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  1. Freemium isn't going anywhere on Why the Freemium Business Model Isn't What It Used To Be · · Score: 1

    As long as suckers download Angry Birds and other such "free" apps, they'll make micropayments for premium DLC. I can tell you from making my wife go cold turkey from spending £40 a month on ONE FREEMIUM GAME that Freemium as a concept is the single best way of making idiots part with money.

    I do play four Freemium titles: "Family Guy: The Quest For Stuff", "Trainstation", "Battlestar Galactica Online" and "World Of Tanks". However, I have never made a single payment to any of them.

    I am a scummy freeloader, fuck you very much.

  2. Re:Thanks for the submission, Mr. Monsanto! on Scotland To Ban GM Crops · · Score: 1

    I'd be more concerned about those auxilliaries currently stationed around the nuclear submarine pens, where are they going to go once those facilities are removed?

  3. Re:Neo-Luddite scaremongering wins again on Scotland To Ban GM Crops · · Score: -1, Troll

    forcing terminal crops on us hence dependence on our ability to grow food on one company through legislation (patent suits, anyone?) isn't progress, that's slavery.

  4. Re:Wait, what? on Scotland To Ban GM Crops · · Score: 5, Informative

    in case you missed the last twenty years, they're specifically talking about the Monsanto crops which are a: terminal (they do not produce viable seed), b: specifically resistant to insect and disease strains that have already adapted to the resistant strain crops such as triticale (a hybrid of wheat and rye), and most importantly c: as synthetic strains, are patented, hence with marker genes can be traced into the wild and used to shut down farmers who refuse to buy Monsanto strains by litigating them to death when those marked strains are found sprouting in their hedgerows.

  5. To revive a tired meme on Windows 10's Privacy Policy: the New Normal? · · Score: 1

    Is this finally the year of the Linux Desktop?

    I mean, just how far do companies like Microsoft have to push before people really start refusing, en masse, to participate?

  6. Re:string.. on How To Shoot Down a Drone · · Score: 1

    if said stranger is pointing his camera into my daughter's bedroom, I'll make him eat the fucking thing.

  7. Airzooka on How To Shoot Down a Drone · · Score: 1

    Airzooka: $2
    Bread bag: free
    Postman latex band: basically free (just ask your local carrier for one)
    The sense of satisfaction from knowing that you used the Force to bring down another fucking drone: priceless.

  8. Re:Britain is not Europe? on Dr. Frances Kelsey, Who Saved American Babies From Thalidomide, Dies At 101 · · Score: 1

    Britain didn't officially join the EU until 1972.

  9. I can imagine the horror she felt on Dr. Frances Kelsey, Who Saved American Babies From Thalidomide, Dies At 101 · · Score: 1

    when she found out that health regulators all over the world reintroduced thalidomide as a treatment for leprosy, AIDS and yes, morning sickness, from the 1970s right up to now where even the NHS in England are cosying up to Celgene for thalidomide as a treatment for - get this - arthritis.

    Thalidomide never really went away, and people are still feeling it.

    (my sister in law is a thalidomide victim).

  10. Alternatively on Hacker Shows How To Fabricate Death Records · · Score: 3, Informative

    Find a cooperative public servant and have them declare someone dead.

    It's a lot easier than you think it is.

    Particularly if you find someone in the police or otherwise having access to police records, all you have to do is fabricate a missing persons report older than 2556 days (7 years), leave it open, and the High Court will issue a presumption of death hence authorising the issuance of a death certificate with no proof of death (ie a body) required.

    (EW 2013 C. 13 Section 2)

    Then you don't just fuck up their credit score, you wipe their entire digital fingerprint.

  11. Re:900MHz *is* monitored on ProxyHam Debunked and Demoed At DEFCON · · Score: 1

    E-GSM uplink is 880-925MHz, downlink 925-960MHz. This technology is used in Europe and Brazil.
    CDMA-800 is only used in the Americas except Brazil. 850 is Band V CLR used for roaming with compatible quad band handsets. Tri-band uses 900, 1900 and 2100MHz. The rest of the world (not the Americas or Europe) uses only 2100MHz.

    This is why 934MHz switched gear is illegal to operate. Because you're talking unrestricted (it never was restricted, I still have a 200 Watt burner and a firestick capable of radiating it) transmission power interfering with lobby-coopted cellular bands.

  12. Re:If you don't have riveting hero(s).... on Fantastic Four Reboot Released To Tepid Reception · · Score: 2

    couldn't tell what colour Uhura was due to the lens flares, and what's this Pirates thing?

  13. Re:Cell site records shouldn't be allowed at all. on 4th Circuit Holds That Obtaining Extended Cell-Site Records Requires a Warrant · · Score: 1

    the prosecutor is not a forensic expert. He says what he sees. If he is told that a CSD map is accurate he's paid good money for that, he must trust it before he presents it to a hall where his career, nay his own liberty, is on the line if he fucks it up and they put that on him. They're not paid ludicrous money because they look good in two thousand Dollar suits, they're paid ludicrous money because their public liability cover costs a fucking fortune.

  14. Re:If you don't have riveting hero(s).... on Fantastic Four Reboot Released To Tepid Reception · · Score: -1

    it's kinda strange how Saldana likes to be any colour but brown.

  15. Re:don't want to be saying that about now on Internet Search Engines May Be Influencing Elections · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't know, but the general assumption is tending toward the "yes, they're all filthy bastards" going by the disclosures by the mainstream press. There are now SEVEN police forces in Britain investigating Heath (funny how they only go after the dead ones - Clarke doesn't count at the moment because the first person who made a public accusation against him was himself immediately persecuted by the Crown simply because Clarke is a fucking Queen's Counsel. Things SHOULD change now there are more accusations being levelled at Clarke by other people, and more coming out every day which is forcing the police to actually DO SOME INVESTIGATING). Good news on this front, a magistrate has ruled (7 August) that Lord Janner WILL face trial for child abuse and he WILL be compelled to testify.

  16. Re:Commander Adama was right on Tesla Model S Has Been Hacked · · Score: 1

    that's one step, but it's not the whole story. If a system can be mechanical rather than computerised, do that as well. Fuel injection can be mechanical. Early German fighter planes used mechanical fuel enjection. Spark timing? Unnecessary in a diesel. Hell, for that matter a diesel doesn't even need a battery. You can power headlights and the radio from an alternator.

  17. Hack my bicycle. on Tesla Model S Has Been Hacked · · Score: 2

    Bring it.

  18. don't want to be saying that about now on Internet Search Engines May Be Influencing Elections · · Score: 1

    in Britain the higher a politician ranks on a search engine the more likely it is because s/he is somehow involved or implicated in allegations of serious child abuse.

    Do you want a paedophile running the country?

    (apparently there has been at least one (Edward Heath)).

  19. 900MHz *is* monitored on ProxyHam Debunked and Demoed At DEFCON · · Score: 1

    it's the GSM mobile band.

    Oh yes, I think the FCC might have something to say about that.

  20. Re:Bunker-buster? on Military Data Center In a Suitcase To Get Commercial Release · · Score: 1

    pedant point: a 2.5" SSD consumes just as much, if not more, power than a spinny.

    The only physical difference between the two is that one has mechanical moving parts while the other does not.

  21. Re:is the 4th Circuit forgetting the Sunset Clause on 4th Circuit Holds That Obtaining Extended Cell-Site Records Requires a Warrant · · Score: 1

    NO THEY DO NOT.

    Where foreign intelligence gathering is concerned, the target is not afforded Constitutional protection. Period. He is in time of war, suspected hence assumed guilty until proven innocent (remember this is a time of war, are you going to issue a suspected spy with a loaded firearm and a counterfeit passport?) of espionage.

  22. Re:Swap the Ctrl and Alt keys on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Caps Lock Key Still So Prominent On Keyboards? · · Score: 1

    no, your average 2.5" SSD draws 600mA on the +5V rail, which is about 3W. Your average 2mm indicator LED draws all of 20mA@3.3V. At 5V it would lase.

  23. Re:Swap the Ctrl and Alt keys on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Caps Lock Key Still So Prominent On Keyboards? · · Score: 1

    Never mind those, I want my Turbo switch back.

  24. Re:SubjectsSuck on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Caps Lock Key Still So Prominent On Keyboards? · · Score: 1

    we know a song about that.

    "Do you suffer from short term memory loss?"

    "...I can't remember."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  25. Re:It's shift for some people on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Caps Lock Key Still So Prominent On Keyboards? · · Score: 1

    my wife does this, it bugs the shit out of me.