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  1. Re:NoScript on Ask Slashdot: Protecting Home Computers From Guests? · · Score: 2

    I use and LOVE both of those add-ons. Ghostery is also good, and it shows what's tracking you even if you choose not to block them.

  2. Re:Embarrasing on Firefox 20 Arrives With Per-Window Private Browsing, New Download Manager · · Score: 1

    Wish I had some mod points to push your answer higher. Thanks for the information.

  3. Re:This was obvious from the start on West Virginia Won't Release Broadband Report Because It Is 'Embarrassing' · · Score: 1

    Thank you. Your knowledge saved me a lot of scrambling around for half-remembered facts.

  4. Re:This was obvious from the start on West Virginia Won't Release Broadband Report Because It Is 'Embarrassing' · · Score: 1
  5. This was obvious from the start on West Virginia Won't Release Broadband Report Because It Is 'Embarrassing' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If the federal government was going to bring broadband to West Virginia, they should have gone in and installed it. Handing money to a Red State government for technology is like handing the remote control to your dog.

    Come to think of it, I'd expect more from the dog.

  6. By George, I think I've got it! on Chrome OS Remains Undefeated At Pwnium 3 · · Score: 1

    So Chrome will show my what Google wants me to see much faster than Firefox will show me what I want to see.

  7. As above, so below (geographically) on Canadian Newspaper Charging $150 License Fee To Publish Excerpts · · Score: 1

    Mr Geist points out this might be contrary to Canadian Copyright Law's fair use provisions.

    The National Post is a conservative rag. And just like those in the US, Canadian conservatives believe legal accountability is only for the little people.

  8. Ah, for the good old days... on Copyright Trolls Sue Bloggers, Defense Lawyers · · Score: 1

    ...when the result of pulling this kind of stunt would be having a couple of company executives dragged out into the street and shot...."pour encourager les autres".

  9. Re:Too little, too late on Apple's $1B Patent Award From Samsung Gets Cut By $450M · · Score: 1

    Do any of Samsung's design patents attempt to teleport Star Trek's designs into the future so they can't qualify as "prior art"?

  10. So with a little development... on Scientists Transplant Functional Eyes On the Tails of Tadpoles · · Score: 1

    Maybe within a few short years conservatives who are keeping their head in the usual place might actually be able to see themselves looking back.

    We could call it an "eyenus".

  11. Re:Too little, too late on Apple's $1B Patent Award From Samsung Gets Cut By $450M · · Score: 1

    Samsung really doesn't need to astroturf anything. Apple's recent attempts to patent everything in sight, including Star Trek's "PADD" haven't earned them a lot of friends.

  12. Re:Too little, too late on Apple's $1B Patent Award From Samsung Gets Cut By $450M · · Score: 1

    Check out icebike's comment above. If you were really "looking forward", you wouldn't have much trouble finding the evidence you claim to seek.

  13. Too little, too late on Apple's $1B Patent Award From Samsung Gets Cut By $450M · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's been pretty obvious from the start that Koh was in the tank for Apple. I suspect at this point, she's worried about what the appeals court might have to say about her conduct, especially if they can't find grounds to overturn her verdict.

  14. Re:The good ole Ts of A on Helena Airport Manager Blocks TSA From Taking Full-Body Scanner · · Score: 1

    I never have moderator points around when I really need them. Excellent comment!

  15. The terrorists really did win on Helena Airport Manager Blocks TSA From Taking Full-Body Scanner · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When Americans have been persuaded to allow their adolescent children to be groped by some mouth-breather who barely scraped through Grade 10 and latched onto his minimum-wage airport job for the "fringe benefits", I guess there's only one conclusion. We can safely assume that, yes, bin Laden got exactly what he wanted as well as what he deserved.

  16. Re:You're Early on Local Emergency Alert System Hacked, Warns Dead Rising From Graves · · Score: 1

    It's times like this I wish Slashdot had a slightly different thread setup. That remark deserves to be rated "ROFL", or something like that.

  17. Re:You're Early on Local Emergency Alert System Hacked, Warns Dead Rising From Graves · · Score: 1

    No, it's definitely Republican. Like trying to do a riff on somebody else's joke and falling flat on your face.

  18. You're Early on Local Emergency Alert System Hacked, Warns Dead Rising From Graves · · Score: 2

    Sounds like a test of the voting system the Republicans are planning to have in place for 2014. ;-)

  19. Just facing the future on Royal Canadian Air Force Sees More Sims In the Future of Fighter Pilot Training · · Score: 1

    Considering the next generation of high-performance aircraft will quite possibly be unmanned, this might not be such a bad idea.

  20. Re:This doesn't make sense to me on Open Source ExFAT File System Reaches 1.0 Status · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the chuckle. I knew what Sneaker Net was, but I'd never heard of a V8 Net.

  21. Re:Blame the prosecution on Nortel Executives Found Not Guilty On Fraud Charges · · Score: 1

    I'd like to say I disagreed with you. I don't. Well said.

  22. Re:Predictions? on BEST Study Finds Temperature Changes Explained by GHG Emissions and Volcanoes · · Score: 1

    Go fuck yourself you moronic prick.

  23. Re:Predictions? on BEST Study Finds Temperature Changes Explained by GHG Emissions and Volcanoes · · Score: 1

    The models are close...and more than 20 years out, they're virtually identical.

  24. Re:Predictions? on BEST Study Finds Temperature Changes Explained by GHG Emissions and Volcanoes · · Score: 1

    Models that have been in use for more than a decade were actually conservative about the level of warming we've seen so far, but got it pretty much right.

    Please pull your head out of your ass and look at the facts. Or just shut the fuck up and quit interfering with adult conversations.

  25. I'd give my right arm for good luggage security on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Theft Devices For Luggage? · · Score: 2

    I almost took a job as an international diamond courier...'til I found out I was the replacement for a guy they called "Lefty".