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  1. Re:Another indication of the failed war on drugs on Drone Drops Drugs Onto Ohio Prison Yard · · Score: 1

    The entire system is not for criminals it's for profit. Anyone thinks that a prison is keeping you safe is incredibly delusional.

    The really scary violent ones, put down, like the guy eating a bag of human ears at his trial... safe to put that one to death. The rest community service.

  2. Drone used by lazy drug dealer. on Drone Drops Drugs Onto Ohio Prison Yard · · Score: 1

    What a stupid idea to use a drone. you can EASILY use a trebuchet or other setup to lob them into the yard from a distance. hell you can set up a nice big slingshot to do it without attracting any attention.

    Unlike a slow moving device that is obvious as hell as it sounds like a large hive of angry bees.

  3. Re:What did you expect? on Parts of SOPA Hiding Inside a Boring Case About Invisible Braces · · Score: 1

    It worked for the french.

  4. Re:Democrats on Parts of SOPA Hiding Inside a Boring Case About Invisible Braces · · Score: 0

    Fact: all politicians hate poor people.
    Fact: They LOVE people that give them money. If you give them LOTS of money, they will do what you ask.

    This is how the United states has worked since the very first day. The founding fathers were not fighting for the poor common folks.

  5. Re:Outdoor on Giving Up Alternating Current · · Score: 4, Informative

    I had a solar powered and wind powered home in the Michigan Upper peninsula. where we average 30 FEET of snow in the winter.

    It is absolutely doable. You cant be a bran dead sloth like the typical american though. you have to do some maintenance. About 20 hours a years worth.

  6. Re:Outdoor on Giving Up Alternating Current · · Score: 1

    Then the windmills will be turning like hell. Because when the sun is not shining the wind is blowing.

  7. Re:Outdoor on Giving Up Alternating Current · · Score: 1

    Many people have lived off grid with DC for most of their needs for decades. This is not new in any way.

  8. I know why... on Why Bill Gates Is Dumping Another $1 Billion Into Clean Energy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Just like most really rich guys. Trying like hell to clean his dark soul from what he did to get that rich.

    Carnegie was a horrible horrible human being, he tried to buy his soul back with all the "giving back".

  9. What about the sexist thermostat in accounting? on Researchers: The Thermostat In Your Office May Be Sexist · · Score: 1

    It's 102 degrees in there, the women all have it adjusted to insane warm levels and are STILL wearing sweaters in the summer.

    I swear that I saw a couple of geckos running across the floor last time I dropped off company credit card receipts.

  10. Re:strongest attack vector in existence on Researchers Create Mac "Firmworm" That Spreads Via Thunderbolt Ethernet Adapters · · Score: 1

    Any competent Corporate IT already scrubs URL's from all email, it get's quarentined and a tech has to look at the email before the user can get it.

    Comcast was doing that back in the early 2005's

  11. Re:Maybe someday on Researchers Create Mac "Firmworm" That Spreads Via Thunderbolt Ethernet Adapters · · Score: 1

    Unless it's active low, then tie it to V+ rail.

  12. Re:Maybe someday on Researchers Create Mac "Firmworm" That Spreads Via Thunderbolt Ethernet Adapters · · Score: 2

    Pull Write Enable line to ground and the best hackers in the world cant change anything on the chip.

  13. Re:Maybe someday on Researchers Create Mac "Firmworm" That Spreads Via Thunderbolt Ethernet Adapters · · Score: 1

    Dont need to be. All they need to do is add a very small switch. you are updating the firmware? flip the physical switch.

    Lessthan $0.10 in electronic parts to make something hackerproof.

  14. Re:Good move Nokia on Nokia's HERE Maps Sold For $3.2 Billion To Audi, BMW and Daimler · · Score: 1

    TeleAtlas kicks Google's butt in maps.

  15. Re:Slashdot crying wolf again... on ARIN IPv4 Addresses Run Out Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    There are comments here on slashdot from 10 years ago that are EXACTLY like yours.

    "put it off for a few months" turned into 10 years.

  16. Re:Slashdot crying wolf again... on ARIN IPv4 Addresses Run Out Tomorrow · · Score: 2

    They also are just being sat on. Corperations need to have them forcibly taken back as those asshats will never give them up willingly.

  17. Slashdot crying wolf again... on ARIN IPv4 Addresses Run Out Tomorrow · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I have heard of a monthly "running out of IpV4 addresses" on slashdot since 1998.

    And this story has zero meat to it just like the last 690 stories here about it.

    How about someone forcing HP to give up their gigantic chunk that they have been camping on unused for 40 years?

  18. Sure! on ISPs Claim Title II Regulations Don't Apply To the Internet Because "Computers" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Honestly, force internet to be like a utility. dont let them be for profit and force them to spend at last 50% of all profits on infrastructure build out.

    These asshole CEO's don't want to do the right thing, then it needs to be done at gunpoint with regulations and laws. Let the SWAT teams raid a CEO office for once instead of a poor persons house.

  19. Still drivers issues with the Surface pro. on Windows 10 Upgrade Strategies, Pitfalls and Fixes As MSFT Servers Are Hit Hard · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The surface pro and Surface pro 2 BOTH have had non stop issues with wireless drivers for two reasons.

    1 - microsoft chose the shittiest wireless chipset made on the planet, the Marvell Avastar 88W8797 Wireless
    2 - The drivers were written by drunken morons.

    you can easily bork the wireless that require you to delete the device, uninstall the drivers, reboot, re detect and then reinstall the drivers. I was hoping that microsoft had fixed this with windows 10, but nope. it's the exact same crap windows 8 driver that somehow self corrupts it's self on boot up.

    It doesn't help that Marvell as a company makes only steaming piles of dog shit. All of their chipsets are complete garbage and any maker that uses them are ran by morons.

  20. Re:A simple proposition. on Advertising Companies Accused of Deliberately Slowing Page-load Times For Profit · · Score: 1

    Million, you must think this is 2001 in the Slashdot heydays...

  21. Re:two sides to the dagger. on Oracle To Debut Low-Cost SPARC Chip Next Month · · Score: 1

    I see you never begged at the feet of Silicon Graphics....

    Sun on a throne? Sun were amateurs compared to SGI in making your customer kneel.

  22. No. on Are We Reaching the Electric Car Tipping Point? · · Score: 1

    No sub $11,000 electric car that has 100 mile range.
    No electric car that can charge in 6 hours at home without spending thousands on a fat charger and an electrician and permits to install it.
    No apartments with electric charging stations.

    So nope.

  23. Not competition for steam machines. on Windows 10 App For Xbox One Could Render Steam Machines Useless · · Score: -1

    Only for Xbox one. Worthless.

    now let me play games on my PC via my xbox one. Kerbal space program, dont starve, etc... Then it's competition.

    Playing GTAV on my windows tablet? boring.

  24. Re:A simple proposition. on Advertising Companies Accused of Deliberately Slowing Page-load Times For Profit · · Score: 1

    Get better content, do better at troll control and get more of us to subscribe.

    Why are you a cheap jerk and not paying a subscription? http://slashdot.org/subscribe....

  25. Re:Kickstarter forever on Razer Acquires Ouya's Storefront and Technical Team · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sorry, but Kung Fury was worth every single penny.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    It's also better than anything that Hollywood has produced in the past 40 years.