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  1. Re:return on Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act · · Score: 1

    the federal government respects state laws, and states have to respect each other's laws (was that last part covered by this decision?

    No. DOMA had 2 main parts. Part II said that states didn't have to honor other state's marriages if they didn't want to. Part III is what said that 'marriage' means legal union between one man and one woman and spouse only meant person of the opposite sex that is a husband or wife. Part III was what was struck down today.

    States are still free to say that marriage is between one man and one woman. But if they state says that a same sex marriage is a legal union, the federal government has to accept it.

  2. Re:Funny results reporting on Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act · · Score: 1

    And lately, CNN has used their banner to "break" news about just about everything.

    "Breaking news: Random person goes to the bathroom. Details soon."

  3. Re:Horrible for network security... on ICANN Working Group Seeks To Kill WHOIS · · Score: 2

    So if you registered through a proxy service, the little people can't find out your info, but any large corporation, or LEA can.

    All it takes is a civil subpena to find out who is hiding behind a Domains By Proxy domain. If you've followed the Prenda copyright troll cases, Prenda's entire account history was handed over by Godaddy including customer service notes, domain registrations including proxied domains, IP addresses of sessions, etc.

  4. Re:COBOL is... on Join COBOL's Next Generation · · Score: 1

    COBOL stands for COmmon Business Oriented Language. It's syntax was suppose to be English readable to allow bean counters, actuaries, businessmen, etc to read, write, or at least understand what it was doing using terminology that they would use.

  5. Re:As much as we love to hate Microsoft... on Microsoft Pushing Bing For Search In Schools, With Ad-Removal Hook · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But.. What K12 student is going to purchase anything anyway?

    The K12 student isn't going to be purchasing all that much when they are using the school's computer. But when they go home and they go to bing.com do do their searching there, or they change the default search engine on the family computer because "that's what we use at school" then it opens Microsoft up for more visits. Plus down the road when those K12 students have graduated, get jobs, and then have money to spend, maybe they'll be hooked on Bing.

    Or at least in theory that's how it's suppose to work. Didn't work all that well for Apple in the 80s and 90s.

  6. I guess it will work... on Introducing the NSA-Proof Crypto-Font · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I guess it will work for all my digital content that I save as raster graphics. Which is...um...none of it.

  7. Re:Claim 1 on Patent Infringement Suit Includes Linking URLs In an Email · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately no. Just because you come up with an idea or otherwise "own" the idea doesn't mean you are responsible for the idea unless the patent owner also executed the idea which had the detrimental effect on you. I think the gun lobby has tried to make that clear that they aren't generally responsible if their gun is used to commit a crime.

  8. Re:Check your logs & tune your content. on Ask Slashdot: What Should a Non-Profit Look For In a Web Host? · · Score: 1

    You forgot to ask: Are any of the above issues even the problem?

    He doesn't state what the problem with the existing host is. They could have infinite bandwidth and disk space/IO, but the generation of the page is extremely processor intensive for whatever reason and the CPU load is maxed out, causing individual page generation to crap out.

  9. Re:How Complex Can It Be? on Whole Human Brain Mapped In 3D · · Score: 1

    Why is a SVG-based image a much smaller filesize than a identical raster-based image? Because the SVG-based image tells HOW to build the image while the raster-based image just described each and every pixel.

    Same thing applies to this case. The human genome may be 700 MB as you state, but that only describes HOW to build a human so to speak, not what it looks like after it's finished. Human DNA doesn't say that a particular spot of an organ should be this color, and a adjacent spot a slightly different color. Those things naturally occur. Nor does DNA specifically encode what the exact shape of an organ will be, while a scan would record what that final shape was, but not how to create it originally.

  10. Re:at an OPTIMISITC writing speed of 1GB/sec on New Technique For Optical Storage Claims 1 Petabyte On a Single DVD · · Score: 1

    Have 2 laser heads. Or 4. Or 8. or X many as you can fit inside the housing. I thought there was a CD-RW (or maybe DVD-RW) drive that already did something like this with 3 laser heads.

    Or combine the above with the disc precisely balanced and mounted in a case similar to a hard drive so that the disc can be spun faster than a conventional optical disc. You lose the portability, but you're still far ahead of magnetic storage density.

  11. Re:Tigerdirect is the victim here on Former TigerDirect President Indicted In $230 Million Laundering Scheme · · Score: 1

    I find the picture in that article funny due to his frown, and the ad right below it to get the "smile you always dreamed of".

  12. Re:Bite the Hand that Feeds You? on Amazon Vows To Fight Government Requests For Data · · Score: 1

    They are both part of the Intelligence Community, The CIA is headed by the Director of National Intelligence who reports to the President. The NSA is part of the US Intelligence Community which is also headed by teh Director of National Intelligence. The NSA itself is headed by the DoD who reports to the President.

    Saying they aren't associated with the NSA is saying that two grandkids of the same grandparent aren't related to each other. They are cousins on the same branch of the US Government family tree. They are both operating independently of each other, but they still hang out with each other and can get into all sorts of trouble together.

  13. Re:seems like a waste of money on One Year Since Assange Took Refuge in Ecuadorian Embassy · · Score: 1

    How much additional money is actually being spent? Is this much more expensive than the costs associated with incarcerating Assange for up to 5 years?

    Seems much quicker and cheaper to let Assange impose his own 5 year sentence.

    If Assange was incarcerated in the US, his costs would depend on where he was housed. Typical federal prison is $25-30k/year. A supermax prison is up to about $100k/year. It was just in the news that Gitmo prisoners currently cost about $900k per year.

    Presuming the nearly $6m cost is right, or even subtracting the $1m overtime costs, there is no way that continued guarding the embassy at it's current cost would be cheaper then incarcerating him over the same 5 year period.

    Now the cost of trying to convict him of whatever crime prosecutors can think up...that could add up exponentially. But even that I wouldn't expect to be $5-6m let alone up to $30m ($6m * 5 years).

  14. Re:Obvious on Google Patents Image-Capturing Walking Sticks · · Score: 1

    I am sorry, but how is this not obvious?

    How many "elongated members" (walking stick was just used as an example) do you know have computers inside them with imaging devices, anti-shock and vibration module(s), and imaging devices that also include location sensors?

    If they invented just a walking stick, then yeah, obvious. All things tided together, maybe not a revolutionary invention, but not obvious IMHO either.

    Plus, even if it is semi-obvious it helps prevent someone else from patenting it then going after Google when they use it for TrailView or whatever.

  15. Re:So... on Altering Text In eBooks To Track Pirates · · Score: 1

    Soldiers Field Road is in Boston, not a drive. And it doesn't look like it's that case any more.

    Google had some trouble with identification of highway names along US-30 which Banfield Expressway was (still is?). For the longest time most of US-30 was also named Quebec Route 366.

  16. Re:Facial Recog not as great as people think on State Photo-ID Databases Mined By Police · · Score: 1

    What happens when they do a few simple joins and find all drivers that match some profile that are also associated with cars that also happened to be scanned by speed/red light/traffic cameras in the area of some crime?

  17. Re:What is the point of this? on Google Aims To Cull Child Porn By Algorithm, Not Human Review · · Score: 3, Informative

    Also, I am browsing the net since at least 12 years and i have NEVER found child porn by accident or whatsoever. I am thinking that child porn can be found only in the "dark internet".

    Unfortunately it is out there. In a previous life as an intern I received a computer from a retail store that needed "fixed" as the store manager put it. Figuring it had some malware on it I booted it up to see what the damage was. Almost as soon as the computer was started numerous browser sessions autostarted with some of the most vile websites you wouldn't want to imagine. It wasn't a picture or two of some amateur girlfriend that might have been a little too young. They had the appearance of professionally designed and maintained websites just like any other porn website, but just happened to have kids 13- instead of 18+. I just turned off the computer, went to my boss, explained briefly what I found and said I wasn't dealing with it.

    That was 13+ years ago. I'm sure things have changed some since then, but I'm also not naive to think that child porn is just on the "dark internet" whatever that is.

  18. Re:Why is it odd? on Supreme Court: No Patents For Natural DNA Sequences · · Score: 1

    Patents should be for creations, not discoveries.

    Aren't all creations just discoveries on how to do something a particular way?

  19. Re:And beyond SSD, the future is PCIe Flash on SSDs: The New King of the Data Center? · · Score: 1

    My favorite are ads that say "Save up to $X (or X%) and more!" So in other words the savings can be any amount or none at all. Whatadeal.

  20. HTTPS enforces HTTPS? on iPhone Apparently Open To Old Wi-Fi Attack · · Score: 5, Funny

    Other devices are protected thanks to the use of HTTPS, which enforces HTTPS

    HTTPS enforces HTTPS? Whew. That's a relief. Does SFTP enforce SFTP and SSH enforce SSH too? Just checking to make sure I'm secured.

  21. Re:And beyond SSD, the future is PCIe Flash on SSDs: The New King of the Data Center? · · Score: 4, Funny

    They have to say up to. Reads and writes towards the inside of the chip are slower then they are towards the outside of the chip. I don't think anyone makes a constant linear velocity SSD.

  22. Re:Run your own servers and use encryption on Keeping Your Data Private From the NSA (And Everyone Else) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But the NSA says it's just collecting the metadata on communications, not the actual communications. So while encrypting the message in your email may prevent them from (easily) reading your email, they still see that you sent or received an email and who it was coming or going to.

  23. Re:Serioulsy how fucking hard on Irish SOPA Used To Block Pirate Bay Access · · Score: 1

    They believe they're in business to maximize their profits, not to make customers happy.

    What for-profit business isn't in the business to maximize their profits, irrespective of their desire to make the customers happy? If customers happiness came as a priority over maximizing profits, everything would be sold at $0.

  24. Re:It'll do a lot for pre-installed Linux too... on XP's End Will Do More For PC Sales Than Win 8, Says HP Exec · · Score: 1

    1 - I doubt it's true even just looking at the offcial information; (Or, in other words, I'm quite sure you didn't look)
    2 - Lots and lots of software that claim not work on Linux do work.

    Microsoft Office? No. Outlook? No. Visual Studio? No. Adobe Creative Suite products? No. Epicor Vantage ERP client? No (AFAIK)

  25. Re:it's too wide on Nicaragua Gives Chinese Firm Contract To Build Alternative To Panama Canal · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Nicaragua apparently doesn't even have a paved road that stretches from one coast to the other. I'm not sure how much of an issue it would be to build a $40b canal that has a few tall bridges, or those new fangled draw bridges every so often to handle what must be a huge amount of traffic in the area.