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  1. "Centralization does not scale." on Open Source Foundations Coming of Age — What Next? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Multiple "umbrella" organizations? Sure. One single central authority? Do Not Want.

  2. "How many stories have we read hating on... on Kodak Patents Sold for $525 Million · · Score: 0

    ...the biggest patent troll of them all?"

    Apple? Too many (and I don't even like Apple).

  3. "Chilling"? on Chilling Guidelines Issued For UK Communications Act Enforcement · · Score: 1

    For a European government those guidelines seem pretty liberal.

  4. She's right, of course. on Newest Gov't Tracking Threat: Cell-Site Data Without a Warrant · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And therefor her ruling is irrelevant to cases in which the tower data was acquired since the Supreme Court GPS ruling.

  5. "Microsoft Has Been Watching... on Microsoft Has Been Watching, and It Says You're Getting Used To Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    ...and It Says You're Getting Used To Windows 8"

    They're wrong. I've never even seen it.

  6. Tell him his computer is broken... on Ask Slashdot: What To Tell Non-Tech Savvy Family About Malware? · · Score: 1

    ...and that he should take it to PC Doctor and have it fixed. There is really nothing else you can do as there is no hope of convincing him to stop using Windows.

  7. Re:Unauthorized export resale? on New Hampshire Cops Use Taser On Woman Buying Too Many iPhones · · Score: 1

    "...intent to later export them, which would be illegal."

    This has nothing to do with export law. By "unauthorized" they simply mean "without Apple's permission". Apple is free to refuse to sell you phones if they believe that you are going to export them in violation of their policies but if they do sell you phones you can legally export them to most places.

  8. "...unauthorized export resale." on New Hampshire Cops Use Taser On Woman Buying Too Many iPhones · · Score: 1

    But not illegal.

  9. It isn't going "any which way". on North Korea's Satellite Is Out of Control · · Score: 1

    "Tumbling" means they lack attitude control. It is still in a predictable polar orbit. And while any addition to the amount of junk in orbit is undesireable it is not "very dangerous".

    Though North Korea is governed by scumbags, I congratulate the engineers who did this on the achievement of orbiting a satellite with such limited resources and commiserate with them over the loss of attitude control. They have as much right to put things in orbit as anyone else. Fuck the UN.

  10. This is for those Windows users who... on LG Introduces Monitor With 21:9 Aspect Ratio · · Score: 1

    ...like to send emails consisting of a single long line of text?

  11. You can block webbugs and referrers and scripts. on How Websites Know Your Email Address the First Time You Visit · · Score: 1

    And you can use throwaway email addresses and pseudonyms. It's up to you.

  12. Re:I detect spin... on Nokia Engineer Shows How To Pirate Windows 8 Metro Apps, Bypass In-app Purchases · · Score: 0

    What country still uses the Imperial system? Hint: the USA never used it.

  13. Why is this "worrying" or "scary"? on Nokia Engineer Shows How To Pirate Windows 8 Metro Apps, Bypass In-app Purchases · · Score: 1

    n/t

  14. Re:Interesting plan ... on Money Python: Florida Contest Offers Rewards In 2013 Everglades Python Hunt · · Score: 1

    > Apply selective pressure to breed unhuntable pythons.

    After all, look at all the other animals that have been hunted for millenia and have consequently become "unhuntable".

    > Or am I missing something?

    The fact that many species have been hunted to extinction?

  15. Re:Why the hell is a permit needed? on Money Python: Florida Contest Offers Rewards In 2013 Everglades Python Hunt · · Score: 1

    So, in Florida you can hunt house mice with a gun and a light. But only at night.

    I'm visualizing a couple of good ol' boys down in their basement on Saturday night with a spot light, a couple of 12-gauge shotguns, and a case of beer hunting mice.

    Oh. Wait. Florida. No basements.

  16. Why the hell is a permit needed? on Money Python: Florida Contest Offers Rewards In 2013 Everglades Python Hunt · · Score: 1

    Put a bounty on them, or at least let people kill as many as they wish. Requiring a permit to kill something you want to exterminate is stupid. Do you need a license to kill rats in Florida?

  17. They can now do as they will within their borders. on Russia, China, and Others Seek Greater Control Over Internet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The real goal is to require all other nations and institutions to actively cooperate with their censorship.

  18. aren't sure the demand exists for 1Gb internet on Nationwide Google Fiber Deployment Would Cost $140 Billion · · Score: 1

    I certainly wouldn't pay extra for it nor would anyone I know. I'd much rather pay less for the 1.5Mb I'm getting. If I had more money I'd pay a little more than I am now for 10Mb but I have no use for anything faster.

  19. So give them what they want. on Movie Studios Ask Google To Censor Links To Legal Copies of Their Own Films · · Score: 1

    Never link to their stuff, never discuss it, never link to their sites, never mention them by name, and, of course, never buy from them.

    It's not as if they have anything you need.

  20. "...the text that we all blindly agree to..." on Adobe EULA Demands 7000 Years a Day From Humankind · · Score: 1

    Wrong. We do not "all blindly agree".

  21. The question is nonsensical. on Who Owns Your Health Data? · · Score: 1

    No one owns data. What you mean to ask is "Who should have access to your health data?"

  22. Re:The US is actively destroying it's Plutonium on New Small Fission Reactor For Deep-space Missions Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    > I found it odd that this little blip state that Plutonium is in short supply.

    Plutonium 239, used in weapons, isn't in short supply. Plutonium 238, used in RTGs, is.

  23. A twelve-pound sledge. on Ask Slashdot: Server Room Toolbox? · · Score: 1

    No need for anything else. It'll even fix software problems.

  24. Perhaps it's just that the "angels"... on Silicon Valley's Dirty Little Secret: Age Bias · · Score: 1

    ...find that over-forties aren't naive enough.

  25. But coal doesn't cause tsunamis like nuclear does! on The World Falls Back In Love With Coal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fukushima killed 20,000 people! Think what a tsunami like that would do in central Europe!

    Besides, Europe is going to be 100% solar and wind powered in five years. I think hand-cranked generators are the way to go, though. Think of all the jobs that would be created.