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  1. ah the ASCAP on ASCAP Petitions FCC To Deny Pandora's Purchase of Radio Station · · Score: 5, Insightful

    these are the choads that wanted royalties for your ringtones, but federal court smacked them down.

    Past time to put this cartel parasites to the flames, treat them the same as the mafia.

  2. Re:Not Obvious on New Alternatives To Silicon May Increase Chip Speeds By Orders of Magnitude. · · Score: 1

    No, only slow economy causes job displacement. there is plenty of work to do that technology has created. in US the biggest increase in hiring is in "leisure and entertainment", followed by professional and business services, then retail.....this and housing market coming alive will soon ripple into manufacturing and construction

    it's silly to be of the mindset, OMG, the lamp lighters and buggy whip makers and horseshoe smiths and chimney sweeps will starve!

  3. Re:Americans and Taxes on Massachusetts Enacts 6.25% Sales Tax On "Prewritten" Software Consulting · · Score: 1

    you know what I like to read about, ignorant fucking twats who think higher taxes or spending will fix something. Just what we need, more pork barrel projects that benefit very few people or more people totally on the government tit, basically breeders for criminals and the useless lazy.

  4. Re:Wonder if it can be weaponized. on "Slingatron" To Hurl Payloads Into Orbit · · Score: 2

    there are a couple things to mitigate that problem, if it is going generally up and the onboard electronics come online (similar to way artillery fuzing is activated after launch), self destruct could be sent

    for failure during acceleration, destroy the machine in such a way the projectile is guaranteed to ram into bedrock down or off to side

    most of world uninhabited, for the edge case of failure in acceleration right before projectile leaves, and on board self-destruct can't be activated, then you're in the same situation as with any normal rocket with same issues, most of world is uninhabited.

  5. Re:density/cost more important on New Alternatives To Silicon May Increase Chip Speeds By Orders of Magnitude. · · Score: 1

    from the 70s to the 90s there also was reliability problem with massive transistor count GaAs chips, a battle Seymour Cray was fighting

  6. Re:60,000Gs ? on "Slingatron" To Hurl Payloads Into Orbit · · Score: 2

    you might be interested to know 120mm tank round electronics do indeed take about 60,000 g of accleration, a 40mm over 100,000g

    solved problem

  7. Re:Wonder if it can be weaponized. on "Slingatron" To Hurl Payloads Into Orbit · · Score: 1

    any failure during launch and it becomes a weapon. hope they put in crater to keep neighbors out of harms way

  8. Re:Here it begins on Robot Produces Paintings With That 'Imperfect' Human Look · · Score: 4, Funny

    or it goes into depression, it's tortured soul making masterpieces that will be unappreciated in its lifetime. Toward the end, it will cut off its own motherboard speaker and ship it to a porn site.

  9. Re:A giant sucking sound of lost US admin jobs on Software-Defined Data Centers Might Cost Companies More Than They Save · · Score: 1

    Give sensitive data to poor country's IT workers? they've already proven themselves not trustworthy, the horror stories from India alone boggle the mind. And good luck with any legal venue.

  10. Re:Editor on Fidus Writer: Open Source Collaborative Editor For Non-Geek Academics · · Score: 1

    their code may have a large footprint but it runs really fast, preferring lots of branching over subroutines; for some reason pushing things into stacks sound scary

  11. title plus the comic is full message on Signs Point To XKCD's Time Ending · · Score: 1

    Time Waste.

    Randall wasted it; while no individual viewer wasted as much in sum even more time was wasted

  12. Re:Editor on Fidus Writer: Open Source Collaborative Editor For Non-Geek Academics · · Score: 1

    actually, if you're on the radio in the military or FAA, or speaking of equipment/room designations at a nuke plant, it is

    one
    two
    tree
    fower
    fife
    six
    seven
    eight
    niner

    tousand

  13. Re:For a spy all you need is 1 shot on In Canada, a 3D-Printed Rifle Breaks On First Firing · · Score: 1

    but armed robber or assassin doesn't need 500 round box, does he? and how many shots fired during a crime? a $13 25-round box of cheapest 9mm or 38 special goes a long way. as for revolver, cheap ass CC Blazer can be had for $18 a box.

    I've been in plenty of "1800" matches (90 rounds rimfire, 90 rounds centerfire)....truthfully the weight of the guns more than anything is what makes my hand tired.

  14. Re:But am I vulnerable? on English High Court Bans Publication of 0-Day Threat To Auto Immobilizers · · Score: 1

    Guess again, just checked 2012 list of 10 most stolen cars in America (excludes SUV and trucks), 2000 Caravan is #5

  15. Re:For a spy all you need is 1 shot on In Canada, a 3D-Printed Rifle Breaks On First Firing · · Score: 1

    No, that's not true either. either of the .355 (9mm ) and .357" diameter bullet (.38 special and .357 magnum) is used more often the .22 LR in the USA.

  16. Re:There's something missing. on Ask Slashdot: Hardware Accelerated Multi-Monitor Support In Linux? · · Score: 1

    actually, as computer dept. found at work with my Mac, you might indeed need to do some research as driver might not work on one's "one behind current version" OS

    that said, trivial to find working combination, I'm amazed some people are afraid they'll break a nail doing 120 seconds "research" on the net

  17. Re:Big surprise on In Canada, a 3D-Printed Rifle Breaks On First Firing · · Score: 1

    But note even those pistol pressure are too huge for any plastic, even a wimpy .380 ACP (9mm Kurtz) is 21,500 CPU (roughly same as PSI)

    if you value your life or use of your hand, don't use a 3D printed barrel/chamber unless there is some kind of materials breakthrough that give plastic the strength of iron.

    steel is used for a reason.....

  18. Re:For a spy all you need is 1 shot on In Canada, a 3D-Printed Rifle Breaks On First Firing · · Score: 1

    bullshit. in USA, larger calibers are more frequently used, look it up.

  19. Re:For a spy all you need is 1 shot on In Canada, a 3D-Printed Rifle Breaks On First Firing · · Score: 1

    and many animals have been maimed and suffered for a long time because of stupid hunters using inadequate round for the game they're hunting. Sure a 22 LR in head or other vital area *might* kill human or deer or larger animal, but it also might not.

    It is ILLEGAL in Alaska to hunt deer or any larger game with a 22 LR, for the reason I just gave. All rimfiire ammunition, which includes 22LR, is illegal for that. Illegal in my state of Illinois too and most (maybe all?) states.

  20. Re:For a spy all you need is 1 shot on In Canada, a 3D-Printed Rifle Breaks On First Firing · · Score: 1

    No, false. And citing Hollywood movies doesn't bolster the case. Most successful assassinations are carried out by heavier and/or higher velocity rounds.

    22 LR *might* kill someone (sometimes a day later, as a relative of mine died), or not.

    For example, some Navy SEALS were issued sound suppressed 22LR pistols, for killing patrol DOGS. They have heavier ammo for people.

  21. Re:Obvious conclusions on In Canada, a 3D-Printed Rifle Breaks On First Firing · · Score: 2

    One difference, those with gunsmithing skills will tell you plastic is an inappropriate material to make firearm chambers and barrels.

    Cedar is an appropriate material; your father just lacked some very basic knowledge - which he can now get the internet if he still is alive and still is interested.

  22. Re:Editor on Fidus Writer: Open Source Collaborative Editor For Non-Geek Academics · · Score: 2

    I would be honored myself if three Ents helped me with a web project while at grad school

  23. Re:Pawn shop boom predicted... on Every Public School Student In LA Will Get an iPad In 2014 · · Score: 1

    and narcotics boom, followed by junvie detention center boom

  24. Re:There's something missing. on Ask Slashdot: Hardware Accelerated Multi-Monitor Support In Linux? · · Score: 1

    many people do this (and with more than three monitors) on Linux, just a matter of the right card and driver; you're imaging a massive response to the non-issue you fabricated between your ears?

  25. Re:Amazing how much Bin Laden changed the U.S.A. on US Promises Not To Kill Or Torture Snowden · · Score: 1

    no, incarceration without cause of U.S. citizens, and torture of foreigners has been going on for decades at least since WW II