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  1. Re:Why? on $250K Reward Offered In California Power Grid Attack · · Score: 1

    Because the US is urinating in someone's bowl of corn flakes every five minutes.

    Retaliation is inevitable.

    Maybe we should focus on what we can do: end the cronyism in DC and defend our borders. We can afford to do that.

  2. Re: Kickstarter skeptics eat your heart out on Minecraft Creator Halts Plans For Oculus Version Following Facebook Acquisition · · Score: 2

    Pot is illegal here, but I'll trade a copy of "Lawnmower Man - The Game" for DOS, a set of of MSDOS 2.00 source code on 5.25" diskettes hand-labeled by Bill Gates, and a full-height 5.25" diskette drive to read them.

    That fulfills your VR jones and your tech-cool jones in a practical way.

    Oculus DK-II only, though. That high-latency nonsense is for the birds.

  3. Re:I dont get it on Russians Take Ukraine's Last Land Base In Crimea · · Score: 1

    Pro tip: if the US is backing someone, odds are the someone is a really bad person and we're doing it for a percentage.

    Tymoshenko wants the 8 million Ukrainian Russians killed "with nukes", according to an FSB-leaked phone conversation with a Ukrainian parliament member. She apologized though, so that makes it all good.

    Odd that the US hasn't warned these morons that Russia has an NSA-equivalent, but then, we don't care what they do to each other as long as they pay the interest they're about to owe.

  4. Re:I dont get it on Russians Take Ukraine's Last Land Base In Crimea · · Score: 1

    Neocons McCain and Nuland actively took part in the protests in Kiev, and promised the dissidents money from the US and EU that they would/could never deliver.

    Broken EU promises of bailouts is why Yanukovich sided with Russia "suddenly and mysteriously": there were 15 billion good reasons to do so. Putin is a thug and a maddog killer but he doesn't play the con-games that the EU and US do.

    The US fomented that coup thinking that Russia would roll over, or at most start a huge skirmish and kill a few hundred thousand people that we don't give a rat's behind about. Then we would be able to sell ICBMs and ABMS on credit to people (aka "muppets") that can't afford toilet paper, and Russia would be a step closer to rolling over and accepting ECB/IMF's terms of surrender. It didn't work that way.

    Now, Ukraine will be the next Greece/Cyprus and the Ukrainian people will get the rubber-stamp bailout package, and hand over all their wealth to the ECB and the IMF.

    Either you're trolling, you're that clueless, or next, you'll say the US had nothing to do with Mossadeq and installing a madman dictator over Iran in 1953.

  5. Re:I dont get it on Russians Take Ukraine's Last Land Base In Crimea · · Score: 1, Troll

    "A civilized approach would have been to approach the Ukrainian government, asked them for it and offered a pile of money for it"

    Which Ukranian government is that? The one that Ukraine elected, or the one that the US installed?

    If you mean the former, then I think your condition was already met. If you mean the latter, then you just might be an incurable neocon warmonger with a ton of rhetoric that needs to go somewhere, anywhere, quick as a banker's pocket picking hand.

  6. Re:This is a propaganda war first of all on Russian Army Spetsnaz Units Arrested Operating In Ukraine · · Score: 1

    Yes.

    The area these Latinos want to secede must hold a referendum vote, of course.

    I fail to see where you're going with this.

  7. Re:Let me guess... on DirectX 12 Promises Lower-level Hardware Access On Multiple Platforms · · Score: 1

    Unless you'd have to repeat that process on 300 systems, or wrestle with generating a custom install.

    Dude, it's literally 30 seconds to download Fedora 20 and replace Windows 8, like, and such as.

  8. Re:This is a propaganda war first of all on Russian Army Spetsnaz Units Arrested Operating In Ukraine · · Score: 1

    If you believe in democratic process, if you subscribe to liberty, then you must accept the vote whether it wads your panties or not.

    The US is playing its "Hypocrite Card" very very poorly.

    It makes us look petty and weak to Russia and China, when we're really just following Zbigniew Brzezinski's 1997 book, "The Grand Chessboard" in true neocon fashion. I guess Bushbama can't formulate foreign policy on his own, so he lets the predi-fascists do it for him.

    The warmongers are no longer in favor. We The Peeps are done with their ilk. They have the spy network. But we have the arms. We have the rope. Go ahead and side with them.

  9. Re:This is a propaganda war first of all on Russian Army Spetsnaz Units Arrested Operating In Ukraine · · Score: 1

    The Crimeans did vote for it. Yeah, that seems at least as legit as purple thumbs in US-occupied Iraq. Moldavia asked to join Russia this morning. 'Because they fear the US'.

    I'm sure Moldavia's fear of the US will make any good bully^H^H^H^H^Hneocon smile, but as a veteran who has sworn to uphold/defend the US Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic, I've gotta say the enemies in DC are a much greater concern than your Cold War Palinesque fantasy invasion.

  10. Re:This is a propaganda war first of all on Russian Army Spetsnaz Units Arrested Operating In Ukraine · · Score: -1, Troll

    And this is worse than the US backing a violent coup d'etat against a democratically elected leader.....how, exactly? It's no threat to you or your interests, so I have to ask: are you an incurable busybody, or merely a war mongering debt-addict?

  11. Sold!!! on OASIS Approves OData 4.0 Standards For an Open, Programmable Web · · Score: 1

    I saw that it's embraced by Blackberry... Nice name-drop! I'm in!

  12. Re:Still abusive on Gabe Newell Responds: Yes, We're Looking For Cheaters Via DNS · · Score: 1

    I think Valve's DNS check is a good start, and an excellent way to someday backdoor a PC with the user's permission. What kind of terrorist activities are you up to, that you would question authority in the way some here are doing?

  13. Easy as Pie on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Camera Device For Use In a Small Bus? · · Score: 1

    Passengers must place all possessions (clothing, jewelry, phones, wallets, purses, eye-glasses, etc) in the trunk.

  14. Re:Depends on Motive on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Camera Device For Use In a Small Bus? · · Score: 1

    "Not necessarily--suppose the limo camera is basically there for security" This is type of justification that everyone from Hitler to Grandma Peaches uses to initiate their Really Stupid Idea. They never consider unintended consequences. "Oh, we'll only tap the TURRIST phones! For safety!" Jeez.

  15. Re:Manipulative headline on Study Finds Methane Leaks Negate Benefits of Natural Gas-Powered Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Handing more power to bumbling crony government authorities is no answer. It might make sense to create a private licensing and oversight consortium with the incentives (e.g., full liability) to guarantee adherence to operational safety standards. That would increase production costs, but accountability would likely improve dramatically, and that's where a lot of the problems lie.

  16. Re:Manipulative headline on Study Finds Methane Leaks Negate Benefits of Natural Gas-Powered Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Oil companies bring water to people when the oil company causes an accidental release of ground contaminants. I said nothing regarding fluid runoff pollution in my previous post. Reading comprehension -1 on that one, sorry. However, fluid runoff pollution is a managed risk of any type of natural gas or oil recovery operation, whether old-school or fracturing methods are used. It is also a managed risk in mining or water well drilling. The ground it seems is just full of nasty chemicals that you don't want to eat or drink, and digging or drilling invariably brings those nasty chemicals to the surface. You should read less MSM tripe and more engineering or geology literature: you'll sound less....schizophrenic on this topic.

  17. Re:Wow on Star Trek Economics · · Score: 1

    This planet can sustain 1.5 billion humans, if they are all extremely careful. There are 7 billion people now, because of cheap petroleum. Cheap petroleum is gone forever and there is NO replacement. Try to mine iron with PV or algae, lol. Try to make a tire with a windmill. Try to get a strawberry from Chile to Florida using nuclear fission. Most pharmaceuticals, plastics, pesticides, and non-rusty metal are impossible w/o petroleum. And, no pesticides = no food. You are naive and gullible. You probably think Greenspan was brilliant and that Beta is da bomb giggity.

  18. Re:Manipulative headline on Study Finds Methane Leaks Negate Benefits of Natural Gas-Powered Vehicles · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Nonsense. Stop gobbling the gullibility pills. The videos of burning tap water are from water wells that were already polluted (naturally) by methane. Fracking occurs MILES below any aquifers, and the bore is very well sealed. Water and methane are frequent partners and have always been. Forcing deep-well waste water back into the ground is different: there's reason to believe it causes earthquakes and has been banned as a result.

  19. Re:Cult leader's son behaving like a cult leader on Rand Paul Files Suit Against Obama Over NSA's Collection of Metadata · · Score: 1

    Yes, we left those philosophies - the ones that built this nation - behind. Now we're on the verge of social and economic collapse. We've created a society that Stalin and Hitler would drool over. But then, humans suck as a species so, nice work!

  20. Re: why not? on Will Microsoft IIS Overtake Apache? · · Score: 1

    I can see restarting in-house buggy services, sure, but the entire system? Just to be sure that a system can restart during naps?! You're either bonkers, or understand very little about how ux systems (and hardware) work. 'Fess up: you're a Windows alpha, working up to uxwannabe.

  21. Re:The best part about Slashdot... on How Edward Snowden's Actions Have Impacted Defense Contractors · · Score: 1

    There's fark.com.

  22. Re:IIS better in almost every way. on Will Microsoft IIS Overtake Apache? · · Score: 1

    Why are you trying to cloud this issue with logic, reason, and truth?

  23. Re:IIS better in almost every way. on Will Microsoft IIS Overtake Apache? · · Score: 3, Funny

    IIS is MUCH easier to configure under Linux. Infinitely so.

  24. Re:IIS better in almost every way. on Will Microsoft IIS Overtake Apache? · · Score: 1

    I agree, but nginex will win most performance comparisons against Apache, and IIS isn't even in the running. I still run Apache, but it's not because of performance. Porting would require a significant portion of a day. Ain't nobody got time for that.

  25. Re: why not? on Will Microsoft IIS Overtake Apache? · · Score: 1

    There are NO limits to the mischief that poor programming can enable, even on a great platform. Microsoft doesn't have a *total* monopoly on poor software design just because it's the past two decades' poster child. There have been plenty of hare-brained ideas implemented on Unix, Solaris, MacOS, and Linux platforms. Even Windows' ancient babydaddy, the venerable VMS, had some epic failures (that all seem to have been ported to WNT for some weird reason). The trick is to recognize those bad ideas (IE) and fix or eliminate them.