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  1. Re:I routinely get new 550MB/s 120GB SSDs for $60 on Crucial Launches MX100 SSD At Well Under 50 Cents Per GiB · · Score: 1

    Because $79.99 is the list price before Newegg discounting.

  2. Re:List of NSA employees on NSA Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images · · Score: 1

    Try linkedin.

  3. NSA on Security Researchers Threatened With US Cybercrime Laws · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The NSA and other security services will not want security researchers to find and fix vulnerabilities the security services are exploiting.

  4. Re:Well... on Mutant Registration vs. Vaccine Registration · · Score: 2

    Health care providers are already required by law to report cases of HIV to the government.

    http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/hi...

    It would be more "efficient" if there was one database rather than two.

  5. Re:Well... on Mutant Registration vs. Vaccine Registration · · Score: 1

    HIV status is also legitimate public health information. Let's add HIV status to the national vaccine database.

  6. Earth is flat? on The Major Theoretical Blunders That Held Back Progress In Modern Astronomy · · Score: 4, Informative

    The scientific community never believed the earth was flat.

  7. Re:Agree with "dream on" on Ph.Ds From MIT, Berkeley, and a Few Others Dominate Top School's CS Faculties · · Score: 1

    Someone with a PhD from a top school would not want to work for someone with only a bachelors and with a colossal ego. He would not have accepted your offer, he would rather be working elsewhere.

  8. People hire people who are like themselves.

    Those who went to second class universities will be hired by those who went to second class universities.

  9. Need better link on German Court Rules That You Can't Keep Compromising Photos After a Break-Up · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This posting needs a better link. One that actually has some information.

  10. Re:I'm Okay With It on Ask Slashdot: Tech Customers Forced Into Supporting Each Other? · · Score: 1

    The company will lose even more money if rather than obtaining support the consumer returns the product for a refund.

  11. Re:Just noticing this? on Ask Slashdot: Tech Customers Forced Into Supporting Each Other? · · Score: 1

    One of the easy ways to reduce needed support is to produce software with fewer bugs.

  12. Re:As painful as it is... on Ask Slashdot: Communication With Locked-in Syndrome Patient? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That is her decision and not his to make. Unplugging the machines when she doesn't want them unplugged is murder.

  13. fake reviews on Yelp Reviews Help NYC Health Department Find and Close Dirty Restaurants · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The problem with using yelp reviews is some of the reviews are fake. Yelp staffers have been known to write negative reviews for companies that don't pay yelp.

  14. Re:Bare handed food handling? on Yelp Reviews Help NYC Health Department Find and Close Dirty Restaurants · · Score: 1

    Actually, washed bare hands are cleaner than using reusing plastic.

  15. Re:Correlation vs correlation on U.S. Drone Attack Strategy Against Al-Qaeda May Be Wrong · · Score: 1

    It is reasonable to expect the drones strikes have made things worse.

    Taking out the leadership is likely to divide one large group into multiple smaller groups. Multiple small groups are worse than one large group.

  16. Re:Ashamed! on IT Pro Gets Prison Time For Sabotaging Ex-Employer's System · · Score: 1

    Four years for causing a million dollars worth of damage isn't that harsh a sentence. What would the verdict be if someone came into a facility with a cutting torch and did the same amount of physical damage?

    Not a fair comparison. One is a white collar crime, the other a blue collar crime. The legal system treats those two types of crimes differently.

  17. Re:why are they taking so long? on New IE 8 Zero Day Discovered · · Score: 1

    Computers that are still running XP almost certainly can not be upgraded to Windows 7 or 8 because they have additional hardware requirements. Microsoft has failed their customers by not providing a way to upgrade their software and forcing them to stay with XP.

  18. Re:Tremendous Respect on Why Lavabit Shut Down · · Score: 1

    The article just repeats what the Lavabits founder said. Not everything he said is true. Don't believe everything that you read.

  19. Re: Do the same for EMAIL on XMPP Operators Begin Requiring Encryption, Google Still Not Allowing TLS · · Score: 1

    It makes it easier to identify the source of the SPAM.

  20. Chinese official response on US To Charge Chinese Military Employees With Hacking · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Chinese official response (in Chinese): http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_ch...

  21. Re:Interesting Strategy on US To Charge Chinese Military Employees With Hacking · · Score: 1

    Diplomatic passport.

  22. FCC on AT&T Buying DirecTV for $48.5 Billion · · Score: 1

    FCC, please explain to us how this merger would benefit us consumers.

  23. Re:Big deal on Can Google Influence Elections? · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. Most people will read and believe the first new story that comes up on Google search. Google will further concentrate power into one company.

  24. Re:if you want your day in court on Plaintiff In Tech Hiring Suit Asks Judge To Reject Settlement · · Score: 1

    True. While I have received $1,000+ in class action lawsuits that is an insufficient amount of money to make me "rich". Where can I find a lawyer who is willing to sue a corporation for $500?

  25. Netflix also pays for the bandwidth its servers use.

    ISPs want to be paid a three or perhaps four or more times for carrying Netflix bits to its customer.