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  1. Re:I didn't know on New Jersey Residents Displaced By Storm Can Vote By Email · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And that has nothing to do with email voting.

  2. Re:25 miles per hour on Electric Velomobiles: Urban Transportation For the Future, Available Now · · Score: 1

    Yeah it's not very fast my average speed is 30km/h on my MTB, a simple racing bike can do a 40km/h average.

  3. Re:Bullshit. This is very important and relevant. on Linus Torvalds Tries KDE, Likes It So Far · · Score: 1

    It's not that hard, they only need to add an option to filter the news by tags.

  4. Re:Why trust touchscreens? on Why Does a Voting Machine Need Calibration? · · Score: 2

    It's possible to put more than two buttons on a device, and if for some reason even that is not enough just arrange the candidates on pages and use the last button for 'next page'.

  5. Change the law on Department of Homeland Security Wants Nerds For a New "Cyber Reserve'" · · Score: 1

    Want hackers working for you? Change the law so that ponting out a security hole doesn't land the guy in jail. Suddenly, the majority of 'cyberterrorists' will be working for you.

  6. Re:Please, just stop... on Department of Homeland Security Wants Nerds For a New "Cyber Reserve'" · · Score: 1

    Sabotage, and even assasination have been part of espionage for quite a while. Neither of the necessarily means war.

  7. Re:What a douchebag! on Seattle's Creepy Cameraman Pushes Public Surveillance Buttons · · Score: 1

    Yet if he was doing the same thing to policemen the whole Slashdot bunch would rally in his defence.

  8. Re:Anything that comes out of the UN on US Offers New Plans 1 Month Before UN Meeting To Regulate Web · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And the majority of the world's nations are barbaric. Your point?

  9. Re:Coming soon to the USA on Russia's Internet Blacklist Law Takes Effect · · Score: 1

    Actually, in this case America was the first.

  10. Re:Idle? on Researchers Crown Buddhist Monk the World's Happiest Man · · Score: 1

    They didn't measure happiness, they measured brainwaves.

  11. Re:Really? on Windows Browser Ballot Glitch Cost Firefox 6-9 Million Downloads · · Score: 2

    The difference is, this case was clearly controlled. You can't just turn piracy off, measure the sales, turn it on and measure again. But in this case that's what's happened, the ballot was turned off and then on again, and this showed a strong correlation with the change in downloads.

  12. Spy? on Irked By Cyberspying, Georgia Outs Russia-based Hacker · · Score: 1

    Doesn't look like a government agency to me, although it's possible that the guy works from home.

  13. Re:Banned from Google? on France Applies Tax Pressure To Google For Republishing News Snippets · · Score: 1

    Even better, charge French sites for getting indexed.

  14. Cheating? on CodeWeavers Announces Flock the Vote Software Giveaway · · Score: 1

    Not sure how it works in America, but isn't asking people to vote in exchange of products is a form of cheating on election?

  15. Re:What a great thing. on Designing DNA Specific Bio-Weapons · · Score: 2

    I don't think we have to be afraid of race-based targeting. Ethnic groups aren't homogenous enough for that to be possible. Would the Nazis have invented a Jew-killing virus, Hitler would've been the first of its victims.

  16. Dishonest on Pakastani Politician Detained By US Customs Over Opposition To Drone Strikes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If Americans really don't want to let this guy in there are diplomatic ways to do so. They should've declared him a persona non grata before the incident. That would've been an honest way of dealing with the situation, most people would've understood that they don't want an Al-Qaeda supporter in their country, and the guy wouldn't have got free popularity back at home out of it.

  17. Re:Probability and magnitude are both relevant on Paintball Pellets As a Tool To Deflect Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Assuming that you care about the survival of the human race. For people who don't, fear of asteroids is irrational.

  18. Re:I'm sorry but.. on Canadian Teenager Arrested For Photographing Mall Takedown · · Score: -1, Troll

    Except that he wasn't in a public place but in a mall.

  19. Re:You know, Iran on Iran's High Tech Copycat War Against the West: Drones and Cyberwar · · Score: 1

    Having a bomb and having the means to deliver them to the target are two different things.

  20. Re:And the real crime... on Analytics Company Settles Charges For User Tracking · · Score: 1

    I disagree, two cases can be very different. This was not a highly technical case, and lawyers with the necessary technological and legal knowledge are rare, therefore expensive.

  21. A device that helps find lost kids on Would You Put a Tracking Device On Your Child? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You mean like, I don't know, a phone?

  22. No big deal on Windows 7 Not Getting A Second Service Pack · · Score: 1

    So instead of one big update they are releasing lots of small ones. As long as holes get patched in time I don't see how this affects end users. It's just a different patching schedule, a development-time decision which has little to do with the quality of the product.

  23. Re:From TFA on NetFlix Caught Stealing DivX Subtitles From Finnish Pirates · · Score: 1

    It's because Slashdot stole most of the good Google translations and only the lousy ones remained in stock.

  24. Stealing subtitles? on NetFlix Caught Stealing DivX Subtitles From Finnish Pirates · · Score: 1

    And the people who wrote the subtitles stole them from the movie script whose rights Netflix licences. I fail to see what's the problem here, maybe someone who speaks Finnish can explain.

  25. They should be thankful on Facebook Won't Take Down Undercover Cop Page In Australia · · Score: 2

    The list of people following the page is a good list of possible suspects. The police should be thankful of Facebook for doing their job for them.