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  1. Re:It's only an abuse if you have something to hid on Are 'Real Names' Policies an Abuse of Power? · · Score: 1

    Who left the door to the nothing-to-hide-nothing-to-fear station open? It has to be locked at any time! Now see, what happened!

  2. Re:GO GERMANS on Germany Says Facebook's Facial Recognition Is Illegal · · Score: 1

    Yes. And in the 2011 census -which is, by the way, much worse than the 1987 one- no one seems to give a shit. I know, because I decided to resist. As things are looking, I am going to jail, while you bunch of bloody traitors are talking about "privacy" and how bad facebook is on /. If this is what you mean by "freedom", I'll happily rot in prison.

  3. Re:Once you have discovered on Why Your Dad's 30-Year-Old Stereo Sounds Better Than Yours · · Score: 2

    Yes. But the question is, what the complexity is good for, if it doesn't improve sound quality.It's not that amplifying an incoming signal has become more complicated in the last 30 years - and that's what a stereo does, no matter, if it's a CD-player, an iWhateever or a computer the input comes from.

  4. Re:Once you have discovered on Why Your Dad's 30-Year-Old Stereo Sounds Better Than Yours · · Score: 1

    Four years ago, I tried to get a new amplifier, as my old Technics device gave up. No chance. There are no classic stereo components available anymore, just "recievers" with not even the most basic features as bass/treble, monitor or speaker pair selection. They might be OK for "home cinema" and other things, imbeciles use to waste their lives with. I learned that such an elementary thing as a simple Hi-Fi amplifier is available only from "High End" (say: audio-esoteric) suppliers, nowadays. So I bought two used AKAIs at eBay.. Price € 15.- each. Analog VU meters with real needles on the front panels, decent sound, 60 Watts, three times as loud as any phantasy-number-of-Watts device from the toy store :) They are still running fine, I just had to replace the volume potentiometer of one of them. Simple analog technology for a simple analog task. Ten minutes of work, € 2.50 for the parts. A friend of mine bought a new consumer class reciever about at the same time which went out of work last year. Repair? Ha-ha. Not worth the effort, anyway.

  5. Re:Well on The Oslo Massacre and Violent Video Games: the Facts · · Score: 1

    Don't forget sarkasm. It jumps right into harmless peoples' faces and bites them...

  6. Re:What's the point? on Public AAC Listening Test @ ~96 Kbps [July 2011]. · · Score: 1

    No. That would be 96kHz, not kbit/s-

  7. Re:Subjective audio comparisons are useless on Public AAC Listening Test @ ~96 Kbps [July 2011]. · · Score: 1

    Just buy a decent pair of earphones.

    Yes, but you forget that the average listener will be rather disappointed by a pair of -say- AKG-K271. They don't boost basses that just aren't there, they won't do anything to "improve" the sound from potentially lousy audio players. Unless you are into mixing or even mastering, they won't be of much use for you. And they are not quite cheap, too.

  8. Re:PROBLEM IS TESTERS HAVE CRAP GEAR !! on Public AAC Listening Test @ ~96 Kbps [July 2011]. · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Crappy headphones, crappy results. Unfortunately those with the cheap in-ears also have the rating points. Here as well as in any public listening contest.

  9. Re:ROP on Terror Attack On Norwegian Government · · Score: 1

    Indeed, yes. Say, why do you and your "God" hate our freedom so much?

  10. Re:I think humans are the alien terraformers on Millions of Jellyfish Invade Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    Have a look at a history book, man. There's almost no country in southeast asia that was not occupied by China for some hundred years within the last 4000 years. History did not start in 1496...

  11. Video surveillance on Apple Store Artist Raided By Secret Service · · Score: 1

    Did somebody take in account that said photos were shot in a public place which is under massive, visible and permanent video surveillance - like any major computer store? He did hardly invade anyones privacy, as everyone in the store was aware of being monitored. So what's his crime?

  12. Re:rerip your CD collection on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Scrub Pirated Music From My Collection? · · Score: 1

    This is mostly caused by the balanced encoding that FLAC uses. MP3 and also AAC use asymmetric, unbalanced encoding which will wear out due to single sided harddisk rotation unless one channel is encoded clockwise and the other one counter-clockwise.

  13. Cybercriminials on ICANN Domain Expansion Could Increase Phishing · · Score: 1

    cybercriminals could also seek these new domains [...] These can then be used for phishing attacks

    Terrorists could also seek these new domains These can then be used for terrorist attacks. Chinese hackers could also seek these new domains These can then be used for chinese hacking attacks. Software pirates could also seek these new domains These can then be used for software pirating attacks. Malicious attackers could also seek these new domains These can then be used for malicious attacking attacks,..

  14. You are obviously too young to have seen Mozilla 6 on Where Is Firefox OS? · · Score: 1

    or you wouldn't ask.

  15. Oh, it's this time of year again... on PlanetLab Creates a More Advanced Sudo · · Score: 1

    what will be next? SCO raises from the approxmately twenty times dead and threatens to sue Linux users?

  16. Re:I doubt there was an inquiry from Austria on German Police Train Vultures To Find Bodies · · Score: 1

    So the Austrians are breeding trained vultures? That would fit, as they are also said to produce jam by squeezing Krapfen (kind of jam-filled, Bavarian donut)

  17. Dump It! on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Other People's Email? · · Score: 1

    Dump it! For heaven's sake, throw it away as soon as you realize, it's not for you. As a long term mail server admin, it's the only advise I could give you. Whatever else you might do only makes you appear as the one who causes "that email trouble". You might get sued, assaulted, blamed distrusted but nobody would ever thank you for being honest. .

  18. Re:Nuclear Hologram. on Japan Doubles Fukushima Radiation Leak Estimate · · Score: 1

    It's only inevitable when you... Some people just will never learn. Technology implements errors, failures. Inevitably. Technology that comes with the risk of catastrophic failures will cause catastrophic failures. It's just a matter of time.

  19. Geekdom is just getting eaten by the mainstream on Is There a New Geek Anti-Intellectualism? · · Score: 1

    and as every idiot who know where to get a cracked Windows 7 from claims to be a geek now, anti-intellectualism is just the logic consequence of no intellectualism at all. We gor assimilated. Resistance would have been futile, anyway. Also social misbehavious is out of seasons for geeks now, you really do not want to join a bunch of grown ups who behave like 13year old highschool dropouts to pretend procramming skills they don't have.

  20. Welcome to the world of...1980!? on English Teenager Invents a Better Doorbell · · Score: 1

    This has indeed been one of the basic features of ISDN. Also one of its features that really were implemented and available to the public. You can buy a complete doorbell, camera, and infocom extension as a ready to go ISDN module and, of course, divert incoming calls to 3GP, serial line, the interwebs or wherever. Just, as video phones never became quite popular -nor did ISDN- they have been around as a niche product for almost 30 years.

  21. Old hat on "Space Archeology" Uncovers Lost Pyramids · · Score: 1

    Satellite photography including radar and infrared exposures have been used to detect agricultural and "urban" structures of all ages for decades. Almost the complete reconstruction and research of wooden settlements, pole buildings and the great migrations, even reconstructions of defense lines in the 30 years war are mostly based on air and satellite imaging. Every first semester in archiceture or archeology could tell you a lot more about that, than the article does.

  22. Re:Streisand Effect on Doctors To Patients: First, Do No Yelp Harm · · Score: 1

    No, because NDA use to refer to data -or knowledge- which are seen to be in need of special protection or descretion. As far as we are talking about valid NDAs at least. Of course certain NDA might also include things that are not covered or legally questionable.

  23. Re:relatively low temperatures on TEPCO Confirms Partial Meltdown of No.2 and No.3 Reactors · · Score: 1
    is anybody else getting sick of this constant down-playing the severity of the situation?

    No, I just started liking it.

  24. Sounds like a good idea, just... on Linux Desktop Summit Program Announced · · Score: 1

    ...just what exactly do they need KDE and UNITY for?

  25. If they refused on A New Approach To Reducing Spam: Go After Credit Processors · · Score: 1

    If a handful of companies like these refused to authorize online credit card payments to the merchants, 'you'd cut off the money that supports the entire spam enterprise,' said

    ...if the pope refused to be catholic. I think, there might be some reason, why only these few companies are processing all these transactions.