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  1. Re:nuisance fee on Rightscorp's New Plan: Hijack Browsers Until Infingers Pay Up · · Score: 1

    They offer a kickback to the ISP for doing a good job, and everyone is happy!

  2. Re:White Werhner von Braun may be many things... on Was America's Top Rocketeer a Communist Spy? The FBI Thought So · · Score: 1

    The Reich had about a viable nuclear program as Iraq did after the US invaded them. They had literally no plans to even consider using creating a nuclear bomb. That is even outside the idea of devoting the resources to building and testing one.

  3. Re:Not surprised. on 35% of American Adults Have Debt 'In Collections' · · Score: 1

    I was renting my house out and had someone managing the property. Part of the property management agreement is filling out a form so that bills are sent to Property Manager when it is unoccupied. Instead the electric company sent bills to the house after my renters moved out. After 3 months they forwarded it to a collections agency.

    The property manager cut the collections agency a check, but I kept getting collection notices. Eventually it came down to the collection agency putting the check against the wrong account. After the admitted the mistake they STILL sent me collection notices. I had to send them a formal letter threatening them with a lawsuit to get it fixed. They never responded back to me but they quietly fixed the issue. It took over 6 months to get it straight.

    These are not simply billing issues, but accounting issues and the only person who seems accountability to anyone is the debtor; and they have to figure who F**K these people are and if they are doing their job.

  4. They are stealing from Japan on Preparing For Satellite Defense · · Score: 1

    satellites equipped with grappling arms that could co-orbit and then disable expensive U.S. hardware

    They watched Outlaw Star decided that they had uncovered a Top Secret military program and then decided to copy them verbatim. Can these guys do ANYTHING original?

  5. Re:what is your source? on Malaysian Passenger Plane Reportedly Shot Down Over Ukraine · · Score: 4, Funny

    I did a search and I found it, http://news.slashdot.org/comme..., is that good enoug for you?

  6. Common API on Saurabh Narain and His Homemade Lego-Based Rubik's Cube Solver (Video) · · Score: 1

    From watching the video he did not come up with the code for this device, but used code someone else wrote. So it is not like he did this from scratch.

    Kudos for this kid for completing the project, but it is not quite as impressive as the article made it appear to be.

  7. Yeah Right on Death Wish Meets GPS: iPhone Theft Victims Confronting Perps · · Score: 1

    We have backup, guns, radio, jackets — all that stuff civilians don't have.

    Except the will to actually use it. Recovering I-Phones don't get great media coverage or the adrenaline high that a drug-bust (or maybe an eviction notice).

    Lets call it like it is, people don't trust police to take of these problems. After working with police officers a few times, too many of them are jerks. Not all of them, but enough.

  8. Re:Holy shit on Survey: 56 Percent of US Developers Expect To Become Millionaires · · Score: 1

    I remember doing a project where if someone put in 3,000/year from age 21 till retirement could have a million in savings (on compounded growth of 10%). It is doable, though 10% growth is not going to be the norm in the near future.

  9. Re:Freedom of Speech? on Federal Bill Would Criminalize Revenge Porn Websites · · Score: 1

    A photographer may have a copyright,(in theory), but the people whom he is taking pictures also have rights. If you think just taking pictures of something you can distribute however and to whomever you want you are mistaken.

  10. Re:Meat Bags In Space == Impractical on How Many People Does It Take To Colonize Another Star System? · · Score: 1

    Yeah I know, with Earth being a type 13 planet, we are really screwed.

    At least wait until we discover the mass for the higgs boson particle before we blow ourselves.

  11. Facebook the new Microsoft on Did Facebook Buy Oculus To Counter Google Glass? · · Score: 1

    So lets say Facebook is the king of social media, but they are a one trick pony, they have their web site and little else. I guess they will buy their way into markets. Sound familiar? It is like he copied the Microsoft business plan, buy anything their competitors would be involved in.

    It did not work for Microsoft, and it is not going to work for Facebook.

  12. Re:So what happens when there are no more jobs? on Job Automation and the Minimum Wage Debate · · Score: 1

    I think these guys live in the bubble imagining that things will auto-magically work out instead of it turning into the Roman Empire where everything just gets stripped to the ground.

    Rome only did well as the plunder kept coming in. When that stopped, you are looking at bread and circuses and a matter of time before the existing system(whatever that may be) falls apart.

  13. Re:No expectation of privacy on L.A. Police: All Cars In L.A. Are Under Investigation · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The law also does not provide that the police officers can stalk you 24/7 without some sort of warrant.

    The laws were originally written when there was no "Orwellian" state where you could anonymously watched/recorded in public everywhere. Lets no pretend incidentally stumbling onto a suspicious conversation is the same as monitoring EVERY conversation.

  14. Do the crime, do the time on Silicon Valley Anti-Poaching Cartel Went Beyond a Few Tech Firms · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, can look forward to anyone doing jail time? That is the really the only way this will stop. That or directly start suing the individuals who implemented the policies and make them pay. After that I am willing to bet once a few executives lose their hard won millions will be a little gun shy about conspiring to do anything.

    Actually the more I think about it, the best way to reign these practices in is directly suing individuals. Once they can no longer hide behind the corporate veil, the less inclined they will be collude together.

  15. Re:Is not going to work! on Paris Bans Half of All Cars On the Road · · Score: 1

    Sees like the solution would be to ensure that everyone in that family/household gets only 1 type of plates.

  16. Re:My personal theory on getting people to do stuf on IEEE Predicts 85% of Daily Tasks Will Be Games By 2020 · · Score: 1

    People will submit themselves to horrible abuse for rewards. You can find a good example right here. Got to feed those competitive needs you know!

  17. Code is not Bricks on Ask Slashdot: Should Developers Fix Bugs They Cause On Their Own Time? · · Score: 1

    To use the building analog, did they use an architect to design the building? Did they have engineers inspect the drawings to ensure that it won't fall down? Did they inspect the quality of their materials to ensure that could support their specifications? Or he just ask you to keep piling bricks and was shocked that bricks were falling out at the bottom?

    Is code just a bunch of bricks? Bricks are pretty simple, they don't have to do anything but exist. Code is logic, and given some specifications you write something and hope the specs were close. Should you be blamed if we ask you to add 2 numbers together and complains about errors when he uses strings instead?

    If your boss is asking you to work on your own time because of something like this, I would find a new boss. He is just trying to pass the blame and you would be a sucker to accept it.

  18. Re:Relation to Debt Crisis? on EU Commission: Corruption Across EU Costs €120 Billion · · Score: 1

    I forgot to include the Sarcasm tag.

  19. Re:Relation to Debt Crisis? on EU Commission: Corruption Across EU Costs €120 Billion · · Score: 1

    And for being lazy, you can tell my the huge amount of debt the countries carry

  20. Re:Wrong on Layoffs At Now-Private Dell May Hit Over 15,000 Staffers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If this were done by the previous management, the stock price would have gone up and M. Dell would not have been able to purchase the company. Hence, leaving the company limping along was probably the plan all along.

    Just another way management can screw over the stockholders.

  21. Re:Now the next step... on US Supreme Court: Patent Holders Must Prove Infringment · · Score: 1

    Patent trolls had gotten to the point of just threatening people and winning because only the biggest players could defend themselves. Couple this with the fact the PTO giving out dubious patents, and the low cost of suing someone how can things get any worse?

  22. Where is my cut? on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 1

    I notice that some try to appeal to the User's better nature to let the Ads on through. I wonder if perhaps, I don't know, PAYING the user to accept Ads should be part of the solution. Nothing like money to drive viewership!

  23. Re:Nature's Hugs... on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Improve My Memory For Study? · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more along the lines of "if you are condensing your learning into a few intense hours of study", drugs may help you get through those few hours. The problem is you really did not learn much because you are not going to retain it.

  24. Re:Nature's Hugs... on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Improve My Memory For Study? · · Score: 1

    The other problem with taking drugs can help you in the short-term, but it is sort of defeats the purpose. You are able to perform well for a short period but you are not able to retain the knowledge very well and you are not being educated so much as you are learning how to cram.

    I assume that if you are in the 30's going to school you are trying to get an education, not learn how to cram for tests.

  25. Question on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Improve My Memory For Study? · · Score: 1

    I guess the real question is under what conditions are you able to perform well? I think you will need to identify those conditions and focus upont working in those conditions. You may need to work with teachers to develop a schedule which you can work under.

    You just may not be able to do well under a normal classroom conditions, and you will need to address that. Good teachers will help where they can and bad teachers will be inflexible, you may need to avoid those.