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  1. Re:Gravity on Aussie Attorney General's War On Encrypted Web Services · · Score: 1
  2. Re:HuffPost and Answers on The Era of Facebook Is an Anomaly · · Score: 1

    To gain access to forums and comment sections whose operator requires a verified identity as a measure against griefing

    I don't think I've read anything quite so funny. Some of the greatest trolling and griefing that I've seen in the 24ish years I've been "online" has been from places that require a FB account to be "verified." People seem to care less when using their actual name, versus a pseudonym.

  3. Re:I was wondering about that... on Measuring the Xbox One Against PCs With Titanfall · · Score: 1

    So, using onboard sound or a PCIe/PCI soundcard? If it's the first case, it'll most likely be a driver issue. And since most onboard solutions are realtek, you get what you pay for. Complete shit. If it's the latter, you can probably narrow it down to one of three things: Something wrong with the engine/driver. Incorrect PCI/e latency, an extra "feature" of the driver like various DSP modes causing an issue.

  4. Re:Oh just feking wonderful... on U.S. Aims To Give Up Control Over Internet Administration · · Score: 1

    Yeah. And their reaction was more of the same. I am not impressed.

    So you mean when someone is actively at war with you, you shouldn't do anything.

    Get it right: I'm anti-religion.

    That's nice, let the bigot flow through you...

  5. Re:The USA isn't synonymous with efficiency on U.S. Aims To Give Up Control Over Internet Administration · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'd rather have sites taken offline because they offended someone than because of pure greed.

    I'd would rather that neither happened. How about this, your post has offended my *insert fictitious argument about hurt feelings* as such I want you to pay me over it. And you can be it'll start happening.

  6. Re:Oh Shit, not the UN please!!! on U.S. Aims To Give Up Control Over Internet Administration · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, I'm Canadian and in general most of us up here have 0 faith in the body working properly. This is also reflected by our governments official policy on the organization, especially with their election of dictators and despots to various human rights bodies, and arms control groups. Believe whatever you want to believe, but if you think allowing governments that rape, torture, and murder people on the street(as official policy) for voicing any opinion that rests against them is a great idea, not sure if insane or just crazy.

  7. Re:Oh just feking wonderful... on U.S. Aims To Give Up Control Over Internet Administration · · Score: 1

    I heard once about this thing called the crusades...

    Maybe we oughta just burn down all the churches

    You realize that the crusades were a *reaction* to 400 years of muslim aggression against christians right? And that was after the wholescale slaughter of entire cities near the end of those said 400 years which finally broke the camels back as it were. I know it's cool to be anti-christian these days, but at least learn your basic history.

  8. Re:Windows 8.x is un-usable without Start8 on Mozilla Scraps Firefox For Windows 8, Citing Low Adoption of Metro · · Score: 1

    Despite that use Start8, Win8.x is usable without it. It just has a more annoying learning curve compared to what everyone else who's been using Windows since the mid-90's is used to however. Drop someone who never used a classic shell and not a problem though, the real problem as it was came to life because there was no easy method of transition. And that, will cause more people to throw a fit and rightfully so.

  9. Oh just feking wonderful... on U.S. Aims To Give Up Control Over Internet Administration · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As much as I dislike US policy, I'm betting that there will be a awesome push for the UN to take control and everyone will quickly be beating their heads against the wall over it. Well, I'm sure everyone is going to enjoy the new age of super-censorship in order to avoid offending *insert groups* feelings.

  10. Re:Reassembling the Soviet Union on Russia Blocks Internet Sites of Putin Critics · · Score: 1

    but what does it have to do with rehabilitating Stalin?

    Haven't seen the whitewashing of his crimes against the populace at large that they're pushing in the schools? Don't have friends or family that live in that part of the world who lived through it? Well that's okay. Stalin was a mass murderer, like many communist and socialist dictatorships he set the tone for all the other countries that followed that same ideology. However, what's happening these days isn't any different from fascist groups who whitewash their favorite fascist leader.

  11. Re:Becuz on Is the New "Common Core SAT" Bill Gates' Doing? · · Score: 1

    In Ontario, where we have something similar to "Common Core" already in place. They pretty much gutted classical literature about the time I graduated from highschool in the mid-90's. If I walk down to my local highschool and ask them what they're teaching in terms of literature, you'll find insane things like "Twilight" and "Harry Potter." And I wish I was bloody well joking.

    People who live in places under a similar system already know the writing on the walls with this, you can believe it or ignore it at your own peril. But don't say we didn't tell you.

  12. Re:Apps on VLC Finally Launches App For Windows 8 · · Score: 2

    but do you see MacOSX putting Tiles and Apps on their desktop devices?

    That's because the marketing dept., hasn't figured out how to spin it as the next new hot thing. Like round corners.

  13. Re:I went back to corporate America because Obamac on White House: Get ACA Insurance Coverage, Launch Start-Ups · · Score: 1

    take off you hoser.

    Earth shattering commentary from the obamacare crowd. Apparently the truth hurts so much, that the only thing left is insults. How's that "new tone" working out for you guys anyway?

  14. Re:I went back to corporate America because Obamac on White House: Get ACA Insurance Coverage, Launch Start-Ups · · Score: 1

    Harry Reid is that you?

  15. Re:I went back to corporate America because Obamac on White House: Get ACA Insurance Coverage, Launch Start-Ups · · Score: 1

    I call bullshit. You had a "full-time consultancy" but couldn't afford a few hundred bucks a month for health care? Right.

    Obama shill or just ignorant, can't figure it out. Even those of us up here in Canadaland can't quite decide if Americans were insane, or just stupid to let the entire ACA go forward. Well whatever guys, feel free to get fucked over a barrel. Or smarten up and switch it to a state(aka province) run system like we have up here. One of my friends who I used to visit in Indianapolis moved to Alaska, 8ish years ago. His families premium would be $2700/mo+15k deductible. That was from the $210/mo with $1200 deductible. And the same for both of his sisters and their families in varying degrees. And I probably shouldn't mention that his one sister had her hours cut to 30h/weekly from 60h/weekly because that's how the employer decided to cut back on expenses.

    Hey I know, maybe you can hook up with Harry Reid and scream at the top of your lungs that this is all fake too.

  16. Re: This is more than a little bit naive. on Environmentalists Propose $50 Billion Buyout of Coal Industry - To Shut It Down · · Score: 1

    So the only person lying is you. Living in a region with "heavy use" of green power(ontario), I'll now see my electricity rates peak at nearly 18c/kwh. In turn, becoming the most expensive place in north america, this is of course echoing germany where solar panels are also heavily in use along with "green energy" and many people pay between 20-40c/kwh. It's always good to start looking at why "FiT" is screwing everyone over.

    Don't worry, if during your insults you get a dose of reality. After all, we wouldn't want to hurt that belief you're clinging to.

  17. Re:This is more than a little bit naive. on Environmentalists Propose $50 Billion Buyout of Coal Industry - To Shut It Down · · Score: 1

    Rewnewable power as it stands right now, is driving the price up on electricity so fast, people are now making the choice between that and food. If you want to help the world, push for nuclear power. While pushing for other technologies that would allow directed microwave energy from space.

  18. Re:Hmmm... on How Do You Backup 20TB of Data? · · Score: 1

    Pft. Real men use their vic-20's, without the ram expander cartridge.

  19. Re:Insulation... on Scientists Build Three Atom Thick LEDs · · Score: 1

    We've had that for years already, and no, its not all that useful in computer chips. You need very specific directed communications almost exclusively except for the clock pulse.

    Sure, it's not useful in modern chips however. Following the theories on optical chips however, you don't need it to be directed when banks are set projected.

  20. Re:Knowing Harper on Canada & Korea Show Trade Treaties Can Skip Copyright Rule Changes · · Score: 1

    Meh why be shocked at this behavior from the left? Unless it's attacking the US for being the US like the liberals did when they were in power it's pretty much all the same. And while I'm not super impressed with everything Harper has done, the diversification that we've gotten under him as well as trade deals far outstrips what the previous governments did in the past. When they were content for Canada to be a one-trick-pony only selling our goods south.

  21. Re:Insulation... on Scientists Build Three Atom Thick LEDs · · Score: 2

    What, exactly, is the benefit of building a chip whose internal connections are basically all optoisolators?

    Besides omnidirectional communication without the need for direct pathways. Oh...not much.

  22. Re:A bit late on Ukraine May Have To Rearm With Nuclear Weapons Says Ukrainian MP · · Score: 1

    AFAIK it was a Soviet Union planning disaster which was not targeted specifically at the Ukraine.

    No, it was the Soviet Union rolling in and taking *everything* and it didn't happen just once, but at least three times. My mother's side of the family is from the Ukraine, and her father spent 25 years in a gulag because he refused to turn over everything. He was one of the lucky ones, their neighbor was simply shot.

  23. Re:Seriously? on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Prepare For the Theft of My Android Phone? · · Score: 1

    Encrypt the phone, and set a numeric PIN of 6 or more.

    Done and done.

    Funny you suggest that, but as a trial a few years back on my android smart phone I did just what you suggested. I was easily able to bypass it by going into the developer menu and turning it off after doing a factory reset.

  24. Re:Also time to stop on Author Says It's Time To Stop Glorifying Hackers · · Score: 1

    Hey whatja got against us Canadians eh? Just because we export this awesome stuff called winter, and you've been drowning in it this year isn't our fault!

  25. Re:Interesting Math (like there's another variety) on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 1

    Really, in quite a few places where we grow things in the desert(and they're near oceans), nothing is stopping desalinization plants and wave generators to power them. Except perhaps the will do to it(in some cases nimby), and in other cases political/regional instability.

    As for farms being small in the north east and shorter growing seasons? We usually get in at least 2 rounds of crops in the summer, especially if winter wheat is planted. Fallowing properly also helps make sure that you can get two per-season in. And even in the north east, most of those natural resources are man-made and rely on winter snowfall or winter rains depending on how mild the weather is.