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  1. Re:Hooray for Islam! on Turkey Blocks Tor's Anonymity Network (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Turkey is considered part of the First World, not Third World. Scary as that sounds, it is true.

  2. Re:Get off the capitalist fainting couch on EFF Begins Investigating Surveillance Technology Rumors At Standing Rock (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    I am sure that those leaks over time add up to the oil spills of a single train derailment, but those are easy to design for. Do you think that it is profit motive that makes them want to stop having train derailments and loss of product all. the. fucking. time? Of course, but also, pipelines leak much less than any incident on a rail line, and even a catastrophic failure of a pipeline is much less oil leaking than a single rail car of the long trains that we have moving oil now.

    As I said, anyone against oil pipelines doesn't give a damn about the environment, and is all for the damage caused by oil spills. It takes a special kind of brain damage to fight against oil pipeines to save the environment, but I guess when it is someone else's problem, it is all good.

  3. Except that is one reason for the right to bear arms not the only reason, and doesn't mean what you are implying it means. Well regulated means that they are trained in the use of the firearm, not that they are restricted in their use. So if you want to pass legislation requiring firearm owners to be trained on the use of their firearms, that will fit very nicely in the regulated militia.

    Flag burning is a protest, I don't agree with it, but it is the right of the people to protest in whatever manner they choose.

  4. Re:FBI Needs Checks and Balances on A Century of Surveillance: An Interactive Timeline Of FBI Investigations (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1

    They had red cheeks...

  5. Re:Proud to Have FBI File on Me on A Century of Surveillance: An Interactive Timeline Of FBI Investigations (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1

    You can use the FOIA to request the records on yourself with the excuse of correcting any errors.

  6. Re:Dig down first on Ask Slashdot: How Should I Furnish (And Secure) My Work-From-Home Office? · · Score: 1

    I thought the thin-skinned reactionaries were the ones recently protesting.

  7. Re:My setup... on Ask Slashdot: How Should I Furnish (And Secure) My Work-From-Home Office? · · Score: 1

    Of course, it always helps to completely read the comment before replying with a smart ass comment...

  8. Re:My setup... on Ask Slashdot: How Should I Furnish (And Secure) My Work-From-Home Office? · · Score: 1

    (flip north and south above for the southern hemisphere).

  9. 2) A nice desk, with a surface that breathes; you don't want glass or something else that will make you sweat when you make solid contact with it.

    Someone else in this string suggested a lifting desk, here is a company that makes decently priced addons to other desks that enable sit/stand desks:

    http://versadesk.com/

    And Anthro makes really good desks including sit/stand desks:

    http://www.anthro.com/solution...

    3) Nice monitors: Don't be drawn in by the resolution; what you want is something easy to read so you don't get eyestrain. Use the TV standards: Looking straight on at any monitor, the size/ distance should allow you to see the whole thing.

    I highly recommend IPS displays for this purpose, they are supposed to be better on the eyes and better color reproduction than TN, and aren't a huge premium over standard displays. I have two of these connected to my gaming machine, and have never had issues with eye strain when using them. My current ones were manufactured by ASUS and HP, but I had a previous one from Dell that worked until the plastic power button broke off. I would avoid TVs, as they tend to increase eye strain.

  10. What is the goal of widened gun control than? The effort is to reduce the availability of firearms that are scarey (assault weapons...which is a non existant category of scarey firearm). How is that not taking guns from future owners of firearms that are used for numerous legal uses?

    If the gun control is at all about safety, and preventing deaths, than we need 0 new laws, as the crime rate has been drastically going down already. Perhaps we should look at reducing gun control to more sensable levels, after all the bill of rights says that there shall be no law preventing the ownership of firearms:

    A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

    Pretty clear to me, so lets follow the laws of the land and reduce regulations that are not causing anything but a reduction in the abilities of the common man from owning firearms as guarenteed by the second amendment.

    Also, my argument was anything but false, Obama tried, and he even cried on camera at his failure, but the president doesn't make laws. Hillary also promised that she would restrict firearms as well, she herself said so on her campeign page.

  11. Re:Wait - I have a better idea . . . on The FBI Is Arresting People Who Rent DDoS Botnets (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Love the sig.

    It would be funny to attack Russia, but what would it accomplish? If they really did perform the hack, what are you going to charge them with? All they did was expose the truth, what a horrible crime.

  12. Re:Get off the capitalist fainting couch on EFF Begins Investigating Surveillance Technology Rumors At Standing Rock (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Any more simple questions?

    When were you diagnosed with your mental condition?

    This is what the pipelines are being built to prevent:

    https://www.google.com/search?...

    Anyone who supports the status quo over the much safer pipelines is for environmental damage. If you would prefer the numerous train derailments that lead to massive oil spills, then keep protesting every pipeline trying to protect the environment from oil spills, it really increases your enviro-cred!

  13. Re:Basic Income on Does Amazon's Clickworker Platform Exploit Its Workers? (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    The banks lend out your money up to 10 times and earn (currently) around 3-4% on it in the mortgage market. It has always amazed me that the interest rates on savings accounts are so low considering how much money they earn from your money lending it out.

  14. Re:Time to outlaw the IoT on Massive Mirai Botnet Hides Its Control Servers On Tor (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    That includes making sure ISPs block traffic attempting to leave their network that claims to be from outside their network.

    How would that work? Most of the big ISPs are transit providers, they can't block that traffic at the border. I suppose they could block it at the home portion of the network, but that would cause them to have to process rules on massive amounts of traffic, making the routers 10x the price, over the entire network.

  15. There is no proof as of yet that the elections were even hacked, that is exaggeration by the media, as it was only an email server for the DNC.

  16. https://www.hillaryclinton.com...

    Hillary supports widened gun control, do you doubt her word for it?

    How could you have any guns left after Obama took them all? Oh wait....

    AsHornWumpus put it, thank dog, the president doesn't have the power to unilaterally do whatever he wants, and was instead blocked from taking guns as he wanted to by congress who passes actual legislation. Though he did cry on TV because he couldn't stop extremely rare instences of violence that would happen with or without guns.

    http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us...
    http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/01/...
    etc etc etc

  17. Re:Obama has already checked out on President Obama Threatens Retaliatory Actions Against Russia Over Hacks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    He went off to vacation in Hawaii after saying that. Congress isn't even in session.

    The organizations that would perform a hack like this are all executive branch orgs, so would be directly under the president. Congress doesn't need to do anything for this to happen.

  18. Re: message from other hackers on President Obama Threatens Retaliatory Actions Against Russia Over Hacks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Hillary's email server was already offline when it was found out about. They wiped it rather than submit the emails to congressional subpoenas. There was nothing for them to hack. Also, they DID NOT hack the elections, stop helping the media with spreading this falsehood.

  19. And EVERY security service on the face of the planet said Saddam had WMDs - including the one you are trusting now about the Russians

    They also turned out to be right to an extent. There were biological weapons found in Iraq, but not the nukes he was claiming he had to try and scare Iran into backing down.

  20. If you care so much about humanity's effect on the planet, wouldn't the proper course be to kill yourself and remove your effect from the rest of us?

  21. Re:Trump. lol. on AT&T, Verizon Tell FCC To Back Off On Net Neutrality Complaints (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL @ the retard here who thinks Hillary! would have been any better in this situation.

  22. Re: Time for war on Pentagon: Chinese Ship Captures US Underwater Drone Fom Sea (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    What is a white night? Is that like a night where the moon is SOOO bright it lights up the entire night?

    Also, you reject that China infringes civil rights? Do you live in a cave?

  23. Re:Time for war on Pentagon: Chinese Ship Captures US Underwater Drone Fom Sea (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't have enough water craft to move enough soldiers to matter in any war not on their continent.

  24. Re: Time for war on Pentagon: Chinese Ship Captures US Underwater Drone Fom Sea (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Except this is more like China operating an underwater drone off the coast of Columbia, and the US capturing it. The thing was practically in the waters of the Phillippines.

  25. Re:The reason they keep raising money on Wikipedia Exceeds Fundraising Target, But Continues Asking For More Money (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps someone should point it out in the Wikipedia entry on Wikipedia/media?