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  1. Re:Mod parent up. on Dotcom Alleges Megaupload Raid Was Part of Deal To Film The Hobbit · · Score: 1

    proving that laws were changed isn't really the goal. If KDC can prove that the PM or someone else offered him up as part of the deal? That's damning evidence. It should make kiwis stand up and question their government.

  2. Re:Keep if simple, stupid. on Dotcom Alleges Megaupload Raid Was Part of Deal To Film The Hobbit · · Score: 1

    Time to dust off your face tattoos and your Patus and take your nation back.

  3. Re:Hard to know who to believe here on Dotcom Alleges Megaupload Raid Was Part of Deal To Film The Hobbit · · Score: 1

    When they stole the AS/400 from DG, they eventually got their asses handed to them.

  4. Re:NZ's PM retiring to his Hawaiian mansion. on Dotcom Alleges Megaupload Raid Was Part of Deal To Film The Hobbit · · Score: 1

    The people get the leader they deserve. Even in the U.S.

  5. Re:Non-surgical on Reversible Male Contraception With Gold Nanorods · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I read this as needs in your balls. No thanks!

  6. Re:water on mars on NASA's "Opportunity" Rover Finds New Evidence For Once-Habitable Mars · · Score: 0

    wrong phase man!

  7. Re:because desktop linux is a toy and novelty on What Keeps You On (or Off) Windows in 2013? · · Score: 2

    Someone takes their hobby a bit serious. Come up from the basement and get some sunshine, you can plant miniature trees later.

  8. Re:vegetables inferior to a good steak on Full Details Uncovered on Chinese Tianhe-2 Supercomputer · · Score: 1, Informative

    and how about the news where two vegan parents were sent to jail when their baby died from malnutrition because they just fed the poor infant plant matter.

    Babies need protein, lots of it. They need meat. Feeding a baby only soy protein or bean protein is child abuse. Humans are designed to eat and digest meat.
    A breast feeding mother needs to increase her protein intake. Even mountain and lowland gorillas, whose diet is entirely vegetarian, consume more protein than we do.

    So meat is not murder, without it, you wouldn't survive infancy.

  9. Re:Well... on Of 1000 Americans Polled, Most Would Ban Home Printing of Guns · · Score: 0

    That's a good point, How is there even 29% of people polled thinking people shouldn't be able to use 3d printers at all in their own homes? That is very disturbing to me. That's like saying you shouldn't be allowed to have a kitchen in your own home, you might make food that's not government approved!

  10. uhh on Brain Zapping Improves Math Ability · · Score: 5, Interesting

    perhaps the subject should just increase their electrolye intake instead of being electrocuted.

    Proper electrolyte balance make the brain run smooth.

  11. Re:Overstepping your jurisdiction much? on Irish Judge Orders 'The Internet' To Delete Video · · Score: 2

    Here's the real problem though: The Internet is sovereign. Granted parts of it are controlled by certain governments. The DNS roots are controlled by the U.S. But The Internet, as a whole, is sovereign. It is the manifestation of the democratic will of the people of planet Earth. And One does not simply delete something from the Internet. The Internet is a self-healing, electric hydra. Once you upload something, It's there forever. Ireland does not have jurisdiction over the Internet any more than the U.S. does. Google doesn't control the Internet. The best they could hope for is to actively block its indexing. Though even that's going to be hard with the Streisand Effect, it's an ugly form of censorship.

  12. Re:Gun control however... on California Lawmaker Wants 3-D Printers To Be Regulated · · Score: 2

    I'm wondering why no one has called out Yee's claims that one can walk away "scott-free" after doing "horrible things".

    Did our laws suddenly change regarding firearms? I hadn't heard.

    I think we should also regulate CNC mills. Because someone could make something bad with one.

    Yee is a muppet.

  13. Re:Jupiter Tape? on Former FBI Agent: All Digital Communications Stored By US Gov't · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's not a lot of storage necessary. Not what you're thinking. Text messages and chats are very small in size. Phone conversations are very small using the right codecs. I also heard once about 8 years ago that the US government was buying up symmetrix like they were going out of style.

    Honestly, I believe it. It's entirely possible.

  14. Re:No DRM on ORBX.js: 1080p DRM-Free Video and Cloud Gaming Entirely In JavaScript · · Score: 1

    that's peculiar.

    I wonder if the OP meant encoder instead of coder.

  15. Re: Now where's the cheap monitors? on High End Graphics Cards Tested At 4K Resolutions · · Score: 1

    Blame marketing of "HD"

    There's been no market demand for higher resolutions.

  16. Re:Now where's the cheap monitors? on High End Graphics Cards Tested At 4K Resolutions · · Score: 1

    It's not double, it's quadruple, which is why it's called 4k.

    1920+1920=3840
    1080+1080=2160
    It's set in a grid like this:

    1080p1080p
    1080p1080p

    That's 4k. Simple geometry error on your part. Understandable.

  17. Re:Orbital pickup truck on Helium Depleted, Herschel Space Telescope Mission Ends · · Score: 2

    more of a sailing vessel with a significant hold.

    We will also need an orbital platform capable of storing the materials.

  18. Re:YASTB on Amazon Reportedly Working On Set-Top Box · · Score: 1

    what we really need is an industry standard component rack with a single umbilical to a television.

  19. Re:I use it for linux distributions on Ask Slashdot: Do You Move Legal Data With Torrents? · · Score: 2

    That's not the entire point.

    If you want to save bandwidth and still distribute your data, then crowdsource your downloads with bit torrent.

    Linux, MMO games, game mods, etc. All excellent uses of bit torrent.

  20. Re:Are they Sequels? on Disney Announces "One Star Wars Movie Per Year" Plan · · Score: 1

    Jar Jar will become the standard character. Perhaps Jar Jar Jr. will even become a bumbling Jedi, cutting up droids by accident.

    So, this is the disney plan. Make one valid entry and then churn churn churn out sequels CoD-style until they've burnt the whole franchise to the ground.

    Star Wars is dead, long live Star Wars.

  21. Re:I learned C when I was a kid. on Localized (Visual) Programming Language For Kids? · · Score: 1

    First, watch this http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_themselves.html

    Second, C is a good idea.

    Always teach the peanut butter robot exercise first. write out the steps for a robot to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
    And when the kids skip a step, you get to stump them with "HOW?" They will soon understand programming at its core as a set of instructions.

    When a kid wants to know how to solve a particular problem, they're going to learn the maths necessary. Unless they don't have the real interest, and then nothing of value was lost.

  22. Re:In other news... on Researchers Report Super-Powered Battery Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    agreed, where's my tricorder and phaser?

  23. Re:Who do you trust more? on Rep. Mike Rogers Dismisses CISPA Opponents "14 Year Old Tweeter On the Internet" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I find it humorous that the politician can't even insult us properly.

    It's either 14 year olds, OR dudes living in their parent's basement.

    Nonetheless, privacy is important to me because I'm in a better position to protect my children online as they begin to use the Internet more and more.

  24. Re:simple concept, hard work on Ask Slashdot: How Can a Blind Singer 'See' the Choirmaster's Baton? · · Score: 1

    or ultra low tech, strap a tube with airbag onto the conductor's armpit.
    have the other end of the tube connected to another airbag strapped to your friend's body part.

    He will feel the change in air pressure on the downbeat.

  25. simple concept, hard work on Ask Slashdot: How Can a Blind Singer 'See' the Choirmaster's Baton? · · Score: 1

    take a kinect and write a program to track the baton.

    transmit that in ultra low latency (wired) to piezo thumpers to touch your friend on a spot on his chest or leg or wherever based on the downbeat or whichever per timesignature.

    systems needed:

    kinect software to track motion of the baton
    audio beat matching software to interface with motion tracking
    hardware interface for beat toucher.