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  1. Re:One of the execs on Former Nortel Execs Await Corporate Fraud Ruling · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's amazing how Monty Python saw these blighters for exactly what they are more than a couple of decades ago. The modern day corporate pirates.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb3uCCjH9G0

    The Crimson Permanent Assurance sails again.

  2. Re:Speculation is already in play ... on Getting Better Transparency From Oil Refineries · · Score: 1

    Goldman Sachs et al would beg to differ, considering they would be the casino.

  3. Revive the lofstrom loop! on The Science Behind Building a Space Gun · · Score: 3, Interesting

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop

    Much better than a cannon, and finally a place where we can put all of that electricity from our power plants that we don't use during trough times to be used again when you get a spike. Just gloss over the energy of a small nuclear device in a moving cable over a 2000km area bit. That's not going to bother anyone...

  4. Re:Not going to fly on Anonymous Files Petition To Make DDoS Legal Form of Protest · · Score: 1

    As it would likely be a constitutional defence, I would imagine that it would be up to the defendant to prove that they didn't follow an automated process.

  5. Not going to fly on Anonymous Files Petition To Make DDoS Legal Form of Protest · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The whole idea of the traditional protest is that people had to stand in a particular area to create problems for wherever they were standing. The limiting factor is that it requires people's time.

    Having a fleet of computers continually access a site does not occupy people's time, but rather is an automated process, which is not a form of individual protest. I would imagine that having people hit websites manually, and pressing the refresh button cannot be classed as a DDos attack, and if it were, then they would likely be protected by the right to protest.

  6. Re:Unrelated, but still on Online Gambling Site Bets On Bitcoin To Avoid U.S. Laws · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because the right people don't make money with it.

  7. Re:Another idiot buying into the bitcoin scam. on Online Gambling Site Bets On Bitcoin To Avoid U.S. Laws · · Score: 5, Funny

    And good job. Base your business off a virtual currency with ZERO backing and no control whatsoever.

    And it's worse than US Dollars exactly how now?

  8. Re:I dunno... on Ask Slashdot: Are Timed Coding Tests Valuable? · · Score: 1

    Just a quick note.

    Every one who has answered, would have been interviewed. 5/100 though is the shocking reason why employers simply can't take these things on face value.

  9. Re:I dunno... on Ask Slashdot: Are Timed Coding Tests Valuable? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    These tests are vital when interviewing. We recently put out an ad for a senior programmer, and got about 100 or so responses. After 25 responses hit the circular filing cabinet, as they were obvious resume spam with no cover letters, we declined around a further 50. Of the remainder, we asked a simple question. In JavaScript, without using the reverse() method, reverse an array of numbers containing 1,2,3,4,5 in the most efficient way possible.

    We got 5 responses back, which we interviewed. The other 20 were out. These tests are meant to weed out the crap that would waste our time, and honestly, the 5 guys that responded, responded in under 5 minutes.

  10. Re:HID's on Fireflies Bring Us Brighter LEDs · · Score: 2

    Nunchuck skills - check
    Bowhunting skills - check
    Computer hacking skills - check
    Time to do it? Nope. I have a date tonight.

  11. Re:Jesus Christ on Fireflies Bring Us Brighter LEDs · · Score: 2

    Probably. A corporate can sue another corporate.

  12. Re:intelligent design? on Fireflies Bring Us Brighter LEDs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now that the fireflies are popular, they will cease to exist as they will surely be axed by Fox.

  13. Re:Apple invented paper. on Canadian Researchers Debut PaperTab, the Paper-Thin Tablet · · Score: 2

    Ahhhh. Papercut!

  14. Re:The iOS oven on An Oven That Runs Android · · Score: 1

    Too much like cannibalism.

  15. Re:Compromised system on An Oven That Runs Android · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't be ridiculous. A vertical oven interface can't possibly work! Human's aren't built that way for touch technology and will suffer from Gorilla Arm when cooking dinner. The classic tablet surface interface of the hotplate is the only real solution and why the iPlate technology exists. - Tim Cook

  16. Re:Do Not Want! on World's First Linux Powered Rifle Announced · · Score: 1

    In a $17,000 device, it's target market provides the opportunity for another $17,000 of sales in consumables.

  17. Way to go on World's First Linux Powered Rifle Announced · · Score: 5, Funny

    To overcomplicate a simple point and click interface.

  18. Re:gotta ask on World's First Linux Powered Rifle Announced · · Score: 5, Funny

    Red Screen of Death.

  19. Re:Why not pause on shift out of park? on Ford and GM Open Car Software To Outside Developers · · Score: 1

    It's far cheaper to install a docking cradle for the phone in your car, than to update anything in the dashboard.

    The GP's post about interfaces is great, but the real problem with interfaces is that an interface is longer lived than any implementation. Gaze down and look at your "cigarette lighter". I would be quite willing to bet that more people utilize the cigarette lighter interface to plug in their GPS, phone charger, et al, than light a cigarette.

    Not to mention what happens when the latest and greatest device comes out, and they don't want to play nice with the interfaces. See anything Apple does.

    And even if that doesn't occur, or there is a duct tape solution to integrate the doesn't play nice tech with the current technology, what happens if you have a technology like bluetooth, and it needs to be updated with the latest and greatest thing. All of your devices will need to bridge several things again.

    So at the end of the day, take your phone, or stick on GPS into your car, unless if you're someone who thinks that cars should be recycled for scrap metal when the dashboard technology becomes obsolete. Auto manufacturers surely have wet dreams about this.

  20. Re:Censorship & Piracy on Chinese Man Pleads Guilty To $100M Piracy Operation · · Score: 3
    How would US customs feel about his arrival in the US? How would US citizens feel about his, and other's like him living in the US?

    He should probably stop living in an Islamic country.

    Of course, he snaps his fingers, and winds up skipping down the road hand in hand with his new friends in the United States of America, who's doors are always open.

  21. Re:Nice! on HP Software Update Cancels Food Stamps · · Score: 1

    In the US at least, calories are not the issue.

  22. Re:These CEOs need to learn about Agile... on Change the ThinkPad and It Will Die · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Redesigning even a small custom piece of plastic has a huge pipeline to get it designed, prototyped, final mold made, tooled, and built.

    True now, but in a few years, 3d printing will be filling this niche even nicer.

  23. Re:beaurocrats! on UC's For-Pay Online Course Draws 4 Non-UC Students · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why would they get fired? They literally made THOUSANDS of dollars for the university. PLUS, they spent their budget for the year, so next year's advertising budget will of course need to be raised by 20%.

    You're not thinking institutionally, and you know that one bucket is not connected to another bucket.

  24. Re:Agree 10000% on UC's For-Pay Online Course Draws 4 Non-UC Students · · Score: 1

    Sales are in the pipeline! We just need another million to close.

  25. With one fire on Boeing Dreamliner Catches Fire In Boston · · Score: 5, Funny

    The dreamliner turns into a nightmare. Film at 11.