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  1. Re:Plan B. on Stolen iPad's Reported Location Not Enough To Warrant Search, Say Dutch Police · · Score: 4, Funny

    While the people in Holland have 75% less Glaucoma but 80% more cravings of munchies.

  2. Most of those thefts are stolen guns.

    That's the problem the thieves are stealing our guns!

  3. Very true, you get your friends and wait for the guy to come out, then beat him up, take his wallet and recover your ipad.

    Wear gloves and masks so you cant be identified.

  4. Re:Disposable on Pentagon Wants Disposable War Satellites · · Score: 1

    I'll agree with you when every member of congress offers up their children and grand children to stand in front of all the heros when we go to war. The rich need to pay the price of war before they ask the poor to do it.

  5. Re:I would have loved to have this on Pentagon Wants Disposable War Satellites · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes it would have, giving teams like that their own private UAV to control and fly ahead so they can look for baddies setting up an ambush would go a very long way. Problem is it would give the baddies a heads up that someone was coming.

    I think AWACS with gyro telescopes giving visual high def intel would be a better and cheaper way.

  6. Why not a platform? on Pentagon Wants Disposable War Satellites · · Score: 1

    It's not actually weaponizing space, but a platform where we have a railgun that fires 8 foot long 16" wide solid steel I beams at the earth at hypersonic velocities. If you could fling one at say 5800mph it would make a nice eco friendly way of taking out a target.

  7. Re:Plausible deniability... on FBI Tries To Force Google To Unlock User's Android Phone · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that untreated and under treated mental illness runs rampant in the poor. Go into any poor community and look at the number of people rocking violently, talking to themselves, etc... The "greatest healthcare in the world" is only for the rich. It's an utter failure for the poor.

    If you look at the real data of all crimes and violent crimes. Drugs and mental illness are the top tiers of what the criminal is suffering from. Gang Bangers for the most part are drugged out nut cases that should have had treatment years ago, many times bi-polar or even schizophrenia victims. They self medicate with drugs and alcohol and become sociopaths.

    This only happens in the poor community where there is no healthcare to take care of the problem. You don't see multi millionaire's kids going out and killing people because they "dissed my homies".

  8. IF you speculate, learn about the subject. on Instant Messaging With Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    " for instance, then they could conceivably communicate over long distances through water, which is difficult, if not impossible, with present technology."

    VLF I think the submitter needs to learn about what is used for Submarines before speculating about it.

    And the neutreno transmission setup is not a spray and pray like RF communications. so it would be useless for submarine communication unless it was to sattelites where they can use high accuracy positioning servos to get a direct line to the intended submarine.

  9. Hello I pay for a 4gb plan through them. If they throttle after 2gb then it is complete FRAUD. In fact I currently have a lawyer looking into it he almost drooled himself when I asked about how many business accounts are paying for 4Gb and not getting it?

  10. "Unlike land-line service, wireless is unregulated and receives no government subsidy "

    Really? I'd like all that money back, plus 5% interest, that was given to the wireless companies for building out infrastructure then.

    Oh and they also get subsudies for giving poor people obamaphones. Forgot about that one didn't you.

  11. "but if one of my customers sued me, I'd drop them in a heartbeat!"

    And he will enjoy suing you again. It's a vicious cycle when you lie about service and whine about getting used because you lied about what you were selling.

    Moral of the story? Dont be a scumbag company and you will not open yourself up for the vicious lawsuit cycle.

  12. Jumped the shark.... on Huge Triangle-shaped Spot Over the Sun · · Score: 1

    So Slashdot is taking the History channel direction and posting all the crackpot UFO stories now? This "story" was debunked by NASA and others before it even spread.

  13. Not in the wild... on Multiword Passwords Secure Or Not? · · Score: 1

    "but they may still succumb to dictionary attacks, "

    If your system can do a dictionary attack on my 5 word phrase in three attempts, you deserve access to my accounts.

  14. Dear "executives" on White House CIO Describes His 'Worst Day' Ever · · Score: 1

    You HAVE TO spend money on IT infrastructure and equipment yearly. I don't care what you think, Us in IT know a shitload more about IT than you even pretend to think you know. You hired us experts, why the hell don't you let us do our job?

    Honestly, the White house is a small scale IT setup, why the hell dont they have a 2 year replacement on everything there? IT could be done for less than the floor cleaning expenses they have yearly.

  15. And he is a fool. on The Consoles Are Dying, Says Developer · · Score: 1

    I know a LOT of gamers, and yes while a lot more games are sold on tablets.... You don't see ANY tablet games selling for $60.00 in fact you will not sell one copy if you try that extortion level pricing that these scumbags get on consoles.

    Plus, have you tried to play a FPS on a tablet? it sucks. Driving games suck on a tablet. Even games like geometry wars suck on a tablet. Tablets are great for slow interaction games, Adventure games rock on a tablet.

    Twitch games and rapid interaction games will never sell on a tablet unless we get some decent controls. and even then I doubt it. The best handheld for FPS was the Sony PSP and on that platform it sucked to play.

    FPS are a big chunk of the market, Battlefield 3 and MW3 sell far more copies of their old games than this developer has ever sold in his lifetime, and will ever sell.

  16. doesn't prove anything. on Camera Gun Would Let Hunters Get Killer Wildlife Shots · · Score: 1

    any fool can line up the crosshairs on a target. it takes control and skill to be able to get the bullet to hit the target you had in the crosshairs. fire a high caliber rifle and even a tiny twitch will get you off target.

    this is a gimmick. unless it fires a blank or has a way to emulate the recoil and wind it's not proof of anything but having a lot of extra cash.

  17. Re:and i'll bet you.... on Cheap Solar Panels Made With An Ion Cannon · · Score: 1

    The silicon cells themselves seem to have darkened significantly. they were already brownish when I got them in 2000. It's why the Solar farm was replacing them and selling them for $0.10 on the dollar.

  18. and i'll bet you.... on Cheap Solar Panels Made With An Ion Cannon · · Score: 3, Informative

    They also last half as long as today's cheapest cells.

    the ONLY cells that have any longevity are the grown crystal types. The garbage that you see at the low price end lose 20% of their power generating capacity each year.

    the 45 watt harbor freight kit will be generating 2 watts in 4 years, even in a northern climate.

    Call me when these new "cheap" solar cell techniques will last 40 years under airizona sun. I still have 4 old panels from the 80's that have turned dark brown and they generate 70% of their new rated capacity, and they were retired from a solar farm in 1993.

  19. Re:Question about WiFi - why does it keep dropping on San Jose Plan Reintroduces Large-Scale Municipal Wi-Fi Coverage · · Score: 1

    That is 100% normal for hotel Wifi.

    Even $250.00 a night Hotel wifi.

  20. Re:Its how microsoft works on Can Microsoft Afford To Lose With Windows 8? · · Score: 1

    "OEM system (DELL, HP, COMPAQ, etc) with mature drivers that it got solid."

    What planet are you on? I supported Dell HP and Compaq in a corperate setting from 1993 to 2003 and I never saw "mature drivers" from any of those companies.

    Compaq had buggy as hell hardware and drivers. Dell, cripes dell sucked for stability. and HP was good for one thing. Servers.

  21. Re:So... on Ruling Prohibits Kaleidescape From Selling, Supporting Movie Servers · · Score: 1

    Rich people dont have the IQ to do that. Kalidescape did it for them, completely automatic, buy disc, insert in drive, next time you walk by remove the disc. zero effort ripping.

    Using anyDVD+Handbrake and setting up a NAS with XBMC is way WAY beyond the abilities of the 1%

  22. All that is needed now is.... on Ruling Prohibits Kaleidescape From Selling, Supporting Movie Servers · · Score: 1

    For home automation integrators to have the balls to tell their ultra rich clients that their devices are illegal because of rich assholes. Hand them the phone numbers of the MPAA executives and executives of the movie studios and tell them that these people are directly trying to steal their property, and becauset hey own a kalidescape they hate them personally.

    But unfortunately, none of them will. A class action lawsuit funded by the 1% will get the attention of the media cartels.

  23. Re:Thus why I dont trust "professors" to be expert on Prof. J. Alex Halderman Tells Us Why Internet-Based Voting Is a Bad Idea (Video) · · Score: 1

    This already exists with paper ballots. So therefore it happens right now.
    There is plenty of paper trail when you vote for someone to find out how you voted if you were the "party in power"

  24. Re:And is easily defeated... on Journalist Gets Blasted By the Pentagon's Pain Ray — Twice · · Score: 1

    No you cant. The microwave is at 1000watts, or 1000 joules of energy per second.

    This device outputs 12 joules of energy per second. This is two orders of magnitude less.

  25. Re:And is easily defeated... on Journalist Gets Blasted By the Pentagon's Pain Ray — Twice · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baklava

    Yeah, that is what I meant!