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  1. Post it on Ask Slashdot: Can I Cross US Borders With Legally Ripped Media? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you're really worried about it, put everything on a drive and send it ahead of you via the post.

  2. Go meet them... on The Amish Are Getting Fracked · · Score: 1

    Without meeting them, talking with them, and learning about them in person, I think all the armchair hypotheses is poorly formed.

    http://www.mennohof.org/

  3. Re:Their own fault on The Amish Are Getting Fracked · · Score: 1

    I wondered how long it would take for some asshole to make this statement and the have the subsequent vote up.

    /. is nothing if not consistent with it's comments.

  4. Re:Why do you need kickstarter? on Ask Neil Gaiman and Amber Benson About Their Kickstarter Vampire Movie · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    AMEN! Gaiman is a complete dick for sucking the funding from indy projects. He's got the cash and pay for this out of pocket. Proving his true colours once again.

  5. Put your money up front Larry on Larry Page: You Worry Too Much About Medical Privacy · · Score: 1

    If you think it's so safe then why don't you take all that google money and pay some of our medical bills? You can start with mine. Oh, wait, you don't want to? Shut the fuck up... I'm tired of you standing on a gilded soap box telling us how to fix the world.

  6. Reddit on Stolen Laptop Owner Outwits Mugger, Police, and the Media · · Score: 1

    A sad state of /. when reddit has posts that are both more informative and cogent.

  7. Veto ??? on CISPA Passes US House, Despite Privacy Shortcomings and Promised Veto · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I doubt, sincerely, that he'll veto this. Talk and actions are entirely different things. And he's got just as much ass to kiss as anyone else. He'll spin it just like everything else and say: "We're going to keep an eye on this...." Just like he's done before. But, once it's law no eyeball watching will do a damn thing to stop the ball from rolling.

  8. How about taxing them too? on Zuckerberg Lobbies For More Liberal Immigration Policies · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No doubt Zuckerberg wants more slave labor to pay the tax base that he and his corp. are evading. I have a better idea Mark, move your ass and everyone else to an impoverished nation. No doubt you'll enjoy the infrastructure, benefits, gov't, and protection that all affords you.

  9. Carlin was right! on NASA: Curiosity Has Found Plastic On Mars · · Score: 1
  10. Mayan Predictions on The World's Oldest Original Digital Computer Springs Back Into Action At TNMOC · · Score: 1

    The WITCH going live right before the end of the world prediction... coincidence? I think not.

  11. Was she a coder? on Ask Slashdot: Dedicating Code? · · Score: 1

    I'm not trying to be harsh either, but seriously an app dedication? Was she a ground breaking coder? Did she sponsor your education? It just seems like a very inappropriate way to honour her.

    If you want to dedicate something to her, tell your family and friends about the first time she taught you something, or the things you do that have been passed down from her. Hold onto her lessons and events, they're the most precious thing anyone can give you. And when you share them with others you will be honouring her life.

    If you become a speaker of the dead for her then she won't be forgot in your lifetime.

  12. This post sponsored by Apple... on Ask Slashdot: Best Protection Plan For Your Phone? · · Score: 2

    and it's underwriters.

  13. Yet another post on this idiot? on Wired Writer Hack Shows Need For Tighter Cloud Security · · Score: 3, Informative

    Seriously, why is everyone screaming security when it was not a hack but a social engineering entry? And why cry for an idiot who had NO personal backups of his own data? He's an idiot.

  14. But he's and IT Expert! on How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led To Mat Honan's Identity Theft · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes, the same Mat who did not back anything up locally or (shutter to think) redundantly, is an expert. If this sorry excuse is what passes an expert, I think my grandma has a good chance at a new career.

    What an idiot.

  15. Honest Question on Iranian State Goes Offline To Avoid Cyber-Attacks · · Score: 2

    Why does the US or any gov. allow key systems to be on the WWW? I'm often baffled when I read stories of a key system going down because it was hacked, or ddos, or virus, or etc... Take the power grid and missle defense systems. Why would those computers need net access? A closed net yes. But when you read that people working there are surfing porn you know full well this is a wide open access. So what benefit can outweigh this security risk?

  16. Warrantless Search? on Universal Android Laptop Dock: Microsoft Nightmare, Or Toy? · · Score: 1

    Since a good portion of state troopers now have the ability to crack a cell phone in their car, what kind of company security issues is this going to create? (not to mention the personal ones)

  17. They'd better make it bullet proof. on SpaceX Is Studying Site For 'Commercial Cape Canaveral' Near Brownsville, Texas · · Score: 2

    I hope something like this will bring enough attention to the area to start cleaning it up. Outside of the US I've never heard or seen so much violence, yet no one talks about it.

    I lived in Brownsville a very short time. It's akin to living in my home town (Detroit) but with more bullets, less police and a complete media blackout. The Bush family has a home in the wealthy section of the subdivision so I suspect this has something to do with it. But I found it weird that grenade bombing of buildings in MX less than 1000ft from the border never hit the news. One spring when Brownsville campus of UofT had to be closed since the bullets from across the river were hitting cars and the classrooms the newspaper never ran an article on it. A few miles down the road duffel bags with human heads were found. National news never once said a word. The entire border seems to draw a dead zone of actual media events. The federal money that's pumped into Brownsville is staggering. Yet the crime is off the charts. I honestly found Detroit a less threatening and dangerous place to live.

  18. In more recent news... on DARPA Director Leaves Pentagon For Google · · Score: 4, Funny

    Guglielmo Marconi, Italian Scientist, invents a wireless telegraph that is able to send voice signals through the air via "radio" waves.

  19. Don't blame the contractors... on Study Confirms the Government Produces the Buggiest Software · · Score: 3, Informative

    At least not 100%. You can blame the many headed beast they have to answer to. With every dept. head feeling they have to justify their existence by exerting power in the form of conflicting demands. Also add to this rule sets for compliance that are decentralized and NOT overseen by people who know how to program (generally) but instead know how to be gov't administrators. So compliance will often mean having internal conflicts as to what an application can do.

    This is really about government controls run a muck.

  20. Re:Got it beat... on Man Ordered To Apologize To Wife On Facebook · · Score: 1

    It's over and done with. But she was given a lot of perks for the fucking around. And yes I did catch her. So no defamation and nothing wrong with calling a whore a whore. IMHO. The courts frown upon this type of thing since they feel it's negative and adversarial. I do not think it would be seen the same way if the roles were reversed.

  21. Got it beat... on Man Ordered To Apologize To Wife On Facebook · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was ordered to remove my outgoing message on my answering machine or risk "threatening civil negotiations... and be seen as adversarial...". I explained that it was in fact my phone line, my answering machine and people were calling me. If the ex didn't want to hear it, she in fact did not need to call. But, none-the-less, I had to take it down or all negotiations were off and she would be awarded everything by default.

    The machine said that I was in a fugue since my ex had slept around with a number of people and was in fact a whore. Personally, I thought this was just stating fact.

  22. herbert said it in the 60's on Pharmacy On-a-chip Dispenses Drugs Automatically · · Score: 1

    The eyes of Heisenberg are upon us.

  23. Re:12345 on Hacked Syrian Officials Used '12345' As Email Password · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Perhaps they did. Do you seriously think that: 1. they'd let /. know and that B. they'd tell Syria when they have a free pass?

  24. Vote Romney on Proposed Law Would Give DHS Power Over Privately Owned IT Infrastructure · · Score: 0

    Hell just vote for Mit then we can all wear magic underwear to protect us from satan and terrorists.

  25. In related news on Australian Scientists Discover 'Oldest Living Thing On Earth' · · Score: 1

    The Australian government found a terrorist threat in an ancient patch of seagrass. In a statement to the media the Secretary of Defense stated: "We do not know where this seagrass comes from, it has no official documentation. It is not a recodnised form of sentient life so we eradicated it." The seagrass was promptly dispatched by pouring 30,000 barrels of crude oil over it supplied by Haliburton.