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  1. Re:Someone please aware me: on FBI Says Search Warrants Not Needed To Use "Stingrays" In Public Places · · Score: 1

    Because when you are in a public place you have no right to the expectation of privacy. If you are walking and talking down the sidewalk in town other people are able to hear your side of the conversation. Depending on if your state and the state the other party is in are two or one party states it is a moot point.

  2. Not First Amendment on Complain About Comcast, Get Fired From Your Job · · Score: 1

    I don't know why the first amendment was even brought up. That only protects you from the government from making laws saying what you can and can't say. A private entity can do whatever the fuck it wants based on whatever the fuck you say.

  3. Re:So in other words, it will be just like Firewir on Can Thunderbolt Survive USB SuperSpeed+? · · Score: 1

    Setting USB legacy mode in the BIOS addresses the issue of not being able to F8 into windows to tell it you really don't want to run a chkdisk right now.

  4. Re:Not in Silicone Valley on Google Nabs Bing Maps Architect · · Score: 1

    What he doesn't realize is that teleradiology is already a big thing.

  5. Re:How much does Google stand to lose with somethi on Google Glass Making Its Way Into Operating Rooms · · Score: 3, Informative

    But they are medical devices as they are diagnostic quality monitors. 5 grand a pop is cheap. Typically for a 5 Megapixel monitor pair and video card we would be 27 grand. The reason you need 5 Megapixel is because it is what is required by the FDA to interpret diagnostic mammography. The manufacturer has to show that the monitor complies with DICOM rendering standards and they have to be calibrated by a physicist regularly. For MRI, Ultrasound, and Computed Tomography (CT) a typical monitor can be used. Digital Computed Radiography (CR) aka Digital X-Ray, you need at least a 3 Megapixel monitor to properly display the diagnostic information contained in the images.

  6. Re:Fitting rooms on How Blockbuster Could Have Owned Netflix · · Score: 1

    What is to stop Amazon from buying up departments stores for a dime right before they finally fold and having Amazon stores, where you can try some things on, order it, and it is at your house by the time you get home?

  7. Scenario on Seeking Fifth Amendment Defenders · · Score: 1

    Unless I completely don't understand anything this example makes sense. I am arrested on suspicion of murder because I was leaving an apartment complex where a murder had taken place. The reason I was at the apartment we because I was robing somebody. If I did not have the right to not incriminate myself then I would either have to lie to the court which later could be an issue, or I would have to tell them I was there because I was robing somebody. This assumes that the police at the time of my questioning have no knowledge of the robery.

  8. Re:First Task on Dell Special Committee Backs Michael Dell Buyout Bid · · Score: 2

    I have always spoken with somebody in the United States that speaks English as a first language when dealing with Dell.

  9. Re:Collusion? on Xbox One Used Game Policy Leaks: Publishers Get a Cut of Sale · · Score: 1

    I know TFS says market price, but the article states "The retailer can then sell the pre-owned game at whatever price they like, although as part of the system the publisher of the title in question will automatically receive a percentage cut of the sale. As will Microsoft. The retailer will pocket the rest." https://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/publishers-to-receive-cut-of-xbox-one-pre-owned-sales-at-retail/0116137

  10. Re:Collusion? on Xbox One Used Game Policy Leaks: Publishers Get a Cut of Sale · · Score: 1

    I believe it would only be collusion if they said that all new games must cost $80 and cannot cost less. Also if they said you must only pay $x for games traded in, and I don't believe that is the case. Microsoft and publishers are just saying that if you want to accept games you need be attached to Microsoft's database and agree that Microsoft and publishers will take a percentage of whatever price you set. They are not setting prices for used games, just asking for a slice of the pie. Immoral maybe, but not illegal.

  11. Re:Fiat Currency on Steve Forbes: Bitcoin Not Money · · Score: 5, Funny

    The value of one U.S. dollar is exactaly one U.S. dollar. The value doesn't change, how much you can buy with it however, does change.

  12. Happens in Lower Alabama as well. on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't Schools Connected? · · Score: 1

    I know at my daughter's school we can get her homework online for that day if she leaves it at school. We constantly e-mail her teacher. Their class projects are on their class site for us to see. This all happens in an average sized town in lower Alabama. If it can be done there, it can be done just about anywhere. You just need teacher who care enough to do it, and a school system that supports them. Now granted that responding to e-mails and posting to a blog shouldn't be their only job, it can be done, and it should as our lives become ever increasingly digital.

  13. Re:DeVry is a tech / trade school not a diploma mi on Do Online Educational Badges Threaten Conventional Education Models? · · Score: 2

    I agree as well. I am currently going to DeVry and it is nice to have teachers that are actually doing the job during the day, then coming and teaching at night. You get a better idea of how everything is playing out in the real world, rather than a professor who only teaches and hasn't been in the field for who knows how long. I do enjoy the discussion topics as you get to interact with people in different areas of the country who still have their own opinions rather than the localized opinions you get when you live and go to school at a campus. Now DeVry is also moving to use WebEx meetings for live lectures for online only classes, which is a great help for the higher level classes, and if I happen to not be available for the lecture I can always review it later rather than just having to rely on notes somebody else took.

  14. New anti-union tactic? on Court Rules Sending Too Many Emails Is "Hacking" · · Score: 1

    So now any company with union workers can set their inboxes to hold only a few messages, do something the union workers think is un-fair, and charge them with hacking when people start sending angry e-mails? This seems to be a cop-out to a larger problem. On the other hand I guess it could make union workers sit down with their union and think about what is to be said, rather than everybody e-mailing "this sucks"

  15. Re:SSDs are still unreliable on eBay Deploys 100TB of SSDs, Cuts Rackspace By Half · · Score: 1

    As can the most touted and expensive 'enterprise hdd'

  16. Prohibition on US Senate Committee Passes PROTECT IP Act · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Does the government not remember how well prohibition went? Have they not learned that by making something illegal they are only going to push more people to to figure out ways around it.

  17. Re:Why? on Kneber Botnet Strikes, Targets Gov't Agencies · · Score: 1

    The same reasons companies still use Windows, vendor specific software that requires windows to run.

  18. Re:Confusing naming on AMD's New Flagship HD 6970 Tested · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I agree 100%, I recently purchased an ATI 6850 with my new system, but it seems that the 5970 still outperforms it. They need to either stick with an incremental naming system, or start adding Good, Better, Best next to whatever name they can come up with.

  19. Re:Content providers must pay on Comcast Accused of Congestion By Choice · · Score: 1

    I understand this to mean that if the content providers don't want to deal with the congestion coming into and going out of the Comcast network, they need to be inside the network.

  20. Re:A provider that uses close to 100% of capacity! on Comcast Accused of Congestion By Choice · · Score: 1

    I would agree, but if adding another link only gives them 5% unused, and they can deliver the speeds they advertise, wouldn't the cost be worth it to stop all the outcry?

  21. Re:Future Concern? What Future? on NASA Delays Discovery's Final Launch To February · · Score: 2

    They would like their last mission not to end in a horrible explosion.

  22. Re:Next year on WikiLeaks Will Unveil Major Bank Scandal · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Early next year is within 60 days

  23. Re:Conflicted on From Touchpad To Thought-pad · · Score: 1

    What if in the process of brain-->computer they send inputs to your brain that send the signals to the touch feel centers of the brain, so you precieve the tactile feedback?

  24. Re:Name fail on MySpace Revamps Site To Recapture the Magic · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does "Wheel in the Sky" from the new album count?

  25. Re:Real Time On-Screen Display on FCC Will Tackle Cell Phone 'Bill Shock' · · Score: 1

    like a Tracfone does?