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  1. Re:26% seems a bit high on CRTC Issues $1.1 Million Penalty To Compu-Finder For Spamming Canadians · · Score: 1

    "it's hard to imagine any single entity getting 26% of all complaints."

    Likely it means they didn't try to hide their identity and use botnets for distribution like the worst spammers do, so people were able to actually file complaints against them accurately.

    Now lets think about the behavior we are actually incenting...

  2. Re:NASA is no longer relevant. on NASA Looking At Nuclear Thermal Rockets To Explore the Solar System · · Score: 1

    Elon Musk is going to be responsible for exploring the galaxy as a ruling immortal being. There is no doubt he will become ruler of the cosmos. You can either support him now or be left behind on Earth as a mortal. The choice is yours.

    Just who is Elon Musk?

  3. You say tomato on Science By Democracy Doesn't Work · · Score: 1

    I say vegetable.

  4. Re:As with all space missions: on NASA Study Proposes Airships, Cloud Cities For Venus Exploration · · Score: 1

    So are they .

  5. I'll trust you more when... on DOJ Launches New Cybercrime Unit, Claims Privacy Top Priority · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You stop throwing the 'T' word around at companies/people for doing things like encrypting our handheld devices.

  6. Re:The best application isn't a space elevator.... on Scientists Discover Diamond Nanothreads · · Score: 1

    Ahh, but how do we get the Insanely sharp threads to deflect incident energy weapon discharges though?

  7. Without their permission on Carmakers Promise Not To Abuse Drivers' Privacy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    customer ... Information ... wont be ... all kinds of stuff ... without their permission.

    I'm told I gave permission for things that I in no way gave permission for (consciously) far to often to buy that one.

    They'll just add permissions to the shrink wrap license on your smart ignition key (or your XM radio, live maps, emergency service, or some other needed/desirable function). Pesky 'privacy' problem solved!

  8. Re:Skynet, Obviously on An Air Traffic Control System For Drones · · Score: 1

    No, it would be free drones for hackers :-p

  9. Re:Until... on US Navy Develops Robot Boat Swarm To Overwhelm Enemies · · Score: 1

    Hmmm...

  10. Re:"CipherShed" on TrueCrypt Gets a New Life, New Name · · Score: 1

    EuCrypt

  11. Re:I know! on What To Expect With Windows 9 · · Score: 1

    I have Windows and Mint also. (Primarily windows, though that's a practicality thing for me, not a preference.) - Windows doesn't stay running months on end unless you don't patch. That's not an indictment of Windows, it is just the reality of maintaining a system well in that environment. - Why do people assume that if they don't experience a problem that the person that does is simply wrong/crazy/imagining/stupid. - If you don't run Windows routinely and keep it updated (which sounds like the case in the GP), then when you do boot it, EVERYTHING wants to update* and your experience is horrible until it all completes. Also not an indictment of Windows, just reality. * (unless you convince yourself that you can do it better and smarter than various manufacturers and lock down all automatic updates, which I posit is a bad idea generally for non corporate systems...and particularly those where someone boots into the OS out of protest once in a blue moon...)

  12. Re:meh on Giant Greek Tomb Discovered · · Score: 1

    I'm from the US and I absolutely bitch about us abandoning the conversion they started to move us to the metric system when I was a kid. Do I think metric, no, but i sure would if we had followed through on that.

  13. The correct question on Giant Greek Tomb Discovered · · Score: 1

    How many pints when in one's cups?

  14. Re:meh on Giant Greek Tomb Discovered · · Score: 2

    So Denzacar, would you say it has a plethora of Barley Grains?

  15. Upside? on Microsoft Takes Down No-IP.com Domains · · Score: 1

    I got the MS Notification on the activity at work.

    There were 200 different items of malware being served across 22,037 separate malicious domains. If there are 4 million customers, and 1:1 customers to domains, that is about 180 innocent domains for every one malicious one.

    I'm all in favor of shutting down botnets and i can see the results (for a while) in spam volumes hitting us when actions like this are taken, but this much collateral damage seems likely to hinder future efforts.

  16. Re:The US Government can overrule anything on The Government Can No Longer Track Your Cell Phone Without a Warrant · · Score: 2

    What do these two truisms have to do with each other?

  17. Re:that's not "astroturfing" on Cable Companies Use Astroturfing To Fight Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Corporations aren't ~allowed~ to consider "the greater good" over that profit,

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/... Granted, in retrospect, this looks like it turned into a good marketing move, but going into it, the history of such things would have indicated this was going to be little more than a money pit.

  18. Re: Energy-matter synthesis on Scientists Propose Collider That Could Turn Light Into Matter · · Score: 1

    Ours might not survive it...but a new one might come in with a 'bang' ...until the next evolution of monkeys figures out how to do the same thing...

  19. Re:Wake up and smell the ducats, peons.... on Shunting the FCC To the Slow Lane · · Score: -1

    While I'm not a fan of either of the two major parties (quite the contrary), the Rs are generally speaking more colorblind. That's that's the opposite of racism.

  20. Re:You're not the first person to think of this on Ask Slashdot: How To Back Up Physical Data? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And in return they retain a lean on the property. I'm not sure how but I suspect that every now and then this works out in the bank's favor dramatically somehow...

  21. Re:Breaking news on Australia Declares Homeopathy Nonsense, Urges Doctors to Inform Patients · · Score: 1

    The sock monster, however, is a terror that afflicts much of humanity.

  22. Re:Elderly? on It's Time To Plug the Loopholes In Pipeline Regulation · · Score: 1

    ...of any of the symptoms that everyone is suffering from,

    Not of that he wasn't.

    It's not bad just because some special group got sick (elderly in this case). It was bad because people were sickened.

  23. Re:Brought to you by Fox News on Back To the Moon — In Four Years · · Score: 1

    So basically, we just need to get Obama to adopt all the very worst right-wing policies

    Seems reasonable. The right wingers have certainly adopted all the very worst left wing policies :-\

  24. Re:Dick? Maybe, but not your classical patent trol on Inventor Has Waited 43 Years For Patent Approval · · Score: 1

    scotus, potus - again sounds like hocus pocus to me.

    But, whatever...

    All right, some budding musical genius make that into a song.

  25. Re:why does the interface keep changing here? on X-rays From Other Galaxies Could Emanate From Particles of Dark Matter · · Score: 1

    That's only peripherally related - Dark Pixels. Very difficult to see.