an HTML 5 web page.

  8. Return on Investment on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Company's Marketing-to-Engineering Ratio? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What's the ROI for non-labor engineering expenses vs. non-labor marketing and sales expenses? I think you'll find your answer to the budget question here.

  9. Re:Oy. on Google Fiber: Why Traditional ISPs Are Officially On Notice · · Score: 1

    What invisible cap? They tell you exactly what it is here

  10. Re:Let's look at this more closely on Judge Rules That Resale of MP3s Violates Copyright Law · · Score: 1

    Debatable. IMHO running a piece of software shouldn't be governed by copyright law, but certainly some parts of the software industry believe that you need a licence to waive the copyright laws, since you are inherently copying the software into RAM. I don't think this has ever been tested in court (?)
    WoWGlider lost a case where Blizzard claimed that them copying the game into memory violated their copyright. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_(bot)

  11. Re:Do nothing on Ask Slashdot: What To Do When Finding a Security Breach On Shared Hosting? · · Score: 1

    You'll be fined no mater what the jury system determines. Defending yourself from any charges that are filed will take a non-trivial amount of money. You could lose your job (who wants a possible criminal working for them?), your possessions, etc. and still be found not guilty or have the charges dropped.

  12. Do nothing on Ask Slashdot: What To Do When Finding a Security Breach On Shared Hosting? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Move to a new host. Don't talk about the old host, don't post the script, don't describe it at all. You don't want the lawsuit/criminal charges that will follow.

  13. Kill my competitors on Google To Start Punishing Pirate Sites In Search Results · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1) Form shell company
    2) Have shell company send take down notices about my competitors website
    3) Watch them vanish from the search results
    4) Profit!

  14. Re:Hard for 8 Year Olds But Here's a Core Dump on Ask Slashdot: Best Science-Fiction/Fantasy For Kids? · · Score: 2

    Asimov also did some books (under the name Paul French) that were intended for juveniles - the Lucky Star series.

  15. Re:Smart people can be dumb on George "geohot" Hotz Arrested In Texas For Posession of Marijuana · · Score: 4, Informative

    Wrong. Police officers can react to anything that is in "plain sight", meaning anything that escapes from your car, be it photons or small particles which we refer to as "scent"

    Not true. The U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in U.S. v. Kyllo (2001) that the police can not use infrared cameras to locate "suspicious" concentrations of heat in private places and then get warrants to search. So anything that escapes is not "in plain sight".

  16. Edgar Rice Burroughs on Ask Slashdot: Good, Forgotten Fantasy & Science Fiction Novels? · · Score: 1

    The John Carter series, of course. With the movie coming out, I suspect you'll be able to find these everywhere. Ignore the last novel, though, he only wrote the outline and his son finished it, poorly IMHO.

  17. Re:yet more biblical contradictions on Why People Don't Live Past 114 · · Score: 1

    You got the easy version of the quest:
    Genesis Chapter 7:2-3
    Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that [are] not clean by two, the male and his female.
    Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

  18. Re:Genesis 6:3 on Why People Don't Live Past 114 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Challenge excepted. Try base 1+10.908712114635714i

  19. Re:So all 5 of you running Safari on Windows on New Remote Flaw In 64-Bit Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    It didn't cause a crash, it allowed the execution of arbitrary code,

    No it didn't. Read the advisory again and note the part that says (emphasis mine)
    "... Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code with kernel-mode privileges"

  20. Re:a hefty bill? on French Power Company Fined For Hacking Greenpeace · · Score: 5, Informative

    They made (net income) 1.249 billion last year.

  21. Re:Use a firewall on Verizon Wireless Changes Privacy Policy · · Score: 2
  22. Re:Simple. on Congress May Permit Robot Calls To Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Really? Take a look at these graphs and say that again. Looks to me that the debt went down from around 1945 until around 1980 (or when Reagan took office) with another downturn at the end of Clinton's term.

  23. Re:Watch the video on the page, informative on Mysql.com Hacked, Made To Serve Malware · · Score: 3

    Good thing HTML5 won't need all those things to run code on your machine.

  24. Re:Tax planning and rich people on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    But he gets to subtract that cost from his income so he pays less taxes on that. Do I get to subtract the cost of fuel off my income? He gets to count his food as a business expense, do I get to do so? Why do businesses get to subtract any expense off their income, but I don't get to do the same?

  25. Re:The solution is obvious: on Anonymous Kills Websites, Cartels Kill Bloggers · · Score: 1

    The American judicial system did not initially accept drug prohibition. Prosecutors argued that possessing drugs was a tax violation, as no legal licenses to sell drugs were in existence; hence, a person possessing drugs must have purchased them from an unlicensed source. After some wrangling, this was accepted as federal jurisdiction under the interstate commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution. Source Prohibition of Drugs