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  1. Re:Drugs on Predicting a Future Free of Dollar Bills · · Score: 1

    And that's the number one reason cash will be eliminated.
    No undocumented, untaxed, under-the-radar transactions will be tolerated.
    No illegal drugs, no paid-for sex, no firearm/cash transactions.
    The CashMax transaction that didn't require paperwork was $10k. I believe it's lower now.
    Soon it'll wind up being $1.

  2. Re:I'm trying to not get into a 4 yorkshiremen on Geographic Segregation By Education · · Score: 2

    A degree doesn't guarantee diddly - had a colleague, a hardware EE FIVE years out of school, who was unable over the course of a 4 month project to remember the difference between a BJT and a MOSFET, for between the two polarities thereof.

    Most frustrating as the circuit in question used all 4 types, and every review had to start from square one or, at best two. FIVE years in industry.

  3. Re:Paint for a room on Scientists Have Developed a Material So Dark That You Can't See It · · Score: 1

    A windowless room with a shielded door is waaay cheaper, and at least as effective.

  4. Re:Paging Hagunenon Admiral on Scientists Have Developed a Material So Dark That You Can't See It · · Score: 1

    But now he's quite incapable of enjoying it.

  5. Re:Holy grey area! on Biohackers Are Engineering Yeast To Make THC · · Score: 1

    Considering you can by raw poppy seeds which will grow into opium gum poppies and various other seeds which are sold as bird feed.

    Provided you don't know that _all_ poppies are opium poppies, then it's legal to buy the seeds and grow the flowers.
    Of course now that you know ...

  6. It regulates the behavior of the US Government WRT those companies, not the companies themselves.

  7. Franken/Warren (or Warren/Franken) 2016! on Senator Al Franken Accuses AT&T of "Skirting" Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They'd make quite a team, and the debates might finally be watchable.

  8. Re:I'm sure both of the affected are rather flatte on Today In Year-based Computer Errors: Draft Notices Sent To Men Born In the 1800s · · Score: 1

    Not dead. Sold.

  9. Re:I see these and laugh on Microsoft Settles With No-IP After Malware Takedown · · Score: 2

    When lawyers make decisions, the decision is always 'Pay some lawyers!' Never 'Pay some engineers!'

  10. I'm sure both of the affected are rather flattered on Today In Year-based Computer Errors: Draft Notices Sent To Men Born In the 1800s · · Score: 1

    This affects what, 3 actual living persons?

  11. Re:i remember when on Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's just pre-9/11 thinking.
    Everything's different now - we got the National Security State we always dreamed of. Better, even!

  12. Re:It's working so well in Venezuela on Foxconn Replacing Workers With Robots · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because they can't afford other entertainments.
    Nor can they afford contraception (either financially or spiritually).

  13. Re:How do you defeat dogs? on Police Using Dogs To Sniff Out Computer Memory · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's kinda remarkable how rarely Mythbusters bust a law-enforcement myth, or fail to bust an evasion myth.

  14. Re:Someone has to say it. on Researchers Create Walking, Muscle-Powered Biobots · · Score: 1

    It must also be said: They're Made Out of Meat.

    http://www.terrybisson.com/pag...

  15. Re:Brownnosebook on Employees Staying Away From Internal Corporate Social Networks · · Score: 2

    Nothing of any use to me ever came across it.

    But how will you hear about the new cover sheets for the TPS reports, now?

  16. Re:Monet... on Reproducing a Monet Painting With Aluminum Nanostructures · · Score: 1

    But very sensitive.

  17. Re:Good idea on Lawrence Lessig Answers Your Questions About His Mayday PAC, Part 2 (Video) · · Score: 1

    The idea of a Constitutional Convention subject to domination by Kochsuckers, Lobbyists and other varieties of Fundamentalists (Economic, Religious, Structural) should frighten the everloving crap out of all of us.

  18. Re:Cost on Nathan Myhrvold's Recipe For a Better Oven · · Score: 1

    'befriend.' that's an awfully polite way to spell 'buy.'

  19. And you thought ink was already expensive! on Reproducing a Monet Painting With Aluminum Nanostructures · · Score: 1

    Ink already costs more per fluid ounce than gold, now they wanna add actual GOLD!

  20. Re:Executive Branch on The New 501(c)(3) and the Future of Open Source In the US · · Score: 5, Insightful

    the current president is mega-corporate bitch;

    Unlike which of the previous several?

  21. Re:501(c)(3) Classes on The New 501(c)(3) and the Future of Open Source In the US · · Score: 1

    Public Safety also (might) come into play.

  22. Commercial Services on The New 501(c)(3) and the Future of Open Source In the US · · Score: 1

    The charity plants trees, the city contracts out tree maintenance - limited profit.

    Open SW developed, released by charity, for-profit service organization ecosystem springs up to support - loads of profits to companies that contributed resources/finances to development.

    I don't agree with IRS in this case, but their reasoning is approximately sound.

  23. Re:Obvious solution on Happy Software Developers Solve Problems Better · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm a woman, you insensitive clod!

  24. Re:True of any job. on Happy Software Developers Solve Problems Better · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not just work.

    Happy people just plain _human_ better.

    Playing on FUD (and creating it if there isn't enough) is what turns people into monsters.

  25. Re:Apps which require location? on Ars Takes an Early Look At the Privacy-Centric Blackphone · · Score: 3, Informative

    2 towers are enough.
    With the right software, 2 antennae on one tower are enough.