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  1. Re:Why are people surprised? on Anonymous Hackers Take Down Child Porn Websites · · Score: 1

    Weren't the Sony attacks in response to killing the Other OS and rendering thousands of PS3s unfit for their purchased use?

  2. Re:Vigilances on Anonymous Hackers Take Down Child Porn Websites · · Score: 1

    You are actually advocating the "Fast and Furious" argument? I am astound!
    Don't pick up any trash you see lying around, you might hinder an investigation in progress of litterbugs. We know how common those are.

  3. Re:Their lack of disclosure is very worrysome on After Six Days of Outages, BofA Claims It Hasn't Been Hacked · · Score: 1

    I understand their processing cost is $0.14, but their processing fee has been cut from $0.44 to $0.22 So they are "making up the loss" with the fee. FWIW.

  4. Re:Virtualization on Hot Multi-OS Switching — Why Isn't It Everywhere? · · Score: 1

    I've got 8GB. I run a Debian host and usually have 3-4 VMs open, one is probably XP. I have never seen more then 50% ram utilization.

  5. We gotta have a new rule (apologies to Bill) on Man Charged in Model Airplane Plot To Bomb Pentagon · · Score: 1

    Your not a terrorist if your plot couldn't possibly work. Yea, I know you want to charge them with WANTING to hurt us, but if their plan was actually not dangerous then we can't charge them. Setting cross legged in the center of Grand Central Station, holding a firecracker, and threatening to blow the building to bits with it should be treated as any normal nuisance if it needs be addressed at all. If we want to charge people with aspirational crimes then they can arrest 90% of everyone stuck in rush hour traffic, and should probably revoke the licenses of the rest.

  6. Re:How will you ever know on OnStar Reverses ToS Changes · · Score: 1

    From demonstrated practice, they can change the TOS, sell the data, then revert the TOS. No way to ever know what they give themselves permission to do.

  7. Re:smart idea on OnStar Reverses ToS Changes · · Score: 1

    Never mod points when you need them.

  8. Re:Lost some funding? on Ask Slashdot: Best Use For a New Supercomputing Cluster? · · Score: 1

    I would be more interested in if my spectrum analyzer could tell the difference. I know how I would bet and it wouldn't be with the audiophile.

  9. Re:Parent is correct. on Ask Slashdot: Best Second Major For a Mechanical Engineer? · · Score: 1

    I'll second his suggestion for Accounting. Engineers work with accountants doing cost accounting for projects and processes and for funding capital projects. Life will be a lot easier if you can talk their language. Resist the natural engineer urge to correct their arithmetic and their dubious algorithms and just accept that is what they are going to use and you need them to get your companies money.

  10. Re:I will get moded into oblivion.... on Wikileaks Reveals BitTorrent Lawsuit Background · · Score: 2

    From TFA:
    "It was clear Ellis did not want to begin by tangling with Telstra,
    Australia's former telecom monopoly and still-dominant player
    in telephony and internet, and a company with the financial
    resources and demonstrated willingness to fight hard"

    from FlyingGuy:
    "What they are doing is reprehensible; however, they are trying fight their battle in the cheapest way they can and I can't really say I blame them"

    Much like thugs targeting the sick and elderly, you can't really blame them because they want to attack those least able to defend themselves.

  11. Re:Oh gee on Wikileaks Reveals BitTorrent Lawsuit Background · · Score: 2

    No, we are pushing for anarchy and the abolition of the injustice system.

  12. Re:If you want to get up an hour early in the summ on Ask Slashdot: Could We Deal With the End of Time Zones? · · Score: 1

    "And if each establishment could open and close as it pleases, "

    You mean they can't?

  13. Re:What this means on The Least Amount of Exercise Needed To Extend Life · · Score: 1

    The nearest food or any other purchase is probably an hours walk along heavily traveled roads with no accommodation for pedestrians. I like cities but I don't live in one. Also, it has been in the 90s for 3 months now. Its hard to turn down that 20 second hike to the car.

  14. Re:We -could- consider linking the continental US on Russia Approves Siberia-Alaska Railway · · Score: 1

    Well, if the Russians are paying then they can run their gage down to Seattle. We'll disallow adjustable carriages as unsafe and require the goods offloaded onto standard US rail for the remainder of the trip. Like when Louisiana built a bridge over the Mississippi to stop all the ocean traffic at Baton Rouge.

  15. Re:Russia approves? on Russia Approves Siberia-Alaska Railway · · Score: 1

    From the Russian perspective we way over design things. I suspect they are imagining something much cruder then we would consider. Maybe something like the PATH tubes under the Hudson vs. the Chunnel. It is true for things like tanks, submarines, their space program; I don't see why this would be any different.

  16. Re:so having a can of coke in class is disruptive? on When Schools Are the Police · · Score: 0

    It is if your definition of disruptive is doing anything a petty low level government administrator has wimed "against the rules". Fascist pig.

  17. Re:This was proposed in Oregon on Dutch Government To Tax Drivers Based On Car Use · · Score: 1
  18. Re:This was proposed in Oregon on Dutch Government To Tax Drivers Based On Car Use · · Score: 1

    Probably the 2 year old car. Engine internals, brakes, suspension, transmission can be refurbished for a lot less then rusted body parts, deteriorated plastics, rotted rubber, faded paint. The most expensive care parts are the custom bits, not the machinery.

  19. Re:This was proposed in Oregon on Dutch Government To Tax Drivers Based On Car Use · · Score: 1

    No. In the US, farm use diesel is not taxed. It is dyed (green I think) and your vehicle can be checked to see if that is what you are burning.

  20. Re:But what matters is the million geek army... on 8 Ways To Circumvent the PROTECT-IP Act · · Score: 1

    Joe won't even know as long as he can get facebook, twitter, iTunes, and porn.

  21. Re:It doesn't matter. on What Today's Coders Don't Know and Why It Matters · · Score: 2

    So to save one developer day we sacrifice 5 user minutes per day X 250 days per year X 100000 users? I know I have been the victim of this.

  22. Re:There is an alternative - better drivers! on Saving Gas Via Underpowered Death Traps · · Score: 1

    Everywhere in the US except Boston, NY, and maybe Chicago, revoking a license also revokes the ability to shop and hold a job.
    I caused my first accident in 40+ years of driving the other day. Because I needed more training or experience? Accidents happen, no need to get authoritarian and punitive about it, we have insurance for a reason.

  23. Re:Wait for it... on Online Parody Cartoon Targeted For Prosecution · · Score: 1

    Protesting in the 60s didn't get you stuck on a "no fly" list, blackballed from schools and corporate jobs and unable to get a security clearance. In a few years it will prevent you from getting medical care, which is cool if your 20 but sucks when your 50. Maybe Visa and MC will decide you are persona-non-grata and you can't buy food and such. No bank accounts, you might be a terrorist and in any event you are on the list.

    The state has drastically raised the price of protest and disobedience. It is an insidious truth that further enslaves us.

  24. Re:Blame the prosecutor on Online Parody Cartoon Targeted For Prosecution · · Score: 1

    It is the police that are committing perjury. To hide their aggravated assault.

  25. Re:The U.S. is notoriously bad on Rare Earth Deposit Discovered In US · · Score: 1

    And what genius is to conceive this master plan? Will he implement it using government force? No thanks, I would much prefer a free market solution, as long as we are asking for the impossible.