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  1. Re:Bad idea on Snowden Reportedly In Talks To Return To US To Face Trial · · Score: 2, Informative

    +1 for believing the propaganda despite all the evidence released. Sat photos are hard to fake, and sat photos of artillery/tanks entering Ukraine from Russia are pretty damning evidence.

  2. Re:Headbender on Astronomers Find an Old-Looking Galaxy In the Early Universe · · Score: 1

    Thank you for expanding on that. I did not trust my science background to go into that much detail.

  3. Re:Jail time on Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email At State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules · · Score: 1

    It is pretty clear cut.

    1. She used her outside email for agency business (admitted, and known)
    2. She has been out of the office for quite a while now, and they still don't have that pesky backup of the data.

    She has broken the law. It is very unlikely she will ever be charged for it, but it is a pretty clear cut law.

  4. Re:Politics aside for a moment. on Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email At State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it will change when someone brings federal charges against her? This is a federal felony, not a little white lie.

  5. Re:Politics aside for a moment. on Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email At State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When my son tried to pull that, I handed him the phone. I then explained what the process would be like, and he handed it back to me. You have to call them on the bluff, or you will become subservient to it.

  6. Re:Headbender on Astronomers Find an Old-Looking Galaxy In the Early Universe · · Score: 1

    For a while after the big bang, the universe was opaque, so there would be nothing to see.

  7. Re:Just switch to Minetest already on What Would Minecraft 2 Look Like Under Microsoft? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Original? How could a copy of a game ever be considered more original than the original?

  8. Re:The Constitution is Clear - Tenth Amendment on When It Comes To Spy Gear, Many Police Ignore Public Records Laws · · Score: 1

    In other words; the company making the Stingray device can feel free to go out of business as they ONLY customers they have are not legally able to abide by these terms in the contracts.

  9. Re:For the sake of argument on Sony Offers a "Premium Sound" SD Card For a Premium Price · · Score: 1

    Audiophile is a directly opposed value to actual electrical knowledge. People with actual electronics knowledge know enough to laugh at audiophiles.

  10. Re:Hmm, maybe on Sony Offers a "Premium Sound" SD Card For a Premium Price · · Score: 1

    If the analog side of a device is not electrically shielded, then you are doing it wrong. Stop buying cheap garbage.

  11. Re:Really? on The Burden of Intellectual Property Rights On Clean Energy Technologies · · Score: 1

    Would you prefer that Monsanto didn't try to improve the food supply? Monsanto dumped tons of money into developing something, do you believe that they shouldn't be repaid for what they did?

    What incentive would any company have to develop things if they weren't guaranteed a monopoly on what they invented? If you can take a couple thousand dollars and reproduce what took them millions to develop, should you be able to sell the same product?

  12. Re:Basic product development on Lenovo Allegedly Installing "Superfish" Proxy Adware On New Computers · · Score: 1

    Don’t get me wrong, it ws a very nice laptop. Good battery, expansions and a carbon chassis.

    What do you mean by carbon chassis? Is it made out of carbon fiber? Diamond? Graphite?

  13. Re:So someone else invented NetHack, goodie. on Building a Procedural Dungeon Generator In C# · · Score: 2

    Nethack confirms it.

  14. Re:Are you freaking serious? on Building a Procedural Dungeon Generator In C# · · Score: 1

    Hmm, This would make an interesting Minecraft mod for the dungeons.

  15. Re:Adblock on Ask Slashdot: Most Useful Browser Extensions? · · Score: 1

    Seeing all of these comments about adblock, I will now do a test to see what happens.

    Adblock
    Adblock Edge
    Ghostery

    I wonder if my thoughts are correct on an automated search engine posting certain responses.

  16. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message on Ask Slashdot: Most Useful Browser Extensions? · · Score: 1

    Get a real computer? Run 64 bit?

    Who the hell runs games with only 3.5 GB of ram (32 bit limit)?

  17. Re:That's on Advice on How to Start an IT Business (Video) · · Score: 1

    Wanna know how I can tell you don't know Exchange? There was never an Exchange 2008, you either mean 2007 or 2010. Perhaps that was why the company had to hire a H1B, because they couldn't find anyone with Exchange 2008 experience.

    I have 15 years in IT and could do most of what you have there. I am not an especially good programmer, but programming shouldn't be needed in systems work.

    I do agree though, it is the difference between a systems administrator and a systems engineer/architect, and perhaps that is the issue, understanding that there is a difference.

  18. Re:Why would any novice on Flaw In Netgear Wi-Fi Routers Exposes Admin Password, WLAN Details · · Score: 2

    I just received two of their APs over the weekend. Unfortunately, one of them fried somehow and won't come on the network anymore. Any idea how I go about getting support? I suppose I could return to Amazon, but I don't feel like that would be appropriate as I do want a replacement, not just a return (as Amazon seems to assume).

    The other AP works perfectly, and was immediately able to replace one of the Netgear routers I was using that never did the job correctly.

  19. Re:"Metric" tons? on Study: 8 Million Metric Tons of Plastic Dumped Into Oceans Annually · · Score: 1

    As far as the wrong side of the road, I would guess that a left handed person designated the driving direction in UK, Aus, Etc. I find it preferable to control steering with my left hand as it is a gross movement, and shifting with my right as it is a fine movement. I would think this is the more logical thing, therefore, the right side of the road is the correct side of the road. :)

  20. Re:Marvel's Cinematic Universe on Spider-Man Finally Joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe · · Score: 1

    a Nazi-era evil organization resurfacing by taking down the world's premier security organization and crashing some large vehicles in DC,

    In all fairness, HYDRA was using the carriers, it was Captain America and his buddy who dropped the carriers into the Potomac.

  21. Re:Foreign policy blunders on Jeb Bush Publishes Thousands of Citizens' Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    Um, I do believe that it was Iraq that was claiming they had WMD, and had been witnessed gassing the Kurds. Heck, Saddam was preventing the UN inspectors access to known chemical weapon plants, while threatening to attack other people (as a smoke screen to prevent Iran from invading, but it was a credible threat). The chemical weapons were even found and disposed of, but it of course makes a good sound bite to claim they never existed.

    This was hardly the wrong country, you just conveniently forget what was happening at the time. Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11, it was a declared war, and was about Saddam threatening other countries and not allowing inspections.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...

    I assume this is the 12 year old war you meant, if you mean Afghanistan, than it is just as off base.

  22. Re:Oops! on Jeb Bush Publishes Thousands of Citizens' Email Addresses · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you haven't seen the comedy in Obama, you have been missing much. Hell, he blames each and every Christian from crimes committed hundreds of years ago. We are all complicit in the Inquisition and the Crusades, even though the Inquisition was about personal greed, and the Crusades were defensive in nature, not offensive. But of course these compare so well to suicide bombers and beheadings that all target innocent civilians. All religions are equal and evil after all.

  23. Re:Oops! on Jeb Bush Publishes Thousands of Citizens' Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    Where do you see anything about social security numbers being published? It is names emails, and the contents of the emails. They should have been annonymized, but frankly, do you think he personally did this? It was an IT guy, just like many of us. It was a mistake, hardly a policy decision, and it is a mistake that happens everywhere.

  24. Re:Oops! on Jeb Bush Publishes Thousands of Citizens' Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    Considering the Democrats aren't all that much better recently, I don't know what you are spouting off about.

    Heck, I'm trying to find this $300m deficit, it looks like that didn't exist under Clinton, and was already gone by the time Bush took office:

    http://www.usgovernmentspendin...

    2001 should be counted under Clinton, and 2009 under Bush as it was their budgets. If you look, Bush had 1 year over a trillion, Obama had 3 years. The GDP is also handily there, and goes up the entire time except in 2009, which was the real estate crash, which was brought on by Clinton and the repeal of Glass Steagall

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

    It seems that the Democrats have been pretty bad recently, but I just don't see the Republicans doing so bad. Deficit spending is considered a good thing usually, as the growth of the economy causes deflation which means the money is worth more now than later on. However, the national debt growth under Obama has been pretty drastic.

  25. Re:Oops! on Jeb Bush Publishes Thousands of Citizens' Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    Lowering taxes increases spending too, that is generally how the Republicans see it. Reduce government spending, and let the people spend the money to boost the economy. If you reduce taxes on corporations, they are more likely to hire more people and/or give raises, increasing tax revenue. It all depends on how you look at it. Has the government been known to spend money wisely? Not really, the government throws money at problems, but often the money is wasted on someone's brother's company, rather than what is good for the nation.