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  1. One New Car I Know of the Recently Exploded on Musk Lashes Back Over Tesla Fire Controversy · · Score: 2

    I wish Michael Hastings had been driving a Tesla. Take one look at what happened to him and what constitutes 'car fire' takes on a whole new meaning. That was a late model high-end car German engineered gasoline powered automobile. If it had been a Tesla we'd still have him writing hardcore news for us.

  2. Classic Windows Engineering on Bill Gates Acknowledges Ctrl+Alt+Del Was a Mistake · · Score: 1

    Arguably the most useful feature of a Windows workstation turns out to be a mistake. All I can say is, rm -rf /m$/*

  3. Re:Poetic Justice on Georgia Apple Store Refuses To Sell iPad To Iranian-American Teen · · Score: 2

    And this is EXACTLY the problem, the fucked up laws in this country. Laws written by people not interested in the good of the US and it's citizens, but people (and I use that term loosely) that are working towards goals that bring profit and power to a select few elites. So sure, Apple employee was just,"obeying the law". And when thingS start to get ugly, and US citizens see the application of the various laws and executive orders we now have on the books it will just be The Law - taking your rights, dignity, and freedom.

  4. Simple Question on Rand Paul Has a Quick Fix For TSA: Pull the Plug · · Score: 1

    Sacrifice convenience, dignity, and freedom for security or not.

  5. Bureaucracy or not ... on Wiki Editor Helps Reveal Pre-9/11 CIA Mistakes · · Score: 1

    Mistakes were made, big, ugly, glaring, in-your-face kind of mistakes yet no punishments. On the contrary, many, MANY of the officers and agents in charge have been promoted.

    Where is the accountability?

  6. Re:So what is new? on Wiki Editor Helps Reveal Pre-9/11 CIA Mistakes · · Score: 1

    yep, that's my point... And the real frustration starts when you see how the Commission Report just disregards this.

    I don't claim to have answers to the mysteries, I just demand a proper investigation by a party that isn't so partial to the white house.

  7. Re:So what is new? on Wiki Editor Helps Reveal Pre-9/11 CIA Mistakes · · Score: 0

    -All video content confiscated except four frames from the many surrounding the pentagon?
    ---Actually, more has been released. There's really not much to see. You have some low fps cameras trying to catch a fast-moving object. The Pentagon missile theory breaks down under its own weight. I mean, if the evil conspiracy had already lobbed two planes at the WTC, why would they bother doing so much to make it look like a plane at the Pentagon instead of just lobbing another plane at the Pentagon? // Oh, you mean ALL of four frames released in 2006? What about the other dozen or more cameras that could certainly show an approach or something? We have been shown nothing of significance, so why hide the rest? No idea why they do what they do in regard to plane/missle/fighters ... but I do know there is not good reason to deny access to the hundreds of frames confiscated by the FBI.
    http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-05-16-pentagon-video_x.htm

    -All evidenciary building materials confiscated and destroyed at the crime scene around the trade center plaza?
    ---There was plenty of debris that was later taken back and tested. NYC was in a bit of a hurry to get that massive pile of rubble cleared out. // As if they expected to rebuild immediately so we could forget our loss? That hole sat ages before they really cleaned it up. Additionally they decided to make a new battleship to help us forget. The whole remove it to forget it argument does not hold up.

    -First steel framed high rise buildings in history to collapse due to fire (and a near free fall collapse I may add)
    ---First steel-framed high-rise building (with a rather unique design) to have massive jumbo jets filled with fuel slammed into them, too. // So, you have looked at the floor plans and still think it was a "hollow box" design? First of all the building was designed to take a hit from an even heavier plane, with four engines not just two. The fuel burned off and is not capable of enough heat to generate the molten steel found in the wreckage, and remaining fires were oxygen starved mostly (See smoke for this). You can't really believe that a building with a core of steel girders running vertically could just collapse straight down into itself, do you? Almost 50 columns of steel 52"x22" and the upper ones still 36"x12".
    http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/groundzero/docs/jfk_column_s.jpg

    -WTC Tower #7 reported as collapsed 20 minutes prior to actual collapse.
    ----DERP because the media was in on it DERP! The BBC knew, right? No. Misinformation as the fire chief had pulled everyone out of WTC7 and said there was a collapse zone around it. This is one of the more idiotic conspiracy bits because it makes no sense to tout it. It was miscommunication and nothing more. Claiming that BBC an/or the NYC fire department was somehow in on it is absurd, but that doesn't stop conspiracy nuts from flinging every piece of dookie they can find at the wall, now does it? // "BBC in on it?" No, but they were given information to report from someone. They had a source for that and just like the whole farce with NORAD and FAA, you can't just say, "Oh, we're sorry ... that is just a misunderstanding." Too many coincidental misunderstandings in one day I would say.

    -NORAD rendered useless due to coincidentally occurring training exercises.
    ----And training exercises happen all the time. // Yes, and the most well equipt and best trained air force on the planet is bourght to it's knees (Once again coincidentally) because on this specific day nearly EVERYONE is playing wargames and not on duty? You are a real piece of work, slashdotters used to be thinkers ... go back to your xbox.

    -Bush remaining in publicly known location despite the, "attac

  8. Re:Conspiracy theories of 9/11 on Wiki Editor Helps Reveal Pre-9/11 CIA Mistakes · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well...

    Theories about no planes? NO

    Theories about punishment from god? NO

    Theories about 19 little skinny guys with box cutters implementing a hail-Mary (or Allah) plan like this? NO

    A conspiracy to execute a false flag attack on our own citizens in order to justify taking control of some of the largest oil reserves on the planet?

    That doesn't sound like a theory, just a conspiracy.

  9. Re:So what is new? on Wiki Editor Helps Reveal Pre-9/11 CIA Mistakes · · Score: -1, Troll

    All video content confiscated except four frames from the many surrounding the pentagon?
    All evidenciary building materials confiscated and destroyed at the crime scene around the trade center plaza?
    First steel framed high rise buildings in history to collapse due to fire (and a near free fall collapse I may add)
    WTC Tower #7 reported as collapsed 20 minutes prior to actual collapse.
    Collapse was also following path of maximum resistance (take off YOUR tin hat and put on thinking cap for that)
    NORAD rendered useless due to coincidentally occurring training exercises.
    Bush remaining in publicly known location despite the, "attack on the nation"
    Extremely challenging maneuvers from terrorists with severely handicapped flying skills.

    I could go on, but I need to go get MY foil hat and watch some XFiles ...

  10. Re:Again on Anonymous Hack One Gigabyte of Data From NATO · · Score: 1

    People with such opinions are exactly the problem in America (Nice name by the way).

    What is this whole insurgent / soldier bullshit. When did or how does Freedom Fighter become Terrorist? What's the difference between blue coats and their "atrocities" of shooting from undercover at the red coats lined up in the open field and the "atrocities" carried out using suicide bombers or IEDs? BOTH are fighting to win a war to survive against a bigger foe, not to win some popularity contest. After you have had your little sister raped, your Dad beaten, and watched your brother and grandfather get shot do you really think that anyone gives a fly-fuck about your popularity contest and what constitutes an "atrocity".

    At this point the Atrocity Boat has sailed and the gloves are off. Blue coats fighting like savage Indians from the underbrush and the local "insurgents" keeping someone from invading have something big in common. They are outgunned and doing whatever they can to get the other assholes out of their country. This all boils down to why-the-fuck-we're there in the first place. What defines who is the 'asshole' and what defines who is the 'defender of freedom'? Some of the poor soldiers sent over there don't even know they are going until they are in the air and over the Atlantic. I don't blame soldiers (unless they are grooving to Enter Sandman while they mow-down their targets) ... soldiers are underpaid, under-appreciated, ill-trained (for the most part) grunts that the government uses like pampers to populate their military industrial systems of destruction. I know plenty of them, and 99% are honorable and good guys, and many have become pretty damn jaded to the whole 'defending democracy' bullshit.

    So, as I always say, "Follow the money!". Whose getting rich off the soldiers sweat and blood? The soldiers? HAHA! The American people and all their 'freedoms' that have been defended (as a TAS agent gropes you)? You tell me Americano, who? Then you can have your definition of "war crime" and "atrocity".

  11. Schedule Suggestion on Ask Slashdot: Best Adventure Game To Start With? · · Score: 1

    Tons of great suggestions ... obviously no shortage of possibilities. Despite fear of starting a new thread alltogether, how long do you slashdotters let your "slashdaughters" adventure like this? Two hours evenings after homework and dinner in place of movies or DVDs? Six hours starting from getting home from school eating a snack in front of computer? Without constant supervision, what kind of schedule do you put your little gamers on? I personally opt for the "evening entertainment alternative".

  12. Re:Jews: 3,700 years of not living cooperatively on New Mega-Leak Reveals Middle East Peace Process · · Score: 1

    Why is it so wrong and bigoted to see and accept differences in races? We are different, some for better some for worse - having our advantages and disadvantages. There is nothing frankly bigoted about seeing differences ... lighten up Francis! To deny the achievements of .3% of the human population because of your hypersensitivity and need for some dream-like "world order" of perfect racial balance is just naive.

  13. Re:Its really on New Mega-Leak Reveals Middle East Peace Process · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about ... victims of suicide bombers are victims of murder, and suicide bombers are usually doing the murdering. Martyr status belongs to those who SUFFER for reasons based on their faith either of their own free will, sometimes self imposed, or sometimes not of their own choice.

    The suffering comes from what puts you in the situation to be blown up or not in that bombing - whether you are carrying the bomb or not. So, who is the martyr ... the teenage girl walking in the shopping mall buying a pair of $150 jeans or the teenage girl who watched her little brother and father killed by an Isreali helicopter, had to watch as Isreali soldiers beat her mother in a midnight raid that left her in a coma, and then decided to die striking back at the people that destroyed everything she loved?

    You may say neither are martyrs because vengance is not part of faith and neither is shopping for jeans -- but if you say that it just means you don't see how Isrealis worship the all mighty dollar and you don't know your Koran.

  14. Re:Its really on New Mega-Leak Reveals Middle East Peace Process · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Exactly as SeanAdams says, if the Isreali side have a counter-leak let us have it. Its total bs to say because it's an AJ leak its invalid and that neither side want peace. The leak shows a flexibility towards peace that we were never made aware of, that the PA are at least willing to make even bigger concessions and the Isrealis just throw it back in their face with a 'thanks but no-thanks attitude. THAT is the news, and as I said if there is an Isreali released and independently verified counter-leak let's see it!

    And to compare this to two children and a toy - well I'd like to spend 5 minutes with you in a boxing ring. You can be blindfolded, no shoes, and with both arms tied behind your back ... then give me a baseball bat and maybe a nice selection of body armor to make sure I don't hurt myself too bad. The way the Isreali army has been using the Palestinians like the center stage attraction at a Mexican birthday party makes me disgusted ... and you call these two opposing forces 'children' -- wtf, open your eyes. At best its a college freshman going to the local kindergarten and kicking around some kids.

  15. Re:Its really on New Mega-Leak Reveals Middle East Peace Process · · Score: 1

    Actually just like Jack in The Shining, Dick never left the White House and yes, he was actually the president not Bush.

  16. Re:Its really on New Mega-Leak Reveals Middle East Peace Process · · Score: 1

    It doesn't look at all like he's saying Fox News looks like men of honor, he's saying AJ is reporting content the world would see as valid news vs. the needless information FN / CCN might give us for headlines. But then the information that FN/CNN might distribute is based on what its audience genuinely constitutes as important information. The American media system is just doing its job distracting the blind masses from the realities of the world, while the majority of the world are not subject to that fairy tale.

    Either way, both sides are puppets driven by another mechanism ... and if you trust either one for the truth you're a fool.

  17. Re:Jews: 3,700 years of not living cooperatively on New Mega-Leak Reveals Middle East Peace Process · · Score: 1

    It is most interesting that I find this Jews:3700 thread to be most interesting by the two extremists ...

    If we were to put together a metaphysical based Hollywood style story of battling gods and surviving heroes you could easily imagine the super-race of Jews. Put on this world to enlighten the world with their discoveries, superior mental facilities, wit and focus - only to be thwarted in life's game of survival by lacking the strategic understanding that cooperative and harmonic relations with neighbors and competitors alike is necessary for survival. Otherwise banished to wander the globe or battle for one little corner of the earth to call home.

    But that's just Hollywood, it couldn't have any real value...

  18. Re:Yeah right. on Why Unlocked Phones Don't Work In the US · · Score: 1

    Perfectly worded comment ... I have been using unlocked phones here in the US for almost 5 years now, they work perfectly. If you are willing to commit to your hardware and spend a few hundred on your phone with no carrier contract you find yourself sticking that phone. Very little personal information with my carrier and I can move my SIM card around as need be, I also am free to drop in SIM cards I pick up while abroad in my personal phone. Unlocked phones just aren't marketed here, and thus the lack of marketing/education makes them less popular.

  19. Re:Battery availability might be a concern. on Recycling an Android Phone As a Handheld GPS? · · Score: 1

    Hard to tell for sure, but a GPS can be your only lifeline depending on the situation. I don't think I'd send my Dad out with a "joe-mcgee solution" in that situation. (I am not sure where the term "Joe McGee" came from but sorry to Joe)

  20. Re:Justice is Served on Ex-SF Admin Terry Childs Gets 4-Year Sentence · · Score: 1

    Probably because for so many prison turns into a free ride, easy time, then get back out and go back to the same effed up lifestyle of disrespecting the society they live in. It's different for everyone, but it seems that going to prison is not such a big deal, and the fear of being arsch-raped is. But this is missing the point.

    Why he was sentenced, found guilty, or even on trail is the question. What did he do wrong? I think his supervisors are at fault for not keeping tighter guidelines for him to follow, and that is that. SyCraft-Fu puts it well, "Hopefully it'll be a lesson to other sysadmins to consider that at work, the computers are not yours."

  21. Re:and... on Halo 2 Online Preservation Effort Ends · · Score: 1

    @hairy
    I totally agree in every way. But I really love to kick back on the sofa and "play lazy" than playingbso serious and focused at my desk. I really need to invest in the proper set up to like a little shuttle box hooked up to the tv with wireless I/o devices.

    Thanks for the comment!

  22. Re:Student Loan Forgiveness Plan on Student Loan Interest Rankles College Grads · · Score: 1

    Awesome idea, go to school, work hard striving for that dream career of --fill in the blank-- then enlist in the military and be a soldier for ten years! Wow, great option ...

  23. Re:Tough Shit. on Student Loan Interest Rankles College Grads · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And if some shit hits you like a divorce, a company going under you committed years of effort to, and other 'snake-eyes' throws of the dice since you finished school, then what? And then 'null' level of flexibility is offered as short-term support, no adjustment other than upward of said interest rates due to missed payments .. then what. Lost wife, house, etc ... what is left? Not much ...

    Life can be "tough-shit" for some, very accurate post. But, no, a bailout is not the answer ... some bullshit bankrupt maneuver is also deconstructive to the system. The future of education in America will continue to degrade in this process though. Some people will work hard their whole life, also while going to school, never draw a day of unemployment, and hope that things fall into place. For many it will, but for some it won't. When it does not fall into place quite like they hoped, hearing the wise words of some cockhoster like you saying, "Tough Shit" does not do much for anyone. Thanks for trying though.

  24. All Relative on Has the Rate of Technical Progress Slowed? · · Score: 1

    #1 Our true progress has been in biosciences.
    #2 All our progress now is based on marketability and maximizing profit
    #3 Research is more expensive 'now' than it was 'then' i.e. Flight at Kitty Hawk vs. Supersonic Flight

  25. if you need to work now on Hardware Selection for AMD64 + Linux? · · Score: 1

    Aopen AK86-L
    WD HDDs
    Aopen DVDROM/CDRW and DVD+RW
    Nvidia FX 5900 Ultra
    Redhat WS AMD-64

    all's running awesome except I cant get damn palmPilot to sync : (