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  1. Precrime where? on Gabon Suspends Me.ga Domain, Dotcom Says "We Have Alternative Domain" · · Score: 1

    Gabon in West Africa?

  2. Bad Summary on Amazon Charges Sales Tax On "Shipping and Handling" · · Score: 4, Informative

    Summary should have summarized it's the law. "According to California's sales tax collection agency, the Board of Equalization, sales tax should be collected when a seller "makes a combined charge for 'shipping and handling' or 'postage and handling,' " if the invoice does not show the actual cost of the individual delivery."

  3. One thing to love about slashdot... on Halliburton's Missing Radioactive Cylinder Found · · Score: 1

    you get the followup story, too.

  4. Re:If it's not already legal to disregard automate on Automated DMCA Takedown Notices Request Censorship of Legitimate Sites · · Score: 1

    I've heard this complaint before and I don't understand it. The way slashdot shows threads this is the most efficient use of screen space, often showing a short message entirely without having to expand it.

  5. If it's not already legal to disregard automated on Automated DMCA Takedown Notices Request Censorship of Legitimate Sites · · Score: 4, Insightful

    dcma takedowns, it should be.

  6. In Brooklyn, maraschino cherries made them red on French Bees Produce Blue and Green Honey · · Score: 3, Interesting
  7. Just pull strings Woz... on Woz Applying For Australian Citizenship Because of the NBN · · Score: 1

    you've earned it, many times over.

  8. Re:It is alarming for a judge to say this on Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots · · Score: 1

    The possession of self-loading firearms cannot be something the Framers envisioned as one of our natural rights, because they were not invented before 1776. Legal and safe abortions cannot be something the Framers envisioned as one of our natural rights, because it was not invented in 1776. Blacks voting and going to school cannot be something the Framers envisioned as one of our natural rights, because it was not invented in 1776.

    I could go on. Point being, the constitution is a living document, it gets extrapolated to present day life, and "Framers" don't get the last say.

  9. It is alarming for a judge to say this on Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots · · Score: 4, Insightful

    She said that even if a ballot could be traced back to a specific voter, it doesn't show that a person's voting rights were violated, saying there was no "fundamental right" to a secret vote in the U.S. Constitution.

  10. possible without violating causality on Warp Drive Might Be Less Impossible Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    if compressing the space in front of you ALSO compresses the time dimension of spacetime, causing you to travel faster through time as well, keeping you in your light cone. Travelling this way would not be any different from the conventional way (and enjoying lorentz time contraction while you do so), except instead of rocket propulsion you have wave propulsion.

  11. When public workers unionize on Chicago Teachers Rip 'Big Money Interest Groups' · · Score: 1

    and negotiate a contract with another government worker for a share of taxpayer money, the taxpayer is not fairly represented.

  12. Jevons paradox says on Intel Predicts Ubiquitous, Almost-Zero-Energy Computing By 2020 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    this may cause an increase in energy used for computations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

  13. Oblig. They don't shoot the money into space... on Space Vs. Poverty Debate In India · · Score: 4, Insightful

    they hire workers with it.

  14. can't use while operating... on NYC Taxi Commission Nixes Cab-Hailing Apps · · Score: 2

    might not mean can't use while pulled over. Ambiguous.

  15. There had to be a very good reason on FBI Launches $1 Billion Nationwide Face Recognition System · · Score: 1

    the DMV ended the generation's old custom of allowing people to smile for their drivers license photo.

  16. Bruce underestimates the unconscious mind on Phony Laser Security System Proves Perception Is Reality · · Score: 1

    People in an honor system breakroom pay more when there's a picture of eyes on the wall. Unconscious mind at work. Here's a link to discussion of the study. http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?m=200606

  17. I wonder how the public will react on Stanford's Self Driving Car Tops 120mph On Racetrack · · Score: 2

    to a visually spectactular, high speed, failure and breakup of a driverless car. One way they will react is to play the footage over and over, that's for sure.

  18. The problem with montana on Stanford's Self Driving Car Tops 120mph On Racetrack · · Score: 2

    was european driving tourists coming over and assuming the higways were autobahn quality (not even close) and dying after flying off a bump. Montana realized that their highways weren't safe above 85 and posted it.

  19. Lies. on Genetically Engineering Babies a Moral Obligation, Says Ethicist · · Score: 2

    The position of CEO selects FOR psychopathy. "Bad" traits like lack of empathy, lying and cheating are really just those traits that benefit the individual over society. "Good" traits are the traits that benefit the group. This guy isn't doing it for the individual children. He wants to be protected from your individual children. He's doing it for him.

  20. peaceful triggers that light up the... on Neuroscience May Cure Videogames Industry's Obsession With Guns · · Score: 1

    ...brain's pleasure center? They'll invent porn.

  21. very weaponizable.... on Laser Treatment For Earth-Bound Asteroids · · Score: 1

    deflect a harmless asteroid into a collision course with earth.

  22. Re:The whole thing is just staggering on New Signs Voyager Is Nearing Interstellar Space · · Score: 1

    Now here on Earth we rarely run into significant delays in communications caused by the speed of light

    FPS gamers run into them every day. FPS gaming is limited to geographic region due to speed of light delay.

  23. in-ear sound "amplifiers" are cheap! on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Hearing Aids So Expensive? · · Score: 2

    Only $30! IT all depends on the "medical device" classification from the FDA. http://www.msa30x.com/

  24. Barrier to entry on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Hearing Aids So Expensive? · · Score: 1

    FDA regulates their manufacture. Licensing creates barrier to entry to the market. FDA regulations impose strict requirements that drive costs way up.

  25. Re:Breaking the link between science and politics on Scientific Literacy vs. Concern Over Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Interesting points. These particular scientists are saying that, if people are going to do what the scientists feel is the right course of action, it will take a multifaceted, celebrity driven propaganda approach, which can be coordinated by an office of propaganda: "It does not follow, however, that nothing can be done ... Effective strategies include use of culturally diverse communicators, whose affinity with different communities enhances their credibility, and information-framing techniques that invest policy solutions with resonances congenial to diverse groups. Perfecting such techniques through a new science of science communication is a public good of singular importance."