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  1. I know a good way to test the system.... on New Privacy Concerns About US Program That Can Track Snail Mail · · Score: 1

    put a GPS tracker - say an old model burner Android phone in box, make an address label out of one of these and set it to change destinations to different parts of the country every four hours......

  2. Re:"lived out high democratic ideals" on The Courage of Bystanders Who Press "Record" · · Score: 1

    Even if they try to extort honesty?

  3. Re:"lived out high democratic ideals" on The Courage of Bystanders Who Press "Record" · · Score: 1

    Isn't that what video evidence is?

  4. "lived out high democratic ideals" on The Courage of Bystanders Who Press "Record" · · Score: 1

    "unknown cameramen and women lived out high democratic ideals"

    What's recording someone being an ass-hat have to do with being democratic? Recording people is being used by people of every though process - right or wrong it's blackmail, in this case I consider it "good blackmail" - we're blackmailing those who "enforce the law" into complying with the law, the same way they record us to prove when we weren't. Blackmail is more or less a universal trait that bridges every political ideology, except maybe the most enlightened ones that will never gain traction because they lack the necessary evil to gain mass adoption.

  5. Re:Anyone ever read Ender's Game? on Military Caught Training Children To Fight · · Score: 1

    I thought it was great overall, but it did seem to jump the shark a little on the concept travel.....

  6. Re:Well no shit! on FTC: Google Altered Search Results For Profit · · Score: 1

    Recent change, I assure you. If you search for "Bluetooth Mouse" the third result is a non-Bluetooth Amazon basics mouse.

    Bluetooth means not having to have a stupid dongle for everything you connect to your system! Not "Wireless with a USB port taken".

  7. Re:Well no shit! on FTC: Google Altered Search Results For Profit · · Score: 1

    I just did the search again, you're right.

    I did a search for another of my annoyances "Bluetooth Mouse", three of the first six were actually Bluetooth, quite an improvement, I must applaud them. I typed "HTC M8" and Firephone wasn't even on the first page. I assure you this change is within the past couple of months.

  8. Well no shit! on FTC: Google Altered Search Results For Profit · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Are we going to investigate Amazon for presenting a stupid assed Kindle Fire as the first result whenever I search for "Nexus 9" on their engine next?

  9. Re:Thanks to the Humble Bundle on Steam On Linux Now Has Over a Thousand Games Available · · Score: 1

    I tend to play "other than" AAA titles. Even stuff I get "working" tends to be buggy and I have to kill the processes manually quite often, not to mention all of the X-server restarts and resized I have to do when things head south. I just don't have that many hours to fine tune everything to make it reasonably stable.

  10. Re:I've got your on Newly Discovered Sea Creature Was Once the Largest Animal On Earth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, the NFL is full of them.

  11. Re:Thanks to the Humble Bundle on Steam On Linux Now Has Over a Thousand Games Available · · Score: 1

    Replied to like a real Apple specific programmer.

  12. Re:Think of the children on Steam On Linux Now Has Over a Thousand Games Available · · Score: 1

    Windows 2000 ticked me off for one buggy little thing when it was still new, even though to this day I consider it the best overall design/interface of any Windows desktop, though 8.1 is getting close. That was my last version of WIndows at home.

    I went hard-core about games during that era, I loved Blizzard games but they ticked me off when they started suing everyone, even people I knew personally. Between that and the bug I quit dual booting and decided if they didn't make it work on Linux I wasn't going to worry about sending any money their direction, and I pretty much stuck with it. I bought UT III because they promised compatability - I was suckered.

    All of that being said now that Steam supports game strreaming I'm seriously considering setting up a Wintendo dedicated to being the "host bot". (The Humble Bundles have given me many Windows-only games after all in addition to the Linux compatible ones) . I haven't experimented with it yet, but it certainly has potential. I'm not sure what I'll need hardware wise but I'm gussing maxing at 1080 on the Wintendo would keep the hardware reasonable and 1Gbps fast enough network wise.

  13. Re:Thanks to the Humble Bundle on Steam On Linux Now Has Over a Thousand Games Available · · Score: 1

    But then I wouldn't be welcome on Slashdot.

  14. Re:Thanks to the Humble Bundle on Steam On Linux Now Has Over a Thousand Games Available · · Score: 2

    First of all - no ZOOOMMM!!! I totally see that's a smart-assed comment.

    I want to address it anyways.

    I have 0 versions of Minecraft, and I'm not running the OSS knock-off version.

    The Unreal and Quake engines rock on Linux, and I guess the Half-Life engine is it's own? Portal is awesome on it also.

    Does Minecraft work on Linux? I refuse to check, just don't care enough. I love pissing off Minecraft fans by saying "When I was a kid I had an Atari 2600, it looked like crap but it was awesome because it was all that we had. Then came the 8 bit Nintendo, the Super Nintendo, the 64, then you got realistic 3D with the Unreal engine and it just keeps getting better, then YOUR generation declared "Good stuff sucks!". They went back to Atari looking graphics programmed the with sloppy code forcing high-end multi-core high-RAM hardware to run shit 8-bit graphics!"

    I've just about started fist-fights with that observations.

  15. Re:Thanks to the Humble Bundle on Steam On Linux Now Has Over a Thousand Games Available · · Score: 1

    I don't even consider WINE an option. That's way too much work for crappy results. I would rather not waste hardware on Windows.

  16. Thanks to the Humble Bundle on Steam On Linux Now Has Over a Thousand Games Available · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have a significant share of that 1,000 games.

    I'm very disappointed when I see a Windows only game, but I can understand why the big developers do it.

    I'm even MORE disappointed when I see a game that works with Windows and Mac but not Linux. Once it works with Mac or Linux making it work with the other is trivial. Don't give me the coca garbage - if it runs at full-screen you really don't have to mess with that a lot.

    The indie guys are really leading the charge, and based on very visible results with the Humble Bundle "Triple Compatibility" seems to up the success of the bundle, and I heavily suspect it's why they tend to make the one or two Linux compatible games in a heavily Microsoft centric bundle the "Pay at least $10 to get" game.

  17. Good, I'm tired of removing the crap. on Lenovo Saying Goodbye To Bloatware · · Score: 2

    They make great hardware, but getting rid of Nitro PDF is particularly annoying, it UAC's more than once, plus Sugar Sync, which even having on our systems violates a client agreement. Crapware needs to die, and die now. I do my best to work from a factory image, hardware seems to be so much easier to deal with that way, but Lenovo makes it quite an annoyance.

  18. Re:I got a butt chewing for giving my daughter hon on Study: Peanut Consumption In Infancy Helps Prevent Peanut Allergy · · Score: 1

    Not every method of buying honey includes a lot of labels.

  19. I got a butt chewing for giving my daughter honey on Study: Peanut Consumption In Infancy Helps Prevent Peanut Allergy · · Score: 1

    when she was only about six months old.

    She loved it, I had never heard you weren't supposed to give it to babies, and now that she's 12 she still likes it. I can can get on-board with this theory.

  20. Re:Not new on New Android Trojan Fakes Device Shut Down, Spies On Users · · Score: 1

    Of course that's been counted by the fact they won't let you pull the friggin battery anymore.

  21. Found the flaw: on Confirmed: FCC Will Try To Regulate Internet Under Title II · · Score: 1

    These enforceable, bright-line rules will ban paid prioritization, and the blocking and throttling of lawful content and services.

    With that wording in place it opens the door to define the legality of content and regulate accordingly.

  22. There was a movie about this, on British MPs Approve 3-Parent Babies · · Score: 1

    and the result was unexpected Twins.

  23. Re:No issues here on Wi-Fi Issues Continue For OS X Users Despite Updates · · Score: 1

    Using Ubuntu and Android do cause that to happen.

  24. Re:nVidia w/ binary driver works on Ask Slashdot: GPU of Choice For OpenCL On Linux? · · Score: 1

    I'm with this guy, I've had nothing but nightmares from ATI historically, can't say I've given modern AMD a chance, but nVidia works so well I have little motivation to.

  25. We knew we had to get off of it, on Microsoft Ends Mainstream Support For Windows 7 · · Score: 3, Funny

    which is why we just finished out our Vista roll-out last week!