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  1. Re:Epic Corruption: Operation Snow White on Scientology On Trial In Belgium · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Baader-Meinhof

    I've seen that name before.

  2. Re:Novel on Playstation Controller Runs Syrian Rebel Tank · · Score: 2

    Seeing as how the previous iteration was something like this, I'd say it's a fair engineering improvement.

  3. Re:For those of us alive when this was launched, on Voyager 1, So Close To Interstellar Space That We Can Taste It! · · Score: 1

    Just for further info, it's a moniker coined by the late Molly Ivins.

  4. Re:And the next step? on Why Would a Mouse Need To Connect To the Internet? · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, your account will include Unlimited Pointer Travel, with Unlimited being defined as 20 meters per month. Per-click charges may apply, and will be billed to both you and the guy you just sniped.

  5. Re:Kill the Electoral College please... on Barack Obama Retains US Presidency · · Score: 1

    The state of California has about 12% of the country's population. Not quite the same thing as a "vast majority".

  6. Re:What happened to those election monitors? on Voting Machine Problem Reports Already Rolling In · · Score: 2

    Please name one state where you are required to obtain a state-issued ID.

  7. Re:lawsuit time? on Canadian Teenager Arrested For Photographing Mall Takedown · · Score: 1

    Only real assholes use them instead of cuffs.

    That's funny, I only ever see the police using them.

  8. Re:Windows 8 is... on Windows 7 Not Getting A Second Service Pack · · Score: 1

    I thought it was Windows CE Desktop Edition.

  9. Miranda Rights v2.0 on Judge Rules Defense Can Use Trayvon Martin Tweets · · Score: 0

    "Anything you tweeted six months ago can and will be twisted to portray you in whatever light suits the prosecutor's agenda."

  10. Re:Silly on Is the Can Worse Than the Soda? · · Score: 1

    He was saying that it comes in cans too.

  11. Re:Listen to what his friends say about him... on EVE Online CSM and Diplomat Killed in Libyan Consulate Attacks · · Score: 1

    His last killboard activity was on July 4th. A true patriot!

  12. Re:Slightly misleading on Voyage to the ATX Hackerspace in Austin, Texas (Video) · · Score: 1

    It's a trademarked slogan of the Texas Department of Transportation, created for an anti-littering campaign in the 1980s.

  13. Re:The "war" on religion on Kentucky Lawmakers Shocked To Find Evolution In Biology Tests · · Score: 1

    I guess it all depends on the teacher you get and how much freedom they are given to determine the course curriculum. My Humanities class in high school (mid-90s, Texas public school) was all about the history of Hollywood and the entertainment industry of the 20th century. I remember we watched a lot of TV too -- from Black Adder to Tiny Toons. I remember my big group project involved recording hours and hours of television to edit together a compilation of the commercials illustrating various advertising and marketing techniques, and then presenting it to the class.

    She was a weird teacher. I liked her OK, but she was weird. She was just this side of the "man-hating lesbian" stereotype, and she definitely treated male students differently than female students, but she never ruffled my feathers too much.

  14. Re:Massive Yawn time on Australian Watchdog Frets Over BitCoin, MMOs' Money Laundering Potential · · Score: 1

    Or, depending on the current White House occupant: "President Backs High-Tech Initiative To Combat Terror Network Funding"

  15. Re:This has gotten out of hand. on Inside a Ransomware Money Machine · · Score: 3, Informative

    At my last job in a university library, they used the same approach (but different product) for keeping the public PC stations locked down.

  16. Re:Bacula is your friend on Ask Slashdot: Simple Way To Backup 24TB of Data Onto USB HDDs ? · · Score: 1

    The way to not be a jerk about it would to be to inform the guy that Bakula uses the term migration rather than the industry standard archive.

    Linking to the relevant chapter in the manual was a nice thing to do, however, so I don't think you were a jerk about it.

  17. Re:how does it handle atypical situations? on Google's Self-Driving Cars: 300,000 Miles Logged, Not a Single Accident · · Score: 1

    It must have taken forever to get through that traffic jam!

  18. Re:what is the issue??? on Google's Self-Driving Cars: 300,000 Miles Logged, Not a Single Accident · · Score: 1

    Agreed. The facts of the case don't feel truthy enough for me either.

  19. Re:Posting only to CL is a feature EFF just killed on Craigslist Drops Exclusive License To Your Posts · · Score: 2

    what if I only wanted to share my post with the community where I posted it? What if I don't want my ad read outside of my city?

    Then maybe the Internet isn't the most appropriate forum for your post?

  20. Re:Trust and Compromise on Ask Slashdot: What's Holding Up Single Sign-On? · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what you are trying to imply with the word "homebrew", but if you understand how OpenID works then you should feel pretty confident in it's security. The only party requiring your trust is the ID provider, and as a banking website user who could you possibly trust more than yourself?

  21. Re:Trust and Compromise on Ask Slashdot: What's Holding Up Single Sign-On? · · Score: 1

    If they accept OpenID as a method of authentication, then by definition yes.

    However, I doubt any financial institution would give up control of the authentication mechanism like that.

  22. Re:Because it's a terrible idea. on Ask Slashdot: What's Holding Up Single Sign-On? · · Score: 1

    I sure wish KeePassDroid would include KeePass's native ability to grab the db from a network location via FTP, HTTP, or WebDAV (or SCP, SFTP, and FTPS through a plugin).

    I don't like the idea of having to install another 3rd-party app and sign up for a "cloud storage" service just to be able to use the same db on different devices.

  23. Re:I'm not always a fan on Chicago Tribune Stops the Journatic Presses · · Score: 1

    Planet Money is (IMO) just as good as TAL, though their segments tend to be shorter and, obviously, they focus on financial and economic stories.

    While we're on it, Radio Lab is as equally well-presented as the other two, but it focuses on more of the humanities, science, and social sciences rather than current events or other topical issues.

  24. Re:ahm... on Earliest Americans Arrived In Waves, DNA Study Finds · · Score: 1

    Romans (galley wreck off Florida was tell-tale)

    Do you have a source for this? My Google search only turned up a story about a pretty questionable claim of a "Roman" shipwreck near Brazil that is more likely just a 15th-century Spanish ship.

  25. Re:I've used yahoo voice in the past on Nearly Half a Million Yahoo Passwords Leaked [Updated] · · Score: 1

    And this is why the message doesn't go in the title, folks.