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  1. Re:The Nordic "bend over and take" countries on Pirate Bay Founder Warg Being Held in Solitary Confinement · · Score: 1

    Get off your fucking high horse and learn to read!

    Then:

    guy is charged with breaking into the Danish Police central servers *and* one of the biggest Danish banks.

    And if those charges against him fail he will be further charged with 'treading on the cracks in the pavement' and 'looking at me in a funny way'.

    You do get the difference between 'charged' and 'convicted'; yes/no? Or did you not learn that in your reading class.

  2. Re:Lucky Ducky on Pirate Bay Founder Warg Being Held in Solitary Confinement · · Score: 1

    Warg + cell phone + solitary = somebody's missiles will launch.

    then your current .sig

    --
    We need a -1 [Contains FUD] option

    Hummm.. We certainly do.

  3. Re:Solitary Confinement on Pirate Bay Founder Warg Being Held in Solitary Confinement · · Score: 2

    In the real world, solitary confinement is often used as extrajudicial punishment by unaccountable authorities.

    Too true..
    Watch 'Cool Hand Luke' or 'The Great Escape' if you want to see powerful examples of how it is used to try and control 'troublemakers'.

  4. Re:Old News on Snowden Document Shows Canada Set Up Spy Posts For NSA · · Score: 4, Interesting

    .. common knowledge for quite a long time

    If I had asserted it in public prior to the Snowdon leaks, anonymous apologists would have popped up saying: 'Where is your proof'.
    Now we have that proof the same anonymous apologists are saying it was: 'Common knowledge'.
    Hummm.

  5. Re:Taxing is not going to fix the problem on EU Plastic Bag Debate Highlights a Wider Global Problem · · Score: 1

    .. makes it look like nothing more than a money grab.

    No; it's a rent.
    So long as you do not charge for bags that are strong when sold but soon decay once exposed to free air and UV then this is not a land grab, since the market (which only cares about polluting when it is expensive) will rapidly move to the least damaging option and your 'grab' will shrink to nothing.

    Of course. This is actually a land grab, since the market will maximize profit anyway and once we are all used to paying for bags the charge will remain, The only way to prevent this would be legislation, which is commie and apparently evil.

  6. Funny that. on Boston Cops Outraged Over Plans to Watch Their Movements Using GPS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    pots and kettles etc.

  7. Re:Wrong on Britain's Conservatives Scrub Speeches from the Internet · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sigh.. 'Wrong in what way?

    This was the archive of speeches, not just the parliamentary ones; but all the ones at election rallies and conferences too.

    For instance; ToryBoy recently sat in a big gold chair and ate a 4 course meal along with all his rich chums in the Guildhall, London. He then stood in front of an gilded podium and made a speech in which he told all the little people that they had not worked hard enough and that austerity is now here to stay.

    This speech is exactly the sort of one that will never appear on Hansard, and in a few years may well be the sort of thing Tory spinsters will hope to make 'disappear'.

  8. Re:Detriment caused on Google Avoids Fine Over Street View WiFi Snooping, Ordered To Delete Data · · Score: 1

    And taking said picture violates the naked person's expectation of privacy

    Errr.. I would hope said photo would be the #1 piece of evidence in court that someone is a pervert who willfully exposes their genitalia to old ladies and little children walking in the street.

  9. Re:So unfair on Google Avoids Fine Over Street View WiFi Snooping, Ordered To Delete Data · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Shhhhh... Googles competitors and their pet nutters are here in force, you might make them upset by pointing out that their neighbours kid has the ability to monitor their wifi permanently (instead of for a few seconds on a couple of random occasions).

    Meanwhile, since I'm not american, that bunch or right-wing loons and sociopaths they laughingly call a Government is systematically and far, far, more comprehensively spying on everything I do.

    Interesting to see the BBC arse-licking their cause by trying to deflect peoples anger from the worst offenders to the least.

  10. Re:That'll Learn 'Em on Google Avoids Fine Over Street View WiFi Snooping, Ordered To Delete Data · · Score: 1

    My thoughts exactly. I'm sure there has been something in the news about this recently. But in that case the BBC almost totally failed to mention it.. I wonder why?

  11. Re:Not only about money on Internet Payment Processor Liberty Reserve Accused of Laundering $6 Billion · · Score: 1

    I doubt it, Bankers rule, HSBC probably dictated all the terms and their directors probably think the US owes them an apology, or something.

    If any list did go over it probably looked like:
    Mr D.Duck. PO Box 11198745.3, Caymen Islands. 10Million
    Mrs O.Oil, PO Box 7645332, Dubai. 12Million.
    etc..
    And has mysteriously disappeared, or fallen behind the sofa, anyway.

  12. Re:Harrier? on Hybrid RotorWing Design Transitions From Fixed To Rotary Wing Mid-Flight · · Score: 2

    I think his original comment made it clear he knows the difference; that's why he called the Tiltrotor a 'rotor equivalent to' the Harrier.

  13. Re:Bunker on Largest DDoS In History Reaches 300 Billion Bits Per Second · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You have obviously never seen the ME in operation; I have, it was not pretty. I especially liked the skill with which on of the mounted leant really low in the saddle to beat his stick on the heads of two women treating an unconscious man.

  14. Re:The enemy of my enemy on Rand Paul Launches a Filibuster Against Drone Strikes On US Soil · · Score: 1

    but (a) he's not a dictator

    Sitting in a room, being shown 'baseball cards' with pictures of 'enemies' on them and casually signing the death warrents for them and all the innocents within the blast radius..

    Naah, nothing dictatorial about that all..

    The US military is the dictator; Obama is just another of it's victims.

  15. Re:Drunk on AirBurr UAV Navigates By Crashing Into Things · · Score: 1

    Prior Art :-)

  16. Re:In the mean time... on 3-D Printed Car Nears Production · · Score: 1

    It's cheaper to mold parts.

    It's cheaper if you already have the moulding equipment (which is pretty heavy duty for parts this big) and are making runs big enough to recover the cost of making the moulds for each design.

    Small scale manufacture, especially if geared towards individualised vehicles based around standardised chassis/engine/safetycell designs, will print them on site and on demand.

  17. Re:know how I know it's a pipe dream? on 3-D Printed Car Nears Production · · Score: 1

    It will have a Diesel Cycle engine, that is all. It might well be running an insane rpm with a pseudo 2-stroke cycle (ignition on every cycle) with inlet/outlet controlled by solenoids; a computerised fly-by-wire engine.. There are lots of clever designs around these days that break the 'rules' of traditional, entrenched, engine design.

    ie. Traditional automotive diesels might not work well with ethanol, but that does not mean it is true for all diesel cycle designs.

  18. Re:I Don't Get It on DoJ Admits Aaron Swartz's Prosecution Was Political · · Score: 1

    Yes, he is serious; he's a RIAA/DOJ/greedist schill, and a comment placed like this gets him a bonus.

  19. Re:A couple of points on NY Times' Broder Responds To Tesla's Elon Musk · · Score: 1

    do I know whether the M6 is closed? Yes, my satnav tells me.

    Ooh; that sounds rather like you are using your satnav to support every yard of your journey. but you gave the impression above that you were superior to people who do that..?

  20. Re:Just oppose the mark.. and Python was First on Python Trademark At Risk In Europe · · Score: 2

    The judge could very well say "Yes, that law is unjust and you are free to go."

    yeah... happens all the time.

    You can only deal with unjust laws in this way if the legal system is decent, honest and just.

    But unjust laws are, by implication, associated with unjust processes; and it is a safe bet that any Judge who is willing to hear a case based on an unjust law will not be interested in justice. In that circumstance the correct response is to say 'I will not acknowledge you.' The state will then attempt to use coercive force on you; what happens next really depends on your strength of will, your tolerance to pain, and how deep the injustice is.

  21. Re:A couple of points on NY Times' Broder Responds To Tesla's Elon Musk · · Score: 1

    Blimey; do you really need satnav to know how far you have to go on a familiar route? Don't you have a brain that can tell you that?

  22. Re:A couple of points on NY Times' Broder Responds To Tesla's Elon Musk · · Score: 1, Informative

    the Tesla charging station (marked on the Google image)

    Indeed; so that means that the charging station position is well known to navigation systems.

    In the much smaller parking lot at my apartment my satnav still insists on directing me to within a few meters of my assigned space, ie. GPS has sufficient accuracy to find a particular position within a parking lot.

    Which means that either the satnav in this car has the exact location of the charging station incorrectly mapped (which would be a big fail on Tesla's part), or this reporter failed to use the inbuilt nav tool Tesla supply to help drivers stay charged, a big fail on his part.

  23. Yes I have a question, why are you lecturing about things you are ignorant of? A Toyota Prius does NOT drive the wheels directly via a conventional gearbox. The engine recharges the battery continuously, and the battery turns the wheels via electric motors.

    Methinks you should do your homework before typing: a Prius is a full hybrid.

    The only thing I got wrong was to refer to the gearbox as 'conventional', since gearboxes used in such drivetrains are pretty unconventional really.

  24. Re:Comment? No comment. on Google Store Sends User Information To App Developers · · Score: 1

    ... without their knowledge or permission and without explicitly saying so in any terms of service...

    What is the betting the terms of service implicitly say they can share purchaser data with the developers. And the above line is relying on purchaser ignorance and the word explicit to worm around this.

  25. Why aren't fuel cells, not internal combustion engines, the "range extenders" in plug-in hybrid cars?
    Because they are a battery substitute.. not an engine substitute.
    Hybrid cars can charge from their gas engine.. but that engine also drives the wheels directly via a conventional gearbox when needed. it is the use of TWO different drive systems that makes them a Hybrid..
    Any questions?