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  1. Re:Well, I guess that settles that on AOSP Maintainer Quits · · Score: 1

    absent my cargo pants, which have velcro straps on the lower pockets (tip: lose the button, use velcro!), I wear a gilet. That thing goes with *everything* and I can carry a tripod (shameless plug for the greatest tripod on Earth!) in it as well!

  2. Re:Google can fix it with a hammer. on AOSP Maintainer Quits · · Score: 1

    two words: Tacoma Narrows.

  3. Re:Google can fix it with a hammer. on AOSP Maintainer Quits · · Score: 1

    kudos for hitting that AC button right after you misused "you're".

  4. Re:Google can fix it with a hammer. on AOSP Maintainer Quits · · Score: 1

    let's think:

    iOS: unknown quantity. Apple won't tell us what kernel they're using. They won't tell us how many vulnerabilities they're tracking.
    Android: GNU/Linux kernel. Known quantity, we know pretty much exactly how many vulnerabilities there are, because each and every one is tracked and peer-reviewed on a regular basis.

    So no, you cannot make any kind of comparison as to which is the more secure system, because security through obscurity is NO SECURITY AT ALL therefore ANDROID WINS.

  5. Re:Google can fix it with a hammer. on AOSP Maintainer Quits · · Score: 1

    ...I wonder why he posted that AC?

  6. Re:Google can fix it with a hammer. on AOSP Maintainer Quits · · Score: 1

    if I'm expected to use a bridge I expect it to be structurally sound! THAT DOES NOT MEAN I need to know what kind of fucking cement it's made with!

  7. didn't they pay attention? on NASA Appointed Team Set Out Priorities For a Europa Surface Mission · · Score: 1

    "All these worlds are yours, except Europa.
    Attempt no landing there.
    Use them together.
    Use them in peace."

    We're boned.

  8. Re:wonderful idea! on Spanish Chatbot Hunts For Pedophiles · · Score: 1

    QED.

  9. Re:wonderful idea! on Spanish Chatbot Hunts For Pedophiles · · Score: 1

    that is trainwreck tragic.

  10. Re:wonderful idea! on Spanish Chatbot Hunts For Pedophiles · · Score: 2

    Giggity!

  11. Something missing on Microsoft Reveals Its 3D Printing Strategy For Windows 8.1 · · Score: 1

    3D printers aren't quite in the realms of household consumer items yet. Not at several thousand Dollars a pop for the hardware, let's not go there with supplies of printing substrate...

  12. Re:wonderful idea! on Spanish Chatbot Hunts For Pedophiles · · Score: 3, Insightful

    GOTO statements make me wet.

  13. wonderful idea! on Spanish Chatbot Hunts For Pedophiles · · Score: 3, Funny

    What could possibly go wrong?

  14. Re:it's deliberate on America's Second-largest Employer Is a Temp Agency · · Score: 1

    yes, you posted anon because you're a: full of shit and/or b: you're too cowardly to argue your points mano a mano.

  15. Re:How likely this will be cost-effective? on Wood Nanobattery Could Be Green Option For Large-Scale Energy Storage · · Score: 1

    I'll see your nitpick and raise you a rather important caveat: nuclear reactors are done after 30-40 years, at which point they are decommissioned over a timetable of 100-200 years. Unless they explode, in which case they're encased in concrete.

  16. Re:Salt is NOT benign on Wood Nanobattery Could Be Green Option For Large-Scale Energy Storage · · Score: 1

    oh, snap!

  17. the system is already in place on Ask Slashdot: Preventing Snowden-Style Security Breaches? · · Score: 1

    access levels on documents are already the norm. USE THEM.
    Compartmenting documents is also the norm. SEGREGATE DOCUMENTS.
    Deny access to individuals who do not have the requisite access level or department clearances to view the document.
    ONE SHOT DEAL: You get caught accessing a single compartmented document that is not ESSENTIAL to doing your job, YOU GO TO JAIL. END OF.

    HOWEVER:

    That is contingent on the agency with the overall responsibility of the documents in question being totally above reproach. Yeah, right, show me one and I'll show you a LIAR. There's ALWAYS room for mitigation, IMO.

  18. Re:simple on Ask Slashdot: Preventing Snowden-Style Security Breaches? · · Score: 1

    depends, are you harvesting organs?

  19. Re:simple on Ask Slashdot: Preventing Snowden-Style Security Breaches? · · Score: 1

    actually the noticeable point is that 9% of "random" stop and searches in the London Metropolitan area resulted in arrests.
    Of those, taking overall statistics from the Home Office, 10% are charged, and of those, 60% are convicted.

    So out of every 1,000 people searched, just 6 are convicted.

    *I used "random" in parentheses because observations by people specifically out looking what the police are doing indicated that 85% of the individuals stopped and searched are from ethnic minorities, such as black West Indian, West African, East Indian, Polish, Pakistani and - get this - Golders Jews. I myself have seen random stop and searches in Golders Green, North London, which is a predominantly hasidic Jewish community, performed by white Western European (most likely British descent) police officers on hasidic Jewish civilians over transient anybody else. Don't ever try telling me that profiling doesn't happen, because it DOES.

  20. Re:How likely this will be cost-effective? on Wood Nanobattery Could Be Green Option For Large-Scale Energy Storage · · Score: 1

    the favoured source for power for aluminium smelting is hydro. Dam a body of water, tap off the bottom, feed it through a turbine. As long as the head pressure exceeds the Governor, you're guaranteed output. Nuclear depends on supply of refined fuel. Solar depends on the sun. Wind depends on... wind. Tidal is just too damn controversial at the moment, it's not even viable thanks to the treehuggers - they're losing the battle against wind simply because they can't justify their position while running their C-rated fridges.

  21. Re:Salt is NOT benign on Wood Nanobattery Could Be Green Option For Large-Scale Energy Storage · · Score: 1

    damn... what was that movie...!?

    Idiocracy?

  22. Re:Salt is NOT benign on Wood Nanobattery Could Be Green Option For Large-Scale Energy Storage · · Score: 1

    rain tax?? I've heard about this, it's really fucked up. We need a full-on slashdot discussion about how privatising the stuff that randomly FALLS OUT OF THE SKY and is ESSENTIAL TO ALL LIFE ON EARTH isn't the sole property of a commercial interest like NESTLÉ.

  23. Re:It really is too bad on Wood Nanobattery Could Be Green Option For Large-Scale Energy Storage · · Score: 1

    My backup battery consists of a copper wire, a zinc nail, and a potato.

    Four such cells connected in series charges a mobile phone quite nicely. Not enough current to actually run the thing while charging, mind, but it does sort the battery.

  24. Re:Just when you got the virus problem licked on Wood Nanobattery Could Be Green Option For Large-Scale Energy Storage · · Score: 1

    did Dell ever build a magnesium chassis? Only one I know of (and actually own two such examples) are the Panasonic Toughbooks.

  25. Re:Only you can prevent forest fires. on Wood Nanobattery Could Be Green Option For Large-Scale Energy Storage · · Score: 1

    oh stop it you bastard, I've been craving smoked salmon for the past month!