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  1. Re:Government should just drop the product. on Price-gouging Maker of EpiPen Literally Said That Critics Can Go Fuck Themselves (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Hopefully, you only bought 0.3mL syringes. I doubt an overdose of epinephrine would be good for you.

    Also, having an untrained person give you a shot with a standard needle and vial is extremely dangerous, they could forget to bleed the air out of the syringe and give you an air-embolism, or give you the wrong dose. The whole point of an auto-injector is that it's as fool-proof as possible

  2. Re:Government should just drop the product. on Price-gouging Maker of EpiPen Literally Said That Critics Can Go Fuck Themselves (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but how does one take big business out of government by electing a famous representative of big business as president? That is the part I don't understand.
    If you want to drain the swamp, why elect someone who helped create it?

  3. Re:Can Congress nullify a patent? on Price-gouging Maker of EpiPen Literally Said That Critics Can Go Fuck Themselves (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    They cancelled Bayer's Asprin patents after WWII, to punish Bayer for helping the Nazis, so there is already some legal precedent.

  4. Where I work, the only person who gets to work remotely is the CEO (who is also the sole owner).

  5. Re:The U.S. is still stepping on the brakes on Trump Misunderstood MIT Climate Research, University Officials Say (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Economies can be repaired, Ecosystems can't.

  6. Re:Not "misunderstood" on Trump Misunderstood MIT Climate Research, University Officials Say (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I hate Trump, and everything he stands for, but after reading the full Paris Agreement I think this might be an occurrence "accidentally got it right"

    There is a lot of language about requiring developed nations to give financial support to developing nations, while actual pollution reduction is purely optional. (there is a huge difference in meaning between the words 'should' and 'shall' when it comes to legal documents).

    With no pre-set targets to aim for, and no real penalties for failing to meet self-set targets, this Agreement seems to be more about redistribution of wealth than it is about fighting climate change.

  7. If you install a fiber connection to it, and power it with a belt driven generator (driven by an electric motor sitting outside the cage), you can safely use it via remote terminal without compromising the integrity of the Faraday cage.

    An EMP might take out the remote terminal and external motor, but everything inside will be fine. Since you still have a working belt-driven generator, you can use a lawnmower engine or something to drive the belt, and run your electronics even without a working power grid.

  8. The author puts the difficulty of opting-out in term of numerous, confusing, and hard-to-find settings that need to be changed.

    All of these settings must be stored in a database somewhere on the HD, why not create something that directly edits the values and automates the process?

  9. Re:Does this mean 30 years of rulings - overturned on The Supreme Court Is Cracking Down on Patent Trolls (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    At the very least, it appears to have violated the 6th amendment provision for a "speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed".

    This ruling would seem to indicate that many of the "closed" cases were decided outside of their proper jurisdiction. If the way that the venue (and thus the jury) was chosen didn't follow the law as it was written at the time (regardless of interpretation at the time), is the ruling still valid?

  10. Re:So he did nothing? on EPA Website Removes Climate Science Site From Public View After Two Decades (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I could reduce unemployment claims to zero overnight, it's easy. Just make everyone ineligible for unemployment and POOF, no more claims.
    This is why unemployment claims are a terrible measure of actual unemployment level, because it ignores everyone who doesn't (or can't) file a claim.
    If the number of claims drops, does it mean less people are unemployed, or does it just mean less people are trying to claim it?

    As far as the S&P goes, Trump has no control over that, and it's only a sign that corporations are seeing a far more corporate-friendly government. It also benefits the upper class far more than the middle class (the majority of capital gains are claimed by people with incomes above 200k/year)

    I will give him credit for the reduction in immigration, but it's questionable if that is actually a good thing. Remember, EVERY person in America (other than the native americans) is either an immigrant or the descendant of an immigrant. If they had done something like this 150 years ago, most of us probably wouldn't exist. To say "I hate immigrants" is no different than saying "I hate my great grandparents".

  11. Nothing he says is inconsistent, you just have to read between the lines.

    For example, when he says "a better understanding of our environment and of environmental risks", what he really means is "the 'current' understanding disagrees with my personal beliefs and desires, therefore, the problem must be the 'current' understanding, so we need a 'better' one"

  12. Re:Bigger Problem in Smaller Package Coming on NASA Delays First Flight of New SLS Rocket Until 2019 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    All we really need (from a ground-launch perspective) is just enough to get into orbit. Any flights beyond there could be launched from orbit.

    Do you really want to spend weeks traveling to mars in a cramped rocket nose-cone, or would you rather ride in a large roomy ship that was built without the constraints of having to fit on top of a single rocket?

  13. Re:Bigger Problem in Smaller Package Coming on NASA Delays First Flight of New SLS Rocket Until 2019 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    What happened to the space suits we have been using?

    Did someone accidentally burn down the warehouse containing every existing suit, and every copy of the blueprints for them?

  14. Re:there are a lot of unknowns here on Can Geoengineering Drones Fight Global Warming? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    The follow-on effects would be mind-bogglingly complex. You might cause drought in some areas (e.g. India, western North America) and insane rainfall in other places.

    This was the first thing I thought of. If you force the rain to fall early, in order to break up the clouds, what happens to the place where that rain normally falls?

  15. Still waiting on Mastercard is Building Fingerprint Scanners Directly Into Its Cards (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm still waiting for the version of the mastercard that includes a holographic AI assistant, that we were promised in the early 90s

  16. You do realize that they would require either a massive court settlement where MS loses badly, an extreme 180 in MS corporate leadership, or a complete rewrite of copyright law.

  17. Putting the cart before the horse on HTC Introduces Eye-Tracking 'VR Ad Service' (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    Before HTC starts talking about using eye-tracking in VR to measure ad-views, they need to actually add eye-tracking to the Vive first (there is a 3rd party working on this, but not HTC itself)

  18. Re:The "engaging ad" lie on HTC Introduces Eye-Tracking 'VR Ad Service' (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    What does work a lot better is when people watch some videos of one of their YouTube favorites and you can get them to endorse your product, especially if they have the skill to weave that in an interesting way into their presentation. Because more often than not they watch the channel for the person and his or her presenting style, not exclusively for the content presented, so the person they like presenting your product in an engaging way can actually work. Provided your product is in any way sensibly connected with the show at hand.

    As a side note, in the early days of TV, ALL commercials were like this, simply because it wasn't technically feasible to 'cut' to a pre-recorded commercial. Commercials were all done live within the show itself, sometimes with a product endorsement, sometimes by panning the camera over to an off-stage table with a product display, and sometimes by just holding a sign in front of the camera with a live voice-over.

  19. Re:April Fools is Over on Ask Slashdot: Seen Any Good April Fool's Pranks Today? · · Score: 1

    I think someone just forgot to turn off the April Fools machine last year.

    Maybe they will remember to do it this year, and we will wake up tomorrow to discover that the entire Trump presidency was just an incredibly elaborate, year-long, April Fools joke.

  20. Re:National gun registry has some privacy on DJI Proposes New Electronic 'License Plate' For Drones (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Each wholesaler has a list of which retailer they sold it to. Each retailer has a list of the end-purchaser they sold it to.

    Unless you bought the gun at a gun show in Florida, in which case the wholesaler sells directly to the end-purchaser, and doesn't record anything.

  21. Re:"such an Orwellian model" on DJI Proposes New Electronic 'License Plate' For Drones (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    I wish I had some mod points for you right now.

  22. Re:required by treaty on DJI Proposes New Electronic 'License Plate' For Drones (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    ANPR (Automatic number plate recognition) cameras in use in the UK (and probably many other places) already do this using computer text-recognition to scan every plate that goes past the camera, and then records the date and time and a video clip into in a database. The police can go back later, type in a plate number, and it will show them every time that car went past any ANPR-enabled camera.

    Computer vision is good enough now (in a limited/uniform context like license plates) that RFID isn't really necessary. All it takes it a radar gun, a camera, and some fancy software.

    Also, passive RFID (the kind found in smart cards) only has a range of about 3 feet, so it would have to be a battery-powered or car-powered active RFID tag (300 foot range), but then you get into issues of drivers being able to turn it off at will.

  23. I had no idea that term applied to more than just square brackets. It seems obvious in retrospect, though: if they were the only kind of brackets, it wouldn't be necessary to specify that they are square.

  24. Re:Associativity of OR: on Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless they are trying to argue that "A and B and (C or D)" is meant - given context, that is insane.

    The line is written as "A,B,C or D"

    In oxford english, it means A or B or (C or D) due to the missing comma after the C
    This is the way the drivers are reading it

    In non-oxford english, it means A or B or C or D.
    This is the way the company is reading it.

  25. I do the same thing with parenthesis. I would write a 4 sentence comment on a site, and it may have as many as 6 sets of parenthesis.