Comment Re:DSL paload + ATM = 16% (Score 1) 355
No-class-action clauses have held up, all the way to the Supreme Court. See AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion.
Comment Re:DSL paload + ATM = 16% (Score 1) 355
Doesn't Comcast have a "You're not allowed to file a class action suit against us. Hahahaha." clause in their contracts?
Comment Re:Okay... and? (Score 1) 316
That's very much incorrect. It's treated as a deduction
Read the site.
If you paid or accrued foreign taxes to a foreign country on foreign source income and are subject to U.S. tax on the same income, you may be able to take either a credit or an itemized deduction for those taxes.
You're assuming it is always option 2 (acts as a deduction), and ignoring option 1 (acts as a credit).
Comment Re:Turkey? (Score 2) 254
Are you sure the US has sanctions on Turkey?
Had, yes. The USA had an arms embargo and miscellaneous other sanctions against Turkey from 1974 to 1980-ish, as a result of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
Comment Re:What makes this a gigafactory? (Score 4, Informative) 95
According to Tesla, it will have as much production capacity as all current li-ion battery factories combined.
The giga does have some meaning, as the factory has a planned production of 35 gigawatt-hours of batteries per year.
Comment Re:Nvidia's support of Tegra has been abysmal (Score 1) 65
Does that include the Tegra Note tablet? The only bug of relevance I've found is the GPS is garbage and updates for it have been steady, with it sitting at Kitkat, with the announced intention to upgrade it to L when that comes out.
Comment Re:Vote (Score 3, Insightful) 200
Comment Re:Wait, wait... (Score 1) 132
Our government can buy up vulnerabilities from Exodus, then release them
Or just buy up Exodus, period, continue operating it as a GOC, and release vulnerabilities are they're discovered.
Ask Slashdot: How Many Employees Does Microsoft Really Need? 272
An anonymous reader writes: Yesterday, word came down that Microsoft was starting to lay off some 18,000 workers. As of June 5th, Microsoft reported a total employee headcount of 127,005, so they're cutting about 15% of their jobs. That's actually a pretty huge percentage, even taking into account the redundancies created by the Nokia acquisition. Obviously, there's an upper limit to how much of your workforce you can let go at one time, so I'm willing to bet Microsoft's management thinks thousands more people aren't worth keeping around. How many employees does Microsoft realistically need? The company is famous for its huge teams that don't work together well, and excessive middle management. But they also have a huge number of software projects, and some of the projects, like Windows and Office, need big teams to develop. How would we go about estimating the total workforce Microsoft needs? (Other headcounts for reference: Apple: 80,000, Amazon: 124,600, IBM: 431,212, Red Hat: 5,000+, Facebook: 6,800, Google: 52,000, Intel: 104,900.)
Comment Re:what a coincidence (Score 1) 253
You're thinking of Type 1 Diabetes where this is for Type 2.
No, many type 2 diabetics are insulin-dependant.
Comment Re:Was she cured? (Score 2) 126
Seems to me stupid to say a person is cured if they have to keep taking meds to prevent a relapse.
By that standard insulin is a cure for diabetes.
They thought she might have been cured as she went two years without the meds without suffering a relapse. Typically, a relapse occurs within weeks of discontinuing the medication.
But that ended up bring wrong, as she eventually did relapse, so now they need to figure out why it took so long for that to happen.
Comment Re:Why yes, we should blame the victim here (Score 5, Insightful) 311
She's taking a stand against someone else's repugnant behavior.
By suing what appears to be everyone except that someone else?
Comment Re:yes but (Score 1) 302
Hobby Lobby didn't have a problem with contraceptives they were okay with 16 that is currently on the market. They didn't want to support the last four drugs which are abortifacients. Anyways, the ruling was much more. You should read it carefully.
They were okay with the 1,196 that are on the market. It was just the 4, including two types of IUDs that were problematic.
Yes, and then SCOTUS ruled the next day that Catholic-owned corporations can opt out of all birth control.
Comment Re:yes but (Score 2) 302
Me not paying for your stuff is not the same as me keeping you from having it.
"I'm not denying treatment, I'm denying payment."
Comment Re:Scientific research never got anyone anything (Score 1) 225
You will need to have a process of converting Fusion-generated energy into fuel.
We've had that for almost a century. The Fischer-Tropsch process. Hydrogen+carbon monoxide+energy=liquid hydrocarbons.
The whole "fuel from seawater" thing a few months ago was this, using seawater as the source for the hydrogen (electrolysis) and carbon (dissolved in seawater).
