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  1. Re:Please stop supporting the CSM on How to Peep the Perseid's Peak · · Score: 2

    So what? Yes it is owned by a church, but how many good media newspapers owned by people whose causes we protest? Fox -- Newscorp. Check out who owns NBC -- that's Comcast. That is: Vanguard group, State Street, Dodge and Cox, Wellington, Microsoft And who owns CBS? Waddel & Reed, Vanguard (again), State Street, Capital World ABC? That's Disney.... That is:Vanguard Group. State Street Corp. FMR, LLC, T Roe Price. Vanguard Group and State Street are the primary ones that own most media. Newscorp is the smallest. Most of the newspapers are owned by one conglomerate or another. CSM is one of the very few independent media publications. So what it is owned by a religious institution? Check out how good their reporting is. How many times they won Pulitzer Price. You ever read any of their articles? Opinions? Their reporting style? Done any research besides on who they are owned by? Actually dude, you are just ignorant. And ignorant people like you should be ignored.

  2. Re:a waste. on How to Peep the Perseid's Peak · · Score: 5, Informative

    CSM has many surprisingly informative and detailed news and opinions on various subject matters from many perspective views. No religious dogma is involved, they are extremely neutral. It is probably one of the very few sources of information I find trustworthy on the Internet.

  3. Re:... if he leaves in 6 months ... on Snowden Granted One-Year Asylum In Russia · · Score: 1

    As long as you are sitting in a warm hotel in Moscow, it is beautiful. But don't dare to go out on a roads during a frost-wind, if you are not prepared, which Americans normally are not, unless you wear at least four to five layers of clothing and a big hat that tightly covers your ears. Also, make sure the hotel is heated well enough, has emergency 48-hour generators on a stand-by and in-house entertainment (in case it gets like two winters ago, -50 degrees celcius, which you must wait out for a couple of days). Hotel Izmailovo is on expensive side, but it conforms to these requirenments.

  4. Re:Don't EVER be a freedom-loving libertarian on Snowden Granted One-Year Asylum In Russia · · Score: 2

    Sir, I'd give you +5 on your Trollship skills. If there have ever been a wonderful homeland of Trolls, for example The Kingdom of Trollistan, you would no doubt be its emperor.

  5. Re:Russia on Training Materials for NSA Spying Tool "XKeyScore" Revealed · · Score: 1

    Yes I was just thinking about that.. What they showing on a slices is a raw TCP traffic. In order to get it at that level they have to be sniffing on the same network as a major router. How did they get there in their hosts countries?

  6. How do they get the data? on Training Materials for NSA Spying Tool "XKeyScore" Revealed · · Score: 1

    OK what I see is a raw TCP traffic that they are scanning and parsing for hosts, request types (get,post), header info (referrer), and content. So they are talking about any web site. So does it mean they have access to record every single piece of traffic passed through a major backbone? But than they have a server in Russia. And in China. Someone above mentioned that the servers could be inside of the embassies. Not exactly intelligence friendly countries. Does it mean they managed to put a sniffer on their hosts' networks backbone? HOW if they do not have a physical access to the major routers?

  7. Re:Russia on Training Materials for NSA Spying Tool "XKeyScore" Revealed · · Score: 1

    And there is one in China according to the map as well...

  8. Russia on Training Materials for NSA Spying Tool "XKeyScore" Revealed · · Score: 1

    Now how did they get their server in a territory of Russia? I understand Ukraine, but Russia???!!!!!

  9. Re:Before anybody asks... on Training Materials for NSA Spying Tool "XKeyScore" Revealed · · Score: 2

    MASSIVE DISTRIBUTED LINUX CLUSTER!!!!! Yeeeey, NSA!!!!!!! As long as you are using Linux!!!!!

  10. Re:There's regulation and then there's protectioni on SF Airport Officials Make Citizen Arrests of Internet Rideshare Drivers · · Score: 1

    Speak read and write the English language

    Ahem... You've never seen a cabbie whose response on "take me to Rockaways" is a dumbfounded look. That's when you open up a dictionary and say, "Mujhe Rockaway Beach aura Amstel le chahiyeh" which is met with a loud praise that you can speak Hindi very well.

  11. legalized monopoly? on SF Airport Officials Make Citizen Arrests of Internet Rideshare Drivers · · Score: 1

    I once was talking to a cabbie who told me that in order to get into a cab business one has to have a medallion that cost over a million dollars. And only those people own cab companies. Also city prevents any other companies from registering there. Cab companies reminds me of a mob. Their services truly suck (especially in the city of Washington DC), cabs are smelly, they overcharge, airconditioner on hot day never works and on top of that the drivers are rude and hardly speak any English! And on top of that now we are told they are out there to get to the community-shared ridership companies?

  12. What about Porn magazines? on Ask Slashdot: Should More Math and Equations Be Used In the Popular Press? · · Score: 1

    Can we do something like "Holy shift! Look at that asymptote on that mother function!"

  13. I saw it coming on Obama Praises Amazon At One of Its Controversial Warehouses · · Score: 1

    But tell me our dear 2008/2012 Obamaniac liberals Slashdot liberals did not see it coming...

  14. Re:Another victim of the Microsoft Tax on Asus CEO On Windows RT: "We're Out." · · Score: 2

    No wonder MS has still tons of unsold tablets in stock. I would buy the device in a hart-beat if it were much cheaper, and if a clear way of wiping the current OS and putting Linux and subsequently Android on it would exist.

  15. Re:A tablet isn't a PC. That's the point. on Asus CEO On Windows RT: "We're Out." · · Score: 1

    Nice! I want to get a hold of this prototype! The only two questions that I have is does it have an audio port and can they make it a color e-ink device for the same amount of battery consumption? (I don't know about this particular one, but my Nook Simple Touch lasts me one month on one charge and I use it every day.)

  16. Re:A tablet isn't a PC. That's the point. on Asus CEO On Windows RT: "We're Out." · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sorry but it seems to me the MsOffice has been first neutered when they went into mandatory ribbon interface making it quite unusable.

  17. Re:A tablet isn't a PC. That's the point. on Asus CEO On Windows RT: "We're Out." · · Score: 1

    If it is replacement for paper, a regular e-ink device that is modded to be a little more than just an e-reader does a hell of a job, like for example Nook Simple Touch.

  18. Re:maybe next time lose the lockdown on Asus CEO On Windows RT: "We're Out." · · Score: 1

    A Freudian slip , also called parapraxis, is an error in speech, memory, or physical action that is interpreted as occurring due to the interference of an unconscious ("dynamically repressed") subdued wish, conflict, or train of thought guided by the super-ego and the rules of correct behaviour. *cough* *cough*

  19. Re:Dear Putin, on Russia Proposes Banning Foul Language On the Internet · · Score: 1

    LMAO I would think RUSSIAN would be the very first language the proxy would support... if not written in.

  20. Re:No Joke? on Russia Proposes Banning Foul Language On the Internet · · Score: 1

    "Committee on Family, Women and Children" was a standard Soviet pressure-tool for dissimination of propaganda and criticism of NATO nations at any convenience. See also "Committee of Peace".

  21. Re:Dear Putin, on Russia Proposes Banning Foul Language On the Internet · · Score: 1

    I even tried KOI-8R -- it does not work.

    I think it is because you can get so many "interesting" symbols from a standard unicode table to represent almost anything, but than again -- Slashdot was never censored.

  22. Re:We russians don't curse - on Russia Proposes Banning Foul Language On the Internet · · Score: 1

    I agree. To prohibit such speech, they have to implement Censorship. it is an excuse to take away even more liberty.
    (Po russki is more eloquant (sorry Slashdot won't allow cyrillics) -- Etot nakaz ne ot blyat' s Dubi a ot sutenyerov s Kremlya.

  23. I see what happens now... on Edward Snowden Still Stuck At Airport, May Be Permitted Entry Into Russia Soon · · Score: 1

    Snowden probably does not know yet, but Russians are very much interested in American government secrets. He just might find himself on a fourth floor of Lyubyanka, in a padded room without windows (Lyubyanka is former KGB headquaters, now FSB, did not have a basement jail).

  24. Re:Exclusivity on Edward Snowden Still Stuck At Airport, May Be Permitted Entry Into Russia Soon · · Score: -1, Redundant

    You probably trolling. But just in case you are simply naive or stupid, please remember that Russians care a lot less than American government about what they can force or can not force him to accept, much less than American government.

  25. Re:Better plots? on Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops · · Score: 1

    Must disagree. Movie -- maybe was too bad to tie up a plot, which made some scenes and themes irrelevant while others were elevated to primary (and much of the book plot was somewhat changed), but anyone who read Zhivago would recognize that Pasternak wrote a great book with a solid plot comparative to Tolstoy's epic War and Peace. But than again, movies sometimes distort books.