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Comment Re:Third Party (Score 1) 785

by nyu2 on Sunday March 22, 2009 @04:25PM (#27290705) Attached to: Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA

Lame.
Try this, instead:
1) Require all government agencies, corporations, and charities to have totally open, publicly accessible financial books. No black budgets. This definitely includes the Federal Reserve.
2) Implement a single flat sales tax. People with more money buy more, and thus everyone pays fairly. Note that corporations 'buy' their employees, and so that tax would hit salaries and wages too.
3) Instead of voting FOR someone, only let people vote AGAINST someone. The candidate with the fewest 'no' votes wins. Only one vote per person, so spread them around wisely.
4) Let people buy health, not health care. http://hanson.gmu.edu/buyhealth.html
5) Fund infrastructure.

Comment Re:simpler explanation (Score 2, Informative) 52

by nyu2 on Thursday November 27, 2008 @06:14AM (#25907459) Attached to: Game Industry Optimistic About Surviving Economic Crisis

Another thing that will see no downswing is the illegal drug industry. Drugs also offer escapism.

Rewriting a Software Product After Quitting a Job? 604

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday November 26, 2008 @03:57AM from the clean-room-white-coats dept.

hi_caramba_2008 writes "We are a bunch of good friends at a large software company. The product we work on is under-budgeted and over-hyped by the sales drones. The code quality sucks, and management keeps pulling in different direction. Discussing this among ourselves, we talked about leaving the company and rebuilding the code from scratch over a few months. We are not taking any code with us. We are not taking customer lists (we probably will aim at different customers anyway). The code architecture will also be different — hosted vs. stand-alone, different modules and APIs. But at the feature level, we will imitate this product. Can we be sued for IP infringement, theft, or whatever? Are workers allowed to imitate the product they were working on? We know we have to deal with the non-compete clause in our employment contracts, but in our state this clause has been very difficult to enforce. We are more concerned with other IP legal aspects."

Comment Re:I don't know if it's too late, BUT (Score 1) 179

by nyu2 on Saturday November 15, 2008 @10:04AM (#25770275) Attached to: Net Neutrality Vets Join Obama FCC Transition Team

Hm. Internet terrorist? o.O http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_mitnik You know he runs a security consulting company, right? No doubt another leftist conspiracy, helping people keep their computers and networks safe.

Submission + - Squid Beaks May Revolutionize Engineering

Submitted by

Ace905

on Saturday March 29, 2008 @06:41AM

Ace905 writes: "For years the razor sharp beak Squid use to eat their prey have posed a puzzle to scientists. Squid are incredibly soft and fragile, but have a beak as dense as rock and sharp enough to break through hard shells. Scientists have long wondered why the beak doesn't hurt the Squid itself as they use it. New research has just been published in the Friday Edition of "Journal Science" that appears to explain the phenomenon. A detailed article is available online at the CBC web site.

One of the teams researchers described the squid beak as, "like placing an X-Acto blade in a block of fairly firm Jell-O and then trying to use it to chop celery." — illustrating just how bizarre this appendage appears to be. Careful examination shows the beak itself is actually formed in a gradient of density, becoming harder out towards the tip of the beak.

Understanding this gradient relationship may revolutionize Engineering, anywhere "interfaces between soft and hard materials [are required]." One of the first applications researchers imagine would be in Prosthetic Limbs."

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