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  1. Re:If you *read* TFA... on Build a Secret Compartment, Go To Jail · · Score: 1

    Wrong! Possessing cash means that you are a reckless criminal who is involved in the drug trade! Possessing hot fudge and ice cream means you are a pedophile who is going to appear on Chris Hansen's "To Catch a Predator".

    They should have given this compartment building lowlife life without parole, because he is obviously a criminal drug lord pretending to be a nobody. Everyone pretending to be a nobody when charged with a drug offense is obviously a drug lord. His biggest problem though, was not hiring a good lawyer. One who would bring up the Chewbacca defense.

  2. Re:First Post on The Hypocrisy In Silicon Valley's Big Talk On Innovation · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why hasn't /. checksummed the ACs IPs on their end so we can ignore specific Anonymous Cowards by IP address without knowing their IP? That's not innovation either but pretty much a simple solution where I don't need to know who is posting other than that I don't want to see their posts.

  3. Re:Reporter Arrested for recording cops on Obama Administration Supports Journalist Arrested For Recording Cops · · Score: 1

    You might still be able to file a private prosecution depending on where you are in the US (or the world).
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen's_arrest#United_States
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prosecution#United_States

  4. Re:What the fuck is happening to my country? on Spy Drones Used To Hunt Down Christopher Dorner · · Score: 1

    +100 to this comment.

  5. Re:Only over my dead body on Sony Rootkit Redux: Canadian Business Groups Lobby For Right To Install Spyware · · Score: 1

    I'd agree to this if only the corporations allow the people to install spyware on their board's and employee's computers to check on whether there is any malfeasance in their accounting and to watch for deviant pornography.

    Just for their own good, of course.

  6. Re: Oh, the surprise. on Leaked: Obama's Rules For Assassinating American Citizens · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sorry to add something non-serious into the discussion but the original article's link is:

    http://reason.com/blog/2013/02/04/someone-just-leaked-obamas-rules-for-ass

    I just don't know what to say when an article has Obama's rules for ass...

    Reminds me of this image:
    http://c580019.r19.cf2.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/obama-checking-out-girl.jpg

  7. Re:Since when? on How EVE Online Dealt With a 3,000-Player Battle · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not an EVE player but I thought the coverage and screen cap was impressive here:
    http://themittani.com/news/breaking-massive-super-fight-asakai-lowsec

  8. Re:Article is missing? on Feedback On Simcity Gets User Banned From EA Forums · · Score: 1

    Original post is still cached on google.

    http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Y48LvBtM0PgJ:answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/EA-is-Suffering-from-the-Issues-of-Always-Online/td-p/418246+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

  9. Re:Was it EA..... on Feedback On Simcity Gets User Banned From EA Forums · · Score: 5, Informative

    Better summary here:

    https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=beta

  10. Re:Remove the obvious structural weaknesses on White House Must Answer Petition To 'Build Death Star' · · Score: 5, Funny

    iFixit will give the new Death Star a repairability rating lower than the new iMac, then.

  11. Re:Red herring on Meg Whitman Says HP Was Defrauded By Autonomy; HP Stock Plunges · · Score: 1

    +1 to your post.

  12. Re:Paradox. on Empathy Represses Analytic Thought, and Vice Versa · · Score: 1

    Better outcomes for whom? Your rationality would allow you to give up on someone you may care about because rationally speaking, it isn't worth the effort to stay with/keep caring for them. The overall expenditure may be rationalized to be lower for society but individual empathy for individuals can modify such behaviour so that you would spend more for people you care about.

  13. Re:Respect the First Amendment! on Paul Ceglia Arrested and Charged With Fraud Over Facebook Ownership Claims · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can say what you want, but I guess it crosses the line when you try to sue someone over a false claim, and then falsify evidence as well.

    Comparing this to freedom of speech is a bit facetious.

  14. Re:Costco doesn't make money on product on How To Add 5.5 Petabytes and Get Banned From Costco · · Score: 2

    Got this from MSNBC:

    Costco works to keep prices low by buying in huge quantity and never marking up any product more than 15 percent, less than the typical 25 percent at a supermarket or 50 percent at a department store. Costco makes up for those low margins by charging a $55 annual membership fee of its 64 million members. With more than 90 percent of its members renewing each year, the fee is evidently not a significant deterrent.

  15. Re:No Surprise There on Apple Exits "Green Hardware" Certification Program · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This will be interesting to see what Apple's official response is. You can bet every other hardware vendor is watching this move, as well as the EPEAT people. If the public doesn't change their buying in response to Apple's move, then all the other vendors may decide that EPEAT certification isn't necessary for them to sell products. And EPEAT may have to change (relax/sell out/update) their rules in order to get Apple to return to the program if they feel that Apple will be the company that makes them irrelevant.

  16. Re:Shysters on HTC Defeats Apple In Slide-To-Unlock Patent Dispute · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well patents could be useful if the patent filers hadn't figured out how to game the system. They've basically used verbiage and obfuscation to paper up the claims and make it harder for the examiners to figure out what's going on. Part of this is to broaden the scope of the patent so there are fewer ways to work around them, but it also broadens the applicability to industries and products the filers never thought about.

    However this means that the patent officers are always overworked and underpaid, and the broad scope of knowledge they must possess is ever expanding. I guess you'd have to ask a patent officer how they could revise and reform the system but it is truly becoming a system of little worth to the public at this point.

  17. Re:poor on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Beef With Windows Phone? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm a Canadian so I'm not sure how true this is, but I think Europeans tend to look at disdain at Microsoft as a corporation. The were convicted as abusing their monopoly in the EU and in the US, but election of GWB gave them a free pass in the US penalty phase.

    Having Nokia effectively surrender their crown jewels to Microsoft by a former Microsoft exec doesn't exactly do any favours to image of Nokia as a strong and vibrant company. Perception is more than half the battle to marketing, and marketing is a huge component to smart phones (very few people actually NEED one).

    That's just from outside the fishbowl looking in. Also telegraphing your moves before you have a plan in place is such a dumb idea. To paraphrase Steve Jobs, Nokia should have milked all their 'legacy' technologies dry while working on the 'next great thing (whether it was with Microsoft or not).' Instead they drove a heart through their products publicly and called it a day.

  18. Re:Christ... on Analyzing the New MacBook Pro · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It may not be rocket science, but Apple is quite aggressive in using commercial miniaturization and materials that the computer and consumer electronic space isn't used to pushing. That is innovation in itself, especially when you consider the volume of production they can achieve with it.

    Otherwise many other companies would be doing what they're doing right now, but it looks like Apple is consistently the one at the forefront of consumer electronic hardware right now.

  19. Re:Construction or landscaping on Ask Slashdot: Find a Job In China For Non-native Speaker? · · Score: 4, Informative

    You might have a hard time getting a visa, given the anti-foreigner sentiment right now. The Chinese government has been inciting this anti-west mentality since the Bo and Chen fiascos have come to light. Also CCTV's Yang Rui's rant has inflamed public opinions as well as the recent sexual assault of a Chinese woman by a UK man caught on video and another train incident has meant things are quite tense right now.

    I just came back from China on a vacation last month but the visa application was way more stringent than before. I had to give them proof of my Canadian citizenship and also send them a resume (wtf!). They obviously thought I was going to try and find a job there against a tourist visa, so definitely something's up.

    As to your problem about finding a specific job, without language skill the OP is right, it's labour for you, and there are already (too) many backs in China that can do that. Learn the language first.

  20. Re:So WTF do the non-depressed do with the interne on Depressed People Surf the Web Differently · · Score: 1

    Anybody with a brain could have told them this. Depressed people go out less than people who don't suffer from depression. Staying at home = boredom unless you find things to do like download files, play on line games, email, chat etc.

    It's their way of coping. Once someone isn't depressed they go out more, which means less of the things like downloading files, playing online games etc.

  21. Re:Imagine on Apple Auto-Disables Old Flash Players In Mac OS X 10.7.4 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I like how you say that Macs can't do 'real work,' like the work you're doing is somehow better than someone who has picked up a Mac.

    The task(s) should always define the tool needed. If it's a Mac that's needed to run the software to do the task so be it.

  22. Re:370 MB? on Apple Auto-Disables Old Flash Players In Mac OS X 10.7.4 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Delta updates are sent via Apple Software Update which, in theory, is customized to patch a specific system model (Mac Pro or iMac or MacBook Air etc.). This means they can vary in size.

    However, I've found that delta updates can be more problematic and not patch everything that needs to be updated, which can lead to odd crashes and other funky behaviour.

    In my experience, I skip the software updates for delta releases and download the combo updater which has the kitchen sink mentality of updating.

    Link here (1.4GB) for standard install 10.7.4:
    http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1524

    1.5GB for Mac OS X Server 10.7.4:
    http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1529

  23. Re:Photographic prints! on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Printing Digital Photos? · · Score: 1

    Costco is very economical and they do a great job. As far as I know, they use Epson 7800s and 7880s in their printing centers and Noritsu/Fujitsu as well.

    All modern commercial/industrial inkjets are pigment based, but lower end consumer printers can still be found with dye based inks. Pigment based inks are more finicky but have a much longer permanence associated with it.

    As far as print longevity goes the best place to look is the Wilhelm Institute.
    http://www.wilhelm-research.com/

    They are an independent (tiny) institute that looks at the claims of the manufacturers and put them to the test. Most of the tests are on-going, since the claims of the printer manufacturers are measured in decades and centuries now, and accelerated testing can only simulate so much.

    The current champion of longevity is the HP Designjet Z3200 series, but they have a smaller gamut (vibrant range) than the Canon Lucia EX and Epson (forget their current generation of ink name) pigmented inks. The Z3200 clear coating isn't as durable as the Canon's range so many people have chosen the Canon iPF series printers as the best compromise of durability and image quality as of late. Epson is still the big dog in the photographic print industry but Canon is making waves as well. HP has been fairly silent on updates for a couple of years so they might be ceding this portion of the market to Canon/Epson/Noritsu.

  24. Re:Quite the opposite the opposite on U.S. Missile Defense Against Iran Makes China/Russia Mad, Might Not Even Work · · Score: 1

    Most likely a missile defense shield requires the anti missile tech to be placed locally. I don't think that the U.S. wants to park a brand new multi-billion dollar technology right in the Kremlin's backyard, where it will conveniently go missing.

  25. Re:Just keep in mind the tradeoff on Indian Gov't Uses Special Powers To Slash Cancer Drug Price By 97% · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you read the article it does give the circumstances of the ruling. I would be inclined to agree with you on principle, but from the article:

    Economist and intellectual property expert James Love said, "The Bayer price of Rs 34,11,898 per year ($69,000) is more than 41 times the projected average per capita income for India in 2012, shattering any measure of affordability. Bayer tried to justify its high price by making claims of high R&D costs, but refused to provide any details of its actual outlays on the research for Sorafenib, a cancer drug that was partly subsidized by the US Orphan Drug tax credit, and jointly developed with Onyx Pharmaceuticals. Bayer has made billions from Sorafenib, and made little effort to sell the product in India where its price is far beyond the means of all but a few persons."

    This is in direct contravention to the WTO TRIPS agreement:

    Under Section 84, a compulsory licence to manufacture a drug can be issued after three years of the grant of patent on the product, which is not available at an affordable price. Under the World Trade Organisation TRIPS Agreement, compulsory licences are legally-recognized means to overcome barriers in accessing affordable medicines. This is the first time in the history of the Indian Patents Act, 1970, that the provision under Section 84 has been invoked.