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  1. Damnit! on Windows 8 Secure Boot Defeated · · Score: 1

    I gave it a month after release. I totally shouldn't have put $20 on it! Oh well. The odds were too good to pass up.

  2. Re:No education or occupation on Romanian Accused of Breaking Into NASA · · Score: 1

    Despite the fact that your a fucking troll I will answer this question.

    how many jobs have YOU created that are a loss generator?

    None. I assure you. I have never created a loss generator job.

  3. Did I miss something? on Recreating a Mysterious, 2,100-Year-Old Clock · · Score: 1

    Does this mean Archimedes, a guy that REALLY liked bath tubs, lost his watch in the water?

  4. Re:No education or occupation on Romanian Accused of Breaking Into NASA · · Score: 1

    You are claiming people should be burned with tires on their heads if they don't create unprofitable 'jobs'

    I made that claim? Are you sure you are not just repeating it in hopes that someone believes you?

    How many jobs have you created?

    I don't respond to trolls. However, If you want an answer regarding the possibility of a successful business model in an economy with minimum wage you can simply look at the success failure rate of businesses in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Australia, Canada and Japan over the last 50 years. They have all had minimum wage over that period of time and have the most successful economies. They have the largest success rate for start up companies and, despite the fact that most fail regardless of the country they start up in, have the lowest failure rate for start up businesses in general.

    http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2011/full_list/
    http://www.moyak.com/papers/business-startups-entrepreneurs.html

  5. Re:Prior art is obvious on Apple's New Patent Weapon — Location Services · · Score: 1

    have to foot the entire legal bill

    I wonder how many lawyers would complain about that? :)

    I'd prefer a scholastic system where public universities have to provide input on patent legitimacy in order to receive public funding. It would save money and force the patents being filed to be reviewed by people with specific knowledge on the patent subject. No more decisions by "Billy Bob appointee" based on which corporation he is going to lobby/work for after leaving the patent office.

  6. Re:Eyewriter? on Teenager Builds $300 Open Source Eye-Tracking System · · Score: 1

    LOL. That takes irony to another level.

  7. Re:Just what market needed... on Google Music Goes Live With Google+ Integration · · Score: 1

    As long as they don't restrict the files to a machine or player, it doesn't sound like a bad deal.

  8. Re:No education or occupation on Romanian Accused of Breaking Into NASA · · Score: 1

    the fact that you were trolling for personal information makes it a troll. http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2521666&cid=38038114

  9. Prior art is obvious on Apple's New Patent Weapon — Location Services · · Score: 1

    Bar code labels, infrared beacons and other labeling systems may also be used in the location information system in place of or in addition to the GPS receiving system to supply location identification information.

    Street signs are a labeling system.

    A location information system uses a positioning system, such as the civilian Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS), in combination with a distributed network.

    A map is a location information system. A group of humans is a distributed network. eg. A friendship network refers to a group of people who associate with each other. It is inherently distributed by the fact that it is a group.

    The location information system includes a radio transceiver for communicating to the distributed network and a GPS receiving system.

    Truckers have used radio communication devices containing a transceiver to communicate location information since the 1960's. The FCC has permitted public radio communication since the 1940's. CB Radio

    The location specific information may reside on a web page. The coordinate entry may be incorporated into the web page address that supports the coordinate entry or linked to an existing web page associated with the coordinate entry.

    Patent law should prohibit the word "may" in any description, outside of an exhibit, as it evades definition. Without using the word "must" this patent obviously overlaps existing art and must be revoked.

  10. Re:You are here... on Apple's New Patent Weapon — Location Services · · Score: 1

    If someone uses information from the internet to learn how to read a map then use that information to make a decision about their location they have "used a System and method for obtaining and using location specific information".

  11. Makes sense. on Intel's Plans For X86 Android, Smartphones, and Tablets · · Score: 1

    If you want a software platform to be able to build native code to your hardware you add code to their software base.

  12. Which is better? on BT Fiber Infrastructure Plans 'Fatal' To Competition · · Score: 1

    Is a government controlled network better than a government created network that privately owned companies fight over to then resell to the people that payed to have it built? It seems to me that having the money go directly back to the government so it can be invested in more infrastructure would be better than having the government spend money to control the companies fighting over the lines. The U.S. went through all this to break up AT&T. Tax payer dollars built the phone network. It was privatized. It became a monopoly. Now we have to pay government employees to deal with every little problem that pops up when phone companies don't play fair.

  13. Re:Eyewriter? on Teenager Builds $300 Open Source Eye-Tracking System · · Score: 1

    Maybe they believe an autodidact employee is a threat to the business.

  14. Microsoft patent violation on Teenager Builds $300 Open Source Eye-Tracking System · · Score: 2

    This is a clear violation of the following Microsoft patents.

    Patent No. 6,791,536 Simulating mouse inputs using non mouse device.

    Patent No. 6,897,893 Simulating mouse inputs using non mouse device.

  15. Re:Just what market needed... on Google Music Goes Live With Google+ Integration · · Score: 1

    Are you able to add your mp3's from Amazon and Google to your central storage machine and play them from any device at any time? I ask because if I can't add music to my streaming server I don't buy it.

  16. Re:No education or occupation on Romanian Accused of Breaking Into NASA · · Score: 1

    so your contention is that NASA's IT dep't must be fired?

    Yes. If someone with no education or experience can infiltrate your network, your IT department is non-existing. It needs to be replaced. Are you suggesting equal opportunity can not co-exist with the right to replace someone incompetent?

    Aren't you this [slashdot.org] guy [slashdot.org]?

    Yes.

    You didn't answer [slashdot.org] the question [slashdot.org] yet.

    It was not a question. It was a troll. A question is, "How do all AAA nations have profitable businesses when they have a minimum wage. Another example of a question is, "How does a AA nation like the U.S. have profitable businesses when it has a minimum wage".

  17. Re:No education or occupation on Romanian Accused of Breaking Into NASA · · Score: 1

    You have vi on all but one of your machines? You damned criminal types! :P

  18. Re:No education or occupation on Romanian Accused of Breaking Into NASA · · Score: 1

    So who is working for NASA then, that this 'no-education and no-occupation' individual is able to break into their systems?

    So who was working for NASA then, that this 'no-education and no-occupation' individual is able to break into their systems? FTFY

    What kind of 'severe disruptions' did he cause that cost 500,000 USD?

    It costs money to replace your entire IT department.

  19. Re:Reality on Research Promises Drastically Increased LiOn Capacity · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Flying cars are already a reality. They are just expensive and inefficient.

  20. Re:Simpler approach on Scientists Develop Super-Slippery Material · · Score: 1

    I'm a Texan. Besides, I don't know nuthin'bout California.

  21. Create an underground backbone. on SOPA Hearings Stacked In Favor of Pro-SOPA Lobby · · Score: 1

    If you can organize people to be part of a network you can create a free and open web. They will have to do the following.

    1) buy a wireless router and allow it to become part of the grid network.
    2) refuse to restrict any traffic regardless of how you feel about it.
    3) if you can afford it, pay for a vpn connection to one other city that has done the same.

    If people are not open to allowing any traffic to flow, then they want to be censored.

  22. Re:Fallen on SOPA Hearings Stacked In Favor of Pro-SOPA Lobby · · Score: 1, Troll

    it seems that the US has taken another step towards a truly free market society.

    FTFY

  23. Ah good times. on Intel's 4004 Microprocessor Turns 40 · · Score: 1

    They mention photolithography. It was still being used in the mid 80's at Texas Instruments. I went from micrographics to photolithography in 84'ish. You shoot rubyliths with room sized cameras then stack the negatives, positives, or both, on top of each other on a reducer. It was all .001 tolerance work.

  24. Re:Cue Kurzweil... on Intel's 4004 Microprocessor Turns 40 · · Score: 1

    Reminiscing on the old chip my pacemaker used to use.

  25. Decode to text library? on Siri Protocol Cracked · · Score: 1

    Now that we know how to direct the speek files, anyone know of an open source library for decoding the files to text?