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  1. Re:Nuclear?!?! Oh no's!!!!! on Fukushima and Chernobyl Side-by-Side · · Score: 1

    Maybe he can suggest that as a kit for HeathKit?

  2. Re:Two can play it that game on $5M In Torrented Files Presented As Art · · Score: 1

    You call it work, I call it "good times"!

  3. LiveCD on IP Addresses Not Enough To ID Users · · Score: 1

    Would there be any trace on a computer that shared the file if it were booted from a LiveCD and the copyrighted work was stored on flash? (other than on the flash drive that is...)

  4. Re:Not highly confident in Zagat ratings on Google Acquires Zagat · · Score: 1

    I assume (and it's a complete assumption), that it is like a BBB rating. These A+ rated companies pay to keep it. In turn BBB gives a rating and drives business their way. BBB Rating = Scam.

  5. Re:U.S. government has its hands in Sweden and eve on Leaked Cable Shows Heavy US Influence On Swedish Copyright Policy · · Score: 1

    Sorry, off-topic: I've seen your signature before and wondered then as I do now, is that tongue in cheek or do you really want to remove ALL CO2 from the atmosphere?

  6. Re:AAARGH! on Google Kills Desktop Search and Gadgets · · Score: 1

    The search in the cloud would happen within the servers of the cloud, not across a 10mbps connection. The query and result would however traverse the 10mbps connection. Is that not fast enough?

  7. Re:Counts as a weapon and is highly dangerous on Wicked Lasers Introduces Handheld One-Watt Green Laser · · Score: 1

    So "normal" people are morons, asshats, and the like?

  8. Re:you don't want this on Wicked Lasers Introduces Handheld One-Watt Green Laser · · Score: 1

    I don't need eyes, I use The Force.

  9. Re:Letter sized... on E Ink Demos New Displays, Gadgets At IFA 2011 · · Score: 1

    I don't know about wallpaper, but I could honestly use one as a dry erase "white board" right now. I literally need one "right now". Hhhmmm, next patent?

  10. Re:The patent system is fcked up and going get wor on Evaluating Patent Troll Myths · · Score: 1

    Taking an idea and applying it to another industry IS patentable.

    It may not stand a court challenge - it may be ruled "obvious", but this is how it works.

  11. Why do we have to shit on his acheivement? on First Fully Electric Manned Helicopter Flight · · Score: 2

    This guy accomplished something very few people will ever achieve and yet half the posts above are "what's the point", "shitty welds", "batteries suck", etc.

    Fscking hell. He just built a helicopter. I say congratulations!

  12. Re:The patent system is fcked up and going get wor on Evaluating Patent Troll Myths · · Score: 1

    Well, the innovative part is the breakaway plug to protect an electronic device. It's like this: I'm having trouble getting my shoes on in the morning. Man, I need a shoehorn. So I buy one, but I notice that it could be better if it were made of a material that has low resistance to cloth (my sock).

    Hey, what if I made it out of teflon?

    Shoehorn - patented
    Teflon - lots of patents
    shoehorn made out of teflon - priceless

    Guess what, I get the patent because both prior patents did not use specify their usage in shoehorns.

    This is one reason you read a patent and it is very vague. That way is covers the most topics. Or you'll read a patent and it'll list a million ways it can be used.

    Just the way it it.

    I do disagree with the way they want to change it though.

  13. Re:idle hands on Google Patents Glove For "Seeing With Your Hand" · · Score: 1

    Why do I get the feeling that one way or another, the real purpose of this technology will involve putting the gloved hand down one's pants?

    I had a nearly similar thought, difference being changing the word "one's" to "another's".

  14. Re:Well, I am not shocked... on Canada Encouraged US To Place It On Piracy List · · Score: 1

    I see your point, but you have missed mine and only make a stronger case for what I said.

    "A government based on the founders' principles of minimalistic, well defined roles. ... Because they knew people were fallible and would take advantage, regardless of party affiliation, of whatever situation presented itself."

    These websites claiming to be mouth pieces have fallen into corruption and are using their new found power to advance certain political agendas. They speak for "groups" of people. As soon as you hear "group speak", you have found someone seeking dominance.

    Until we stop viewing people as belonging to "groups" - ie. class warfare, we are doomed to repeat the mistakes. We are a country of individuals. The individual's right to liberty must be preserved. As soon as you (in the role of government) take from one and give to another because of that person's "group" status, you deny the first person's liberty and have taken the first step toward tyranny.

  15. Re:Well, I am not shocked... on Canada Encouraged US To Place It On Piracy List · · Score: 1

    I don't know why you have to slam the TEA Party. Do you know what the TEA Party wants? A smaller government. A government based on the founders' principles of minimalistic, well defined roles. Why did the founders want that? Because they knew people were fallible and would take advantage, regardless of party affiliation, of whatever situation presented itself. You can play your party bashing game all you want, but know that giving any one organization power will result in the same state of affairs.

  16. Homemade Job? on Ask Slashdot: Can You Identify This UAV? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    While not very technically advanced, I'd say (based on my R/C and Military experience) that this is in fact some type of close recon UAV, deployed out of a backpack. These guys that are "interrogating" the craft are probably very lucky they weren't the intended target, as the person that launched it is probably on the next hill.

    I will add to the date controversy with this tidbit. The US Military writes their dates Day/Month/Year. It was one of the first things I had to learn. Hell I still do it to this day. I get asked all the time why I use the European convention. Then I have to explain, "no, it's the military convention".

    So let me suggest that it was deployed by an American, "civilian" organization? Who could that be?

  17. Re:Low prices or pollution in China. on Apple's Chinese Suppliers Accused of Causing Significant Environmental Damage · · Score: 1

    Probably only 25% more (yes, I work in the industry). But with very thin margins, 25% means the world. And that also assumes that we still remember how to make the components of an iPhone. I don't know of a single high volume LCD manufacturer in the USA. I'm not talking about the small government program funded companies. The IC's we can still make, but not for too much longer. There is a price in outsourcing manufacturing.

  18. I'll get slammed for this, but... on Sixteen Years Later: GNU Still Needs An Extension Language · · Score: 2

    They didn't choose Tcl because that would have required making a decision. The whole GNU community is plagued by indecision or "we can't do it this way because it's not perfect". So after 30 years, no kernel. Hell RMS will be dead before they release hurd one dot zero. Even a herd needs a leader.

  19. Re:"Could" does not mean "will" on Large Improvement in Graphene Photosensitivity Realized · · Score: 2

    Well when Verizon came through and put in FTTH in my neighborhood, they pulled the copper. "Why?", you ask. Because the regulations on fiber are not the same as on copper. They then had us locked in. So we bitched a fit and they had to put some of it back (or at least so I hear, as I moved before the whole project was completed). Oh and one other note: I manufacture PLCs (planar lightwave circuits) that handle 100 Gbps (10 channels by 10Gbps) and have for years now - just to back your claim.

  20. Re:utter, complete hypocritical bullshit on Akamai Employee Tried To Sell Secrets To Israel · · Score: 2

    I hate to get in the middle of your rant, but a Hummer is not a HumVee.

  21. Re:Google tricks on Google Explores Re-Ranking Search Results Using +1 Button Data · · Score: 1

    Google has us "work for them" so that their results are more relevant to that which we seek. So we're working for ourselves and google is benefiting from providing the service. I don't see the issue.

  22. Re:Paging Darth Vader on Microsoft 'Ribbonizes' Windows 8 File Manager · · Score: 1

    Does it also pop-up a clippy informing you of what you really want to do?

  23. Open Document on Microsoft 'Ribbonizes' Windows 8 File Manager · · Score: 1

    For some reason I was reading the list of documents in the screenshot of the new Windows 8 Explorer. Near the bottom... a .odt file. I never thought MS would acknowledge it's existence.

  24. Re:Seriously... on Environmental Enforcement Agents Targeting Guitars · · Score: 1

    It isn't Brazilian Rosewood that is in question here, but rather Madagascar Ebony and Rosewood.

  25. Re:On a vaguely related note: on Ubisoft Scales Back Driver DRM · · Score: 1

    Did they have to pay SF for using their likeness or did they just pirate a whole city?