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  1. Re:Traps on Ask Slashdot: Starting From Scratch After a Burglary? · · Score: 1

    Traps cannot discriminate and they cannot make a judgement call on a case-by-case basis. Let's say an investigator tries to enter your house after you have been missing for a while, or maybe you are in the emergency room and your mom breaks in your house to feed your dog and gets maimed in the process. Same reason why drones need a human on the trigger button.

  2. petitions don't write laws on White House Petition To Make Cell Phone Unlocking Legal Needs 11,000 Signatures · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Are there any examples of a "We the people" petition actually doing anything even if successful?

  3. Re:Sounds like a missed opportunity on UK Apple Shop Forced To Change Its Name · · Score: 1

    Good idea, but people who have broken products are probably going to be in a bad mood and aren't going to put up with that.

  4. Re:Peculiarities? on Tax Peculiarities Mean Facebook Paid No Net Taxes For 2012 · · Score: 1

    But if the government raises taxes on unearned income, then they can lower taxes on earned income. That lower tax rate also ripples in all sectors of economy. You can't just ignore one side of it.

    Lower taxes means middle class people will be paying more for farmer's products, and farmer will be able to pay a more exorbitant interest rate to the capitalist. But, it will be easier for the farmer to save up money and stop borrowing from the capitalist.

  5. Re:Peculiarities? on Tax Peculiarities Mean Facebook Paid No Net Taxes For 2012 · · Score: 1

    The rich aren't blind to this.

  6. Re:Peculiarities? on Tax Peculiarities Mean Facebook Paid No Net Taxes For 2012 · · Score: 1

    By the libertarian argument, since the shareholders own the company, the shareholders are indirectly paying the employees to do their work. So, it makes sense for the shareholders to lose value when the employees are compensated. Whether the value is lost through money or stake in the company shouldn't really matter that much, if the compensation is done fairly. Except that one way is taxed and the other way is not.

  7. Re:What the fuck is happening to my country? on Spy Drones Used To Hunt Down Christopher Dorner · · Score: 1

    In this case, the drones are probably more accurate in their target acquisition than the cops. Though, maybe that's the idea behind the recent shootings by the LAPD. Randomly shoot at people, and the drones will look good by comparison.

  8. If he wanted it on Ron Paul Asks UN For Help Geting Control of RonPaul.com Domain From Fans · · Score: 1

    he should have trademarked his name.

  9. Re:"to produce ... a more just society" on The Paradox of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    China hasn't been too happy with NK lately, it seems.

  10. Re:ROMAN JUSTICE for financial pimps on Email Trails Show Bankers Behaving Badly · · Score: 1

    It's better to leave them alive after stripping them of their money.

  11. powernotebooks on Ask Slashdot: Buying a Laptop That Doesn't Have Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    I have purchased twice from https://www.powernotebooks.com/

  12. Re:This is a completely invented problem on How To Stop Prediction Market Manipulation · · Score: 2

    Most voters probably don't check Intrade, but they do watch the news. And media companies are likely biasing their coverage on the results of Intrade. Voters may be stupid but are not mindless. They do understand concepts such as wasted votes.

  13. Re:These exceptions would legalize hacking in Cana on Sony Rootkit Redux: Canadian Business Groups Lobby For Right To Install Spyware · · Score: 1

    I doubt the courts will accept that argument even if it plainly written in the law. Only sufficiently rich corporations are allowed to install rootkits.

  14. Re:Legit uses for legalized spyware on Sony Rootkit Redux: Canadian Business Groups Lobby For Right To Install Spyware · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Probably everyone is breaking US laws. Who the hell knows all of them?

  15. information is power on HR Departments Tell Equifax Your Entire Salary History · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's too obvious to need to be stated, but, essentially, this is a trust between companies to grant them a superior bargaining position and keep wages low. Meanwhile, companies keep salary information hidden from employees and forbid any salary discussion to maintain the asymmetry.

    The whole credit rating system exists to give banks a superior position, granting easy access to information for the wealthy and restricting access to the poor. This is no different. I don't trust government to improve the situation at all, so that leaves Anonymous.

  16. young Earth creationists on Ask Dr. Robert Bakker About Dinosaurs and Merging Science and Religion · · Score: 1

    Young Earth creationists have some rather incorrect beliefs regarding dinosaurs.
    http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2000/04/03/dinosaurs-on-noahs-ark

    Do you see any to get them to accept the scientific consensus?

  17. Why did God wipe out the dinosaurs? on Ask Dr. Robert Bakker About Dinosaurs and Merging Science and Religion · · Score: 1

    Why did God wipe out the dinosaurs?
    Why did he create them if he was just going to wipe them out?

  18. Re:How does that work? on Internet-Deprived Kids Turning To 'McLibraries' · · Score: 1

    ketchup is free.

  19. Re:Wow on Internet-Deprived Kids Turning To 'McLibraries' · · Score: 1

    You forgot to add the cost of a house to store all that stuff. I think you forgot that we are talking about homeless people here.

  20. Re:Wow on Internet-Deprived Kids Turning To 'McLibraries' · · Score: 1

    Actually, a used phone or laptop is a lot less expensive than an apartment. Sometimes you can find them in the trash. And some homeless people are quite adept at finding things in the trash.

  21. Re:The market defines its behaviors. on AT&T: Don't Want a Data Plan for That Smartphone? Too Bad. · · Score: 1

    Do providers act like dicks because consumers don't demonstrate loyalty to any of them, or do consumers not demonstrate loyalty because the providers are all a bunch of dicks?

  22. Re:My Theory on Dozens Suspended In Harvard University Cheat Scandal · · Score: 1

    Maybe we should have some reward for people who rat on cheaters. All the students seem to know who the cheaters are, but nobody wants to be a rat.

  23. Re:Demand More on As Music Streaming Grows, Royalties Slow To a Trickle · · Score: 1

    You listen to your CDs 1000 times?

  24. Re:Limited Government and Unlimited Companies. on The Biggest Financial Fraud of All Time · · Score: 1

    Plenty of examples of megacorporations in the age of imperialism. How about Chiquita, Dole, Shell, British Petroleum, Dutch East India Company, British East India Company?

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