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  1. Re:2(Wrong) != Right on Ask Slashdot: When Is It OK To Not Give Notice? · · Score: 1

    Wow. Here, we have notification periods set by law and typical work contracts that range beween 1 and 4 MONTHS. (Usually depending on how long you workd there). And they're binding for BOTH sides.

  2. Re:No notice, no reference on Ask Slashdot: When Is It OK To Not Give Notice? · · Score: 1

    Over here, if you worked for an employer for 6 months or longer, you're entitled to a written reference. If you can't present one at your job interview, you've got a lot os 'splaining to do. (It has to be worded positive, but it doesn't mean it has to be an actual recommendation)

  3. Re:So were you also one who bitched about Wall Str on New York's Financial Regulator Subpoenas Bitcoin Companies · · Score: 1

    or the banks? Because you can't have it both ways: Either the government regulates money for various reasons (crime, abuse, economic stability) or it doesn't.

    This is a false equivalency. The US government is allowed to regulate it's own money - that is - the sovereign currency that it issues. Bitcoins aren't defined or issued by the US government, so it has as much right to regulate Bitcoins as it has to regulate the Euro.

    If that's right, with what justification is the SEC already regulating financial instruments issued by banks and not the US gouvernment?

    Various derivatives aren't defined ir issued by the US gouvernment either, but still regulated.

    And please not that "regulating the Bitcoin" is still something different to "regulating financial transactions". The latter ones are just what they are: transactions, independant of the denominated currency.

  4. Re:Pop-cultural osmosis failure on Behind the Story of the iPhone's Default Text Tone · · Score: 1

    Wow... that was probably the wordiest way to say "Ha, ha! You don't know morse".

    But you raise a good point: How many people recognized those beeps as mores anyway?

  5. Re:One letter apart on Behind the Story of the iPhone's Default Text Tone · · Score: 1

    But that's unlikely to happen with a familiar language (or dialect)

    While I knew the morse code for SOS, I didn't know the code for "M". HEck, it took me a while to find out that it was meant to spell SMS in the first place!

  6. Re:Attention to detail on Behind the Story of the iPhone's Default Text Tone · · Score: 1

    That one almost drove me crazy when I heard it for the first time! (And the owner of the phone wasn't around to stop it from repeating) That sound is WAY TOO CLOSE to

    Dit Dit Dit

    De De De

    Dit Dit Dit

  7. Re:possible new app on Londoners Tracked By Advertising Firm's Trash Cans · · Score: 2

    "I'd buy that for a dollar".

    Llama for Android is even free.

  8. What the heck is going on? on Silent Circle Follows Lavabit By Closing Encrypted E-mail Service · · Score: 1

    What the heck is going on over there?

    Do you really have running governmant agents around closing shops at will?

    That's not a good sign.

  9. Loose lips sink ships on Soldiers Looking For Hookups On Craigslist Are Being Warned of a Military Sting · · Score: 2

    Loose lips sink ships.

    All over again.

  10. Re:Get use to it on Researchers Unveil Genome of 'Immortal' Cell Line Derived From Cancer Victim · · Score: 1

    Could I please come over to your world? I'm stuck in this rapidly changing capitalist world where the needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many.

  11. Re:This is AT&T's fault how? on First California AMBER Alert Shows AT&T's Emergency Alerts Are a Mess · · Score: 1

    Cell Broadcast

  12. Re:One step at a time, Ikea on IKEA Augmented Reality Catalog Lets You Preview Products In Your Apartment · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with their existing online-shop?

  13. Re:Please explain this to me on The Latest Security Vulnerability: Your Toilet · · Score: 1

    Usually, devices with hardcoded PINs only are in pairing mode for a limited time (30 seconds) after pressing some special buttons.

    It#s sepculation, but perhaps this here is really "hackable" with permanent pairing mode?

    Or perhaps it's only news because it is a toilet.

  14. Re:So it'll be even less likely on Google Replaces AT&T At Starbucks · · Score: 2

    Well... nowadays, everyone's a critic.

    But never forget:

    All the world's a stage,
    And all the men and women merely players:
    They have their exits and their entrances;

    Sounds like already Shakespeare saw the comming of Google Glass....

  15. Re:Uh oh.. on Google Replaces AT&T At Starbucks · · Score: 3, Funny

    My name was already written down and shouted through the room by that guy behind that effing huge coffeemaker...

  16. Re:Support on Forget Apple: Samsung Could Be Google's Next Big Rival · · Score: 1

    Indeed. They don't.

    But that doesn't keep Android users from popping up in the Google user forums asking for support. (and if some other user can answer their question, they get at least that)

    And for some reason, this still seems to be better than Samsung support, as they keep showing up with questions about the samsung App.

  17. Support on Forget Apple: Samsung Could Be Google's Next Big Rival · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Whatever. I'm fine with all the changes that Samsung does to stock Android. It's open source and everything.

    But don't send users over to the Google user forums if that Samsung calendar screws up.

    Way too many users there along the lines of "I have a samsung Android phone, so Google must support is because Android is Google, right?"

  18. Re:No wonder ... on The Book That Is Making All Movies the Same · · Score: 1

    Amen.

    Way to often such a "reboot" is a lame excuse for not being able to come up with something that matches the existing canon, so they "reboot" and just ignore that half of the new movie contradicts the established lore.

    Writers, directors and other Hollywood critters: If you feel "too confined" by the weight of an existing series: THEN DONT DO ANY SE- OR PREQUELS!

  19. Re:Better plots? on Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops · · Score: 2

    I guess that's just really much more effort than rehashing the same damn blockbuster formula over and over again.

    That one?

    http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/13/07/22/1216259/the-book-that-is-making-all-movies-the-same

  20. Re:Diet and laziness on The Man Who Convinced Us We Needed Vitamin Supplements · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure about that. If someone takes vitamin supplements, this usually is an indication that that people are worried about their health and intrested in improving it anyway.

  21. Re:Diet and laziness on The Man Who Convinced Us We Needed Vitamin Supplements · · Score: 1

    It is when that's not the lifestyle that most people live by today.

    and doing so, spending much more time and money on solving the problems created by that lifestyle, then it would take to avoid that problem at all. (And still leaving the biggest problems of that lifestyle unsolved: Too much calories, fat and sugar)

    I'm in no way a role model when it comes to my diet. But I see to having the proverbial apple-a-day (even if it usually is some other fruit),a veggie-meal per week, and cooking my own dinner at least once per week. That's simple and should make up for the occasional visit to the burger store (with soda)

  22. Re:Fear leads to Hate, Hate leads to Measles on Fifteen Years After Autism Panic, a Plague of Measles Erupts · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's just the pendulum swinging back from "Doctors know everything!"

    And both is wrong.

    Nowadays, thanks to studies, doctors know exactly that treatment A has a 70% chance to cure illness X, while treatment B has a 95% chance to cure it, but also a 1% chance that the patient loses e.g. his eyesight due to possible sideeffects.

    That's pretty exact knowledge, but at the same time making the actual recommendation a bit of guesswork.

  23. Re:Diet and laziness on The Man Who Convinced Us We Needed Vitamin Supplements · · Score: 1

    So, as a vegetarian, you have chosen a diet that does not meet the nutrituois requirements of your athletic lifestyle.

    In that case, vitamin suplements seem like a solution looking for a problem.

  24. Re:Diet and laziness on The Man Who Convinced Us We Needed Vitamin Supplements · · Score: 1

    Would you please mind and think about what you just wrote?

    OF COURSE the life epectancy for men born in 1901 was low as hell. But that doesn't mean that everyone dies at the age of 50 exept Pauling. This means that you could live to become 80 or 90 without problem if you simply avoided dying at the age of 20 in one of the two world wars.

  25. Re:Diet and laziness on The Man Who Convinced Us We Needed Vitamin Supplements · · Score: 1

    It's only necessary in rare cases, you suggest... but then you state that it requires work and effort to eat healthy.

    Not eating junkfood every day, variety and an occasional piece of fruit should not be called "work and effort"