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  1. Re:"Must accept harmful interference..." on L.A. Building's Lights Interfere With Cellular Network, FCC Says · · Score: 2

    not when youre paying $2 for it on ebay and its coming in zillions of tiny packages one at a time

  2. PLEASE LOOK UP SCHIZOPHRENIA on The Schizophrenic State of Software In 2014 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I so hate when people confuse it with multiple personality disorder. And so do I!

  3. Re:Well thats a first on Judge Rules BitTorrent Cases Must Be Tried Separately · · Score: 1

    Yea - wasnt it found that many/most pirates are among the most profitable consumers of the very material they share? I know for my part I already somehow paid for the bulk of anything i piratdid back in the day (harf) and still spend tons of money on IP.

  4. Re:Wow... on Western Australian Sharks Send Tweets To Swimmers · · Score: 1

    yea where is the next gen hypersensitive sonar or freaking drones flying the perimeter of swimming areas! fy fan...

  5. Re:Global warming. on Helicopter Rescue For All Passengers Aboard Antarctic Research Ship · · Score: 1

    Its called climate change because of the unpredictable events. Perhaps you would like to consult a scientist? I wont ridicule you like those that claimed it was a myth when Las Vegas got snow in the summer time, but trust me - they got it good.

  6. Re:Wonder why NSA didn't go to Fox network first ? on CBS 60 Minutes: NSA Speaks Out On Snowden, Spying · · Score: 2

    They probably figured it would be less 'obvious' if the so-called liberal media supported them instead of the 'obviously' biased Foxnooze.

  7. Big Bad Snowden on CBS 60 Minutes: NSA Speaks Out On Snowden, Spying · · Score: 1

    Test and answers to get hired? They are saying he didnt pass on his own (rather, hacked their systems before he got hired in order to get hired) or went from zero to evil the second he was given access and just went all grabby? Or are they saying he planned to open a "work for the nsa now, ask me how" website?

  8. Re:Southwest.. on Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So · · Score: 1

    document thriller? lol

  9. Re:isn't it possible to detect on Thieves Who Stole Cobalt-60 Will Soon Be Dead · · Score: 1

    I think he put "glowing" in quotes to indicate we should have sensors that they can fly around with to find the stuff...not actual green blob stuff....like in the Peacemaker!

  10. Re:Less than $1m each? on US Uncorks $16M For 17 Projects To Capture Wave Energy · · Score: 1

    119m homes? Yea, Id throw every penny at it but maybe since its "research" we are paying salaries and office space (you know that chargeback/funny money stuff they do in companies?) and not much capex. wonder if the fossil fuel industry is gonna like it - or if this is a smear mission...

  11. Re:Here we go... on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered · · Score: 1

    'merrica, funk yeah!

  12. Re:Here we go... on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered · · Score: 1

    heck with the oil, waitill we install walmarts!

  13. Re:never understood the appeal on DOS Emulation Arrives For the Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    I wanna play Lands of Lore like it was 1994...and i waited a year

  14. Uhh...Shouldnt there be a number to call? on Six of Hanford's Nuclear Waste Tanks Leaking Badly · · Score: 1

    Isnt this one of those things that compels immediate (re)action? I thought when it came to things like public works, this was automatic. Need to issue some arrest warrants for everyone with the power to fix this doing nothing atm. wtf.

  15. Trust on Ask Slashdot: Interviewing Your Boss? · · Score: 1

    How much do you trust subordinates proficient with technologies you have limited understanding of? How often will you require in depth knowledge of technical changes before they are implemented and if you do not understand any aspect of such changes will you forbid them? Etc. etc....its possible many of us have had the techie vs. non-techie issues with bosses before and these hit home for me

  16. Re:Summary on Hotmail & Yahoo Mail Using Secret Domain Blacklist · · Score: -1

    here, here! isnt this short attention span theater for the interwebber?

  17. Shocked?? on Microsoft Blocks FSF Donation Website As a 'Gambling Site' · · Score: 2

    Microsoft has ALWAYS behaved this way. How many 3rd party applications or features have /.ers discovered dont work properly in Windows when there is anything remotely resembling a competitive product offered by Microsoft...anyone ever try to use hotmail in non-IE browsers or chat on msn via trillian? Browsers in general for those of us that remember the big IE integrated with windows debate/doj case and the resulting minor concession MS was forced to make. I am not just talking about when MS updates Windows and your display drivers start causing bsods and you grab a vendor update and its fixed, I mean real anti-competitive practices in Microsoft's consumer and enterprise products... If I sat here and thought about it I know I would have a long list - what about u? How many times have you all looked straight up and raged GAAAAAAAATES!!

  18. Re:Trusting them as root CA doesnt mean that... on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Take On HTTPS Snooping? · · Score: 1

    I should qualify - I havent worked with this product but I know that none of the umpteen other cisco product lines I have worked with have included any feature or style of feature implementation that could even be remotely considered sinister. this last poster may very well be right - you ssl to the device and the device ssls to the site you are attempting but id bet my ccnp that device includes no features for collecting personal data - sites visited, history, etc? sure, there isnt a proxy in the world that doesnt and for that matter there isnt a (significant) company in the world that doesnt use some kinda proxy or caching server, but these devices dont do anything worth resigning in protest over. they do good stuff! helpful stuff!

  19. Re:Trusting them as root CA doesnt mean that... on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Take On HTTPS Snooping? · · Score: 1

    Yea um, cisco doesnt make devices that do this. Google it.

  20. Trusting them as root CA doesnt mean that... on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Take On HTTPS Snooping? · · Score: 1

    Really? You think they are decrypting your traffic and stockpiling data on users? You can have a hundred trusted signing authorities, it doesnt mean they can decrypt your data. Read about public key encryption - its point to point - they would need the other endpoint's private key (combined with your public key) to decrypt. Even IF the other end used the same CA, their key is..um...private. Chill brother/sister!

  21. Well also perhaps because.... on History Will Revere Bill Gates and Forget Steve Jobs, Says Author · · Score: 2

    imho Jobs shed his hippy roots and became not just a ruthless capitalist himself but made Apple pretty imperialistic - yes we all know the complete control over hardware and software was a pro vs. con of apples over PCs but apple pushed the line into making some consumer choices not just with the app store but what was "allowed" on the platform itself. I found it shocking that even though we all know Microsoft does little things in Windows to give its app layer products the edge over its competitors compatibility was always there, one way or another....in my eyes Jobs was a ruthless dictator and the Microsoft counterparts were like modern democracy (if you pay, anyone can play)

  22. SIGH!!!! on NPR's "Car Talk" Glides To a Halt · · Score: 2

    Sorry, nothing too insightful to say other than how sad I am! Can we do a /. funeral? We could hire the Donwanna Behere funeral home.....Yea, lame I know - - see? we need them!!

  23. Carriers are lucky on Facebook Is Killing Text Messaging · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Without facebook and others, how many consumers (outside of iPhone holders) really wanted any kind of data plan or could be convinced to pay that extra $20++ a month beyond already high cellular prices? Business users that required mobile email, right? Besides, how many times does someone have to get charged that same $20 a month for texting before they get a plan? We can be wasteful, but when it comes to our cell phones they are usually the first bill that gets paid, even if its at the last minute! If it werent for content management sites like Facebook making it easy and useful for everyday folk to collaborate in a mobile setting then telecom couldnt possibly convince everyday customers to pay so much as they are now "to get my facebook on my phone". Anyone shop for a new plan lately? You can't really get anything from big telecom "with facebook" for less than about $80 a month after all is said and done (except metroPCS, but if you have had them you know you get what you pay for) Sure the markup on texts is something like 5000% but with the absence of truly unlimited data and all these pretty new phones available to everyone, something tells me they will make their numbers. How many texts is $20 a month even with the markup? Now can we help them get more spectrum please?

  24. Re:Will black hole devour dark matter, anti-matter on Astronomers See Another Star Torn Apart By a Black Hole · · Score: 1

    I did mean to put that I am a total um "not a physics guy" just the armchair piece-together-what-i-can-repeat dreamer type. but heck yea thanks for the detail

  25. Re:Will black hole devour dark matter, anti-matter on Astronomers See Another Star Torn Apart By a Black Hole · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does anyone ever wonder if antimatter is our representation of what exists as matter on the other side of any given (or perhaps all) black hole(s) inside another dimension/universe/whatever you wanna call it? Universe pairs? Hawking theorized that black holes have white hole pairs - maybe his math just indicated that there is no Lord Nibbler poo at the completion of a black hole (or the start of our universe) but rather another instance of er...space ie- how does a singularity occur w/ infinite mass (or so we would calculate) with the law of conservation of mass - lots of cosmologists must be trying to prove it goes somewhere so why not another dimension/universe/etc - and to consider attractive forces like that perhaps draw a theoretical parallel with polarity so that since our typical everyday matter is attracted to a black hole, perhaps that dimension/etc's typical everyday matter is as well (their own BH, WH to us) and perhaps the other side of any black hole is what would be our theoretical white hole counterpart to a black hole, our antimatter counterpart to our matter, etc etc?