Comment: Two words... (Score 1) 328
Carlos Santana.
Comment: Learn from history? (Score 1) 841
Perhaps they could check with colleagues from older agencies that used to do the same kind of work.
I wonder what the Stasi and the Gestapo did to bolster employee morale.
I wonder what the Stasi and the Gestapo did to bolster employee morale.
Comment: Confirmation bias???, nah... (Score 5, Interesting) 187
"Researchers" were contacted by.. uh.. well.. the Museum... developed a "methodology" for the "experiment" after the fact, then based their definitions and metrics on an assessment program developed in conjunction with ... another museum.
Solid!. No way this is just another case of confirmation bias.
Solid!. No way this is just another case of confirmation bias.
Comment: Re:Maximum Penalty???? (Score 1) 242
The maximum penalty of 150k goes cleanly into 1.2m eight times. It would be safe to assume that nothing strange is going on and there was eight infringed works.
There were 24 works. 24 * 80k = 1.92m.
Comment: Maximum Penalty???? (Score 1) 242
How is $1.2m the maximum penalty available under the law for this case, when back in 2009, Capitol vs Thomas,
a jury awarded $1.92m to Capitol?
Even at $1.92m, that was NOT the highest they could have gone either, the judge established that each infringement would be penalized at $80k, down from a maximum of $150k per instance!
That would have worked out to $3.6m.
Why weren't AFP et al penalized per infraction, vs having a cap for the whole incident?
Even at $1.92m, that was NOT the highest they could have gone either, the judge established that each infringement would be penalized at $80k, down from a maximum of $150k per instance!
That would have worked out to $3.6m.
Why weren't AFP et al penalized per infraction, vs having a cap for the whole incident?
Comment: Apple apologists in 3, 2, 1 (Score -1, Flamebait) 481
Their "new", great iPhone has been out for less than a month, with their latest super high tech, hyper hyped "secure" technology and a relatively trivial hack has already been published.
We'll have teens with chewing gum hacking TouchID next, and yet, Apple fan bois will still continue to hype and buy Apple substandard, over priced technology.
Comment: Dark strings (Score 3, Funny) 86
I have worked out an elegant solution that can be collapsed to only 88 dimensions, where infinitesimally small unbound super strings made of pure dark energy are curled up in tiny unobservable sub-plank scale vibrating loops that create immeasurable gravity-like dark froth along the alignment axis.
+ - The STEM Crisis Is a Myth 2
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theodp writes "Forget the dire predictions of a looming shortfall of scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians, advises IEEE Spectrum contributing editor Robert Charette — the STEM crisis is a myth. In investigating the simultaneous claims of both a shortage and a surplus of STEM workers, Charette was surprised by "the apparent mismatch between earning a STEM degree and having a STEM job. Of the 7.6 million STEM workers counted by the Commerce Department, only 3.3 million possess STEM degrees. Viewed another way, about 15 million U.S. residents hold at least a bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline, but three-fourths of them—11.4 million—work outside of STEM." So, why would universities, government, and tech companies like Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft cry STEM-worker-shortage-wolf? "Clearly, powerful forces must be at work to perpetuate the cycle," Charette writes. "One is obvious: the bottom line. Companies would rather not pay STEM professionals high salaries with lavish benefits, offer them training on the job, or guarantee them decades of stable employment. So having an oversupply of workers, whether domestically educated or imported, is to their benefit...Governments also push the STEM myth because an abundance of scientists and engineers is widely viewed as an important engine for innovation and also for national defense. And the perception of a STEM crisis benefits higher education, says Ron Hira, because as 'taxpayers subsidize more STEM education, that works in the interest of the universities' by allowing them to expand their enrollments. An oversupply of STEM workers may also have a beneficial effect on the economy, says Georgetown's Nicole Smith, one of the coauthors of the 2011 STEM study. If STEM graduates can’t find traditional STEM jobs, she says, 'they will end up in other sectors of the economy and be productive.'""
Comment: When exactly was this, exactly? (Score 5, Interesting) 330
- we did assassinate people, directly or through proxies, just a few high profile targets there for you:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/mar/21/usa.davidpallister
- we did torture people, it was done so routinely that we even had a handbook:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_and_CIA_interrogation_manuals
- our normal state *is* war. i could not find a 40 year gap when we were at peace since the 1800s:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States
i laugh when any of my fellow 'murikans asks tear eyed "why do they hate us?".
we have been busy exerting violence, exporting torture, destabilizing democracies, sponsoring terror and exploitation
through brutal dictatorships, forcing our corporate interests by military means on everyone, on every continent.
we, as a people, are compassionate, inventive, giving and law abiding, our governing class is amoral, tyrannical and malevolent.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/mar/21/usa.davidpallister
- we did torture people, it was done so routinely that we even had a handbook:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_and_CIA_interrogation_manuals
- our normal state *is* war. i could not find a 40 year gap when we were at peace since the 1800s:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States
i laugh when any of my fellow 'murikans asks tear eyed "why do they hate us?".
we have been busy exerting violence, exporting torture, destabilizing democracies, sponsoring terror and exploitation
through brutal dictatorships, forcing our corporate interests by military means on everyone, on every continent.
we, as a people, are compassionate, inventive, giving and law abiding, our governing class is amoral, tyrannical and malevolent.
Comment: Secure your browser from artificial intelligences (Score 1) 391
Install these disruptive crypto-fonts immediately!
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/06/22/1840234/introducing-the-nsa-proof-crypto-font
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/06/22/1840234/introducing-the-nsa-proof-crypto-font
Comment: Hypergamy Cure? (Score 1) 102
While they're at it, could they also do some work on hypergamy?
Maybe *gasp* come up with a cure or at least some treatment?
This condition afflicts the great majority of woemn in the U.S.
Some you know suffers from it..
Maybe *gasp* come up with a cure or at least some treatment?
This condition afflicts the great majority of woemn in the U.S.
Some you know suffers from it..
Comment: It works!, Found these in Ireland: (Score 1) 174
60 billion here:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Google+Dublin&fb=1&gl=us&hq=Google&hnear=0x48670e80ea27ac2f:0xa00c7a9973171a0,Dublin,+Ireland&cid=0,0,14179187141338221046&t=m&z=16&iwloc=A
And 74 billion more here:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Hollyhill+Industrial+Estate,+Cork,+Ireland&hl=en&sll=51.903599,-8.505019&sspn=0.01124,0.027874&oq=Hollyhill+Industrial+Estate&hnear=Hollyhill+Industrial+Estate,+Cork,+County+Cork,+Ireland&t=m&z=15
Comment: Re:Don't copy that floppy! (Score 2, Insightful) 289
What a wonderful compliant, obedient little boy the Scouts helped you become!
I'd prefer my kid to be more defiant and incredulous of authority and status quo,
and to consider that sometimes great corruption demands extreme measures to
correct it and sometimes one must disobey and rebel in a disorderly manner.
Washington, Revere and Franklin would probably make awful little scouts.
I'd prefer my kid to be more defiant and incredulous of authority and status quo,
and to consider that sometimes great corruption demands extreme measures to
correct it and sometimes one must disobey and rebel in a disorderly manner.
Washington, Revere and Franklin would probably make awful little scouts.
Comment: DOS? (Score 1) 275
Could this be used to instrument MS servers to effect a Denial Of Service attack upon the host of your choosing?
1. Select victim
2. Bomb URL via chat from a new/fake throwaway Skype account
3. ???
4. Profit
1. Select victim
2. Bomb URL via chat from a new/fake throwaway Skype account
3. ???
4. Profit
Comment: Shameless Slashvertisement (Score 0) 112
What's next Slashdot "stories" on DailySteals specials?
"XtremeMac BT Connect Bluetooth Audio Receiver - Portable, Battery Powered Compact Receiver Makes Any Stereo System Wireless"
Some other "pertinent" links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_advertising
"XtremeMac BT Connect Bluetooth Audio Receiver - Portable, Battery Powered Compact Receiver Makes Any Stereo System Wireless"
Some other "pertinent" links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_advertising