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  1. Re:Bangkok renamed on Thailand Shuts Down 43,000 More Websites · · Score: 1

    Just great, now we are going to see an article on Slashdot about how "Programmers don't know Cities"!

  2. Wisdom From Homer Simpson on DePaul University To Offer Degree In Predictive Analysis · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think that this is best guide to how the market analysts actually predicted anything on Wall Street

    The code of the schoolyard, Marge! The rules that teach a boy to be a man. Let's see. Don't tattle. Always make fun of those different from you. Never say anything, unless you're sure everyone feels exactly the same way you do.

    Tune in the Marketwatch a few times and see if I am wrong...

  3. Re:Comparing the damages. on RIAA Says LimeWire Owes $1.5 Trillion · · Score: 1

    Ah, very clever, you are using the Monsanto business argument. I guess all those thieves in the South will be paying royalties to BP in the near future!

  4. Re:Don't do if you don't want a other Terry Childs on Prosecuting DDoS Attacks? · · Score: 2, Funny

    (In a french accent) I fart in your general direction, now go away or I will ping you a second time!

  5. Re:Congress needs to do more than complain on Senators Question Removal of NASA Program Manager · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why fully fund it, when you can do a half-assed job instead? Come on, it is the American way!

  6. Re:Same way you get your kids interested in gaming on How To Get a Game-Obsessed Teenager Into Coding? · · Score: 1

    GOTO 32381148

  7. Re:Well at least... on Sudden Demand For Logicians On Wall Street · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why should they be delayed only a minute, why not a day? If they are a true stockholder, a day to wait is nothing. It is only people who are trying to skim money off transactions between people who are cannot wait. By comparison, stock owners hold most of the value in a company and we should be paying attention to their interests. Instead we have bent over and allowed faster traders to rule the roost against the best interests of everyone.

  8. The important thing is on Neuromancer Movie In Your Future? · · Score: 4, Funny

    at least Natali promised 'No Keanu'.

    EXCELLENT!!! *Air Guitar plays in the background*

  9. I for one on Conservative Textbook Curriculum Passes Final Vote In Texas · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Welcome to the new American Taliban.

    Finally they are no longer pretending to be like the rest of us.

  10. Re:I'm torn on UC Berkeley Asking Incoming Students For DNA · · Score: 1

    Maybe because it has happened before? Once they have your data, negotiated terms are only as strong as the morality of the person you are giving them too. Since large organizations can be amoral you are running a risk regardless of your terms.

  11. Editor in Charge on Wikimedia Confusion Swirls In Wake of Porn Charges · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sounds like they hired J. Jonah Jameson to run their news network. I guess they did not realize they guy came from a comic book instead of a role model from journalism school.

  12. Science and Politics on Senators Demand NASA Continue Spending On Ares · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And this is why the US is such trouble. When politicians are eagerly representing a companies views rather than the country.

  13. South America on First Superbugs, Now Superweeds · · Score: 1

    When I was in Business School, about 5 years ago, I wrote about South America and its addiction to Round-Up Ready crops. Monsanto was trying to get money out of them because they refused to pay for the seeds. Instead the farmers were keeping seeds from year to year. Eventually, Monsanto came to an agreement with the governments to collect licensing fees for their seeds.

    Since Round-Up was working so well and they were keeping the seeds around from year to year and sharing with their neighbors. At the time, certain crops in Brazil and Argentina were 90% Round-Up Ready. It would not surprise me if that were true for the rest of South America.

    I think that this is a good thing. A lack of diversity in plant life is going to harmful at some point. Hell, look at your supermarket. You have plants in the store that look great, and taste like nothing(strawberries are great example).

  14. Double Standard on Palin Email Snoop Found Guilty On 2 Charges · · Score: -1, Redundant

    This guy will charged with hacking Sarah Palin's account which is crime.

    Where is Sarah Palin's trial for using a non-government account for state business(which is also a crime)?

  15. What about the Monks? on Vatican Chooses Open FITS Image Format · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does this mean in the monasteries we are going to have monks transcribing these manuscripts bit by bit? I mean, if you just scan the stuff in what else will they have to do all day. Pray for the boredom to be over...

  16. Re:not quite 2/3 on At Issue In a Massachusetts Town, the Value of Two-Thirds · · Score: 1

    106 / 236 = 0.660194175

    Evidently an article on math and/or writing skills is needed on slashdot as well...

  17. Re:Interesting... on After DNA Misuse, Researchers Banished From Havasupai Reservation · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just because they are scientist does not mean they are angels out to do humanity good.

    Take the insurance company getting hold of your DNA. All of a sudden, the next time you go to use your benefits you find a whole list of exemptions. You have the markers for cancer X? Not Covered. Heart disease, epilepsy? Not covered. You get the idea.

    If you don't think that these things will happen you only have to read about Wellpoint to see if someone cancel your coverage to make a buck. Image what they would do if they had your DNA as well. They would drop you and you would never know what they found.

  18. Re:A means to an end... on Amazon Fights For Privacy of Customer Records · · Score: 1

    If they are anything like the IRS, they will claim you owe them taxes in a whatever amount they calculate and it will be up to you to go through your return correct to correct their mistakes.

  19. How about Google on Fraud Fighter "Bobbear" To Close Up Shop · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Since these sites keep turning up high in the search results, it would be to their benefit if there was someone to help cleanup the mess.

  20. What about Old People on Innocent Until Predicted Guilty · · Score: 1

    They should be using the software to identify politician and bankers and smother them in their cribs...

    Oh, oh, they did not mean THOSE people, we liked Bernie Madoff, even if we ripped off of a couple of billion dollars from people.

    Its those bored youths who are destroying society. The ones we refuse to build parks, community centers, or have any organized activities for these kids to do so they are bored and cause trouble.

    *END SARCASM*

  21. Re:Sweatshop? Only by your standard on Microsoft Mice Made in Chinese Youth Sweatshops? · · Score: 1

    How do you figure that a 15 hour work day and 6 days are work is just average? The minimum wage, which is followed very closely is RMB 800 a month.

    Lets not pretend that these children are being paid well for a 90 hour work week because it is twice the minimum wage.

  22. Re:More companies too on Microsoft Mice Made in Chinese Youth Sweatshops? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is hard to consider the work environment when the average person does not have access to that information. That is one of the major problems with exploitation and outsourcing. Companies can pretend they are doing the world some good while having people in near slavery type conditions.

    Until information about how products is created, this sort of environment will continue and the consumer will not be able to adjust their purchasing habits.

  23. I don't Understand on Hollywood's Growing Obsession With Philip K. Dick · · Score: 1

    Phillip K Dick, mostly wrote short stories. Some of these movies are very loosely based upon those stories, I don't understand why they are not just writing scripts without association. The only thing I could come up with is they think it has some marketing value.

  24. Sue Them on Why Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure Is Painful and Inefficient · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sue them, take them to court where bad publicity, will scare the hell out them into settling.

    As long as they view it as a technical issue, they are not interested. If they view it as a sales/marketing nightmare they will come to the table in a hurry. As for further cooperation, they will suck it up because other customers will see how they react as to how they will treat the company.

    Like spousal abuse, as long as a bad working relationship can be hidden they will get away with it other individuals/companies. They only way to address the issue is to make their dirty laundry public.

  25. Re:Get rid of them entirely on Wall St. Trading Servers To Power Off-Hour Clouds? · · Score: 1

    I had thought about this for a few years and had two ideas on it. The first was like yours, the person has to hold onto the stock for a set period of time.

    The second was don't display any information about trades during the day, just accumulate orders. At the end of the day match up the buy and sell orders.

    They need to stop rewarding this stock exchanges on the number of trades and instead focus on providing stability for the fair pricing of stock for companies.