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  1. Re:Concern for high values? on Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Is a Free Man Again · · Score: 4, Informative

    actually not , most people in the world are too poor to afford meat unless they grow it themselves and even then they eat it sparingly. This has been ever since humans have traded foodstuffs.

    Meat is a diet for rich western people who have first world medical facilities , for most of the world , eating meat is a cruel joke , a slow suicide of the planet as land used for meat production is typically orders of magnitude less resource efficient.

    there i fixed it for you , now please fix your diet and mindset

  2. Re:More secure than cards on Smartphone App To Be Used As Hotel Room Keys · · Score: 1

    whoa there , do not give anyone your PIN

  3. Re:Naive optimism in headline on Photon Pair Coupled in Glass Fiber · · Score: 1

    i don't see how this can be used for anything but a dedicated link

  4. why do we need secrets ? on Chinese Hackers Mess With Texas By Attacking Fracking Firms · · Score: 1

    i can't see any value for citizens in frackers being able to keep secrets about how they drill , this secrecy makes it harder to fix any problems they cause because we emergency services will not have simple access to the list of chemicals being used.

    also , wtf is the government allowing the pumping of tones of unspecified chemicals into the ground ? how can that possibly be sensible custodianship ?

    This secrecy has created the value in this industry , if there were real scrutiny of what was being done by frackers it would not be allowed so the need for secrecy was created and sold as a requirement for investors instead of the abuse of process that it actually is.

    I suspect these hackers are targeting this info not for commercial gains , its not that valuable as there are probably only a few drilling equipment suppliers to choose from , but for its social disruption value. If more people knew what was actually being done by frackers they would not allow it.

    Worse , this posturing that the chinese are trying to steal our valuable secrets for commercial purposes is directly misleading.

  5. Why do governments need this ? on Incapacitating Chemical Agents: Coming Soon To Local Law Enforcement? · · Score: 1

    At what point do we decide that giving the ruling classes more and more technological weapons to use against its citizens is a sign that our system of government has failed ? i think that happened a while ago to be honest. If your government needs weapons to stay in power its not leadership its tyranny.

    I reject the assumption that the worlds need weapons to be safe , we need NO weapons to be truely safe.

  6. Re:The Russian space program was amazing on First Man To Walk In Space Reveals How Mission Nearly Ended In Disaster · · Score: 1

    i've got evidence the other way , voyager one was the first man made object to leave the solar system
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scie...

    maybe the poster was watching a russian translation of 2001

  7. Re:Relative sizes on NASA Finds a Delaware-Sized Methane "Hot Spot" In the Southwest · · Score: 1

    i was confusing them with hippos
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSKQ3ZNQ_O8

  8. Re:Relative sizes on NASA Finds a Delaware-Sized Methane "Hot Spot" In the Southwest · · Score: 1

    we calls it cow farts roun yer loike

  9. Re:yes, let's "zoom out" on NASA Finds a Delaware-Sized Methane "Hot Spot" In the Southwest · · Score: 1

    how about if you include all the fuel you have to use for pumping and for taking the waste off to somewhere safe to store it , wait , you are storing is somewhere safe and not just dumping it in rivers aren't you ?

  10. i bet your power company love you

  11. Re:patched my servers last month on First Shellshock Botnet Attacking Akamai, US DoD Networks · · Score: 2

    its not just shell cgi scripts , other services pass data they receive through environment variables , these include dhcp clients and any other non authenticated services.

    a simple fix is to use a different shell for now.

  12. Re:Why dismiss 49% of your market? on Intel Unveils MICA "My Intelligent Communication Accessory" Smart Bracelet · · Score: 1

    lol , they didn't just discriminate against a man did they ! shit just got real

  13. missing the point on Could Tech Have Stopped ISIS From Using Our Own Heavy Weapons Against Us? · · Score: 0

    We should not make these weapons in the first place , then we would not have these problems.

    The situation in Iraq has spiralled out of control from the fallout of the second world war repartitioning of the middle east with not regard for the indigenous people.

    war begets war

    every time we try and fix it gets worse and now we face the possiblity that the russians and the middle east might unite against us.

    we need to back away and leave it well alone and stop selling weapons to anyone.

  14. and so the robots escaped into space on DARPA Bolsters Blueprint To Build Robotic Services For Satellites · · Score: 1

    and we didn't see them again for another 1000 years

  15. not art but maths on Researchers Say Neanderthals Created Cave Art · · Score: 1

    the grid patterns are a way of doing maths

  16. fairs fair on Grand Ayatollah Says High Speed Internet Is "Against Moral Standards" · · Score: 1

    you've all made comments just as daft about islam in the past

  17. Re:Seriously, we're not rapists.... on New Nail Polish Alerts Wearers To Date Rape Drugs · · Score: 1

    bet you don't have sisters or a daughter

  18. Re:Seriously, we're not rapists.... on New Nail Polish Alerts Wearers To Date Rape Drugs · · Score: 1

    be glad you don't have to worry about this sort of thing when you go out and stop pretending you have be wronged because you haven't

    maybe they are sick of being told they have to do things to stop men raping then instead of you know , men doing things to stop other men raping because its men raping thats the problem not women inviting it , they are not , ever inviting it , regardless of how you think about it, they are never inviting it

  19. Re: Seriously, we're not rapists.... on New Nail Polish Alerts Wearers To Date Rape Drugs · · Score: 1

    just being somewhere is not an invitation to rape , nor is wearing particular clothes , nor is being cute

    there is no valid reason ever to rape or trick someone into sex , stop defending bad people you are sounding like one.

    how does this sound - "You know wearing that outfit and posting on slashdot is just asking to be raped"

    you can argue all you like but if you provide excuses for that kind of thinking you are helping it happen.

  20. Re:Seriously, we're not rapists.... on New Nail Polish Alerts Wearers To Date Rape Drugs · · Score: 1

    if it prevents one woman being raped then its worth it , seriously women are having their lives ruined , it would behove you to do some research before posting about this subject.

    If women where date raping men in anywhere near the amounts the men do there would be an outrage.

    We need to redress this balance and stop behaving like sex starved teenagers , then maybe we wouldn't be sex starved teenagers

  21. Re:Embrace or Expire? on Microsoft Surface Drowning? · · Score: 1

    nokia wasn't by any stretch of the imagination a market leader , it was however keen to ditch its handsets business after catching a near fatal does of windows mobile.

  22. Re:It's not. But neither is the EU protection on EU High Court To Review US-EU Data Safe Harbor Agreement · · Score: 1

    I see this as the EU looking to make US companies lobby their government to stop spying

    the USA is not a full signatory to most international treaties which is a pisstake given its puritanical stance towards the rest of the world.

  23. Re:Improper use of [sic] in TFA on Hackers Ransom European Domino's Customer Data (including Favourite Toppings) · · Score: 2

    il ya de francais ici , vous et un clod insensitive

  24. Why do people need more vitamin A ? on "Super Bananas" May Save Millions of Lives In Africa · · Score: 1

    most GMOs are created in response to a need that doesn't exist because of the nature of who gets to decide about what gets the research.

    GMOs are made for profit by businesses to maximise shareholder value/revenue first and to answer the demands of their market second , pretty much like any physical product of a major corporation.

    A while back there was a lot of noise about vitamin A enriched rice , which came with many stories about how the west was going to save those poor people in hot countries from famine with extra vitamin A. Most of the hype about that is steadily falling away as study after study shows serious long term problems with GMO and that vitamin A in rice did not transfer into the body as well as first thought.

    This is yet another case of big business trying to play a humanitarian card yet retaining patents , lucrative profits and applying restrictive licencing.
    It is this kind of 'humanitarianism' that causes the majority of problems in poorer countries by providing funds for corruption and disrupting local solutions or resolutions that allow communities to take control of their destinies.

    There is a growing tide of resentment and resistance outside the west which if unchecked will spark off a round of terrorism that will make 9/11 look like a kids party.

    We must stop interfering , none of us would like other countries doing this to us , the hypocrisy must stop and it is we the consumers that must vote with our money and our votes to stop it happening.

  25. Re:Yeah, but.... on Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds · · Score: 1

    whilst there are more people with autistic and aspergers symtomps working in computing that most other industries there is still an underlying behaviour we all exhibit that is grumpy and short tempered regardless of gender , this is not related but IMHO inherited.

    I think the intention of the OP was to point out that we males in the it community need to as a community address the problem of bad communication skills as we are likely to be caught up in the wider problem of male misogyny if we don't take a clear stance against it. We are also wasting the capable resources of many females who are dropping out of tech projects because of this abuse and having to pretend to be men to participate.

    We need to reinforce good behaviour and as men we need to confront those exhibiting misogynistic behaviour and make it abundently clear that is not acceptable , just the same way as we do with racists.

    we are responsible for the world and we must act like it , no excuses