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  1. Negotiate your fines? What? on Apple Settles a $348M Fine With Italian Authorities For Tax Evasion (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    ...they opened a court case for an estimated debt of €880M. Apple Italy has now settled for a fine of €318M ($348M)

    Since when do criminals get to negotiate their own fines? Especially at a rate which is lower than the estimated damages.

  2. What would it take to make us move? on Interviews: Ask Shaun Moss About Mars and Colonizing Space · · Score: 1

    What would have happen to Earth to make Mars look more habitable? And I'm not talking Earth-ending asteroids, I'm talking slower progression changes. What is the tipping point or scenarios where this would make sense?

  3. Re:2 time the gravity thought on NASA Spies Earth-Sized Exoplanet Orbiting Sun-Like Star · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe this is where Eddie Lacy is from.

  4. Seriously... on Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How could no one have foreseen the potential abuse and pitfalls of a system like this? Without even reading any further than "Giving Doctors Grades..." I immediately conjured images of a bunch of doctors huddled around each other saying, "I don't want that one." "Well I don't want that one either. My feedback is back at 85% and I can't risk another death screwing me over."

  5. I smell tomfoolery on Pluto Probe Back To Normal, Cause of Snafu Found · · Score: 1

    The underlying cause of the incident was a hard-to-detect timing flaw in the spacecraft command sequence that occurred during an operation.

    I've been a sys admin for a very long time and this sounds very familiar to many mad-libs style answers I've provided to uninitiated management immediately following an irreparable mistake.

  6. Re:Twitch is so heavily used...good luck. on Google Announces YouTube Gaming · · Score: 1

    Yea, but I bet you'd still have (and rely) on Paypal. From a purchasing standpoint you need the stores and sites to add support for the new payment service. And from the sellers side you have to rely on customers to create accounts and provide financial information to the new payment system, so you can bet you'd be throwing away business if you removed Paypal.

  7. Twitch is so heavily used...good luck. on Google Announces YouTube Gaming · · Score: 1

    Pretty much everyone uses Twitch. Unless Google can get support for Twitch removed from a few key games/systems I don't see people switching in large numbers. Would be kind of like dethroning Paypal at this point.

  8. Why make a law you can't enforce? on US Proposes Tighter Export Rules For Computer Security Tools · · Score: 2

    You can find any piece of software you want online with almost no effort, and the folks who want this kind of software are going to be better at finding it than me. So why create restrictions to block something that is so ridiculously easy to obtain already?

  9. To all the idiot drone users... on Drone Flying Near White House Causes Lockdown · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Please don't fuck up recreation drone use for the rest of us.

    Sincerely,

    The rest of us

  10. Flash forward 100 years... on Audi Creates "Fuel of the Future" Using Just Carbon Dioxide and Water · · Score: 1

    And Al Gore's great-great-great grandson will be selling holodiscs that talk about the impending ice age due to our excessive use of CO2.

  11. Short-term solution that won't work. on Facebook Working To Weed Out Fake Likes · · Score: 1

    This will only really work for the accounts that have no activity other than liking one thing (or one person's set of things). As soon as the fake accounts are managed to like a bunch of other random things in addition to the page in question Facebook will be right back where it started.

  12. Re:Doesn't work on ISS Could Be Fitted With Lasers To Shoot Down Space Junk · · Score: 1

    I get that you saw an article about adjusting an asteroid's path and you're excited to share that, but you need to consider a few things:

    1) That method requires a wealth of energy/time and makes very miniscule adjustments that are applicable to asteroids because their orbit is so huge that small changes a long ways out can make a significant difference. This debris is literally right next to our planet.
    2) For the amount of time, energy, and (most of all) money you'd spend doing this you could send both Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck in a Kerbal-inspired space ship zipping around LEO picking up all this debris and still have money left over.

  13. So what is the answer? on In New Zealand, a Legal Battle Looms Over Streaming TV · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ban non-business VPN services? Block traffic from these services to residential users? Or better yet, allow VPN traffic to be inspected? There's no way around this problem that will satisfy the media conglomerates that isn't a complete violation of everyone's hind quarters.

    Hey big media! Not everyone is downloading your stupid TV content illegally.

  14. Next attempt will be tomorrow @ 1610 EST on SpaceX Launch Postponed · · Score: 1

    nt

  15. Re:Not in the fire on Ask Slashdot: Best Medium For Storing Data To Survive a Fire (or Other Disaster) · · Score: 1

    This is far and away the most safe, secure, and cost-effective option, especailly when you consider how many people already own safety deposity boxes. All your out at this point is the cost of two external drives to alternate (if you don't already have them) and the time it takes stop by the bank at a frequency your comfortable with.

  16. What's really funny is... on Hyundai To Release "Semi-Autonomous" Car This Year · · Score: 3, Interesting

    These kind of features might actually make people more aware while driving because they'll be so scared the car is going to make a mistake that they won't have time to goof around on their cell phone.

  17. Re:Advert for Razer? on What Makes the Perfect Gaming Mouse? · · Score: 1

    Their mice have been so-so for me but their keypads (ie. Orbweaver) are excellent and durable. While you couldn't say this as much for the older revs, their current software also does everything I need it to (profiles/macros are a snap). Sorry your experience has been crappy but they haven't grown into a monster because everything they make is junk.

  18. Very confused. on Facebook Sued For Alleged Theft of Data Center Design · · Score: 1

    I would very much like to know the specifics of this case because as I see it, FB had a company come in for a sales pitch, FB opted to not use them and instead made something themselves based on a similar (or even identical) design. To my knowledge, FB didn't try to sell this tech to anyone else, and unless they just failed to mention it they also didn't sign anything saying they agreed to not duplicate the plantiff's tech on their own. Sounds like the company is just salty because they lost a huge sale and is hopeful FB will settle to avoid bad publicity.

  19. Auto-drive on treacherous sections? on Musk Says Drivers May Become Obsolete, Announces Juice-Saving Upgrades · · Score: 1

    we may someday just pass signs requiring drivers to activate auto-drive functionality for certain particularly treacherous stretches of roadway.

    So on the sections of road I'm going to be most terrified to navigate I should secede control to the computer? In principal, this makes sense, but in reality this is a pee-your-pants moment that even adrenaline junkies will probably say no thanks to.

  20. Twice the power of a previous gen console? on NVIDIA Announces SHIELD Game Console · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The company claims the console provides twice the performance of an Xbox 360.

    This console is said to have twice the power of a console that was superceeded by it's next gen counterpart 16 months ago. I don't know that this is the strongest selling point for a console unless that was a typo and it was supposed to say Xbox One.

  21. This is what's wrong... on Bill Would Ban Paid Prioritization By ISPs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    and with Republicans now in charge of both house of Congress, the chances of it passing seem slim.

    To preface, this is not a partisan-based slam. This is a slam on our entire system. The fact that we accept something won't pass despite it being universally wanted by "the people" (not pronounced "corporations") shows our biggest hurdle that we as a country need to overcome. Not race/gender equality or financial disparity, but the ability of this country to be propelled forward by a system that is representative to the needs of the many, not the powerful.

  22. Re:Good For Him on How the FCC CIO Plans To Modernize 207 Legacy IT Systems · · Score: 2

    Geez, who introduced a urine-based liquid into your corn-derived breakfast cereal?

  23. Re:innovation thwarted on Aereo Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    >innovation

    They were streaming TV shows over the internet.

    The innovation was the business/distribution model, not the technology.

  24. Time to min/max... on Scanning Embryos For Super-Intelligent Kids Is On the Horizon · · Score: 1

    My ability to optimize a character in video games can finally translate to parenthood.

  25. Re:PHOTOSHOPPED! on Rosetta Takes Stunning Self-Portrait 10 Miles From Comet's Surface · · Score: 1

    Comet, sorry.