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  1. Re:edge-case on Robot Workforce Threatens Education-Intensive Jobs · · Score: 1

    there is ZERO doubt in my mind that most of these individuals are going to find gainful employment elsewhere: maybe NOT at $400/hr.

    Damn that sounds familiar but I can't pin point it. I'm sure I can ask one of the ex-auto workers or call center employee's, now working at wallmart, where I heard it.

  2. w00t! on Robot Workforce Threatens Education-Intensive Jobs · · Score: 1

    I'd love to see this sector get displaced. They are the majority of people that believe all these unemployed people are just lazy. It will be nice for them to learn that a service at any price is a service unemployed people will never benefit from. Oh. And maybe they will see why the $1 menu is so attractive.

  3. Re:So they need a less descriptive name on Apple Denied Trademark For 'Multi-Touch' · · Score: 1

    "iMultiTouch Jr"... which may get you arrested

    Not as quickly as iBall Jr

  4. Re:Now if only... on Apple Denied Trademark For 'Multi-Touch' · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Good News on Apple Denied Trademark For 'Multi-Touch' · · Score: 1

    A double take? Hell, I would have had first post had I not fainted.

  6. Exams from Nurses are free? on Rite Aid Drug Stores Offer Virtual Doc Visits · · Score: 1

    I'm hesitant to read TFA.

  7. Re:Summary of Attack on Detailed Analysis of the SK Communications Hack · · Score: 1

    This highlights the danger of automatic software updates from an insecure server.

    FTFY

  8. And here are the facts. on Behind the Parting of IBM and Blue Waters · · Score: 1

    Sorry. I guess my title was just as full of shit as TFA's You can read the article to confirm but basically it says, "we can't give out the facts".

  9. Re:Pushing to look at alternatives, really? on Oracle May 'Fork Itself' With MySQL Moves · · Score: 1

    Nowhere that I have worked pays for it

    Which is how it ended up in Sun's hands, which is how it ended up in Oracle's hands. If it is doing a great job for the company and your saving thousands of dollars not having to buy MsSQL or DB2 etc... why not toss the developer a couple dollars per copy? I mean $30 per machine to keep something alive is a damn good deal.

  10. It isn't hidden in a shoe but on The NSA Wants Its Own Smartphone · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Who broke BSD? on New Mac OS X Trojan Hides Inside PDFs · · Score: 1

    So it isn't possible for malicious daemons to be started without permission. An application that needs a listen port should be started by root, with sudo, or a user:group specifically granted permission to start the daemon. Running daemons as a desktop user is security suicide.

  12. Re:Carbon Fixation on Researchers Create Renewable Carbon Dioxide Sponge · · Score: 1

    You turn corn into fuel and MOF. You burn the fuel. You catch the CO2 with the MOF. You plow the MOF into the soil. You grow corn.

    The main component, gamma-cyclodextrin (CD), is a naturally occurring biorenewable sugar molecule that is derived from cornstarch.

  13. Re:Redundent.. on Researchers Create Renewable Carbon Dioxide Sponge · · Score: 1

    But then you would be renewing land used in making bio-fuels. Where is the fun in that?

  14. Re:Redundent.. on Researchers Create Renewable Carbon Dioxide Sponge · · Score: 1

    You can't grow a tree in an exhaust pipe.

  15. Re:Prior art? on Microsoft Patents Module-Based Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Which is probably why Microsoft is racing off to get a patent. They have figured out how to reword the exact same concept but ambiguous enough to get through. "Our stuff gets added TO the phone". "Their phone gets added TO stuff". The patent office is too stupid to see that they are the same thing. Makers of bluetooth keyboards, and the like, should be worried too.

  16. Re:You don't need to use BEAST on Why the BEAST Doesn't Threaten Tor Users · · Score: 1

    Sad but true.

  17. Re:You don't need to use BEAST on Why the BEAST Doesn't Threaten Tor Users · · Score: 1

    And governments don't share information. [/snark]

  18. Re:bad analogy? on Amendment: Violation of ToS Should Not Be a Crime · · Score: 1

    The judge would hear, "I banned the defendants from my property". Under the law, in 49 states, he/she would have to find the students guilty of trespassing -- baring evidence to the contrary. In Texas he/she would also be obligated to retain the students. The district clerk would then be obligated to press legal charges for theft. This is why it is illegal to have such a clause. Once you have entered into a humanitarian agreement involving real property, which btw requires permission from the state, you can not revoke privileges on a case by case basis. You must allow a judge to make that decision.

  19. Re:I didn't elect the lawyers who write TOS on Amendment: Violation of ToS Should Not Be a Crime · · Score: 1

    At least not until they are appointed to the benches that decide Civil cases.

  20. Re:More Churchill wit on Amendment: Violation of ToS Should Not Be a Crime · · Score: 1

    I'd say staunchly anti-communist, openly anti-democratic, and quietly pro-republic.

    The best argument against a republic is watching 5 minutes of FOX news.

  21. Re:It already IS NOT a crime. on Amendment: Violation of ToS Should Not Be a Crime · · Score: 1

    We have a Jeffersonian Democracy. This is a Democracy balanced by a Republic.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffersonian_democracy

  22. Who broke BSD? on New Mac OS X Trojan Hides Inside PDFs · · Score: 1

    A user space application can not receive a listen port on OSX now can it? If so, Apple needs to fix it.

  23. Patent evil, troll evil, bleed evil, profit! on IBM Seeks Patent On Retailer-Rigged Driving Routes · · Score: 1

    Patent trolling someone that would use those patents is pure genius!

  24. You don't need to use BEAST on Why the BEAST Doesn't Threaten Tor Users · · Score: 2, Informative

    Tor's flaw is not MIM attacks, it is not knowing who owns the exit node.

  25. Mining already a success. on NASA Rolls Out Space Exploration Roadmap · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The rovers were a success. Now it is time to test our ability to create a long term orbital platform. I'm for the asteroid. China has shown an interest in going to the moon. Let them perform those experiments.