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  1. Re:Nope on Slashdot Asks: How Does the US Gov't Budget Crunch Affect You? · · Score: 1

    As someone that works in the real world - producing wealth rather than consuming it - I agree. If you work for the government, why not quit and get a real job?

    I just wish they would permanently lay off about 80% of government workers.

    Shutdown has no effect on me.

  2. Re:The real story... on Google To Encrypt All Keyword Searches · · Score: 1

    Mod this up.

    I figured this out - I was doing Google searches and a little while later I would have related SPAM. So I changed to using https - this stopped - so the spam was not from Google - traceroute and the only provider between me and Google was ATT - but they may be renting capacity and the traffic may be in others hands.

  3. The new back-doors take up some bandwidth on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 7 Slow? · · Score: 0

    Don't worry, those guys running the NSA are so smart - nothing could possibly go wrong or backfire..

  4. Re:Sorry on Study: Our 3D Universe Could Have Originated From a 4D Black Hole · · Score: 2

    OR maybe there are universes in the atoms of your fingernail! or Maybe they should put the pot away and start doing real experiments..

  5. Re:Obama needs to pardon Snowden on FISA Court Will Release More Opinions Because of Snowden · · Score: 1

    Why not charge both Bush and Obama - I think they both work for the same people. We don't even know who is really running the country - pretty obvious that the 'political theater', based on pro-big-business vs pro-big-government dichotomy, is just noise. After all, big-business and big-government people are one and the same. Use government to eliminate your competition - profit - hand some back to your partners in government - repeat.

  6. Re:or brushing your teeth causes cancer on Tooth Cavities May Protect Against Cancer · · Score: 1

    Correlation does not show causation - did these so called 'science reporters' ever learn the scientific method?

    It could be that people that get cancer are more prone to cavities - or both are induced by a third factor or just another random correlation.

    Idiots are always reporting 'associations' and 'correlations' as if it proves cause and effect..

  7. Disinformation on Google's Encryption Plan To Stifle NSA's Dragnet Will Raise the Stakes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    To me it was obvious from the start that Google was founded with borrowed search algorithms that had been honed for a different purpose: finding connections in intercepts. So now they are trying to sell that they will have crypto that is out of reach from an agency that they are in bed with? They PAY Google some undisclosed excessive amount to provide information. It is a profit center. I'm not even sure if Google is really a public company. (The name may have come from a joke about 'G'overnment 'OOGLing' )

    Why would anyone believe they are on the publics side?

  8. Re:well on Most Tor Keys May Be Vulnerable To NSA Cracking · · Score: 1

    Recommending ECC might well be disinformation. Can someone ask Snowden?

  9. Time to get even with those Libertarian OS coders on X.Org Foundation Loses 501(c)3 Non-Profit Status · · Score: 1

    Probably someone on the team donated to the Ron Paul campaign..

  10. PUFA content on What's Causing the Rise In Obesity? Everything. · · Score: 1

    Actually, we know about 2 things - fructose containing sugar and PUFAs. You can read about fructose spiking trygly which blocks leptin many places, but you haven't heard about PUFAs.

    We eat 5x more PUFA today than we did in 1960 - it was bred into plants as it provides frost resistance.

    The problem is it causes inappropriate insulin sensitivity - insulin, if you have been reading much, is the hormone that tells cells to store more fat - but there is a second control loop that operates at the Mitochondria level that is controlled by the FADH2:NADH ratios which are effected by the amount of PUFA in the diet. Feed equal calorie diets - one with lots of PUFA one with a normal amount - the PUFA group gets fat.

    Very hard to avoid the huge load of PUFA in the western diet.

  11. Re:Nexus tablets are a good value for frugal folks on Google's Second Generation Nexus 7 Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    The right question is if one can install a proper Linux distro without a layer in between the hardware and linux?

  12. I have a hangnail - due to Climate change! on Disease Outbreak Threatens the Future of Good Coffee · · Score: 1

    Not matter what potentially bad thing happens, it is attributed to climate change. Makes me think the whole AGW/climate-change bit is PC BS.

    When every one is buying the same thing, it must be a bubble..

  13. Re:More support for a national ID on What Charles G. Koch Can Teach Us About Campaign Finance Data · · Score: 5, Informative

    Really strange - the lefts HATRED of brothers promoting freedom with their own money.

    For the record - did you know that the Koch Brothers support:

    Decriminalizing drugs,
    Legalizing gay marriage,
    Repealing the Patriot Act,
    Ending the police state,
    Cutting defense spending.

    They call this being way right wing?

  14. google cache on DOJ Fights To Bury Court Ruling On Government Surveillance · · Score: 2
  15. Not the same SA that I grew up with on Scientific American's Fred Guterl Explores the Threats Posed By Technology · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I used to read SA cover to cover when I was in high-school in the early '70s - it was great! The magazine was looking at using technology to improve our future - a lot of which happened.

    Now, it is a bunch of nay-sayers and nervous ninny's which will prevent the future instead of embracing it.

  16. Probably too late to note... on Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs? · · Score: 1

    but the connection between the CPU and memory is slower if you have a socket. They are on the last tweak before they have to go to putting the RAM on the CPU,

    Now don't all those comments look a little silly?

  17. They had a very cool summer. The connection to tree-hugging is BS.

  18. "A patent is a license to enrich one's lawyer." kp on Patent System Not Broken, Argues IBM's Chief Patent Counsel · · Score: 2

    Patents server large crony cartels like IBM and the lawyer class quite well - just the rest of us get screwed.

  19. Re:Why not Debian? on Developer Gets OpenSUSE Running On $249 Google Chromebook · · Score: 1

    Yes - please give credit to where credit is due.

    Debian ARM port

  20. Re:But the real question is... on Koch Bros Study Finds Global Warming Is Real And Man-Made · · Score: 1

    Of course the amount of irrigation man does can't be considered a factor - wouldn't fit the narrative..

  21. Klick through claimed don't match the logs on The Decline of Google's (and Everybody's) Ad Business · · Score: 1

    We tested Google add words but putting in special trackers in our logging and found they claimed more than twice the clicks than actually happened. This is after they claim they adjust downward the number of clicks.

    Just not cost effective for many businesses - I suppose the bean counters have started figuring it out.

  22. Re:thickness on Sony's Thermal Sheet Good As Paste For CPU Cooling · · Score: 1

    It isn't thickness that I worry about - many of the film heat sink-compounds degrade over time with high temperature.

    The details are at:

    http://wiki.xtronics.com/index.php/Computer_Component_Standard#Thermal_Pads_Vs_Thermal_Grease_-_a_critical_failure_point_issue.21

    What I want to know is how well they work 3 years down the road

  23. Re:Simple solution on FTC To Revisit Robocall Menace · · Score: 1

    Too bad - Politicians should not have special rights. Actually no one should have special rights - but they spend all day giving people special rights to divide the public to buy votes.

  24. Re:So what? on Ron Paul's New Primary Goal Is "Internet Freedom" · · Score: 1

    Sure wish there were a lot less bills passed - not more.

    Sounds like the usual group of socialists want to shoot down anyone that stands for freedom.

  25. Re:Confirmed on Why Mark Zuckerberg Is a Bad Role Model For Aspiring Tech Execs · · Score: 1

    Yes - stay in school to become a mid level manager for someone like Zuckerberg.

    School is a good test to see how willing people are to brown nose and put up with a lack of respect.

    Starting up a business is quite a bit different.