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  1. If I run this on VB... on Ice Cream Sandwich Ported To X86 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Can I spoof Carrier IQ?
    What is it when you feed fake data to someone stealing/selling your personal business; we need a new word?
    In any event, here's to poisoning the cache.

  2. Re:also needed for houses on Are Data Centers Finally Ready For DC Power? · · Score: 1

    Something like this:
    http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/travelpower/e81a/?srp=4
    But centrally wired?

  3. Re:Edison reaching out from beyond the grave on Are Data Centers Finally Ready For DC Power? · · Score: 1

    All my power steering systems have been hydraulic.

  4. I call bullshit. on The Myth of Renewable Energy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I gotta see some backup for:
    "The gearbox of a two-megawatt wind turbine contains about 800 pounds of neodymium and 130 pounds of dysprosium "

    I've worked on a lot of gearboxes and several turbine/generator sets in my career as an ME. The gearbox on a 15MW gas turbine generator might weigh 1/2 a ton total and I assure you that is 90% iron and 10% oil. I think somebody seriously slipped a decimal point or two.

  5. Re:stop taking taxis on Oxford City Council Mandates CCTV Cameras In Taxies by 2015 · · Score: 1

    You do know that being disguised in public is already illegal?

  6. Re:stop taking taxis on Oxford City Council Mandates CCTV Cameras In Taxies by 2015 · · Score: 1

    The argument here in the US was "America, love it or leave it". Good to see that spirit is still alive and well.

  7. Re:Experience on Oxford City Council Mandates CCTV Cameras In Taxies by 2015 · · Score: 1

    If they were not forbidden the means to defend themselves this wouldn't be an issue. We need a word for infringing on a persons rights as necessary because we have infringed their rights.

  8. Re:Sydney taxis on Oxford City Council Mandates CCTV Cameras In Taxies by 2015 · · Score: 1

    It's not like anybody is proposing (YET) that private vehicles will have cameras .

    FTFU

  9. Re:Depends on the crime on Oxford City Council Mandates CCTV Cameras In Taxies by 2015 · · Score: 1

    Liberty should be the default assumption. Yours is the position of a child to a parent or a slave to a master, who knows he must ask permission for everything he does.

  10. Re:Depends on the crime on Oxford City Council Mandates CCTV Cameras In Taxies by 2015 · · Score: 1

    Most people don't commit true crimes, assault, theft, and fraud, out of a sense of morality and a recognition of the need for these basic prohibitions to allow society to function. When you criminalize "sin" then the only reason to obey the law is fear of legal retribution, there is no reason based on morality.
    http://www.mind-trek.com/treatise/ls-vanc.htm

  11. Re:How many taxi drivers are robbed? on Oxford City Council Mandates CCTV Cameras In Taxies by 2015 · · Score: 1

    I object to paying for illegal wars and torture, so there is precedent.

  12. Unknown author. on Oxford City Council Mandates CCTV Cameras In Taxies by 2015 · · Score: 1

    "The state tells its people that the cameras are there for their benefit
    and to prevent crime, but the crime they are preventing is
    insurrection."

  13. So, the CIA/NSA/ABCDEFG is crowdsourcing slashdot? on China Building Gigantic Structures In the Desert · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What i would do.

  14. Re:More stuff on China Building Gigantic Structures In the Desert · · Score: 1

    Looks like vineyards.

  15. Re:ULF for communicating with subs on China Building Gigantic Structures In the Desert · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be hard to build a sub carrying a matching antenna?

  16. An obvious question on Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found On SUV · · Score: 1

    Given that the police are known to do this and might well even if it is declared illegal, and that most of us don't crawl under our cars all that often, I see 2 options.

    1) Block the GPS, ala http://www.thesignaljammer.com/products/GPS-Jammer.html (cheaper available).

    2) You could use a cell jammer, but that may be inconvenient. Anybody know an affordable RF detector to easily pick up the cell transmitter?

    3) Profit? Sorry, couldn't resist.

  17. Re:Police Ssurveillance on Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found On SUV · · Score: 1

    Yes, the police can just follow you 24/7. That would require assigning 5 or so officers to do so full time, a very expensive proposition and one they wouldn't undertake without very strong suspicion of imminent dangerous behavior. OTOH, GPS trackers allows them to track anyone for a couple hundred bucks for a device and they can review your and hundreds of others movements whenever it is convenient for them with a single officer. It also allows them to map areas where tracked paths cross or converge, allowing them to assert that those that are intersecting are conspiring.

  18. Re:Really? The colleges are the problem? on Why Do So Many College Science Majors Drop Out? · · Score: 1

    If you have aspirations to go to med or law school you need a near perfect GPA. Unless things have changed a lot, it is way harder to carry a 4.0 in Engineering vs. Journalism or History or PolySci.

  19. Re:Did I miss something? on EU Scientists Working On Laser To Rip a Hole In Spacetime · · Score: 1

    We would never wage war on air conditioning. AC is gods gift so fat republicans can stand to live in Texas.

  20. Re:Tough guys on Anonymous Cancels Drug-Ring Attack · · Score: 0

    My kingdom for an upvote!

  21. Re:Tough guys on Anonymous Cancels Drug-Ring Attack · · Score: 1

    Ankh-Morpork does, however, have an extraordinarily high suicide rate, due mainly to the city's view on what constitutes as suicide. For example, walking alone through the night-time alleyways of the Shades is suicide, as is asking for a short in a dwarf bar. It is very easy to commit suicide in Ankh-Morpork if you are not careful. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankh-Morpork

  22. Re:Tough guys on Anonymous Cancels Drug-Ring Attack · · Score: 1

    Yeah, your thinking CIA.

  23. Re:I fail to be outraged on Redbox Raises Its Prices To $1.20 Per Day · · Score: 1

    So exactly why would the cost of viewing Startrek 3 need to go up? Is it costing extra to maintain it?

  24. Re:Disturbing on Nasdaq Intrusion Spreads To Listed Companies · · Score: 1

    So you say there must be a legal hidden channel so collusion can take place?

  25. Re:Disturbing on Nasdaq Intrusion Spreads To Listed Companies · · Score: 1

    You are confusing positive rights and negative rights.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights