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  1. Re:As a business owner on Ask Slashdot: How Have You Handled Illegal Interview Topics? · · Score: 1

    The question is, are we on the waning or waxing end of the Laffer Curve? One thing is for sure, we certainly aren't at the optimal point right now.

  2. Re:As a business owner on Ask Slashdot: How Have You Handled Illegal Interview Topics? · · Score: 1

    If you're producing a porno, sometimes you need someone matching those qualifications. You know? :-/ HMNs (Homosexual Muslims from Norway) are extremely rare and thus in high demand.

  3. Re:I also propose to ban on NYC Bans Mention of Dinosaurs, Dancing, Birthdays On Student Tests · · Score: 1

    No brain melting needed. This debate has cropped up in so many places over the years it's not worth keeping track anymore. Basically, he was neither a communist or a capitalist. First link I could find below. Many others out there all biased in the answer you're looking for no doubt.

    http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/23/was-jesus-a-communist-or-a-capitalist/

  4. Re:I also propose to ban on NYC Bans Mention of Dinosaurs, Dancing, Birthdays On Student Tests · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's liberalism for you and all the politically correct BS that goes along with it. Coddled children grow up to be stupid sheeple that are just ripe to be controlled. If you even so much as dare show that you have a pair, they will cut them off. That at least is top priority in their view. Eunuchs! All of you!

  5. Robotic mines on 11-lb Robot Can Jump 30 Feet Into the Air · · Score: 1

    Ok, so they're not spider mines... yet. But anything that moves and jumps in the air is just begging to be used as a weapon. Geneva Convention not withstanding.

  6. Re:Refreshingly, he does NOT call for new laws on FBI's Top Cyber-cop Says We're Losing the War Against Hackers · · Score: 2

    No, but he sure as hell left the door wide open for a politician to create new ones. The other politicians salivate at the prospect of attaching riders to it too.

    It was bound to happen sooner or later. He just kicked the pace up a notch, that's all.

  7. Re:Belly button contemplation on Google 'Account Activity' Jumps Into Personal Analytics · · Score: 1

    You just know figured that out? MySpace.com should have been the start of a big clue factor for everyone. It goes downhill from there on out.

  8. Re:WAN on Comcast Not Counting Their Video Service Against Bandwidth Cap · · Score: 1

    My understand is that the upstream is only more scarce because that's how the bandwidth is provisioned that way. It's not a technical limitation, but a business decision based on pairing agreements and other industry de-facto standards based entirely on momentum. Technically, cable modems could be reconfigured at the headend to provide a 50/50 symmetrical balance in both upload and download rates.

  9. Re:I has a sad. on Inside the Mummification of Space Shuttle Discovery · · Score: 1

    Radical Islam isn't a made up enemy. It does exist. It's an insidious and dark force upon humanity. This is not a "western" war where one side wears one uniform and the other wears another. Both identifiable in the battlefield. Terrorism is a tactic by the enemy. To them, it's justifiable (and it's honestly truly effective). To western morals, it's not. That's the difference. I suppose you could say the American revolutionaries were terrorist too in the way they employed non-conventional tactics for that time period. Unfortunately we actually have two enemy forces to deal with. Them, and us. We are also our own worst enemy in that there are those whom will take advantage of our vulnerabilities for other ulterior Big Government controlling motives.

  10. WAN on Comcast Not Counting Their Video Service Against Bandwidth Cap · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Cuts both ways? Does that mean I can FTP an unlimited amount of data to my neighbor that also has Comcast too? Where all part of one giant happy WAN, right?

  11. Re:Astronomers are so funny on 13-Billion-Year-Old Alien Worlds Discovered · · Score: 1

    It can. There's been at last one reported case of another dimension where Zuul growled its name at the Temple of Gozer. When dealing with the supernatural, all bets are off!

  12. Re:Astronomers are so funny on 13-Billion-Year-Old Alien Worlds Discovered · · Score: 1

    Time is real for sure. But the universal constant may in fact be changing with time over a period of time. There's just no way of knowing it now because we all are living under the same constant. If true, ponder that for a moment.

  13. Re:When it comes down to it people want $ not just on Boston Pays Out $170,000 To Man Arrested For Recording Police · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not sure what this guys occupation is, but 5 years later with $170,000 isn't much to show for it. That's $34,000 a year. It's also a payout for his legal fees. Net profit??? In fact, he could still be in negative when it's all said and done.

  14. Re:I has a sad. on Inside the Mummification of Space Shuttle Discovery · · Score: 3, Informative

    After the Cuban missile crisis, I don't want another cold war. There was so many bad ways that could have ended, but didn't. I understand the glory in innovation that came from the Cold War. But please, don't undermine the brinkmanship that came with it too. It's simply not worth it IMHO.

  15. Re:I has a sad. on Inside the Mummification of Space Shuttle Discovery · · Score: 1

    When one door closes, another one opens. Necessity is the mother of invention... You see where I'm going with this? This isn't an end of space flight and exploration. What we have here is a transitional period that quite frankly is long overdue.

  16. Re:Not the United States on UK Man Jailed For 'Offensive Tweets' · · Score: 1

    The UK is a lost cause. Unfortunately. They'll have to figure it out. I wish them luck. Meanwhile back at the home front, this is precisely why humanity must remain ever vigilant. If you don't fight and secure freedom for yourself and your children, it will be lost. The only way to re-obtain it is through bloodshed. Nobody ever wants it to come to that. Just a little known historical fact.

  17. Re:The math is simple on Why Gay Men Are Worth So Much To Facebook · · Score: 1

    They're called DINKs. Dual Income, No Kids.

  18. Re:The real question is... on Chinese Firm Helps Iran Spy On Citizens · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Six years ago, I saw a ZTE branded IPTV router at a hotel in Shanghai. Cheap build quality on the plastics used, but it at least powered on and worked. Par for the course in China. Last year, I saw that the cheapest cellphone Verizon sold was by ZTE.

    People buy cheap. It's how successfully companies generally start out by selling lower tiered products and eventually working their way up to high-end offerings. Watch for it! This company will be as huge as LG at their current rate.

  19. Re:It was bound to happen sometime on Huawei Claims 30Gbps Wireless 'Beyond LTE' · · Score: 1

    It will *never* be enough bandwidth. If you're not surfing the web on a phone or iPad, you will be at least be tethering to a PC. Or, you end up wiring your entire house to a gateway/firewall that uses xG technology as a primary ISP.

    Cell technology will be competing against DSL and Cable offerings once the price becomes competitive. It may never be as fast or reliable for obvious reasons, but market options are nice for the consumer to have. Also, Cell technology will be great for those that live in areas with limited ISP options for whatever the reasons may be.

  20. Re:Relation to possible revolution? on China Unblocks Sensitive Keywords · · Score: 0

    From what I've read, Wen Jiabao is pro freedom of speech and reform. His personality type is also introverted which fits the mold of many of our American founding fathers. Bo Xiliai OTOH sounds like a guy with a personality much like that Hugo Chavez. If so, that's very nasty.

    If Wen Jiabao is the Chinese equivalent of Mikhail Gorbachev, this indeed should be a very good thing!

  21. Re:This explains it on Early Exposure To Germs Has Lasting Benefits · · Score: 1

    What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Right?

  22. Re:Expect a new feature coming up on Facebook: Legal Action Against Employers Asking For Your Password · · Score: 1

    Here's the deal. Assuming for a moment any of this is legal. An HR department asks for FaceBook credentials to review a prospective employee's background. The following is what would happen.

    1. The applicant doesn't have a FB account. (no, really). DENIED! Not knowing is too risky in of itself.
    2. The applicant has a FB account, but it's sparse or fraudulent. DENIED! What else are you lying about?
    3. The applicant has a FB account and it's full of ghetto postings and other unsavory associations. DENIED! Applicant does meet the following "qualifications".
    4. The applicant has a FB account and it looks clean and wholesome. ACCEPTED! And BTW, we require all other login credentials for all other sites too. The precedent has been set and you wouldn't have a problem with this anyways. Need bank statement to sure you are responsible with money...etc..etc.

    Fuck that! I'd rather suck of the government tittie for unemployment benefits. If this is the society we will have to live in, I'd just assume let Rome fall under its own festering bloated immoral weight.

  23. Re:A Few Notes on Your Suggestion on Domestic Drilling Doesn't Decrease Gasoline Prices · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oil is fungible

    "Oil is a fungible commodity, sold on the global market to the highest bidder, as McAuliff points out."

    It has nothing to do with some grand conspiracy. It's a simple matter of supply and demand. America is competing on the world market for cheap energy. The locality of drilling only determines who gets first sale profits and the quality of the crude. Other than that, the highest bidder gets the oil. Simple as that.

    Now personally, I think we should maintain our strategic reserve for times of natural disasters and regional conflict (war). The idea of tapping into it to spook the speculators is flat out wrong. It's also not working anymore. The hedge fund managers are starting to become immune to this political tactic.

  24. Re:Fuck GizMag on Researchers May Have Discovered How Memories Are Encoded In the Brain · · Score: 1, Insightful

    There are no "backups" of your brain. There may be neural redundancy, but effectively no 1 to 1 backups. No, if anything this is equivalent to flushing RAM to disk.

  25. Re:I think the most important question... on Ask MIT Researchers About Fusion Power · · Score: 1

    When you get your flying car?