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  1. Re:MUAHAHAHAHA on NASDAQ Trading Halted Due To "Technical Issue" · · Score: 3, Informative

    "I'm not even sure what the stock market *does*."

    Think of it this way. It's like Las Vegas. Except it's legal everywhere and there's less oversight to keep people honest. Oh, and if you are dishonest, they just take back a portion of your ill-gotten gains, instead of breaking your legs.

  2. Re:For once Bill Gates is right on Internet.org: Altruistic, Or the Ultimate In Cynicism? · · Score: 1

    If food, sanitation, and health care are unavailable because of a lack of good government, what makes you think Internet access would be any different (especially since, as you imply, it would be used to undermine the existing government)?

  3. Re:That's so sad. on Aging Is a Disease; Treat It Like One · · Score: 1

    If aging is a disease, fetuses are parasites.

  4. Re:Sigh... on FISC Chief Judge: We Can't Effectively Oversee the NSA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Calm down. Here's some panem et circenses.

  5. Re:And the peices fall into place on FISC Chief Judge: We Can't Effectively Oversee the NSA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "represtitive government"

    Is that a portmanteau of "repressive representative" government?

  6. Re:I finally understand.... on FISC Chief Judge: We Can't Effectively Oversee the NSA · · Score: 1

    Which means the Executive is full of Ninjas!

  7. Re:Birth of PC - Altair, not Apple on Early Apple Employees Talk Memories of Steve Jobs, Thoughts On New Movie · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nope. Only a techie would flip front panel switches to enter a loader, so they could then run a program from paper tape. The Altairs, IMSAIs, SOLs, North Stars, Cromemcos, Poly-88s, etc. were hobby or industrial computers, not home computers.

    It was indeed Apple, Radio Shack, and Commodore who started the home computer industry. They were the first packaged systems which could be purchased, set up, and operated by a normal person.

    Apple, especially for the relatively low cost/high performance disk drive Woz developed, which made things like Visicalc practical.

  8. Re:When Paintball Guns are Outlawed... on Next Up: the Jamming Wars · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ref: The Company Store. Really, it's not much different than the gov't. We get paid in scrip (fiat currency), don't actually own real property (eminent domain, property taxes), can't even subsist apart from gov't, which forces participation in the government economy (property taxes, again).

  9. Re:When Paintball Guns are Outlawed... on Next Up: the Jamming Wars · · Score: 1

    I pay taxes, and assume you do, too. We all work for the government.

  10. Re:yeah, right on US, Germany To Enter No-Spying Agreement · · Score: 1

    Oh, it may work. But you have to understand the scope. The US government won't spy on the German government, and vice versa. Citizens will, of course, be fair game.

  11. Re:Don't let ice build up! on Changes In Earth's Orbit Were Key To Antarctic Warming That Ended Last Ice Age · · Score: 1

    Maybe we just need ice at the equator. Ice-9, baby!

  12. Re:Analogy needs one fix on Photocopying Michelle Obama's Diary, Just In Case · · Score: 1

    It's more like if a football playbook (obligatory sports analogy) were to be copied, then left on the seat of an unlocked car (obligatory automobile analogy).

  13. Re:How many knew that it was a global release? on Despite Global Release, Breaking Bad Heavily Pirated · · Score: 1

    "And most DVRs are, sadly for everybody, linked to a particular service."

    You mean, like cable TV? Breaking Bad is on cable - AMC. My TiVo recorded it just fine, in full HD digital glory.

  14. Re:Why bother with the panic? on Request to Falsify Data Published In Chemistry Journal · · Score: 1

    Definition of JUST
    1
    a : exactly, precisely (just right)
    ...
    3
    a : only, simply (just last year) (just be yourself)
    b : quite, very

    So, exactly or simply "make it up."

    I'll submit that a person not fluent in English might say "make it up" when they mean "work it up," but using "just" shows a greater familiarity with English.

  15. Re:Why bother with the panic? on Request to Falsify Data Published In Chemistry Journal · · Score: 1

    But the command was "just make up an elemental analysis." That "just" to me implies a request to limit the work done - do it the easiest/simplest way, just make it up.

    When you make up a batch of beer, you're making a physical thing. Unless you're buying beer and then passing it off as your own, it will be obvious if you're being untruthful.

  16. Re:Disappearance of E-Ink on Have eBooks Peaked? · · Score: 4, Informative

    As for the Kindle Paperwhite.... there is zero difference between reflected light (off a page), because the Paperwhite is not backlit. There's a diffuser sheet on top of the screen, and the built-in light reflects off the e-ink display the same as room light does.

  17. Re:The Romans found out about lead on NRA Launches Pro-Lead Website · · Score: 1

    Hat's off to you.

  18. Re:You'd think smart asses on slashdot would know. on Samsung Begins Mass Production of Industry's First 3D NAND Flash · · Score: 1

    Flash is usually more than 1 bit wide, and there's no need for a minimum of 8. Good luck fitting 8 in a micro-SD card. If they were discussing actual end devices (as opposed to the flash chips, which are also devices), the numbers given are almost arbitrary and therefore meaningless - a device could be built with 1 or more chips.

  19. You'd think ComputerWorld would know better... on Samsung Begins Mass Production of Industry's First 3D NAND Flash · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's not 128 GB (gigabytes), it's 128 Gb (gigabits) of capacity.

    "128 gigabit (Gb) density in a single chip..." - Samsung press release

  20. Re:How quaint on MIT Students Release Code To 3D-Print High Security Keys · · Score: 3, Informative

    I worked in an office with electromagnetic latches. Used a badge reader to get in. A motion sensor would let you out. If you forgot your badge, flipping a sheet or two of paper through the gap between the doors would trigger the motion sensor and let you in.

  21. Re:The ipad app is superb on Why PBS Won't Do Android · · Score: 2, Insightful

    PBS lies. 95% of the great programming is during pledge breaks, interrupted by lengthy self-commercials hyping commercial-free TV. Once they get your money, they go back to the same old bland programming. It's bait and switch.

  22. Re:Well it figures. on Utah Set To Exempt NSA Datacenter From Power Tax, After All · · Score: 1

    It's their canned response to any question. Just like Schultz.

  23. Re:You're holding it wrong on How Did My Stratosphere Ever Get Shipped? · · Score: 1

    He's dealing with it wrong, then complaining about "free market failures." It's got a warranty. It's defective. Tell them to fix it or refund your purchase price. Complaining in a forum is doing it wrong.

  24. Re:Working link to article on Cybercriminals Has Heroin Delivered To Brian Krebs, Then Calls Police · · Score: 3, Funny

    The author of the summary was distracted by his cable TV, which was being paid for by the admirers of Brian Krebs.

  25. Re:Working link to article on Cybercriminals Has Heroin Delivered To Brian Krebs, Then Calls Police · · Score: 4, Funny

    I figured "Cybercriminals" was a corporation.