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  1. Re:I doubt the ruling matters... on "Anonymous" File-Sharing Darknet Ruled Illegal By German Court · · Score: 1

    Around here at least, and I have reason to suspect it's similar in Germany, automatic traffic control camera pictures can't be used for fining a driver unless the driver itself is recognisable in the picture. Yes, this means you get out of a ticket if you always drive with a ski-mask. In practice, the picture is included on the backside of the fine which is sent by mail to the registered owner of the vehicle, and if the photo doesn't portray you, you take it to an police station and have it invalidated.

  2. Re:Air Water Machine on Water Bottle Fills Itself From the Air · · Score: 2

    It used to be pure condensation water, then it dripped into an AC unit that is neither designed for hygiene or has ever been cleaned. The water is certainly distilled, but on no account safe to drink.

  3. Re:I'd be interested only if... on Running Netflix On Linux · · Score: 1

    s/static'/nois/

  4. Re:Not good enough, dammit, not good enough! on Running Netflix On Linux · · Score: 1

    $ mplayer dvd:// -dumpstream -dumpfile video.vob

    Should work whenever mplayer works, which is more often than dd will work.

  5. Re:razer synapse on Why Would a Mouse Need To Connect To the Internet? · · Score: 1

    Ooh! Ooh! We can finally have the clipboard-contents-actually-stored-within-the-mouse thing, so that less technically competent people can copy-and-paste things between their computers in a natural and not-at-all cumbersome manner!

  6. Re:razer synapse on Why Would a Mouse Need To Connect To the Internet? · · Score: 1

    It's a sloppy hardware manufacturer. I very much doubt their windows drivers are less than 100MB with the complete bundle of crap they force upon you. Multiply that with ~3 generations of windows apis and add something for macos and some copyright-infringing bad idea for linux, and it won't fit in 512 MB.

  7. Re:A trial lawyer's view: on Ask Slashdot: How To Become Informed In Judicial Elections? · · Score: 1

    upvote parent, plox?

  8. Re:Seriously? on Ask Slashdot: Seamonkey vs. Firefox — Any Takers? · · Score: 1
  9. As Zoidberg said it; on Ask Slashdot: Dedicating Code? · · Score: 1

    Your idea is horrible and you should feel horrible.

  10. Re:Rail gun ? on Gamers May Get a Charge Out of the Gauss Rifle · · Score: 1

    Stop giving silly names like "coilgun" Birkeland's venerable Electromagnetic Gun. (patent (1902) (A fanciful tale, worth reading))

  11. That's not an apology! on Hugo Awards Live Stream Cut By Copyright Enforcement Bot · · Score: 2

    According to the linked essay, "Ustream's CEO Brad Hunstable has finally made a public apology about the incident", available here (http://www.ustream.tv/blog/2012/09/03/hugo-awards-an-apology-and-explanation/)

    The only part (apart from the header) that looks like an apology in any way is

    We had many unhappy viewers as a result, and for that I am truly sorry.

    Yes Brad. We understand you are sorry everyone is mad at you. Nobody likes others hating them, even when it is well deserved and appropriate, such as in this case. Nobody likes losing business. Still, an apology looks like "I'm sorry I stole, I will never do it again" and not like "I'm sorry I got caught stealing, you won't catch me doing it again."

  12. Re:Good on Canonical Pulls Kubuntu Personnel Funding · · Score: 1

    You can have your car in any color, as long as its black!

    That was Henry Ford, a man seldom accused of communism. Wait, I've got to add this to my list of go-to conspiracy theories!

  13. Re:Wat on Canonical Pulls Kubuntu Personnel Funding · · Score: 1

    Yet still they create a distro targeted excusively against people who are unable to edit configuration files, while simultaneously being almost unusable once you need to do something out-of-the-highway like compiling and installing some software outside their repos.