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  1. Re:Spy glasses? on The Military Is About To Get New Augmented Reality Spy Glasses · · Score: 1

    There is already a lot of people that wear something like this, it's not actually that much different from my driving/sport glasses. Since you can't curve corrective lenses, the only ways to keep wind out of your eyes are either a double-lens arrangement or goggles..
    Just move as much hardware as possible into pocket or a humongous pair of earphones, make them as futuristic/80's/freaky/conspicuous as you can, accessorize with a cap and a track-suit(UK) or a beard plus silly and/or 'ironic' t-shirt(US) and you've got an instant excuse for both loitering and completely ludicrous headgear.

  2. Same trick, different pony on Why Standard Deviation Should Be Retired From Scientific Use · · Score: 1

    My college math teacher made a special point of warning us that journalists almost always mix up pct and pp. Sometimes they even do that on purpose!

  3. This is bull#%& on Finnish Minister Wants To Expand Pornography Censorship · · Score: 2

    The blocklist is a joke that can be circumvented with a minimal effort, largely consisting of dead sites, legal(mostly gay) porn of various flavors and some real head-scratchers like this: http://lapsiporno.info/
    That is a page that analyzes and critizises the blocklist itself. It's now removed from the blocklist, but only after an arduous court battle. There is also some info in english.

  4. Re:nonsensical allegations on EU Antitrust Chief: Google "Diverting Traffic" & Will Be Forced To Change · · Score: 1

    I get yahoo as a first result also. The weird thing is that I don't think I've actually accessed any yahoo content from this device(maybe I've clicked on a link to a news story once or twice.. And I haven't used any of their services since whenever(several years). The location does not explain(Finland, yahoo's not a very big thing here..) Curious.

  5. No on Adrian Lamo Explains His Decision To Expose Bradley Manning · · Score: 2

    He either had no concern for the well-being of Manning and is just saying so or he is utter and complete fool for thinking that ratting him would result in anything other than utter persecution and kafkaesquely hellish existence.
    Either he is an informer and enemy of free men pleading for forgiveness or a fool so bad he's got to suffer at least some repercussions.
    I've no mercy to spare him.

  6. a priori on Megaupload Host Wants Out · · Score: 2

    Any previous judgements about similar cases where the goods are physical?
    Say, rent lockers or 3rd party warehouses that hold possible contraband/illicitly appropriated/counterfeited materiel in such quantities that it cannot be moved without extraordinary expense?

  7. Re:Erosion of the Commons on Illegal To Take a Photo In a Shopping Center? · · Score: 1

    In Finland, this has become a more and more apparent problem. Worst case was couple of years back when a young man was brutalized pretty hard by a gang of security guards, you don't break a twentysomething's hip by accident.. The point is that it is a fact that nobody else was there, just the guy and the 5 guards, the guy's hip is broken, but no one was actually convicted of anything. Why? The security firm first refused to give the CCTV tapes to the police, and later on claimed to have 'accidentally' erased it.

  8. New hobby on Cloud-Powered Facial Recognition Is Terrifying · · Score: 1

    Might be a good time to take up theatrical masking as a hobby?

  9. Re:Nothing to surprising on Marx May Have Had a Point · · Score: 2

    There hasn't been a communist country on the earth yet. There's been many permutations of socialist dictatorships/oligarchies but no communist rule.

    Communism is a dream. A perfect state whose only problem is that we are short-sighted, self-serving and nepotistic monkeys who turn the greatest dreams and aspirations into a dog-eat-dog contest for power and wealth.

    Homo homini lupus. We have what we deserve.

  10. Re:/.ed on Student Finds Universe's Missing Mass · · Score: 1

    That was helpful, thank you.

  11. /.ed on Student Finds Universe's Missing Mass · · Score: 1

    Any other sources? Looks like slashdot syndrome claims another victim..

  12. Re:Only a Plaintiff Proposition on Academic Publishers Ask The Impossible In GSU Copyright Suit · · Score: 1

    This would just mean that only the wealthy get justice. Hey, now wait a minute..

  13. Re:I gave up on them... on 9 Features We May See In Ubuntu 11.10 · · Score: 1

    Orly Owl?

  14. Re:Brilliant! on Armenia Makes Chess Compulsory In Schools · · Score: 2

    Not just Nethack, but any roguelike without save scumming teaches some VERY important life lessons about decisions and forethought..

  15. Hate or love? on Armenia Makes Chess Compulsory In Schools · · Score: 1

    Either the instigator loves chess and is stupid or hates chess and is quite sly..

    While I can guarantee that this move will cause a lot of hate towards chess and chess players, it will also most probably foster some quite interesting variants of chess..

  16. Re:"Lost" on 10,000 Shipping Containers Lost At Sea Each Year · · Score: 1

    When unloading containers at the central Nike warehouse in Netherlands, we'd find a container that was ransacked once or twice a week on average and missing or opened boxes were a daily occurrence.

    Once, after a particularly bad while our supervisor got a bunch of pictures of the seals in the container doors and was told to compare every seal to a picture before anyone touches it and call office immediately if it looks different in ANY way. After that we found no more tampered containers.

    ..For two days..

  17. For the love of god! on Students Suspended, Expelled Over Facebook Posts · · Score: 1

    And I'm an atheist. Is there a better way to say 'yup, i'm a fascist and in power, so fuck you.' without having gas chambers? And yes, I know I just pulled the Godwin one. Once in a while there comes a time when you CAN legitimately hit the table with the nazi card.

  18. Hey USA! on Libya SIGINT Jamming Satellites, Towers · · Score: 1

    Vast areas of europe.. "Hey USA! Libya's disrupting communications of the 'coalition of the willing' and I'll bet that some are NATO members to boot! What're you gonna do? complain? Bawk Bawk Baaawk!"

  19. The consequences? on Police Chief Teaches Parents To Keylog Kids · · Score: 2

    There will be many, many kids who will never, ever trust their parents again.

  20. Re:I swear I read about this in 80s cyberpunk nove on Japan's Latest Rockstar Is a 3D Hologram · · Score: 1

    I think Gibson wrote about it first in idoru.

  21. Re:Open? People break both open. on Steve Jobs Lashes Out At Android · · Score: 1

    Yeah, maybe 20-30% have the ability to look at the source code. If you want any meaningful understanding, you'll have to drop a zero from your statistics.

    Which I strongly suspect you pulled out of your hat :)

  22. Re:Democracy and Responsibility on Assange Denied Swedish Residence On Confidential Reasons · · Score: 1
    I vote in every election, and I am politically active. No party that I have voted for has ever got a single seat in parliament, I belong to an association that has been active for over ten years and has hundreds of paying members, but still is not officially recognized.

    Pray tell me, am I responsible for my government because I'm not throwing molotov cocktails?

  23. Re:Too bad for the "organic food" folks... on Humans Will Need Two Earths By 2030 · · Score: 1

    At present rate we have what ... 100 years of potash in the ground? At some point we will have to sustain the production with only atmospheric nitrogen.

    If you wanted to see your local organic farmer toting bags of industrial nitrogen fertilizer, you're in for a disappointment.. :P http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Nitrogen+Fixation

    But about energy, you're quite right. Unless we find some new source of energy, or notably improve an old one, most of us will be looking at substantial reduction of material standards of life. Personally, I don't think we will have any magical tokamak of legend suddenly pop out of some phycisist's head.

    We will just have to blow on the same coal, so to speak, improve energy efficiency, curtail frivolous usage, invest in renewables and hope that it will tide us over until we have usable fusion tech.

  24. Re:If no one would sopy software illegally on NSF Wants To Know How Much Software Really Costs · · Score: 1

    If games could not be copied at all.. The prices would increase because nintendo.

  25. Re:is it? on Whisky Made From Diabetics' Urine · · Score: 1

    Is this a little cannibalistic or just gross?

    The word you're looking for is urolagnic.