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  1. Re:In Canada, if you're on EI... on Why Bad Jobs (or No Jobs) Happen To Good Workers · · Score: 1

    That's not a good policy. Look what happens after a few rounds:

    1st job 100% pay
    2nd job 80% pay
    3rd job 64% pay
    4th job 51% pay
    5th job 41% pay

    If you are getting crappy job after crappy job compared to the job that you originally got fired from, then perhaps you shouldn't have been hired on to the job you originally got fired from in the first place. Or there are just no jobs for you in the area and you need to move.

  2. Re:Interesting timing... on AMD To Open-Source Its Linux Execution & Compilation Stack · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We need more competition not less.

    Nvidia should buy VIA.

  3. Re:Interesting timing... on AMD To Open-Source Its Linux Execution & Compilation Stack · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm so confused.

    Buy that which fills the needs the best regardless of brand.

  4. Re:How about on EFF Announces New Patent Reform Project · · Score: 2

    If he went along with it he is an accomplice and will be prosecuted along with those who he rats out for a reduced sentence.

  5. Re:fear everything! on Chuck Schumer Tells Apple and Google To "Curb Your Spy Planes" · · Score: 1

    So you think that since those places may not be as bad as you had been led to believe that therefor you think that they may be even better than living here?

    Although logically that is an interesting argument, practically it's retarded.

    We live in a world of constant communication, I can pull up satellite maps of any of those places, I can research their current state of being as well as their past from multiple sources. I can and have talked to people from those places, I can watch their newscasts and read their laws.

    Just because I have not been to those places that doesn't mean that I shouldn't believe the many trusted sources of information about those places I can access.

  6. Re:fear everything! on Chuck Schumer Tells Apple and Google To "Curb Your Spy Planes" · · Score: 1

    Phew, I was expecting much worse when I clicked on that.

  7. Re:It's all military grade, or better on Chuck Schumer Tells Apple and Google To "Curb Your Spy Planes" · · Score: 1

    You may end up needing to illuminate them if it gets near civilian airspace, so use tracers.

  8. Re:fear everything! on Chuck Schumer Tells Apple and Google To "Curb Your Spy Planes" · · Score: 1

    So you would prefer to live in China? Russia? Columbia? Iran? Would those be better than what we have now?

  9. Re:Burn in Hell! on Rudimentary Liver Grown In a Dish · · Score: 1

    It's similar to how most people have no problem performing an autopsy, but will get somewhat annoyed if you start creating dead bodies to do so

    In the early days of modern medicine medical schools paid grave robbers to deliver them corpses and it was done illegally because it was against the law at the time, but they didn't go and kill people.

    there would be an incentive to create embryo "farms" to produce more

    How exactly would you farm embryos? Sounds like something that would be done with petri dishes. Doesn't sound all that sinister to me.

  10. Re:How about: on EFF Announces New Patent Reform Project · · Score: 1

    Citation needed.

    I'm having problems confirming that statement.

    Although I don't doubt what you are saying is true, I do think that there is quite a lot more to it that you aren't saying, either because you don't know, or because it doesn't help your argument. As it is so far I have not found anything stating how patent clerks are evaluated, just the amount they are paid and required qualifications.

  11. Re:Short, Fiction, with simple words on Ask Slashdot: Best Science-Fiction/Fantasy For Kids? · · Score: 1

    Or comic books.

  12. Re:fear everything! on Chuck Schumer Tells Apple and Google To "Curb Your Spy Planes" · · Score: 2

    So the highly detailed aerial photography is just fine, as long as it's not available to the masses?

    Please remember that you can get detailed aerial photos of anywhere in the US for a fee, excluding classified places such as Area 22-C.

  13. Re:fear everything! on Chuck Schumer Tells Apple and Google To "Curb Your Spy Planes" · · Score: 2

    google image search areola and you shall find what you seek.

  14. Re:Same was said with a lot of tech on Chuck Schumer Tells Apple and Google To "Curb Your Spy Planes" · · Score: 1

    The tech that would be required to send C4 laden RC planes via GPS is not cheap, but a video camera is so it s more likely that if someone attempted something like what you said they would do it visually. GPS would just complicate things.

  15. Re:How about on EFF Announces New Patent Reform Project · · Score: 2

    My pie in the sky idea is to have actual criminal proceedings against those who attempt to defraud the US government and in actual criminal proceedings you need to prove guilt "beyond a reasonable doubt" .

  16. Re:Gobs of Money on EFF Announces New Patent Reform Project · · Score: 1

    use it to help candidates who will do the right thing without receiving kickbacks

    Got a list?

  17. Re:How about: on EFF Announces New Patent Reform Project · · Score: 1

    Have patent examiners be paid regardless of how many patents they approve.

    Interesting, I never knew that patent examiners get paid by commission. That would definitely cause issues and explains a lot.

  18. Re:How about on EFF Announces New Patent Reform Project · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How about making that a crime punishable with prison time for the person who submitted the patent application IF it can be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that the person who submitted the patent application knew about the prior art and actively suppressed it?

  19. Re:It's all military grade, or better on Chuck Schumer Tells Apple and Google To "Curb Your Spy Planes" · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Same was said with a lot of tech on Chuck Schumer Tells Apple and Google To "Curb Your Spy Planes" · · Score: 2

    Also there are any number of companies that will do aerial photography of properties for a fee.

    Then again there are also a number of ways one can do their own aerial photography.

     

  21. Re:Same was said with a lot of tech on Chuck Schumer Tells Apple and Google To "Curb Your Spy Planes" · · Score: 1

    To some extent, I can't figure out what to do from a terror standpoint with high accuracy GPS positions that wouldn't be just as scary with low precision.

    Why with that information terrorists could drop anthrax right down your AC duct from 20,000 feet!!!!

    Or maybe not.

  22. Re:fear everything! on Chuck Schumer Tells Apple and Google To "Curb Your Spy Planes" · · Score: 1

    But since corporations can influence the government to use guns to force you to comply with their plans I would have to say that they are even more dangerous than the government on their own.

  23. Re:fear everything! on Chuck Schumer Tells Apple and Google To "Curb Your Spy Planes" · · Score: 1

    *Aerial photography.

    Damn typo

  24. Re:fear everything! on Chuck Schumer Tells Apple and Google To "Curb Your Spy Planes" · · Score: 4, Informative

    Private individuals as well as corporations have been doing areal photography for private use since around 1860.

  25. Re:The community failed on ATi on NVIDIA Responds To Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    The "works for me, you must be doing something wrong" attitude prevalent in open source gets tiring pretty fast, by the way.

    Would you prefer it if it was worded differently?

    It worked fine for me so therefor I do not have the experience to help you with your issue, but I can demonstrate that it can work since it installed fine for me.

    Is that an acceptable response?