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  1. Re:Disable it! on Microsoft Denies Windows 8 App Spying Via SmartScreen · · Score: 1, Insightful

    How hard would it be to do it locally (like every other anti-malware/antivirus tool does)? If so why choose to do it remotely?

  2. Re:Not a very smart idea for the average homeowner on Would You Open Your Home To a Hacker – For Free? · · Score: 1

    Well then accept a rent of a dollar per month.

  3. Re:A class act on Astronaut Neil Armstrong Has Died · · Score: 1

    Or launch his coffin into space, if thats the way the family wants it.

  4. Re:Federal Supremacy on Location Privacy Act Approved By California Legislature · · Score: 1

    The supreme court has already weighed in favor of the feds, see Gonzalez v Raich (June 2005). So the federal law making possession an offense still holds. There are reports of arrest here and there, but as I understand the feds are not willing to push it and are limiting the number of arrest they make.
     
    But if you are caught in a federally controlled like a National park, all bets are off.

  5. Re:Federal Supremacy on Location Privacy Act Approved By California Legislature · · Score: 1

    As far as I have heard, it has been limited to federally controlled areas like National parks.

  6. Re:Federal Supremacy on Location Privacy Act Approved By California Legislature · · Score: 0

    Er, medical marijuana is the other way around. It is banned federally, so even though CA allows it, it is still illegal.

  7. Re:So basically... on Why Professors Love (and Loathe) Technology · · Score: 1

    With regards to technology adoption, yes I guess. But no I wouldnt call most professors ordinary human people. Most are very eccentric.

  8. Re:How's the thermonuclear war goin' for ya, Steve on Apple and Samsung Both Get South Korea Bans · · Score: 2

    Not true. The mobile industry standard for most frand patents is 2.5%. What Apple claims is that, since it's phone is not the usual $50 phone, and is a $600 one, it should be eligible for a lesser percentage than the industry standard. Samsung, Nokia, Motorola et all disagree.

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

    On reading more, it seems young chicken (most commonly available supermarket chicken) can indeed digest grass. It seems to give it proteins and vitamins, but no calories. So I assume by grass fed chicken, they mean chicken fed with grass among other things.

  10. Re:To dissappear... on Ask Slashdot: What Would Your 'I've Got To Disappear' Plan Look Like? · · Score: 1

    So you are fictional entity residing only in Facebook and posting on slashdot. Oh my god, skynet is live!

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

    As far I know chickens do not eat grass (even if it force fed, I am not certain they can survive on it). Are you sure about that?

  12. Re:Oh goody. on Do Antibiotics Contribute To Obesity? · · Score: 1

    Besides this is not anti-medicine. The study proposes judicious use of antibiotics and discourages overuse, I dont see any conclusion that could be consider anti-medicine.

  13. Re:That is a "defense"? on AT&T Defends Controversial FaceTime Policy Following Widespread Backlash · · Score: 1

    The net neutrality clause was only added to Block C spectrum auction (under Google's insistence if I may add). So only Verizon has the obligation to maintain net neutrality on their LTE Block C Spectrum. AT&T as far I know has not specifically agreed to uphold net neutrality (though under other obligations to the FCC, this may be considered a part of it)

  14. Re:Does it pan out? on Improving Uranium Extraction From Seawater, Inspired by Shrimp · · Score: 1

    Why? To increase the coastal erosion we already have?

  15. Re:magnets on Video Purports To Show Successful Hover Bike Test Flights · · Score: 1

    That would be way more expensive than each person owning one of these.

  16. Re:Cue the obligatory goatse jokes in 3...2...1 on The Worst Job At Google: a Year of Watching Terrible Things On the Internet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually psychopaths are very good at adapting. Even though they wouldnt feel bad about kittens being eviscerated, they know the society expects them to, and they 'learn' to feel bad about it (or show that they feel bad about it). Most psychopaths learn at an early childhood stage, what they society expects and adapt (though you would expect their base instincts to come out depending on the circumstances (and also whether they did had a proper childhood, that trained them properly)).

  17. Re:My automated car reaches 200 MPH on a straight on Stanford's Self Driving Car Tops 120mph On Racetrack · · Score: 1

    Can it also turn at accelerate back to 120 mph on the next straightway? Impressive!

  18. Re:"moving irresistibly"? on Sealed-Box Macs: Should Computers Be Disposable? · · Score: 1

    Cutting and welding (you did not mention welding/milling, do you have the tools?) it back together would require tools that most electronic/computer power users dont have people dont have.

  19. Re:Go after the uploaders how? Honest question. on RapidShare Urges US To Punish Linking Sites and Not File-Sharing Sites · · Score: 1

    s/uploaded/downloaded

  20. Re:Go after the uploaders how? Honest question. on RapidShare Urges US To Punish Linking Sites and Not File-Sharing Sites · · Score: 1

    Most uploaders make money of their uploads. Most hosting companies including Rapidshare pay you proportional to the number of times your file is uploaded. If you can pay them you most definitely can exactly pinpoint them.
     
    And if you cannot pinpoint the uploader, bad luck, there is nothing one can do about it. Let piracy happen. The only ones as far as I can see doing something illegal is the uploaders.

  21. Uploaders? on RapidShare Urges US To Punish Linking Sites and Not File-Sharing Sites · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Shouldnt they actually go for the uploader and not hosting company or the ones that link? Ahh going for uploaders would hurts their business, so they would rather have the authorities going for the ones that link.

  22. Re:If you're handcuffed by the Feds... on Hackers Hack Handcuffs at H.O.P.E. (Video) · · Score: 1

    You mean they do work, but not necessarily to escape (which depends on the situation, and whether you know weakest moments). Got it.

  23. Re:Torrent Link on Hackers Hack Handcuffs at H.O.P.E. (Video) · · Score: 1

    That is a different video (and a better one). The video attached to the summary, is at tool demonstration desk and not a talk.

  24. Re:And this is why they use zip-ties now. on Hackers Hack Handcuffs at H.O.P.E. (Video) · · Score: 2

    GP did not choose the right words. If you did what exactly GP describe you will hurt you wrist and the zip tie still wouldnt break. It is more like with full force bring your arms down on you knees or on your back (with a slight force that pushes the arms away from each other), and the right time increase the force that pulls the arms away from each (this will automatically happen when you hit your knees or your back). You will feel no pain and the zip tie will break.

  25. Re:"Do the right thing" on Assange Makes Statement Calling For an End To the "Witch Hunt" · · Score: 1

    I can understand taking time to report. But preparing breakfast from him the next day and having consensual sex with him the next day morning and then claiming rape is a bit too much for me.