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  1. Re:Punishing Wedding Photographers on Gen Con Threatens To Leave Indianapolis Over Religious Freedom Bill · · Score: 1

    Just say that you are busy doing macro photography of ants colonies on the day of the wedding and that's it, you don't have to photograph a gay marriage.

  2. Re:Awesome! on RSA Conference Bans "Booth Babes" · · Score: 1

    They probably have a bigger voice in the matter than all the other men, welcome to this gynocentric society...

  3. Re:Mac. on Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Laptop To Support Physics Research? · · Score: 2

    Read OP's question. *She* wants Linux.

  4. Anything... on Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Laptop To Support Physics Research? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why would she need anything specific ? Any entry level laptop will have more CPU and GPU capability to do whatever she's gonna be asked. I doubt she will end up doing fine-grained world-wide weather simulation or end up requiring building Chromium from source. Hardware-spec wise, this is a pointless question... As for PC/Mac, it is also pointless. You buy Apple-branded products if you want all the Apple coziness and conviviality of OS X, the underlying machine is pretty much identical...

  5. Re:What about websites and paper magazines on France Will Block Web Sites That Promote Terrorism · · Score: 1

    Charlie Hebdo is fine because it is following western post-colonial xenophobic values, especially wrt. muslims. Most western countries are an inch away from shrinkage and plain fall. They *need* these value (how despicable might they be) to survive, or at least, think they do. They need something to fear, because they're failing at looking forward, and thriving.

  6. Re:Free speach == dead on France Will Block Web Sites That Promote Terrorism · · Score: 1

    ..., and free speech doesn't mean you're allowed to insult and provoke at your leisure.

    It is, and it is your fault if you are offended to the point of initiating physical violence. Charlie Hebdo has as much right to free speech than the toughest and most conservative muslim imams/rabbi/priest. Yes, it is bigoted, but before the attacks, they were about to die of their own death due to lack of funding. The attacks made them martyr, the same way we create martyr when we kill muslims.

    However, all in all, all these new laws are merely tools put in place to disqualify political dissidence. The time western countries were free is long past and gone.

  7. Re:How do they define "Terrorism"? on France Will Block Web Sites That Promote Terrorism · · Score: 1

    Anything not in line with their policy, and those who wrote it for them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  8. Bad form.... on Rendering a Frame of Deus Ex: Human Revolution · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The page is particularly annoying, especially the frame autoplay which gives strictly no control to the viewer to shorten the delay between the rendering stage... Too bad a website fails to pass its message due to a piss poor implementation...

  9. Not the time... on OpenSSL To Undergo Massive Security Audit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why bother with a security audit of the whole OpenSSL as-is, right here, right now, when the LibreSSL fork has been doing a lot of work removing years of unmaintained cruft (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...) ? It seems to be an exercise in futility... I also wonder why get the job to a private company, which would certainly result in very bad transparency, when they could just launch a bounty program rewarding exploits & bug findings ?!?

  10. Re:The peoples republic of... on California Looking To Make All Bitcoin Businesses Illegal · · Score: 3, Informative
  11. Re:Mailing list sounds like a bunch of Whiners.... on Google Chrome Requires TSYNC Support Under Linux · · Score: 1

    Settings -> Advanced -> Privacy -> uncheck the box "Enable phishing and malware protection."

  12. Re:Debian 8 was already a lost cause. on Google Chrome Requires TSYNC Support Under Linux · · Score: 2

    "Freeze" in Debian's term is more like an Ice Age in the real world...

  13. Re:For the last time, what is so hard to understan on Come and Take It, Texas Gun Enthusiasts (Video) · · Score: 1

    BS. Any CNC / lathe / mill can be used to manufacture a gun. Heck, you can even forge the required part if you wanted to...

  14. Re:The gun fetishists and ammosexuals think on Come and Take It, Texas Gun Enthusiasts (Video) · · Score: 1

    Obama is currently trying, through executive action via the ATFE, to ban M855 "green-tip" 5.56x45 (.223) ammo, so they're not dreaming. He already succeeded banning Russian 5.45x39 7n6 under false pretense of its soft body armor-piercing capability, which is utter bs as anybody knowledgeable in the field knows that soft body armor is no good against any rifle round, but I digress...

  15. Re:"an act of social provocation"? on Come and Take It, Texas Gun Enthusiasts (Video) · · Score: 1

    They want to be able to legally open-carry, something that you, brits, can't possibly understand, as you are subjects, not free citizen...

  16. Re:Just Askin' on Come and Take It, Texas Gun Enthusiasts (Video) · · Score: 1

    Private firearm manufacture is illegal wrt. NFA restricted weapon, eg. you cannot saw off a shotgun below 16", it would make it as SBS. The same, you cannot build a full-auto AR in your basement, even if all the blueprints are available online.

  17. Re:Just Askin' on Come and Take It, Texas Gun Enthusiasts (Video) · · Score: 1

    It's all about regulation. NN (and all the Title II mumbo jumbo) is bad, because it allows the government intervention in private business. The second amendment is good because it *prevents* the government from imposing new regulations.

  18. Re:Hissy fit on Verizon Posts Message In Morse Code To Mock FCC's Net Neutrality Ruling · · Score: 1

    This "company" acts like a giant angry child.

    So does the mob petitioning the government...

  19. Re:If N.N. impacts Verizons 1st Ammendment rights on Verizon Posts Message In Morse Code To Mock FCC's Net Neutrality Ruling · · Score: 1

    Verizon is by no mean subject to the Bill of Rights. It works only one way, to put boundaries to the government powers, not private entities...

  20. Re:Verizon is not a content creator on Verizon Posts Message In Morse Code To Mock FCC's Net Neutrality Ruling · · Score: 1

    A manufacturer of paper has no obligation to supply the content creator...

  21. Re:Show them up for what they are on Verizon Posts Message In Morse Code To Mock FCC's Net Neutrality Ruling · · Score: 1

    Why the heck should they gives back ? They made their own profit, it's not their fault if you are unable to have the guts to do the same.

  22. Re:How do we know? on FCC Approves Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    The two Republican chair asked for the regulation to be made public, which was denied.

  23. Re:I like my internet service on FCC Approves Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    Thanks your local government who signed exclusive agreements with CableCo...

  24. Re:Department of Fairness can not be far behind on FCC Approves Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    Operation Choke Point is a good example of government "fairness"...

  25. Re:Department of Fairness can not be far behind on FCC Approves Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    and for the fun part... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...