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  1. Re: Cheaper on United and Orbitz Sue 22-Year-Old Programmer For Compiling Public Info · · Score: 3, Informative

    I can't ship a 40 lb bag from Arizona to Maine cheaper than checking it. Word.

  2. Re: WHY GOD WHY on Microsoft Is Building a New Browser As Part of Its Windows 10 Push · · Score: 1

    It's a big world out there...

  3. Re: WHY GOD WHY on Microsoft Is Building a New Browser As Part of Its Windows 10 Push · · Score: 1

    It's called Agile, and it's pus unless your entire dev team is ADHD.

    Then your dev team is pus.

  4. Re: WHY GOD WHY on Microsoft Is Building a New Browser As Part of Its Windows 10 Push · · Score: 1

    God, we really DO need a new OS in the marketplace...

  5. Re: WHY GOD WHY on Microsoft Is Building a New Browser As Part of Its Windows 10 Push · · Score: 2

    I can read and respond to your vapid post on my Android phone, with effort, since Slashdot Mobile sucks so hard.

    But I can. It's not just for Google ads.

  6. Re: Shut it down on 5,200 Days Aboard ISS, and the Surprising Reason the Mission Is Still Worthwhile · · Score: 1

    It's taken us this long to get beyond subsistence.

  7. Re: Shut it down on 5,200 Days Aboard ISS, and the Surprising Reason the Mission Is Still Worthwhile · · Score: 1

    I'm betting those nations ended up doing exploration and 'research' in the name of commerce.

  8. Re: Shut it down on 5,200 Days Aboard ISS, and the Surprising Reason the Mission Is Still Worthwhile · · Score: 1

    You quote two excellent examples. Do you even read your OWN posts?

  9. Re: The Navy sucks at negotiating on US Navy Sells 'Top Gun' Aircraft Carrier For One Penny · · Score: 2

    Given the age and time out of service, 'pristine' probably means not on fire and not in immediate danger of sinking.

  10. Re: More job loss on The Magic of Pallets · · Score: 1

    It continues to be difficult to outsource unloading goods at ports. Reducing the job count, yes. Shifting jobs to the break bulk warehouses, yes. Even to the retail shelves. But eliminate?

  11. Re: Simple answer... on Colorado Sued By Neighboring States Over Legal Pot · · Score: 1

    You think taxation and theft are different? One takes from you for the benefit of another, against your specific will, and on penalty of death. The other takes from you, well, you get it yet?

    Or perhaps you not only accept that you pay taxes that go towards what you find abhorrent, but you agreed that failure to pay can ultimately be punished by death.

    In America, we have killed for selling cigarettes without paying the proper tax. Cigarettes.

  12. Re: Separate Marginal Tax Rates for IP on The Beatles, Bob Dylan and the 50-Year Copyright Itch · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I enlisted rather than risk draft. But i didn't get a chance to vote for anything until later, and it's hard to discern which party could take credit for what. I'm suspecting no choice was good.

    Overall, however, I've tried to vote for less federal government. Plenty of ways to blame everyone else for what you perceive as harming you and your future.

    Go for it.

  13. Re: Separate Marginal Tax Rates for IP on The Beatles, Bob Dylan and the 50-Year Copyright Itch · · Score: 1

    Well. I was born in the 50s, and only witnessed the birth and growth of those born 10-20 years after me.

    And they had substantial opportunity for college. The GI Bill still afforded veterans great opportunities. College enrollment rays among high school graduates grew steadily between 1978-1988, which doesn't make lot of sense if opportunity
    diminished.

    BTW, being anonymous leaves you with less credibility than if you had a name. But you're probably either too lazy to register, or too afraid of losing karma, to fess up. Stay anonymous. Comments from the unknown are assumed to be just as valid as from those who choose not to hide their identity.

  14. Re: Separate Marginal Tax Rates for IP on The Beatles, Bob Dylan and the 50-Year Copyright Itch · · Score: 1

    So this includes those born between 1960 and 1970 who, by accident of birth, were on a universe where the opportunity for a college education was excluded, possibly by imperial fiat?

  15. Re: Simple answer... on Colorado Sued By Neighboring States Over Legal Pot · · Score: 1

    You wrote that as if there is a difference.

  16. Re: Simple answer... on Colorado Sued By Neighboring States Over Legal Pot · · Score: 0

    1. Taxing marijuana so far has been problematic. Taxing medicine is risky, and resistance to that might cause more problems. Recreational use, of course, has an excellent taxation model in alcohol.

    2. Beware of taxing stuff. If they want to, they can kill you if they think you aren't paying those years the way they think you should.

  17. Re: Simple answer... on Colorado Sued By Neighboring States Over Legal Pot · · Score: -1, Troll

    And taxes are good, right? Not like that's stealing or anything.

    And it all goes to a good cause.

  18. Re: The US Internet Shutdown Switch on Sony Leaks Reveal Hollywood Is Trying To Break DNS · · Score: 1

    Really. You could have proposed Britain and Iceland. Lack of true free speech rights combined with an alarming lack of respect for the 1% = balance.

    Russia could overfly Vanuatu once, problem solved.
    At least you didn't defend the UN...

  19. Re:DNS was always optional on Sony Leaks Reveal Hollywood Is Trying To Break DNS · · Score: 2

    It's inevitable that the copyright holders will expect IP addresses or ranges to be blocked or simply deleted from routing tables.

    And then innocent bystanders will become caught up in this.

    That's how this escalates. And how it is dangerous to let them do even the little thing.

  20. What remedies at law exist? on Sony Leaks Reveal Hollywood Is Trying To Break DNS · · Score: 1

    For other types of distribution, what remedies at law exist?

    For instance, if I start mailing pirated Blu-Ray disc all over the world, do they instruct the various shipping agents, postal agencies, and so forth to refuse to accept anything from me, and also to refuse to deliver to me? Can they do this without informing me? Do I have recourse if this also denies me lawful services?

    If I merely pack and ship these discs for someone else, is there a fix in law to also deny me access to shipping methods?

    Do they put me/us in jail? Do they have the right to go wherever I am in the world, arrest me, and imprison me for this? Would I be denied even the mail from the court informing me of this?

    This seems to be another example of technology being used to accomplish what could not be otherwise done. Removing a domain from DNS sure does eliminate their ability to distribute illegally-derived content, but doing so surreptitiously seems to be nasty business.

    Is this an expansion of enforcement actions that may not itself be legal?

  21. Re:The US Internet Shutdown Switch on Sony Leaks Reveal Hollywood Is Trying To Break DNS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't prefer to ignore this. I instead am thankful.

    You don't want the UN involved. And you'll have to recommend a better nation or group of nations to oversee DNS. Or another corporation.

    This arrangement has worked very well for a long time. There is nothing to fix, and everything to defend.

  22. Re: Mandarin vs. Spanish on Want To Influence the World? Map Reveals the Best Languages To Speak · · Score: 1

    I suspect it was dialog, not food, that was the object.

  23. Re: Let me be the first to say... on Want To Influence the World? Map Reveals the Best Languages To Speak · · Score: 1

    Of the bilinguals I deal with, Francophones will speak English with minimal reluctance. Asians will readily. Spanish-speakers much less so. But my sample size is in the dozens.

  24. Re: Let me be the first to say... on Want To Influence the World? Map Reveals the Best Languages To Speak · · Score: 1

    Try 'con permiso'...

  25. Re: Unless it has support for Bitcoin... on Small Bank In Kansas Creates the Bank Account of the Future · · Score: 1

    It's bad where you are, you just don't see it. Unless you live where banks aren't a big deal