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  1. Re:Firearms on Ask Slashdot: What Tech For a Sailing Ship? · · Score: 1

    You have to be a bit careful when choosing guns for a boat. Although it's legal in international waters, your going to want go to a country eventually and many don't accept guns like assault rifles.

  2. whatever on Fragmentation Comes To iOS · · Score: 1

    My two year old nexus S runs everything from voice recognition to panorama shots with the jellybean OS.

  3. Re:The obvious questions on Australia Attorney General Proposes New Laws To Stop Twitter Trolls · · Score: 1

    How do i take a right back from my government? It has to be more complicated than standing up.

  4. Re:Australia doesnt have Free Speech provisions on Australia Attorney General Proposes New Laws To Stop Twitter Trolls · · Score: 1

    It's not all of us, but some how (probably to shut them up) we put all the pussies in positions of power.

  5. Re:The obvious questions on Australia Attorney General Proposes New Laws To Stop Twitter Trolls · · Score: 4, Informative

    Technically we don't have free speech in Australia.

  6. Re:Dont trust anonymous on App Developer Says Stolen UDIDs Came From Them, Not FBI · · Score: 1

    Who says the FBI didn't steal it from blue toad, then anonymous stole it from the FBI?

  7. Re:Good for them on FBI Launches $1 Billion Nationwide Face Recognition System · · Score: 1

    Time for, QuadCopter spray can!

  8. Re:Everyone is doing it on Sir Tim Berners-Lee Accuses UK Government of "Draconian Internet Snooping" · · Score: 1

    Is that really a right, or just a small discount?

  9. Re:Everyone is doing it on Sir Tim Berners-Lee Accuses UK Government of "Draconian Internet Snooping" · · Score: 1

    I should clarify I'm an Australian, and our laws are still terribly lacking in that regard (and many others). Sorry to butt in on this uk story, you guys might be a shining light of freedom (we most defiantly are not).

  10. Re:Everyone is doing it on Sir Tim Berners-Lee Accuses UK Government of "Draconian Internet Snooping" · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have only had rights taken off me over the last 10 years. If you can name a new one i've been given them i'm all ears.

  11. Re:surprise... on Nokia Apologizes For Misleading Lumia 920 Ad · · Score: 1

    Very interesting sir.

  12. Re:You're naive on Nokia Apologizes For Misleading Lumia 920 Ad · · Score: 1

    Not much left to buy.

  13. Re:surprise... on Nokia Apologizes For Misleading Lumia 920 Ad · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that is purely my own stupidity.

  14. Re:You're naive on Nokia Apologizes For Misleading Lumia 920 Ad · · Score: 1

    My point was if you want to take down misleading advertising you have a huge task ahead of you. The burger you see in fast food adds doesn't come from a pimply teenager (it's then covered in some camera friendly spray and probably not even the same quality of ingredients).

    How could you show two people filming each other without another camera? They could have been demonstrating the effect not the device.

  15. Re:surprise... on Nokia Apologizes For Misleading Lumia 920 Ad · · Score: 1

    Most adds contain some false material. I know chocolate adds used to use paint as chocolate, fast foods aren't showing the burgers being made by teenagers, a lot of cosmetic adds create their own scientific institutions to do studies to show this moisturiser has twice as many oxygenX particles which is what you need on your skin, siri won't answer half the questions i ask from apple's adds, and so on.

  16. Re:The damage is already done on Nokia Apologizes For Misleading Lumia 920 Ad · · Score: 2

    Oh how naive you are. If only you knew the thousands of tricks advertisments companies do when they make adds (from paint as chocolate to fake scientific institutions); you would never buy another marketed product again. I don't think they ever claimed it was taken by the 920, the whole add was very brief on details (i think all it said was "this add used optical image stabilization", and it probably did).

  17. Re:Right on Trolling Al Qaeda... For Peace? · · Score: 1

    I apologies i didn't mean you personally, and i know many if not most Americans are great people. It's not like you have a choice in the matter, but a good chunk of the money your forced to give in tax is to support this killing. My point is if you start trolling the terrorist, they will only see it as support for your countries own evil.

  18. Re:Right on Trolling Al Qaeda... For Peace? · · Score: 1

    good point.

  19. Re:Right on Trolling Al Qaeda... For Peace? · · Score: 1

    and yes you profited. That's why the american style of life has been so much higher than the rest of the world. You get your check every time you fill up your gas tank. I don't actually think the american public is that bad (although if you run around trying to justify everything as trolls the extremists may connect the two) it's just a government that you can't control.

  20. Re:Right on Trolling Al Qaeda... For Peace? · · Score: 1

    1940s - nuked Japan.

    Death toll: 145,000 to date in Nagasaki, 250,000 in Hiroshima

    1947-49 - U.S. helps command extreme-right Greece party in Civil War.

    Death toll: about 70,000 contributed by US-backed forces

    1948-54 - CIA directs war against Huk Rebellion in Philippines.

    Death toll: about 11,000

    1950 - Independence movement crushed in Ponce, Puerto Rico

    Death toll: conservative historians estimated about 8,000 peasants

    1950-53 - Korean War

    Death toll: about 1,776,000

    1952 - CIA overthrows Democracy in Iran, installs Shah

    Death toll: about 20,000

    1954 - CIA directs invasion of Guatemala after new Democracy there nationalized U.S.-occupied lands

    Death toll: about 140,000 missing and dead

    1958 - In Lebanon, marine occupation against rebels

    Death toll: about 2,000

    1960-75+ - Vietnam War including Cambodia and Laos

    Death toll: about 4,502,000 including civilians and resulting famines (conservative estimates)

    1961 - Cuba's Bay of Pigs Invasion fails

    Death toll: about 4,000

    1963 - In Iraq, CIA organizes coup against President and agrees to back formerly exiled Saddam

    Death toll: about 7,000 including civilians

    1964 - In Panama, troops kill protesters against US-owned canal

    Death toll: about 1,000

    1965 - CIA assists Indonesian coup

    Death toll: about 900,000

    1966 - Troops and bombers threaten pro-communist parties in Dominican Republic

    Death toll: about 3,000

    1966-96 - Green berets in Guatemala against rebels, US backs pro-American forces in country until 1996

    Death toll: about 200,000

    1970 - Directs marine invasion of Oman

    Death toll: about 2,000

    1973 - CIA directs coup to oust elected Marxist president in Chile

    Death toll: 30,000... 3,000 later disappeared under US-installed dictator

    1976-92 - CIA assists South-African rebels in Angola

    Death toll: median estimate at 550,000

    1981-90 - CIA directs Contra invasions in Nicaragua

    Death toll: median estimate at 30,000

    1982-84 - Marines expel Lebanese rebels, aided by Israel

    Death toll: 40,000

    1987-88 - US intervenes for Iraq against Iran

    Death toll: about 150,000 during time-frame, 100,000 during Desert Storm, 350,000 from resulting famine

    1989 - US invades to oust CIA-installed Panamanian government gone rouge

    Death toll: 2,000

    1992-94 - US-led occupation of Somalia during civil war

    Death toll: 50,000 in combat, 300,000 by starvation

    2001+ - US Occupies Afghanistan

    Death toll: 120,000 including civilians and combatants and resulting Opium Wars

    2003+ - Iraqi War

    Death toll: 665,000 also by starvation, displacement

    TOTAL: 10,431,000

    And that doesn't even include POWs, classified information, and WW2 pre-nuke!

  21. Re:Raises the obvious question on The Hivemind Singularity · · Score: 1

    Your stupidity honestly amazes me. I have pointed out that where a large enough crowd given the right technology could rival the military complex or democracy but you keep telling me it's impossible and for that to work ancient interspecies conception would also work. I understand your too stupid to realize how moronic you sound but I'm out of ideas, and quite frankly board.

  22. Re:Raises the obvious question on The Hivemind Singularity · · Score: 1

    Your a fool son. I never said anything of the sort. Your like the idiot that when you tell him carrots are good for you, he claims your stupid because if you ate a truck load of carrots it would kill you.

  23. Re:Raises the obvious question on The Hivemind Singularity · · Score: 1

    Genetics is a new game and we haven't been doing it to long, but if you had a crowd with enough genetic scientists in it, connected by the right system, then you could most defiantly make a genetically superior me. However that is hardly how your last comment sounded; you suggested that if crowd sourcing is viable then my female ancestors should of fornicated with donkeys and i wouldn't of been any stupider. So i am now quite ashamed at how much time i have wasted talking to some one so stupid you don't understand what crowd sourcing is, let alone that you believe if something wouldn't work in the past it never will. c ya

  24. Re:Right on Trolling Al Qaeda... For Peace? · · Score: 1

    Problem is the Americans will get trolled back and considering they have murdered more innocents, and ruined more lives, while profiting on it, and just generally being hypocritical, some of them wont handle it.

  25. Re:Raises the obvious question on The Hivemind Singularity · · Score: 1

    Oh gee you resulted in flat out insults, that must mean that democracy and the current structure of the american military is the absolute pinnacle that can never be beaten even given new ground breaking tech. People like you are the problem with this world because instead of looking for a better solution you just run around shouting we already have the best system cause it kind of worked last time and last time.