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  1. No way on BSA Claims Half of PC Users Are Pirates · · Score: 1

    There is no way half of all PC users know how to download pirated software.

  2. Sure, lots of things I want on Amazon Patents Pitching As-Seen-On-TV Products · · Score: 1

    Dune buggy from the sporting goods store in "Mr & Mrs Smith".

  3. Hello, this America. Sue! on 'Inexact' Chips Save Power By Fudging the Math · · Score: 1

    So my computer let me down when I was using a poorly written app on this new fangled computer. I am suing the computer manufacturer, the app maker and gosh darn it, Slashdot too for the entry

  4. Re:NPR Looked at Pizza Delicious on General Motors: "Facebook Ads Aren't Worth It" · · Score: 1

    When I heard the donation of $10, the first thing I thought of was a FB employee plant to do some gorilla marketing of their own.

  5. I tried it with a smaller budget on General Motors: "Facebook Ads Aren't Worth It" · · Score: 2

    At about $100 a day for my small service based business (with a pretty wide demographic), I saw ZERO conversions. I pulled the plug pretty quickly.

  6. Re:How do you plan on getting to that ER? on Facebook Co-Founder Saverin Gives Up U.S. Citizenship Before IPO · · Score: 1

    Almost all of them get some funding for the DOT/NTSB/ETC

  7. Re:On the plus side. on Stone-Throwing Chimp Back In the News With Better Plan · · Score: 1

    One of the zoo keepers said that Santino does not like gooy stuff on his hands; including but not limited to poo.

  8. Really? on TSA Tests Automated ID Authentication · · Score: 1

    I thought thats what the TSA person at the front of the line does, you know when they take your ID and your boarding pass and match the information. I hate the TSA (you didnt have to work there to hate them, but i did for 6 months a number of years ago) and didn't rtfa, but I would guess that this new system just makes so sort of fuss and a "security" person then checks it again?

  9. Live here on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Get Through To a Politician By E-mail? · · Score: 1

    I have emailed senators and my city councle. (Alaska and Anchorage) I get responses, albeit short ones. After our botched muni election on April 3rd I email my city councle members emploring them to launch an independent investigation (along with many other Anchorage residents). I sent my emails at about 7pm on a weekend and got a response from "my" councle member from his blackberry about 10 ministers later. Honestly I felt my voice was being heard (not that the councle leadership has shown any balls and authorized an independent investigatin)

  10. Shouldnt it be.... on Leisure Suit Larry Comes Again (Video) · · Score: 0

    Leisure suit Larry cums again?

  11. I to methfloquine in Africa on Army Reviews Controversial Drug After Afghan Massacre · · Score: 2

    After about 6 weeks, I stopped taking it. The 2-3 days after my once a week pill (dose) I was out of my mind agressive and slightly disconnected with reality. I chose to risk malaria when traveling around east africa over the side effects of the drug. Others with me felt the same way though their side effects were a bit diffrent. When I returned to the states I did a litte research and found hallucinations were a rare side effect and a few people had compleat permanant mental breakdowns. I thought there was a class actin lawsuits and it was removed from the market (not that that always effect the military)

  12. Rubicon on Police Find Apple Branded Stoves In China · · Score: 2

    The rubicon in the Jeep world is a very hard off road trail near lake Tahoe. It use to be all Jeeps could run the easy side of the trail. The Jeep badge was ment as homage and to imply that modle could run the hard side. Don't know about the other names.

  13. Any way on A Small Glimmer of Hope For Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    IANAP. Why would neutrinos that travel faster then light travel linearly? I understand why they should, but if they violate causality why would they end up where you expect them?

  14. Re:OT: What's with all the hyperbol summaries late on Secret UK Network Hunts GPS Jammers · · Score: 1

    ENHANCE!

  15. Re:at the risk of sounding stupid.. on Secret UK Network Hunts GPS Jammers · · Score: 1

    My assumption would be that any police force with reasonable tech to detect a "blackout" would call the NSA, CIA, MI6, FBI, TSA and everybody else they could think of. It's pretty easy to disable a police net with 10 (or however many channels the area you wish to effect has) handheld [say Puxing 667's for $60 each bought off ebay direct ffrom HK, no FCC LISC or easy trail] duct-tape to the top of a city bus or hidden on rooftops with with transmitters keyed and a 100 gps blockers dumped in stragic locals. But any police force with a plan may have legacy radios, you would still have a few hours. I write with a minor understanding of a sample municipality in the USA, I haven't the faintest how it works in the UK. Don't forget use snowmobiles or dirt bikes (as needed in your town) with your own sideband com net. Oh and lasers for the helo- LEO pilots protect their birds something wicked. I am sure another 10 minutes of thought is needed to really plan out the perfect crime.

  16. Re:Note to self. on FOIA Request Shows Which Printer Companies Cooperated With US Government · · Score: 2

    Or, um, ALWAYS buy a used printer.

  17. Re:One thing I always wondered ... on Super Bowl Bust: Feds Grab 307 NFL Websites; $4.8M · · Score: 1

    I worked for a retail manufacture that lost a trademark infringemt suite. Their product had some of the same letters of the better known product but in no other way did it seem to me there was any "consumer confusion". The product was called Tempinol it was a temporary tooth filling and Tylanol was the brand that filed the TM infringement.

  18. Round these parts.... on Retail Chains To Strike Back Against Online Vendors · · Score: 1
    So many stores from big box to chains have signs "prohibiting" use of smartphone price matching. It always makes me laugh. Sportsmans Wearhouse which has good prices on something's has such a policy. One some items they are WAY overpriced, $30-$40 over. On the flip side I get a 20% LEO/EMS discount on Glocks at the local cop shop, but I bought at Sportsmans as my order for a G-20/SF went unordered for 4 weeks. I paid over $100 to get it in my hand today.

    It's about priority. I'll pay some more locally to have "it" today, but there is a cut off. I was looking at some WARN lights on the shelf of a local shop while I waited for an estimate, I looked the lights up at Amazon and they were 1/2 as much. ($349.99 at Alaska Spring and $119.00 on Amazon). I am sorry, I am not that loyal.

  19. I wonder about using a RECCO chip? on Shmoocon Demo Shows Easy, Wireless Credit Card Fraud · · Score: 1

    If you put a RECCO chip on you wallet I bet it would foil (ha ha) a RFID reader. The RECCO is basicly a radio signal reflector. It works in reverse, a RECCO scanner will hit off of key FOBs, cellphones and other integrated boards. If you don't know; RECCO is a search and rescue tool used in avalanche rescue. You by the chip in two packs and apply them to your boots or helmet. They are also integrated into some mountian outerwear.

  20. Re:is there a movie launch happening? on Psychics Say Apollo 16 Astronauts Found Alien Ship · · Score: 1

    Right. The last day I turned cable on (Sunday) I saw the guide said "little known secrets in America" or something like that. I turned it on and sure enough it was a segment about the St Louis Arch being a weather control device using ionic pulses. What the fuck, batman? How's that history?

  21. Not me on Do Companies Punish Workers Who Take Vacations? · · Score: 1

    I can't imagine ever working in a "workplace" environment or for someone as an employee ever again. Trying to please a boss or not taking vacation to "appear" one way or another is fuckng baffling to me. I'll respect you for it, but my life is about; family, outdoors and well, life. "Work" (I own a small business and bust my ass at it) is a distant second priority with clearly defined boundrys.

  22. Re:Are you rich? Is your dad a senator? on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way To Deal With Roving TSA Teams? · · Score: 1

    The 4 Amendment allows for "Administrative Searches" which has been translated to mean if you want go in there [sic] you must consent to being searched. I hate it, but it's right there. I have a huge problem with the "papers please" way we are being searched. Their scope should be looking for a bomb, not if my phone turns on, how big the blade on my pocket knife is (I am in EMS so I am allowed to carry an automatic knife, are they going to check this relititivle esoteric federal statue?) or what about if I am on a trip back from the hardware store. Is that gong to get me taken in for questioning?

  23. Access? on Petition Calls For Making Net Access Inalienable Right · · Score: 1

    What about the fact we access the internet through a private party? This company is not obligated to uphold any of the constitution (not that I am über-pro business). Access through a private company is like saying th 2nd amendment allows you to carry a firearm at a bank or bar, both being private property that generally does not allow private citizens to carry weapons there, but are not violating the right to bear arms.

  24. Happens to us on TOSAmend Automates Counteroffer Terms For Service Agreements · · Score: 2

    We have a service based business and we have a client that every year crosses off parts of our TOS and sends it back. We ignore it. If you don't agree to our TOS or want to change it in any way you just don't get the service. as it is they simply cross the part off their risk management doesn't like (hold harmless and limit of liability) and send it to us. We sign nothing. Our insurance mandates our clients agree to those two clauses or they are not covered, it's that simple.

  25. Funnything on Russia Approves Siberia-Alaska Railway · · Score: 2

    Being that I live in Anchorage, I would think someone in Alaska would talk about this. Not so, it's all quite on the Alaska news front. In fact I just drove the Alcan for my 17 time. FYI, it's still not "done". They are still working to finish paving above Destruction Bay. Why is it a bunch of people who have never set foot in the Yukon think that they can put a rail in? Then the miles in Western Alaska that has never seen a road. I would love to see land based access open up in western AK, but I see this project as wishful thinking based on the current admin in power in Alaska.