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  1. I see these and laugh on Microsoft Settles With No-IP After Malware Takedown · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I always find it funny to see Microsoft using legal actions to fight malware rather than just fix the problem...

  2. Worried I am not on Ask Slashdot: Can Star Wars Episode VII Be Saved? · · Score: 2

    If Disney knows how to do anything it's to take the work of others and run with it.

    Episodes I-III barely touched the extended universe just as fan boy nods - the new ones can have this easily too.

    The books are separate from the movies. The masses don't know what all happened in them anyway. We'll wish to see it on screen but I'm thrilled to see what they do.

    In closing. They are doing fine with Marvel and Disney paid a billion dollars for Star Wars. A BILLION dollars. They won't mess this up. If they do well it's safe to say the mouse will be very upset.

  3. Re:I wouldn't want it on Norway Is Gamifying Warfare By Driving Tanks With Oculus Rift · · Score: 1

    Then let's give it to the company commander instead. He needs something to keep him occupied so we can get the job done.

  4. I wouldn't want it on Norway Is Gamifying Warfare By Driving Tanks With Oculus Rift · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As a former M1A1 tank driver I would not want this system at all. I don't need something extra that can go wrong and leave me blind at the wrong time. Imagine yanking all that crap off just to be able to see again. Give it to the commander and let him play with the toy but he'll set it aside I'm sure.

    Tanks are not all that hard to navigate. Plus you're not suppose to get tanks into positions where you have those sorts of problems. If you do then you have the rest of your platoon to help be your eyes. As well as "scratch your back" if you need it.

  5. Future not hard to see it is on Star Wars: Episode VII Cast Officially Announced · · Score: 2

    If there is one thing Disney is good at it's their ability to take someone else's work and run with it.

  6. Road to Hana on Google Using Self-Driving Car Data To Make Cars Smarter · · Score: 2

    Lets see it drive the road to Hana and back. That would be interesting. Bonus points for not getting yelled at.

  7. Just bust the patent or explain somthing to me on Adam Carolla Joins Fight Against Podcast Patent Troll · · Score: 1

    How hard could this patent be to get around? Parent claims are only 1,13,23 and 31. The first of those three talk about in some form right off the bat of "reproducing media program files". The media file isn't being reproduced. It's saved and played. Plus those seem to be centered on the player - which shouldn't be the problem of the podcaster right?

    31 is the harder one but that looks like a playlist or like an RSS file of sorts. Check this file and see if there is something new in the list available.

    Either that or I'm off base so just don't be a troll.... humor attempt failed...

  8. It's very basic on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It should work in any browser.

  9. Let the record show on Pinterest Reveals Its First Transparency Report · · Score: 1

    That the defendant did in fact pin the "Lime green lampshade with yellow and purple fringe" at 8:52pm on Friday March 7 of 2013. What does this have to do with anything you ask, besides possibly bad taste? I don't know but that's for you to decide isn;'t it?

  10. Perhaps an additional cause is to blame? on Is Traffic Congestion Growing Three Times As Fast As Economy? · · Score: 1

    What about all the road construction that is going on? That can be a big cause of congestion.

  11. Re:Rate on 'CandySwipe' Crushed: When Game Development Turns Nasty · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I removed it from my mobile device just now. I too feel better.

  12. Re:I'm confused on House Committee Approves Bill Banning In-Flight Phone Calls · · Score: 0

    It's right above the line that says the President is allowed to change laws that have been passed.

  13. Ice ice baby on Watch Bill Nye and Ken Ham Clash Over Creationism Live · · Score: 1

    There is an ice storm warning for the area right now. I bet they'll be postponing the debate soon.

  14. Those who live in Kansas on Kansas To Nix Expansion of Google Fiber and Municipal Broadband · · Score: 3, Informative

    The bill is by "The committee on commerce" which looks to be... http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2013_14/committees/ctte_s_cmrce_1/

    You might want to contact them. We all know where / how this bill got it's start. You need to voice your opinion and remind them who they really serve.

  15. Re: One and the same on Why Whistleblowers Can't Get a Fair Trial · · Score: 1

    Third party sounds good but in reality you're out numbered and playing against a stacked deck. The best way is to use the system against itself. Get people of like minds into the central committees (I believe that's what they are called). They control who gets put on the ballot for the primaries as endorsed. People who vote party line (which is A LOT) will blindly let vote them in at Primary time because they are endorsed. Then it's a numbers game come general election time. Getting on these committes isn't impossible either. You may be third party sure but chances are good that you share views with one of the major two parties. Bite your tounge and steer things with others helping in the right direction.

  16. The key word is... on Former Head of NSA Calls For Obama To Reject NSA Commission Recommendations · · Score: 1

    In this comment "Right now, since there have been no abuses and almost all the court decisions on this program have held that it's constitutional, I really don't know what problem we're trying to solve by changing how we do this" the key word is... ALMOST.

  17. Re:If it was a religion? on If UNIX Were a Religion · · Score: 1

    Text editors perhaps would be saints.

    http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

  18. All is lost! on Neural Net Learns Breakout By Watching It On Screen, Then Beats Humans · · Score: 2

    The AI has another advantage over us human players with the Atari 2600. No blisters.

  19. Unlike the markets on Thanks to Neutrino Detector, We Might Get a Good Look At the Next Supernova · · Score: 1

    Past performance is indicative of future results.

  20. Ahh the days of Quake 3 on Barbarians At the Gateways · · Score: 1

    Dang LPB

  21. To think... on Pastafarian Wins Battle To Wear Colander In License Photo · · Score: 1

    Showbiz Pizza was a front for the Pastafarian movement.

  22. Re:fair use on Comcast Threatens TorrentFreak For Posting Public Court Document · · Score: 2

    When has a false take down notice ever hurt, really hurt, the person/group/whatever making the claim?

  23. Re:2008? Who? on NSA Broke Privacy Rules Thousands of Times Per Year, Audit Finds · · Score: 1

    We already know the answers but the important question you forgot to ask is how will the current administration handle this? Or course we know that answer too with the appointment of James Clapper to conduct the independent review of the NSA. It's pretty clear that poor decision making is still occuring to this day.

  24. Don't forget to thank on NSA Broke Privacy Rules Thousands of Times Per Year, Audit Finds · · Score: 1

    Two other groups that need to be thanked for all of this is the DoJ and the journalists. If the DoJ hadn't had gone and obtained the phone records of some journalists this would have probably been quietly brushed aside. You know cause the journalists don't want to get shut out but now all bets are off and the news agencies are happy to report on things that effect them.

  25. I know nothing on Utah Set To Exempt NSA Datacenter From Power Tax, After All · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just to be fair the NSA is denying knowing a lot these days.