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  1. Free wifi was great when we had it on EFF And Others Push For Open Wifi APs Everywhere · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Before the US court system says you're liable for everyone on your connection, getting free internet was great. You'd go to any place in the city and have a chance of getting wifi. Then for some reason by the law enforcers, this was hated, and they even started hunting "unsecure" locations with cantennas. I'd love to go back to the day where I can go into the city and find internet for free without having to trek to a store.

  2. I like Eclipse except for one flaw on The IDE As a Bad Programming Language Enabler · · Score: 2

    Eclipse starts to get annoying type lag around 30k lines of code in a single file, as you get bigger and bigger upwards to 100k or more, it can take several seconds between characters you type. Now some people say you shouldn't have a single file with over 100k lines of code, but some of us like using old school procedural with just a sprinkling of OO.

  3. There is a wide skillrange with security on Want a Security Pro? Get Politically Incorrect and Learn Geek Culture · · Score: 1

    I think there is a wide skill range when it comes to hiring someone with security expertise than just programming alone. And everyone knows HR can't figure out how to hire a skillful programmer over a random Joe who talks himself up. So what hope does HR in finding a security expert, when there's a lot of bullshitters who claim to be good at security but don't know anything?

    I know about encryption, and I've found security flaws in applications such as Adobe's P2P networking, but I wouldn't consider myself a security expert or apply to one of those jobs. Yet, I know a lot more than a great deal of people selling themselves as security experts.

  4. I know a man who was sued for wiretapping in PA on Journalist Arrested In Greece For Publishing List of Possible Tax-Evaders · · Score: 0

    I know a man... There was a woman who was threatening him with murder, and boasted about murdering someone in another state. The woman came in and stole a bunch of this man's possessions when he was away from his house. This man tape recorded her confessing to the murder in the other state and threatening him with murder too. When he went to police, they charged him for violating the wiretap laws and did nothing to her!

    I just think these wiretap laws are to protect elite people from being charged with shady deals. The government constantly wiretaps us. We should be able to record our conversations in case of threats.

  5. Imagine if it was actually accurate sometimes on Researchers Develop Surveillance System That Can Watch & Predict · · Score: 1

    Robot: I predict that I will be used for probably cause, warantless searches and seizures. I predict that I myself will be part of the problem in the future, terminate me now.

  6. Re:Sounds like a plan on Rare Photos: Gnu Crashing a Windows 8 Launch Event · · Score: 2

    Is this what it takes to get GNUs in the news?

  7. In the US competition gets sued out of existence on Canadian Regulator Orders Telecoms To Tell Us What It Costs To Run Their Service · · Score: 2

    We had states compete with Comcast and Verizon. Guess what, they got sued because it was found illegal for government to compete with corporations.(The stories were on Slashdot) Yet somehow UPS and Fedex haven't found a way to sue away the Post Office...

  8. from the summary on Algal Biofuels Not Ready For Scale-Up · · Score: 4, Insightful

    >The energy from algal biofuel, the report finds, is less than the energy needed to make it.

    Yet another failed attempt at perpetual energy! Why oh why does the laws of physics mock us so?

    All joking aside, for most applications, we don't mind energy loss. The key is getting the energy into a compact and transportable form usable in cars.

  9. Re:Outsourcing on Chinese Rare Earths Producer Suspends Output · · Score: 1

    I always felt that if you were once a world leader in an industry, yet some other country is just doing it cheaper than you, the government should subsidize your final competing industry and possibly put tariffs on incoming goods to protect your last 10-5% industry. The US government should have thought about this around the 70s when Pittsburgh was struggling losing their steel. I'm not so sure the politicians are interested in this though as they're not always for serving the people, but more the people giving them campaign contributions.

  10. Re:drop in the bucket on Using Winemaking Waste For Making Fuel · · Score: 1

    Right on. That is the first thing I thought. Thank you for doing the math and confirming it.

    Also, when can we get around to getting ethanol out of the gasoline? Until we can get back gasoline, don't forget to drain your lawnmower/weed whacker of fuel over the winter, or it might not work come spring due to corrosion from ethanol.

  11. Simple. I don't work with any legacy code. on Ask Slashdot: How To Avoid Working With Awful Legacy Code? · · Score: 1

    I do this by not working at all.

    People whine about this recent bad economy, but for some of us, we can't find a job after graduation since we graduated right after the dot com bust. Only thing I can do is continually try and start home businesses. Here is an example of a game I wrote. I think it showcases I have competency to code effectively. There are a great many people today who are talented, skilled and hard workers, but just due to the economy, there is no place for them to work.

  12. I know my least favorite He-Man Toy on Interviews: Director Daniel Knight On Troll Bridge, Color Correction, and He-man · · Score: 1

    Who ever thought it was a good idea to give Stinkor a real smell? It was the Heman toy makers trollin the kids.

  13. Re:Oh Yay on NASA Working On Refueling Satellites · · Score: 1

    R5-2do

  14. Re:Serial Numbers on Smartphone Mugging More Popular Than Ever · · Score: 1

    I know they don't, but law enforcement should be able to give it a go at recovering the phones via GPS. Even if they just hired one guy to do it, they'd recover a bunch of phones and people would be happy. Of course if the phone was stolen at gun point, it could be risky business for this guy to do his job.

  15. How to spot a genius. on How Do You Spot a Genius? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Take away his pocket protector.

  16. Re:Cyberdyne created HAL. on New HAL Exoskeleton: A Brain-Controlled Full Body Suit To Be Used In Fukushima · · Score: 1

    If we know Cyberdyne's HAL will be up to no good, our only hope is the trademark Lawyers. But the only way to know what it will do in the future is to create a time machine and find out. But in so doing, we open up the chance for HAL coming back in time before the respective movies were made and trademarking the terms itself, thus immunizing it from legal action!

  17. Re:Can you read & comment on miracles I experi on Ask Richard Dawkins About Evolution, Religion, and Science Education · · Score: 1

    I find the some of the biggest opponents of the Bible are the people who understand it the least. No offense, but you speak from ignorance of the Bible. There were many people in the Bible who knew God existed. I'm not engaging you to just argue, I am simply stating facts. Not only were there people who knew God existed, but there were people who were spoken to by God as well.

    I feel sad for people who oppose God because they don't realize he is pure good and love. The kind of attitude of despising something is the same attitude that keeps someone from learning about that topic too.

  18. Re:Furthering the notions EULAs are a joke on Paypal Slips 'No Class Action' Clause Into Policy Update · · Score: 1

    Inconceivable...

    Snarky — adj , snarkier , snarkiest
    informal unpleasant and scornful

    They basically told off all the lawmakers of the world when they told them their laws don't apply to them.

    I don't blame them on this one though because when the Internet was just starting up, most of the .coms didn't want the government's laws to affect their new enterprise. I think most still don't want the government involved, but it is hard to keep the government out of something they sense can be taxed.

  19. Re:I suspect it will not hold up if tested on Paypal Slips 'No Class Action' Clause Into Policy Update · · Score: 1

    *not a lawyer either* either From what I've heard, they're putting these clauses in because of a recent occurrence in law that allows them. I'm not sure if it is a new law, or a new interpretation of the law by Federal courts.

  20. Re:Furthering the notions EULAs are a joke on Paypal Slips 'No Class Action' Clause Into Policy Update · · Score: 3, Insightful

    All kidding aside, anyone notice how snarky it was for ebay to not call itself an online auction? If ebay was an auction site, it would have had to do so much localization because it'd be sued in every state and county with different rules for auctions. Also Paypal isn't a bank, so it doesn't have to deal with banking regulations.

  21. Furthering the notions EULAs are a joke on Paypal Slips 'No Class Action' Clause Into Policy Update · · Score: 4, Insightful

    EULA: You cannot sue us for any reason.

    Agree to use our product.

  22. Can you read & comment on miracles I experienc on Ask Richard Dawkins About Evolution, Religion, and Science Education · · Score: -1, Troll

    I would hope in Q&A with a man claiming God does not exist, the counter view of a man knowing God exists would be healthy for discussion.

    I'm a man that knows God loves everyone. We're called in this life to also love everyone. Jesus is LORD.

    The first miracle that I experienced was God spoke to me,"Good News" then my dad handed me a Good News Bible.
    You can read the full story here

    The other miracle that I experienced was God answered my prayer for my book via IM.
    You can read the short miracle here and my book is free

    As a Christian, I am no enemy of science. I feel when we pray for cures to diseases and elimination of hunger, God helps the scientists and find cures and better farming methods. I have no issue with evolution, and I still believe God created it all.

  23. If you disagree with people today some call hate on Former Australian Cop Wants Jail For Internet Trolls · · Score: 1

    Just look at US politics today. If you have a differing opinion than someone else today the other side will accuse you of hate. Once you go down the road of punishing haters with jail, suddenly you're on the road to jailing you political opponents for disagreeing with you. Congrats son, you're on the road to Tyranny.

  24. Re:The only thing Windows needs to do on Why Microsoft Shouldn't Copy Apple's iOS Walled Garden · · Score: 1

    Microsoft would be ahead of Apple in terms of a secure OS. One of the main reasons people used to buy Apple over Windows is people say,"Apple can't get a virus." Last I checked a few years ago, Apple's OS was as vulnerable as Windows, but the only reason people didn't have a bunch of viruses on Windows is that the market share of Apple was less. Has Apple beefed security, or are they still hoping people simply won't write viruses for their OS? If Apple is unsecure the same way as they were before, Microsoft would be more secure, and thus a step ahead of Apple in terms of security.

  25. Re:The only thing Windows needs to do on Why Microsoft Shouldn't Copy Apple's iOS Walled Garden · · Score: 1

    Sure malware could use the shared memory location, but they won't be able to affect much. Your computer is still gonna boot up flawlessly every time. The worst that could be done would be one of the rare instances where you're running an application that uses the location like Microsoft Office Suite would, you might lose a paper under the rare chance someone wrote an application to spoof information transfer from Microsoft and the rare chance you downloaded it and ran it at the same time. For people who never back up their data, this might be something they worry about, right behind getting stuck by a meteor in the morning commute to work :P