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  1. Browser level blocking on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Block Web Content? · · Score: 1

    I for one would not want to pay for the router powerful enough to parse every webpage that passes through it.

    Also it would be a far bigger pain to update and modify.

  2. Re:Still... on Veoh Once Again Beats UMG (After Going Out of Business) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And the real-world precedent of don't mess with the record companies even if you have the law on your side.

  3. Re:Why do they have comments on news sites? on Why Trolls Win With Toxic Comments · · Score: 2

    Comments are like peer review. I don't trust any article that does not have the ability to post comments and at least have a few showing.
    In addition to posting a different viewpoint, it allows actual experts whose main objective is not to get as many views as possible to write about a topic.

    If an article interests you, the comments are where to go to see if the idea holds water and to learn more about it.

  4. Security on Should We Be Afraid of Google Glass? · · Score: 1

    Ya, because the mugging would of went a whole lot better for him if it started off with him getting punched in the face repeatedly to disable is Google glasses.

  5. Re:He obviously has to be insane on Using Truth Serum To Confirm Insanity · · Score: 1

    Well there are some completely logical and sane reason to kill people, but no real logical reasons to go on shooting sprees unless he planned on and wanted to go to jail or commit suicide.

    I think the legal definition of insane is: insane in a way that we understand well and in particular if we can easily treat it.
    If he looks and acts obviously cookoo and no one would attribute logical thought to him, he is legally insane.
    Also, if he can take this simple drug once a week and be a completely normal person, he might be legally insane.

    But then some people just really enjoy killing other people. I remember this one case, I think it was in Japan.
    The legal system found this multiple murderer/cannibal innocent by reason of insane. so they shipped him off to a mental institution.
    The institution found him completely sane and logical, but incredibly evil, so they let him go. (http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/interview-with-a-cannibal/)

  6. It could right now. on Ancient Mars Could Have Supported Life · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As far as we know their is life under the ice right this moment, where their might be large lakes or seas of liquid water. This life could even be fish like.
    Hell we have bacteria living in ice on earth, we might find the same thing there.

    Mars was very earth like far before Earth became more than a ball of molten rock and metal. If life is at all common, it probably had it, as it probably had about the same chances of it forming.

  7. Re:I wonder... on Facebook Knows If You're Gay, Use Drugs, Or Are a Republican · · Score: 1

    More likely, it was that that Lil Wayne like that did it.

  8. Re:I used to block ads on Game Site Wonders 'What Next?' When 50% of Users Block Ads · · Score: 1

    I am sure that is correct, but the studies do not mean longitudinally. 99.5% of all current societal "needs" are only needs because of a century (if not considerably more) of concerted effort by advertisers who use continually more and more advanced psychology.

    If advertisements never existed America would likely be more like Europe and everyone would not need to own their own homes, and buy a new car every year.
    Also in both continents, "needs" double like every decade. And advertisements are a significant cause.

    Over the short term 9-12 is completely reasonable and I am sure fairly accurate. But it does not take into account cultural shifts and long term psychological training brought about by advertisements. ~10% of all sold goods are sold with a directly correlation to a specific advertisement champaign, but ~99% are sold because of the psychological training by ads, on both a individual and cultural level.

  9. This is Outrageous. on Harvard Secretly Searched Deans' Email · · Score: 1

    Only the little people are supposed to be pissed on.

  10. Re:I used to block ads on Game Site Wonders 'What Next?' When 50% of Users Block Ads · · Score: 1

    And the 1/4 that remained would be porn sites that cost money to enter, and stores/businesses whose entire site is an ad for their company.

  11. Force ads on Game Site Wonders 'What Next?' When 50% of Users Block Ads · · Score: 1

    It is not like it is hard to detect adblocking. And display a message, or just block all content.
    I really do not know why sites do not do this.

    But in reality, just asking nicely for all your customers to turn off their adblockers would hopeful do enough.

  12. Re:I used to block ads on Game Site Wonders 'What Next?' When 50% of Users Block Ads · · Score: 1

    First off your percentages are ridiculous. I assume you mean if adds stopped today, we would do 9-12 percent less buying today on average.

    Second, you are making the (wrong in my opinion) assumption that money can buy you quality and quantity content.

  13. Job Security on Why All the Higgs Hate? It's a 'Vanilla' Boson · · Score: 1

    It is always best to find unexpected results, that increases job security.
    Finding what you are looking for reduces job security.

  14. Rest of the country on Court: 4th Amendment Applies At Border, Password Protected Files Not Suspicious · · Score: 1

    Now if only we could get the constitution to be applicable to the rest of the country we would be golden.

  15. Re:This is surprising? on The Accidental Betrayal of Aaron Swartz · · Score: 1

    I hate that phrase. Some things you can say simply cannot be used against you.
    If I said, "hello officer", or "I like ice cream". I do not see how they can guarantee that they will use that against me. In most cases something you say is not at all applicable to your guilt or innocence of some specific crime.

  16. Re:When talking to a prosecutor in the US. on The Accidental Betrayal of Aaron Swartz · · Score: 1

    Which works for some, but only if you believe lying is good thing or at least worth doing if it benefits you.

  17. Re:Use of Stack Overflow != Bad Documentation on Developers May Be Getting 50% of Their Documentation From Stack Overflow · · Score: 1

    Great example. MySQL documentation is 100% complete, but also mostly unreadable.

  18. Re:Use of Stack Overflow != Bad Documentation on Developers May Be Getting 50% of Their Documentation From Stack Overflow · · Score: 1

    Except not all languages have consistent, good, complete documentation.

    Java is a perfect example of good documentation. Their is nothing that is not 100% fully documented in a completely consistent style. You can still use SO for asking how to get started in a complex class (but after someone says, use this method, you can easily go check it out and find out everything it can do and similar methods).

    But take Perl for example. There are loads of modules that give you next to no documentation. You do not even know what variables different methods take.

  19. Re:How's this DRM? on DRM Chair Self-Destructs After 8 Uses · · Score: 2

    It is not Digital, but it is rights management (which is far bigger than copy perfection).

    this is Physical Rights Management, and could be used to restrict who used a chair, how many times it is used, and where and how it is used.

  20. Re:That's not DRM on DRM Chair Self-Destructs After 8 Uses · · Score: 2

    This is DRM. DRM is everything from country specific games to how many installs you can do total or at one time for a game.
    This tech installed in physical products would manage what you could do with them.

    Or course it is not DIGITAL rights management (even if the circuit board used digital signals), but physical.

  21. Re:Cars produce more on State Rep. Says Biking Is Not Earth Friendly Because Breathing Produces CO2 · · Score: 1

    Really, I thought more since that is what plants breath.

    I do not know how they survive on that tiny percentage.

    But you are right, that obviously would make no effect towards Oxygen poisoning.

  22. Re:Cars produce more on State Rep. Says Biking Is Not Earth Friendly Because Breathing Produces CO2 · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think the animals would die out first, from Oxygen poisoning.

  23. My Personal Policy on How Power Failures Corrupt Flash SSD Data · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is why I don't use prototype tech that is really not ready to be used in the real world. And if you do, expect loads of bugs and bricking.

    But either way, thanks for funding the development of something I am excited to try out in 2-4+ years when it will be a mature usable technology.

  24. Re:Anyone ever hear of a battery-backed cache? on How Power Failures Corrupt Flash SSD Data · · Score: 1

    OR the battery fails, is taken out, or falls out.

  25. Re:What? on Controversy Over Violet Blue's Harm Reduction Talk · · Score: 1

    The talk very much was on-topic for the event and completely aimed at its specific audience, and was in no way gratuitous.

    She presents talks "about sexuality at tech conferences all over the world", and has even used this exact talk before. And is even well known and respected enough to get a timeslot and stage in this event to talk.