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  1. Re:I can see where this is going on Botnet Uses Default Passwords To Conduct "Internet Census 2012" · · Score: 3, Funny

    Honestly, my first thought was, "What research ethics committee gave him the go-ahead?"

    The Google Street View ethics commitee?

  2. can't tell on FAA Grants Arlington Texas Police Department Permission To Fly UAVs · · Score: 1

    "Can't tell if Ayn Rand or not..."

  3. EMP drones on FAA Grants Arlington Texas Police Department Permission To Fly UAVs · · Score: 1

    An autonomous EMP-armed drone; just have to get close enough...

    Down side: it will only justify accelerating the Police State. Same reason one can't (shouldn't) bring great justice to some truly scumbag governors (aka Koch Whores).

  4. First Casualty on Possible Chemical Weapons Use In Syria · · Score: 1

    The first casualty in war is the truth - doubly so in a 'civil' war.

  5. Re:OUTRAGE! on UK Bloggers Could Face Libel Fines Unless Registered As Press · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Thanks. Now, back in your Freedom Cage, two miles away.

  6. It must have been overcast on Supreme Court Upholds First Sale Doctrine · · Score: 1

    Scalia didn't have his shadow (Thomas).

  7. Hunger Strike on Jammie Thomas Denied Supreme Court Appeal · · Score: 1

    Unless the bill is the retail face value of one of each of the songs she 'stole', with all legal bills paid: hunger strike with daily press conferences.

  8. Keystone XL on As US Cleans Its Energy Mix, It Ships Coal Problems Overseas · · Score: 1

    There is a reason Keystone XL ends at Houston. Once the Canadian tar is refined in a state with no real environmental law enforcement, most of it will be loaded into tankers for export to other markets (most of them probably the same as the coal buyers). The price of gas in the US will not be lowered at all by Keystone XL, but when it leaks or explodes, that will be used to justify yet another price hike at the pump.

    This stupidity by the US government and most of its populace will just be yet another data point in an historians autopsy of the former United States of America.

  9. Ah, the good old days on Most Popular Human Cell In Science Gets Sequenced · · Score: 1

    When doctors were treated as gods and never had to ask for permission to treat their patients as cars in a DIY junk yard, taking what they wanted.

  10. Blood-Brain barrier on New Process For Nanoscale Filtration Holds Promise of Cheap, Clean Water · · Score: 1

    So they're going to make water filters out of material whose fragments can be so small as to pass through the blood-brain barrier - what could possibly go wrong?

    Once upon a time, asbestos was also considered a miraculous futuristic material with seemingly near limitless applications.

  11. Inventor on Ask Slashdot: Best 3-D Design Software? · · Score: 1

    While AutoCAD can do 3D, Autodesk's 3D parametric modeling software is called Inventor. It is on par with Solidworks but no where near as visible (as evidenced by the OP). While they can do it, both SW and IV were not created to do the swoopy, curvy, artsy stuff, but the more prismatic, industrial and manufacturing type of modeling.

  12. No worse than this crime on Berkeley Scientists Plan To 'Jurassic Park' Some Extinct Pigeons Back To Life · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Acclimatization_Society

    What utter idiots. Starlings suuuuuuuuuuuck.

  13. More accurately on Australian PM Targets Imported IT Workers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...despite evidence that there are insufficient numbers of Australians willing to fill the skills gap at slave-wage rates.

    Just like the BS about US corporations whining they desperately need more H1B visas, this is about increasing profits by replacing living wage jobs with the modern IT equivalent of indebtured servants; compliant, desperate folks willing to work way too hard for pennies on the pound / dollar. And if they ask for a raise or complain about 60-hour work weeks? DEPORTED.

  14. Classical, Instrumental, Ambient on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Block Noise In a Dorm? · · Score: 1

    I was the same way in college; I couldn't really study listening to anything with lyrics as it was too distracting. I switched to listening to classical and instrumental stuff from Windam Hill artists. Had I known about ambient like Brian Eno, that would have been perfect too. Music for Airports is relaxing and beautiful as well.

  15. First Things First on Oculus-Alike: Build Your Own Virtual Reality Headset · · Score: 3, Funny

    We need to advance the development of other body interface, um, attachments.


    Not for me, of course.

  16. GPUs on Ask Slashdot: Building a Cheap Computing Cluster? · · Score: 1

    I thought some folks had switch to GPUs for heavy number-chrunching... Though the custom hardware setups no doubt renders this a moot point.

    Glad I could help :\

  17. Seems fair on Facebook Knows If You're Gay, Use Drugs, Or Are a Republican · · Score: 1

    Most gay Republicans probably are heavily medicated to help combat their schizophrenia.

  18. The Brave New York Times on What If Manning Had Leaked To the New York Times? · · Score: 1

    They're still just as brave as they were when they lead the way on the Watergate scandal.

    Oh, wait...

  19. The down side of 'doing our own thing' on More From Canonical Employee On: "Why Mir?" · · Score: 1

    The wonton destruction of openess and community that made Linux what it is today.

    Shuttleworth has gone mad and has willfully made Ubuntu a priah.

  20. Could be worse on Mobile Sharing: "Bezos Beep" Vs. Smartphone Bump · · Score: 1

    It could be a system based on bits of Bezos' terrifying laugh.

  21. Re:"But they gave us a LOT of money" replies ICANN on Amazon's Quest For Web Names Draws Foes · · Score: 1

    I mean a SHITLOAD of money! Did YOU give us a shitload of money?

    Hmm. I wonder if .shitload is available...

    BRB

  22. Related and Relevant: For-Profit Prisons on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: 1

    Quite closely associated to speed traps for profit are prisons for profit. Prison corporations get 'law-and-order' politicians elected through massive donations that are recouped through ever-more laws passed (always based on moral arguments and crafted to target non-whites)... Profit!!

    The USA having more of its population percentage-wise locked up than any other country (except Best Korea?) is not an accident; it is a business plan.

  23. Pol Pot 2.0 on Seattle Bar Owner Bans Google Glass, In Advance · · Score: 1

    Very soon, everyone wearing glasses will be targeted as a potential 'spy'. Thanks, Google.

  24. Whoosh - missing the point on Shuttleworth On Ubuntu Community Drama · · Score: 1

    That you use ubuntu don't mean that you must use Unity.

    By even using Ubuntu, you are enabling the bad, increasingly draconian behaviour of Shuttleworth. The main freaking point of Linux was to no longer be dictated to by the powers on high - a point he is willfully dismissing in his pursuit of money.

  25. The Shuttleworth Plantation on Shuttleworth On Ubuntu Community Drama · · Score: 1

    His posting reminds me of a Antebellum planatation owner insisting that his actions are benevolent and noble; that his slaves would be utterly lost without his loving guidance.

    --An LMDE convert