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  1. Re:Mother Russia... on Getting the Most Out of the Space Station (Before It's Too Late) · · Score: 1

    How come the US didn't think the same thing ? You see the US is the one handing out sanctions left right and center and pushing it's allied to follow suit. Europe should not worry, the US will find gas for them ... sure will.

  2. Re: Preventing Stingray from working on US Marshals Seize Police Stingray Records To Keep Them From the ACLU · · Score: 2

    Even better, if enough people approve this as an acceptable tower then it is approved. Welcome to p2p authentication.

  3. Re: Undefined on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 1

    That is not possible. I can see it in the court case. You had tge capacity to choose, yet you chose not to choose and my daughter is dead.

  4. Re:frosty piss on Death Wish Meets GPS: iPhone Theft Victims Confronting Perps · · Score: 1

    Chill guys, the Police can do whatever you ask. All you have to do is pay more taxes. If you want them to retrieve your stolen ipod worth $30 at a cost of $1000 per retrieval, just pay an extra 10-20% of your income a year. It is that simple. In fact if you pay more taxes you don't need door locks either. The police can police your house. You don't need insurance for your car either, the government can step in and pay for accidents as a service to the people. This is not unreasonable, as a people we have to decide where the government stops and we take responsibility, what is the most efficient way to achieve a goal.

  5. They could always patch it all the way to Vista on Why Microsoft Shouldn't Patch the XP Internet Explorer Flaw · · Score: 1

    They could always patch it all the way to Vista or maybe even Windows 7 and even 8.x then they will have a modern monoculture. Or how about Linux release an XP patch that ...

  6. So Nokia +30,000 = 1/2 Whatsup !! on Microsoft/Nokia Deal Closes · · Score: 1

    So Nokia +30,000 employees = 1/2 Whatsup !!

  7. Re:What if there is no reason? on Why Are We Made of Matter? · · Score: 1

    Damn .. I was just thinking that halfway through reading the parent post !! Can you even prove that something can be, but have no reason ? I mean can you conclusively prove that a particular mix of matter/antimatter has happened, but there was no reason why it happened ? You can say that the result is random, and you can't come to know it completely due to quantum effects, but can you say that the outcome has no reason why it ended up what it is, no forces of nature shaped it to be what it is.

  8. Re:What if there is no reason? on Why Are We Made of Matter? · · Score: 1

    All this talk to say ... there may be no reason at all. Is that possible ? Can something to be but not have reason ?

  9. Wow ... how about on Google Project Ara Design Will Use Electro-Permanent Magnets To Lock In Modules · · Score: 2

    I have an idea I should consider patenting, but I can't help myself An interchangeable battery !!

  10. Re:I admire their spunk, but... on Operation Wants To Mine 10% of All New Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    Same goes for bitcoin. There is so much of it to go around ... just like Gold, although we know how many bitcoins there are. There are miners and there are non miners. You are a non-miner.

  11. Re:This is all Bush's fault! on Russians Take Ukraine's Last Land Base In Crimea · · Score: 1

    Actually Clinton with Kosovo and Bush with Iraq made Crimea small fry.

  12. NSA on NSA Hacked Huawei, Stole Source Code · · Score: 1

    Tell us what you know !!! Information wants to be free

  13. Re:snark on The $100,000 Device That Could Have Solved Missing Plane Mystery · · Score: 1

    Tell that the the families of passengers on Flight MH370.

    Why, would that somehow bring them back to life?

    Did the families die as well !!

  14. The Pudding, where is the pudding ? on Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen Say Google Data Now Protected From Gov't Spying · · Score: 1

    I am sure that his whole industry is based on provable metrics. So the prood is in the pudding my friend ... how can we know what you claim is true. 'pretty sure' does not go very far.

  15. Re:Why? on Apple Refuses To Unlock Bequeathed iPad · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well she gave the iPad but not the data in the cloud ... she may be using that now that she is up there.l

  16. Re:What does this mean? on WikiLeaks Cables Foreshadow Russian Instigation of Ukrainian Military Action · · Score: 1

    I will use simpler words for you. There are precedences that have disarmed the US and are the result of US actions. The US made a call under it's own reasoning to bomb the crap out of Iraq. It did not use the UN. Why should Russia not be able to do the same thing. Russia is simply protecting their interests. Kossovo voted out of Serbia even though it is historically Serbian but the population of Albanians are pretty high. I am not making a judgement on the ethics of that action, just of the precedent set. The ex-government of Ukraine was ousted which was popularly elected. Russia sent troops in to protect their interests. Whole divisions and war ships are switching sides to Russia. It seems to me that the south is Russian by a big majority.

  17. Well ... what do you expect on WikiLeaks Cables Foreshadow Russian Instigation of Ukrainian Military Action · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If the US could invade Iraq without UN support and under the pretense of the moral high ground as defined by the US, then so can Russia invade Crimea. If the Kosovo can leave Serbia and become it's own country under the support of the US even though it is historically Serbian but by population Albanian so can Crimea which has a Russian majority. The US has made their bed and now it is sleeping in it. Precedence is a bitch, the US set the precedent and now they are winging about what is happening in Crimea !! Russia supplies 60% of Europe's energy and it will increase to 80% ... the US has nothing to stand on. If they apply sanctions, the Russians will increase the price of gas and oil and have Europe pay for them just for giggles.

  18. Re:Kinda implies on Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Trust Bitcoin? · · Score: 1

    So the question does not apply to you. If somebody asked you, do you still trust medicine "a" over medicine "b" for a particular condition. If you are not a doctor, please don't answer.

  19. This is not bulshit on WhatsApp Founder Used Unchangable Airline Ticket To Pressure Facebook · · Score: 1

    In negotiations there is a point where you need to behave irrationally otherwise negotiations continue to your detriment. That was a means to signal that it is your final offer, and I am willing to drop it for something as ridiculous as a flight to Barcelona. They could have offered a flight in a gold plated A380, it would not have made a difference. Next time you negotiate with your wife over going out with your buddies, you might recognise the "irrational behaviour" trick now.

  20. So is staying on earth on UAE Clerics' Fatwa Forbids Muslims From Traveling To Mars · · Score: 2

    Pretty much anybody staying on earth or even having returned to earth after going to space has died here. There is no technology yet that can change that.

  21. Slashdot BETA on ISP Fights Causing Netflix Packet Drops · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What happened here ? How can I go back to the old Slashdot ?

  22. Sounds like Mobiles on Google Tells Glass Users Not To Be 'Creepy Or Rude' · · Score: 1

    When mobiles came out there where similar rules to be said. People where making fun at people seemingly talking to them selves in public. Now days you can seem a whole dinner table swiping away and that's the old people !

  23. Re:That's what government's for... on Kicktaxing: The Crazy Complexity of Paying Tax Correctly On Crowdfunding · · Score: 1

    Get off my road then, build your own if you want to get around

  24. Fines and philanthropy on 25% of Charter Schools Owe Their Soul To the Walmart Store · · Score: 1

    Much like a city depends on fines for it's budget so will the government on philanthropy. The government would spend more on social causes if philanthropy did not exist. Cities would not have a vested interest in not reducing income from fines if it did not depend on it for its budget.

  25. The floods of 1967 on Fire Destroys Iron Mountain Data Warehouse, Argentina's Bank Records Lost · · Score: 1

    This reminds of a Yes Minister episode, where they referred to the floods of 1967 every time they "needed" to have lost documents.