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  1. Racism gotten to the point on Racism In Online Ad Targeting · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Where people don't really understand what real racism actually is anymore.

    Which I guess is a good thing? But, it makes people that try to bend anything to be racism as complete fools.

  2. Re:Cue the on FCC Proposal Would Cover the US With Public Wi-Fi · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Defeat it? Hell, they are probably lobbying FOR IT. Why try to get individual customers when you have have the government pay your company to cover everyone?

    Just like Obamacare was pushed by insurance companies - the government mandating you customers? Why would they fight it?

  3. There are ways around it on Why Microsoft Office For iOS Will Likely Never See the Light of Day · · Score: 4, Insightful

    MS isn't being creative enough is what it sounds like.

    Offer the ability to create / edit documents via a free MS Office suite on the iDevice.

    Offer a subscription service to be able to save/open those files off the device.

    Apple isn't forcing Netflix to hand over 30% of their revenue, because they give up the App for free.

    But boo hoo, MS has to pay what everyone else does to Apple for the service.

  4. Requirements Engineering? on Is 'Brogramming' Killing Requirements Engineering? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Over my 10 years, I've worked on dozens of projects across quite a few clients.

    "Requirements" are generally vague ideas, which change at the drop of a hat.

    While I love the concept and practice of getting down requirements, personally, I have yet to see the practice really stuck to - even for multiyear, multimillion dollar projects. Great theory, but in practice...

  5. Re:Speechless on Apple Granted Trademark For Its Stores · · Score: 0

    Apple doesn't have much longer I think

    Stopped reading there.

  6. Re:Why Slashdot ignoring the big Blackberry 10 lau on Polymer Patches May Enable Effective DNA Vaccines · · Score: 1

    I can't wait to develop for BB10!

    Said no mobile development company, ever.

  7. Re:Um, DUH? on Facebook To App Developers: Good Idea, Now Stop Using Our API · · Score: 1

    If you don't have a SLA and you aren't paying for it - probably isn't the best idea to build your entire business model around it.

  8. Boo hoo on Facebook To App Developers: Good Idea, Now Stop Using Our API · · Score: 1

    Most anyone running a business should know to diversify their product offering. Relying on a single platform for Your product is dooming yourself to failure. Relying on a single API, which you don't control, to run your business, is an even bigger mistake.

  9. Hello, economics on Asteroid Resources Could Make Science Fiction Dreams and Nightmares a Reality · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Now, I still think the idea of mining an asteroid is - well a long time off.

    But, the reason for doing so would be that the incentive to mine an asteroid is insanely high - for instance, supplies on earth run low and the price is through the roof, many factors of what it is today.

    Then you have the economic incentive to build a space ship and dig for that substance on another planet.

    Much like deep sea drilling for oil. If oil is $5 a barrel, there isn't much incentive to build massive platforms to drill. At $100 a barrel, the incentive is there. Investment seeks the highest rates of returns.

    If you found an asteroid that could provide every human 1000 pounds of platinum and could easily mine it - platinum isn't going to stick to $1000+ an oz, it would be insanely cheap.

  10. Re:Lies vs Truth on Julian Assange Pans WikiLeaks Movie · · Score: 4, Insightful

    a PR nightmare

    By whom? Almost all Americans don't care about Julian Assange or Bradley Manning - they probably don't even know who the two are if you didn't mention Wikileaks in the same sentence.

    Now, back to the news - what is important, did Beyonce lipsync?

  11. Re:3...2...1....and the data is in the UK on France Proposes a Tax On Personal Information Collection · · Score: 2

    France is doing everything possible to drive businesses and people with any bit of money out of the country.

    Their tax rates have been skyrocketing - and they wonder why they have been averaging 9%+ unemployment

  12. Re:Go Vegan on How Much Beef Is In Your Burger? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, but you die from exhaustion telling everyone you are a vegan. Bad trade off.

  13. Re:Well no on How Much Beef Is In Your Burger? · · Score: 1

    you do realize, the best tasting steaks/burgers derive a lot of their flavor... from fat...

  14. Re:Does it matter. on Java Vs. C#: Which Performs Better In the 'Real World'? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'll give it to MS, they have moved the language forward. Linq is amazing. Oracle has just isn't pushing forward as MS has done.

  15. They are both as good on Java Vs. C#: Which Performs Better In the 'Real World'? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As your worst developer on the team.

    I've used both and really haven't seen issue with either. I have a slight preference for C#, personally, but it all comes down to your design, architecture, and implementation that will slow you down.

  16. Re:And what does it solve exactly? on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 0

    No it isn't. It does't solve a thing. It simply makes people like you think that it has sovled a problem.

  17. Re:And what does it solve exactly? on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Believe me, I do find it a tragedy. (And I am not sure if that includes suicides, it was a figure from a story I read on the matter)

    But it is a cultural problem. America is circling the sewer. Look at Switzerland's gun ownership - they have no mass murders of people with the machine guns they keep in there houses.

    Roughly 75% of Americans firearm murders are due to criminal violence, which is the real problem - how do we deal with the criminals...

  18. Re:And what does it solve exactly? on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 2

    I don't see background checks as preventing any real crime. Nor do I see magazine limits, it is quite easy to reload a magazine in a firearm.

    Criminals aren't going to use background checks - so really all it does is place another measure for good people to jump through to legally purchase.

    Would it prevent another Sandy Hook or VT? I don't know. But they are a statistical anomaly as a way to die, as tragic as they are.

    Again, it goes back to mental health and I don't know a good way to deal with that.

  19. Re:What about the existing guns? on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 1

    Which, is amusing if you think about it. If >7 round magazines are the cause of death and destruction - why is it OK to sell them to people out of state? If they are as bad as they claim, they should be destroyed.

    Once again, just a circle jerk that accomplishes nothing.

  20. Re:Seems perfectly reasonable on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 5, Informative

    Considering murders from rifles (of any kind mind you) account for 5% of murders by firearms, apparently they don't cause this "mass mayhem." But, lets not allow facts to cloud your emotions.

  21. Re:Chicken or Egg? on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Lets say, you like firearms. But, lets say you are going through some troubling times personally and need to see a therapist.

    We've seen the same thing in the military, people are afraid to ask for help, because they will be branded as having mental health problems and no longer be allowed to serve.

    So, will the problem be made worse now?

    Personally, I know this isn't a gun problem, it is a mental health problem. Mentally health people don't go mow down other human beings - only those with severe mental deficiencies do.

  22. And what does it solve exactly? on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Of the ~750 murders with firearms a year in NY, 5 were with rifles of any kind... So, banning "assault rifles" is nothing other than a feel good measure to make idiots feel like they accomplished something.

    All of this is nothing more than a circle jerk. They don't care about preventing real violence. Like bureaucrats, they want to pretend they are solving the problem but are actually doing nothing.

  23. Re:I dunno... on Ask Slashdot: Are Timed Coding Tests Valuable? · · Score: 1

    Well duh, he just googled it

    ;)

  24. Re:Being non-proft does not justify being incompet on Loss of a Single Laptop Leads to $50k Fine Against Idaho Hospice · · Score: 1

    Yet, HIPAA doesn't mandate the use of any specific technology, at all. FIPS is not mandated for use for HIPAA, the AC is dead wrong.

  25. Re:There's Crazy, There's Bat-shit Crazy, then.... on Congressman Introduces Bill To Ban Minting of Trillion-Dollar Coin · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Europeans are rioting because the spigot of free shit has run out. Americans on the government cheese will riot too when their EBT cards stop working.

    When US tax payers have had enough, expect the lower classes to act as the Europeans who want something for just converting oxygen into CO2