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  1. You could do the same with electronic voting, e.g. by breaking the machines or not supplying them on time. Difference is, it's obvious that someone is cheating if when you show up there are not enough ballots, whereas glitches in the software may be either accidental or intentional, this making it much harder to call whether someone is manipulating the result.

  2. How was it again that the current majority population came to control the North American territories? I won't even have to Google it to probably be right about Syria being an older nation than the US.

  3. I wonder did he write that himself, or was he dictating it?

  4. Re: Turing Evolved on Debating a Ban On Autonomous Weapons (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 0

    And what makes you think there will not be made terminator style killing robots with mines in them?

  5. Re: Fools think this is horrible. on EFF: License Plate Scanner Deal Turns Texas Cops Into Debt Collectors (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Because false dichotomy?

  6. Do like in Denmark on Employers Switching From Payroll Checks To Prepaid Cards With Fees · · Score: 1

    Have a national, obligatory system designating an account for salary payments and make legislation preventing the charging of any fees or the like on the salary transaction. http://www.nemkonto.dk/da/Servicemenu/Engelsk/NemKonto-Easy-Account-for-companies

  7. The Internet... on The Internet Has Transformed Modern Divorce · · Score: 1

    ... has transformed many aspects of modern life, not just divorce. Surprised?

  8. Re:All part of Israel's new humanitarian plan on Israel Passes Photoshop Law To Combat Anorexia · · Score: 1

    238) Stop forcing Palestinians into walled-off ghettos.

    There are plenty of "Palestinians" living outside Gaza in Israel. Nobody is "forcing" them to live in the ghetto that Gaza is.

    So if I build a nice tall fence around your city/town, you'd freely and with pleasure either tolerate it or move away without feeling even the slightest bit forced?

    I do realize that you were trolling, but I'm too drunk to ignore it.

  9. Re:Cyanogen IS Android if you are a geek on Samsung Hires Steve 'Cyanogen' Kondik · · Score: 1

    The Desire has a rather small internal storage memory, meaning that unless you change the partition layout you will quickly run out of storage space.

  10. Re:They are watching... on New FBI Operations Manual Increases Surveillance · · Score: 1

    ScienceDaily (Nov. 12, 1997) — Computer "eyes" are now up to such tasks as watching for fugitives in airline terminals and other busy locations. A sophisticated face-recognition system that placed first in recent Army competitive trials has been given the added ability to pick out faces in noisy or chaotic "street" environments. The new "Mugspot" software module developed at the University of Southern California automatically analyzes video images, looking for passers-by. When it finds them, it picks out the heads in the images and then tracks the heads for as long as they remain in the camera's field.

    Almost 15 years ago, it was already possible to accurately track and recognise people in grainy, blurry, low-res video. As if intelligence agencies *aren't* having a field day with facebook.

    But 15 years ago millions of people did not voluntarily (albeit unknowingly, for the most part) submit their personal photos and videos for this kind of analysis.

  11. Re:Wonderful. on Dutch To Introduce Net Neutrality By Law · · Score: 1

    The US' statistic is also surprising: 5.0 per 100,000 - the highest among OECD countries by a long shot (though still comparatively safe compared to the majority of countries in the world).

    That must be all those guns people have the right to carry, and all the murders constantly covered on the news which make people feel like they should probably carry a gun, just in case...

  12. Re:yay! on Japan's MagLev Gets Go Ahead · · Score: 1

    Why, do you think anyone would attempt a hijack?

  13. Re:What a stupid article. on TwitPic Will Sell Your Photos, But No Cash For You · · Score: 1

    Posted by timothy on Thursday May 12, @03:59PM from the click-no-to-agree dept.

  14. Re:This is how marketing works on RockMelt: Google Chrome, Only Better · · Score: 1

    You might as well have written: "I think PC Pro paid Slashdot to bring this otherwise useless story so they could get some advertising money."

  15. I don't mean to be a grammar nazi, but... on Aussie Police Probe Virtual Worlds For Money Trail · · Score: 1

    ... how many polices is the editor talking about which probe virtual worlds for money trail(s)? Or perhaps they (in the 3rd person singular sense of "they") meant to write "Aussie Police Probes ..."

    Or maybe they're discussing some police probe based virtual worlds in which the communities are collectively in favour of a particular money trail?

    I'm not a native English speaker, so I might be wrong in pointing out that there is a problem here. But I don't think I am.

  16. Re:Diff? on Red Hat Nears $1 Billion In Revenues, Closing Door On Clones · · Score: 2

    Well, that would give you one very large diff and not several specific ones that you could pick and choose between.

  17. Re:"Media has opinions" on IE9 Released, Media Has Opinions · · Score: 1

    Funny how your comment came almost the same time as the headline "Red Hat Paid $4.2m To Settle Patent Suit" - were they paid or have they paid? I guess we will never know (unless we read the summary or TFA that is).

  18. Re:Twitter's End Game on Twitter Discards Client UI Community · · Score: 1

    Seems they are all about the money now...

    ... because they were not until now?

  19. Re:lacking important path transformation algorithm on Book Review: Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers · · Score: 1

    IIRC there is an icon preview panel which means you can remove the last element from your list.

  20. Re:IANA on Example.com Has Changed · · Score: 1

    That's a bit like the other day when I accidentally my new server

  21. Re:This a re-org for the foreign offices only on Stars Remain In Their Usual Places; People Panic · · Score: 0

    Some might say that it should be spelled "couldn't", but I'm not a native English speaker.

  22. Re:Software engineer vs. computer programmer? on Study Says Software Engineers Have the Best US Jobs · · Score: 1

    But surely, the academic title MSc Eng is only allowed to be used by people holding a diploma for such a degree? If this is not the case, then I might as well add a couple of extra degrees to my business card.

  23. Re:I suspect... on Autonomous Audi TT Conquers Pike's Peak · · Score: 2, Informative

    Heck, even trains, the one kind of vehicle that could drive itself completely safely today, are still manned by "drivers" who spend their time pushing a button to tell the computer they're still alive, because passengers would be scared without drivers and unions prevent their removal from the trains.

    Well except in at least Copenhagen, Denmark, where our metro is without in-train operators. As far as I know there is no union for the operating computers, as they have yet to gain sentience.

  24. Re:How is this news? on Web-Users Fall For Fake Anti-Virus Scams · · Score: 1

    Most people are fucking idiots.

    Not idiots, but ignorant. You can't blame them for that.

    Well, you could, but they wouldn't listen, would they?

  25. Re:As opposed to... what? on EU Commission Says People Have a 'Right To Be Forgotten' Online · · Score: 1

    I do realise you're being sarcastic, but whereas "scary" and "inconsistent" are valid adjectives to associate with the continent Europe depending on what your opinion is, "nanny-state" isn't because Europe isn't a state, it's a continent, and furthermore The European Commission is a political body within the European Union, which is not the same as the continent Europe. Just the same way as [North] America isn't the same as the United States of America.