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  1. Re:STEM encouragement on Should Inventions Be Automatically Owned By Your Employer? · · Score: 1

    So if I start up a small software company (composed of only myself and a person I hire in at minimum wage to help clean the place) then I should be taxed at 100%?

  2. Re:I Wonder? on Windows XP Drops Below 40% Market Share While Windows 8 Passes 1% · · Score: 2

    Then you clutter up your panel with icons... that's valuable space that tasks could be using.

  3. Re:Seriously on Newzbin2 Closes For Good · · Score: 1

    Also torrents run into that whole "being watched" problem. If your IP is logged as downloading whatever show the watchdogs are monitoring and gets reported to your ISP you can now get your internet disabled with a big fat piracy notice. A guy at work had this happen because a roommate was torrenting some show.

  4. Re:Censorship on Newzbin2 Closes For Good · · Score: 1

    Why, for example, was Romney's dog a major issue?

    It wouldn't be a problem if he didn't have Chinese dogs! How unpatriotic!

  5. Re:Very nice on PressureNET 2.1 Released: the Distributed Barometer Network For Android · · Score: 1

    My older brother did his Science Fair project on this back in the 90s. It's very cool to see it happen and it explains why having a lot of helium balloons in your car can be a bad idea.

  6. Re:This is already the case with in-dash GPS. on The Coming Wave of In-Dash Auto System Obsolescence · · Score: 1

    I support this idea... If every car had a standard "dock slot" then phone makers and/or aftermarket accessory makers could make dock adapters that work with any style phone or device.

  7. Re:This is already the case with in-dash GPS. on The Coming Wave of In-Dash Auto System Obsolescence · · Score: 1

    I never understood why heated seat buttons are not on the side of the seat. I've noticed that the seat controls are also moving off the seat.

  8. Re:Sure on The Coming Wave of In-Dash Auto System Obsolescence · · Score: 1

    The only time I've had serious noise issues with summer performance tires was when they were over-inflated and wore the inside tread.

  9. Re:Like BMW's startac phone integration? on The Coming Wave of In-Dash Auto System Obsolescence · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm alone in this thought, but if a car comes with iPod integration... it may as well come with an iPod since that's the only thing that will work. I couldn't plug in my Android Phone to it.

  10. Re:Why do the phones have barometric sensors? on PressureNET 2.1 Released: the Distributed Barometer Network For Android · · Score: 1

    But wouldn't the fact that you are in an enclosed and possible pressure variable environment (A/C on high?) cause those readings to be inaccurate?

  11. Re:Why do the phones have barometric sensors? on PressureNET 2.1 Released: the Distributed Barometer Network For Android · · Score: 1

    What if you are in Denver? ;)

  12. Re:Very nice on PressureNET 2.1 Released: the Distributed Barometer Network For Android · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't pressure be useless when someone gets into their car and turns the A/C on high or is that not enough pressure difference to affect barometric readings?

  13. Re:1280*800 7" on Kickstarted Oculus Rift VR Headset Shipping In March/April · · Score: 1

    It's only one screen, divided in half. One half for your right eye. One half for your left.

  14. Re:Will it work with glasses? on Kickstarted Oculus Rift VR Headset Shipping In March/April · · Score: 1

    ...bionic eyes.

  15. Re:Finally on Kickstarted Oculus Rift VR Headset Shipping In March/April · · Score: 2

    It will apparently also feed your children while you are magically flying around a unicorn filled environment with proper analyzation of your play-style and adjust how many magical unicorns will be within your particular server instance.

    Sorry, but there's a load of different ideas on what that game will finally ship with and plenty of people all dumping loads of cash into that unknown. A lot of that has to do with Chris' unclear specifications. He has a vision he can't clearly describe, and everyone interprets that vision using the current model of gaming to try to best describe it to themselves. It wasn't until about two weeks after the initial hype hit that I found out that it will be a fully PvP game (unless you opt out of the social aspect and host your own), which they later changed to a mostly PvP game where you can adjust your "PvP preference slider" which doesn't allow you to completely avoid PvP (especially if you just want to explore the edges of the galaxy). I'm assuming that will change as production starts along with a great many other aspects, and I fully expect it to not meet the expectations of a great many people.

  16. Re:Do both... on Windows 8 PCs Still Throttled By Crapware · · Score: 2

    If you aren't using Windows for 3D Gaming, but for productivity, I've found it best to just load up Virtualbox and install Windows on a VM. It's also nice to be able to snapshot the install and revert back to a sane state at any time.

  17. Re:Got news for you on Does Even Amazing Partisan Tech Deserve Applause? · · Score: 2

    That's because Libertarians are about personal choice and freedom and everybody has different personal levels of importance... Not just what their leaders tell them to care about.

  18. Re:Still can't believe Obama won on Does Even Amazing Partisan Tech Deserve Applause? · · Score: 1

    Hey, don't get in the way of blink political hate...

  19. Re:WTF is this? on Does Even Amazing Partisan Tech Deserve Applause? · · Score: 1

    Well, so far political tech HAS only been used in opposition...

    For instance, why doesn't Congress have a giant monitor wall telling them how much money they have to spend and what each bill will cost in a simple pie chart when they make their voting decision? If they need money for something they should be able to remove money from one pie piece and see what past bills will be impacted by the new one. Every change in spending will have a clear cost and funding source link.

    The whole point of computers is to help manage these minute details, but so far it's been about how to win votes.

  20. Re:Reinventing the steam engine on HydroICE Project Developing a Solar-Powered Combustion Engine · · Score: 1

    You can store solar panel energy with molten salt or hot oil as well...

  21. Re:Gather ten of your friends on Ask Slashdot: Geekiest Way To Cook a Turkey? · · Score: 1

    How will they make things if their glasses are being used to cook turkey?

  22. Re:Try it for a week and see if it's acceptable on High-Voltage Fences For Zapping Would-Be Copper Thieves · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure why it matters. Personally, I don't think it's the responsibility of the law abiding electrician to have to provide proof that they didn't commit a crime to get scrap copper. Innocent until proven guilty, etc.

  23. Re:Try it for a week and see if it's acceptable on High-Voltage Fences For Zapping Would-Be Copper Thieves · · Score: 2

    But you could be an electrician who stocks clippings and removed lines for recycling later. Are you stating that the Electrician should have to register every house they remove wire from... even if it is just a handful?

  24. Re:Sounds improbable on Dutch Cold Case Murder Solved After 8000 People Gave Their DNA · · Score: 5, Funny

    The guy had a wife and child. If your wife starts saying "Hey you should do this" it's probably hard to say no to her, even if you know it'll result in doom

    If he had a wife like that, he probably did it because it would result in him being arrested.

  25. Re:It is about not lettting ideas be silenced on The First Amendment and Software Speech · · Score: 1

    But compiled code is machine generated. Minified code is machine generated as well. So the only code that could be protected free speech in your case would be source code and/or raw/interpreted code.