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  1. Re:They've got it wrong on California Bill Proposes Mandatory Kill-Switch On Phones and Tablets · · Score: 1

    That is a bs excuse. If the phones are being exported, then the bricking signal won't work. Bricking and tracking require the same thing. The phone to connect to the US cellular towers.

  2. Re:Dice has written off Slashdot on Is Intel Selling Bay Trail Chips Below Cost? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sounds like the opportunity for a huge win for Commander Taco.

    1) Make Slashdot a popular site.
    2) Sell Slashdot for lots of money
    3) Wait for new owners to kill Slashdot
    4) Make new Slashdot site with different name
    5) Wait for everyone to switch to new site
    6) Sell new site for lots of money
    7) Profit!!!

  3. Re:And A Rebuttal on Why Games Should Be In the Public Domain · · Score: 1

    Of course they did. How do you think you were even capable of forming the sentence to post your thoughts. You took ideas that others created, remixed it and typed it out on your computer. Heck, you even went so far as to directly copy half of Jedidiah's intellectual creation.

  4. Re:And A Rebuttal on Why Games Should Be In the Public Domain · · Score: 1

    It isn't likely going to be any worse that "An Ewok Adventure".

  5. Re:Picasso on Why Games Should Be In the Public Domain · · Score: 1

    Don't forget to attribute every person that coined every word used in that song.

  6. Re:Picasso on Why Games Should Be In the Public Domain · · Score: 2

    Says the thief who steals others people's ideas and claims them as his own...

  7. Re:More HDMI dongle devices coming on Chromecast Now Open To Developers With the Google Cast SDK · · Score: 1

    The answer is to have a lot of HDMI ports on the TV itself.

  8. Re:In otherwards on Virtual Boss Keeps Workers On a Short Leash · · Score: 1

    Sure, I can agree with that.

  9. Re:In otherwards on Virtual Boss Keeps Workers On a Short Leash · · Score: 1

    Anyone can create a Corporation as well. So, there are two legal structures that are granted by the state to give special privileges. That doesn't change the fact that the state is issuing special privileges.

  10. Re:In otherwards on Virtual Boss Keeps Workers On a Short Leash · · Score: 1

    What do you mean that it is not one specific to corporations?

  11. Re:In otherwards on Virtual Boss Keeps Workers On a Short Leash · · Score: 1

    I happen to think that a happy worker is more likely to be more productive, but the OP I responded to claimed that slaves, serfs and early steel workers were good examples that being unhappy made people unproductive. I have yet to see any evidence that slaves, serfs and early steel workers were particularly unproductive compared to happy workers at the same level of technology.

  12. Re:I don't dislike Valve on Steam Music Now Accepting Beta Signups · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Ideally, for the console crowed, Steam will be the Desktop. For the PC crowed, Steam will be an app for gaming.

  13. Re:Maybe I will finally ditch roku! on Chromecast Now Open To Developers With the Google Cast SDK · · Score: 1

    Roku did not have a powerful enough SDK from day 1. On day one, Roku was exclusively a Netflix streaming device. It was quite some time before other channels were added.

    While, I don't have a ChromeCast, so cannot comment on it's quality, I do know enough about it to say that a laptop plugged into the TV is most definitly not equivalent. A ChromeCast is a fraction of the cost of a laptop, a fraction of the size of a laptop, and uses a fraction of the power of a laptop.

  14. Re:More HDMI dongle devices coming on Chromecast Now Open To Developers With the Google Cast SDK · · Score: 2

    I just got am email from Roku. Apparently they have partnered with a couple of different TV manufacturers, and that models will be releases this year with Roku as the TV's UI. Part of that is making the different inputs act as Roku channels.

  15. Re:More HDMI dongle devices coming on Chromecast Now Open To Developers With the Google Cast SDK · · Score: 1

    HDMI switchers are a device of last resort.

  16. Re:In otherwards on Virtual Boss Keeps Workers On a Short Leash · · Score: 1

    The question was whether being happy makes them more productive than those where are not happy. This is why using technological advances is cheating.

  17. Re:In otherwards on Virtual Boss Keeps Workers On a Short Leash · · Score: 1

    I can agree with most of that, but, since the vast majority of people fall into the manual labor category (or close to it), I think it is absolutly fair to exclude the advances of technology.

  18. Re:In otherwards on Virtual Boss Keeps Workers On a Short Leash · · Score: 1

    Having your liability limited is a pretty damn special privilege.

  19. Re:In otherwards on Virtual Boss Keeps Workers On a Short Leash · · Score: 1

    Do you have any citations on slaves serfs and early steel workers being less productive than modern workers. And no fair cheating by using advancements in technology to make it look like it was the happiness level that made any change in productivity.

  20. Re:In otherwards on Virtual Boss Keeps Workers On a Short Leash · · Score: 2

    I would say that anyone who believes in corporations isn't really a libertarian, as a corporation is just a government granting of special privileges. Those privileges are a major part of what gives corporations undue power of employees.

  21. Re:Great.. on Through a Face Scanner Darkly · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That is obviously what the lists were designed for. The fact that I can check to see if my neighbor is a "Sex Offender", but I can't look up to see if he has eaten babies, bit by bit over the course of months while they were still alive, pretty well proves to me that the list was not about protecting yourself. It was designed as a way issue the death penalty without having to deal with all of the political and judicial red tape.

  22. Re:Certainly on Should Everybody Learn To Code? · · Score: 1

    You really need to be more specific. There are way too many people that lump basic arithmetic in with advanced calculus.

  23. Re:It's Like The Last Piece Of Technology That Wor on FCC Wants To Trial Shift From Analog Phone Networks To Digital · · Score: 1

    And yet, a branch isn't going to take out the cell phone, while it can easily take out your POTS lines. Yes, the cell system has a different set of failure points than the POTS system, but there are plenty of failure points on the POTS system. I have lived in homes that had frequent power outages, but I have also lived in areas with rock solid power but flaky POTS.

  24. Re:Reading comprehension first on Should Everybody Learn To Code? · · Score: 1

    Agreed, but I would make it:

    (1) Reading Comprehension
    (2) Arithmetic (Yes, specifically arithmetic. Not the wider subject of math.)
    (3) Household economics
    then coding

  25. Re:Certainly on Should Everybody Learn To Code? · · Score: 1

    Few jobs require math beyond basic arithmetic. saying "Math" is like saying "Computers".