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  1. Re:Why is it so cheap? on $499 3-D Printer Drew Plenty of Attention at CES (Video) · · Score: 2
    From their website:

    The da Vinci 1.0 will also notify you when the filament is running low so you don’t run out.

    I'm sure it will...

  2. Re:Yeah yeah on $499 3-D Printer Drew Plenty of Attention at CES (Video) · · Score: 1

    This is true. We got a color laser and used the cartridges that came with the printer for over 2 years (a full year after it started complaining about being empty).

  3. Re:Dangerous... on California Students, Parents Sue Over Teacher Firing, Tenure Rules · · Score: 1

    My daughters each have had 1 bad teacher out of 6 every year. When I was in school, I also had at least 1 bad teacher out of 6 every year. So did my brother. So I think the percentage is closer to 16.67%.

  4. Re:Dangerous... on California Students, Parents Sue Over Teacher Firing, Tenure Rules · · Score: 1

    and even try to ban subjects that aren't compatible with existing societal beliefs regardless of academic rigor

    Challenges to evolution?

  5. Re:Dangerous... on California Students, Parents Sue Over Teacher Firing, Tenure Rules · · Score: 3, Interesting
    It goes back to the Satires of Juvenal (1st Century AD):

    They all want to know about style, what sort of cases, And the summing up, and the shots that are likely to be Fired by the other side, but not a single one wants to pay. ‘You’re asking me to pay? But what have I learned?’ ‘It’s surely the teacher’s fault, if our young dunce feels Nothing stir in the left side of his chest, as he fills my Poor head for five days with his ‘dreadful Hannibal’.

  6. Re:Dangerous... on California Students, Parents Sue Over Teacher Firing, Tenure Rules · · Score: 0

    Then why does the US create everything great? Obviously something is working. Maybe it's that smart kids need to learn how to explain things slowly to their fellow classmates so that they can be effective workers when they grow up.

  7. Re:Dangerous... on California Students, Parents Sue Over Teacher Firing, Tenure Rules · · Score: 1

    No, usually despite the increase in budget, it all went to the superintendent's pocket, so they cut teachers anyway.

  8. Re:Dangerous... on California Students, Parents Sue Over Teacher Firing, Tenure Rules · · Score: 2

    It's not about suppressing the truth, it's about teaching our kids to present the truth in a constructive rather than destructive manner.

  9. Re:Crime does pay on Facebook's Biggest Bounty Yet To Hacker Who Found "Keys To the Kingdom" · · Score: 1

    Documenting your hit payment with bitcoin is an incredibly stupid thing to do. It's only anonymous until they look though your PC.

  10. Re:Traitorous spies. on Why Whistleblowers Can't Get a Fair Trial · · Score: 2

    Show me one instance where Snowden gave ANYTHING to the Russians instead of the British press.

  11. Re:Obama is another word for trash on Why Whistleblowers Can't Get a Fair Trial · · Score: 1

    Good. Maybe you've learned that "lifetime Democrat" is an unthinking position that's beneath you. (As is "lifetime Republican".)

  12. Re:So Don't Convict on Why Whistleblowers Can't Get a Fair Trial · · Score: 1

    Jurors are not in the courtroom when the decision is made to withhold evidence, so they don't know.

  13. Re:One and the same on Why Whistleblowers Can't Get a Fair Trial · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is EXACTLY the same as an ex post facto law. You are not allowed to think you are not breaking the law and then retroactively be told you were breaking the law. It's exactly that simple.

  14. Re: One and the same on Why Whistleblowers Can't Get a Fair Trial · · Score: 2

    Yes, because the American party system has ALWAYS been Republicans and Democrats. And has never had a party rise up to replace one of them. A third party has NEVER succeeded... EVER! :roll eyes:

  15. Re:our fault on Yep, People Are Still Using '123456' and 'Password' As Passwords In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Which is a goldmine for attackers, since they can verify that SOMEBODY at the organization is certainly using that password.

  16. Re:Mitnick is a whitehat? on Hacker Says He Could Access 70,000 Healthcare.Gov Records In 4 Minutes · · Score: 2

    And he hasn't done any of that for over 10 years. Jeez, Javert, he went to prison and served his time. He's trying to turn his life around and be a good guy. Cut him a break.

  17. Re:How do I get clients like this? on Hacker Says He Could Access 70,000 Healthcare.Gov Records In 4 Minutes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Connections. People don't pay people because they're good. They pay them because they are their friends.

  18. Re:Throw money at it! on Hacker Says He Could Access 70,000 Healthcare.Gov Records In 4 Minutes · · Score: 2

    You're a fool and clearly never worked in Defense Contracting. I have, at one of the big six, and I can assure sequestration was quite damaging. Layoffs at most industrial centers, cancelations of contracts which led to increased overhead, running up the costs of certain programs and turning them unprofitable, etc.

    I worked in the industrial side, building ships. The Navy had to delay several ship procurements, which led to a lack of economies of scale and efficient manufacturing methodology which icnreased cost; our bids were based on a set schedule of production and the delays ramped that up. Other guys building vehicles had programs cut, which lowered the numbers of the base contract subsequently increasing the unit cost of each vehicle, as you have fewer to spread your fixed overhead and industrial manufacturing requires a lot of fixed overhead. Same thing on the aircraft side, and the cutbacks flow down through their subcontractors, laying people off. I have several PhD friends working as civilian researchers for the DoD; their budget was bigger than NASA's entire budget. Most of their programs got cut back, and suddenly a bunch of PhDs were sitting around twiddling their thumbs doing paperwork instead of researching new materials and communications systems; most left for the private sector. Sequestration was a serious blow.

    Politically I'm happy it hit; there was too much expansion of the DoD under the last two wars and it needed to be paired back. But with a scalpel, not with the battle-axe that sequestration was.

    And even after reading your whole comment, we repeat... AND NOBODY NOTICED.

  19. Re:Okay, but... on Hacker Says He Could Access 70,000 Healthcare.Gov Records In 4 Minutes · · Score: 1, Interesting

    At one place I used to work, we had to run our site through an automated testing utility that had over 1000 hack attempts. It found 8 on our site (that had never been hacked to my knowledge). We took care of 6 easily, 1 more without too much effort and finally convinced the powers that be that the 8th one would cost more than they were willing to pay.

    Sure, it was a pain, but it really wasn't that hard to secure an additional 7 hack attempts (6 of which I had never heard of, despite all my years in the industry).

    It sounds like Healthcare.gov would fail 500 of the 1000.

  20. Re:alternatives on Short Notice: LogMeIn To Discontinue Free Access · · Score: 1

    We use join.me to meet with a client at work all the time. Works great. Same technology but much better interface than LogMeIn Free.

  21. Re:Perhaps... on Romanian Bitcoin Entrepreneur Steps In To Pay OpenBSD Shortfall · · Score: 1

    Well, since you can donate the bitcoins directly, it really doesn't matter.

  22. Re:What is the difference between a duck? on Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview · · Score: 1

    "How would you move a mountain using only a spoon?

    I would ask my manager for a giant earthmover. And if I were continually expected to work with inefficient tools, I would look for work elsewhere.

  23. Re:Be Careful on Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview · · Score: 1

    It's a common word in the American midwest and south.

  24. Re:Tame and lame on Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview · · Score: 2

    "Is there intelligent life in Outer Space"?

    Yes, God. And now since you've asked me a religious question, you'd better have some other really good reason for not hiring me...

  25. Re:Not here! on In Greece, 10 Months In Prison For "Blasphemous" Facebook Page · · Score: 1

    Yes. But he didn't sleep with them, just told them that they are people with value...