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  1. Article has Anti-Semitic Purpose on Israel Airport Security Allowed To Read Tourists' Email · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    To generate some sense of outrage against Israel and Jews for doing something that every other country on the planet does - except they do it better than anyone.

    I feel safer walking down the street in Tel Aviv than I do walking down the street in Detroit.

  2. Damn right on Ask Slashdot: Do You Move Legal Data With Torrents? · · Score: 2

    Linux ISOs
    VM Images
    Backup Images
    Home Movies
    etc...

  3. Re:How did he encrypt it? on Federal Magistrate Rules That Fifth Amendment Applies To Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    I have it on good authority he used ROT-32 on 4-byte-wide words.

  4. Re:$1000 for a video card? on AMD Radeon HD 7990 Released: Dual GPUs and 6G of Memory for $1000 · · Score: 1

    *whoosh*

  5. Re:Conclusion: on Radioactive Bacteria Attack Cancer · · Score: 1

    I believe the term you are looking for is "high energy particle impact tissue disassociation therapy."

  6. Re:$1000 for a video card? on AMD Radeon HD 7990 Released: Dual GPUs and 6G of Memory for $1000 · · Score: 2

    >> To a lot of people in that 30 to 45 age bracket $1,000 isn't a whole heck of a lot to spend on a hobby.

    Never been married, have you?

  7. Re:Conclusion: on Radioactive Bacteria Attack Cancer · · Score: 0

    Yep, 18-20 months of sticking the taxpayer (now that we have taxpayer-funded healthcare) with enormous medical bills as opposed to 6 weeks.

    Sounds like a really good fucking idea to me.

  8. Conclusion: on Radioactive Bacteria Attack Cancer · · Score: 1

    The treated mice still had metastases of pancreatic cancer.

  9. Who are Bush and Cheney? Is that some band I've never heard of?

  10. How about this on Ask Slashdot: What Planks Would You Want In a Platform of a Political Party? · · Score: 1

    Leave everyone the fuck alone and don't tell them what technology they can, can't, or must use.

  11. Re:Terrorist or freedom fighter? on One Boston Marathon Bomb Suspect Dead, Other At Large After Shootout With Police · · Score: 2

    When they fight the Russians, they are "freedom fighters." When they fight the US, they are "terrorists."

    Got it, now?

  12. Re:Full stop on One Boston Marathon Bomb Suspect Dead, Other At Large After Shootout With Police · · Score: 3, Informative

    The suspect they were trying to apprehend was shooting at them and throwing bombs at them. At that point, regardless of whether you are guilty of the crime they are arresting you for, you forfeit any right you have to stay alive.

    When you try to unlawfully kill someone, they are justified in using lethal force to stop you from killing them.

  13. It's not for advertising, it's for collection on Google Forbids Advertising On Glass · · Score: 1

    It's a surveillance platform, not an advertising platform.

    Raise your hand if you think government will NOT have access to the exabytes of data these things are going to generate.

    Every breath you take
    Every move you make
    Every bond you break
    Every step you take
    I'll be watching you

  14. Question about theoretical limits of vacuum on Interviews: Ask Freeman Dyson What You Will · · Score: 0

    Why do your vacuum cleaners only work as well as a Hoover, but cost 4 times as much?

    Thanks

  15. Re:Where is the Due Process? on FCC Issues Forfeiture Notices to Two Business for Jamming Cellular Frequencies · · Score: 1

    Sad, isn't it? Even Slashdot has become increasingly statist over the years. When I first joined 10 or more years ago, not only would someone not have been afraid to post that with their name on it, but it would have been instantly modded up to 5.

    Unfortunately "civil forfeiture" is being used regularly in the United States - "just be thankful we didn't prosecute you under the criminal code."

  16. Re:bulls**t on Is Bitcoin Mining a Real-World Environmental Problem? · · Score: 1

    Because we live in a new era where there are 7 billion people competing for finite resources and where the pool is incapable of providing enough resources for everyone to take as much as they can from it.

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

  17. Cracking that Nut is Easy on Why Local Is So Damn Hard For Startups: Foursquare Borrows $41M To Try Again · · Score: 1

    I honestly can't believe they haven't figured it out yet.

    Google knows practically everything about you. So does Facebook. The local advertising nut is cracked when they figure out how to get your attention when you are in proximity to a local advertiser that you have affinity for - and they are right about it.

    No, it is not sufficient to just scan your email for keywords and then try to refer you to advertisers with those same keywords. They have to figure out the purpose of your trip accurately as well. Say you pull into the parking lot at the grocery store. They can push coupons and offers to your phone that are TIMELY and RELEVANT - or even offers from competing stores that, say, offer you $5 to drive a mile down the road to try their store.

    That kind of stuff would work, because if they could do it accurately, would offer consumers timely and relevant opportunities.

    Timeliness and relevance are the most important thing.

  18. The Real Problem on Organic Pollutants Poison the Roof of the World · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ugly Bags of Mostly Water are the real problem.

    Bacteria in a petri dish will eventually die from living in their own "filth."

    Ugly Bags of Mostly Water are no different, and will continue to reproduce as long as there is a food source, until waste management becomes impossible and they die off from being poisoned by their own excrement.

  19. Re:DDT gets a bad rap on Organic Pollutants Poison the Roof of the World · · Score: -1

    Guess what else causes genetic damage, neurological damage, and other catastrophic health problems with chronic exposure... ... time.

  20. Re:I'm tired of H1B politics on Electrical Engineer Unemployment Soars; Software Developers' Rate Drops to 2.2% · · Score: 1

    It has never been worse than it is now because about 10 years ago, CEOs started making the rounds informing their engineers that they were unwanted and too expensive. The President of the company I was with at the time actually came to our little R&D lab and said flat out he wanted to eliminate 60% of our jobs and move them overseas because it "made sense" to do "low value engineering work" where it was cheapest.

    Students saw that writing on the wall and started bailing from STEM degree programs in droves. STEM enrollment at my alma mater is down 25% or so in the last decade, and I am sure it is like that in most places. They're having to expand their liberal arts programs to keep enrollment numbers big enough to pay for all of those tech buildings they built, that are now being used for Psychology, Sociology, and other humanities.

  21. Re:Well, Just Like Many Fields of Employment on Electrical Engineer Unemployment Soars; Software Developers' Rate Drops to 2.2% · · Score: 1

    With all due respect, you're an idiot, and don't know how to approach the talent acquisition process.

  22. Not anything like hijacking. on Hijacking Airplanes With an Android Phone · · Score: 1

    You're not taking control of the plane. You are simply manipulating the information the pilot is receiving. The second the pilot realizes the information he is receiving is erroneous (and he will, quickly), the attack is over.

    IAAP

  23. Re:One Enforcement Per Law Per Cop on Speeding Ticket Robots — Laws As Algorithms · · Score: 1

    That's precisely the law here in South Carolina. All traffic tickets from automated enforcement must be issued in person by an officer within, I think, 60 minutes of the violation.

  24. Re:Cables / connectors. on New Thunderbolt Revision Features 20 Gbps Throughput, 4K Video Support · · Score: 2

    Monster cables are crap. I buy only high-quality digital cables, and can't forget the power conditioner to remove "noise pollution" from my 60Hz AC power to "reveal hidden subtleties of the entire audio event as it eliminates the widespread negative effects of high frequency noise pollution" *bangs head on desk*

  25. Re:What about the pilots? on "Dark Lightning" Could Expose Airline Passengers To Radiation · · Score: 2

    Pilots (I am one) live longer because of the strict medical requirements imposed upon them, and the fact that the moment a pilot shows any sign of sickness, especially with respect to the most common health problems in the US (Heart Disease, Diabetes, and Hypertension), they are grounded and do not get included in the long-term studies of pilot lifespan.

    The studies of pilot lifetime have the unfortunate bias of the FAA weeding the unhealthy from the sample group long before the "bad" samples can be included in the statistics.