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  1. Re:Seriously? on Ask Slashdot: Is It Time For SyFy To Go Premium? · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that you are dissatisfied with such stellar (read: shit) programming choices as WWE SMACKDOWN?!?!

    http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/36698985/ns/today-today_tech/t/so-long-nerds-syfy-doesnt-need-you/

  2. Re:Not 100% sure it is fraccing on High-Tech Gas Drilling Is Fouling Drinking Water · · Score: 1
    Copied from the AC that posted this above:

    From the study synopsis: "In active gas-extraction areas (one or more gas wells within 1 km), average and maximum methane concentrations in drinking-water wells increased with proximity to the nearest gas well and were 19.2 and 64 mg CH4 L-1 (n = 26), a potential explosion hazard; in contrast, dissolved methane samples in neighboring nonextraction sites (no gas wells within 1 km) within similar geologic formations and hydrogeologic regimes averaged only 1.1 mg L-1 (P 0.05; n = 34)."

  3. Re:Documentary About Fracking on High-Tech Gas Drilling Is Fouling Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    I'm sure those people lived in those houses for 20 years passing out in the shower from methane exposure and getting ill everyday from their drinking water were thinking that was totally natural and it was just a "chance occurrence" that the gas company showed up and they saw the opportunity to make big money.... /sarcasm.

    Your argument doesn't pass the "smell test" figuratively or literally.

  4. Re:Documentary About Fracking on High-Tech Gas Drilling Is Fouling Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    EVERYONE points to that. I personally know several people in southern new york that can do that when NO hydrofracking has happened any where near them. It happens naturally, people. Seriously. Gasland is about as balanced as Michael Moore.

    It didn't happen to those people till the fracking started which leads to the conclusion that it was because of the hydro fracking.

    Also, the gas companies basically admit guilt when they purchase $25,000-$100,000 water filters and install them on the house.

  5. Documentary About Fracking on High-Tech Gas Drilling Is Fouling Drinking Water · · Score: 5, Informative

    Gasland:
    http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/

    You know fracking is bad when you can put a lighter up to a running facet in your kitchen and a fireball erupts.

  6. Re:Why is this notable? on Former Senator Wants to Mine The Moon · · Score: 1

    So why talking about mining fuel that we're at least twenty years away from being able to use?

    It would take 20 years to get a plan together and hardware up in space to actually do the mining so the timelines look to be lining up.

  7. Better Video Title on German Aerospace Robot Plays Catch With Two Balls · · Score: 2

    "Two balls one robot."

  8. Targets For Ridicule on Officials Say "Capes For the Unemployed" Plan Not Super · · Score: 4, Insightful

    a Florida unemployment agency decided to give 6,000 red capes to the jobless

    To simplify the task of acquiring targets to point and laugh at? This is as brilliant as having children at school that can't afford lunch stand in a line to get lunch tickets/vouchers so the other kids know who the poor ones are to ridicule.

  9. Re:After all ... on The Vatican Lauds Hackers · · Score: 1

    And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

    USURERS, USURERS, USURERS! *throws chairs, flips tables*

  10. "Heavy Downloaders" on FCC Giving Away Wi-fi Routers For Broadband Tests · · Score: 2
    Every slashdot user is disqualified:

    They have extended their research efforts to the public, but there are some minor requirements which need to be met. For example, your connection must be consistent (suffer very few disconnections), users must be considered average Internet browsers and not heavy downloaders [...]

  11. Re:Hyperbole much? on Aussie PM Office Calls For Government Ban On Gmail, Hotmail · · Score: 1

    It is the same in US Gov already. Most (if not all) US government agencies block all of these sites. Some people I know ( >.> ) just use an SSH proxy with SOCKS support to use their home computers to access their gmail-based webmail accounts.

  12. Re:Legalized checkpoints on Senators To Apple: Pull iPhone DUI-Check Alerts · · Score: 5, Informative

    You are exactly correct.

    It should be a requirement for every American citizen to read this book:
    http://www.amazon.com/Tactics-Criminal-Patrol-Discovery-Survival/dp/0935878122/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1300891075&sr=8-3
    The publisher won't sell this to civilians. You have to prove somehow that you are LEO-affiliated to obtain one but I received a copy from a friend who is currently a deputy sheriff and I read it cover-to-cover. IMPORTANT PART: THIS MANUAL DESCRIBES TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AN ARSENAL OF STOPPING, INTERVIEWING AND OBSERVATIONAL TACTICS TO GET YOU TO RELINQUISH YOUR RIGHTS AS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN TO ALLOW OFFICERS TO INSPECT YOUR PERSON AND VEHICLE. The techniques and methods described are AMAZINGLY effective and proven. It teaches them exactly how to let a suspect incriminate themselves and the exact legal boundaries for an officer to skirt while in your presence.

    If you have the chance, PLEASE read this book. It applies to you as a citizen regardless of whether you are a criminal or not.

  13. Re:Where in the Constitution? on Senators To Apple: Pull iPhone DUI-Check Alerts · · Score: 1
    Specifically:

    Reasonable suspicion depends on the “totality of the circumstances”, and can result from a combination of facts, each of which is by itself innocuous.

  14. Re:Where in the Constitution? on Senators To Apple: Pull iPhone DUI-Check Alerts · · Score: 0

    Driving on a certain route at 2:10 AM gives them the reasonable suspicion to stop your car which is why they do it.

  15. Re:Where in the Constitution? on Senators To Apple: Pull iPhone DUI-Check Alerts · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_stop

    Cops use this as the guise to engage with you to for purposes of observing your reactions and identifying the smell of alcohol or other substances so they can then secure probably cause to make you perform a field sobriety test and/or breath test.

  16. Traffic Situation on Senators To Apple: Pull iPhone DUI-Check Alerts · · Score: 5, Insightful

    DUI check points are normally semi-hazardous traffic situations where cops have cars lined up on the side of the road with pedestrians and officers standing outside their vehicles near the boundary paint of the highway. They also cause significant traffic back-ups and delays. Knowing of these locations is useful for non-drinkers if they have to be somewhere on-time or don't want to be put in the situation to have to navigate a ludicrous human-slalom course. Just like almost any application, it can be used for good and evil. Knee-jerk, MADD-influenced political campaigning HHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....

  17. Re:Cheating? on Texas Bill Outlaws Discrimination Against Creationists In Academia · · Score: 1

    Did these people know about genetics? O_o

    Or was it just someone tying together data after the fact to make it seem that way?

    People do this all the time. Take Nostrodomus for example. He wrote tons of shit and people go back and attribute all kinds of phenomena to his writings fitting the pieces in place and insisting that is what he meant when he was writing. I can write a book these days claiming all kinds of stuff in very vague terms and given a long enough time span afterwards, things will occur that appear to fit with claims I have made.

  18. Sweet Pic on Large Hadron Collider is a Time Machine? · · Score: 1

    Where did that picture get taken that's in the article??? At the local strip mall? They need to go back in time and alter the decision to print that.

  19. Re:It's about time on Apple Moves To Stop Kids Racking Up iTunes Bills · · Score: 1

    Your receive item: [Twill Vest]

  20. Re:Streets on Study Calls Craigslist 'a Cesspool of Crime' · · Score: 0

    What conclusion does that draw?

    That the actual cesspools are "cesspools of crime?"

  21. Re:Overly constrained design space on DARPA Open-Sources Military Vehicle Design · · Score: 2

    In every RFP that you see these days for vehicles it is stipulated that the vehicle must conform to federal motor vehicle safety standards (FMVSS) which places a massive constraint around the design in one line item. I find it hard to disagree because all of these vehicles do have to drive on regular roads and highways next to civilians without endangering them because it doesn't have marker/stop/turn lights configured properly or the driver is in some prone driving position which limits his peripheral view for changing lanes.

  22. Re:It's all fun and games until you end up in on HBGary Federal Hacked By Anonymous · · Score: 1

    hiding behind anonymity

    *Posted by AC

  23. A "problem?" on Prison Cell Phone Smuggling Out of Control · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If they think that cell phones are a problem, they need to consider this situation carefully. Most/all cellphones are much larger than say a balloon filled with heroin. If they think that a cellphone is a "problem" and smuggling in a handheld device is easy, I wonder what they think of the drug situation. Also, the profit margin on bringing in a walnut-sized heroin balloon is orders of magnitude more profitable.

  24. Hackers Bringing Telnet Back? on Hackers Bringing Telnet Back · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How can hackers bring telnet attacks back if admins don't run telnet? Should the headline say "Admins are bringing telnet back and getting bitten in the ass for it?"

  25. An Escape on New Study Links Video Games and Mental Problems · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Gaming, like alcohol and drugs is an escape. It's an escape from reality that is regularly used by people with mental problems. I don't have any evidence but I am hard-pressed to believe that games cause this condition.