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  1. Re: Nope on Get Ready For a Streaming Music Die-Off · · Score: 1

    I think the larger artist will actually become the "labels" for smaller artists. It's a natural model, wherein the larger names open their fan base up to smaller artists in exchange for consideration. Opening acts would be signed under the main act, and the main act would take part of cut of the sales of the other acts. Eventually, if the smaller act become popular, they can split off, and the process repeats... it's essentially a talent incubator.

  2. Umm, Seriously? on Get Ready For a Streaming Music Die-Off · · Score: 1

    I'm giving $10/month to MOG, I find it hard to believe they aren't making a profit, in fact Dr. Dre, the new owner of MOG, just, literately yesterday, sent out an email saying they were lunching a second music service, based on MOG, under the "Beats" label. I think someone is full of shit, or pushing an agenda.

  3. Re: Freedom of thought on App Detects Neo-Nazis Using Their Music · · Score: 0

    Not if it's impinging on my freedoms, we settled this back in 1945. To hell with your new Nazi ideologies!

  4. Re: Just wait until... on RF Safe-Stop Shuts Down Car Engines With Radio Pulse · · Score: 1

    Yeah they do, they're called ICBMs...

    I'm more worried about the damaging effects this would have to the cars electronics and the people inside it. God help the police if it's later found to cause cancer. I would think an energy weapon, which is what this is, would need the FDA to sign off that the device is safe to use on humans. Furthermore, it's illegal to use the RF spectrum without a permit from the FCC, so presumably they're using the 2.4 GHz ISM band, if this is true, then it's not safe to point at any life form.

  5. Re: When you have a bad driver ... on Is the Porsche Carrera GT Too Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    A great example is that the car lacked stability control? Can anybody give me a reason not to have stability control where that reasons does not contain âoefunâ or âoebecauseâ?

    The same can be said for a motorcycle. I still drive one... so long as I'm not killing others, it's my choice to drive what I want.

  6. Lazy kids on Zuckerberg Shows Kindergartners Ruby Instead of JavaScript · · Score: 4, Funny

    Kids today are lazy. Back in my day, knowing assembly language was a pre-kindergarten requirement.

  7. Re:Why not quantum entanglement? on How Microwave Transmission Is Linking Financial Centers At Near-Light Speed · · Score: 1

    Why don't they use quantum entanglement to transmit information in real-time? The bandwidth needed is minimal, for a real-time ticker you really only need a few details, such as price and volume. If you figure 256 bits (32 bytes) per transmit, you could track anything you want in real-time down to the millisecond for 32 KB/s. I'd imagine this is achievable using quantum entanglement?

    You can do it with 128 bits if you only track stock symbol and price, sampling at 50 times a second, a 32 KB/s QE link could track 40 stocks in real-time. I envision some type of asynchronous system, with the return being send via traditional communications technologies.

  8. Why not quantum entanglement? on How Microwave Transmission Is Linking Financial Centers At Near-Light Speed · · Score: 1

    Why don't they use quantum entanglement to transmit information in real-time? The bandwidth needed is minimal, for a real-time ticker you really only need a few details, such as price and volume. If you figure 256 bits (32 bytes) per transmit, you could track anything you want in real-time down to the millisecond for 32 KB/s. I'd imagine this is achievable using quantum entanglement?

  9. Reckless driving on NY Police Get Tall SUVs To Combat Texting While Driving · · Score: 1

    If texting while driving is as dangerous as people indicate, wouldn't a reckless driving charge be more appropriate? Individuals under 21 should be charged with reckless driving if an officer catches them with a communications device in their hand while driving.

  10. Re: stupid coments, but.... on Sex Offender Gets New Hearing After Hearing Officer Rants Against Arial Font · · Score: 1

    Actually it's in propria persona, pro se is the shorthand.

  11. Re: Booze Bus on Texas Drivers Stopped At Roadblock, Asked For Saliva, Blood · · Score: 1

    I've driven in the US and the standard of driving is absolutely shocking. Even ignoring the speeding (yes, everyone speeds over there) there is little to no lane discipline (keeping to the outside lane, people cant stay in their lane), I saw about 3 people indicate during my entire time, people will cut you off with little or no warning, people also slow down and stop with no warning (and I'm not talking about a gradual stop, they slam on the brakes), people push in, block intersections and completely disregard the lights (yellow means gun it, red means gun it more as you've missed the yellow). These are common things, not the odd occurrence like here in Oz.

    With the exception of speeding, the rest largely depends on what jurisdiction you are in. Large cities simply don't have the resources to police all of the drivers on the road. It's very much a numbers game in those areas. That said, yes I think we could all benefit from more rigorous DMV standards.

  12. Re: I don't know how to feel about this. on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 1

    You keep on saying wood stoves are banned.... Just change the name to wood furnace?

  13. Re: HFC would be a better start on US FDA Moves To Ban Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    Umm ok, and sugar is almost as bad as HFCS... we're splitting hairs here.

  14. Re: I suspect it is bcos of HP's TCPA connection on HP's NonStop Servers Go x86, Countdown To Itanium Extinction Begins · · Score: 1

    IBM supports Linux on their Power based systems, and I don't think they have any plans to stop that.

    Hardly, Red Hat dropped support for POWER with RHEL 5. AIX is the only general purpose enterprise operating system that runs on POWER. Sure BSD might support it, but I challenge you to find someone running such an operating system on $100k+ hardware.

  15. Re: Once you go x86 on HP's NonStop Servers Go x86, Countdown To Itanium Extinction Begins · · Score: 2

    or will they simply migrate HP/UX customers to Lintel (Linux on x64)?

    One can only hope, HP-UX has been walking dead for years. 11.31 is six years old, 11.00 was released in 1997. It is at best an edge on an edge case, I want both the Itanium and HP-UX to go away. We have enough choice with Linux, Solaris, and AIX.

  16. Re:History rewritten on Withhold Passwords From Your Employer, Go To Jail? · · Score: 1

    Terry Childs did not want to divulge the passwords to an entity that didn't have the right to said passwords.

    I'm confused, did this knowledge require government security clearance? If he did need clearance, yes we would need to find someone else with clearance to receive the password. It is a violation of law to disclose classified information to individual without clearance... even if they're the boss or even own the place.

  17. Re:Exactly right on Withhold Passwords From Your Employer, Go To Jail? · · Score: 1

    The passwords are like the key to the office. You have to return them.

    This is true only for shared ids, but you never ever return passwords for individual ids because you're the liable party. Say for instance your manager what's to fire you and knows you keep all you ids in the desk, he brakes into the desk and copies the information, then logs into the system with your id and kills the system. Who is liable here? You would be, unless you can prove he stole your id and logged in and killed the system. You have to give them root, but personal ids, fuck no... in fact, make them delete the accounts in front of you.

  18. Re:Good. on Drive With Google Glass: Get a Ticket · · Score: 1

    So wearing something which deliberately obstructs your field of vision, distracts your concentration and defeats your autofocus...

    You've just described glasses.

  19. Re:Somewhere 10,000 contractors get a call on Jeffrey Zients Appointed To Fix Healthcare.gov · · Score: 1

    The thing you have to keep in mind about the US Health System is that it's a series of kludges. Active Federal employees on the civilian side use a version of the Dutch system. There's a bunch of Federally owned hospitals (aka: the British system) for military retirees. To insure retirees in the 60s we stole Canada's system, even keeping the name "Medicare," and simply added the words "over 65" to the bill. Which means we have three entire countries worth of health regulations simply for retirees and Federal employees.

    Don't forget about TRICARE. Tricare, formerly known as the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS), is a health care program of the United States Department of Defense Military Health System.

  20. Re:Participation Problem? Really? on Wikipedia's Participation Problem · · Score: 1

    I'm sure this is a problem, but it is not one I've encountered at all. I've always ensured that my changes are congruent to previous points of view, and when not possible to ensure that a new position is well written and sourced. Wikipedia is no different then any other peer reviewed work. It's unreasonable to expect that you can tread onto someones prior work without due diligence and soft skills.

  21. Konica Minolta magicolor on Ask Slashdot: Best SOHO Printer Choices? · · Score: 1

    For high quality laser color printing you can't go wrong with a Konica Minolta magicolor. I know of many photographic studios that use these to do their proofing work before sending it off to the lab for professional printing. They have a good balance of high quality, cheap consumables (for the level of quality you get), and high volume output. Black output/toner is more expensive then a monochrome laser, but still much cheaper then an inkjet. Very capable and reliable devices. Be sure you size the printer correctly, as a replacement fuser unit is a very costly consumable for these devices.

  22. Epson + Apple + AirPrint on Ask Slashdot: Best SOHO Printer Choices? · · Score: 1

    I've been relatively impressed with my Epson Workforce WF-3540. It works flawlessly in a SOHO environment, and with Apple hardware (Mac's, iPads, iPhones, and iPod Touches). The AirPrint feature is a great technology enabler for small businesses. In a medical office for instance, doctors could maintain records with an iPad and beam patient instructions or prescriptions right to a printer in the exam room.

    I originally didn't think I would need wireless printing, but it has proven to be indispensable if you want to integrate an iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone, or Android device into your business.

  23. Post-calculus mathematics on First Experimental Evidence That Time Is an Emergent Quantum Phenomenon · · Score: 1

    After reading the summary I was reminded of how calculus was developed to account of real world observations.

    "the resulting equations describe a static universe in which nothing ever happens."
    "So from the outside the universe appears static and unchanging, while objects that are entangled within it experience the maelstrom of change."

    This sounds akin to trying to use pre-calculus mathematics to describe the movement of heavenly bodies, circa 1500s. Those answers were in plain sight the whole time. This also appears to be in plain sight, but we have yet to developed enough tools to see it. It is beyond the level of rationalization of any human in history at this point, so we will need to create new ways of tackling complex problems as well.

  24. Re:Nothing about colour accuracy? on OS X 10.9 Mavericks Review · · Score: 1

    What is so wrong with UI widgets not adhering to sRGB, so long as content is displayed pursuant to specification does it really matter?

  25. Re:designed to obfuscate actual prices of plans on Buried In the Healthcare.gov Source: "No Expectation of Privacy" · · Score: 1

    I can't even get through the forced credit check, Experian asked me a bunch of questions and now I'm blocked from the site for answering their questions, regarding my personal details, wrong. I went to Experian and all they did was try and sell me stuff, I have no obvious way to go forward that doesn't entail giving money to Experian, this is outright extortion.