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  1. Re:What rights? on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way To Deal With Roving TSA Teams? · · Score: 1

    No they can't. The NDAA applies only to the military in a war zone. Posse Comitatus prevents the military from being given authorization of force inside the states and territories of the USA except in a case where the US is invaded by a foreign army.

  2. Re:Higher Power on Mathematics Says Romney and Santorum Tied In Iowa · · Score: 1

    by what right does the US SCOTUS have to limit the ruling of a state supreme court over a part of the state's constitution when the ruling did not conflict with any provision of the US constitution?

  3. Re:Author Misidentifies Core Problems with SOPA on Why Politicians Should Never Make Laws About Technology · · Score: 2

    try making DNSSEC work in a SOPA world. How about the fact that the fundamental enforcement tool is to perform a mandated man in the middle attack on DNS. that is pretty fucked up and breaks the internet.

    What will happen is these criminals will simply move to a more robust DNS solution and a new internet will be born which makes it nearly impossible for the powerful to stomp out.

    Silk road anyone?

  4. Re:Double do it on Ask Slashdot: Re-Entering the Job Market As a Software Engineer? · · Score: 1

    A Lawyer always has a job waiting? tell that to all the unemployed law school graduates I know.

  5. Sell Android apps on the side on Ask Slashdot: Re-Entering the Job Market As a Software Engineer? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    you should continue teaching and sell your apps on the side. It isn't worth the headache of getting back into a field dominated by a bunch of 20 somethings who think they know everything there is to know about writing "good" software.

  6. Re:greedy boomers? on What Could Have Been In the Public Domain Today, But Isn't · · Score: 1

    You should put "Christmas" into Pandora and watch all the stuff you never heard come up.

  7. Re:greedy boomers? on What Could Have Been In the Public Domain Today, But Isn't · · Score: 1

    Excuse me, but Gen-X is the screwed over generation... the three generations before us squeezed everything there was out of this country and brought it to its knees...Now we along with the millennials will have to fix it. Thanks mom and dad, grandma and grandpa.

  8. Re:Bullshit on Edison Would Have Loved New Light Bulb Law, Says His Great-Grandson · · Score: 2

    Voltage... and DC Voltage transformers are not as good as AC, not to mention they would need to rebuild the electric grid from the ground up, and as someone said elsewhere in the thread, powering a house with DC causes serious arcing problems.

  9. Re:Bullshit on Edison Would Have Loved New Light Bulb Law, Says His Great-Grandson · · Score: 1

    he said his LED bulbs were DC powered... they aren't... you are not too bright.

  10. Re:Bullshit on Edison Would Have Loved New Light Bulb Law, Says His Great-Grandson · · Score: 1

    problem with (civil) courts.... the person with the least money is ruled the idiot, no matter what the situation.

  11. Re:Bullshit on Edison Would Have Loved New Light Bulb Law, Says His Great-Grandson · · Score: 1

    If enough people cared about the things that most regulations are written to promote, then there would be no need for any law.

    Move to Somalia....it is the anarchist paradise.

  12. Re:Bullshit on Edison Would Have Loved New Light Bulb Law, Says His Great-Grandson · · Score: 2

    appliance bulbs are not covered by this law.

  13. Re:Bullshit on Edison Would Have Loved New Light Bulb Law, Says His Great-Grandson · · Score: 2

    and the law excludes specialty bulbs for reasons like that... appliance bulbs are excluded.

  14. Re:Bullshit on Edison Would Have Loved New Light Bulb Law, Says His Great-Grandson · · Score: 1

    Hmm... running power 300 miles versus running it from your roof... Yep... those are totally equivalent.

  15. Re:Bullshit on Edison Would Have Loved New Light Bulb Law, Says His Great-Grandson · · Score: 1

    with huge ass AC/DC converters in the base that get so hot they need to have heat sinks on them that are larger than the LED...thus, your LED bulb is AC powered...just like my PC.

  16. Re:The best option on Best Software For Putting Lectures Online? · · Score: 1

    I almost never take notes unless the professor has designed his/her lecture to be note taking friendly. The reason I do not take notes is I have to concentrate on the writing/typing more than what the professor is teaching. I found that being engaged in the lecture is a better solution (for me). If the lectures were archived on line, I might be more apt to take notes because then I could go back and review my notes against what the professor taught in the lecture.

  17. Re:NO. on Ask Slashdot: Is E-Learning a Viable Option? · · Score: 1

    If you are claiming that in order to be "left wing" you have to be an extreme Marxist, then no..... I am NOT left wing I guess..... Do I think that there needs to be a greater amount of wealth redistribution? hell yeah... Do I think that poverty is an unavoidable symptom of capitalism? absolutely. Do I think the rich should pay out the nose in extra taxes for unearned income? yes yes yes..... They should even pay a lot more for earned income because they are exploiting the country's resources, services and infrastructure more than others thus, just like a use tax, they should pay more to maintain those resources, services and infrastructure. Is it in a country's best interest to provide free access to healthcare? absolutely. a healthy population is a productive one, it is one that does not spread disease and lowers the costs of operating the economy.

    All those positions make me a lefty.....I am NOT a far lefty because I do believe that in a competitive market (different than a free market) the best outcomes can be had for MOST needs....I think that someone who earns their way to becoming rich should be allowed to be rich (Not a fan of inheritance of the riches), and I guess since I believe in private property and am generally a social libertarian, I must be too right wing for your arbitrary choice of where the political center is.

  18. Re:Automatic notetaking is nice on Ask Slashdot: Is E-Learning a Viable Option? · · Score: 1

    If I was a math professor, I would go online, find one of those wonderful 10 dollar Classics text books that are in paper back and use those. Unless you are teaching something that happened in the last 20 years, the stuff published in the 50's and 60's or earlier will suffice....it would actually force the students to think more since modern text books are like baby books compared to those damned books from the middle of last century.

  19. Re:NO. on Ask Slashdot: Is E-Learning a Viable Option? · · Score: 1

    It is all about the parenting. Teachers simply provide a path for the students to take for their education.... parents have to make the kids walk the path.

  20. Re:NO. on Ask Slashdot: Is E-Learning a Viable Option? · · Score: 1

    since they are all false, then they are equally true and valid.

  21. Re:Automatic notetaking is nice on Ask Slashdot: Is E-Learning a Viable Option? · · Score: 1

    Considering the fact that government investment is EXACTLY what helped propel the US passed teh Russians in education in the 50's and 60's, I think you need to reevaluate your position.

  22. Re:NO. on Ask Slashdot: Is E-Learning a Viable Option? · · Score: 1

    you assume too much about me. I am no right winger... I am perhaps to the left of President Obama.... The fact that a student's success in school and life is dependent on the parents is not a right or left wing issue, it is a fact of life. I expect results from my children, I do not hit my children, but I do provide appropriate consequences that gives them an incentive to behave well and perform to my expectations.

  23. Re:NO. on Ask Slashdot: Is E-Learning a Viable Option? · · Score: 1

    That is complete BS and you should go talk to the principal. The teacher should be encouraging the students to get the correct answer by what ever means they can, not forcing a particular methodology upon them.

  24. Re:NO. on Ask Slashdot: Is E-Learning a Viable Option? · · Score: 1

    when it comes to religious beliefs... all are equally true and valid... when it comes to opinions, you are correct... not all are equally true and valid.

  25. Re:NO. on Ask Slashdot: Is E-Learning a Viable Option? · · Score: 1

    do you really believe a parent needs to know the material that the student is learning in order for a student to be successful? The parent's job is to teach good work ethic and study habits. they teach good behavior and provide expectations of performance... that is 75% of the effort needed for a normal student to perform well in school. Without that parental involvement, then I would put my money on that child failing miserably.