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  1. Sweden too on Snowden Document Shows Canada Set Up Spy Posts For NSA · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Swedes 'cooperated' too.

    http://www.thelocal.se/20131205/sweden-spied-on-russia-for-nsa-report

    It's pretty hard to say no when the guy with the biggest guns and millions of murders to back them asks you to do something.

  2. Re:Great.... on The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently' · · Score: 1

    Here's some insight from Walter E. Williams. You should watch the whole video but to keep things on topic, here's the part where he talks about male/female discrimination.

    http://youtu.be/ENL-Jv8GVkk?t=28m52s

  3. Re:Already part of my Ubuntu setup routine. on Ubuntu Wants To Enable SSD TRIM By Default · · Score: 1

    Yes, when you compare it the mount discard option, which is why I avoided it. A daily trim job will however give you much better performance which is what Windows 8 is doing now. Not sure about Windows 7.

    Trimming on the fly, whatever the implementation, will always slow you down more during use than batch trimming when the system is idle.

  4. Re:Already part of my Ubuntu setup routine. on Ubuntu Wants To Enable SSD TRIM By Default · · Score: 1

    Hence the performance hit in Windows. Sounds similar to discard mount option, something that I didn't want because of the performance hit while I was working. I'd much rather keep my system snappy when I'm using it and trim the drives when I'm not.

  5. Already part of my Ubuntu setup routine. on Ubuntu Wants To Enable SSD TRIM By Default · · Score: 1

    I already setup a cron job to fstrim my drives so this is a welcome addition that will save me a step during new installations.

  6. Bugs on Ask Slashdot: What Makes You Uninstall Apps? · · Score: 1

    Bugs

  7. Re:For those who want a $15 minimum wage in the US on Venezuela: Cheap Television Sets For All! · · Score: 1

    Everything seems prosperous when you're in growing bubble.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB5ihHGsm2o

  8. Re:Whay doesn't /. save some time on 4K Ultra HD Likely To Repeat the Failure of 3D Television · · Score: 1

    Maybe if you're within 10 feet, have perfect vision and are staring at a still image. See chart.

    http://s3.carltonbale.com/resolution_chart.html

    I doubt you'll see pixels when the picture is animated. And if the movie/tv show is any good, the pixels completely disappear no mater what the resolution.

  9. Re:Whay doesn't /. save some time on 4K Ultra HD Likely To Repeat the Failure of 3D Television · · Score: 1

    Not this time because we are hittiing physical limits. Your eyes can only see so many pixels when you're 10 feet away. Billboards are often printed at the amazing resolution of 30 dpi and you can't tell when you're 100 metres away.

    1080p is plenty of resolution for video on a TV in your liviing room. I'd much rather see an increase in bandwidth to reduce compression artifacts and an increased framerate.

  10. Re:One video camera will blow through 5GB/month on Top US Lobbyist Wants Broadband Data Caps · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh boy, you didn't just post a link to a picture heavy site on /. A few more karma points and you'll be looking at alot more than 5GB this month.

  11. Re:Isn't there already something like this-Taxes on Sick of Your Local Police Force? Crowdfund Your Own · · Score: 1

    lol, I have yet to read the books.

  12. Re:Isn't there already something like this-Taxes on Sick of Your Local Police Force? Crowdfund Your Own · · Score: 1

    No, he has it right. Taxes are forced upon you. Only when it's voluntary will we be civilized.

  13. Re:liability on Sick of Your Local Police Force? Crowdfund Your Own · · Score: 1

    Is funny the new insightful? Your comment much more insightful than funny.

  14. Re:Sure, to lower paying jobs on The Luddites Are Almost Always Wrong: Why Tech Doesn't Kill Jobs · · Score: 1

    On the contrary, technology such as Bitcoin would solve the inflation problem. Governments intentionally create inflation to stimulate the economy but as we'll soon find out, it doesn't work.

  15. Re:Unmitigated bullshit on Obamacare Could Help Fuel a Tech Start-Up Boom · · Score: 1

    Do you really think that a society that doesn't pay taxes, in other words without government, can't have roads, laws, food inspection and building codes? I would argue that all of these things could not only exist without a government but also be provided at better value.

  16. Support Atrix and I'm in on Cyanogen Mod Goes Commercial To Make "Available On Everything, To Everyone" · · Score: 1

    No doubt I would by buy it if they could get the latest version of Android running on my Atrix. Saves me from buying another phone.

  17. Re:uhmmm on Can the iPhone Popularize Fingerprint Readers? · · Score: 1

    I sure hope Apple could improve Motorola's implementation. They've had 3 years to study it.

  18. Re:More technical discussion on NSA Foils Much Internet Encryption · · Score: 1

    Wow, your numbers are even more insane than the Iraq body count data.

    Studies vary between 655,000 and 1.4 million so I went for the average.

    Of course it is about oil, why shouldn't it be?

    It's this kind of aggression that shows how uncivilized governments are. Why do we need oil from the Middle East so badly? Are we dying without it? Canada has plenty of oil and they want to build a pipeline directly to the US. What's wrong with Canada's oil? Can't the US trade peacefully instead?

    The US dollar is on the brink of collapse. The only thing keeping its value is OPEC. See Currencies used to trade oil
    From Wikipedia

    Since the agreements of 1971 and 1973, OPEC oil is exclusively quoted in US dollars. This created a permanent demand for dollars on the international exchange markets.[2][3] As of 2005, OPEC continues to trade in US Dollars, but some OPEC members (such as Iran and Venezuela) have been pushing for a switch to the euro.

  19. Re:More technical discussion on NSA Foils Much Internet Encryption · · Score: 1

    A million deaths in the Iraq conflict alone is less lethal? The causes have not shifted at all. They're still about greed. Don't let government persuade you into thinking that it's about how we want to impose our social structure onto other nations because of altruistic beliefs. It's about oil and there's extensive evidence supporting it.

    http://www.youtube.com/user/StormCloudsGathering/videos

  20. Re:More technical discussion on NSA Foils Much Internet Encryption · · Score: 1

    When did governments stop killing people in large numbers?

  21. Re:More technical discussion on NSA Foils Much Internet Encryption · · Score: 1

    ...to limit the power of governments as much as possible and to the absolute minimum.

    No matter how hard one has tried to keep them small, governments have always grown to the point where civil war erupts to restore sanity. Maybe it's time to try something (sort of) new, no government.

  22. Re:Leaked evidence chemical attack was false flag. on US and Israel Test Missile As Syria War Tensions Rise · · Score: 1

    Oh the irony. If the US is behind this attack, shouldn't the rest of the world gather and attack them? Didn't Obama argue that international law must be enforced?

    http://youtu.be/o2TmDtj9oPg?t=3m10s

  23. Re:Sound fixes are more extensive FANTASTIC on Linux 3.11 Released · · Score: 1

    I'm sure Saucy will run on 3.11. There's already a release in the mainline PPA.

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.11-saucy/

  24. Re:Competition on Why One Woman Says Sending Your Kid To Private School Is Evil · · Score: 1

    I think I know what you meant but would like to clarify.

    Do you mean an imposed and enforced by guns monopoly guarantees that the system will be bad? A monopoly is fine if they continue to provide the best service for the best price and no one is forced by law to use their services. It's not fine however when the monopoly only exists because everyone was forced to use their services at gun point.

  25. Re:Proud? on Don't Fly During Ramadan · · Score: 1

    I'm canadian and used to think that way, that if everyone would vote, it would make a difference. Well, let me tell you my fellow countryman, my views have changed dramatically over the years.

    Talking about canadians, here's one that has a few things to say about voting.

    http://youtu.be/igbBItLemsM?t=37s