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  1. Re:That's not what it says at all... on Australian Attorney General Pushes Ahead With Gov't Web Snooping · · Score: 1

    Collect data on everyone, provide data on a specific person, when subpoenaed, to the authorities.

  2. Re:No. No. Fuck no. on Social Robots May Gain Legal Rights, Says MIT Researcher · · Score: 1

    If I can reprogram it to "forget" that it ever happened, did it really not happen?

  3. Re:Fuck me. Romney has a case of.. on Obama and Romney Respond To ScienceDebate.org Questionnaire · · Score: 1

    It's entirely possible the globe will go +2 degrees and nothing much will happen to the earth at all.
    So 2 degrees has resulted in "nothing much" except massive amounts of food in the country vanishing. It won't affect America much this year, but you can expect revolutions around the world based on high food prices this winter.

    Can I quote you on that?

  4. Re:No. No. Fuck no. on Social Robots May Gain Legal Rights, Says MIT Researcher · · Score: 1

    If you reliably restore everything to perfection (mental scars and everything), and also make he gets back the time he has lost during your restoration process (time travel or something), then yes. Why not?

  5. Re:No. No. Fuck no. on Social Robots May Gain Legal Rights, Says MIT Researcher · · Score: 1

    They do remember it, just not well. You can never reliably restore them to the state before you beat them up (I am talking mentally, not physically). For my robot, I can reliably restore it to the last known snapshot.

  6. Re:No. No. Fuck no. on Social Robots May Gain Legal Rights, Says MIT Researcher · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If I can reprogram it to "forget" that it ever happened, did it really happen?

  7. Re:This just in.... on Most Torrent Downloaders Are Monitored, Study Finds · · Score: 1

    Just like everything else did. People who liked the movie rated it, apparently, well.

  8. Re:Citation? on Book Review: Why Does the World Exist? · · Score: 1

    and they are happy about it or sad about it?

  9. Re:Oh, the Irony on Iran and North Korea Team Up To Fight State-Sponsored Malware · · Score: 1

    I wish I had not posted in this thread. I would mod both of your posts up if I could. Excellent points.

  10. Re:Oh, the Irony on Iran and North Korea Team Up To Fight State-Sponsored Malware · · Score: 1

    I am actually hoping that it is impossible for Nazi Germany to have not contributed to something every person uses today. Of the top my head, I am thinking Rockets (and technology build over it), I remember magnetic tape (audio tape), turbine engines, microwave cooking, some medicines (sorry I dont have names or sources).

  11. Re:Oh, the Irony on Iran and North Korea Team Up To Fight State-Sponsored Malware · · Score: 0

    I hate the Nazi's too, but I (and I believe you) do enjoy some of their greatest accomplishments. In others words, there is nothing wrong with using someone's greatest accomplishments and at the time condemning them for their worst accomplishments.

  12. Re:Exactly what I was thinking... on Space Station Spacewalkers Stymied By Stubborn Bolt · · Score: 1

    NASA explicitly prohibits cheater bars (they follow the right tool for the right job philosophy, strange isnt it). So that is ruled out too.

  13. Re:easiest solution on Ask Slashdot: Ad-Hoc Wireless Mesh Network For Emergency Vehicles? · · Score: 1

    To add to that if the devices put together use less than 3GB per month, ting would cost $60 per month + $6 per device (+ tax).

  14. Re:easiest solution on Ask Slashdot: Ad-Hoc Wireless Mesh Network For Emergency Vehicles? · · Score: 2

    You mean they have no money? How do they get firetrucks (which are very very expensive, if I may add), and everything else need to support their volunteer fire dept? The mobile devices are really really inexpensive. I have one from ting, the device cost me $70 (a bit more expensive than a wireless router, but not much), and for my usage I pay $15 a month (and all devices get pooled into the same plan, and will share data, making it very cost effective)

  15. Re:Privacy - that's what we expect in Russia (and on Russia's New Secure Android Tablet Keeps Data From Google · · Score: 1

    GPS -there are plenty of devices that will plot your location, show you a route to a destination, and have
    no capability for transmission.

    Care to mention any specific devices. The ones I have seen always carry a cellphone device that helps them acquire A-GPS data (the data that makes acquiring GPS lock much easier and faster). They also transmit "anonymized" statistics back to the GPS company, every month or so.

  16. Re:Not sure this works.. on Data-Mine Your Own Facebook Data With Wolfram Alpha · · Score: 3, Informative

    It says right in the title of the table "Web statistics for all of facebook.com:"

  17. Re:Elementary on The Case Against DNA · · Score: 2

    Sure, here you go

  18. Re:Farm Animals on Do Antibiotics Contribute To Obesity? · · Score: 1

    There two more comment that added value to the discussion in my opinion. Feel free to read them - http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3065745&cid=41089395
    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3065745&cid=41097601

  19. Re:Can you imagine... on Misunderstanding of Prior Art May Have Led to Apple-Samsung Verdict · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The problem is having one so-called expert, and 11 laymen in the room. It should either be all experts or all laymen.

  20. Re:Not so sunny on Bill "The Science Guy" Nye Says Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children · · Score: 1

    Did you ask them about the number of time sun goes around the earth every year or what happens if they reach the end of the (flat) earth's surface?

  21. Well played sir! Every time I reread it, I see a different interpretation.

  22. Re:Silly on Confessions of a Left-Handed Technology User · · Score: 1

    I missed the part where he blames the language (or the pen). Well I still dont find it, I guess I do fail in reading comprehension.

  23. Re:On the facebook page on LendInk EBook Lending Service Returns, Receives Fishy DMCA Notice · · Score: 1

    You dont have to be an attorney, especially for something simple as a DMCA notice. But you cannot claim to be an attorney (he claims to be), when you are not registered as one (all states have laws governing unauthorized practice of law)

  24. Re:Silly on Confessions of a Left-Handed Technology User · · Score: 0

    Isnt that a problem with English, requiring you to write from left to right, and not a design flaw in the pen?

  25. Re:Aluminium is the fuel, not water on Micromotors Race About By Turning Water Into Hydrogen Gas · · Score: 1

    Yeah "converting water into hydrogen by burning aluminum" is a more appropriate summary.