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  1. Re:Clear as Rocky Mountain spring water on NASA's New Bag Turns Urine Into Sports Drink · · Score: 1

    There's another place considerable water comes out...

  2. Re:Safety first. on Google Deleting Private Profiles · · Score: 1

    There is information about me on the Web as well, though not nearly as much as about you. Most of it is a matter of public record so it would be silly to call it "private". Most of the rest, while not formally in the public record like my birthdate, is irrelevant trivia. It is interesting that much of it is wrong, though. You can find several erroneous versions of my SSN, for example.

  3. Re:aliases? on Google Deleting Private Profiles · · Score: 1

    > Any website can force you to fill a box in.

    No Website can force you to do anything.

  4. Re:Mod parent up! on Google Deleting Private Profiles · · Score: 1

    We need to move to a system where the subject of information owns copyright over any such information about him/herself.

    Copyright does not apply to information.

    Whether it be my personally-identifying information or my behavioral information (e.g. shopping habits), I should own it.

    So I can't tell anyone that you drive a Toyota or tell them where you work without getting your permission first. Great idea.

  5. Re:Removing private account info? on Google Deleting Private Profiles · · Score: 1

    At least half of the people I know who are on Facebook (I'm not) will find it completely incomprehensible.

  6. Re:Consciously opt out? on Google Deleting Private Profiles · · Score: 1

    They couldn't do that if you didn't have a Google contact list.

  7. Re:Consciously opt out? on Google Deleting Private Profiles · · Score: 1

    > What do you use?

    I use Newsguy. I have no experience with their Webmail though, and you might find their mailboxes too small (I download my mail every ten minutes so that doesn't matter to me).

  8. Re:Consciously opt out? on Google Deleting Private Profiles · · Score: 1

    You can use Google Search without having any sort of Google "account", accepting their cookies or permitting their JS.

  9. Re:Terrorists will love it. on New Approach For Laser Weapons · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I expect that they will have about the same success with this as with all the other types of weapons they've used to shoot down commercial airliners.

  10. Re:Open Surveillance, Anyone? on Cisco Helps China Keep an Eye On Its Citizens · · Score: 1

    > Can't find any studies or implementations at this moment...

    Of course not. Knowledge is not power. Secret knowledge is power.

  11. Re:Cameras do not prevent crime on Cisco Helps China Keep an Eye On Its Citizens · · Score: 1

    Criminals are generally stupid and are not deterred by an increased risk of getting caught.

    Right. That must be why so many robberies are committed right in front of policemen.

  12. Re:Same Old Cisco on Cisco Helps China Keep an Eye On Its Citizens · · Score: 2

    And, of course, corporations, being abstractions, don't do anything. Their directors, officers, and employees do.

  13. So who are the British government's suppliers? on Cisco Helps China Keep an Eye On Its Citizens · · Score: 3, Interesting

    n/t

  14. None of this (except the passwords)... on Hacker Exposes Parts of Florida's Voting Database · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...should be secret anyway. The only part of an election that should be secret is how each individual voted.

  15. Re:ICBM on Bizarre Expanding Light Halo Seen By Hawaii Webcam · · Score: 1

    Hmmm. My passport says I'm an American. My birth certificate says I'm an American. I guess both were forged.

  16. Re:It makes me sad on Fusion Thrusters For Space Travel · · Score: 1

    The obsession with lowering taxes will imply that a larger percentage of national resources are funnelled into consumption.

    Lowering taxes will result in people spending their money on what they want instead having it taken from them and spent on what politicians want. You will be free to spend yours on whatever you perceive to be the public good if that is what you want. You will not be free, however, to spend my money on what you perceive to be the public good.

    When a nation spends more on consumer goods, it will, in my opinion lead to a reduction in projects that are national in scale and for the public good.

    Wars are not for the public good.

  17. Re:not just autorun! on Yet Another "People Plug In Strange USB Sticks" Story · · Score: 1

    The OS could require the user to log in via a newly-detected keyboard. It could require user confirmation of anything else via the keyboard.

  18. Re:hrmmph.. on Yet Another "People Plug In Strange USB Sticks" Story · · Score: 1

    There's a solution to that. Don't work for fools.

  19. Re:Only one way to fix this on Yet Another "People Plug In Strange USB Sticks" Story · · Score: 1

    > What happens if you short the USB power lines?

    If ther port is properly designed, at worst it blows a replaceable fuse. Pcs being as they are, though, it may wreck the motherboard.

  20. Re:My math may be wrong, but... on Fusion Thrusters For Space Travel · · Score: 1

    Force is not measured in joules.

  21. Re:Plausible? on Fusion Thrusters For Space Travel · · Score: 2

    This isn't about net energy gain. It's about specific impulse.

  22. Mr. Jones needs to learn the difference... on Fusion Thrusters For Space Travel · · Score: 1

    ...between power and energy.

  23. Why can't the "enterprise"... on The Enterprise Is Wrong, Not Mozilla · · Score: 2

    ...pay someone (such as Mozilla...) for support? It's Free Software. They've got the source and the license.

  24. ...opaque language is the norm. on If You're Working For Stock, Read the Fine Print · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It wouldn't be if you people would quit signing things you don't understand.

  25. Any suggestions? on Ask Slashdot: CS Degree Without Gen-Ed Requirements? · · Score: 1

    Go to a trade school. You don't want a BS.

    Or better yet, just study independently.