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  1. Re:Nokia was RIPPED OFF! on Nokia's Elop Set To Receive $25 Million Bonus After Acquisition · · Score: 2

    My similarly pinko commie understanding is that compensation is voted on by the board and these folks are generally board members of other companies where their board members are executives. So they all give each other huge salaries and raises for fear if they vote against they might no get huge salaries and lose out on crazy raises.

  2. Re:Ahhh ... on Nokia's Elop Set To Receive $25 Million Bonus After Acquisition · · Score: 2

    What makes you think that was not a success?

  3. Re:Amazing, for 2012 on Blackberry Z30 Phablet Announced · · Score: 1

    I don't use too many nuclear reactors. Nothing wrong with QNX, but it is not making up for the rest of RIMs failures. Nor is it amazing enough on its own.

    Tizen beats the BBOS browser, and dolphin beta is not far behind. So in this one test it is second best already.

  4. Re:A word to the wise on Charles Carreon Finally Surrenders To the Oatmeal · · Score: 1

    Morality, a sense of well being, a slightly smaller house and vacations all over the world.

  5. Re:Why are nuclear fission systems too heavy? on Without Plutonium, Deep-Space Probe Missions May Sputter Out · · Score: 1

    You should wear gloves or at least wash your hands after. Not because of the evil radiation, but because of heavy metal poisoning. Uranium is dusty stuff.

  6. Re:interesting on Fracked Shale Could Sequester Carbon Dioxide · · Score: 2

    How so?

    This plan will never happen. Carbon capture would require capture and transportation which would be expensive enough to seriously hinder the use of fossil fuel based power plants.

  7. Re:Why bother. on Crowdfunded Bounty For Hacking iPhone 5S Fingerprint Authentication · · Score: 1

    Reports are wrong.
    1. for several minutes it would be basically still alive
    2. The threat of finger removal will get the phone unlocked in 99.99% of cases.
    3. you can always skin the finger and wear it like a glove.

  8. Re:A word to the wise on Charles Carreon Finally Surrenders To the Oatmeal · · Score: 2

    And just because you are a lawyer does not mean you are not also a complete and total moron.

  9. Re:pointless on Java Update Implements Whitelists To Combat 0-Day Hacks · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No everyone has not. There are a great many enterprise apps that companies rely on that need this. Normal users will not know to turn it on, nor to turn it off.

  10. Re:Why are nuclear fission systems too heavy? on Without Plutonium, Deep-Space Probe Missions May Sputter Out · · Score: 1

    Why not shield the humans instead? Then just keep them away from it during launch. Not like irradiating space is a concern.

  11. Re:Oh wow Forbes defends trolls what a surprise on Ask Slashdot: When Is Patent License Trading Not Trolling? · · Score: 1

    No need to apologize. I was rather confused when you stated it was an outdated term. I would have responded, but I was not allowed to by slashdot. Silly 30 posts in 4 hours limit. I agree the term is confusing to someone who is not familiar with it.

  12. Re:Amazing, for 2012 on Blackberry Z30 Phablet Announced · · Score: 1

    Show your source that this browser is objectively better.

    The technical details won't favor me? Are you high? QNX vs linux? Which one has millions of installs on things from routers to mainframes. Which one of these OSes can I get the source too again? Which one do I already build myself?

  13. Re:how about fighting poverty on Google Tackles Health · · Score: 1

    It was never really attempted. It was a political football that has never been properly funded.

    Instead we now jail them.

  14. Re:how about fighting poverty on Google Tackles Health · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So explain why increasing the minimum wage actually does help the economy?

    Surprise surprise giving money to those who will spend it rather than sit on it helps the economy and the poor. Labor costs in stores is not the primary cost. You could raise the wage to $15/hour and the price of a bigmac to produce would go up a few cents.

  15. Re:how about fighting poverty on Google Tackles Health · · Score: 1

    I know quite a bit about it.

    We do have not had any interest in dealing with poverty in quite sometime. LBJ was pretty much the last president to even attempt to address the issue. In more recent times shutting down welfare and hunting down non-existent welfare queens has been what we focused on.

  16. Re:Oh wow Forbes defends trolls what a surprise on Ask Slashdot: When Is Patent License Trading Not Trolling? · · Score: 1

    What is wrong with the term rent seeking?
    Adam Smith the father of modern capitalism used the term, do you have a problem with him?

    Do you think Marx did not have an accurate critique of capitalism? He might have not understood history or been able to predict the future but his critique of capitalism was first rate.

  17. Re:how about fighting poverty on Google Tackles Health · · Score: 2

    That is only because the percentage of dropouts has gone down and now the only ones left doing that are the totally destitute and willfully ignorant. In the past white women could drop out without much impact on their families income or future.

    Children going hungry is a totally different problem that should be address with Free breakfast and lunch at schools for all students, not just the ones in poverty.

  18. Re:how about fighting poverty on Google Tackles Health · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think you mean a War against the Poor, aka the War on Drugs. A war on poverty would include things like access to healthcare, or equalizing education funds for schools, or job training, or any attempt to make folks other than entertainers famous.

  19. Re:They care..... sure.... on Google Tackles Health · · Score: 1

    If they work, why not?

    Are you telling me if they had peer reviewed studies proving these drugs improved your health or extended your useful life you would not take them?

  20. Re:how about fighting poverty on Google Tackles Health · · Score: 1

    Who says this has anything to do with the longevity of the wealthy.

    Birth control and sex education would help those figures a lot, but many people oppose that including many people in those situations. How do you think those problems can otherwise be solved? I don't think that is something technology can address. Culture is a tough thing to change.

  21. Re:Amazing, for 2012 on Blackberry Z30 Phablet Announced · · Score: 1

    Your insistence on an inferior product being some kind of magic sure looks like trolling. You may feel free to have another opinion, but this one differs from the shared reality of pretty much everyone on earth.

  22. Re:One question on Cyanogen Mod Goes Commercial To Make "Available On Everything, To Everyone" · · Score: 1

    Once this is a money making enterprise Samsung, HTC and LG will care. Copying it off the device will be considered copyright infringement.

  23. Re:Oh wow Forbes defends trolls what a surprise on Ask Slashdot: When Is Patent License Trading Not Trolling? · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

    Please read that. Rent is a specific thing, neither of those are rent. As they actually create wealth.

  24. Re:Amazing, for 2012 on Blackberry Z30 Phablet Announced · · Score: 1

    Keep trolling, you are getting pretty good.

  25. Re:Oh wow Forbes defends trolls what a surprise on Ask Slashdot: When Is Patent License Trading Not Trolling? · · Score: 1

    Not all businesses are rent seeking. The grocer does not seek rent, nor is salary anything like rent. It is a simple exchange of time for money.