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  1. Re:Sounds reasonable on Text Message Spammer Wants FCC To Declare Spam Filters Illegal · · Score: 3, Interesting

    > So should we remove all spam filters from e-mail, because spammers have the right of free speech

    I'm not sure that is quite what the troll is claiming, rather that ISPs should not filter the emails. You have the right not to listen (i.e. set up(1)) any spam filter you want. However the spammer has the free speech right to not be impeded in spamming the crap out of you(2) by the ISP as the ISP should not take any note of the content coming in, but just deliver it all equally.

    It is an interesting argument.

    1) I would take an "opt-in" to a ISP provided spam filter to be acceptable.
    2) Only in a political way, but I'm not sure on that.

  2. Re:Silver Lining? on Hardcoded Administrator Account Opens Backdoor Access To Samsung Printers · · Score: 1

    Could you use this to add tracker dots?

  3. Re:Oh did you fix your supply problem? on On Demo, a $25 1080p Camera Module For Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    Ordered on Monday, getting this Monday. One week is acceptable.

    Or if I'm willing to pay a fair chunk more at a Maplin I can have one in my hand this very day.

  4. Re:microsoft looks to have fired to architect of w on Windows 8 Sales Below Projections · · Score: 1

    Drag to the bottom of the screen. It then has 15 second grace to save settings and the like.

    You can pick up Metro apps either using the top of the screen if active or the Metro task bar when not active.

  5. Re:Next Valve Game on Gabe Newell Confirms Source 2 Engine · · Score: 1

    Op Force and Blue Shift are Gearbox not Value.

  6. Re:Thanks Apple, Amazon, Dell, and Exxon Mobil! on Meet the Lawyer Suing Anyone Who Uses SSL · · Score: 1

    I'm a little confused by this.
    I'm the owner of a (potentially) patient violating Galaxy phone. Could Apple go after me or only Samsung? If only Samsung, why is SSL different? If I enabled SSL on my-little-webpage.invalid then I'm enabling a feature provided by a 3rd party (Apache or Microsoft depending on the box).

  7. Re:Full of microsoft on Software Uses Almost 1/2 the Storage On 32GB Surface Tablet · · Score: 1

    On Android most big games I've played install the data on the SD card and the only the core game on the device. So you only really need 100-200MB per game.

  8. Re:Blu-ray is a means, not an end on Will Microsoft Dis-Kinect Freeloading TV Viewers? · · Score: 1

    > You can always choose to watch independent films instead of major studio films that are exclusive to high-DRM environments.

    But that misses the goal.

    The goal is not to watch a movie, but to the movie you want to watch, when you want to watch it.

  9. Re:3 million on Einstein Letter Critical of Religion To Be Auctioned On EBay · · Score: 1

    I suspect he would be writing the squeal.

  10. Re:Evil learning on Raspberry Pi For the Rest of Us · · Score: 1

    Why is the Pi a bad choice for HLL?

  11. Re:Evil learning on Raspberry Pi For the Rest of Us · · Score: 1

    The Ubuntu Linux windows installer solves the setting-up-to-dual-boot problem nicely.

    http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/windows-installer

  12. Re:Evil learning on Raspberry Pi For the Rest of Us · · Score: 1

    Given the hardware in the PI is fixed, Linux on the PI should be simple:
    Take SD card, plug in, turn on

    It is currently a little harder than I feel it needs to be as it adds the steps "enter username password and type 'startx'", but I'm sure that will go in time as well.

  13. Re:Haven't touched one or an Arduino but.. on Raspberry Pi Hits 1GHz With Official 'Turbo Mode' · · Score: 1

    Compling Quake 3... ;)

    Playing Q3 I've not yet attempted as it not currently connected to a TV.

  14. Re:Don't believe everything you read on Australia Attorney General Proposes New Laws To Stop Twitter Trolls · · Score: 1

    > " Free speech comes from facts, not rumours "
    > Which I could legitimately re-write as so:-
    > " Australia has laws to prevent you from saying anything you cannot prove

    Woot, religion is illegal in Oz!

  15. Re:This does seem a little one-sided... on Apple and Samsung Both Get South Korea Bans · · Score: 2

    The latest iPad is the "The New iPad" (aka iPad 3). Which escaped the ban.
    The latest iPhone is the iPhone 4S, which also escaped the ban.

  16. Re:I call bullshit. on Speed of Sound Is Too Slow For the Olympics · · Score: 1

    Cartons come in liters, bottles (plastic or glass) generally come in pints, even from a small convenience store (where I live anyway).

  17. Re:I call bullshit. on Speed of Sound Is Too Slow For the Olympics · · Score: 1

    Now I don't know many new parents, but the ones I do know used metric. As did I when my daughter was born.

  18. Re:I call bullshit. on Speed of Sound Is Too Slow For the Olympics · · Score: 5, Funny

    The UK system is easy to remember.

    Beer is in Pints. Except when it is Foreign. Then it should be in pints, but them damn foreigners don't know what they are doing.

    Milk is in pints.

    All other liquids are in metric.

    People are measured in imperial. Except newborns who are metric.

    All food, except steaks are metric.

    Distances when using a road are imperial. All other times metric.

  19. Re:is it real on Man Physically Assaulted At McDonald's For Wearing Digital Eye Glasses · · Score: 1

    Given that only one party in the UK is pro liberal gun ownership (the Liberal Party [ http://www.liberal.org.uk/ ]) and they are tiny "get yourself a new government" is not going to happen. This is democracy, the majority don't want liberal gun ownership so we don't have it.

  20. Re:is it real on Man Physically Assaulted At McDonald's For Wearing Digital Eye Glasses · · Score: 1

    > shoot the fucker

    That would be out in the UK, but hitting the fucker is not, assuming that you are not dealing with a small kid.
    But the likelihood is the person doing the mugging is bigger than the person being mugged. So is your phone worth being beaten up or stabbed for?

    > If your government tells you that you can't defend yourself, get yourself a new government

    You can defend yourself, just not with a gun. I'm going to guess a response, so here we go:

    Given that only one party in the UK is pro liberal gun ownership (the Liberal Party [ http://www.liberal.org.uk/ ]) and they are tiny "get yourself a new government" is not going to happen. This is democracy, the majority don't want liberal gun ownership so we don't have it.

  21. Re:Spell check on Chatbot Eugene Wins Biggest Turing Test Ever · · Score: 1

    If my niece is to go by then the red squigglies are how you tell if a word is correctly spelt and no word should be left behind to fend for itself squigglyless.

  22. Re:Turing Test on Reddit Cofounder Says Site Was Built By a Horde of Fake Accounts · · Score: 1

    What makes you ask "Is this a Turing Test or something?"?

  23. Re:Just now? on Xbox 360 Kinect Said To Add Internet Explorer Browsing · · Score: 1

    Both PS3 and Wii have a browser. They both suck. Opera, while lovely, is a pain to control and PS3 one was crippled in fun new ways.

  24. Re:Oh really? on Xbox 360 Kinect Said To Add Internet Explorer Browsing · · Score: 1

    Only if it supports Flash, which I don't think it will.

    I think it will be a Gold feature.

  25. Re:I feel the same way on Ask Slashdot: Life After Firefox 3.6.x? · · Score: 1

    Bah Mosaic and your fancy pants GUI.

    Lynx uses way less memory.

    wget uses none once the file is downloaded. As it stops. Like it should.