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  1. Re:Subsidies are a drop in the bucket. on EU Proposal: Shift Farming Subsidies To Science · · Score: 1

    Don't let your mindless Republican bashing get in the way of this being a story about the EU.

  2. Re:Ha, yeah, good luck with that on EU Proposal: Shift Farming Subsidies To Science · · Score: 1

    And this has to do with the EU how?

  3. Re:Yes, it blends! on Cassini Captures Audio of Storm On Saturn · · Score: 1

    Sweet! We have a blender large enough that we can blend Saturn in it? .... ...... .........

    Our Galactic Conquest is at hand and can finally begin! All races of the galaxy will bow down before our mighty blender or be consumed within its warm embrace!

  4. Re:I think Apple critics are hilarious on How Apple Came To Control the Component Market · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't be able to find the Linux fanboys. They're all pent up in their mother's basements.

  5. Re:Non-trivial? on Judge OKs Wiretap Lawsuit Over Google Wi-Fi Sniffing · · Score: 1

    There exists only two barriers to how trivially easy it is to sniff wireless track.

    #1 - The user must have a wireless nic.
    #2 - The user must be aware of the software.

  6. Re:NYC's Role on NYC Mayor Demands $600M Refund On Software Project · · Score: 1

    When he realized he could possibly bully a company for $600M for some revenue.

  7. Re:Why are Libs so enamored with taxes? on Amazon Drops California Associates to Avoid Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    If California citizens aren't reporting internet sales taxes, then isn't that in a sense a referendum on California's sales tax laws?

  8. Re:Great way to cut down on the affiliate link spa on Amazon Drops California Associates to Avoid Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    There's businesses that succeed on selling software just to calculate the taxes you need to collect from a buyer.

    I really doubt it's Amazon strong-arming as much as the fucked up tax code.

  9. Re:Windows? on One Week: No Mouse, Just Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Assuming the app developer properly set up tabbing in the fields....

    I've messed with some .NET apps where I can tell what order the developer added fields and rearranged them because he like the ordering better based on how the cursor jumped around the fields.

  10. Re:Color me unimpressed on Forty-Five Mile Wireless Tech For the Smart Grid · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm missing something here....

    45 miles cheaply doesn't seem reasonable. Especially when we're talking line of sight. That's a near 1200ft tall tower. I don't think constructing 1200ft tall transmitter towers is going to be all that effective. If this thing is being used in a smart grid like it's stated in the article, then 45 miles is a pipe dream. They'll get about 20-25 miles line of sight if there's a relay tower that's 100 meters tall.

  11. Re:submarine use? on Acoustic Stealth Technology Finally Created · · Score: 1

    There are two types of sonar. Active and passive. Assuming the material blocks all sound passing through it, it's a very useful advance for protecting a vessel against passive sonar since it can be installed inside the hull and block sounds originating from within your vessel.

  12. Re:To catch a crook... on Hackers To School Next Generation At DEFCON Kids · · Score: 1

    It was my initial thought as well. Then I realized we're talking about children.

    Hacking, like all pursuits that can affect others, is a matter of morals governing how you use a tool. Morals take time to build and comprehend as well as experience to be able to properly define positive verses negatives morals. DEFCON Kids will be coverings 8-16 years old. While the eldest should have some morals and sense about proper ways to use the tools it is not out of the realm of question that the younger children would not have morals developed. This could lead them to performing acts they shouldn't because they don't properly grasp the good versus bad aspect rather than anything malicious.

  13. Re: $7,200/yr. on Man Robs Bank of $1 To Get Health Care In Jail · · Score: 1

    If you buy a new car, you're a fucking moron that should be taken out back and bludgeoned.

  14. Re:Sad, but I can see doing it too on Man Robs Bank of $1 To Get Health Care In Jail · · Score: 1

    They can always drop the charges and then he goes free.

  15. Re:New Google Strategy on Oracle Thinks Google Owes $6.1 Billion In Damages · · Score: 1

    Don't worry my selective reading lead me to read this line initially.

    "In August last year Oracle sued Google for infringing Java patents and copyright by developing Android. Google argues that Android uses technology derived from Java and therefore infringes multiple patents."

    I guess I was expecting Google's counter to the sue rather than more info from Oracle's perspective.

    Also. Help me Slashdot. Which side am I supposed to hate? Google or Oracle?

  16. Re:Bitcoin to revolutionise economy on Bitcoin Price Crashes · · Score: 1

    Sadly. He won't be thinking much of anything in a couple years.

  17. Re:Creative, but predictable. on Libyan Rebels Weaponize Power Wheels Toys · · Score: 1

    I've always said it wouldn't be troops that defected. It would be officers that disagreed with the orders they were given.

  18. Re:Small problem... on 11 Pathogens Pose Big Security Risk For Research · · Score: 1

    Uh. And what happens when the marauding killer space aliens that we are woefully unable to kill with our weapons come along?

    Where's our weaponized flu strains that are fatal to them? We'll be DOOMED.

  19. Re:Creative, but predictable. on Libyan Rebels Weaponize Power Wheels Toys · · Score: 2

    But if there is a civil insurrection, those involved would be quickly annihilated with superior firepower.

    True. The civilian firepower cannot compete with the US military. It is, however, also dependent on the military brass agreeing with attacking the citizens of the nation they are sworn to protect.

  20. Re:Slashdot modding on Reason Seen More As a Weapon Than a Path To Truth · · Score: 1

    Haven't there been a number of articles on group think and how people will select the wrong answer while in a group?

  21. Re:Unemployment rate on Obama: 'We Don't Have Enough Engineers' · · Score: 1

    Obama doesn't think it's fair that engineers should enjoy a lower unemployment rate than other professions. By boosting engineering grads by 10,000 we will eventually see engineering unemployment rates be on par with the rest of the nation.

  22. Re:The real news on EVE Online Targeted By LulzSec · · Score: 1

    Which was a first person shooter thus being one of the most monumentally stupid games to champion the Live crossplay between 360 and PC.

    The game was also purposefully written with locks to prevent it from working on XP, which were later hacked out and the game did indeed run just fine on XP.

  23. Re:The real news on EVE Online Targeted By LulzSec · · Score: 1

    It wasn't just that. It was also that Sony was willing to relax their policies and negotiate with CCP.

    Neither vanilla Live or vanilla PSN was suitable for CCP to run Dust 514.

    And since MS doesn't allow Live players on the 360 to interact with network players from the PC or PS3 going with 360 would pretty much nix any future of CCP releasing a PC version of Dust 514.

    PS3 was the only platform to launch it on because of MS's stubbornness. I also doubt they will add PC for Dust 514 anyway. There exists the risk of losing EVE players to Dust 514 and with the collective play inherent between the two games they will be wanting to ADD players not shift them from one game to another.

  24. Re:Toss up on First Challenge To US Domain Seizures Filed · · Score: 1

    It is arguably due to FDR threatening to essentially destroy the Supreme Court by passing legislation that would increase the number of sitting justices allowing him to pad the court with justices compliant with his viewpoint. Enough justices that would be able to drown out the ones that opposed him.

  25. Re:something needs to be on Legislation In the Works To Require Companies To Report Privacy Breaches · · Score: 1

    done to protect customers. Because if customers lose confidence in a brand, or a product, a feature or a service,
      they're one step closer to realizing they may never have needed the aforementioned item.

    Well duh. If you needed the item and didn't have it you'd be dead.

    If the consumer is dead I hardly doubt that they would not be rather concerned about the loss of that particular product.