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  1. Re:spoiled brat on Seismic Data From North Korea Suggest a Repeat of 2013 Nuclear Test · · Score: 1

    Well for crying out loud we have targeted nukes nowadays. So why haven't we anonymously nuked his palace and the government building so the citizens of DPRK can have a bloody meal with protein in it rescue dropped on the country? They're starving to death up there...

  2. Er.. don't we already have that? on Dropbox Obtains Peer-To-Peer File Sharing Patent (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Frankly it simply sounds like the speil I heard for Bit Torrent when it first came out. I mean Word for Word.. not just *like* it. MAybe we do nead another similar format though.. if dropbox keeps this protocol below the radar. After all BT has just caught too much flac and it's not safe from prying eyes..

  3. Re:Doesn't matter. on DUI Charges Dismissed Against Woman Whose Body Brews Alcohol (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless you can prove the existence of this illness beyond a shadow of a doubt and that you have been definitely diagnosed with it prior to having been involved in the accident// then it will not count as a defense. If you CAN however it will not hrlp either because you will be knowingly over the limit .. or impaired. Your insurance will be invalidated and you will be liable for the full amount.
    If you can NOT prove the existence of this illness and or that you have been diagnosed with it then as far as the courts and insurabnce are concerned it's all due to exceess drinking and your charges will proceed and your insurance will be invalidated.
    I been there.
    [Disclaimer] Nothing in the proceeding should be construed as giving legal advice. [] ...Except that no matter what you do in this situation they got you by the short and curlies ;-( :sigh:

    P.S. It took 3 yearsn before I even found out how come 3 glasses of cider could last in the system for 14 hours. Never heard of this illness until then.

    p.p.s. Had I not had ANY thing to drink that day I might have suspected something was amiss. Certainly i never gave any credence to those people who used to accuse me of smelling like alcohol before when I hadn't indulged. I assumed it was because of my liver or pancreas.. both of which can contribute to some awful odors...
    So FYI.. Worth double checking if people mention it to you..

  4. Re:Doesn't matter. on DUI Charges Dismissed Against Woman Whose Body Brews Alcohol (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless you can prove the existence of this illness beyond a shadow of a doubt and that you have been definitely diagnosed with it prior to having been involved in the accident// then it will not count as a defense. If you CAN however it will not hrlp either because you will be knowingly over the limit .. or impaired. Your insurance will be invalidated and you will be liable for the full amount.
    If you can NOT prove the existence of this illness and or that you have been diagnosed with it then as far as the courts and insurabnce are concerned it's all due to exceess drinking and your charges will proceed and your insurance will be invalidated.
    I been there.
    [Disclaimer] Nothing in the proceeding should be construed as giving legal advice. [] ...Except that no matter what you do in this situation they got you by the short and curlies ;-( :sigh:

    P.S. It took 3 yearsn before I even found out how come 3 glasses of cider could last in the system for 14 hours. Never heard of this illness until then.

  5. Re:Doesn't matter. on DUI Charges Dismissed Against Woman Whose Body Brews Alcohol (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless you can prove the existence of this illness beyond a shadow of a doubt and that you have been definitely diagnosed with it prior to having been involved in the accident// then it will not count as a defense. If you CAN however it will not hrlp either because you will be knowingly over the limit .. or impaired. Your insurance will be invalidated and you will be liable for the full amount.
    If you can NOT prove the existence of this illness and or that you have been diagnosed with it then as far as the courts and insurabnce are concerned it's all due to exceess drinking and your charges will proceed and your insurance will be invalidated.
    I been there.
    [Disclaimer] Nothing in the proceeding should be construed as giving legal advice. [] ...Except that no matter what you do in this situation they got you by the short and curlies ;-( :sigh:

  6. The only rules of fan films is that they gotta really really SUCK. Clearly a "fan film" made by film professionals runs the risk of actually being.. heaven forbid.. GOOD.
    The majors already got a taste of what could be released with the "of gods and men" creation.. although they clearly felt it was pretty much not likely to threaten anyone. er ..ever. (I liked it though!)
    This one is crossing the line.. in their opinion, anyways. What I don't get, though, is just how stupid are they? Really? They could have protected their IP and saved themselves a whole bunch of grief, *and* set a good precedent by *partnering* with these folks, instead of fighting them.
    I guess they just decided to take a page from the music biz instead.. why create when you can destroy? Sheesh...

  7. Re:Not my money, yet on Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I concur completely.

    My feeling at the end of the film was one of underwhelmed resignation...

    Every point of criticism you have spelled out was exactly what I was thinking during the film.

    OK that's disturbing. No competently made film should ever encourage questions such as this commenter posed.The fact that he can ask them at all pretty much makes the movie a "fail" in my book.
    Always seems the case when "adding to a franchise" as opposed to "creating a sequel". ... :sigh:

  8. Re:Not my money, yet on Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the dracula sequel.. "The Force awakens the undead". They can bring back ALL the loverly villians that way, in fact!

  9. Re:So can the file tracking on North Korea's Operating System Analyzed (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Er.. there is ONE slight difference. So far anyways.. If they see something on your computer they don't like over there, they take you out and shoot you. Of course your odds are probably even worse if you're related to Kim Fat-Goon or whatever his name is, but I sure wouldn't be accessing wikileaks with that OS. Prolly can't anyways.

  10. Re: Won't work on Ask Slashdot: Any Dishwasher Hackers Out There? · · Score: 1

    DVD player. It used to only be able to play Region 2 discs, but by entering a short code into the remote it's become Region Free (or any region me - or obviously the manufacturer - wish to lock it to)

    That was a pretty common hack back in the day. There was stuff all over the net about it and firmware hacks available to DL. Somehow it's all disappeared. The websites all give 404s or are parked. I had all that stuff on my HD but a few crashes later it's nada.. :sigh:

  11. Re:Mozilla could learn from this example. on For a Missouri Cassette Tape Factory, Obsolesence is Just a 12-Letter Word (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Why the fuck do people suggest SeaMonkey when somebody says they want a "vintage Firefox experience"?! Early releases of Firefox were nothing like SeaMonkey. In fact, they were intentionally not like SeaMonkey! Firefox was created as a response to the bloat and unruly architecture of SeaMonkey (or Mozilla Suite, as it was known then). SeaMonkey embodies the Netscape Communicator mentality that Firefox strove to escape, at least during its early years, although Firefox has now come full-circle and adopted that same mentality with the inclusion of all sorts of unnecessary stuff, along with an unusable UI. So SeaMonkey is the complete opposite of what users asking for a "vintage Firefox experience" want! Only a dumbass would suggest it!

    I think he may be talking about the fact that sea monkey.. like netscape before it.. was much much faster on it's feet than Firefox. At least in my experience. I grew to despise firefox because it took forever to load and render. And I'm talking well over 10 years ago already. Although it was a nightmaere for me on BeOS I found it just as unacceptable on OSX. WHy anyone' ever found it spry I haven't the foggiest.

  12. Another excellent reference... on Before Google There Was the Chemical Rubber Company (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    A really comprehensive, albeit very expensive book of every biologically active chemical known so far, is the "Merck index". Expensive.. I paid , I think, $300 for it new, back in the mid 80's. But wow, it had EVERY chemical ever created, their chemical formulae, and everything known to date about them so far.. A very high percentage of them were psychoactive drugs. and most had never been tested on anything yet.. Nor were most regulated either. It was a basement chemist's dream...;-) Unfortunately many that were made and tested in the street were highly dangerous and/or caused irreperable damage. You still see what can happen only recently with "bath salts".
    Actually I think there's no way the average joe can buy the book as it's now regulated (I think it may have been even then).. I suppose if you can still find a dusty old bookstore with lots of little rooms (God I miss those!!) you could find an old copy there in one of the lesser visited shelves.
    Even though the internet has "everything", that's certainly not the case for these kinds of things. You'd have to go underground to a "black site" on the "invisible web". Sure there's plenty. But searching through a book is so much more secure though ;-)

  13. Re:451 on HTTP Error Code 451 Approved For Censored Web Pages (mnot.net) · · Score: 1

    The effective censor is the one who successfully conceals the existence of whatever they are trying to keep you away from.

    Yup there's a lot of that about.. or not ;-) Hard to tell. Problem is you can't just google "stuff they're not telling me and not letting me know even exists". Weapons research is a perfect example. They don't just hide how these ultra advanced directed energy devices etc. work.. they hide their very existence. From us.. that is.. the citizens. Certainly not from the other side. They meake absolutely SURE that the enemy knows about their existence. Not much deterrant factor otherwise.But can't let the populace know that we're all a hair trigger away from complete obliteration. Talk about a vote loser (!)

  14. Re:451 on HTTP Error Code 451 Approved For Censored Web Pages (mnot.net) · · Score: 1

    What kind of sick sense of humor could they have to actually approve 451 as the code? It's like acknowledging that it'a repressive censorship and yet boasting about it at the same time...

  15. Re:Age ain't nothing but a number on UK Police Busts Karaoke 'Gang' For Sharing Songs You Can't Buy (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Or Copyright should be eliminated as the current system is too broken to be allowed to continue

    What? The absolute frikkin maroons busting up karaoke "gangs" aren't broken? Or maybe it's the sick UK police state mentality that criminalizes everything isn't broken? It's the whole ball of wax is rotted to the core...

  16. Re:Age ain't nothing but a number on UK Police Busts Karaoke 'Gang' For Sharing Songs You Can't Buy (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not B.B.S. or "hotfile" ? That is.. if they're really "old" ;-)

  17. Re:Age ain't nothing but a number on UK Police Busts Karaoke 'Gang' For Sharing Songs You Can't Buy (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Guy writing original article probably a twenty something geek. I'd bet on it. So in all probability anyone over 40 qualifies as "old" .

  18. Sounds like he answered the bomb accusation with a joke, which anyone who has cleared airport TSA in the last 20 years knows is a detainable offence.

    72 hours, for a 12 year old making a joke, I doubt any of the perps in this case will do time, but I do see a large settlement in the family's future - complete with a gag order and empty promises to expunge the event from the record.

    No.. that's 72 hours AND subsequently an ankle bracelet despite being entirely innocent.
    Pricks. WTF is WRONG with people .. er.. sheeple.. these days. It looks to me that the 911 terrists have won. After all that's what it's about isn't it.. using one incident of terror to make people destroy their own society for years down the road? And boy did it work with America...

  19. Re:If this is debunked in the summary, why post it on Study Claims Lettuce Is "Three Times Worse Than Bacon" For GHG Emissions (cmu.edu) · · Score: 1

    No it's not "debunked" It SHOULD be though, or at the very least add a caveat that it is not *growing greens* that is "bad" for the environment .. the very thought that the natural environment is bad for the environmment is absurd on the face of it. Were that so the planet would have commited hari kari eons ago. No, it is *modern FARMING practices* that are bad for the environment

  20. Re:Sunday Night Drunken Brainstorming on Steel Treatment Paves the Way For Radically Lighter, Stronger, Cheaper Cars (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Wonder where Cow guy is?

    At BIN I am sure. So with Helium 3 I wonder if "Factory farms no longer fear the Moo Cow".. ?
    Of course the genetic hybridization might just end up with tastier tomatos. That fart methane..

  21. Re:Dear Mr FBI on FBI: Just Don't Call Them Backdoors (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    ^This

    I'd like a "rear entry portal" into the Capitol Building, just so I can know how they operate behind closed doors. It should be legal because (a) my tax dollars pay their salary and (b) they're suppossedly not committing any crimes!

    This is all of course in line with the FBI's thought process.

    Well that's the problem.. isn't it? American society has been letting the DHS, CIA, FBI, and IRS practice their "rear entry" on us for years, so it's no surprise they now want more!

  22. And a sudden chill appeared over the antique biz on UK Citizens May Soon Need License To Photograph Stuff They Already Own (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Are the most powerful and wealthy in Britain aware that their favorite hobbies and industry.. that of the high end antique and classic car industry will be decimated? Perhaps somebody should circulate this iinfo to all their wives that spend all their free time buying antiques.. and their friends that deal in Aston Martins and old British and Italian sports caers etc. if they knew how it would decimate the industruy maybe they'd think twice.. And where are these copyrights going to come from if they are now NOT copyrighted? Ask the dead for less than 70 year creators? You can't just arbitrarily assign copyright. Only the CREATOR of a work can do that...

  23. Re:Never Going To Happen. on Wired Thinks It Knows Who Satoshi Nakamoto Is (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    "Paper money will never go away" .. Respectfully.. are you uninformed or simply naiive? As soon as it's discontinued (i.e. made illegal) it will certainly go away. Only collectible old coins and biills will probably still be acceptable. Keep in mind that paper is nothing more than a bank's IOU. Gold silver and real assets including property gas and food are the real "money". If any community standardizes on an acceptable form of IOU that will 'represent' money, then perhaps there will still be paper "money" but it would likely need to be on the low down. Just like all the local barter and exchange communities operate now.

  24. Re:who gives a shit? on Wired Thinks It Knows Who Satoshi Nakamoto Is (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I do. BTC is gaining a lot of traction as the defacto digital currency standard, and we have no idea who's behind it.

    Bitcoin is a solid design and has survived a lot of scrutiny so far, but imagine what would happen if we found out that the design was introduced by, say, the NSA.

    Or if the NSA got axccess to the original algorythm.Doesn't that worry anyone at all?

  25. Re:who gives a shit? on Wired Thinks It Knows Who Satoshi Nakamoto Is (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Well. He's the guy with the keys to the safe. I certainly don't think I need elaborate here on /. where everybody knows what that means!