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  1. Re:Dreamspark etc. on It's 2013, and Windows Activation Is Still Frustrating · · Score: 1

    Microsoft posts hashes for all of their ISO's on their website via technet. The "scene" is useful when MS pulls a "we're going to charge you $9.99 for a disc" BS.

  2. Re:bollocks on US Senate Passes Internet Tax Bill 69 To 27 · · Score: 1

    Useful tip: We're not socialist in Canada. There are socialist elements in the way that parts of the country runs, but by and far we're capitalist here.

  3. Re:Dreamspark etc. on It's 2013, and Windows Activation Is Still Frustrating · · Score: 2

    I for one, have no way of ensuring i get a release from a proper group.

    For someone who's posting on /. and doesn't know what hashing is for, well I guess I should just pity you.

  4. Re:Ads on YouTube To Offer Subscription Service This Week · · Score: 2

    Please, someone mod parent up. I can't believe people are so selfish: These sites give you content in exange for ads, if you don't like the deal just don't go there.

    I'd happily accept ads, providing that I knew they weren't going to infect my machine with malware of some kind. So until that happens, no ads. Perhaps said companies should get their act in order, and fix the "we're going to let shady companies advertise on our networks" problem. There's nothing selfish in that, it's prevention and removal of a headache. In the very worst cases with that malware mentioned above, it requires a nuking of the OS. I have no desire to deal with that anymore.

  5. Re:What's mild to moderate? on Tylenol May Ease Pain of Existential Distress, Social Rejection · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should just buy a cheap bottle of generic aspirin...

    I suffer from chronic migraines(upwards of 20/mo) with cluster headaches(near daily), aspirin is great stuff, as long as your stomach can handle it, along with the rest of your GI tract. Very hard on your stomach though, especially if you've been taking it for awhile. For a long time, my main anti-migraine breaker was tencal c 1/2 30mg , or a double totaling 60mg. Now for those that don't want to read the link, caffeine+barbiturates(butalbital)+codeine does wonder, especially with a massive dose of aspirin(330mg). Sadly my stomach can't take it anymore, and I'm on tramadol HCL.

  6. Re:Jupiter Tape? on Former FBI Agent: All Digital Communications Stored By US Gov't · · Score: 2

    More than storage capacity, they need software and/or manpower to analyze everything.

    It's doable, whether it's doable currently I can't say. Remember that the STASI did exactly this, and were able to comb through all personal communications.

  7. Re:Yawn on Observed Atmospheric CO2 Hits 400 Parts Per Million · · Score: 1

    Are you really trying to argue against scientific data with third hand anecdotes?

    Third hand huh? I guess that's why it's considered historical fact.

    A 30 year average gets you a reasonable measure of climate. Climate TRENDS are of course measured over much longer.

    No it doesn't, and if you want to look at that data. You'll see that we've been in a cooling trend for the last 10 years. 30 years isn't reasonable, not even close. It would be the same as saying, the last 10 years are the sum total of human history. Climate trends themselves are uniquely flawed in their own right.

  8. Re:Yawn on Observed Atmospheric CO2 Hits 400 Parts Per Million · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Weather happens at a particular place at a particular time. Climate is an average of weather over a large geographical area over a long period of time. Typically 30 years.

    Ah yes, the typical 30 year period. Where in most places there weren't even measurements in place. And the said averages, were made by guesstimates from nearby areas. Never mind that when this part of the world(North America) was being settled, that the winters were so severe on the east coast that people were freezing to death, and many believed that this was the land where "winter never ended." Or that a few hundred years prior to that, it was so warm in the same areas that it caused massive population booms, and settlements.

    30 years is so small a period of time, that pissing up wind would be a better indicator of when it was going to rain next.

  9. Re:Don't get excited -- an exception, not the rule on In Australian Town, Public CCTV Off Over Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    After reading that, you'd get just as much of a decrease in crime if you simply followed the basic CPTED stuff, and increasing light with random road patrols. In other words, in itself it doesn't cause a dramatic enough of a difference.

  10. Re:maybe I'm a little off topic on Syria Buys Dell PCs Despite Sanctions · · Score: 0

    I'd say that the locals are making a mistake, descending into theocratic insanity tends to put you among the ranks of some really shitty places; but it's not as though secular liberal democracy has been putting on a very impressive show...

    Well one only needs to look at the state of the middle east, africa and a few other regions to note one very interesting thing. There's a lot of countries on the move to hardline religious theocracies in regions that were cool to neutral in most cases. And those countries want one thing, a muslim dominated world and death to the west. Not in that particular order.

    And while liberal democracy hasn't been putting on a very impressive show, it's sure better then the brands of kookiness that are springing up now. With any luck, maybe someone with a branch of common sense will stop that, but I doubt it.

  11. Re:The answer to the question on Defense Distributed Has 3D-Printed an Entire Gun · · Score: 1

    Well that's an amusing comic without a doubt. Except when you look at what other weapons become used. An example, in Canada the most common instrument ranking number 1 is blunt force trauma, with a variety of "weapons" blades and so on I believe rank 3.

  12. Re:cartridge based on Staples Starts Selling 3-D Printer · · Score: 1

    Sorry, who rents a phone via 2 year contract?

    Most carriers in Canada do that.

  13. Re:The answer to the question on Defense Distributed Has 3D-Printed an Entire Gun · · Score: 1

    The drug cartels get all their weapons from the US.

    That's almost as a funny of statement as the fools up in Canada make, when they say all guns that are illegally obtained come from the US. When in fact about 35% of them come from overseas.

  14. Re:The Smart Grid Has Arrived on The Smart Grid Has Arrived · · Score: 1

    But the "dumb grid" remains and is so entrenched that it will take generations or two to finally get rid of it.

    I can only hope so that it will take so long. They've switched to a "smart grid" here in Ontario, and all you ever see is increasing hydro prices. 3% two years ago, 3% last year, 3% this year, yep right on track to have the most expensive electricity in North America by 2016. This is helped along by the "green energy act" here where we're paying 40-80c/kwh for solar and wind.

  15. Re:Playing the race card again on Florida Teen Expelled and Arrested For Science Experiment · · Score: 2

    Canadian liberals have slid right over the last few years.

    Hardly. They've slid more left because of the NDP stealing their voting base.

    I am not familiar with any dictators who actually practiced any of those first two. Do you think the DPRK is a democratic nation?

    You're not familiar with any dictators who've practiced either socialism or marxism? Venezuela doesn't ring any bells I take it, and China pre-1960 either.

  16. Re:Playing the race card again on Florida Teen Expelled and Arrested For Science Experiment · · Score: 2

    The democrats are a center right party, we have no left party. ... You can simply compare punishments for the same crime meted out by our justice system to prove that.

    Great joke, no really. The democrats in the US are about on par with the liberals here in Canada these days. The liberals are centre-left. Oh and the punishments? You can be left-wing and be a strong authoritarian, just a useful tip.

    As for your other post:

    Right wing dictators the world over and throughout history disagree with you.

    You may want to look up the socialist, revolutionary dictators around the world and throughout history who's main ideas revolve around: Socialism, marxism, and communism.

  17. Re:Playing the race card again on Florida Teen Expelled and Arrested For Science Experiment · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You could have responded without turning this into race rant yourself.

    If it's one thing that I've noticed about the US, especially the left and democrats is that they're hung up on race, all race related stuff all the time. And the more racist it is, the better. Because that means ratings! Then again, you guys have groups dedicated to nothing but race, and creating new race issues where someone with an ounce of commonsense would throw up their hands in disgust at an issue.

  18. Re:Garbage Mines on Oslo Needs Your Garbage · · Score: 2

    We have nigh uncountable garbage mines in this country. Why should we not support our overseas friends power needs by opening them as concessions.

    You know what's funny about all of this? Here in Canada we can't even get garbage incineration off the ground in most places, because environmentalists are so "up in arms" over the entire thing. They then pressure up the local residents, and it becomes an environmentalist/nimby problem. And at the end of the road, we end up shipping garbage to abandoned quarries, or in other cases off to Michigan or other US states.

  19. Re:Two-edged sword? on Belgian Media Group Demanding Copyright Levy for Internet Access · · Score: 1

    For example: some Canadians got sued for coping "Hurt Locker" (The erotic comedy about two gay shoe store employees and their love of leather uppers.)

    Well no one has really been sued yet, people have gotten a notice but that's it. The ISP(Teksavvy) who got the main notice has been fighting tooth and nail against disclosure. And so far it looks like with a bunch of other things going on, they're going to fail in this case.

  20. Re:Oh, good on EU To Ban Neonicotinoid Insecticides · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Your friend's experiment strikes me as very interesting. I hope someone else is looking at that.

    Some beekeepers here in Ontario has been doing the same thing. My cousin's commonlaw is a beekeeper. He suffered the parasite/hive collapse problem too, and instead of raiding the hive, he left them alone for two years. Surprisingly about 70% of his hives recovered, or were recoverable with the introduction of a new queen. This is on a small scale of around 50 hives. He's up around 300 hives now. The other 30% were lost due to parasites, and in one case a rather grumpy bear.

  21. Re:Some how I doubt it will matter on MPAA Executive Tampers With Evidence In Piracy Case · · Score: 1

    How does a lawyer tampering with his copy also cast doubt on the Police copy that was obtained before the lawyer even had a copy?

    Chain of evidence rule.

  22. Re:Some how I doubt it will matter on MPAA Executive Tampers With Evidence In Piracy Case · · Score: 1

    Unless the police copies can be guaranteed to be 100% non-tampered, they've successfully introduced reasonable doubt over both sets of evidence(the copy and the claimed original). And unless the laws are vastly different in finland, reasonable doubt at this level, is enough to cause a retrial or have the evidence completely thrown out.

  23. Re:PRIVACY? OFF THE TABLE! on NYC Police Comm'r: Privacy Is 'Off the Table' After Boston Bombs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    America will gladly take the tattered bits of the constitution and pulp them over what is realistically a tiny threat.

    But remember, people who actually form new political ideologies and fight for the constitution and smaller limited government are the terrorists. At least according to the media, and the government itself.

  24. Re:"Needs"? on Europe Needs Genetically Engineered Crops, Scientists Say · · Score: 0

    No one wants to admit they're a fool, but people who don't see emperor's new clothes generally are.

    Oh that's cute, I'm sure you'll be lining up right first to remove yourself then right? After all, what's it like condemning 2/3's of the worlds population to starvation in order to save face.

  25. Re:"Needs"? on Europe Needs Genetically Engineered Crops, Scientists Say · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No one wants to admit they're a malthusian, but people who are against GE crops generally are.