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  1. Re:Thus the problem with the TEA party on To Fight $5.2B In Identity Theft, IRS May Need To Change the Way You File Taxes · · Score: 1

    They aren't hiding it in their mattresses, but they are keeping it in banks and other investments where the money will take a long time to trickle down. It's not getting spent like it would for poorer people.

  2. Re:Corporate taxes on To Fight $5.2B In Identity Theft, IRS May Need To Change the Way You File Taxes · · Score: 0

    The nation is also bigger than any time in history. It's not a good method to use the raw numbers, much better to use GDP or some per capita method. The deficit has been shrinking, we're cutting all our most valuable programs mostly because health care costs are rising and eating up the extra income. Defense obviously plays a big role, but recent cuts have reigned that in.

    We basically have two options - get medical costs under control (something the GOP won't touch) or collect more (also something the GOP won't touch).

    When the amount collected is less than the amount spent, it's a collecting/spending problem. As much as Republicans want you to think it's only one side that matters, it's basic economics that collecting more will help fix the issue better than collecting less.

  3. Re:Thanks for the fraud, Turbotax on To Fight $5.2B In Identity Theft, IRS May Need To Change the Way You File Taxes · · Score: 1

    I paid my taxes online (Federal and state), though I did have to type in a few numbers. Looks like they're fairly close to being able to make it automatic, but I found it pretty weird I had to reference a lookup table in a PDF to get a value based on another value on the form.

  4. Re:ObBillGates on Do Specs Matter Anymore For the Average Smartphone User? · · Score: 1

    Interestingly, the trend has been moving back that way with laptops that have no buttons (though you can get a context menu with two fingers). Most people don't need the extra complexity.

  5. Re:Jokes aside on Friendly Reminder: Do Not Place Your iPhone In a Microwave · · Score: 1

    My samsung s5 is allegedly water proof - I've seen people use them under water, just don't feel like drowning mine. It has a little cap that goes over the charging ports that makes it that way.

  6. Re:Perspective on New Global Plan Would Crack Down On Corporate Tax Avoidance · · Score: 1

    Corporations aren't usually afraid of guns and I'm pretty sure none of them have been arrested.

  7. Re:Perspective on New Global Plan Would Crack Down On Corporate Tax Avoidance · · Score: 1

    When was the last time a corporation was VIOLENTLY tossed in jail?

  8. Re:Solution lies with users, not Apple on Apple Denies Systems Breach In Photo Leak · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can use any phone with SMS support which seems pretty standard. Since people are typically syncing from their iPhones to the iCloud they usually have an iPhone, but it's possible to use a freebie 10 year old brick phone if you wanted.

  9. Re:Would it really be worse without patents? on SpaceX Challenges Blue Origin Patents Over Sea-Landing Rocket Tech · · Score: 2

    You're saying patents are useful because they prevent people from patents? I think I can see a solution that could fix this issue - better patent it right away!

  10. Re:Just stop it with the 'zero emissons' claims on How the World's Fastest Electric Car Is Pushing Wireless Charging Tech · · Score: 1

    But that's pointless and misleading. I don't say my kitchen blender has emissions or my cellphone.

    Gasoline has emissions because when you burn it, it releases CO2 (and others). There are also emissions when the gasoline is produced at the refinery.

    Electric vehicles produce no emissions when the electricity is used. In some cases, generating electricity does produce emissions.

    The advantage is large powerplants can control emissions much easier than a car and even better - they can be replaced by a cleaner source. Cars usually produce more emissions as they get less efficient with age.

    Obviously we're not going to replace everyone's car overnight so we have time to improve our infrastructure.

  11. Re:CODEC on GOG Introduces DRM-Free Movie Store · · Score: 2

    Here in the real world, when players collaborate on something for everyone to use, we call that a "Standard"

  12. Re:No more "Cloud", please on VMware Unveils Workplace Suite and NVIDIA Partnership For Chromebooks · · Score: 1

    You're probably not the target demographic for this product - it's aimed at "Chromebooks" which are ~3lb cheap laptops. Similar to terminals connecting to mainframes in the past except smaller and with WiFi.

    If it helps, you can replace "Cloud" with "Server cluster".

  13. Re:Move a broken down vehicle? on California DMV Told Google Cars Still Need Steering Wheels · · Score: 1, Funny

    Tow truck.

  14. Re:Why? on Predictive Modeling To Increase Responsivity of Streamed Games · · Score: 1

    I think your very last point is one of the biggest ones - the inability to cheat is a big reason why lots of games are pushing parts online. It has the downside of requiring a more powerful server (and puts full trust in the server), but it can prevent many cheats right off the bat and makes it easier to block others. Players like this because cheating sucks.

  15. Re:Here's an idea! on New Nail Polish Alerts Wearers To Date Rape Drugs · · Score: 1

    millions of people that suffer with convulsions and insomnia

    Would those people have a problem with their drugs being blue or having some koolaid powder mixed in?

  16. Re:Not at all on Slashdot Asks: How Prepared Are You For an Earthquake? · · Score: 1

    I have a crank radio/flashlight thing that just as a button on the side to make an annoying noise. Probably the same deal since it's an easy add on that uses little power

  17. Re:Not news on Mangalyaan Gets Ready To Enter Mars Orbit · · Score: 2

    Well it's our one month warning. We need time to plan the Mars Orbit Entry Parties.

  18. Re:who writes the simulator? on Google Wants To Test Driverless Cars In a Simulation · · Score: 1

    Presumably Google would also run the non-simulator tests and report the results, so there's no real difference there.

  19. Re:The problem with simulation is ... on Google Wants To Test Driverless Cars In a Simulation · · Score: 1

    Would that happen in 100,000 miles of normal driving? The advantage of simulation is it can simulate once in a life time events like a 3 year old tossing a sandwich out the window into oncoming traffic.

  20. Re:People should leave. They Don't. on When Customer Dissatisfaction Is a Tech Business Model · · Score: 2

    It's so far removed though - the gas at the Shell is probably in part coming from BP wells anyways

  21. Re:Customer/product on When Customer Dissatisfaction Is a Tech Business Model · · Score: 1

    No, that's not true. If they piss you off, then their advertisers don't get views and also get pissed off. You're paying them - just in screen space, not dollars.

  22. Re:god dammit. The Numbers on Solar Plant Sets Birds On Fire As They Fly Overhead · · Score: 1

    Cats do love killing birds, but I can tell you anecdotally that my cat has never brought in a raptor.

  23. Re:good ideas on Modular Hive Homes Win Mars Base Design Competition · · Score: 1

    The design devotes a whole room to 3D printing, but I agree underground would be better than depleted uranium. Thick layer of martian ground is much easier to get than 2cm thick walls of DU.

  24. Re:Microsoft is a spent force on Ballmer Leaves Microsoft Board · · Score: 1

    I'm convinced this is just an underground effort by bing's PR team to get the Internet to like it for something

  25. Depleted Uranium? on Modular Hive Homes Win Mars Base Design Competition · · Score: 2

    Depleted Uranium is very heavy - where are the people going to get enough of it? Shipping it there would be extremely expensive