Seriously, fuck Texas.

Incorrect. Most healthcare in Europe is publicly funded. The Individual mandate is a requirement for everyone in America to own health care insurance the way you own car insurance.

If you had read the article or the title, or summary, you'd have read that the article is about the volume of commercials, not the content or material being sold.

If you want to turn this into a free speech issue, you have the right to speak about whatever you want, but you don't have the right to grab someone by the ear and then scream into it.

I have a right to speech. I do not have the right to scream in your ear at the top of my lungs in order to get my spittle on your face and make sure I'm the only one you can listen to.

Hearing damage has a cost, increased stress levels has a cost, annoyance has a cost.

Telemarketers have free speech too, you know. I don't hear you complaining about us passing laws saying that they can't call us. Cause they're fucking annoying.

Rodents of unusual size? I don't think they exist.

Anonymous coward is anonymous.

Your comment is based on your lack of understanding about how badly the dollar has devalued. $12/hour isn't a living wage in a lot of places.

Phones don't need to be on to have the tracking features functional. Except for completely discharging your device, the only way to prevent signals from getting to or leaving your device would be to dump it in a signal blocking bag every time you're off the clock.

...going to be more difficult. The Chinese have two alternatives.

1. They can abduct thousands of people to populate their village or more likely

2. They're going to user their citizens as knock off Chinese imitations of Austrians. In which case, I am booking a flight to China to see this place immediately.

I was wondering how long it would take, but I guess the ubiquitous nature of hard drives and the fact that normal users don't understand what the big deal about SSDs is about, manufacturers are having to fight the take-it-or-leave it nature of SSDs.

I for one, won't put one in my laptop until I see a 500 gig drive for at most $300. My hard drive works fine right now. I'd love to have the power-efficiency, accident-proof, and high speed features in my laptop but I'm not going to down over $200 for 200 gigabytes. The larger size of my hard drive and low price balances that out quite nicely.

"So far, the device has been able to harvest about two milliwatts of power. The researchers, however, believe that it should be a relatively easy to improve its performance to the point that it is able to provide at least 30 milliwatts – this ought to be enough to power a GPS tracking system, and to allow for advanced signal processing electronics, plus more frequent and longer wireless transmissions."

Put that into perspective for whoever is giving this guy mod points. This device is in prototype stage. It has functional applications at a level which the inventors think would be an easily accomplished goal. Solar or batteries can be unavailable/cumbersome. I think the idea of this project is functionality at any time necessary.

...and call it liberty. Republicans are one trick ponies. Make a big deal about the government offering services, abolish those services and offer the contracts to their campaign contributors.

Bounties. They want a cut of the profits that rights holders are making via open-and-shut settlement cases. If they're going to incur the costs of meeting rightsholders demands, they want a cut of the pie.

I can see the slashdot article now "MPAA/RIAA sharing settlement earnings with ISPs that turn over customer data".

There's a desire to play in a game where nobody is actually playing but letting their cheats win for them? Some people have too much time.

Doing all these fantastic achievements using lower cost components. Every time I read an article on Slashdot, it's always talking about some amazing achievement with solar cells or batteries using a combination of gold, platinum and unobtainium. Rare earths are going to get MUCH more rare in our lifetimes.