Comment: Re:$5k limit (Score 1) 135
This is not non-commercial, right? The $5,000 limit shouldn't apply. Where to read about that limitation?
Comment: Bonkers "perceived disasters" (Score 1) 284
BBC gone bonkers? "Support for the plans - brain child of Swiss businessman turned politician Thomas Minder - has been fuelled by a series of perceived disasters for major Swiss companies, coupled with salaries and bonuses staying high"
Disasters, or only perceived disasters?
Comment: Re:A store cannot look like a store? (Score 1) 272
I thought the same. Trademarks don't expire. This could become widespread.
Comment: backdoors (Score 1) 314
Are backdoors like with hushmail (at least technically) possible?
Hushmail To Warn Users of Law Enforcement Backdoor: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/11/hushmail-to-war
Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai
Comment: Re:Any one else with registration problems? (Score 2) 314
Now got through, first upload failed. Not really important, for sure.
Comment: Re:Any one else with registration problems? (Score 1) 314
me too
Comment: Careful what you ask for (Score 1) 167
by
sugarmotor
(#42608745)
Attached to: Why Scientists Should Have a Greater Voice On Global Security
Careful what you ask for: next thing you know, scientists will be (even more) selected on their policies.
Comment: Re:Sugar? (Score 1) 627
vlm: "you're really correlating ALL industrial era commodities because they all grew about the same rate in the same economy."
Depends on what data is analyzed. Maybe there are gradients in sugar consumption, which can be correlated with gradients of violence. Maybe there are other clever ways at looking at it.
Comment: Sugar? (Score 1) 627
How is it with sugar consumption. Is there a correlation? S
Autonomy Chief Says Whitman Is Watering Down HP Fraud Claims 117
Posted
by
timothy
from the series-of-tangled-webs dept.
from the series-of-tangled-webs dept.
McGruber writes "Possibly the wierdest tax-writeoff of the year happened when Meg Whitman claimed that her US-based multinational corporation HP had been defrauded by British-software firm Autonomy; Ms. Whitman and HP claimed an 8.8 billion dollar write-down. As the Los Angeles Times explains, 'HP acquired Autonomy in 2011 for $11 billion, a move it hoped would turn it away from its dependence on sales of computer hardware with its low profit margins, and into the more profitable business of software. However, the price HP paid was widely criticized for being too high, and in part led to the subsequent ouster of Chief Executive Leo Apotheker.' The wierdness continues — in its annual report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, HP claims that the U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into HP's allegations that HP has uncovered widespread accounting fraud at Autonomy. However, The Guardian points out that former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch claims that HP 'is watering down the accusations it had levelled against him over the accounts filed by his old software company.' Mr. Lynch also says that he has not been contacted by the U.S. Department of Justice, which HP claims is investigating the alleged fraud. Perhaps Slashdot's users can help make sense of this mess and help explain it to me?"
Comment: Professional Writer ??? (Score 1) 346
Is this article written by a professional writer like Harlan Ellison, http://www.photographyhistory.com/harlanellisontypewriter.html ?
Surely not.
Why would a professional writer care about stylesheet? Can't the publisher look after that part? Why is
the professional writer not happy with Notepad?
Otherwise, the article strikes me as a collection of randomly selected and unmotivated issues with using word processors.
Comment: Re:P vs. NP (Score 1) 70
Now getting the impression you don't know what you're talking about.
Comment: Re:P vs. NP (Score 1) 70
Don't understand what?
Comment: P vs. NP (Score 1) 70
Amazon "search inside this book" has no results for "NP" as in P vs. NP. How can that be? The book doesn't draw the connection to this major relevant open question on one hand, but has "burden of proof" in the title on the other hand?
Comment: Re:"didn't appear likely to pose a threat" (Score 1) 204
There's a difference between "doesn't appear likely to" and "appears likely not to". There is a whole spectrum of grades of certainty / uncertainty. The one chosen here looks pretty low.