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  1. Flip the script. on Coming Soon: Ubiquitous Long-Term Surveillance From Big Brother · · Score: 1

    Reliance on the assumption that targets will use monitored systems can be exploited instead of turning into a pissing match.

      to think Establish a flawless online profile which reinforces what you prefer spies to think of you, drop online connections which may be embarrassing, and lead a double life.

    If you are a revolutionary, act alone without trail and or communicate directly. It's perfectly practical to research almost any subject in a "benign" way.

    The bar is very basic. Either be willing to accept your situation or be delighted to kill and willing to die to change it. Anyone worth opposing is worth killing. Syria is learning this lesson as army deserters fight back. Libya learned it and killed Qaddafi. Either kill with gusto or accept your fate. Your country, your situation, your call.

  2. Re:Steps in the right direction on Czech Nationwide Census Shows Jump In Jedi Knights · · Score: 1

    "Well, if there's got to be religion, at least Jedi Knights adhere to one that doesn't involve cutting up the genitalia of boys and girls."

    " Shabbath 19:2
            They may perform on the Sabbath all things that are needful for circumcision: excision, tearing, sucking [the wound], and putting thereon a bandage and cumin. If this had not been pounded up on the eve of the Sabbath a man may chew it with his teeth and then apply it.

    The Mishnah
    Translated by Herbert Danby
    Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1933. pp. 116-117."

  3. Re:Another odd decision from China's government on Satellite Spots China's First Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 1

    "If the three gorges dam breaks, we have a real problem."

    THEY have a real problem, one that would distract them for a bit.

    I'd be having popcorn.

  4. Re:Remember... on Ask Slashdot: Protecting Tech Gear From Smash-and-Grab Theft? · · Score: 1

    In the real world there are regions the cops can't do shit and gangs rule. NYC was a nasty place back when Genovese got offed.

    That's why I support police being able to take the fight to the enemy and destroy them. I smile when the US cops put a bullet in a deserving perp and would like to see more of it. They will never reform, so I don't care if they bleed out in the road.

    If you wonder why some US cops are rough, it's because (many) voters like me vigorously support them.

    I want the cops to keep human shit out of MY neighborhood and roust anyone who doesn't belong. That's the only way to chase off the garbage and I don't give a shit if its not "nice".

    If you want a safe neighborhood you must control access, keep track of outsiders, and have no safe place for perps to hide.

  5. Re:Why don't U.S. carriers also use ski-jump? on Satellite Spots China's First Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 5, Funny

    "To be followed in 20 years by the Obama class which use Hope"

    And works indistinguishably from its predecessor....

  6. Inertial Navigation System.... on US Sentinel Drone Fooled Into Landing With GPS Spoofing · · Score: 1

    ....install one for cross-reference.

  7. Re:Forgive the obvious question - no trunk? on Ask Slashdot: Protecting Tech Gear From Smash-and-Grab Theft? · · Score: 1

    That's a good point, and the spare tire well could easily be fitted with a locking cover plate. A hasp and padlock would do.

    Cover with carpet, leave spare tire on top.

  8. Re:Remove spare tire, lock and hide case there. on Ask Slashdot: Protecting Tech Gear From Smash-and-Grab Theft? · · Score: 1

    That's an excellent idea, but make sure your equipment is actually worth more than a wrecker call! Those can be a few hundred bucks nowadays.

    People often leave their spare on TOP of the spare compartment, so you could do that too. Have a sloppy trunk and it won't look interesting.

  9. Re:Welcom to Shitty Wok on The Undeclared "Cyber Cold War" With China · · Score: 1

    That's not new either. This book had more impact on sanitation than labor conditions!

    http://www.americanliterature.com/UptonSinclair/TheJungle/TheJungle.html

  10. Re:interacts badly with neighbor opinion on In Nuclear Power, Size Matters · · Score: 1

    We are set to become an exporter of petroleum products if current trends continue.

    The US is resource rich. Extract, use, and export them.

    We will be competitive when labor costs are FORCED down by the economy.

  11. Re:Legalize it. on Google Donating $11.5M To Fight Modern Slavery · · Score: 2

    We must fight prostitution for the same reasons we supported Alcohol and support other Prohibition, because Sky Fairies insist on it.

  12. Re:Legalize it. on Google Donating $11.5M To Fight Modern Slavery · · Score: 1

    "If adult prostitution was legal, every hooker (of age) would gladly turn in the names of the pimps running kids. After all, they are the competition."

    Your solution is too logical to be implemented.

    Also, religion requires the fight against sin happen, not that it be successful or not cause massive collateral damage.

  13. Cue Samuel L. Jackson voice.... on The Undeclared "Cyber Cold War" With China · · Score: 1

    "Air Gap, motherfuckers! DO YOU SPEAK IT?"

  14. Re:Nuclear is dead in the US. on In Nuclear Power, Size Matters · · Score: 0

    No Orwellian nonsense required. I don't get my loathing of superstition from the State.

    Religion is bad (all of it), superstitionists are barriers to secular and personal freedom, so I support policies against them including those which pit them against each other.

    Superstitionists are immune to logic and reason, but they can die. Primitives such as the current crop of Muslims are even worse than most Christians. If economic practices which enrich and sustain the advanced West have the bonus effect of wrecking the climate in enemy countries, I approve.

    Water resources are an enemy weak point. The more they fight each other over them, and the more they consume and force themselves towards reliance on desalinization, the better.

    I didn't like Communists either, but while I approve heartily of killing them they at last succumbed to logic and went Capitalist. Religion doesn't "do" logic....

  15. Re:waste? on In Nuclear Power, Size Matters · · Score: 1

    There isn't enough VOLUME of waste to matter.

    Contain it above ground for convenient inspection and container repair for the time required, don't bury it then rely on wishful thinking.

  16. Re:interacts badly with neighbor opinion on In Nuclear Power, Size Matters · · Score: 2

    Americans are technophobes. They USE the magic but don't understand it.

    We should, instead of nukes, build more coal and natural gas power generating facilities. We have plenty of both fuels, and they are a practical solution to our energy problems for a very long time.

    Foreign companies can develop mature nuke tech, then we can buy it. The idea that being innovators is always the best way to go is silly. Let others do the work then we can buy the product.

  17. Re:The code gets larger, and yet things dissapear! on Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows · · Score: 1

    "E.g. where's the status bar in recent firefoxes?"

    It's wrong to want things which FF developers deign not to give you. 8-P

  18. Re:Wow on Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows · · Score: 1

    I run 32-bit Linux with PAE, and the 4GB/process limit has "restrained" Firefox a few times.

    Funny. Sad if I didn't have 8GB (it's an old T61 so that's all I can fit), but still funny.

  19. Nuclear is dead in the US. on In Nuclear Power, Size Matters · · Score: 0

    We have coal for a couple of centuries and are finding increasing amounts of oil. We can cease nuclear development while foreign countries fund it instead, avoiding the need to bother with transitional designs. There are plenty of countries which do well without trying to lead the world in anything.

    We can choose to use those resources, and choose to accept the consequences. Anthropogenic global warming, if there be such, is inevitable anyway so we can choose to "make hay while the sun shines".

    The US and EU and most of the rest of modern civilization span regions which will be less affected by desertification, while our enemies are often less fortunate. It would be fitting that while consuming Jihadist oil we help warm their region. The more stress on Middle Eastern water resources the better.

  20. If it were me I'd... on Judge Orders Man To Delete Revenge Blog · · Score: 1

    ...ask /b/ to back it up first. :)

  21. Re:hipaa violation as well? on Judge Orders Man To Delete Revenge Blog · · Score: 1

    Restraining orders don't work on wackos, they are for documenting them.

    Armed self-defense is the ONLY way to STOP an assault and death is the only cure for mental illness.

    Be armed, trained, and PRACTICE.

  22. Re:hipaa violation as well? on Judge Orders Man To Delete Revenge Blog · · Score: 1

    "Needless to say, we left the state and I now own a gun."

    BOTH of you should be trained to use it in armed combat. Find a pro to do that, ask the local cops (good way to make friends with any who instruct on the side).

  23. Re:What is with the UK and all this surveillance a on UK Police Test 'Temporarily Blinding' LASER · · Score: 1

    I'm fine with due process, but DEMAND instant surrender.

    I also want MY neighborhood swept clean of those who don't belong there. That means leaning on them, but what's MINE is MINE.

    Idealism is nice, but it doesn't work on trash. Beat 'em, lock 'em up, or cap 'em.

  24. Re:What is with the UK and all this surveillance a on UK Police Test 'Temporarily Blinding' LASER · · Score: 1

    Due process is fine, but instant surrender is required and resistance is to be destroyed.

    I and many Americans do not care about capturing resisting humans in one piece. Where I live most criminals are repeat offenders. They stop repeating when they stop breathing.

  25. Re:This tech could have saved a lot of Iraqis on UK Police Test 'Temporarily Blinding' LASER · · Score: 1

    That was because the stopping points were unmarked or poorly marked, and shooting to warn doesn't work well because the noise isn't really directional.

    Signs, gates, and traffic cones would have helped greatly.

    A bright-even-sunlight light would have been an attention-getter and possibly encouraged the innocents to slow down.