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  1. Re:So basically... on A Critical Examination of Bill Gates' Philanthropic Record · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the banks and the financial crisis, the Exxon spill, the attack Monsanto has done on farmers around the world. Corporations are about as accountable as they have to be until they can find a way to pawn the issue off on the public, reaping the profit reward but making the cost burden fall on the populations. Thinking the free market will fix anything is proof of the brainwashing so many have gotten.

  2. Re:should have been free? on Seth MacFarlane Helps LOC Acquire Carl Sagan Papers · · Score: 1

    Give away? Probably not. Put on loan and allow them to make copies for display (not redistribution)? Absolutely.

    Either way, MacFarlane has gained a lot of respect from the intellectual community for sure from this.

  3. Re:Encyclopedia Galactica on Eben Moglen: Time To Apply Asimov's First Law of Robotics To Smartphones · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I would. I hate how every app I download on my android phone requires access to my contacts, phone state, text messages and a dozen other things a non internet enabled app asks for. Why does a game need to know who my contacts are? It's a single player game, not an online social game. Why does a game require my text messages? Why does it require my GPS location?

    It doesn't. We need to revolt against the idea that we are the product and the item we buy is simply a tool they use to spy on us.

  4. Re:Everybody's thinking it... on After Trip to ISS, SpaceX's Dragon Capsule Returns Safely To Earth · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The Death Star was built by government labor, as was the Enterprise.

  5. Re:16-digit ID on All Researchers To Be Allocated Unique IDs · · Score: 1

    Quadrillion, Quintillion is 1000 quadrillion. Either way it's still a fuckton of people.

    For reference in case people forget their scales - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers

  6. Re:I missed the live video on ISS Captures SpaceX Dragon Capsule · · Score: 1

    Yes but he wants the parts he missed it looks like (I do too!)

  7. Re:How does it taste? - almost on Kim Dotcom Demands Access To Seized Property To Defend Himself · · Score: 1

    I know, it's not like the constitution says "innocent until proven guilty" or anything.

    Oh wait, it is there. We'll have to get that overturned right away with an overreaching addition to a must pass legislation.

  8. Re:I have trouble seeing the point on Sidestepping Tactical Nuclear Weapons Limits With Strategic Bombs · · Score: 2

    Mind not making up things about how the nuclear arsenal works? Some of us have actually worked on them and reading your posts makes me wonder about your sanity.

    First it is 100% impossible for a nuke to go off on its own. Second, the techs never have access to the codes, nor an input method (contrary to movies, no US nuke has a keypad on them, all codes are sent from the platform they are fired from, something that only ICBM's are stored in and even still those are not stored hot so worst thing an accidental launch of those would do is bring a several ton slab of metal on someones house), nor do they have a way to change them considering it's a code that automatically changes every 10 seconds or so. This code cannot be caused by a short or other component due to the way things are interconnected and check one another. The warheads are also NOT in the missile before its ready to start loading, the techs that have access to the warheads are not the techs that know anything about how to manage the missiles at all. The missiles also cannot arm except in flight at all. There is a maneuver that has to be accomplished before the warhead arms, the code just puts it in a launch state, not an armed state. The weapon also has NO power source until the engine is running, something that cannot happen without the power from the launcher (something they are not stored in considering the launcher is a B-2 or B-52 depending on the model of missile)

    I'm sorry to say, but the chance of a nuke going off on its own is exactly 0% so please stop spreading lies about it. You are statistically more likely to die of the moon crashing into you than a nuke accidentally going off in storage, testing or sabotage. Now due to opsec I won't be going into how each of these locks happen, but you are in more mortal danger from a keyboard injury.

  9. Re:Fiber needs to move faster... on Comcast To Remove Data Cap, Implement Tiered Pricing · · Score: 1

    My fiber goes to cat 6 in the house itself, as can anyone on fios if they just wire it for it then call Verizon to tell them so.

    The fiber to the nearest cable box creates a bandwidth crunch that both Comcast and AT&T are starting to run into and have problems from, so yes it is far more than just a "marketing gimmick" because it removes that point of congestion that the brown fields (industry term for old build/retrofit) have a massive problem with right now and that will only get worse.

  10. Re:Surge protector strips also draw power on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Heavy-Duty, Full-Home Surge Protection? · · Score: 2

    That's fine and all, but those are LED LASERS, not LED lights, the post he was referring to was talking about an LED light. LED lights are up to 23 watts being the same as an incandescent being 100 watts (REF: http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/05/07/193200/philips-releases-100w-equivalent-led-bulb-runs-on-just-23-watts?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed )

    LED lasers like all lasers at a much lower power rate are hazardous due to the radiation aspect of it (Light Amplification from Simulated Emission of Radiation)

  11. Re:Surge protector strips also draw power on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Heavy-Duty, Full-Home Surge Protection? · · Score: 1

    I guess these must illuminate with the same luminescence as the sun at their ultra high 13 watts?
    http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1v/R-202668646/h_d2/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10053&langId=-1&keyword=LED+lightbulbs&storeId=10051

  12. Re:Will be available for PCs and Macs? on Bethesda Announces Elder Scrolls MMO · · Score: 1

    I know what you mean, someone asked me to install some software to their MAC and got mad when I asked them when I put the disk in their blush.

  13. Re:Corporations don't make law on Appeals Court Rules TOS Violations Aren't Criminal · · Score: 1

    In most states it's illegal to just change the locks on a rental if there's a renter there. They have to file with the court, then get the sheriff

  14. Re:Cost on PlayStation 4 'Orbis' Rumors: AMD Hardware, Hostile To Used Games · · Score: 1

    You miss the part where you actually gain $150 from the first customer. He may only have $100, due to reselling he is making money and spending it back on the game he gains another $50 to buy another game. Meanwhile, the game that he sold is then resold at a discounted rate, and someone who may only be able to buy 1 game a year or less could then buy a game and maybe DLC for it, netting you a higher profit than if you set the games to being first sale only and kill the resale market.

    By doing that, you sell 2 games, and no DLC, compared to 3 and DLC.

  15. Re:I'll own up to it...I throw them away on Canada To Stop Making Pennies · · Score: 1

    Damnit, you made me wish I saved 1 of my mod points I used today. Got a good laugh out of me at least.

  16. Re:Citizenship on Ask Slashdot: How Have You Handled Illegal Interview Topics? · · Score: 1

    A work visa makes you a legal worker though, he very clearly said "no one can hire illegals" meaning no work visa, no residency, no citizenship. It's easy to get a work visa, so working as an illegal should remain unacceptable because of that.

    Citizenship on the other hand is a pain in the dick and should be simplified.

  17. Re:So big asteroids become little asteroids on Engineers Working On Swarm Of Laser Wielding Satellites To Deflect Asteroids · · Score: 1

    I'm sure he was talking about the satellites themselves

  18. Re:iOS has yet to be hacked in the wild... on Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Mobile OS? · · Score: 1

    Have you ever seen what the apple forums mods do when you post about getting a virus on a mac? They delete the post and ban your account. A few years back when mac's started getting viruses in the wild that was the exact response they took to every post, holding the "mac's don't get viruses" lie that so many still like to claim. This action has still been taken against people who post about them on the iPhone (they did it to people who asked about CarrierIQ as well, something confirmed to be in each iPhone made, and apple was the last to remove it - So by your argument, iPhones came pre-compromised for a longer period)

    Basically, you don't hear about it on mac forums because they control the comments and prevent you from hearing about it. Cutting out the tongues of those bitching doesn't fix the problem they were bitching about, just makes them silent.

    Also, there have been bad apps caught in the iTunes market on more than one occasion, and the PDF exploit that was used for jail breaking was also in the wild, but the people who used it to jailbreak never got infected via it because the jailbreakme site patched the exploit on those who jail broke. Stop apple astroturfing and pay attention to the reality of the phone market.

    Silencing the people with issues doesn't fix the issues they have but it does a good job keeping the sheep happy.

  19. Re:A new kind of copying on Microsoft Launches Windows 8 Consumer Preview · · Score: -1, Troll

    Neither was the first mac when windows 1.0 came out, but that doesn't stop the fanboys from claiming windows stole something. Mac stole the dock from windows 1.0, but once again, windows 7 "copied" it.

  20. Re:Implications for the administration? on LightSquared CEO Resigns Amid Appearance of Bribery · · Score: 1

    If I didn't already use all my mod points today, you would be getting a rate up from me. This is seriously +5 informative material here.

  21. Re:Um... on 300k Organic Farmers To Sue Monsanto For Seed Patent Claims · · Score: 1

    He's a subscriber, he gets access to the articles at least 15 minutes before they post. Gives people a leg up on that epic first post of defending criminal organizations stealing from hard working American farmers.

  22. Re:Inside my HD there are two very important files on Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password · · Score: 1

    You know, when I was in school my dog really did eat my homework once. I even gave what shreds of it I could recover to the teacher as proof. She never again questioned me when I told her that, just insisted that I try harder to keep my homework away from my dog.

  23. Re:Not a mutation on Chinese Boy Claims To Have Cat-Like Night Vision · · Score: 2

    Menthol Kools are cigarettes, a common currency in jail

  24. Re:Prior Art - Opera Turbo on Amazon's New Silk Redefines Browser Tech · · Score: 1

    new [noo, nyoo] Show IPA adjective, -er, -est, adverb, noun
    adjective
    1. of recent origin, production, purchase, etc.; having but lately come or been brought into being: a new book.
    2. of a kind now existing or appearing for the first time; novel: a new concept of the universe.
    3. having but lately or but now come into knowledge: a new chemical element.
    4. unfamiliar or strange (often followed by to ): ideas new to us; to visit new lands.
    5. having but lately come to a place, position, status, etc.: a reception for our new minister.

    Nope, doesn't fit.

    Now you could say new browser or device, but thats really all that's new with this. the tech is far from new, as it's been done for the last 10+ years by Opera. Or in the computing world, its fucking ancient.

  25. Re:Cue more irrational nuclear panic in 3...2... on Explosion At French Nuclear Site Kills One · · Score: 1

    Such incredibly bad spelling makes me think you don't know what you are talking about. If there is any truth behind what you claim, post links to proof that aren't coal sponsored, but everything I've seen published in the last 3 years says coal is 10x more dangerous than previously thought.