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  1. Re:Well, Yes on The Movie Studios' Big 3D Scam · · Score: 1

    I've had shutter glasses since 2001 at home, what took them so long ?

  2. Re:only problem on Complex Life Found Under 600 Feet of Antarctic Ice · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The question is where did life evolve first in the solar system or did it evolve somewhere else first and was transported here. If panspermia is correct and life can be transported over past the ISM between star systems it is likely any place in the galaxy that is hit by this ' stuff ' will have life.

  3. Re:this study is completely biased on Study Finds That Video Games Hinder Learning In Young Boys · · Score: 5, Funny

    " Get a man that haven't had sex in 6 years and give him a girlfriend and analize what happens "

    Kinky, I'm pretty sure you can find many volunteers in the Slashdot population who would like to participate in this study of yours.

  4. Re:Buying politicians is cheaper on Pirate Bay Legal Action Dropped In Norway · · Score: 1

    Scandinavia for all intents and purposes is part of the political system and culture of geographically situated western Europe.

  5. Re:Why is this different? on Federal Agents Quietly Using Social Media · · Score: 1

    A wife is justified, 100's or 1000's of online friends are not.

  6. Re:Why is this different? on Federal Agents Quietly Using Social Media · · Score: 1

    That is not the point, the question is not what they care about or will or will not " waste their time " with, it is a question of privacy. Why should a cop who is being deceptive while investigating one suspect suddenly be allowed to access people, perhaps 100's or 1000's who may or may not be involved in any way? Do they then have the right to investigate the friends of his friends etc? Are we all suspects?

  7. Re:Why is this different? on Federal Agents Quietly Using Social Media · · Score: 1

    Where does it end? That has not been made clear.

  8. Re:I'd hope so. on Federal Agents Quietly Using Social Media · · Score: 1

    The difference being that a policeman can make accusations against that will bring legal charges. So when one person on Facebook friends a policeman why should all of his other friends be than subject to the Police investigating them? It would be like someone in a single apartment inviting in a cop so the police claim the right to search the whole building.

  9. Re:Why is this different? on Federal Agents Quietly Using Social Media · · Score: 1

    The question is, are they investigating outside their purview when they start looking into people's friends and organizations they belong to? To my knowledge this is very much a grey area and if a judge is asked to examine the legality of evidence involved in something like this, the lines had better be pretty bold and black or he will throw the case out. You can't start with one person on Facebook and start putting all his friends under surveillance willy nilly.

  10. As a member of SDS on Federal Agents Quietly Using Social Media · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We are not the baby boomer's SDS run by Marxist dogma by the way. Just wanted to get that out there before people start yelling commie. Mostly we act as a guard against the insane grabs of power and money by academic institutions that have been occurring at an alarming rate since the late 1990's. We are about as socialist on average as the socialist democrats are in Europe, even though we have some outliers.

    We have had an online presence for years and the one thing we set out at the start was to be open so if infiltration happened it would be well documented. There are no closed email lists, no secret societies and no calls to violence or overthrowing of the government. However, that does not mean that we have not been spied upon and we do take threats to our civil rights to assembly, speech and liberty seriously. What we worry about mostly is the threat of the government running counter intelligence programs against us like COUNTELPRO in the 70's since the FBI and the US DOD have been linked to some instances of agent provocateur activity during the Bush years. So the question that any investigation of these acts by the government is when they stop being surveillance and start being about collecting data on honest citizens who surround a suspect and via police misconduct and prosecutorial witchhunts.

  11. Build a solid plugin API first on Microsoft Previews IE9 — HTML5, SVG, Fast JS · · Score: 1

    That is what plugins are for, they should of created a rock-stable plugin API instead of trying to take the features of dozens of plugins and worry about getting them all working together.

    Make a light weight browser that has no plugins at all.

    Make one that has the plugin API and no plugins.

    Make one that has the top 10/20/30 plugins.

    Let everyone else use specialized browsers like flock if they have to.

  12. Re:Buying politicians is cheaper on Pirate Bay Legal Action Dropped In Norway · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That is not as easy in western Europe as it is the states, but it still happens. People over there are mildly clued into what is going on in their country even if some still do vote out of irrational fears it is nowhere near as prevalent as it is the states. So they expect their politicians to at least appear to do " the right thing ".

  13. Re:Should there be ANY government secrets? on US Intelligence Planned To Destroy WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    Are you trolling ? The drones the CIA is using currently are as illegal as any terrorist, not to mention the torture, extraordinary renditions and the like. The US is using terror to fight terror, except the difference is when they ignore the law the international community looks the other way because they want to be able to do their own black ops.

  14. Why not use a botnet on The Coming Botnet Stock Exchange · · Score: 1, Interesting

    To trade stocks in the first place? Buy some penny stocks/junk bonds whatever and get/steal/buy enough logins to various brokerages than just pump the price at an opportune time, take the money and run.

  15. Re:Should there be ANY government secrets? on US Intelligence Planned To Destroy WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    I would love to see the classified documents involving our involvement in water boarding of parties who were later determined to be non-guilty, CIA 'non-combatants' killing entire families to kill one "terrorist" with UAVs, Cheney/Bush orders to get around record-keeping laws and hope to god someone out there is brave enough to post them. I especially would like to know the names of the CIA officers who are currently ignoring the Geneva convention when they aren't shitting all over it and are making this country more unsafe because of their brutal and backward ways. There are many in the US and abroad who believe in justice, progress and humanity who would like them to see them and Americans like them locked away forever, I say we oblige them and begin respecting international law and basic human decency.

    Its time to slay our Grendels, that terrorize not only our enemies but the very foundations of our country's design.

  16. Re:An easier plan on US Intelligence Planned To Destroy WikiLeaks · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This is what it looks like when a government is scared. They don't fully realize that soon nothing will remain hidden forever and that includes every secret, every embarrassment and everything else they want to hide from us. It may take 1 day or 10 years but things will start coming out in time to prosecute these bastards while they are alive and they don't like that. These are the people who used French citizens to test out LSD on in the 1950's and 10 died, some jumping off buildings. Who was held accountable, no one. This will and must change.

  17. Re:Why would they want a sinner's organs anyway? on In Israel, Potential Organ Donors Could Jump the Queue · · Score: 4, Funny

    A lot of Jewish folk in the US have pig valves in them. There are tons of heart and vascular problems that have nothing to do with diet in some of their communities, it is sort of heartbreaking.

  18. Re:crazy hypocrites on In Israel, Potential Organ Donors Could Jump the Queue · · Score: 1

    The idea that political allegiances are predicated upon genetic markers that has been thrown around lately has me thinking what we will do when we have this knowledge out there in the open?

    Will extremists of all sorts use this knowledge of, " the way your heart and mind lies " so that they can only have the most rabid and devoted followers in their missions, be they military or ecclesiastical?

  19. Re:Pull the plug... on Filter Vendor Agrees Aussie Censorship Can't Work As Promised · · Score: 1

    Um, have you read anything about the Japanese justice system? It only recently re-introduced juries and has numerous and well-documented cases of corruption that defy common sense and blatant violations of both domestic and international law.

    They have a 98% conviction rate, they execute mentally ill people at about the same rate as Texas and defense attorneys have their hands tied by judges who don't even hide the fact they sympathize with the prosecution.

    We in the US have 12 maybe 16 people dead from Toyata's run away cars, in Japan they did not put in cross-bar bracing in Japanese models because it costs an extra few hundred bucks, so 1000's more people have died there as a result of safety issues. In Japan because they have virtually no car safety regulation, one full time inspector and 4 part-time for the WHOLE country this is an ongoing problem with all their industries.

    They are just now going through the nascent steps for unionization and they are being crushed by legal vendettas by large corporations against any individual attempting to organize for better working conditions or for consumer protection.

    That is why you can't get a fair trial in Japan.

  20. Re:Medical... on Why Are Digital Hearing Aids So Expensive? · · Score: 1

    It is non-functional, a victrola horn-like device would be pretty cool though, we could call it an ear horn.

  21. Re:No upsides either on Researchers Beam 230Mb/sec Wireless Internet WIth LEDs · · Score: 1

    Use a wireless dongle in a 20 oz tin can, not Pringles. Works better than a 500mw G adapter I bought off Ebay.

  22. Re:What do you expect... on Obama Appointee Sunstein Favors Infiltrating Online Groups · · Score: 1

    The left was not scared, intimidated or in any way threatened by Palin herself, it was the realization that out there in the wilds of America there was this massive Evangelical base who were willing to embrace and support such a dangerously unqualified candidate for high office.

  23. Re:Intesting how College area is way off on A Peek Into Netflix Queues · · Score: 3, Insightful

    More intelligent poor folk are pirates. Who has money for Netflix when you are living off Ramen and Peanut Butter?

  24. I can do that with a netbook on Intel Launches Wi-Di · · Score: 1

    Why would I want to buy something else?

  25. Re:Seriously? on Slovak Police Planted Explosives On Air Travelers · · Score: 1

    Tell that to the furries.