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  1. Re:college sports players are same and need be pay on Regulators Investigating Unpaid Internships · · Score: 1

    What you said makes sense if athletes make use of their academic opportunities, but most college athletes never graduate.

    All too many college athletes never make any money, never make the pros, never graduate, and end up at starbucks broke.

  2. features versus bugs on The Economics of Perfect Software · · Score: 1

    If it is OK for some obscure features to have bugs, then this is an indication that these features are not really needed. The solution is neither to fix or not fix bugs in this feature but rather to remove the feature entirely.

  3. Inaccurate story on NYC Drops $722M On CityTime Attendance System · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The story is inaccurate. The City is not employing these persons and is not paying these persons a salary or any other type of compensation.

    The City has hired a company to perform the work and this other company is paying these persons some type of compensation. These persons will never see anything close to the stated "salaries".

    The rates being charged are not out of line with rates being charged elsewhere.

  4. Passport? on US Immigration Bill May Bring a National Biometric ID Card · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What is wrong with using a Passport? Passports will contain the same biometric information as these ID cards.

  5. Total waste of time on Developing a Vandalism Detector For Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Wikipedians administrators don't seem to have a clue about the effects of vandalism.

    The time wasted by humans who's job is solely to revert vandalism is irrelevant. There are more than enough people who are willing to do this work and if they weren't doing this work they would not be contributing useful content to Wikipedia.

    The negative effects are concentrated on the knowledgeable editors who are adding useful new content. There may be 5 to 10 persons activietyl adding content to an article. Each time a change is made to the article each of these editors need to examine the content to determine if it is

  6. Re:virtually untouchable? on Wikileaks and Iceland MPs Propose Journalism Haven · · Score: 1

    Commodore64_love has been know to have sex with his Commodore 64.

    Isn't free speech great!

  7. Supreme Court has ruled against that idea on Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina · · Score: 1

    The Supreme Court has already ruled it is perfectly legal to make membership in the Communist party illegal:

    http://www.enotes.com/major-acts-congress/communist-control-act

  8. he was still a subversive on Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina · · Score: 1

    He used peaceful means to provoke the British to use violence. Hence, by this law he would be considered a member of a subversive organization because he used British violence to overthrow the government.

    The law does not distinguish between violence used against the government versus violence being used against the organization.

  9. Solar panels versus oil on China Is Winning Global Race To Make Clean Energy · · Score: 1

    This article is nonsense. There is no competition between solar and wind power versus gasoline.

    Solar and wind power are used solely to generate electricity. Gasoline is rarely used to generate electricity, it is used for automobiles. And hence, there is no switching of foreign dependence from one country to another.

    What solar and wind power in the United States will replace is mostly coal power. Coal which is a resource obtained almost completly from within the United States. Using more solar and wind power will cause the United States to replace domestic forms of energy with foreign energy imports.

  10. Jack Benny on CBS Refuses To Preserve Jack Benny Footage · · Score: 1

    I remember Jack Benny saying he would like to get copies of his own shows, but he couldn't.

  11. England is sinking on Protecting At-Risk Cities From Rising Seas · · Score: 1

    This problem is only partially caused by rising sea levels, England is also sinking.

  12. Re:cultural information on A Peek Into Netflix Queues · · Score: 1

    Because they know the true story rather than the Hollywood fictional version?

  13. Reality is boring on Graphic Novelist Calls For Better Game Violence · · Score: 2, Informative

    Speaking as someone who has built combat simulations for the US Army:

    Real combat is boring... it consists of long periods of time where basically nothing happens, mixed with very short periods of combat where a lot happens but the winner of this short period of combat is rarely in doubt.

  14. Re:Nationwide, for anyone in Texas? on Virtual Visits To Doctors Spreading · · Score: 1

    Their business support people are good for machines running Windows, for Dell machines running Linux they are totally useless. Even with business support, it is impossible to call Dell and talk to anyone who knows anything about Linux.

  15. netbook? on First Look At Latest Ion-Infused Asus Eee PC · · Score: 5, Informative

    This netbook has the same screen size, ram, and CPU perforcement as my four year old laptop.

    Has my old laptop become a netbook?

  16. Ubuntu should outsource the distrubution on Canonical Halts Ubuntu CD Free-for-all · · Score: 1

    It seems Ubuntu considers giving their customers what they want, which is CDs, is too much trouble. Fine, let someone else do it.

    There are lots of other companies who are more than willing to sell Ubuntu CDs for two or three dollars. Ubuntu should provide the CD artwork to other companies for free, get out of the business of distributing CDs completely (so that other companies do not have unfair competition), and let these other companies provide Ubuntu customers what they want, CDs at a very low price.

  17. Re:The state is correct on Blogger Loses Unemployment Check Because of Ads · · Score: 1

    Actually business owners are not exempt from unemployment pay.

    To collect unemployment you must been terminated from employment. If the business owner owned a business and was also terminated from employment and his business was not making any money he could collect unemployment.

    I have a sole proprietorship, and I have collected unemployment while I did not have employment and my sole proprietorship made no money.

  18. Re:Personal Example on Did Chicago Lose Olympic Bid Due To US Passport Control? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It is not a non-citizen vs. citizen thing. I am a US citizen and I have been questioned for over an hour, my address book copied, my carry on papers have been copied, and my checked baggage gets opened and searched every time I fly.

  19. Re:Not very surprising historically on In UK, Two Convicted of Refusing To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    There is a difference, any safe can be opened without the keys.

  20. Re:Freedom of speach is not a right to lie. on British Men Jailed For Online Hate Crimes · · Score: 1

    ... the difference is when you use speech to commit "fraud, libel, and slander" you are prosecuted because you committed "fraud, libel, and slander" and not because of your speech.

    With hate laws there is no need to show the speech was used to commit any other crime and there is no need to show that anyone was harmed by the speech.

    People are not being prosecuted because of the damage they cause but because of who they are and what they think.

    Prosecuting people because of who they are is racism.

  21. You're doing it wrong on How To Encourage Workers To Suggest Innovation? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why is approval necessary? Why can't if an employee has a good idea he can't just do it without approval?

    The persons who are often best able to judge whether an innovation is a good idea are those directly working in the area and often those at the bottom of the hierarchy. Forming a board of non experts to evaluate innovation is probably the best way to kill innovation. If you want to encourage innovation think about decentralizing your decision making.

  22. Re:WTF? on Google Challenging Proposition 8 · · Score: 1

    And it would cause some non-homosexual persons to relocate to California because California does not have gay marriage.

    Since the majority of persons in the United States are opposed to gay marriage surely Google should be opposed to gay marriage because it would enable them to hire more employees.

  23. Re:if the tax agency comes knocking... on How Long Should Companies Make E-Bills Available? · · Score: 1

    They are available:

    * I needed a copy for tax reasons of a check I wrote to buy some stock something like 12 years ago. The bank (to which I no longer have an account) supplied a copy with a very nominal fee.
    * I also needed a record of all the times I was outside the country (I don't exactly remember why I needed this information). The price I was quoted to obtain my frequent flyer records for the past 15 years was so enormous I decided not to get the records.

  24. Re:I have had something similar happen to me. on Universities Patenting More Student Ideas · · Score: 1

    While many organizations require people to sign such agreements, many of the terms are not legally enforceable.

    You own all rights to IP which was developed on your own time with your own resources.

  25. Companies also on Capitol Records Flooded Internet With MP3s, Says MP3Tunes CEO · · Score: 1

    A former employer of mine made a contract with the in house food service company which said that employees are not allowed to make their own coffee.