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  1. Nice! on NoScript For Android Devices Released · · Score: -1, Troll

    Good to see Android and iOS users continuing to catch up with what N900 users could do years ago.

    (Sorry, but that's what ever mobile story feels like to me!)

  2. Re:what are they offering to apologize for... on RIM Offers Free Apps Following Outage · · Score: 1

    Oh wait, I totally set myself up, let me answer that: It's because I've owned two Treos and now an N900 *smugface*

  3. Re:what are they offering to apologize for... on RIM Offers Free Apps Following Outage · · Score: 1

    Why did I imagine the South Park "cripple fight" scene when you started comparing a Blackberry to an iPhone?

  4. Re:Really cool on Electrical Power From Humans · · Score: 1

    Hey it's possible. If it's getting hotter of course you'll want to be less active.

    Also I think your business was the first to do properly targeted spam on Slashdot, I first saw it about a year ago, it was an historic moment!

  5. Re:Matrix flashbacks on Electrical Power From Humans · · Score: 1

    Best online world? Compared to what? The grind/fun ratio is worse than any MMO I've ever seen...

  6. Now just one point of failure on Amazon Bypassing Publishers By Signing Authors Directly · · Score: 1

    This makes a nice business opportunity as long as ebook readers can read plain PDFs.

    1. Make an open, DRM-free ebook store that can undercut Amazon significantly (easy to do). Remember it's mostly the publishers that want DRM, not the authors.
    2. Amazon fails
    3. Profit! And you made the world a better place by doing it, a twofer!

    Yep no ??? step here!

  7. Re:Dumb Question on Facebook Sued For Violating Wiretap Laws · · Score: 1

    NoScript alone won't do it! You need to block access to Facebook altogether or they can still get your IP & browser agent and set cookies.

    Use Ghostery, or NoFace (Facebook-specific). RequestPolicy is another one, it uses a whitelist which is sort of overkill, but they're going to add a blacklist mode soon which should make it more practical for this purpose.

  8. Re:Unless... on RIM Offers Free Apps Following Outage · · Score: 1

    Anyone making serious money who relies on such a heavily centralized and locked-in service deserves what they get.

  9. Re:Free Technical Support on RIM Offers Free Apps Following Outage · · Score: 1

    Well think about how contacts on a Blackberry are managed and then consider how helpful RIM might be:

    There are many ways to import contacts in large numbers directly or indirectly onto a Blackberry.

    To get them off there are three ways:

    1. Move them onto another Blackberry through the desktop software
    2. Use the desktop software and a PIM manager to turn them into vcards, and then put them on another phone. No problem for an Average Joe right?
    3. Beam them one at a fucking time off the Blackberry.

    I'm so glad that when I wanted to move all my contacts from my Treo 650 to my N900 it was about 3 clicks on the Treo to Bluetooth-beam them all in one fell swoop.

  10. Re:Bye bye, RIM on RIM Offers Free Apps Following Outage · · Score: 1

    Did you notice that all the other services you mentioned were free? Except power which is sort of a monopoly. Of course you could get your own generator*

    *Unless you live in an HOA. If you live in an apartment you could sacrifice a window or two for engine exhaust/intake air and radiator inlet/exhaust

  11. Re:Wow! on RIM Offers Free Apps Following Outage · · Score: 1

    $100 is only enough for 2, maybe 3, blackberry apps.

    Or one I Am Rich clone.

  12. Re:Dumb Question on Facebook Sued For Violating Wiretap Laws · · Score: 1

    Even blocking JS won't stop the tracking, it just reduces the amount of info they can collect on your browser. They can still get your IP and browser agent, and set cookies, at a bare minimum (the facebook button isn't just a pic, it's a feature-rich page loaded as an iframe).

  13. Re:*shiver* on Comet May Have Missed Earth By a Few hundred Kilometers · · Score: 1

    I dunno man those rocks are pretty random...

  14. Re:*shiver* on Comet May Have Missed Earth By a Few hundred Kilometers · · Score: 1

    I've actually seen a Christian (maybe I should put quotes around that) call some recent medical breakthrough an "attempt to stay the divine hand of God as expressed through terminal disease." 8-(

    Hopefully not too many think like that.

  15. And dodged them all! on Comet May Have Missed Earth By a Few hundred Kilometers · · Score: 1

    Clearly the Earth is a gun-kata black belt.

  16. Re:Really.... on OccupySF IT Admins Using Pedal Power For Protest · · Score: 1

    True, 12V laptops are very rare. Most use 15-19V.

  17. Re:Dollar store solutions. on OccupySF IT Admins Using Pedal Power For Protest · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking a car cover along these lines should do the job...

  18. Re:Meh: on OccupySF IT Admins Using Pedal Power For Protest · · Score: 1

    They should get a bunch of people with solar-charger backpacks to put the equipment inside them. Then they can just mill around the same general area to have a wifi mesh network and there will be no central "server table" to raid. There are plenty of routers that will run on 12V power and motorcycle batteries can be put in the backpacks so the network doesn't go down when a cloud moves over. Likewise they can keep the laptops spread out so that people can close them and run when the cops show up. For a charging station, get one of those folding solar mats. This is a relatively costly solution though, photovoltaic gear is bloody expensive. You sure as hell won't find any one piece of useful equipment for under 3 digits, and prices upwards of $300 aren't unusual.

    To cut down on conversion losses, instead of going 12VDC to 120VAC to 5VDC for phones, they should have the inverter and and a 12V-USB charge adapter hooked up separately to the 12V source.

  19. Re:Is that how that works? on US Bishop Charged For Not Reporting Priest's Child Porn To Police · · Score: 1

    Sex abuse doesn't know any boundaries and exist everywhere. The reason the church kept it a secret was because of their doctrine of forgiveness and a verry recent conclusion that these people who do sex crimes is actually an illness. So if the priest confessed of his sin the church gives him a clean bill of health and let's them go on. Not because of a plot but because they believe if you confess your sins god will forgive you of those sins, and the policy that the priest who does the confession will not tell anyone else, no matter what. Now you can argue this doctrine, however it isn't part of a coverup it is just following their beliefs.

    Following those beliefs is called a coverup.

  20. Re:awol on Swedish Court Finalizes Jail Sentence For Pirate Bay Co-Founder · · Score: 1

    He must have either lowered it from the stock ride height (which is close to 7" for S2 and later models) or he drives over some monster speedbumps...

  21. Re:No Surprise Here on US Copyright Czar Cozied Up To Content Industry · · Score: 1

    Uh-oh...

    Obama --> Addresses fear of nothing changing --> Nothing changes
    Perry --> Addresses fear of US becoming a post-apocalyptic wasteland -> ?

    Also did the music in the latter half remind anyone else of a slightly more upbeat (but still somewhat dark and haunting) version of the menu music in STALKER: SoC?

  22. Re:But software piracy with stolen credit cards is on Shady Reshipping Centers Exposed · · Score: 1

    Well I know I've seen some cracking groups soliciting donations to purchase the next piece of software to be cracked. I challenge you to find a source for your "fact." MPAA/RIAA propaganda don't count.

  23. Re:Cambodia on Swedish Court Finalizes Jail Sentence For Pirate Bay Co-Founder · · Score: 1

    When Kim Jong-Il or Ahmadinejad impotently saber-rattles, the US takes notice.

    Also it would make the US look like a huge dick and damage foreign relations, although I doubt you care about that part.

  24. Re:awol on Swedish Court Finalizes Jail Sentence For Pirate Bay Co-Founder · · Score: 1

    You do realize it has a stainless/aluminum unibody, a 200hp+ high-revving 4cyl and can make a decent rally car?

    It's far from an ideal surface, especially with the factory settings, but it can be done. Heck I have to drive my little sports coupe over much worse roads with track-set coilovers to get within a few miles of the track.

  25. Re:Cambodia on Swedish Court Finalizes Jail Sentence For Pirate Bay Co-Founder · · Score: 1

    Not about this twerp, but perhaps about foreign law enforcement presence on his land...