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  1. Re:Pirated copies? on South Korean Activist To Drop "The Interview" In North Korea Using Balloons · · Score: 1

    South Korea is making the copies, they are breaking copyright. I see this as simply poking a bear with a stick, stupid idea.

  2. Me too on Apple's iPod Classic Refuses To Die · · Score: 1

    I have a 60GB iPod with all of my music and podcasts in my bedroom still getting daily use. And there is an original U2 iPod unused in original shrink wraped box in my cupboard.

  3. It's hammer time! on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Electronics-Induced Inattentiveness? · · Score: 1

    Airplane mode for the times when you need to read. Set a routine so that you have time for your device and time for your life.

  4. no-cursive is the default on Finland Dumps Handwriting In Favor of Typing · · Score: 1

    we live in a world without cursive as a default, why teach cursive when most of what we see is printed, unlinked characters?

  5. Re:Clearly criminal activity on New Snowden Docs Show GCHQ Paid Telcos For Cable Taps · · Score: 2

    They are allowed to collect foreign calls, catch up with the law please.

  6. Write software on Ask Slashdot: Best Practices For Starting and Running a Software Shop? · · Score: 1

    As if you are the one who maintains it.

  7. Ammazing on Linux On a Motorola 68000 Solder-less Breadboard · · Score: 1

    I love to see someone doing this stuff, Gratz!

  8. browsing history? on Australian Courts Will Be Able To See Your Browsing History · · Score: 0

    easier to ask google and Facebook for that info.

  9. bandwidth? on Internet Broadband Through High-altitude Drones · · Score: 1

    it only takes an idiot with a 'torrent running to suck up the bandwidth. A real smart idea this is not.

  10. Calling line ID on Accessing One's Own Metadata · · Score: 1

    CLI is what you want and you'll see the ID of every incoming call. That's your metadata. There you go, collect your own metadata you lazy bastard.

  11. you'll never read this, too late in the list on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 8 a Pig? · · Score: 1

    My upgraded old iPad had initial problems with WiFi connections but it seems better now. It may be that there are software downloads in the background associated with the new iOS 8 apps. Time will tell. I prefer the old UI, but I am always at the bleeding edge of tech when the purse allows.

  12. Re:Of course we can on If We Can't Kill Cancer, Can We Control It? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    you are full of shit. As a cancer victim I can say that it is down to risk, if the numbers are against you, age, over weight, lack of exercise, genetics, environment exposure, then you'll be more likely to get some form of cancer. These may go undetected for years, at which point it is too well established to be totally eradicated. Early detection is very important, survival is dependant on early detection and the effectiveness of treatment, sadly the cost of drugs is high and people are not always able to afford them, even in 1st world countries. As for the conspiracy theory, improvements are there, but the thoughts that there are magic bullets out there, being suppressed, is crap. If you want to survive, do the right things, loose weight, build fitness, eat better, look out for body changes, get regular check ups. You can't live forever.

  13. Re:After All Those Lawsuits Against Samsung on Apple Announces Smartwatch, Bigger iPhones, Mobile Payments · · Score: 1

    looks more like an original 2G iPhone, rounded corners, flat back, just bigger.

  14. Please help... on Ask Slashdot: What Old Technology Can't You Give Up? · · Score: 1

    Using mechanical pencils because they always work, still have a compact Mac with SCSI CDROM to replay old games, married for 36 years, can't give up on that either.

  15. Nomination on Fooling a Mercedes Into Autonomous Driving With a Soda Can · · Score: 1

    A Darwin Award.

  16. I gave up on German NSA Committee May Turn To Typewriters To Stop Leaks · · Score: 1

    Tried to get my iPad into the typewriter, the screen cracked when I hit the first key.

  17. sounds right on Obama Administration Says the World's Servers Are Ours · · Score: 1

    if the data is available in the USA then it can be produced for a warrant, regardless of where the data is stored.

  18. Re:If it were a pocket watch.... on Slashdot Asks: Do You Want a Smart Watch? · · Score: 1

    Yes, a pocket smart watch, with extra long battery life. An iPod nano in a classic pocket watch format.

  19. Think about it on William Binney: NSA Records and Stores 80% of All US Audio Calls · · Score: 1

    The USA has a crap phone system, to gather 80%of voice calls would require a duplicate network almost as big as the existing one! could not be done without most technicians noticing. He almost had me believing until I read the words, " total population control" yer, right.

  20. slight of hand on The Pentagon's $399 Billion Plane To Nowhere · · Score: 2

    US gets the F-22, the rest may get the F-35, which one is better? not the F-35. It's a project to have the rest of the world pay for aircraft development.

  21. Re:praise freedos! on FreeDOS Is 20 Years Old · · Score: 1

    20 years, oh dear, commander Keen, oh gosh, I am feeling so old.

  22. no wristband on How Apple Can Take Its Headphones To the Next Level · · Score: 1

    it's a way of monitoring your heartbeat and steps without selling you a wristband. nothing to do with sound quality.

  23. Prius? on Ford's Bringing Adaptive Steering To the Masses · · Score: 1

    It's on my ten year old Prius, what next? Electric air con compressor? Oops, got that too...

  24. Wrong, wrong,wrong! on Dump World's Nuclear Waste In Australia, Says Ex-PM Hawke · · Score: 1

    Other people created this problem, they should fix it. Oz should not have to suck up the worlds nuclear waste just because it's an easy way for the rest of the world to get rid of an issue that they knew about before building power stations.

  25. The man with the gun on Ask Slashdot: Are You Apocalypse-Useful? · · Score: 1

    Sadly survivors with guns will dominate the scenery. Anyone who can farm skills will be important but dominated by unskilled morons.