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  1. Come to think of it, if the US government on In First American TV Interview, Snowden Talks Accountability and Patriotism · · Score: 2

    Come to think of it, if the US government wants to talk to Snowden or Assange so bad, can't they just do so by teleconference?

  2. Re:The Nook is/was excellent on I Want a Kindle Killer · · Score: 1

    To clarify, that's part of my job, I don't send data packets to barges for fun :P

  3. Re:The Nook is/was excellent on I Want a Kindle Killer · · Score: 1

    We hooked up a 900Mhz radio to a Nook so that we can intercept packet radio data from barges and send debugging packets, it's great in the sun because, well, you can see the damn thing. Couldn't have done that without android.

  4. Who has senators/congressmen on the committee? on Report: Verizon Claimed Public Utility Status To Get Government Perks · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They should be hammered with this. Make it simple, so that staffers can relay the information. Make it a net neutrality issue. Make it a no-pork issue. This is great news because it's a simple message. Someone needs to ask, at the right moment, "So Mr. Verizon Guy, were you bullshitting last year, or are you bullshitting now?"

  5. The Nook is/was excellent on I Want a Kindle Killer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    great battery life, runs Android and is easy to root so you can do other stuff with it... I'd have added a keyboard on the back, for typing with fingers while holding it. Why not just make more of that?

  6. Re:But that's not all Snowden did... on Why Snowden Did Right · · Score: 2

    Actually that's the CIA's job. The NSA is supposed to do internal counterespionage.

  7. What's the incentive, and should we worry? on The Flaw Lurking In Every Deep Neural Net · · Score: 1

    I wonder how much it pays to the first person who sorts this one out? I wonder if this is happening to the human brain?

  8. Re:Oblig Prior Art Question on Questionable Patents From MakerBot · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://hackaday.com/2012/04/23... This has been published April 2012, the provisional patent is from October 2012, so Makerbot wasted some time and money, by the look of it.

  9. Re:over thinking it on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Theft Products For the Over-Equipped Household? · · Score: 1

    My laser shark is at http://igg.me/at/minilaser/

  10. Beware the mad scientist! on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Theft Products For the Over-Equipped Household? · · Score: 1
    1) Build a Jacob's Ladder. The easiest way is to recycle a small CRT television or monitor, but there are instructables.

    2) Place it in a window in view of the door, or where you suspect people may want to break in and enter.

    3) Add a high voltage sign near it, possibly on the door itself.

  11. Re:I must be getting old... on Wolfenstein: The New Order Launches · · Score: 1

    Good times. I felt insanely clever when I figured out how to start with 255 bullets by changing a byte in the game executable. Had people ask me for a copy, even... of course my dumb ass wouldn't charge for the trick.

  12. Re:ANOTHER DEAD BODY! SWEET JUSTICE! on Robbery Suspect Tracked By GPS and Killed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, if there's one time when lethal force is justified, it's this. Doesn't excuse scumbags tazing grannies, but kudos to this officer for handling a dangerous situation optimally.

  13. Please do this in Italy on RightsCorp To Bring Its Controversial Copyright Protection Tactics To Europe · · Score: 3, Interesting

    send a letter like that to the wrong person, you will see exactly what happens if you set up a protection racket where the marketplace is already full.

  14. Re:What do the have we don't? on Death Wish Meets GPS: iPhone Theft Victims Confronting Perps · · Score: 1

    Eh, if the police mowed down my kids, that country wouldn't have a police force anymore come next year.

  15. Re:"backup, guns, radio, jackets"... training? on Death Wish Meets GPS: iPhone Theft Victims Confronting Perps · · Score: 1

    I'm legitimately curious how the cops react to that.

  16. Re:backup, guns, radio, jackets on Death Wish Meets GPS: iPhone Theft Victims Confronting Perps · · Score: 1

    Also, y'all are civilians too. You are a police force, not a gendarmerie.

  17. Re:What police officers lack ... on Death Wish Meets GPS: iPhone Theft Victims Confronting Perps · · Score: 1

    1) Make phone ring. 2) Hello, I am a NASA/Coast Guard contractor. They don't give a shit about my phone, but you can access their data from it, so I'm going to have to call Homeland Security. 3) Retrieve phone.

  18. Re:Vigilantism comes from apathy on Death Wish Meets GPS: iPhone Theft Victims Confronting Perps · · Score: 1

    Robert Peel would probably strongly approve of helmet/badge cameras, if you read his writings.

  19. Re: frosty piss on Death Wish Meets GPS: iPhone Theft Victims Confronting Perps · · Score: 1

    Okay, but there is some correlation between "person who mugs people for their smartphones" and "drug user with confiscatable stuff". I found a guy who stole my bike once, got a campus cop to get an actual cop to go with me to take it back (to her credit, the campus cop was super nice about it), real cop knocked at the guy's door, guy opens door while smoking a joint, I see an arrest being made, and I'm told that to get my bike back I'd have to buy it back at auction, at which I flipped out both of those people and walked home.

  20. Re: 300 Large? on The Million-Dollar Business of Video Game Cheating · · Score: 1

    That's pretty much what Free to Play (Pay to Win) already does.

  21. Very cool, I do the same with a laser cutter on 3D Printer Lays Down Functioning Circuitry Alongside Thermoplastic · · Score: 1
  22. Re:This warning reads like a challenge to me on Experts Say Hitching a Ride In an Airliner's Wheel Well Is Not a Good Idea · · Score: 1

    YOLO!!!!!!!!!!11111 Jokes aside, I do have to wonder how many animals end up making the trip -- a spider is going to have a much easier time surviving this than anything warm blooded. In the meantime, waterbears are calling everyone else amateurs... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

  23. I was lucky to grow up in a saner environment on L.A. Science Teacher Suspended Over Student Science Fair Projects · · Score: 4, Interesting

    http://spiritplumber.deviantar... This is a SLIGHT fictionalization of what happened to me when faced with a derpy administrator -- the dates and names have been changes but you can probably guess my age by the stuff referenced in. Ultimately, teachers and administrators operate in loco parentis; the parents have to get mad.

  24. Too many bioscientists on U.S. Biomedical Research 'Unsustainable' Prominent Researchers Warn · · Score: 0

    Too many bioscientists are not a problem if we can come up with a sufficiently high matching hunchback population. http://project-apollo.net/mos/

  25. Common distraction? on Russia Wants To Establish a Permanent Moon Base · · Score: 1

    Didn't Newt Gingrich also want to estabilish a moon base? It sounds cool, and we should do it, but it's fast becoming the thing to say when you want to sound lofty and forward-thinking but put no real effort behind it.