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  1. Re: Spiritual Needs on Jedi-ism Becomes a Serious Religion · · Score: 2

    It seems to me that part of the attraction of the Christian story is the juvenile need to identify with a master breed, individual with semi-magical capabilities beyond those of the general population. It's psychologically understandable in some 14 year old trying to find his personal identity, but sad in an adult.

    You can replace Christian with Muslim and it still works too.

  2. Re:Time for a revolution on Law Lets IRS Seize Accounts On Suspicion, No Crime Required · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What happens when bitcoin crashes? Also as you live in the USA you are subject US taxes. even if it is bitcoin. if you are not paying taxes the IRS can treat you like they treated Al capone.

    The IRS

  3. Re:There are computers built for this. on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Make a High-Spec PC Waterproof? · · Score: 1

    Not only that he has never heard of remote computing either. This sounds like the perfect job for an embedded machine running Vnc remote desktop or even a Unix shell back to a central server with power to spare.

    Not even internet connected just a remote node will work

  4. Re:my thoughts on NY Doctor Recently Back From West Africa Tests Positive For Ebola · · Score: 1

    we are not even in single digit cases.

    330 million people in the usa. and the only fatality has been a non american whom the hospitals should never of let go home.

  5. Re:Bull on Microsoft Exec Opens Up About Research Lab Closure, Layoffs · · Score: 1

    While true that only works if you do something with that research. Msft research designed some cool things, that would
      have drastically changed tech. The problem is Microsoft never capitalized on those projects. !Microsoft was driven by marketing ( see longhorn feature list).

  6. Re:Politics on Ebola Does Not Require an "Ebola Czar," Nor Calling Up the National Guard · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The problem is the CDC plan didn't work and the CDC and the hospital completely broke proper isolation procedures.

    You never give the care takers permission to leave the town until after they have been isolated long enough to be clean. Let alone when one of them ask for permission to fly when she has a slight fever you say no.

    I always figured the CDC could handle a major outbreak. now I don't think they could.

  7. As some one recently pointed out to me on Ebola Does Not Require an "Ebola Czar," Nor Calling Up the National Guard · · Score: 5, Funny

    More americans have married Kim Kardashian than have died from Ebola.

    And what is the land of the free creating more czar's for? a czar answers to no one. Instead how about we make the people in charge responsible for their actions. oh wait congress can never take responsibility for their failures.

  8. Re:Why? on China Staging a Nationwide Attack On iCloud and Microsoft Accounts · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So how many times has the NSA done the same thing? oh that's right the NSA merely forces Cisco to install hardware that lets them monitor such connections.

    The NSA has done far far worse to Americans, let alone everyone else in the world. China at least primarily limits it's attempts to it's own citizens.

  9. Re:Boston on 32 Cities Want To Challenge Big Telecom, Build Their Own Gigabit Networks · · Score: 4, Informative

    It gets better as sections of Boston get FIOS from Verizon. but for reasons known only to monopolies Verzion stopped rolling out new FIOS in Boston. I guess the market isn't big enough for them.

  10. Re:Yay :D on If You're Connected, Apple Collects Your Data · · Score: 3, Informative

    except you can turn it all off. I have. Yosemite still works as it should. I just lose some safari and spotlight options

  11. Re:May I suggest on No More Lee-Enfield: Canada's Rangers To Get a Tech Upgrade · · Score: 1

    While true, I don't think that is a concern in the canadian north.

    However I would be concerned about the opposite. synthetics don't do well in extreme cold either.

  12. Re:Replace rockets with something reasonable. on White House Wants Ideas For "Bootstrapping a Solar System Civilization" · · Score: 2

    it isn't just rockets in space that is the problem. when you need 20 pounds of fuel to carry every pound of material to orbit you have a design limitation that needs to be changed.

    We need better earth to orbit tech. once we have that the rest becomes much much easier. The ISS took 36 separate launches and we basically have a 10,000 sqft house.

    Solve SSTO and watch as we can suddenly start launching more stuff up there.

  13. Re:If I were president... on Journalists Route Around White House Press Office · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But you can't that is the point. You will never know half of the presidents daily actions and descisions. Who don't want to know a lot of the stuff he has to know.

    Think of it like living on Twitter where you get bits and pieces of information and have to decide whether or not to act on 140 character sound bites. Whether the country goes to war depends on at best incomplete information.

  14. Control on Journalists Route Around White House Press Office · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Internet perceives censorship as damage and routes around it. The tighter the control the more systems will slip through their fingers.

    Ooh how many more memes can this article produce?

  15. Re:It only takes one ... on How Nigeria Stopped Ebola · · Score: 2

    Have you missed the part where she asked the CDC for permission first?

    The CDC is screwing this up big time.

  16. Re:Don't reuse passwords, folks. on Dropbox Wasn't Hacked, Says Leaked Credentials Are From Unrelated Services · · Score: 1

    I used to use 12345. But then I switched to the more secure 98765. No one ever thinks to go backwardshey just checking but my passwords show up as ***** to you guys right?

  17. Re:The real space shuttle on Secretive X-37B Military Space Plane Could Land On Tuesday · · Score: 1

    ah but container ships aren't expensive. the USA only does things to stupid expensive way first. then simplifies later. That way we can do it twice at 5 times the cost as everyone else.

    Just look at our healthcare system. We pay 2-3 times what other countries pay and nearly 1/6th of our population still can't afford to go to a doctor.

  18. Re:Hoax on Independent Researchers Test Rossi's Alleged Cold Fusion Device For 32 Days · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Right and how do you keep it secret? once you start passing them out(even if you are just selling the power) someone will cut it up and duplicate it. Look at the number of cheap iPhone knockoffs that appeared a year after the iPhone came out. He doesn't have apple's lawyers to defend him.

  19. Re:The point? on Simple Hack Enables VR Mode For Oculus Rift In Alien: Isolation · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Who says it always works flawlessly? have they played through the entire game several times? maybe there is crash code or places where you can literally get stuck in a wall.

    Lastly it isn't like you can go buy an oculus at best buy. Maybe they haven't fully tested the system. maybe they are waiting on oculus to actually release a product to consumers. Instead of a small beta tester pool.

  20. It gets better , when you realize most rooms only need one jack or none at all.

    you will probably only need one box of cat6 and a dozen jacks. 2 per bedroom, 2 for living room, 2 to 4 for office. I get by with a 4 port router. with only 3 cables plugged in. one for the TV, one for the ROKU box(always hardwire these) and one in case I need to update settings or really play games.(always disable wireless administration)

    everything else is running on 802.11N (5ghz)of which I am the only user in the apartment complex. I pick up 10 other 2.4 ghz connections. Of those my 2.4 ghz channel(my router can broadcast and route on both at the same time) is the only one on an off channel(not 1,6, or 11) (I have mine set to 8 if you are curious)

  21. Re:mental gymnastics on DoJ: Law Enforcement Can Impersonate People On Facebook · · Score: 1

    I am not disagreeing with you however every american does that too. Why is the government any different?

    It is okay to dump hazard waste into the local drinking water supply. There is no law against it.

    It is okay to steal money from the pot their is no law against it.

    Every law will be abused and distorted. From the patriot act to local zoning ordances.

  22. Re:hmm on Nearly 700 Genetic Factors Found To Influence Human Adult Height · · Score: 1

    True but by studying redheads scientists can unlock how the soul interacts wight he body.

  23. Re:...with greater instability. on One In Three Jobs Will Be Taken By Software Or Robots By 2025, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    That's just it you can hire those jobs out as needed. You call them as needed as they are small shops like yourself.

    We don't have an IT tech on site. we pay someone to monitor for viruses, and provide updates and to watch backups. They don't have access to the main database itself just the files. We call them when we add or remove employees. We talk to them maybe twice a month.

    people on slashdot say they can replace half the managers they work for with a script. They never realize what that actually means when you do though.

  24. If you don't know how health insurance currently works please stop talking.

    companies of 500 or more employees are self paying. if you think those companies pay for insurance like you pay for health insurance you are wrong. In those companies you pay your company for health insurance. it is managed by an outside entity. all employee contributions go into a pot. Payments for various claims are paid from the pot. the outside entity manages the cash flow. at the end of most years the company either has to pay a little directly out of it's own pocket or gets a little bonus. Direct employer contributions is normally little to none.Exceptions happen like this past year when AOL had two employees with horrible problems that needed several million dollars in care. the managing entity raises rates every year to keep the actual average employer contribution close to zero.

    Their is very little direct health insurance in the USA it is one reason everything costs so much more. it isn't like car insurance where you have competing firms.

  25. Re:Yes yes yes on One In Three Jobs Will Be Taken By Software Or Robots By 2025, Says Gartner · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Your parents got pensions too because companies cared about employees.

    Caring about employees affects the bottom line. In order to maximize human resources those resources. Must be step mined and discarded. How else is the CEO supposed to get his annual bonus? Improve sales?