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  1. Re: an amazing OS on Windows 95 Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    So instead of a citation, you send him a link to a tool where he can do original research?

    That seems to indicate no citation exists to support the point made.

  2. Re:Nothing open to the sky on 2 Arrested In Plot To Fly Contraband Into Prison With Drone · · Score: 1

    There are some prisons that are literally skyscrappers... there is no outside time.

    I very much doubt this, and could not find anything supporting that claim.

    Can you provide a source of some sort? It should be easy to verify.

  3. Re:Nothing open to the sky on 2 Arrested In Plot To Fly Contraband Into Prison With Drone · · Score: 1

    Many prisons are entirely enclosed and are not deemed cruel.

    Because prisoners still get outside time.

    Then the Drones will deliver to where they are outside, instead of the yard.

    All you are doing is shifting the problem, not addressing it. Maybe making it ever so slightly more difficult, to a negligible amount that doesn't do the idea justice.

    Really, they should just shut down the use of anything electronic within the bounds of the yard. That is much simpler, and far more effective since it also stops a lot of other problems, like cell phone use.

  4. Re:Turn off your f'ing radios on Ask Slashdot: Best Big Battery Phone? · · Score: 1

    Agreed...I'm not a fan.

  5. Re:Turn off your f'ing radios on Ask Slashdot: Best Big Battery Phone? · · Score: 1

    At least on Android, there are 3 different levels of location. Only the highest level shows that it is in use, The mid level is Google's kung fu using wi-fi and stuff to approximate your location, which still uses radios even if disabled.

    I think.

  6. Re:Turn off your f'ing radios on Ask Slashdot: Best Big Battery Phone? · · Score: 1

    GPS doesn't matter, since it is only activated when requested and only receives. Data is surely a hog though.

  7. Re:1,6-Dichloro-yadayadayada on Soylent 2.0 Comes Bottled and Ready To Drink · · Score: 1

    You are a misinformed quack. There is no evidence that Sucralose is harmful to humans. None what so ever. And numerous evidence to the contrary.

  8. Abuse of the justice system on Interviews: Ask Kim Dotcom a Question · · Score: 1

    The way the government went after you was an abuse of the system. Seizing your domains and assets before a court hearing, the raid, the fact that you were not doing anything illegal etc..Do you plan to use your resources to highlight this corruption and prevent it from happening to others?

  9. Re:Link? on US Prosecutors Say Clearing Browser Data Can Be Obstruction of Justice · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not obstruction to hide evidence of something before you are charged.

    Or, it's not obstruction to not incriminate yourself by leaving clear evidence out.

  10. Re:"stealing just like stealing anything else" on Bell Media President Says Canadians Are 'Stealing' US Netflix Content · · Score: 1

    The infringer gets something for nothing â" like a thief. The copyright holder loses something â" like a theft-victim.

    The 'infringer' often has no legitimate means to otherwise access the content. Canadian Netflix has a 10th of what US Netflix does, so what is a better solution here, if the 'infringer' wants to stream something that Bell refuses to make available?

    The copyright holder only potentially loses something. That's key. If they made it available on Canadian Netflix they wouldn't be losing anything, and if it wasn't possible to watch over a US based VPN they may not pay for it at all. I know I wouldn't.

  11. Re:Ottawa will never allow it on Microsoft Reportedly May Acquire BlackBerry · · Score: 1

    That's pretty sad that you need the government to defend and bail out the single Canadian success story.

  12. Re:Copyright against ad-blockers on Editor-in-Chief of the Next Web: Adblockers Are Immoral · · Score: 1

    Modifying the page on the server, sure. Modifying the page rendered locally on my browser, not so much.

    Besides, advertisements are not part of the page or content that would be under such protection.

  13. Re:Nonsense on Why Scientists Love 'Lord of the Rings' · · Score: 1

    Yeah, studied. Thanks kiddo.

    Stuff in the DC universe is more plausible than stuff in the Marvel universe.

    Care to say something to dispute that specific claim?

  14. Re:Nonsense on Why Scientists Love 'Lord of the Rings' · · Score: 1

    Yes. It's easier for me to suspend disbelief that a human could train himself up and become a vigilante with billions of dollars, or that aliens might have different physiologies that we perceive as powers as opposed to a bunch of fantasy creatures existing in a fantasy realm using fantasy forces none of which is remotely plausible.

  15. Re:Nonsense on Why Scientists Love 'Lord of the Rings' · · Score: 1

    Well, DUH.

    I posted an opinion to contrast against the story, which is nothing more than an opinion.

    I would almost guarantee that more scientists are into comics than fantasy set in a middle age type world, because one gets you thinking, the other is dumb entertainment that isn't even plausible.

  16. Nonsense on Why Scientists Love 'Lord of the Rings' · · Score: 1

    It's precisely why I can't stand these books. I can't suspend my disbelief that middle earth exists, that magic exists, not the way they use or describe it.

    I would imagine more scientists get into comics, with even more detailed and well defined universe, often with rules that are consistent with our own or at least plausibly explained enough to suspend disbelief.

  17. Re:a scientific approach in the land of personhood on Who Owns Pre-Embryos? · · Score: 1

    You must be a pretty crappy scientist if this is how you reason things.

  18. Re:Close to owning on Who Owns Pre-Embryos? · · Score: 1

    That is absolute bullshit. This woman is forcing a man to have a child outside of his consent, by exploiting a previous agreement that should have become null and void when the relationship ended.

    It has nothing to do with a woman's rights to her body.

    She is clearly in the wrong. End of story.

  19. Re:Common Sales Slimage on Verizon Tells Customer He Needs 75Mbps For Smoother Netflix Video · · Score: 1

    Same as in NZ. Contract law doesn't really differ between the western countries. If they change the terms of the contract you have an opt out period.

  20. Re:danger vs taste on Pepsi To Stop Using Aspartame · · Score: 1

    No, you're just another crackpot wit not evidence to back up your claim.

    The stuff is proven to be *harmless*.

    We have an excess of data proving it.

    Show *something* to negate any of that.

  21. Re:To answer the headline on Can Civilization Reboot Without Fossil Fuels? · · Score: 1

    What can be done only with oil and not some hypothetical future technology?

  22. Slashdot is an international site you moron. Deal with it.

  23. Re:These days... on Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Bans Salary Negotiations To Equalize Pay For Men, Women · · Score: 1

    Well, no, it's factual. You might not like it, but it's backed by a surprising amount of hard data.

  24. Re:yes really on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With User Resignation From an IT Perspective? · · Score: 1

    I'm familiar with rsync. Hopefully he regularly cleans out his email after being made aware of your backup policy for email accounts.

  25. Re:Delete stuff. on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With User Resignation From an IT Perspective? · · Score: 1

    You might have a point in some border case exceptions.

    In the specific case of cleaning a virus, running a cleaner program or AV software most definitely isn't work. You let it run, and do whatever you want until it finishes, and then deal with what it finds.There is certainly no requirement for you to watch it.

    And no. A program you coded running all night is not your work, or even you working.

    Your work finished after the program successfully compiled, unless you have to debug, troubleshoot or whatever. If it is just running, then that isn't work. For cases where you do have to monitor a running program and perhaps troubleshoot, sure that's work.

    Simply running a program is not by itself work however.