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  1. Re:No different than helicopters on Spy Drones Used To Hunt Down Christopher Dorner · · Score: 1

    To be fair, he claims to have access to shoulder launched air to ground missiles. The fact that less than a week ago he went through check in procedures at a naval base but never went through the check out procedures certainly gets my imagination going... especially if I were a helicopter pilot assigned to look for him. Though I of course understand that gaining access to the armory isn't the same as gaining entrance to the base.

    According to the LAPD themselves, 2 rocket launchers were surrendered during the December "Turn in Your Guns" drive...

  2. Re:No different than helicopters on Spy Drones Used To Hunt Down Christopher Dorner · · Score: 1

    surveillance that is implied by Obamacare

    Well this should be amusing. What the frack are you babbling about now?

    Probably the clause that states physicians aren't required to or prohibited from asking about firearm ownership.

    I read it myself, doesn't seem all that onerous - Of course, I'm one of the seemingly small handful of people who realize the medical industry is exactly the same as any other retail operation, and thus I have a right as a patient to tell any doctor who gets too nosy about my personal life to go fuck him/herself.

  3. Re:Welcome to Capitalism on Ron Paul Asks UN For Help Geting Control of RonPaul.com Domain From Fans · · Score: 2, Informative

    From the article you linked to:

    is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The cybersquatter then offers to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price.

    Um, yes, that is the defination of cybersquatting, according to the document that you linked to.

    No - you're failing to parse the definition of terms such as bad faith and trademark.

  4. Re:Welcome to Capitalism on Ron Paul Asks UN For Help Geting Control of RonPaul.com Domain From Fans · · Score: 0

    In other words, Microsoft did to MikeRoweSoft exactly what they claimed MikeRoweSoft was going to do to them.

    Fuckin' Classy.

  5. Re:Welcome to Capitalism on Ron Paul Asks UN For Help Geting Control of RonPaul.com Domain From Fans · · Score: 0

    But, taking the high(er) road: this is a website that uses his name, is entirely about his career, and affects him materially. I think there can be only 2 fair outcomes: a C&D asking them to close shop and dissolve, or to hand the domain over to him.

    So, if someone wrote a book (or movie, or any other form of media that disseminates information) that used a politician's name, was entirely about his career, and affected him materially, you think it would be appropriate to shut down the publisher, or force them to hand over the publishing rights?

    Are you aware of how insane that concept sounds?

  6. Re:Welcome to Capitalism on Ron Paul Asks UN For Help Geting Control of RonPaul.com Domain From Fans · · Score: 0

    Not to mention the fact that if you put http://mikerowesoft.com/ into a browser, it takes you to... Microsoft's website.

    Reverse cybersquatting?

  7. Re:Welcome to Capitalism on Ron Paul Asks UN For Help Geting Control of RonPaul.com Domain From Fans · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is exactly the definition of cybersquatting.

    As a matter of fact, No, it's not.

  8. Re:Really??? on Amazon Patents the Milkman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why did the 5 Amazon inventors cross the road?

    To slap the chicken with a lawsuit for not purchasing a license to their method of relocating livestock from one side of a tarmac surface to the other via bipedal forward kinetics patent

  9. Re:compete with paper on Apple Holds Firm As Publishers Settle With DoJ Over e-Book Pricing · · Score: 1

    I rent ebooks...

    FTFY.

    And, oddly enough, I still pay a full purchase price for that rental service (sometimes higher than the cost of a paper copy)

    Precisely why I have a standing ban on ebooks. That is, until I can get my automatic book scanner built

  10. Re:Really??? on Amazon Patents the Milkman · · Score: 5, Funny

    "... an idea five Amazon inventors came up with ..."

    It took five of them to come up with this brilliance??? Amazon must have some stellar intellects...

    On the other hand, it does open up a new avenue for the old joke setup;

    How many Amazon inventors does it take...

    - to screw in a lightbulb?
    5 - one to screw it in, one to file a patent on the process of rotating an object until it is seated in a socket, and 3 more to pat each other on the back.

  11. Re:compete with paper on Apple Holds Firm As Publishers Settle With DoJ Over e-Book Pricing · · Score: 2

    I rent ebooks...

    FTFY.

  12. Re:Story Subject Fail on Facebook Breaks Major Websites With Redirection Bug · · Score: 1

    Facebook did not "Break major websites".

    This.

    Facebook broke Facebook, and some third party sites were affected.

  13. Re:Details: Logging in from 3rd party sites? on Facebook Breaks Major Websites With Redirection Bug · · Score: 1

    It's not the 90's anymore... you can load a page that's connected to dozens of different services that are almost completely independent of each other and the page you're on.

    For some reason, that makes me a sad panda... :(

  14. Re:Congrats on Facebook Breaks Major Websites With Redirection Bug · · Score: 0

    If you let others insert scripts into your pages they can steal your visitors.

    Maybe it'll make sites think about who they script src from.

    One of the bad things I've noticed recently is that HSBC is including objects from third party organisations in their ebanking login pages. I do wonder if any thought has gone into the security of such things, or if HSBC simply don't care (my experience of banks tells me that none of them have a single clue when it comes to internet security).

    HSBC launders money for drug kingpins and terrorists.

    You should really find a new bank.

  15. Re:What about the receiver/display? on Handheld Black Hornet Nano Drones Issued To UK Soldiers · · Score: 3, Funny

    What does it weigh in hand grenades?

    And just like that, I have a new favorite system of measurement.

  16. Re:Seriously, Fuck America on Fox News: US Solar Energy Investment Less Than Germany Because US Has Less Sun · · Score: 1

    Is this why we have such miserable weather over here in Ireland?

    No, that's just god punishing you for being Irish.

    Bazinga!

  17. Re:Snake oil again? on Startup Uses Radiation Fear To Map Cellphone Coverage · · Score: 1

    "No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."

    So what you are trying ot say is that most people are stupid, so cellphone radiation is harmless

    Uh, no, you inferred that all on your own, presumably because you take an unpopular position in this debate, and therefore every mention is seen as either support or an attack.

    What I'm trying to say is that nobody ever lost money betting on the fact that most people are stupid, and I stand by it.

  18. Re:Buy direct - Dell, Lenovo etc. still offer Win7 on Ask Slashdot: Buying a Laptop That Doesn't Have Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, you could go and build a Dell laptop and choose Windows 7. You may have to use the business line of laptops, but they all give that option.

    I'm curious as to how Dell's recent decision to go private would affect that possibility...

    Thoughts?

  19. DIY, Of Course! on Ask Slashdot: Buying a Laptop That Doesn't Have Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Why not build your own, Ben Heck style?

    Yes, I realize how madly impractical that is, but you have to admit, you would more than likely have the bitchin-est lappy anyone at your school has ever seen!

  20. So... on Thumb On the Scale? Study Finds 5 of 7 Broadband Meters Inaccurate · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So this means that they can't legally do 'metered billing,' as the meter is known and proven to be inaccurate, right?

    right?

    anybody?

  21. Re:Passwords are shit. on Deloitte: Use a Longer Password In 2013. Seriously. · · Score: 1

    No, but LastPass does!

    ...

    2013, and still no viable way of punching someone via TCP/IP...

    lol

  22. Re:Passwords are shit. on Deloitte: Use a Longer Password In 2013. Seriously. · · Score: 1

    ... and don't give me that 'muscle memory' crap, if you're rotating passwords like you should, muscle memory doesn't even come into the picture.

  23. Re:Passwords are shit. on Deloitte: Use a Longer Password In 2013. Seriously. · · Score: 1

    Only if you hunt and peck for everything.

    FWIW, it took me about half the time to type the above line than it takes to type my current 12 semi-random character password.

  24. Re:Why the heck are faster computers a problem at on Deloitte: Use a Longer Password In 2013. Seriously. · · Score: 1

    We should have legislation prohibiting cleartext and unsalted password storage. At least for any site that handles money.

    Personally, I'm surprised PCI doesn't require this already.

  25. Re:No SD slot = no FAT royalty on Apple Now the Top PC Vendor, For Some Values of PC · · Score: 1

    WTF is up with many tablets not having an SD slot?

    Probably tablet makers not wanting to pay their tithe to Microsoft for the use of its file system patents.

    Another fine example of how the current iteration of the patent process is helping consumers... get screwed.

    Love the double-entendre in your post title, btw.