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  1. Re:Get the right breed of dog. on Secret Service Critics Pounce After White House Breach · · Score: 1

    I think one of my buddies has a dog like that. Boxer English bull dog mix, favorite attack tactic: jump up on you, knock you down, sit on your chest, and lick your face.

  2. Re: They don't need fancy gadgets on Secret Service Critics Pounce After White House Breach · · Score: 1

    I think I have one of those.

  3. Re:Everything is an excuse for more security theat on Secret Service Critics Pounce After White House Breach · · Score: 1

    I think that is why the most recent Bush chose Cheney as VP. Think of it as the ultimate dead-man switch.

  4. Re:why does the CRTC need this list? on Canadian Regulator Threatens To Impose New Netflix Regulation · · Score: 1

    Sadly one of the most watched things on netflix in my household is Mighty Machines which is a Canadian show. With 2 small boys it is a godsend and so much less grating that Hard Hat Harry.

  5. Re:"Affluent and accomplished" is not the criterio on Netropolitan Is a Facebook For the Affluent, and It's Only $9000 To Join · · Score: 1

    If to you affluent is a hundred-dollar word then you obviously aren't part of the bourgeoisie and are probably just part of the proletariat.

    Now that I am done with word fun I seem to frequently hear people describe others as affluent solely based off of their perceived net worth.

  6. Re:There is no "almost impossible" on Apple's "Warrant Canary" Has Died · · Score: 1

    I'm not worried about things that happen after the heat death of the universe though. I will be long dead and gone.

  7. Re:There is no "almost impossible" on Apple's "Warrant Canary" Has Died · · Score: 1

    The Brits use metric now it is only those old dodgy whitworth ones you have to be on the lookout for.

  8. Re:There is no "almost impossible" on Apple's "Warrant Canary" Has Died · · Score: 1

    Just knock them out with a $5 wrench and call it good.

  9. Re:There is no "almost impossible" on Apple's "Warrant Canary" Has Died · · Score: 1

    $5 doesn't get you a good wrench for hitting someone with as they are too small to be worth while. In the $20 to $30 range now you are talking. Personally I would just use a piece of 1/2" re-bar that is a couple of feet long much cheaper.

  10. Re:Naughty Obama wants to see you naked. on Apple's "Warrant Canary" Has Died · · Score: 1

    if he wants to see tits, he has to pay

    No he doesn't all he would have to do would be to go sit in on a session of congress.

  11. Re:The good news is on Once Vehicles Are Connected To the Internet of Things, Who Guards Your Privacy? · · Score: 1

    Well an EMP would at least make the Lucas made electrical components consistent so there is a potential upside.

  12. Re:I have a phone in my pocket on Once Vehicles Are Connected To the Internet of Things, Who Guards Your Privacy? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the internal clock may be getting a bit flaky and/or at times you had some really bad multipath issues. I have had a handheld GPS correctly show bearing and speed but also be off by 10s of miles because it's internal clock had drifted too much while off. After a bit it had resynced the internal clock and probably downloaded the current almanac and did the snap to correct position thing.

  13. Re:Who Guards Your Privacy? on Once Vehicles Are Connected To the Internet of Things, Who Guards Your Privacy? · · Score: 1

    So you mean $50,000 each for drinking fountains isn't making good use of our money?

  14. Re:Sanity... on Apple Will No Longer Unlock Most iPhones, iPads For Police · · Score: 1

    What I have always wondered is if I wrote something down by hand using a super secrete unbreakable code that was related to a crime can I be forced to interpret that piece of paper for the police so they can understand it or can I tell them to go fuck themselves with a spindle sander? This is really what is happening with encrypted data I am being asked to interpret it for the police and it is data that is encoded in such a fashion that without my help they can't decipher it and at least to my non legal mind that seems awfully close to violating the 5th amendment.

  15. But what about bob on Alice Is Killing Trolls But Patent Lawyers Will Strike Back · · Score: 1

    If Alice is off killing trolls what is Bob doing? Looting their corpses before Eve gets there?

  16. Re:Clarification on Study Finds Link Between Artificial Sweeteners and Glucose Intolerance · · Score: 1

    That is why I don't support big beef but will buy from a local farmer who is one of my father's friends. Compared to other cattle feeds corn also is very nutritionally lacking, it may be good for fattening them up quickly and cheaply (this part is changing) but it really isn't good for the cattle. Meat from properly raised cattle butchered at a quality shop flash frozen, not packed in CO2, and not treated with ammonia has such a wonderful flavor and smell. It also is a much darker red almost a purple when compared to the standard meat sold in a store. Problem is that unless the farmer has their own customer base for boutique meat they would prefer to pump them full of antibiotics, growth hormones, and cheap grain to get the ~200 extra pounds on each head all while getting them to market quicker.

  17. Re:Does HFCS count? on Study Finds Link Between Artificial Sweeteners and Glucose Intolerance · · Score: 1

    Let us not forget about beet sugar which is produced in fairly large quantities around the red river valley (Warning xls spread sheet from the USDA). These 2 states produce about 1/2 the entire US crop of sugar beets (~15 million tons out of ~32 million tons) and both are also corn states too.

  18. Re:Does HFCS count? on Study Finds Link Between Artificial Sweeteners and Glucose Intolerance · · Score: 1

    The Pepsi and Mt. Dew Throwback are still available where I live (Twin Cities metro area). Although I had heard an interesting stat that I don't know if it is true but seem reasonable that Minnesotans have the highest per capita consumption in the nation of Mt. Dew so that may be part of the reasons. Another guess (purely speculative) would be that we grow a lot of sugar beets.

  19. Re:Golden opportunity missed... on Wave Power Fails To Live Up To Promise · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was thinking of huge tracts of land.

  20. Re:This isn't scaremongering. on Scotland's Independence Vote Could Shake Up Industry · · Score: 2

    Americans might look on with bemusement; I can understand that. I guess it's a bit like Florida choosing to break away from the US, having a pro-Florida political party endlessly demonizing "them" (the rest of the US) as causing pretty much every economic and political woe Florida has going for it. As an English guy, I think this whole situation really sucks. If the UK breaks up, the whole of Britain will be worse off for it, but I suspect Scotland will take the bigger brunt of the pain. And given that it will have made the decision, it will deserve to.

    We do have something similar, although it is called Texas.

    I have been following this with interest ever since I discovered the BBC World Service on one of the sub channels of Minnesota Public Radio. Being an American it doesn't seem to affect me but I would be for Scottish independence just because I think it would be neat to have a new country. In reality this doesn't seem to be a good reason for the Scots to choose it so it is probably for the better that I am not a resident of Scotland and instead an American.

  21. Re:They are pretending that they do not know on NSA Director Says Agency Is Still Trying To Figure Out Cyber Operations · · Score: 1

    I find this statement entirely believable as something they would say to conference. This sounds like a prelude to a request to have their budget expanded. This sets the scene so that they can point to this conference as a public instance where they pointed out how hard of a time they are having and use it as justification to congress in the next budget go around cluster fuck next year.

  22. Dutch Sandwich on New Global Plan Would Crack Down On Corporate Tax Avoidance · · Score: 1

    So now where are corporations going to get their Dutch Sandwiches?

  23. Re:Ya, but... on Ask Slashdot: Any Place For Liberal Arts Degrees In Tech? · · Score: 2

    Although with some liberal arts degrees I highly doubt the critical thinking skills. I off up some of the degrees offered by my school:
    Avation (learn to fly a plan)
    Physical Education (you get to be a high school gym teacher)
    Parks and recreation management (be an events coordinator at a local park or if you are lucky a park ranger with the NPS)

    All of these were liberal arts programs, all of them had the same general education requirements as a STEM or any other degree, and all of them were much more vocational than a regular degree. I had roommates who majored in each one of these and even they admitted that apart from the vocational skill training they got nothing from these courses.

  24. I went to a rejuvenation clinic and got a whole natural overhaul. They took out some wrinkles, did hair repair, changed the blood, added a good 30 to 40 years to my life. They also replaced my spleen and colon. What do you think?

    I wonder with these types of artificial filters would there be any benefit for an otherwise healthy person to have this done?

  25. Re:Snowden is a communist spy and no whistleblower on New Details About NSA's Exhaustive Search of Edward Snowden's Emails · · Score: 1

    I would go with more of a convenient US annoyance Putin can keep around to poke the US government with instead of communist spy. Also if I didn't want to find out what is is like to experience extreme rendition or be sodomized by a hellfire missile Russia seem like a pretty good country to flee to.