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  1. Re:Is England turning Islamic ? on In UK, Search Engines Urged To Block More Online Porn Sites · · Score: 1

    You ask like this is a relatively rare occurrence that needs an occasional distraction. You'd be wrong. It's every day.

  2. Life imitating art on Computer Network Piecing Together a Jigsaw of Ancient Jewish Lore · · Score: 1

    Didn't Stephen Dorff do this in Blade?

  3. Re:They should consider the art alternative on German Railways To Test Anti-Graffiti Drones · · Score: 1

    I pass a memorial to Skeam every morning on the way to Waterloo East. No tagger has ever touched it and the authorities have left it alone too.

    Then again since Tox and Dean got sent down there's been a lot less new tagging around.

  4. Re: Techy drone-boners must stop. on German Railways To Test Anti-Graffiti Drones · · Score: 1

    There's solar panels and turbines for power. Hook that up to a wireless / cellular / microwave network and you can park it anywhere on the rail network.

  5. Re:Widely adopted? on Duracell's Powermat Ties the Knot With PowerKiss · · Score: 1

    There were Powermat mats and adapters going stupid cheap on amazon.co.uk recently (so I grabbed two sets of foldable ones, but I've never heard of Powerkiss...

  6. Re:Ambivalent on Mayor Bloomberg Battles Fleet Owners Over NYC 'Taxi of Tomorrow' · · Score: 1

    So basically, they're putting a crap engine in a dump truck.

  7. Re:Ambivalent on Mayor Bloomberg Battles Fleet Owners Over NYC 'Taxi of Tomorrow' · · Score: 1

    A 2 litre engined vehicle that only manages 24mpg? It's shocking how inefficient US cars are compared to those in Europe. Even Cosworth engined RS Ford Escorts did better over 20 years ago. The fact that it is a Nissan makes it even more surprising.

  8. Re:That's great and all on BT Runs an 800Gbps Channel On Old Fiber · · Score: 1

    Heh, my fibre upgrade means I pay about £2 less a month with a six fold speed increase than before...

  9. Re:That's great and all on BT Runs an 800Gbps Channel On Old Fiber · · Score: 1

    The A does stand for asymmetric, but that ratio is way off. The only reason your upstream rate should be so low is if you're on rate adaptive, which wouldn't get you your downstream rate. The only thing I can think of is a misconfiguration on your line, and you should complain about it to Broadband Services on their specific number as the general helpline can't do anything about it.

  10. Re:Idiots on Thousands of Whistle Blowers Vulnerable After Anonymous Hacks SAPS · · Score: 2

    That's a real life example of the Epimenides paradox at work.

  11. Re:Who is this for? on 3-D Printable Food Gets Funding From NASA · · Score: 1

    If you close your eyes, it almost feels like you're eating runny eggs.

  12. Re:Will they be open-sourcing it? on Goodbye, Lotus 1-2-3 · · Score: 1

    So the ides of March 2015 then (accounting for support period)?

  13. Re:please stop calling it piracy on Latvian Police Raid Teacher's Home for Uploading $4.00 Textbook · · Score: 1

    Citing a dictionary is not proof positive, especially when the sub entry is only there because the copyright holders wanted it.

    Piracy is the act of brigandage on the high seas. Allowing for lingual shifting, the location can be different; a highwayman could be considered a pirate. However the act remains constant and is stealing by force, which is where the discrepancy starts: copyright infringement is not stealing (and certainly no force is used), yet calling that act "piracy" imparts that meaning. A meaning the MPAA are promoting as they want the two acts to be conflated.

  14. Re:over the top but! on Reporters Threatened, Labeled Hackers For Finding Security Hole · · Score: 1

    So you would prefer they'd taken all the data and kept quiet about it?

    No. Full disclosure is warranted because full access was granted. It's not like just a few details were available. Fuck them for allowing this to happen. Fuck them serially and severally.

  15. Re:Why use wget? on Reporters Threatened, Labeled Hackers For Finding Security Hole · · Score: 5, Insightful

    1. wget is just a means to automate. Would you type all the URLs manually?
    2, 3, 4. As insecure as anybody else downloading it. They have no duty of care that publicly available data that shouldn't be publicly available is not publicly available.
    5. A blurred screenshot allows plausible deniability. After all, the blurred bits could be anything. It could even be a completely different page blurred in Photoshop to smear the good name of these dickheads^W fine upstanding members of the community.

    If they have a complete data dump, it is most likely someone else does as well. Someone who is more interested in profiting from shoddy practices.

  16. Re:Really? on Review: Star Trek: Into Darkness · · Score: 1

    And oh boy, was an unholy stink raised about that. But Lucille Ball basically said "fuck you all" in response. And good for her.

  17. Re:Really? on Review: Star Trek: Into Darkness · · Score: 1

    There weren't any independent women until TNG. Even Joan Collins couldn't be one. This is one of the things that defines the era in which it was made.

    However, being black, female and in a position of authority by dint of being a bridge officer, Uhura was probably the most independent of all the female cast. Nurse Chapel was just a nurse, subservient to McCoy. Yeoman Rand, well, she was just Kirk's secretary and backup squeeze when there weren't any Orion slave girls around.

  18. Re:not a fan on Review: Star Trek: Into Darkness · · Score: 1

    Every. Fracking. Time.

    *beep*

  19. Re:Really??? on Florida Activates System For Citizens To Call Each Other Terrorists · · Score: 1

    Pre-empt that by red flagging all the politicians, C*Os, lawyers and sheriffs in Florida. Repeatedly. After all, they are untrustworthy and engage in dubious practises.

  20. Re:Side effects on Brain Zapping Improves Math Ability · · Score: 1

    Then read more. To read makes your speaky English good.

  21. Re:Citations? They need to be sued heavily on Florida DOT Cuts Yellow Light Delay Ignoring Federal Guidelines, Citations Soar · · Score: 2

    The width of an intersection has nothing to do with amber light times. You should only enter the intersection on amber if it isn't safe (or possible) to stop before it. That is its purpose, to let you know you need to stop *if you can*. But no. Fucking hoorays think amber is the same as green and charge through when they could and should have stopped. Then there's the other fucking idiots who consider that just because the light is green for them that they have right of way over those already on the intersection. Both scenarios easily end with collisions.

  22. Re:s/Psychiatrists/PSYCHOLOGISTS on Psychiatrists Cast Doubt On Biomedical Model of Mental Illness · · Score: 1

    A psychologist can't get you locked up for life with no possibility of release based on a dodgy "assessment" that doesn't require an independent review.

  23. Re:Would most people be better off undiagnosed? on Psychiatrists Cast Doubt On Biomedical Model of Mental Illness · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Psychiatrists take the Hippocratic oath? Considering their treatments and "remedies" they don't seem very good at upholding it.

  24. Re:Article is full of it on DRM In HTML5 — Better Than the Alternative? · · Score: 2

    Not quite correct. People want to see movies. That these movies and other content has DRM is usually irrelevant except to that small percentage who aren't on the supported platforms. For the most part people don't even know it is there.

    A stance of "DRM has no place in HTML5" (a marketing term, like "HTML 2.0") would help educate the blissfully ignorant of how the web works and that it is the *content providers* who are trying to dictate how you consume.

  25. Re:way beyond cellphones on Reps Introduce Bipartisan Bill To Legalize Mobile Device Unlocking · · Score: 1

    That would be the "fair use" legislation that already exists, allowing you to make a backup copy, right?