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  1. Buy before you order on Sources Say Amazon Will Soon Be Targeting Ads, a la Google AdWords · · Score: 1

    Pretty soon Amazon will able to just save me time by ordering the things I would have ordered based on ads that they themselves have placed.

    Submitter might have thought that was a joke, but Amazon already has applied for a patent on that.

  2. Re:What's the point? on If Java Wasn't Cool 10 Years Ago, What About Now? · · Score: 1

    There's zero chance that's going to be easier using a loosely typed language with porous ideas of module boundaries

    Nonsense. The typical Java project is a big steaming mess of factory classes, wired beans, annotations, aspects, xml, and all the other workarounds that are needed to give the same functionality that's built into dynamically typed languages. And you still get logs overflowing with run time exceptions.

  3. Re:Citizens United says... on For Microsoft, $93B Abroad Means Avoiding $30B Tax Hit · · Score: 1

    Of course a US citizen must file with the IRS. I meant you can't collect taxes from citizens of other countries who are working in their own country.

  4. Re:Okay... and? on For Microsoft, $93B Abroad Means Avoiding $30B Tax Hit · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can deduct it from your income, just the same as if it were a business expense

    It's a credit against tax due not a deduction from income. Big difference.

  5. They should just ask schwit1 on Air Force Requests Info For Replacement Atlas 5 Engine · · Score: 1

    Companies are being asked to respond by Sept. 19 to 35 questions. Among them: “What solution would you recommend to replace the capability currently provided by the RD-180 engine?”

    Apparently submitter knows a lot more than the Air Force does when it comes to booster rockets.

  6. Right to be forgotten? on Facebook Experimenting With Blu-ray As a Storage Medium · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Can I ask Facebook to delete my stuff from one of those (assuming I had a Facebook account in the first place)

  7. Re:Tax them anyway on For Microsoft, $93B Abroad Means Avoiding $30B Tax Hit · · Score: 1

    Most likely they will comply with the law by moving their corporate headquarters to the Bahamas.

  8. Re:Citizens United says... on For Microsoft, $93B Abroad Means Avoiding $30B Tax Hit · · Score: 1

    Do they want to collect taxes form people who work in other countries? Good luck with that.

  9. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on Anomaly Triggers Self-Destruct For SpaceX Falcon 9 Test Flight · · Score: 2

    Similar to an airline referring to the "involuntary conversion of an asset" when they convert an aircraft into an insurance claim.

  10. Falcon 9 Dev1 reusable rocket on Anomaly Triggers Self-Destruct For SpaceX Falcon 9 Test Flight · · Score: 1

    They'll have to refer to it as a "Falcon 9 Dev1 (hopefully) reusable rocket" now. I like their NASA-like spin too - an "anomaly" caused the mission to be "auto-terminated". Stuff happens when you're trying to control that much energy, they'll get there.

  11. Re:so 1h every 10 day per citizen on New EU Rules Will Limit Vacuum Cleaners To 1600W · · Score: 1

    I was wondering how they got the Denmark reference, but I still don't believe it. Yes, EU has 500M people, but I seriously doubt everyone in every family uses a vacuum cleaner that much. More likely it's less than 10% of your calculation.

    I suspect their main motivation is hinted at in this quote:

    Over the past decades this has led to low price, high power but low performance vacuum cleaners, mainly from China, flooding the EU market

  12. Re:People should leave. They Don't. on When Customer Dissatisfaction Is a Tech Business Model · · Score: 1

    I doubt most people thought BP blew out the rig intentionally; one can argue that they should have been more careful but I don't think anyone can claim they intended to spill all that oil. Plus it was clear form the beginning that the Deep Water Horizon spill would cost BP several billion dollars; that would seem to send a message.

  13. Re:The real crime here on 33 Months In Prison For Recording a Movie In a Theater · · Score: 1

    I just hope the unthinkable never happens, and somebody who doesn't have a legitimate bank account and job suddenly decides to be a ciminal!

    Well, if anyone had RTFA, the perp is quoted as saying this:

    Also what can they possibly sue me for? I have no job, no savings and no means of paying any compensation regardless of the outcome.

  14. Re:The real crime here on 33 Months In Prison For Recording a Movie In a Theater · · Score: 1

    Ownership is not the same as monopoly. Do you have a monopoly on the money in your wallet? If I can get my hands on it does that mean I have a moral right to keep it?

  15. Re:Data Mining. on Students From States With Faster Internet Tend To Have Higher Test Scores · · Score: 1

    Nah. People in Wisconsin eat a lot of cheese and strangle themselves in bed after drinking too much beer while watching the Packers.

  16. Re:Data Mining. on Students From States With Faster Internet Tend To Have Higher Test Scores · · Score: 1

    Yup. And I also noticed they didn't print the standard deviation or p-value. Looking at the scatter chart there does appear to be a correlation, but it seems pretty weak to me.

  17. Re:Chattanooga on FCC Warned Not To Take Actions a Republican-Led FCC Would Dislike · · Score: 2
    They're not necessarily against municipal broadband. The headline and summary are very misleading; what he actually said is:

    the basic concept is this: city governments are appendages of state government, but state governments most definitely are not appendages of the national government.

  18. Apparently he read the Constitution on FCC Warned Not To Take Actions a Republican-Led FCC Would Dislike · · Score: 2

    In a speech in front of the National Conference of State Legislatures, Berry endorsed states' rights

    Inflammatory headline aside, that's pretty much the way Republicans think the country should be run. Let States govern themselves, Fed should stay out unless the issue crosses state lines.

  19. $15 per hour for manufacturing labor in the US? I'd be shocked if it was less that 3x that when you add in Obamacare, Workman's Comp, SSI, etc.

  20. pasteurize milk on Study: Seals Infected Early Americans With Tuberculosis · · Score: 2
    One of the main reasons we pasteurize cow's milk is to eliminate tuberculosis

    . It shouldn't be a surprise that other animals could be a vector.

    The pasteurization of milk didn't come into practice until the late 1800s. Back then, tuberculosis was commonly carried by milk. A low-temperature, long-time (LTLT) process, also known as batch pasteurization, was first developed to kill the tuberculosis pathogen. The incidence of tuberculosis contracted from milk fell dramatically, and in fact it no longer makes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's list of foodborne illnesses

  21. Finns still love their cars though on Helsinki Aims To Obviate Private Cars · · Score: 1

    Finland has one of the higher rates of motor vehicle ownership per capita in the world. So despite all the talk, they don't seem to be getting out of their cars.

  22. Re:Fusion is not the answer on If Fusion Is the Answer, We Need To Do It Quickly · · Score: 1

    Not magnets, batteries. If you have enough batteries you don't need any power generation.

  23. Re:But why a dome? on The Data Dome: A Server Farm In a Geodesic Dome · · Score: 1

    Looking at the picture (maybe an artist's drawing) I see a roundish 2 1/2 story structure sitting behind some trees. So I doubt the wind is a factor. Plus the article talks about fans pulling in outside air.

  24. A lot of assumptions... on Women Founders Outpace Male Counterparts In Certain Types of Kickstarter Funding · · Score: 2

    As I read the article, the researchers couldn't determine the sex of the contributors to the Kickstarter projects. But they did notice that tech projects started by women had more success getting funding. Their laboratory experiment indicated some women are more likely to support other women. So they conclude that the Kickstarter projects have the same causation.

    I kind of wonder about that conclusion though. The type of person who would fund a Kickstarter project comes from a much different population than the (I assume) students they used in their lab. That said, it is a reasonable hypothesis. Obama certainly gets virtually all of the black vote, Hillary gets a lot of her support from women.

  25. Re:Slashdot becomes a subscription site!?!? on Ask Slashdot: Would You Pay For Websites Without Trolls? · · Score: 0

    Mod parent -1 Troll