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  1. Re:US prisons = labour camps on More Jails Replace In-Person Visits With Awful Video Chat Products · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why shouldn't prisoners repay their debts to society with labor? They are literally stealing money from me with their free room, food, and supervision. Make them liable for all of the costs of their incarceration. If they can not repay from their accrued wealth then force them to work to pay for their stays. Extend their stays until they are able to completely repay their debts. If they are unwilling or unable to work, then garnish wages from their families or harvest their organs for sale.

  2. Privilege on More Jails Replace In-Person Visits With Awful Video Chat Products · · Score: -1, Troll

    They are prisoners. They lost the privilege of having contact with the outside world when they committed their crimes. Why should they have access to visitors, letters, or anything else while they serve their sentences?

    Perhaps one solution would be to allow some prisoners to have video calls with visitors if their visitors pay to use terminals inside the prison facility. The prison can earn additional profit by curating some of those video calls and producing a reality television show from them alongside security footage of the prisoners themselves.

  3. Entitlement on US Lawmakers Propose Allowing Prisons To Jam Signals From Smuggled Cellphones (apnews.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why do prisoners get to have contact with the outside at all? Ban all phones, televisions, radios, visitors, letters, and the like from prisons. The prisons can still profit from the friends and families of the prisoners by allowing them to pay for their stays and meals.

  4. The proper way to profit from vulnerability research is by shorting the stock of the publicly traded company before publishing your results. The capital gains can be used to fund more research. https://arstechnica.com/inform...

  5. Google can delist the customers of Oracle from the search engine as well as use other tactics to devalue Oracle's stock price. Once Oracle is cheap enough, Google can simply buy majority shares and dismiss the lawsuit. Oracle does not have similar tactics at its disposal.

  6. Thirty years ago, we had 1.44MB floppies. This fifteen year to 1024-fold increase correspondence holds up.

  7. Academic publishers have every right to protect their intellectual property and charge for access. No one has the right to deny that. If they are not able to profit then there will be no publications.

  8. URLs on O'Reilly Gives Away Free Programming Ebooks (oreilly.com) · · Score: 5, Informative
  9. We are getting close to having a one plane military.

    Law Number XVI: In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  10. Saturation on The Great Tablet Gold Rush Is Over (mashable.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is probably market saturation. It happened with music players a decade ago and happens to almost every other invention.

  11. How does that explain post-menopausal cancers and cancer being more prevalent in individuals who are past their reproductive prime?

  12. Resonance on Highly-Conductive Shark Jelly Could Inspire New Tech (gizmag.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Embed chemoluminescent elements into the jelly and attach full and semitransparent mirrors at both ends to make a resonance chamber. Then you will have a shark laser.

  13. Classic Doom 3 on Original 'Doom' Level Remade in the New 'Doom' (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    There was a reimagining of episode 1 for Doom 3 about a decade ago. Here is E1M2.

  14. Dragons on Colosseum Lift That Carried Wild Animals Into Arena Rebuilt · · Score: 1

    But did it carry dragons?

  15. Annihilation on Ask Slashdot: Best Payloads For Asteroid Diverter/Killer Mission? · · Score: 1

    Launch a similarly massed object at it made of antimatter.

  16. Re:Car analogy? on New Device Could Greatly Improve Speech and Image Recognition · · Score: 1

    We already have this for accident recognition. Whenever there is a grisly accident scene on the side of a highway, everyone driving past it will spin their heads and look.

  17. BALEFIRE! on Wheel of Time TV Pilot Producers Sue Robert Jordan's Widow For Defamation · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That TV pilot lacked the requisite balefire from the sky in the prologue of The Eye Of The World. That balefire can be put to good use on Red Eagle Entertainment LLC and Manetheren LLC and erasing them, the pilot, and this lawsuit from the Pattern.

  18. Re:November 11th? Really? on How Alibaba Turned November 11 Into the World's Biggest Online Shopping Day · · Score: 1

    11/11/11 was the release date for Skyrim.

  19. National Stock Numbers on Two Years of Data On What Military Equipment the Pentagon Gave To Local Police · · Score: 1

    Here is a table of National Stock Numbers: http://www.gsa.gov/dg/NSN_DATA...

    If anyone is interested, I can import both spreadsheets into a PostgreSQL database, join by the NSNs, and post a dump/query/something.

  20. Re:TC developer used hidden message!!! on The Sudden Policy Change In Truecrypt Explained · · Score: 0

    Here is a diff between 7.1a and 7.2. The most interesting thing is that there are 2073 line additions and 10163 line deletions.

  21. Hysteria on Social Media Is a New Vector For Mass Psychogenic Illness · · Score: 1, Funny

    Please do not use the term "hysteria" as it denigrates women. That word originates from the Greek word for "uterus," with the word "hysterectomy" sharing the same lineage, and perniciously qualifies women as raving lunatics.

  22. Re:Actually a good feature on Wikipedia Pages Now On Amazon — With Product Links · · Score: 1

    I have just written a Greasemonkey script for that: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/91959

  23. Re:Not to sound like an ass, but... on Haskell 2010 Announced · · Score: 1

    Moreover, the DoAndIfThenElse extension merely extends the "do" syntax with if/then/else clauses; it is syntactic sugar. Empty data declarations are essentially union types unioned over no labels and therefore can have no values except for the bottom value.

    References:
    http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/DoAndIfThenElse
    http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/EmptyDataDecls

  24. Re:Actually the 47th on 12M Digit Prime Number Sets Record, Nets $100,000 · · Score: 1

    2^43112610-1 is definitely composite. 2^(2*m)-1 = (2^m-1)*(2^m+1)
    So, 2^43112610-1 = (2^21556305-1)*(2^21556305+1)

  25. Re:Maths MUST be consistent.... on New Comic Book About Logic, Math, and Madness · · Score: 1

    Transistors can not be accurately described by Newtonian physics.