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  1. Re:Not all "blasphemy" is religious in nature... on EFF Looks At How Blasphemy Laws Have Stifled Speech in 2012 · · Score: 1

    ... try being a right-leaning prof in a large, prestigious college (or in Hollywood), or a skeptic of $prevailingOpinionOnHighlyPoliticizedTopic in the scientific community.

    Just something to keep in mind.

    They have shoes for that.

  2. Violation of Contract vs. Free Speech on Cisco VP To Memo Leaker: Finding You Now 'My Hobby' · · Score: 1

    The Repression of free speech by governments is one thing, and I agree with it.

    Violation of Contract, or agreement is quite another, and has nothing to do with free speech. If I were to speak publicly about the internal workings of my company, I would fully expect to get canned, or be civilly fined for violating a trust. I would expect no protection for something like this.

    Many people seem to have no understanding of the difference.

    Jim

  3. Watched the video on Google Wallet May End Up Inside Your Actual Wallet · · Score: 1

    Ok, I watched the Google video.

    Where do I get the wallet, with the nixie tubes, gummi bears, and manual combo lock on the outside??

  4. Natural Gas diesels on NYC Data Center Needs Focus On Fuel · · Score: 5, Interesting

    30 years ago, I retired from the Navy, along with a friend who was a Machinist Mate on Navy submarines. I didn't see him for a couple years. Turns out that he had spent 10 of those years servicing batteries on diesel submarines, and ended up servicing large batteries for the phone company -- about the same size batteries that had been on the boats. He switched to servicing the diesels (because of his prior experience on submarines with their diesel generators), and one of the first to deploy natural gas fired diesels for sustained power, first for the phone company, and then for a local utility.

    There's the solution. Don't pipe flammable liquid to the top floor, pipe the natural gas. Contrary to popular belief, it is a safer fuel, and requires less maintenance. Automatic shutoff valves work better, less explosive volume released on a tubing breakage, and it doesn't rot the pipes like liquid diesel fuel, disperses to atmosphere in the case of a leak, and doesn't make everything around it flammable, when it does leak.

    Engines run at least 4 times as long between between overhaul cycles, and it doesn't dilute the lube oil.

    Natural gas is going to be a HUGE change for this countries infrastructure, both in common usage, as well as emergency failover services.

    This guy has made tons of money, by the way. Has a condo and car in San Diego, LA, Seattle, New York, and Atlanta -- cheaper than hotels and taxis, and doesn't know what else to do with his money.

  5. Re:an example where algebra is useful? on Promoting Arithmetic and Algebra By Example · · Score: 1

    And the math teachers answer is wrong in any case. It should be 18. Open the gate, cow leaves. 60 minutes later another cow leaves. So after one hour there would only be 18 cows (although in reality the dairy farmer is correct, 0 cows left).

    You may know something about math, but not too much about cows. They simply won't stay in the barn during the day.
    Most barns have doors, rather than gates, so is the gate in a fence? After 2 minutes they'd all be out the gate. That's the way they travel.

  6. TracFone conspiracy on Police Don't Need a Warrant To Track Your Disposable Cellphone · · Score: 1

    Ever wonder why it's called a TracFone?

    Now you know!!

  7. Do horses produce more greenhouse gasses than cars on Exxon CEO: Warming Happening, But Fears Overblown · · Score: 0

    Which produces more greenhouse gases? Two horses to power a cart, or an automobile?
    How about the cow you ate last year? Why is it that so many are concerned about the CO2, rather than the methane, which is at least 40 times worse for the greenhouse effect?

  8. Re:Good Times on Flame: The Massive Stuxnet-Level Malware Sweeping the Middle East · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a description of "Good Times." Will it chase gradeschoolers with my snow blower?

    There's an attachment for that!

  9. Re:Americans need not apply on Designing the World's Tiniest Manned Suborbital Vehicle · · Score: 1

    sorry... i meant altitude, not orbit...

    screw the semantics, if you go up really high to get a view that few people have, but have no room to turn and actually take in the view, it would suck if the capsule was facing the wrong way.

    Where there's smoke, there's mirrors. Problem solved!!

  10. Re:To: Editors (and TFA writer) on MPAA Agent Poses As Homebuyer To Catch Pirates · · Score: 1

    There's even a London in Canada which has a River Thames running through it!

    And a "New London" in Connecticut, with a river Thames running through (alongside at least) it.

  11. Re:Outsourced eh? on MPAA Agent Poses As Homebuyer To Catch Pirates · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure it isn't illegal to pretend interest in buying someone's house. All they would have to do is say the PI truly was interested, but then didn't like the price. How are you going to "prove" he wasn't interested in the house? Regardless pretending you are interested in buying a house when you aren't may be dishonest, but not necessarily illegal. It wasn't like the PI was claiming to be a cop or serviceman or something you could actually get into trouble for impersonating.

    Isn't this what TV reporters do on a regular basis??

  12. Re:Trial and extradition were never the goal on US Judge Say Kim Dotcom May Never Be Tried or Extradited · · Score: 1

    Sony products? What worthy product have they even produced in the last two decades?

    Trinitron Picture tubes?

  13. Re:Or maybe its the actions of the learner on Researchers Try To Identify the Intelligence Gene · · Score: 1

    Maybe it is the determination and habits of individual learners that is important and not what is in his or her genetic makeup.

    Or, maybe it's both, plus family, opportunity, the ability to TEACH ONESELF HOW TO LEARN, plus a good dose of luck (not being struck by the occasional meteor), the ability to delay gratification (saving rather than spending), passion, and a few other things.

  14. Re:Hey guys, STFU and build a rocket, would you? on Ex-NASA Employees Accuse Agency of 'Extreme Position' On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    As the original claimant and author of that statement:
    "2 + 2 = 5 !!! for _sufficiently_ large values of 2 !!!" := proof: 2.49 + 2.49 = 4.98

    The original demonstration proof was a heaping two bushels full of manure and that came close to 5.49 bushel!! (piled higher and deeper)
    originally published @ pnet01.crash.cts.com or maybe it was crash.cts.com

  15. Free phone calls on What Does Google Get Out of Voice? · · Score: 1

    Maybe they like the free phone calls with the customers footing the bill

  16. Re:Rule #1 Real Job on Ask Slashdot: What Are Your Tips For Working From Home? · · Score: 1

    | Where the fuck do you work that not only do get to work from home, but you're making $40/hr?

    It's called a REAL JOB. If you haven't found that yet, then it's time to re-evaluate your situation.

    I did network administration, and shell script development for a publishing company in San Diego, from the hills of
    West Virginia, while taking care of my mother during her last days. The in-office guy covered days, and I worked
    nights, while monitoring my mom on CCTV in the house.

    Seriously finding the right job is probably more important than anything else. The gravy, and advantages come later.

    Jim

  17. Re:Efficiency Depends On What You're Effishing For on ESL — a CRT-Based Replacement For CFL Lights Without the Mercury · · Score: 1

    As an example, my wife's theater group has a detached wooden shed which is used to store costumes, wigs, etc. She keeps a 60-watt light bulb burning in that shed to keep the place warm enough that condensation and mildew aren't a problem. Since the bulb hangs in open space from the ceiling, it's a lot safer and much more efficient than any space heater,

    Neither lightbulbs nor space heaters are particularly ideal as dehumidifiers, which is really what you want to prevent condensation and mildew.

    Yeah, but light bulbs don't drip like a dehumidifier does..

  18. beer on LED's Efficiency Exceeds 100% · · Score: 1

    A true Light Beer

  19. Re:To Quote Woody allen on Vaccine Could Cut Heroin Addiction · · Score: 1

    is this site bogus?

    Yes and no. Are it's descriptions accurate? -- a little over the top..

    It's the infamous Narconon -- associated with the "Church" of Scientology

    They make all sorts of unsubstantiated claims of success.

  20. Car goes out alone at night on Nevada Approves Rules For Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 5, Funny

    Next thing, after I go to bed, the car wants to go out on it's own, and just "hang out"

    Morning: "Where did you go?"
    Car: "Out"
    Me: "What did you do?"

    Car: "Nothing."

  21. Re:Handle them carefully on Finding Lost Recording From the 1880s · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Those old recordings, really are more delicate than eggshells. When I was 5 or 6, in 1949, or 1950, I was at my friend's house. His father was a professor at University of Minnesota -- and had a box of old cylinders on a table in the basement. My friend showed them to me, and I proceeded to break, two, or three. I remember one being so delicate, just picking it up out of the box, by putting my finger through, was enough to break it. They were dull reddish brown, and I always thought they were made out of clay or plastic. Still feel guilty about it..

  22. Serial printer port on Researchers Find Slew of Flaws In SCADA Hardware, Software · · Score: 1

    Nothing new. It's called a two wire serial printer port -- can even drive a 300 baud modem.

  23. Recognition on Ask Slashdot: Handing Over Personal Work Without Compensation? · · Score: 2

    Sometimes just recognition for the work you've done, and a pat on the back is payment enough.

    Toot your horn.

  24. B.O.F.H. ala Facebook on Facebook Bans Google+ Ads · · Score: 1

    |'Your account has been disabled'
    |
    |"Unfortunately we cannot provide you with the specific violations that have been deemed abusive. Please review our Terms of Use |and Advertising guidelines if you have any further questions.'"

    And it only took one mouse click.

    B.O.F.H. -- without a keyboard

  25. Re:Some american tell me -- breeding on Iowa Rejects Video Privacy Protection For Cows · · Score: 1

    why is it that always republicans are behind the gravest, dastardliest shit, and they are behind less dastardly shit with a democrat close to their aisle ?

    a while ago, i heard that mccain and 30 other republican senators opposed a bill which would prevent companies from putting clauses into their contracts that would prevent female employees from suing the company if they were raped in company's employ overseas by company employees. that included john mccain, the presidential candidate. the justification was 'we think it is wrong to tell businesses how to do business'. so, its ok if a company legislates rape in its overseas operations by putting a clause in its contracts ?

    what the fuck is wrong with republicans ?

    Simple. They like gang rape. They are opposed to abortions.

    You work it out.

    Are they trying to breed more republicans?