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  1. Engineering degrees already cost more. on Should College Tuition Vary By Major, Based On the College's Costs For the Major? (qz.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They already charge more for Engineering degrees. It's called "lab fees" rather than tuition. Another good one is "Engineering major surcharge" that I had to pay.

  2. Re:Amidst Winter? on DDoS Attack Halts Heating in Finland Amidst Winter (metropolitan.fi) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The temperature in Helsinki is below freezing and isn't expected to get above freezing even during the daytime highs for at least a week. That's close enough to winter for me, no matter what the divide the year into four equal seasons says.

  3. Public Domain Stories on Lawsuit Claims Buck Rogers Is In the Public Domain · · Score: 4, Informative

    The two original stories are in the public domain in the US. Here are Project Gutenberg links.

    Armageddonâ"2419 A.D.
    https://www.gutenberg.org/eboo...

    and

    The Airlords of Han
    https://www.gutenberg.org/eboo...

    Of course no where in the stories was the name Buck Rogers used. That name didn't start until the comic strip.

  4. Iowa has more roads than you would believe. on Iowa Makes a Bold Admission: We Need Fewer Roads · · Score: 2

    About time.

    Iowa has more roads than you would believe. Every mile on the mile except where pre-existing towns or rivers made it impossible there is a little gravel agricultural road.

  5. Parody on Gritty 'Power Rangers' Short Is Not Fair Use · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Maybe because it's a parody? I've not watched this movie and don't intent to, but a parody is allowed to use however much of the original work it wants to.

  6. Re:Amazon phone is the Apple/Google Frankenstein on The Fire Phone Debacle and What It Means For Amazon's Future · · Score: 1

    The fire phone is currently $189 for an unlocked phone and it includes a year of prime. That means free shipping for a year no matter what platform you order on as well as free video and music streaming for a year.

  7. Re:Yes we're going to keep using FTDI chips on FTDI Removes Driver From Windows Update That Bricked Cloned Chips · · Score: 1

    By "pissed" I mean we would charge them with the costs of removing all of the hardware from the field and doing the board reworks. You don't get these kinds of guarantees at the hobby level, but you do at the higher end. We've never had to do it for "clones" but we have for parts that didn't meet spec in other ways. I might be a little bit ticked at FTDI, but none of our stuff ever touches windows anyway.

  8. Yes we're going to keep using FTDI chips on FTDI Removes Driver From Windows Update That Bricked Cloned Chips · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We don't use any of the serial only chips, but on the higher end with JTAG and SPI the FTDI parts work great and aren't too expensive. If any "clone" chips get into our supply chain we would be very pissed at whoever did it. We specify actual FDTI parts for a reason. The "clones" have very hit or miss quality. We don't use them under windows either.

  9. More likely an IPS on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Employer Perform HTTPS MITM Attacks On Employees? · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's more likely they are running the traffic through and IDS/IPS rather than logging everything. It's also likely that well know banking sites are excluded and just passed through. It does use quite a lot of resources to scan the traffic after all.

    IDS/IPS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  10. Tabula on Intel Opening Foundry To Third Parties · · Score: 2

    Tabula has some cool tech. Their current chips aren't dense enough for what we wanted to do with them, but at 22nm they might be.

  11. Re:If they hadn't brought their drone on Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group · · Score: 2

    You're going to get your license pulled if you take it below 1000 feet without cause though. Wanting to take pictures is normally not cause. If you are a TV news crew it might be, but not otherwise.

  12. Re:Waiting for free digital copies with book purch on E-Book Lending Stands Up To Corporate Mongering · · Score: 2

    Look for the Baen hard covers that include a CD. They don't charge any more for them and you get a digital copy of that book and many more on the CD. Now if only other publishers followed the example. Oh, and Baen doesn't believe in DRM for any of their books.

    http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/

  13. The Fourth "R" by George O. Smith on Magnetic Brain Stimulation Makes Learning Easier · · Score: 1

    This looks like The Fourth "R" by George O. Smith.

    http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18602

  14. Re:Can we charge for ear worms? on German Kindergartens Ordered To Pay Copyright For Songs · · Score: 1

    Almost all churches already pay a license fee to display the music on the overhead projector. It's the CCLI number in the corner of the projection. They've been doing this for years.

    http://www.ccli.com/

  15. Old ads. on Will Amazon Put Advertisements In eBooks? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Books have had advertisements in them for a long time. Magazines too. Usually the book advertisements were for more books, but the advertisements in magazines could be for anything.

    A guitar lessons ad from a 1930 Astounding Stories.
    http://ia311203.us.archive.org/2/items/Astounding_Stories_of_Super_Science_1930/asf193001006a.png

  16. Re:I hope more PKD will get back in to print on Hollywood's Growing Obsession With Philip K. Dick · · Score: 1
  17. Thomas Jefferson's perspective on The Economist Weighs In For Shorter Copyright Terms · · Score: 1

    He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without
    lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without
    darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the
    globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his
    condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by
    nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without
    lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe,
    move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive
    appropriation.

    Thomas Jefferson

    He was talking specifically about patents, but the idea is still relevant for copyright.

  18. Estimated actual damages on RIAA Confusion In Tenenbaum & Thomas Cases? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Estimated actual damages

    24 songs with a $.99 retail value. Assume the $.99 is the damage per song that a sale was lost on. (That's not the case actually as the wholesale price is the damage amount.) Assume every song downloaded is an actual lost sale. (Again not true, but simple for this calculation.) Assume a seed ration of 5, so for every song 5 copies were made. (Again not true, 5 is an insanely high ratio on P2P networks as 1:1 is common.) 24*.99.*5 = $118.80 actual losses incurred. 10 times that is the constitutionally recognized limit.

    $1188.0

    That's why RIAA doesn't want the constitutionality of the damages award adjudicated.

  19. Re:Sounds like the Navy. on Living In Tokyo's Capsule Hotels · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Now it makes sense that a friend in the Navy told me, everyone with half a brain tries to get on a carrier instead of a sub.

    Everyone with half a brain joined the Air Force instead of the Navy. Not having a private room as an E5 was considered a hard ship and you got an apology for it.

  20. Re:A book my great-great-grandmother wrote on What Would Have Entered the Public Domain Tomorrow? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Exactly when and where was it published. If it was published in the US prior to 1964 it still required a renewal. If it wasn't renewed it's in the public domain.

  21. Re:AT&T's service is crap on Consumerist Says AT&T Site Won't Sell iPhone In NYC, Citing Network · · Score: 1

    Hell, I had good verizon coverage there. I'll admit I wasn't there for very long.

  22. Re:Encryption stops this correct? on An Education In Deep Packet Inspection · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Take a look at:

    SSLIA

    Deep packet inspection inside SSL sessions. It's not the only one either.

  23. Re:Public Domain Can Be Re- Copyrighted on False Copyright Claims · · Score: 1

    >> (However much Project Gutenburg would like you to believe that their non-commercial clause is valid)

    You should read it some time. They don't make a claim that the work isn't in the public domain. They don't make a non-commercial claim either. They make a trademark claim and say that you have to pay them a license to use it commercially or remove all of their verbiage to get just the public domain work.

  24. Re:Un-Finishable on Google Releases Tesseract as Open Source · · Score: 3, Informative

    > This is patently false. New stuff comes out of copyright every day.

    This is just so un-true. In the United States (the only place that project Gutenberg worries about) nothing is entering the Public Domain except unpublished manuscripts where the author died 70 years ago. Nothing else will enter the public domain until 2019. Congress has affectivly frozen the public domain.

  25. Re:Links to better KernelTrap articles/email threa on Linus Pooh-Pooh's Real-Time Patch · · Score: 1

    Ingo's patches have been developed out in public view with participation from many other people. Rather than just dropped as a PR bomb shell. If you think RedHat isn't a "RealTime" company TimeSys' Scott Wood has been involved as well.