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  1. Re:still on Kim Dotcom Launches Political Party In New Zealand · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He has also had to assure the New Zealand media that owning a signed copy of Mein Kampf doesn't mean he is a Nazi."

    Still, that is kind of weird. It doesn't mean he's a Nazi or even racist, but why exactly would someone want that? Of all the interesting artifacts I could buy if I were rich, that wouldn't be one of them.

    No, it means nothing about him. Signed by Hitler? I'd like to have it myself just for it's "check this out" value.

    ~ and you wondered why the Libraries were fighting part of the Terrorist Act that required them to keep a list of books you have checked out or shown an interest in.
    They lost, but gave it a good try.

  2. Re:Um. WRONG. on Why Movie Streaming Services Are Unsatisfying — and Will Stay That Way · · Score: 1

    Netflix is 100% satisfying. WTF back country bullshit throttled cable internet service are you using?

    To view cable for me is at least $30 a month, Netflix is $8. I get the local and FOX (The Simpsons) over the air at no cost,

    "They just aren’t good enough." there is a bit of truth there. But I'm ok with what's on Netflix just not at a 100% level.

  3. Re:so what does it do? on Google Unveils Android Wear · · Score: 1

    other than tell me the weather that i can already do by looking outside or checking my phone in the morning

    Tell you the weather, what a movie is, all kinds of neat stuff, for one.

    The voice search, I have had it on my MyTouch cell phone for a few years, and on my Motorola Xoom tablet, it's an Android staple.

    A user has moderated your comment "Overrated" (-1).

    I laugh out loud at your rating.

    Prelude. I have a (new) G19 keyboard that quit working ($$$$), to get it back together where all the keys work, I need the face plate supported with no keys being pressed.
    ----

    Today I cut out a plastic template, staple the template to the face of a box then spray painted it black - I'll remove the plastic later leaving the areas that need to be removed.

    Just to be sure I said phone, tell me the weather for my zip code. It's said rain is coming and soon. It's been overcast all day, but I got on a ladder to look south and son of a gun it was coming.

    I no sooner got the box indoors when the rain hit - it was that quick.

    Not overrated a bit. Just don't ask a hard questions and your ok.

  4. Re:That needed a judge? on Florida Judge Rules IP Address Can't Identify a BitTorrent Pirate · · Score: 1

    Headline makes it sound like a judge ruled on a point of fact.

    Yes, first thought was I beg to differ, mine will pin point me.

  5. I run a hot spot from my router, open to all.

  6. Re: Sigh. on New Information May Narrow Down Malaysian Jet's Path · · Score: 1

    cite: PBS The Elegant Universe - Einsteins Dream

    I think you might want to watch the show again. BTW, this thread is about radio waves not gravity.

    One thing it wasn't is untrue; or in this case apparently garbage in garbage out.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... (should take you 10:59 into the video)
    I watch this (one of three), and How the Universe Works seasons one and two (mostly season one)
    on my tablet to fall asleep at night; so pretty sure of what was said.

    But seeing as supersymmetry is dead, so is string theory. http://beta.slashdot.org/story... (beta sry)

  7. Not exactly throwing money at the problem on Why US Gov't Retirement Involves a Hole in the Ground Near Pittsburgh · · Score: 1

    "During the past 30 years, administrations have spent more than $100 million trying to automate the old-fashioned process in the mine and make it run at the speed of computers."

    Stating the obvious, that's is chump change for the Government. Which isn't a bad thing, the article mentions other services money was tossed at to no avail.

  8. Re: could of been on New Information May Narrow Down Malaysian Jet's Path · · Score: 1

    It's reddit.

    While I hold a very high respect for Aaron Swartz, I don't frequent Reddit on a normal basis. The exception is BF4, Dice used to monitor that area, and I used it to complain of the POS they released; and I'm search-able (spell checker) in that area.

    But I won't belittle Reddit, the IAM section draws many.

  9. Re: could of been on New Information May Narrow Down Malaysian Jet's Path · · Score: 1

    "could of been": Is this Engrish or Ebonics?

    Trax's way of posting nothing more nothing less.

  10. Re:The most plausible theory - written by a pilot on New Information May Narrow Down Malaysian Jet's Path · · Score: 1

    http://www.wired.com/autopia/2014/03/mh370-electrical-fire/

    I believe something like that happened. Occam's razor and so on...

    FTA "the pilot may have ascended to 45,000 feet in a last-ditch effort to quell a fire by seeking the lowest level of oxygen."

    I've thought this could of been the reason for the ascension but felt if I mentioned it, it would be seen as a cruel joke as the passengers would be incapacitated as well.

  11. Re: Sigh. on New Information May Narrow Down Malaysian Jet's Path · · Score: 1

    They most certainly do.

    So no, they don't

    I'd of deleted this if I could, this is just nit picking.

  12. Re: Sigh. on New Information May Narrow Down Malaysian Jet's Path · · Score: 1

    They most certainly do.

    Newton said the instant the Sun were to just go away the planets would continue in the direction they were headed at the time,

    Einstein first theory of gravity didn't do that as light takes 8 minutes to reach the Earth. 10 years later Einstein refined his theory saying gravity acts at exactly at the speed of light, which satisfied Newton's laws.

    cite: PBS The Elegant Universe - Einsteins Dream

    So no, they don't

  13. Re:Black box radio beacon ? on New Information May Narrow Down Malaysian Jet's Path · · Score: 1

    "they already have such beacons which ping for 30 days after activation. Why are they not picking any of that? "

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...

    Solandri answers that above.

    The link did answer my question as to where one would place an EPIRB (distress radiobeacon) also mentioned by Solandri, right to the fuselage.

    FTA "ULBs are also sometimes required to be attached directly to an aircraft fuselage."

  14. Re:At least they didn't fly to Guam on New Information May Narrow Down Malaysian Jet's Path · · Score: 1

    Because the extra weight may have caused the island to capsize:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

    Oh god that was painful to watch, width, it's the width! I have to give them credit for not laughing at the capsize remark.

  15. Re:Great, but on Fluke Donates Multimeters To SparkFun As Goodwill Gesture · · Score: 1

    Don't lose sight of the fact that the trademark that Fluke is disputing is over-reach. Nobody put any fake FLUKE logos anywhere, and its blindingly obvious when looking at the display of this thing that you're not making a "FLUKE" measurement, but a knockoff one of mediocre quality.

    At first glance it's a Fluke, I've dabbled in purchasing (Ford and Chevy truck parts for the Alyeska Pipeline) it's not a reach to say they could be purchased in error.

  16. Re:Good for Fluke! on Fluke Donates Multimeters To SparkFun As Goodwill Gesture · · Score: 1

    Fluke did their job well. Now it's up to Sparkfun.

    Missing from summery is the Sparkfun webpage https://www.sparkfun.com/news/... sparkfun which claims "SparkFun has officially accepted their offer and will be donating the Fluke multimeters to several educational institutions and schools" if you read the comments Africa would be a good area to start looking for drop off spots.

  17. Fluke saves their trademark look and face, Kool on Fluke Donates Multimeters To SparkFun As Goodwill Gesture · · Score: 2

    I dabble in electronics, Fluke is a very nice MultiMeter. TheRegnirps claimed on sparkfun when Fluke was being seen in a bad light: " I used to have a high voltage supply (I used for calibrating photomultipliers) from Fluke, a 5kV supply with rotary switches all the way down to 0.1 volt steps and it was dead on. This kind of thing is not easy. "

    A separate post not a reply, even stole a quote; in hopes others follow Flukes example as well as an attaboy to Fluke.

  18. Re:Yeah, maybe ignore everything in this post . . on Gmail Goes HTTPS Only For All Connections · · Score: 1

    . . . because the NSA stated yesterday that tech companies were fully aware of snooping the who time (http://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/03/20/1745254/nsa-general-counsel-insists-us-companies-assisted-in-data-collection).

    Not only aware, not one to let a dime slip by: "Billing invoices and other documents show Microsoft charging the FBI hundreds of thousands of dollars a month to comply with legal requests for customer information," http://www.dailydot.com/news/m...

  19. Re:More lip service on Gmail Goes HTTPS Only For All Connections · · Score: 2

    The NSA has compromised certificates

    Odd you should mention that. The link in the summery gave me a bad cert alert for */hs.llnwd.net this has happened to me before (Opera 12). llnwd.net is a source for video http://support.brightcove.com/...

    I see it as a problem with Opera, but reject them just in case.

  20. Re:I thought all dinosaurs were "chickens" on 'Chicken From Hell' Unearthed In American Midwest · · Score: 2

    Wasn't it recently figured that most dinosaurs in fact had feathers? Or is this some secluded sect paleontology? In which case I can think of a number of favored dinosaurs that fit the bill of "chicken from hell" a lot better.

    All dinosaurs started off as birds (there's still a lot of debate about this (die hards)), and evolved to what they were, this would be a stage in between. But I don't see any use for the feathers on it's arm unless they unfurled to make a bigger impression.

    Ok I was wrong, just this weekend it was questioned so I spoke to my phone what came first the bird or dinosaur, and it came back the bird.
    Well: "the idea that birds are derived dinosaurs, first championed by Huxley and later by Nopcsa and Ostrom, enjoys near-unanimous support among today's paleontologists." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...

    The lesson learned, don't trust your phone for decent info.

  21. Re:I thought all dinosaurs were "chickens" on 'Chicken From Hell' Unearthed In American Midwest · · Score: 0

    Wasn't it recently figured that most dinosaurs in fact had feathers? Or is this some secluded sect paleontology? In which case I can think of a number of favored dinosaurs that fit the bill of "chicken from hell" a lot better.

    All dinosaurs started off as birds (there's still a lot of debate about this (die hards)), and evolved to what they were, this would be a stage in between. But I don't see any use for the feathers on it's arm unless they unfurled to make a bigger impression.

  22. Re:I did exactly the same thing. on Is Weev Still In Jail Because the Government Doesn't Understand What Hacking Is? · · Score: 1

    In 1997, MT&T launched RADSL service Mpoweredpc.net(7mbps down, 1.088mbps up $45mo)t; As a customer they gave me a printout of a url for my account information. I modified a few random looking numbers on the URL and sure enough, it was an ID for other customers profiles(could go through them all)!!

    The old slip accounts were great for this, there was trust back then you could do a "Who" and see who was online (from that ISP), finger worked, and lots of Unix commands available to work with. I asked why I didn't have that access a few years later and almost laughed at, well we don't allow that anymore.

    Even then a web address you could back track into their directories, guess a /address and get lucky, (a few hack sites ever required it). It was easy going, you just can't do that anymore, you can guess a /address but your only going to get what you were suppose to get.

  23. NYtimes, I never got to Weev on Is Weev Still In Jail Because the Government Doesn't Understand What Hacking Is? · · Score: 1

    I started at the NYtimes link and it wore me out; it was supposedly about Weev, going from "a hero", to /b/, to Lulz and that was just the prep, I didn't care to read any more about it.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08...

  24. Re:Not a tech problem, not a tech solution on Your Car Will Soon Sense If You're Tired Or Not Paying Attention · · Score: 1

    The problem is not technology, the problem is not our gadgets,; the problem is our collective attitude about driving and (lack of) training. Requirements to obtain (and retain) a driver's license in some countries would be shocking to most people in North America. Our standards are pathetic and woefully inadequate. Oh, you can follow some basic instructions that a chimp could do for 15 minutes? Here, now you can drive anything outside of a big rig, motorcycle or bus (unless it's an RV, because apparently, having fewer passengers magically turns it into an agile sports sedan... or something), including hauling your big-ass 5th wheel.

    Ex-father by law is a truck driver and has a fit that no extra training or licensing is required for the RV's, 5th wheels, or such; and one point we do agree on. (USA)

  25. Re:NON on Your Car Will Soon Sense If You're Tired Or Not Paying Attention · · Score: 1

    And when I'm horny will it drive to a Motel 6 and try to fuck me ?

    That would be an OnStar extra for those who have it installed on 5 or more vehicles, "I need laid".