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  1. Re: UK needs to be run by corporations like Americ on Where Is Europe's Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    tell that to Greece, Spain and Italy.

  2. Re:First they made food portions smaller on US Airlines Say Smaller Carry-Ons Are Not In the Cards · · Score: 1

    This. I'd go in what I'm wearing and carry my entire life in a small leather billfold. Buy clothes at the other end and what? Give them away before I come back. It's only things.

  3. First they made food portions smaller on US Airlines Say Smaller Carry-Ons Are Not In the Cards · · Score: 1

    now they're shrinking carry-on luggage?

    Fuck, there's only so much air you can pump out of a vacu-seal. I can only get two suits, four sets of undercrackers, a pair of sneakers and my laptop into carry-on as it is. BTW, here a carry-on follows Ryanair's example: 55x40x20cm, to fit in the overhead. Ryanair also allows a smaller piece of hand luggage as a second (since May last year as their passenger cabins only have rack space for 90 carry-ons, excess baggage goes into the hold), which in practical terms means you can carry three full changes of clothes in the cabin bag and a netbook in a neoprene sleeve.

  4. my other datacenter's a footlocker on Google Pulling Back the Veil On Its Custom-Built Data Centers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seriously. I'm building my new data warehouse inside a wooden footlocker. All I need is an ATX extender and to finish building the drive frames (for 8x3.5" drives, 12x2.5" drives and two DVD burners), and the back arm for the VESA mount for the monitor, then it all gets bolted together and fired up. It looks fuckin' sweet.

  5. Re:turn off javascript on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Search Engines Left That Don't Try To Think For Me? · · Score: 1

    oh, well, in which case - and if I come off as flippant, so what - learn how to construct a search engine query.

  6. Re:Happy Thursday from The Golden Girls! on Video Games Can Improve Terror Attack Preparedness, Even If You Don't Play Them · · Score: 1

    is there any way of filtering specific spam posts?

  7. turn off javascript on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Search Engines Left That Don't Try To Think For Me? · · Score: 1

    problem solved.

  8. Re:European Court Are Stupid! on European Court: Websites Are Responsible For Users' Comments · · Score: 1

    The judges' comments are in a connected judgement given in the citation in http://slashdot.org/comments.p... (hence you won't find it on BAILII, the decision itself is on BAILII, however), and the Musa case which has been all over the press.

    The admission of the UK as party to the ECHR comes both with the Human Rights Act 1998 and the fact that Article 13 was deliberately omitted with the excuse that "Article 6 ought to be enough for everybody".

    My response to that: a fair trial does not constitute effective remedy. Effective remedy is equible solution to abuses from State, which includes but is not limited to abuse of the judicial process. What part of Article 6 covers a complainant against the Police following a savage beating in a cell, for instance? This is an example of what Article 13 is meant to cover, in that complaints against one public body should not be investigated BY THAT SAME BODY.

  9. Re:European Court Are Stupid! on European Court: Websites Are Responsible For Users' Comments · · Score: 1

    Wall in Re: H said that ECHR decisions are not legally binding in England and should be at most considered advisories, evne those directly connected with the case at hand. Other judges have said the same, particularly during the Musa case where the judge also said that the Human Rights Act didn't even apply to the case where the State was seeking to permanently separate children from their parents and deport the parents!

  10. Did you think all your Christmases had come on Interviews: Ask Brian Krebs About Security and Cybercrime · · Score: 1

    ...at once when you took delivery of that package of opium?

  11. you don't see the one that hits you on Should Nuclear Devices Be Kept On Hand To Protect Against Near Earth Objects? · · Score: 2

    in fact, we didn't see ANY of the more recent impacts coming until the dust had settled. So what fucking use is a nuke again?

  12. non-paywalled source on Apple De-Certifies Monster Cables After Lawsuit Against Beats · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Monster Business School on Apple De-Certifies Monster Cables After Lawsuit Against Beats · · Score: 1

    common ground the gear, you only need one signal conductor per channel.

    (I've run stereo signal through bell wire and common ground, it worked pretty well for a redneck setup but it's not something I'd go set up in someone else's living room).

  14. Re:Monster Business School on Apple De-Certifies Monster Cables After Lawsuit Against Beats · · Score: 1

    This. I started out with RG58 coax for my antenna but found that it couldn't handle 200W. It got hot enough to melt through the insulation. I had to switch up to RG213 (which is about twice as thick and three times heavier). Everything was much happier after that.

  15. Re:Monster Business School on Apple De-Certifies Monster Cables After Lawsuit Against Beats · · Score: 2

    electroplating doesn't flake, it's electrically bonded and a few tens of atoms thick.

  16. Re:Monster Business School on Apple De-Certifies Monster Cables After Lawsuit Against Beats · · Score: 1

    IIRC high tension transmission lines use aluminium connectors.

  17. Re:who are the quality PC makers? on Apple De-Certifies Monster Cables After Lawsuit Against Beats · · Score: 1

    uh... there's no comparison really, the original M3 (the E30) shipped with a 2.3 litre inline 4 that put out 192 horses. The 3rd Generation "Foxbody" Mustang 5.0 shipped with a Windsor 302 (a 4.9l 8-cylinder block) for about 130 horses. Clear winner with a stock 2300lb weight: E30. Clear loser with stock weight of 3100lb: Mustang. "American Muscle" is actually pretty puny, so much so they have to exaggerate the spec just to get a sale. Speaking of which, the E30 M3 originally sold for $35,000 (US base stock - no options), the Mustang 5.0 went for $12,000. These days you can pick up an '86 Mustang for change out of a hundred bucks, a fair-to-good-condition E30 will set you back over a hundred grand.

  18. Re:who are the quality PC makers? on Apple De-Certifies Monster Cables After Lawsuit Against Beats · · Score: 1

    what do you do, dance on them??

    I still have a CPt from 1999 that serves as a digital frame (it's got a custom wooden case now).

  19. Re:who are the quality PC makers? on Apple De-Certifies Monster Cables After Lawsuit Against Beats · · Score: 1

    shockingly enough, Dell build Apple hardware, too. As do FloStor, Lenovo, Foxconn, Microstar, Samsung, Hyundai... about the only thing Apple actually do fabricate are cases.

  20. Re:Just use OpenBSD, for crying out loud! on US Lawmakers Demand Federal Encryption Requirements After OPM Hack · · Score: 1

    that is my full legal name, fool.

  21. Re:Free Speech on European Court: Websites Are Responsible For Users' Comments · · Score: 1

    the mistake people often make while mounting a defence is hiring solicitors. It costs NOTHING to defend oneself. The cost comes in hiring a bloodsucker to do it for you because you're too fucking lazy to learn some Law. I'm not saying you have to turn into Perry Mason in a week, just get the specific source dealing with your issue (be that public liability, building code, libel, marriage, divorce, adoption, vehicle excise, or whatever else I can't think of right now), learn how the system "works", and understand that the judge and the clerk are there and obligated by Law to aid litigants in person. Lawyers exist simply because they already know the Law (ostensibly) and already know how the system works.

  22. Re:Free Speech on European Court: Websites Are Responsible For Users' Comments · · Score: 1

    To give further example, I am absolutely free to say that Scientology is a scam. I can say that in light of the fact that no claims that Scientology has made have ever been proven. Scientology might try to sue me under libel laws BUT they would have no case considering that I'm merely commenting on the lack of evidence to support their claims (such as the efficacy of the Hubbard E-Meter), which they would have to prove for them to have a case against me. I've made my case by stating that Scientology has not proven their claims as an organisaiton that claims to use science, using the scientific process (ie peer reviewed study and repeatable double blind experiment); such statement is absolutely and provably factual as far as ANY right-thinking person is aware unless and until Scientology shows otherwise - for example, by providing detailed description on how the E-Meter functions to a public court. Claiming it as a religious artifact then offering it as a treatment for cognitive impairment does not cut it. Ask France.

  23. Re:Free Speech on European Court: Websites Are Responsible For Users' Comments · · Score: 1

    precisely. :)

  24. Re:Just use OpenBSD, for crying out loud! on US Lawmakers Demand Federal Encryption Requirements After OPM Hack · · Score: 1

    Historically, governments are top notch at physical security...

    You just made me spit coffee through my new keyboard.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    (incomplete list, LOTS of avoidable breaches, including hard drives, even LAPTOPS left on trains, paper documents left on park benches, the worst reported breach being revealed in 2008 of a 2007 loss of 25 MILLION records of benefit claimants' families (practically the entire UK population) were dispatched in the regular post on unencrypted CDs and subsequently "lost").

  25. Re: The short version: on European Court: Websites Are Responsible For Users' Comments · · Score: 1

    hah... I meant viertes Reich. Those keys are so damn close together...