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  1. Re:Great hack. on Making a Privacy Monitor From an Old LCD · · Score: 2

    Before you do something stupid, know that there's polarizing filters for DSLR cameras, so not only would you risk being seen by people with polarizing glasses, you'd risk being photographed watching midget porn in public too. And in the picture it would look like you're doing it in a totally shameless manner too, not through invisible glasses.

  2. Re:Know what'll make airports REALLY safe for me? on Airport Security: Thermal Lie-Detectors, Cloned Sniffer Dogs · · Score: 1

    Because they work for the goverment

  3. Re:Oh, god... on Airport Security: Thermal Lie-Detectors, Cloned Sniffer Dogs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Looks too efficient for TSA, their dream is a luggage shredder instead of a x-ray scanner, and a wipeout style obstacle course(that you have to run naked, with live streams to the public internet filming it all) with blaring sirens and powertripping functionaries with bullwhips lining the course to drive the herds onwards.
    Contracted at a cost of $12 billions, annually.

  4. Re:Of course it's still alive on Wounded Copyright Troll Still Alive and Kicking · · Score: 1

    The power of acid or fire is largely symbolic when it comes to troll slaying and the general weapon of choice is something along the line of a "slightly sour giant greatsword of ridiculous electric discharge and decaptitation"
    As such you just need to voimit on either the troll or the stick you're planning to beat it with. And given the general repulsiveness of righthaven this should happen even if you're not planning on doing so.

  5. Solution on Wounded Copyright Troll Still Alive and Kicking · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Appropriate the internal organs of righthaven lawyers whenever they show up in court.

  6. Re:Canon or Nikon on Ask Slashdot: Best Camera For Getting Into Photography? · · Score: 1

    Due to the presence of the reflex and dedicated autofocus system working with lightning fast speed.
    But given the Mirror-less SLR setups around nowdays you can find something that is a bit more portable, have acess to better lenses, yet doesn't quite perform like a DSLR.

    No matter what the guy buys I'd recommend a articulated hot-shoe flash, the on-body flash of everything is abysmal and serves only for taking legal documentation and other things that have a complete absence of the "looking-good"- criteria.

  7. Re:Renewable or infinite? on The Myth of Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    You don't need all that much semiconductor area for solar panels(see concentrated PV), and once they are installed they are relatively maintenance free.
    Now classic wind is a maintenance nightmare, and whenever subsidies run out and they become unaffordable you're stuck with a decomissioning cost, or you can leave an ugly (or five hundred or whatever the size of the average farm is) to scar the landscape.

    Save wind for off-grid small scale installations until second or third generation mills are developed.

  8. Re:It IS helpful! on 88-Year-Old Inventor Hassled By the DEA · · Score: 2

    The DEA are also selfish criminals. This article is hilarious.

  9. Re:Missed the juicy part of the article on Afghanistan Biometric Data Given To US · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Working as inteded.
    This way any agent of the US wanting to get rid of someone unwanted will just use his terrorist-check-rights and force you at gunpoint to have your fingers scanned. It then uses an "what's your arab-terrorist-alias generator" and generates a false positive, allowing said officer to shoot you directly as you pose a threat to the Free World(tm), said officer then goes through the standardized "blame a technical glitch" whitewash procedure.

    It's a brilliant fascist system. Of course we need to take it a step further and remove the do not fly list and whatever lists that numbers those to look out for, because hey, there's so many terrorists that it's hard to keep track. We should instead create a not-a-terrorist-list for the rich and their friends and implement prison wages for the rest of the population, not that there would be any particularly noticable difference

  10. Re:And another useful technology is ripped apart on Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google Chase 'Got Milk?' Patents · · Score: 2

    With some proper user-friendly dev tools it should be trivial to bypass patents such as this. "If location == supermarket then run milkreminder" shouldn't require much of a brain for the end suer to figure out, or read from a guide.

    But of course, development tools and computer programming that is usable by ordinary mortals is apparently in the same folder as food for the poor, equal wages and general fair conduct that no one with influence is willing to do.

  11. Re:I wish this was the case in the UK on Full Disk Encryption Hard For Law Enforcement To Crack · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I haven't bothered with hidden partitions, yet. Does it mean I'm subject to legal punishment for not using this feature and thus lacking a password to give to law enforcement so they can take part of my extensive collection of crustacean pornography?

    And if that, then what happens when truecrypt suddenly accepts multiple hidden partitions or other more complex schemes? Everyone goes to jail because lawmakers somehow ascended beyond full retard?

  12. Re:Them? on 'Arrested Development' Comes Exclusively To Netflix · · Score: 0

    Given that you don't think at all It's unlikely anything can make you dumber.

  13. Re:Them? on 'Arrested Development' Comes Exclusively To Netflix · · Score: -1, Troll

    Torrent it, like the rest of the world. "exclusive" in this case translates to a bullshit marketing trick.

  14. Re:Prior Art on Scientists Develop Super-Slippery Material · · Score: 1

    when you press something the resistance is due to the elasticity parameters of both the pressed and the presser, friction only comes into play when two surfaces in contact slides against eachother.

  15. Re:So... on Secret BBC Documents Reveal Flimsy Case For DRM · · Score: 1, Funny

    Before someone points it out, i obviously didn't read the article, or the summary. Now go read the previous article entry.

  16. So... on Secret BBC Documents Reveal Flimsy Case For DRM · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Would this be refered to as a Sedec-core, hexadecacore or a hexakaidecacore?

  17. Re:Prior Art on Scientists Develop Super-Slippery Material · · Score: 1

    You could touch a hypotethical frictionless material, and feel it with no problems, you could however not have friction without touching, friction is a function of touch. Overapplication of lubricant is a problem not related to friction between two surfaces but other aspect of fluid dynamics that I'm not very well versed in which likely reduce overall contact(or variation in overall contact, creating a "cushioned zone" or some equivalents), not lower friction to zero, although a lubricant which enabled decreasing friction to zero through just applying more of it would certainly be interesting for industrial applications.

  18. Re:Prior Art on Scientists Develop Super-Slippery Material · · Score: 1

    Yes because certainly if fucking was entirely frictionless then you'd feel nothing at all. Only that YOU'RE FUCKING WRONG.
    There are none whatsoever sensory cells, devices or physiological mechanisms specific for feeling friction. Touch and light pressure however is something your glans and fingertips excel at, and this variation of touch/pressure stimulation is what is, well stimulating, not friction. Now if friction were so important, then why would both men and women come equipped with glands that secrete lubricants upon sexual arousal.

    Now of course if you're not circumsized and masturabte classically, aiming to come as fast as possible, then friction might be your friend as getting a good grip can be hard otherwise, if you however equal this to sex, then not only are you a depressing and boring virgin, you're also a masturbational amateur using it as a quick 'fix' instead of practicing it as the art that it really is.

  19. Re:Prior Art on Scientists Develop Super-Slippery Material · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whichever it happens to be, if it can cover soft surfaces and survive cleaning we'll find it inside plastic vaginas.

  20. Re:Has anyone attempted to figure out... on Pancake Flipping Is Hard — NP Hard · · Score: 1

    Why use a computer? if a person can learn to do it you'd prove it too as the brain is governed by the same computational laws.

  21. Okay on Fine Structure Constant May Not Be So Constant · · Score: 4, Funny

    So rename it the Fine Structure Variable then.

  22. Re:Farewell Dossier redux on Spear Phishing Campaign Hits Dozens of Chemical, Defense Firms · · Score: 1

    Someone compared the relationship to china being the farmer and the US being the eater.
    What could happen is that the US ends up without food where china have to eat what they produce, terrible pain that would inflict yes.

  23. Re:Farewell Dossier redux on Spear Phishing Campaign Hits Dozens of Chemical, Defense Firms · · Score: 1

    Because aggrevating things is the right choice. But please go ahead, I'd love to see china go all pikeman over your high horse and do an economic takedown.
    Though most likely they'll just smile and wait it out, the US is so rotten through it's collapse under it's own weight any day now.

  24. OCCAMS MOTHERFUCKING RAZOR BEATS YOU TO PULP on Climate Change Skeptic Results Released Today · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of things occuring in nature in tiny concenterations that doesn't do shit, there are more of those than those that matter moderately and certainly by far exceeding those that have enormous effects.

    CO2 being a mostly nonreactive, mostly transparent gas being subject to depletion by negative feedback cycles is of course the destroyer of worlds due to some reverse-pants on head feedback, not because someone proved it, but because someone proved something unrelated and then said it, and in some bizzare twist of childrens-game-turned-world-politicis he said everyone who disagrees lies and started the world biggest shitstorm.
    If I said gravity causes cancer, i'd probably get a more civil debate not to mention have more reasonable arguments to present.

  25. Re:Often wondered on Re-evaluating the Benefits of Cancer Screening · · Score: 1

    There's the fast growing terrible cancer variety.
    And then there's hyperplasia, this only insults you by increasing the duration of the average urination by ~1000%, and UTI rate by similar numbers.

    The problematic part is that there's a relationship between hyperplasia and malignitiy, and for prostates this is an eternal headache.