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  1. Re:Silly Question on Site Launches To Track Warrant Canaries · · Score: 1

    sure it is. it's pretty easy to pose a legitimate consumer issues related question in a way that requires them to claim a falsehood.

    the canaries are as such false hope of anything. it's not like they can contest the requirement to portray a falsehood in a public forum anyways.

  2. Re:Why don't they know? on Novel Fluorinated Compounds Discovered In Firefighters' Blood · · Score: 1

    it's probably less lethal than inhaling fumes from burning rubber and jet fuel....

    so.. it's better than what they had before.

  3. Re:Existence of hitman? on Silk Road Case: Prosecution Reads Alleged Transcript of DPR Arranging 5 Murders · · Score: 3, Informative

    nope. nobody believes that any murders happened.
    it's just to paint DPR as a bad guy to the jury. nothing else. why claim it in charges then? because the US justice system is full of bullshit and making up charges and then using those as threat to settle to lesser charges. what you're guilty of is then somewhere in the middle, perhaps.

  4. Re:Effing sad on Pilot's Selfies Could Have Caused Deadly Air Crash · · Score: 2

    if it was night time, he could have just taken the photos after landing and nobody would have known any different.

  5. the whole point.. on Ask Slashdot: Pros and Cons of Homeschooling? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    the whole point of why home schooling is perhaps not the best option that in the public system you don't get to choose what you teach them.

    the "great" thing about homeschooling is that they get to pursue what they want and that's also the worst about it, because well, you could just as well start calling it no-schooling at that point.

    and keep in mind that home schooling will require that at least one parent stays home every day to teach, there's not much security in that - either one of you might drop dead - and to keep the kid able to transition smoothly into the public school system in case you need to change the arrangement then you would need to match the curriculum anyhow to some degree.

    if you want to create your own republic of dave then sure, homeschooling is the only option. but if you want to control them 100% and control what shows they look and what friends they have and what news they read.. then they're fucked already.

  6. how so? given that how much of the case has progressed it wouldn't surprise me if the "hitmen" and the client were LEO. would explain the fake non-existent victims.

  7. Re:Odd blog post on Massive Layoff Underway At IBM · · Score: 2

    well yeah, but why doesn't the blog then give a real number to work with? it would be normal procedure for a company to tell, especially a publicly traded company (THEY FUCKING HAVE A REQUIREMENT TO TELL SUCH THINGS).

    they're not even denying. maybe the entire hong kong office is getting the axe and don't even know it.

    also, laying off for "performance reasons" or whatever... is still laying off, a terminated work contract is a terminated work contract. I guess we wont know until the next quarterly though before we get the numbers.

  8. Re:The Zynga business model on Sony Sells Off Sony Online Entertainment · · Score: 1

    you would be better(scorewise) in candy crush if you spent money.

    you would also be better(scorewise) in words with friends if you spent money.

    get it? want to appear to be smarter to your friends? you could do that with the inapp purchases, as long as they don't find out.

  9. Re:Wut? on Mobile G-SYNC Confirmed and Tested With Leaked Driver · · Score: 2

    well there's some other hacked drivers for desktop however.

    which provide the benefits of gsync without gsync and indeed it seems gsync just provides a) a certification that the monitor can handle the used displayport extensions and b) the monitor manufacturer paid for it.

    and the choice of the specific fgpa chip was for security. the chip doing shit all _nothing_ to enable "gsync" on the monitor except provide authentication to the drivers that it's there and it's safe to use the extensions, basically.

    what it means that freesync(amd version of this) and gsync work pretty much exactly the same - only that gsync has a security chip in the loop(bypassed in the hacked drivers).

    me, I don't care too much about tearing in 30-50fps range so tough nutters.

  10. Re: Not a laywer. on If a Financial Institution Mishandles My Data, What Recourse Do I Have? · · Score: 1

    well the wrong receiver wouldn't be able to open it...

    of course it's just another issue if it's plaintext while in transit(it might have not, you know).

    maybe next time not request such info on email. though, did they check anything before sending it even? that's the real loophole, me thinks.

  11. Re:People are fixated on vaccines ignore "The Joke on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 1

    I hate to break it to you but the point was that if health company wanted to poison you, then vaccines would be the stupidest way to do it.

    he claims there are good reasons to not get vaccinated? like what? what good reasons?

    the only good reason if you don't have the money and have to pay for the vaccines.. some cost 200 bucks / 3 years! but that's for some tropical/asian diseases..

  12. Re:"Cartoonist Mistakes Dumbed-Down News for Scien on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    I don't think the FDA ever said that eating lots of high energy foods wouldn't make you fat...

    what diet advice was it anyways? the "science" line to eating is to "eat normally" but not too much and not just one thing....

  13. Re:Science... Yah! on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    ..and then they claim that multivitamin pills, voodoo, fad diets etc are "science" and claim that science doesn't work.

  14. Re:Science... Yah! on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: -1

    the blurb is stupid.
    fatty foods do make you fat if you eat lots of them. foot with lots of energy makes you fat.

    saying that eating lots of fatty foods doesn't make you fat is just stupid and scientifically wrong and logically bullshit when you put in after that a sentence that makes it look like if you eat lots of fatty foods then you will not eat lots of fatty foods. if that sounds just like a badly thrown together sentence then it's just because it's saying the same the blurb is.

    eat less, do more physical work than you get energy - then you lose weight. it doesn't matter if you eat pizza.

    if you just can't keep from eating 4 pizzas a day, then you will probably not lose weight and it is your own damn fault so stop blaming science on it - since science says that you will need do a lot of physical work per day to eat 4 pizzas per day and not gain weight - and just fucking learn to read the calories reports on the food packs, mcd tray papers or whatever.

    what will keep you from feeling hungry is another thing. but the science behind on calorie intake vs. body weight is based on pretty solid science, with pretty gruesomely acquired statistics.

  15. why care about the open? on New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches · · Score: 0

    well who cares? it's effectively a closed source board and closed project anyways, since broadcomm isn't selling the chips to others and raspberry is a broadcomm tied project.

    that's the funny thing about raspberry that geeks think it's open, while it's about just as open as any other stick computer, only that with raspberry they need to buy everything separately.

  16. primary design goal is broadcom on New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches · · Score: 0

    actually the socs can be cheap as pie(literally).

    however, raspberry has a primary design goal of using a broadcomm soc available from broadcomm contracted foundries with slack time, and raspberry project is a disguised for profit venture to that end.

    if you grasp that, it's easy to see why they go with a chip that's crappier than what you can get in a 70 dollars smartphone(that pays licenses for 3g etc shit, comes with a charger, has hw codecs for video decode as well, comes with a battery, case and uses more expensive circuitboard design...).

    I wouldn't mind actually if it had more IO pins and established realtime os, but now you can get complete android "computers" (android-in-a-box) for fifty bucks with higher specs.

  17. Re:Badly written on The NFL Wants You To Think These Things Are Illegal · · Score: 1

    fair use, it's there.
    used all the time. you think they pay isil for use of their footage?

    that canadian mayor clips, reporting and showing them, without attribution or license to the vid? fair use.

  18. not sure if trolling or stupid on Fixing Verizon's Supercookie · · Score: 1

    just because you have another advertising ID as part of your operating system doesn't mean that if you disable that then the verizon inserted id would be removed. the verizon id doesn't care what settings you turn on or off on your phone, it gets inserted to the data stream after the phone.

    unless your phone has a setting for "force https on everything", then you're fucked. and you know what's funny? on windows phone you cannot do that, you don't have even the option of a 3rd party browser that would do that(afaik).

  19. Re:It's not the gas... on NFL Asks Columbia University For Help With Deflate-Gate · · Score: 1

    it works for the situation well enough, if used correctly.

    but as even the article states(if you pick out the bit that matters), is that it doesn't really matter, as there were a set of control balls that behaved differently from the 1 ball.. so the 1 ball was either faulty or messed with.

    they should have run with a leaky ball explanation, rather than temperature, since 1 ball was different from the others.

  20. Re:It's Oracle, what do you expect? on VirtualBox Development At a Standstill · · Score: 1

    dunno about mysql in that sense..

    the fork happened more out of contract running out that said not to do it...

  21. Re:Since when is AMT controversial? on FSF-Endorsed Libreboot X200 Laptop Comes With Intel's AMT Removed · · Score: 1

    that's like saying that crotchless pants are great for easy access when traveling on the subway

  22. Re:Your standards were low. Soooooo low. on Ask Slashdot: When and How Did Europe Leapfrog the US For Internet Access? · · Score: 1

    we had ISDN installed in 1995... in northern europe.
    fucking expensive though.. by 2000 I moved to student housing project with 10mbit/s connection that had cheaper rent than what I had been paying for the isdn bills, so it really depends where in europe you live, even local 30 kliks could make a big difference back then.

  23. Re:It's a golden age for trinkets on VP Anthony Moschella Shows Off Makerbot's Latest Printers and Materials (Video) · · Score: 1

    it's golden age for media cocksuck bullshit.
    the new materials will not be available for nearly half a year.

    last year mbi won awards at CES with a non functional printer(the demo models were printed with rep2's. that's right. nobody saw the fucking device working and now this year they're given more awards for basically the same thing that everyone knows has buggy extruder design, furthermore to use the "new" filaments in the 5th gen you have to buy a new extruder (190$+) , not that anyone would know since that's getting released later.

    MBI - the worst source of information about makerbot products. how about asking them if they finally have working firmware+software for their 3d scanner...

    bottom line, mbi's stuff is not worth it at the moment. rep2x is okay, but overpriced. 5th gen sucks.

  24. Re:A good thing. on Microsoft To Invest In Rogue Android Startup Cyanogen · · Score: 4, Insightful

    you know what's fucking bizarre? the part of nokia that microsoft bought had several android based models on the market(not in usa/euro are athough, in the markets they're available they're outselling windows phones..). but microsoft killed further developments of that line of devices.

    so what the fuck are they meddling with cyanogen? I wouldn't mind having cyanogen for my nokia X though.

  25. Re:Incredible! on Computer Chess Created In 487 Bytes, Breaks 32-Year-Old Record · · Score: 1

    or.. you know.. some old ass whatever distro..
    or win95.. fits nicely.

    or dos with win 3.11, fits even nicer...