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  1. Rich on Microsoft Launches $100k Bug Bounty Program · · Score: 0

    Now all those slashdotters who keep insisting that Windows is ridden with security bugs (like they were in the early 2000s) have an opportunity to put up or shut up.

  2. Calculation? on Have We Hit Peak HFT? · · Score: 1

    It *is* taxed per volume. 0.03%, which it nothing for a normal transaction. But for someone who buys and sells the same stock a hundred times per day, just to profit from tiny fluctuations in the stock value, it's 3%

    Assume a stock costs 1$ & a regular joe buys 100 units - then he is taxed .03% of 100$ - i.e. .03$ or 3 cents.

    If he buys and sells it a 100 times, then the total transaction worth is 100 * 200 = 20000$. Per transaction he will pay 3 cents. So totally 200 * 3 cents = 6$. i.e. .03% of 20000$ - So how do you get the 3%?

  3. When Apple was fined for this, lot of Apple fans at Slashdot said that Apple will withdraw their products from sale in Europe. Then all of Europe's citizen's will rise in revolt to get European countries to change their laws so that Apple can sell their products with whatever warranty Apple deems fit.

  4. The officials secrets act on New Bill Would Declassify FISC Opinions · · Score: 1

    "The Official Secrets Act is not there to protect Secrets, it is there to protect Officials."
    â" Sir Humphrey, Yes Minister

    "That's another of those irregular verbs, isn't it? I give confidential press briefings; you leak; he's being charged under section 2A of the Official Secrets Act."
    â" Bernard Woolley, Yes Minister

  5. Jodie? on Crowd-Funded Radio Beacon Will Message Aliens · · Score: 1

    I was 13 when I first saw it and system was obvious.

    Are you Jodie Foster?

  6. Re:Ridiculous on Steubenville Hacker Faces Longer Prison Sentence Than the Rapists · · Score: 2

    I am opposed to have exceptions in laws - i.e. Juvenile is always tried as juvenile - or always tried as adults.

  7. Ridiculous on Steubenville Hacker Faces Longer Prison Sentence Than the Rapists · · Score: 1

    What a ridiculous thing.

    Either have different treatment for Juveniles or not. Introducing stupid caveats like the above are responsible for the rot of the judicial system.

    Why the hell is a rape a more adult crime than stealing?

  8. Obama's paid twitter followers on In Praise of the King: 1.7M Social Media Comments In Thailand · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    70% of Obama's twitter followers are fake and paid for.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/fashion/twitter-followers-for-sale.html?_r=0

  9. Sword on The Strange History of Apple and FlatWorld · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Live by the Sword. Die by the Sword.

  10. Punctuation on American Targeted By Digital Spy Tool Sold To Foreign Governments · · Score: 1

    Americans should not be sold to foreign govt, irrespective of whether these Americans are targeted by Digital Spy Tools or not. It's like throwing the baby out with the bathwater or something.

  11. Re:Huh on Why Your Users Hate Agile · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Perforce. Branching/Merging is super with Perforce. CVS and SVN suck big time. People's bad impression of Version Control is mainly because of these 2 products.

  12. Re:Java on Indian FOSS Evangelist Atul Chitnis Dead At 51 · · Score: 1

    Well, Linux wasn't there in the late 80s either when Atul Chitnis was promoting it.

  13. Java on Indian FOSS Evangelist Atul Chitnis Dead At 51 · · Score: 2

    He was also responsible for promoting Java in the early 80s and dotNet in the 90s.

  14. Re:So, by that logic... on India's ICBM Will Carry Multiple Nuclear Warheads · · Score: 1

    So do they have less or more warheads now the countries they are trying to prevent?

  15. Good at Computers on Ask Slashdot: How Important Is Advanced Math In a CS Degree? · · Score: 2

    But I love computers, and am very good at them

    What exactly does this mean?
    - You can use MS Word much better than your friends and grandparents
    - You can tweet better than them.
    - You are better a googling than your friends and grandparents.

  16. Re:So, by that logic... on India's ICBM Will Carry Multiple Nuclear Warheads · · Score: 0

    It means that America should be first deactive/shutdown/whatever all it's nuclear capabilities before telling others what to do.

  17. The USDA is currently investigating and says there is no health-risk.

    I think USDA's charter is to say there is never any healthrisk in any food originating in the US.

  18. sports scholarships are stupid on Pitcher-Turned-Law Student On Cheating In Baseball · · Score: 0

    A baseball scholarship put my wife's oldest brother through an engineering degree.

    That's remarkably stupid isn't it. You get a chance to do study engineering because of your proficiency in baseball.

    Is there anything more stupid?

  19. Recruiter Commision on $30,000 For a Developer Referral? · · Score: 5, Informative

    If the company goes through a recruiter, they pay around 20-25% of the employee's annual salary to the recruiter (if the employee sticks around for 'x' months). So this may be reasonable for the company for a job which pays 100K to 150K annually.

  20. StackOverflow vs Programmers on Network Engineering Q&A Site Launched · · Score: 3, Informative

    I really dislike StackOverflow now because very useful questions are discouraged, simply because they are open ended.

    The place for open ended question is not SO.

    How to choose between SO and Programmers - http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/82988/choosing-between-stack-overflow-and-programmers-stack-exchange

    If it is related to coding, it should be on Stack Overflow.

    If it's related to higher level programming concepts or is conceptual (but still related to programming), it should be on Programmers.

    Rule of thumb: if you're sitting in front of your IDE, ask it on Stack Overflow. If you're standing in front of a whiteboard, ask it on Programmers.

  21. Re:Surcharge? on AT&T Quietly Adds Charges To All Contract Cell Plans · · Score: 2

    Please tell me that you leave an "acceptable" tip for "acceptable" service, and you're not that guy who goes out with his co-workers and stiffs the waiter, leaving everyone else to subsidize you just out of embarrassment

    No. The restaurant owner is stiffing the waiter. If the restaurant wants his waiter to get a fixed percentage of tips, then he should increase the price of items in your menu and give the additional money to the waiter.

    Tipping is a way for the restauranter to overcharge his customers and you are helping him to it.

  22. Gramma on Google Code Deprecates Download Service For Project Hosting · · Score: 1

    Effective immediately, existing projects that offer no downloads and all new projects will no longer be able to create downloads.

    This sentence doesn't parse.

  23. Acceptance Testing on Ask Slashdot: Moving From Contract Developers To Hiring One In-House? · · Score: 1

    Do you have acceptance tests define before farming out a project to contractor? Are the bugs outside of those caught by these acceptance tests?

  24. Backward compatibile on Microsoft Unveils Xbox One · · Score: 1

    Why do games need to be backward compatible. It's not as if you will throw away your XBox360 when you buy an XBox One.

  25. Google whistleblower on Amazon, Google and Apple Won't Need To Pay Tax, Despite Goverment Threats · · Score: 1