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  1. Now he can become a politician on LightSquared CEO Resigns Amid Appearance of Bribery · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm a bit biased against all politicians, but the way I see it, if allegations are true, he's now passed all requirements to become a politician in any country.

  2. Re:I am surprised no one posted this yet on What The DHS Is Looking For In Your Posts · · Score: 1

    I see what you did thar.... Well played, sir. Well played.

  3. Quietly! on Ask Slashdot: Best Practices For Leaving an IT Admin Position? · · Score: 1

    Just do eet quietly.

  4. Car Owners will rebell.... on France's Bold Drunk-Driving Legislation - Every Car To Carry a Breathalyzer · · Score: 1

    Not only is this a burden financially to those law abiding citizens, it will not work. Unless a breathalyzer is registered to a particular vehicle, there will be nothing to enforce a high breathalyzer test result. And for those who really want to avoid prosecution, drivers will get random breathalyzers completed with normal level. And if these units are electronic, and kept in your own car, don't think for a minute that people won't have found a way to tamper with them so that results clear the driver.

  5. Re:Hoping to Clarify ... on YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music · · Score: 1

    Peat,

    If you are who you say you are, why would you go through /. to resolve this issue with eeplox? If your system is automated, then the automated response is fraudulent in the fact that it states this "All content owners have reviewed your video and confirmed their claims to some or all of its content:
    Entity: rumblefish Content Type: Musical Composition " Clearly it was not reviewed by a content owner. Therefore, your efforts here on /. are attempts to make Rumblefish look like they are victims of a crappy system. The way to resolve this is to work with eeplox directly and not make your claims over slashdot.

    Your attempts to clear the air here in /. for an issue on YouTube appear disingenuous and trite. Remedy the issue, clear eeplox's name and fix your system so that the public will come to your defense. Not you protecting your company's business reputation.

  6. Caffeine Coccaine on FDA To Review Inhalable Caffeine · · Score: 1

    Next you'll break open the canisters to get at the powder and snort line of Caffeine.

  7. Re:Lets make Antibiotics obsolete on Antibiotics Are Useless In Treating Most Sinus Infections · · Score: 1

    We've known for years that Doctors have over prescribed Antibiotics for many ailments,

    NO WE DO NOT KNOW THAT, please shut the fuck up and keep your popular culture non science views to your self, asshole.,
    "simply because people just don't want to feel miserable when they get sick."
    What we have hear is an ignorant mother fucker who has lived in a world with antibiotics and has no clue what life was like before them.

    Wow, you're such a sweet-talker. Do you kiss your mother with those lips? And if you do I hope you sterilize them first.

  8. Lets make Antibiotics obsolete on Antibiotics Are Useless In Treating Most Sinus Infections · · Score: 1

    We've known for years that Doctors have over prescribed Antibiotics for many ailments, simply because people just don't want to feel miserable when they get sick. And since most people can't afford time off of work they don't take it or won't take it for fear of the backlash from a company, people still go to work and infect others and the cycle continues. The cheap solution is to take pills instead to resolve the immediate illness.

  9. Over-reaching Powers Internationally on Indian Government To Track Locations of All Cell Phone Users · · Score: 1

    So if some person from India calls me via his cell phone, should that government have my phone number information? Will they demand to know who I am based on that information? How quickly and readily will my government hand this info over to the Indian govt.?

    We are no longer simply a police-state, it has become a Global police-state.

    This is very depressing for it's possible further implications.

  10. Medicine, World Population, and Technology. on Why People Don't Live Past 114 · · Score: 1

    200 or 2000 years ago, man didn't have the knowledge about the human body and how to fix it the way we do today. Besides modern medicine, the population of the world has exponentially grown so that there are a lot more chances for people to live longer lives. Further, with the dawn of technology, and record keeping, man has documented life spans.

  11. GET OFF MY LAWN... on Against Online Surveillance? You Must Be 'For' Child Porn, Says Legislator · · Score: 1

    .... politicians......

    kiddies welcome.

  12. Good and yet... on Laser Scanner May Allow Passengers To Take Bottled Drinks On Planes Again · · Score: 1

    I think this is good, for it will ease up the burden of passengers not having to listen to small infants who will otherwise be happier with a comforting bottle then with a pacifier. I don't know exactly how difficult flying has become for families with infants, but this certainly may be a good relief for them.

    Yet, while I think that this is good for some reasons, it's once again massive $ spent on the false illusion of feeling safe in the air.

  13. Ads as Articles on Venture Capital in Detroit, Among Other Places (Video) · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is the 4th week in a row that some article is really an Ad in disguise. Augh.

  14. Re:Risks inherent with any man made objects on Robert Boisjoly Dies At 73, the Engineer Who Tried To Stop the Challenger Launch · · Score: 1

    I don't disagree with you.

    However, if you agree to risk in your job, you agree to all risk, if you would not agree to all risk, no matter where the risk initiated, then you don't have to assume it.

    In this particular tragic case, the risk the astronauts took was to believe in the people who built the shuttle, the science officers, the safety engineers, and the bureaucrats all did their job and didn't ignore potentially hazardous situations, they lost that gamble because leaders refused to accept the subject matter experts warnings. The astronauts willingly got on that shuttle, they assumed the risk.

    Was their sacrifice in vain? I really hope not, for future generations and the wealth of knowledge brought to light from the shuttle disaster.

  15. Risks inherent with any man made objects on Robert Boisjoly Dies At 73, the Engineer Who Tried To Stop the Challenger Launch · · Score: 1

    Man if fallible. Yes, lives were lost and they were indeed tragic, and I don't want to see more lives lost, but every astronaut or engineer who understand what they do and where they do their work understands that there exists risks, and if an accident occurs, it is result of that risk. The early space program here in the US was wrought with peril because man made the machines man flew in, some flew, some crashed and burned. No one wants to yell "My Bad" when big $$$'s are lost or people are injured or killed, but if they did then man could learn from that mistake.

    Science and technology will continue to be tested it to extreme limits, and with that comes the risk. I'm not saying that knowledgeable engineers should be ignored, but rather their voices should be heard so that those taking the ultimate risk directly with their lives or the bureaucrats making those Go, No Go decisions for those taking the risks have enough information to make a judgment call.

    Every scientist, engineer, astronaut, etc knows that he or she face risks in the name of their profession.

    I take a risk getting into my car every day that it won't explode, or that other drivers on the road will follow the rules or can read the signs.

  16. Do the people and animals add mass? on Is the Earth Gaining Or Losing Mass? · · Score: 0

    With all the food that is consumed and reproduced, for all living things, I would think that the people and animals on this planet do add mass. Take all the people off and then ask the question.

    Of course, this is just a silly opinion.

  17. Like a Founding Father, count me in.... on Do You Like Online Privacy? You May Be a Terrorist · · Score: 3, Insightful

    .... for I relish in my privacy rights. I always try to hide what I do from others. I refuse to have an account on Facebook, or other social media tools. I guess this makes me suspect.

    Forget that my Civil Liberties are being stripped away one chip at a time, and my right to privacy is a pursuit to my life, liberty and happiness, which is in the Declaration of Independence.

    "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,[75] that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

    So I guess our founding fathers were Terrorists then....

  18. Weeks Old Story, I mean Weeks old on 3,500 Year Old Florida Tree Dies of Natural Causes · · Score: 2

    This story happened weeks ago, and originally it was suspected as arson, and that it was in too dense of an area for Firefighters to reach. Here is a link to the NPR story.

    http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/01/17/145342304/one-of-worlds-oldest-cypress-trees-the-senator-burns-in-florida.

    This happened in mid-January. "On Monday (Jan. 16, 2012) Seminole County firefighter Al Caballero applied water to the smoldering base of The Senator. "

  19. Definition of terrorism keeps changing.... on Maine Senator Wants Independent Study of TSA's Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    .... as long as that definition is not stable either, then all of your calculations are not going to work.

  20. Write the Invitation in Binary on Ask Slashdot: Techie Wedding Invitation Ideas? · · Score: 1

    Have a link include to interpret the binary for those non-techies, and for those who get it, have a grand old time.

  21. Score one for Bad Guys, er I mean Civil Liberties on Supreme Court Rules Warrants Needed for GPS Monitoring · · Score: 1

    Seriously, this is a good thing. I have no problem if a warrants are involved. They should be, otherwise, law enforcement feels the right to slap one of those devices on anyone's vehicle for any old reason. There is a reason for warrants, it helps keeps things fair and legal. If the bad guys are really showing their hands, then obtaining a warrant for a GPS should be a no brain-er. And until then, law enforcement can do the good old stakeout for a few days until all the legal paperwork is signed and buttoned up correctly.

  22. Turn it into a Theme park on What To Do With a 1,000 Foot Wrecked Cruise Ship? · · Score: 3, Funny

    And you can go on the ride where you pretend to be the captain who was thrown from the ship which lands in the water unharmed.

  23. Privacy vs Safety on NYPD Developing Portable Body Scanner For Detecting Guns · · Score: 1

    While I want Police to be safe while doing their jobs, I also believe that people have the right to privacy, and this in my opinion is pretty invasive.

    Of course this is thought of as a great way to protect those police officers (who already have guns) against those bad guys who might have guns.... and what about those honest law abiding gun owners who have followed all the laws to be able to both possess and carry a weapon, what about their rights and safety?

    Once again, for those in society who don't break the laws, we're the ones most punished.

  24. Even Bigger point being missed.... lawsuits on Symantec Admits Its Networks Were Hacked in 2006 · · Score: 1

    .... for each and every paying customer who's PC's were being compromised and having both their identity stolen as well as their PC's being used to help share and harbor malware. In 2006 I was still foolishly paying for that service. I should be receiving a refund for years of purchases, for failure to notify me that my security software was breached. By withholding this information they were willingly complicit in any illegal activities that happened on any of their customer's PC's. They continue to push / shove their product down the throats of the non-technical user community with the grand notion of "your system is secure with us". How is this any different than the cigarette companies saying it's perfectly safe to smoke, knowing all the while of the harmful affects.

    They knew their product was breached, but failed to disclose, and continued to sell it.

  25. Code Reviews and include in Job Description on How To Get Developers To Document Code · · Score: 2

    If you warn a developer up front that documentation of code is part of the job and you let them know there will be random code reviews they can't complain when they see no merit pay increases or eventually are laid off for now performing as expected. If a company does not allow for adequate time to have developers document code during a project it's the companies own fault, period.

    Developers have been told time and time again through-out the last 20-30 years that documenting your code is good coding practice, but a vast majority don't. There are several reasons, and the one I hate worst of all is the "job security" response. Be honest, you don't want to so you don't.