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  1. Re:Um... McVeigh a hero? You lost me pal on AT&T Hacker 'weev' Demands One Bitcoin For Each Hour He Spent In Jail · · Score: 1

    He attacked a federal building. Or as Obama and Bush say "Collateral Damage".

    But I get you, it is only "murder" when it is a foreign terrorist organization, not an American one.

  2. Re:Timothy McVeigh on AT&T Hacker 'weev' Demands One Bitcoin For Each Hour He Spent In Jail · · Score: 1

    McVey was just stupid enough to be unbelievably lucky, or he was a patsy.

  3. Re:WUWT is denier nonsense on Rising Sea Level Could Put East Coast Nuclear Plants At Risk · · Score: 1

    The most well known Pro AWG proponent, Al Gore is a fucking lunatic, hypocrite, and scam artist, regularly making illogical arguments. Lets judge all of AGW by him, okay?

    Or more specifically, you ignore what you don't want to believe, and hold onto the nutjob pervert Al Gore. Or the tyranny of the majority that flat out rejects anyone that doesn't walk in goosestepping harmony with them.

    Your side is a religion. There is no "fact" about the "results" you are claiming, since they are hypothesis at best, and the worst kind of fear mongering on the down side. Every previous doomsday prediction coming from these so called experts has failed so far. I'm sure that one day, one of them will be right, but random chance has a better outcome than these "predictions sure to go wrong".

  4. Re:CO2 and climate: my take on Rising Sea Level Could Put East Coast Nuclear Plants At Risk · · Score: 1

    The CO2 Alarmists are incapable of rational thought. Of all the Global Greenhouse Gases in the Atmosphere, CO2 is only a small percentage of total Global Greenhouse Gases

    http://www.geocraft.com/WVFoss...

    Water is approximately 95% of all Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and CO2 is roughly 3%. Life needs greenhouse gas CO2 to survive; plants need at least 200-300OPPM to survive, and actually thrive with higher levels (meaning grow bigger faster). Increasing CO2 is not proven, nor even likely, to be the catastrophic problem the Alarmists claim it to be.

    http://wattsupwiththat.com/201...

    The problem I have, is that while everyone is saying CO2 is bad, the only "bad" they can come up with are leaps in judgement and assumptions, none of which are fact, but rather simply opinions. This is why the whole "Global Warming is bad" thing is at best a "guess", and at worst pure Myth and the newly rediscovered "mother earth" Religion of the left.

    That being said, there are greater issues related to our planet, and our poisoning of it. The amount of debris, trash and other waste is what is going to kill our planet, long before CO2 does. We should be addressing THAT problem first IMHO.

  5. Re:Google Play Store in AOSP? on XMPP Operators Begin Requiring Encryption, Google Still Not Allowing TLS · · Score: 1

    Cyanogen does ship Cyanogenmod 11 with Playstore by default, on the OnePlus One, as those devices are certified. So, your answer used to be true, but no longer is.

  6. Re:Sure, I'll explain. on XMPP Operators Begin Requiring Encryption, Google Still Not Allowing TLS · · Score: 1

    Same is available with GMAIL as well.

  7. Re:0.43 mm per year, eh? on ESA's Cryosat Mission Sees Antarctic Ice Losses Double · · Score: 1

    Obviously, Global Warming on a Massive Scale caused the 120 Meter Sea level change. And yet, life (including human) continues.

  8. Re:Coded language? on Comcast Predicts Usage Cap Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Funding would be paid by those operating within it (auction) and/or a monthly "connect" fee.

    Municipality wouldn't necessarily need to "run" it. Given enough cities going this route, there could be a number of vendors that could end up managing it on behalf of the city.

  9. Re:"No reliable solution" on Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android · · Score: 1

    More information regarding my initial point.

    https://gigaom.com/2013/04/29/...

  10. Re:"No reliable solution" on Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android · · Score: 1

    I have six phone numbers. Which one gets txt? Some are shared with others. And you've never accidentally texted the wrong person because you've memorized every phone number you've ever txted perfectly? Have you never heard of a Phone Book application?

  11. Re:"No reliable solution" on Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android · · Score: 1

    Everyone I know, already uses alternatives to TXT (SMS/MMS) messaging. Including Facebook, Google Hangouts(Gtalk), Skype and EMAIL. TXT messaging is left over from feature phones and is a hack communication at best. The only people I know that still use TXT messages, are those that used it on Feature Phones. Yeah, I still get TXT messages, but I always feel like it is a poor hack.

    Nothing like a 160 Character limit.

  12. Re:You are missing the point on Pedophile Asks To Be Deleted From Google Search After European Court Ruling · · Score: 1

    Actually, the suggestion is perfect. Each petitioner should go to the court to request takedown. Google shouldn't act without specific court instructions, rather than general instructions that are vague and completely meaningless. Courts are there to provide specific judgements, not hand out general vague instructions that cannot be construed as guidelines of any sort.

    Of course, Google can retaliate and make a "proactive" action and remove all links that mention people for all results in the EU. That would inflame all the idiots who search for Beyonce and Justin Bieber will get a notice "The EU courts have decided that linking to personal information on anyone is subject to European law. Google has removed all potential information subject to this judgement in this jurisdiction."

    The ruling itself is idiotic and it is clear that Old Men in black robes don't understand current technology.

  13. Re:"No reliable solution" on Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Text Messages USED to cost money. Now, nobody actually uses TXT, as we no longer have dumb phones. We use Hangouts, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, GoogleVoice, email ....

    Txt was good when all you had was a feature phone.

  14. Re:Coded language? on Comcast Predicts Usage Cap Within 5 Years · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My solution is, and will continue to be, last mile is owned by Municipality. Bring it into a centralize COLO facility, and provide access (by auction) to the top 5 bidders., each given exactly the same space. This way, a residential unit (household) can go to the five, request prices / services and pick the one they like the best. The COLO configures the switch and the residential unit is serviced with exactly what they want, at a price they can shop against.

    The problem isn't last mile, that problem has been solved. The problem is servicing the last mile in a way that allows for competition. COLO is the only way to provide open and free marketplace to the customers AND providers.

    But this requires a shift from leased right of ways to Municipal Managed last mile.

  15. Too little information on Ask Slashdot: Easy-To-Use Alternative To MS Access For a Charity's Database? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is too little information given to decide what product solution is "best' for this situation.

    Note cards work, Spreadsheet is often enough for "simple" databases. Access and similar are good for designing a good front end (not for the database) and so on.

    From the sounds of it (reading between the lines), a good CRM like SugarCRM might actually be a better solution. However without more information, any recommendation is pure guessing at this point.

  16. Re:From Wikipedia: on From FCC Head Wheeler, a Yellow Light For Internet Fast Lanes · · Score: 1

    Yet, every liberal I know would vote for him again. So, you're not that pissed.

  17. Re:Regular Wallet on Why Mobile Wallets Are Doomed · · Score: 1

    BitCoin is Fiat Currency for sure, but it is not like current USD money, in as much as there is no "FED" that can change the value at the drop of a hat, and who props up big Government/Corporation complex at the expense of the average American. So in that regard, it is FIAT but closer to GOLD (which has some FIAT value) in as much as you can get gold by mining or buying it. Mining is hard.

  18. Re:Sure it is on Why Mobile Wallets Are Doomed · · Score: 1

    This is why you have a small "online" wallet for carrying around "cash" and use for online purchases, while you have another "offline" wallet, that you store in three different places with a very long hard to crack password that nobody else knows.

    It is like cash, so treat it like cash, and store excess in a Vault. Why this is so hard is beyond me.

  19. Re:You mean.... on Why Mobile Wallets Are Doomed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Rapid Price Changes are part of a infantile system. As the system matures, and becomes wider spread, pricing will stabilize. The problem is what to do in the meantime. Right now, people with patience will make a minor fortune, provided that the market exists in the future. In the mean time, it is not for the faint of heart.

    If I were a merchant, I would be accepting BitCoins as fast as I could, as the opportunity is there right now, with enough patience.

  20. Re:From Wikipedia: on From FCC Head Wheeler, a Yellow Light For Internet Fast Lanes · · Score: 1

    In addition to this, he also promised to defend Net Neutrality once elected, only to do the exact opposite. Kind of like he has done on so many other issues.

    I don't know what it is going to take from the Liberals to realize that Obama is GWB's third and fourth terms. It is as if the (D) behind his name creates a Reality Distortion Field beyond even what Jobs was able to generate.

  21. Re:Why does how much money the company's have matt on Plaintiff In Tech Hiring Suit Asks Judge To Reject Settlement · · Score: 1

    Actually, most of it won't go to the lawyers. However, there are only a few lawyers vs thousands involved in the Class.So the lawyers make 1/3 and split it among a very limited few. The rest (2/3) gets spread among thousands and thousands. So lawyers make a lot, and everyone else makes a little.

    The fix for this is lawyers representing a Class in a lawsuit, are limited to the some multiple of the average member of the Class. Last class action I was a part of, I got some $2.34. Imagine a lawyer only able to gain 10K times that amount MAX. It would change how they proceed in representing the Class. I don't mind Lawyers making money at all. However, when they make Millions while I get $2.34 is really not a good representation of Justice.

  22. Re:No explanation for why though? on Anti-Virus Is Dead (But Still Makes Money) Says Symantec · · Score: 1

    I use everything. Gas, Electric, Charcoal ... even Solar on occasion.

    Charcoal is too unstable to cook "well done" on, IMHO. And to cook a nice steak on Charcoal, for more than the ten minutes it should take, allows the coals to start to have Temp Variation zones, even in the best BBQ grills. And to cook steaks they way my wife wants, takes about 45 minutes, on the lowest temperature (almost out) coals to get it "right". That is usually after all the other steaks are cooked, eaten and dishes put up.

    I didn't say impossible, I said "damn near impossible".

  23. Re:No explanation for why though? on Anti-Virus Is Dead (But Still Makes Money) Says Symantec · · Score: 1

    While you may be true, my wife likes her steak without any "pink" well done. I can assure you that short of low temperature oven, you cannot get there. Period. I have exceptional skill at cooking meat, and having "no pink" is not just an art, it is damn near impossible using normal cooking techniques.

    What I tend to do, for her, is to slice the steak very thin, and saute it in butter. Filet Mignon is still tasty this way. But BBQ is damn near impossible, as you cannot get the flame down far enough to not "burn" it in the process.

  24. Re:Awful on The Upcoming Windows 8.1 Apocalypse · · Score: 1

    It actually does take hours. One thing I've learned is to be patient and just let the thing sit. I just did the exact same thing as you (Mom's XP, new Laptop, Windows 8 to 8.1 Update1).

    Surprisingly long time on a relatively speedy network. I can't explain it.

  25. Re:Lamepocalypse on The Upcoming Windows 8.1 Apocalypse · · Score: 1

    Revelation 8:1 When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

    nothing terrible there :)