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  1. Re:More Sanity on Don't Bring Your Drone To New Zealand · · Score: 1

    You have nothing to worry about if you have nothing to hide......

    Now where have i heard that before.....

  2. Re:Interesting; likely more limited than advertise on Pocket SCiO Spectrometer Sends Chemical Composition of Anything To Smartphones · · Score: 1

    It should also be able to do validations, ie you can say "is this valium", and it would be able to say yes or no, by matching the signature of valium as seen through its hardware. I guess that why the cloud db is there, its not so much doing analysis and working out what the thing is from its consituents, but matching the signal it gets with a db of things that have been scaned by tbe device that are already known.

  3. Re:Spectrometry is for cows. on Pocket SCiO Spectrometer Sends Chemical Composition of Anything To Smartphones · · Score: 2

    You should get one, you will be able to check your meds are not out of date......

  4. Re:Ohh Ohh, do a rat study with healing crystals! on The Mystery of Acupuncture Partly Explained In Rat Study · · Score: 1

    In other news just in, a scientific basis for for homeopathy has been discovered, ........... ... ..

    No, not really, its still a load of bollocks......

  5. Re:Fucking Millennials on Windows 10 Will Have Screen Recording Tool · · Score: 1

    A GNU Herd user obviously ........

    Get some dignity man .....

  6. Re:So wait... on FBI Helps Shut Down Piracy Sites In Romania · · Score: 2

    China... big fat middle finger straight up in the air.........

  7. Re:Other opponents on US House Committee Approves Anti-GMO Labeling Law · · Score: 1

    How is printing of a lable going to make the food more expensive, its only going to effect non-gmo products as they will have to remain complient, as organic products do today. But your average box of corn dogs from walmart is just going to slap "contains GMO ingredients" on the side of it and its job done, 20c per million boxes. Adding the lables is almost cost free, keeping the non gmo products free of contamination will be costly, but then a proportion of people would be willing to pay for that, and you have opened up a whole new premium market, as has happened with organic produce. The lables provide for choice. You pay your money and takes your choice, cheap gmo food or expesive non-gmo food, what is the problem? Where is the cost?.

    This whole thing sounds more like idealology than common sense. People cant be trusted to make choices, or so some belive. The US is founded on personal responsability and choice, and the anti-labling lobby want to take that away, and play we know best for everybody. I dont care if its proven to be safe by a burecracy that has been known to lie through its teeth in the past, its my choice and i want to minimize my exposure to GMO products. That may sound irrational to some, but its my body, my call.

    Why is the average american unable to tell when they are being bent over and fucked in the ass by the corporations they idolise.

  8. Re:Everyone has a financial stake in this on US House Committee Approves Anti-GMO Labeling Law · · Score: 1

    How can it possibly be more expensive to print on a lable saying "contains genetical modified organisms", than it costs to print "made in the USA", are the letters used in the gmo warning magicaly more expensive than their non gmo lable counterparts.

    The whole cost issue is a red herring, companies continiosly revise thier packaging on a month to month basis. Why do pro-gmo activists want to hide the source of the foods characteristics.

    I want to know and discriminate against gmo products becuase a) i dont want to support the corrupt organisations that are pushing them. b) i dont want to support production mechanisms that are going to reduce biodiversity, have we learned nothing at all about massive agricutural monocultures from industries like the bannana industry, which is undergoing its 4th mass extiction of its primary crop variety.

  9. Re:Yes I'm old.. on What the GNOME Desktop Gets Right and KDE Gets Wrong · · Score: 1

    /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/06-dhclientoptions is your friend

    echo "some option you want on the end of resolv.conf" >> /etc/resolv.conf

  10. Re:How about circuit boards? on Ask Slashdot: For What Are You Using 3-D Printing? · · Score: 1

    There is a printed mini cnc called the "cyclone" designed for producing isolation routed pcbs.

    http://www.cyclonecnc.4fan.cz/

  11. Re:hit and miss on Is the End of Government Acceptance of Homeopathy In Sight? · · Score: 1

    A lot of natural or "old wives cures" are not really alternative medicine, many when scientificaly studied lead to the discovery of medicinal substances that add to the range of drugs that can be prescribed.
    Many plant extracts contain active substances which are analogs of established active pharmacological substances.

    My favorite is "bitter mellon gourd" which has been used in se asia for thousands of years for treating many conditions, its a known antioxidant, and contains an enzym that acellerates glucose absorbsion from the bloodstream. Im sure multiple drug companies are studying it for its effects.

    Having said all that homeopathy is total bullshit...

  12. Re: typewriters on Schneier: China and Russia Almost Definitely Have the Snowden Docs · · Score: 2

    Depend on what the russian to monkey exchange rate is........

  13. Re: If Snowden could do it, so could many, many ot on Schneier: China and Russia Almost Definitely Have the Snowden Docs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There was no suggestion he was a problem, in fact i belive he is a hero too, i was just pointing out that other goverment actors may not be using him or the people with access to his trove as a source of inteligence, but as cover for activities they have already undertaken, as bruce has implied.

  14. Re:it's really easy to secure these devices.. on Schneier: China and Russia Almost Definitely Have the Snowden Docs · · Score: 1

    >and is encrypted between every hop

    Thats a problem right there, if you dont do end to end encryotion of the whole route, then you are open to having your intermeadiate nodes subverted.

  15. Re:If Snowden could do it, so could many, many oth on Schneier: China and Russia Almost Definitely Have the Snowden Docs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In fact snowden may have inadvertantly given them cover, now they can act on the intelligence in the files they stole from the NSA directly without revealing that they powned the NSA networks because the world thinks that snowden did it.

  16. Re:Bruce Schneier the paranoid cryptographer on Schneier: China and Russia Almost Definitely Have the Snowden Docs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They are probaly on machines that accessed by other machines that may either permenatly or tempoarily connected to the internet. You can build malware that could be used to infect a laptop that waits until it is connected to an internal network and then grabs files for later transmission when its reconnected to the internet.

    Remember that the incompetance of any goverment agency is dependant on its weakest link and tends to infinity..

  17. Re: awwww on PHP At 20: From Pet Project To Powerhouse · · Score: 2

    Node exists because it can, not because it should.....

  18. Re:f**k the World Cup on Indicted Ex-FIFA Executive Cites Onion Article In Rant Slamming US · · Score: 1

    If you look up the screen, you will see a nice big "back" button, press that, and off you go an play in the next article, and leave the grown ups alone to get on with thier discussion...

    It might not interest you, but others are more well rounded individuals, and we can cope with hold a discussion of a corrupt official using youtube ( a technology much loved and loathed by nerds ) to beg for money and display his stupidity.

  19. Re: Global air conditioning on ESA Satellite Shows Sudden Ice Loss In Southern Antarctic Peninsula · · Score: 1

    Cool, lets all move to taytay, antipolo or baguio

  20. Re:Global air conditioning on ESA Satellite Shows Sudden Ice Loss In Southern Antarctic Peninsula · · Score: 1

    Im there too man, Pasig city.... thank god for A/C......

  21. Re:Sudden? on ESA Satellite Shows Sudden Ice Loss In Southern Antarctic Peninsula · · Score: 1

    But this cant be true......

    There has been no sudden rise in the number of drooling morons......

    There is no evidence that the moronic drooling is a man made phenomenon.

    Godddddammmm libertards........

  22. Re:Sudden? on ESA Satellite Shows Sudden Ice Loss In Southern Antarctic Peninsula · · Score: 1

    You get the best ones money can buy........

    I would ask for a refund if i where you...........

  23. Re:Woot! I pissed off the fucktarded shitdot sheep on Linux 4.0 Has a File-System Corruption Problem, RAID Users Warned · · Score: 1

    You need to feed him MOAR BRAINZZ

  24. Re:phpstorm for php developers on Choosing the Right IDE · · Score: 1

    +1

  25. Re:Still use the most productive IDE on Choosing the Right IDE · · Score: 2

    +1

    I also use cLion (based on Intelij) for c/c++,