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  1. Re:Oh, they can fuck right off. on After Cell-Phone Switch-Off, Anonymous Promises BART Protest · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Once you enter an area that requires a ticket or that is private property, you are no longer in a public venue for free unhampered expression; you are in an area for paying customers.

    Buy the lowest cost ticket, enter the ticketed area. Simply dont board any trains. If I remember correctly BART tickets do not expire with time. And its only the distance (stops) that matter.

  2. Re:Stop feeding the trolls on After Cell-Phone Switch-Off, Anonymous Promises BART Protest · · Score: 1

    I condemn their DDOS, but I would surely support them if they were to call for a sit-in protest (just as in this case). Too bad, I live 200 miles from the nearest BART station. 'They' may be Anonymous, ?chans,or anybody, I would support them.

  3. Re:Google paid Apple for the same thing. on FTC Probes Android and Google Search · · Score: 1

    Google paid Mozilla too, to be the default search providers (infact google has paid for years now)

  4. Re:Wow. Slashdot has really changed. on Google's 'ID Validation' Is a Joke, But Not Funny · · Score: 1

    In the past, you wouldn't have had to explain to the people here why allowing the government to require everyone to carry "papers" was a good idea in the short term, but a bad idea in the long term.

    I am one of those kids that dont understand this (neither about why it is better in short term nor whey bad idea in long term). Someone care to explain?

  5. Shouldnt they be more concerned about robots? on Terrorist Target Mexican Nanotechnology Professors · · Score: 1

    n/t

  6. Re:Wait. Why is this a bad thing? on California DNA Collection Law Struck Down · · Score: 2

    With Proposition 69, you would have had your DNA taken as soon as you are arrested. Now, your DNA would be taken only when you are convicted.

  7. Re:I hope you don't mind on India Wants To Monitor Twitter, Facebook · · Score: 1

    What even more disturbing is that, they allowed syringes aboard, but confiscated the insulin.

  8. Re:You can't sign away the 1ST amendment rights on Law School Amplifies Critics Through SLAPP Suit · · Score: 1

    Actually, you indeed, can sign away your 1st Amendment rights. You can sign a paper promising to travel to a country that does not have 1st amendment (the failure of which may be subject to massive damages of some sort), and voila!

  9. Re:What? on Start-Up Claims Immortality For Data With 'Stone-Like' Disc · · Score: 1

    I am concerned about the time frame too. A dip is usually 5 seconds. I would be concerned about much moderate temperatures for much prolonged time period.

  10. Re:What? on Start-Up Claims Immortality For Data With 'Stone-Like' Disc · · Score: 2

    Yeah, the right questions would be...
    1) Will a 3 ft drop to a concrete floor break it? How many such falls can it withstand?
    2) If I rub the readable side with sand paper, will it get damaged? How long will it hold? Can the data still be recovered?
    3) How variable is the temperature range it is supposed to stored in? What happens if there is power outage and I cannot maintain the range for 1-2 weeks?
    4) Ditto for moisture, and general exposure to air & water.

  11. Thats Gruesome? on Syrian Hackers Deface Anonymous' Social Network · · Score: 2

    Has the author never been goatsed?

  12. Re:Cost? on DOE Announces Philips As L Prize Winner · · Score: 1

    I dont know about you, but I see plenty of references to CFLs (compact florescent lights) in this thread.

  13. Re:How about fixing the Thunderbird 5 UI first? on The Next Firefox UI · · Score: 1

    Yes, a working Lightning (calendar) addon

    PS: If you knew what you were missing, why would you ask the question at all.

  14. Re:And for all you know India might be next .... on Pakistan Tries To Ban Encryption · · Score: 1

    Well banning automobiles would be a solution to hit-and-run accidents. You'd significantly reduce them after all.

    No, it wont. Not a single soul will respect the ban.

  15. Re:CAFE is the gutless choice on The End of the Gas Guzzler · · Score: 1

    Let's not pretend that public transit is a good alternative either because in a lot of places (like Phoenix where I live) it's a joke.

    Simple, tax gas and use it fund public transit. And as the sibling post pointed out, announce a future increase. Announce that it starts at 3% today and that it gradually increase every year/month automatically. (BTW I dont think a huge percentage in some specific date, like the other poster pointed out will work, people will just wait it out, and when the date comes close, they would want it repealed citing the present financial situation)

  16. Re:The conclusions are not that different. on Another Cell Phone-Cancer Study Emerges · · Score: 2

    So, pickled cucumbers can cause cancer?

  17. Re:Wake me when... on Wal-Mart Jumps Into Video Streaming · · Score: 2

    I didn't buy an expensive 62" high-def display, Oppo BD player, component surround sound system, and nice speakers so I can watch the crap quality of what Netflix and everyone else today calls HD.

    Simple, sell them and get a 32". You can now watch Neflix and what everyone calls HD today, will really be HD, and be equivalent to even bluray.

  18. Re:Apple marketing department on 35% Consumers Want iPhone 5... Sight Unseen · · Score: 1

    The next day...

    Slashdot: More Malicious Android Apps Pulled from MarketPlace
    Android Fanboy: No problem, I can still get the app (if I wanted to), from various apps stores (like amazon, getjar, appbrain, and tens of others)

    Fanboys are stupid, faces on stun.

    FTFY

  19. Re:i thought on How To Jailbreak and Upgrade Old Android Phones · · Score: 1

    Android does not have a walled garden (in the sense that you can install apps from non just the official Andorid Market, but from anywhere you please). You still dont get root access by default (atleast most phones done), and the ability to modify the bootloader or kernel is not guaranteed. But yeah the source code is available, and people do build custom roms, though they still have to get past the locked bootloaders (Only a few motorola phone had the bootloader locked I guess).

    I cannot believe people still keep asking about.

  20. Re:Non story on Watch Out Linux, GNU Hurd Coming · · Score: 1

    That was "now", not "not"

  21. Re:Non story on Watch Out Linux, GNU Hurd Coming · · Score: 1

    Wheezy is already on feature freeze, they are not ironing out bugs and documentation and trivial stuff. There is no reason they should miss the deadline. And you can download it right now and try it out, though you should expect bugs and report them. Are the cheap solar, sustainable fusion and shuttle replacement at the same stage?

  22. Re:Youth is wasted on the young on Belgrade Hosts First Public Solar-Powered Cell Charging Station · · Score: 0

    RTFS! The inventor is providing the service free to the users!!

  23. Re:Obvious on Apple Wants To Block Some HTC Products From US Under Tariff Act of 1930 · · Score: 0

    You should check out your nearest Apple store, they sell infinitely more iPhones than Android phones.

  24. Re:Scott Thompson, President, PayPal on PayPal Predicts the End of the Wallet By 2015 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mod up, I just spend all my mod points!

  25. Re:well ok on Nexus S To Serve As Brain For 3 Robots Aboard the ISS · · Score: 1

    I assume these are add-ons to the usual processor and OS. I would be surprised if NASA would trust Android and Nexus for critical applications.