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  1. South Carolina on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: 1

    South Carolina: photo enforcement prohibited with narrow exception; citations for violating traffic laws relating to speed or disregarding traffic control devices may only be used when the State declares an emergency and citations must be served in person within one hour of the violation

  2. It's not even a good product on GoPro Issues DMCA Takedown Over Negative Review · · Score: 2

    It's clunky, bulky, and doesn't even take very good video. The dynamic range sucks, and panning video tears badly when shooting video at the highest resolution.

    Don't like it, GoPro, come sue me. Your product sucks, and is not worth the plastic it's made of. Fuck you.

  3. Needs a "poke" feature on Samsung Also Making a Smartwatch · · Score: 1

    So, if the wearer doesn't respond to email or a facebook post in time, they can be "shocked" into compliance. Two shocks for forgetting to post a picture of breakfast, and three for forgetting to notify the world of your bowel movement.

  4. What's the catch? on Google Fiber Expands To Olathe, Kansas · · Score: 1

    Admittedly as someone who has not really followed the google fiber thing, what is the catch? Does google get to monitor all of your traffic and pop up ads on your PC or sell that information to advertisers? Do you have to accept their CA so they can also monitor all of your SSL traffic? Do they port-block, or block VPN?

  5. Re:I say dams are legitimate targets. on Cyber War Manual Proposes Online Geneva Convention · · Score: 0

    So are hospitals, IMHO.

    In fact, in any war, Hospitals should be the FIRST things blown the smithereens. Then, your enemy has no hospitals - no way to treat anyone who is injured - and will absolutely have to surrender because any other option means slow, painful deaths for their citizens.

    Hospitals, dams, power gen, water treatment, bridges, and schools should all be the very first targets destroyed in any war.

  6. Re:Apple banned Adobe because iPhone sucked. on Apple Hires Former Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch, Destroyer of iPhones · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I lol'd /Thread

  7. "in support of public safety" on FAA Grants Arlington Texas Police Department Permission To Fly UAVs · · Score: 1

    My ass... more like "we want a dragnet so we can charge more people with petty crimes to raise more money for our department."

  8. The noise will be unacceptable on Golf Channel Testing Out New Octo-copter Drone To Film Golfers This Weekend · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That thing's gonna be loud, so unless it's really far away and they have huge long glass on the camera, the players aren't going to have any part of it.

  9. Re:How did this moronic submission make it here? on Why Earth Hour Is a Waste of Time and Energy · · Score: 1

    Let's raise awareness for water pollution by all going out and crapping in the river.

  10. Re:Keystone XL on As US Cleans Its Energy Mix, It Ships Coal Problems Overseas · · Score: 1

    The United States has been dead since 1861. That's when the country began its rapid decline.

    When the northern-dominated government fought a war to create an entitlement class that would forever be a leech on the producers, that was the death knell, and it has been circling the drain since.

    If only Northerners in the US had seen the wisdom of slavery back then, and how cheap labor would provide growing productivity for generations; instead of chasing this liberal namby pamby utopianism where everyone is exactly the same, the US would be a modern day paradise.

    (of course, this is satirical - but I had to try to come up with a post as stupid as yours)

  11. Re:You Are So Wrong on We Should Be Allowed To Unlock Everything We Own · · Score: 1

    ...which is the big reason I bought a Nexus 4. No carrier lock (which is the unlocking they're talking about) from the get go.

  12. Re:Tit for tat on We Should Be Allowed To Unlock Everything We Own · · Score: 1

    You've already agreed to pay them with funds that are not encumbered in any way.

  13. You know what else would work? on US To Deploy Ballistic Missile Interceptors In Response To North Korean Threats · · Score: 1

    A couple of carrier battle groups and a ballistic missile sub parked off the coast of North Korea.

    North Korea needs to know that, while they could launch an ICBM at the United States, their country would be reduced to smoldering rubble before their missiles re-entered the atmosphere.

  14. What is "root access to a network?" on Backdoor Found In TP-Link Routers · · Score: 2

    I'm having trouble wrapping my feeble mind around that one.

  15. MARPAC Dohm-DS on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Block Noise In a Dorm? · · Score: 1

    Problem solved. You won't hear shit with this thing in your room with you.

  16. Re:Are you seriously serious? on Take Hands-Free 360 Degree Panoramic Photos With an iPhone (Video) · · Score: 0

    "How do these slashvertisements keep getting worse?"

    Dice.

    Nuff said.

  17. Cycling. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Stay Fit At Work? · · Score: 1

    I don't stay fit at work. Work is for work.

    But, I do ride about 300 miles/week on the road bike. Seems to do the trick along with eating good food (which includes bacon cheeseburgers, steaks, and lots and lots of sweets).

  18. Re:Check this out... on Blog Reveals a Chinese Military Hacker's Life Is One of Boredom and Bitterness · · Score: 1

    It's a very good hoax due to how plausible it really is.

  19. Re:H&R block is for suckers anyway. on H&R Block Software Glitch To Delay 600,000 U.S. Tax Refunds · · Score: 2

    My wife and I have a somewhat complex tax situation. We both have 1099 income, and we have three rental properties between us - one jointly owned, and the other two are pre-marital property. I also have my regular W2 income from the business I own.

    H&R Block wanted $5000 to do our taxes and the taxes for my corp, because they were "very complex and intricate and required special attention of a whole team of tax professionals," when our regular CPA whom we've used for years is $650.

    These "professional" tax preparers are nothing more than a bunch of part-time yahoos who can file a form with the IRS to become "certified" tax preparers. I prefer to hire someone who does taxes and accounting for a living, every day, all year. Besides, it's cheaper.

  20. Re:Priorities, people. on Obama Administration To Allow All Spy Agencies To Scour Americans' Finances · · Score: 2

    The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

    PERIOD.

    The government has zero right to snoop on my financial transactions unless and until they have probable cause to suspect I am involved in criminal activity, and a judge agrees and signs a warrant allowing the government to obtain specific records that their probable cause affidavit says they need to make their case.

    The Constitution says "no warrant, no financial records." Period.

  21. What ever happened to the 4th Amendment? on Obama Administration To Allow All Spy Agencies To Scour Americans' Finances · · Score: 1

    Seriously, how can this possibly be legal?

  22. Assumptions on High Tech Vending Machines Transform IT Support At Facebook · · Score: 1

    "I like the assumption that employees will do the right thing"

    Tracing accessory use through badge swiping does not equal assuming employees will do the right thing. It's assuming they won't.

  23. Translation on U.S. Calls On China To End Hacking; Start Cyberspace Dialogue · · Score: 1

    China owns the US
    China owns networks in the US
    China has complete visibility of everything that happens in the US

    We surrender. Please don't hurt us.

  24. Not going to cost MS anything on Did Google Tip Off EU About Microsoft Browser Ballot? · · Score: 1

    It's going to cost Microsoft's users something, though, since that fine, if it is even upheld on appeal, will be integrated into the cost of Microsoft products.

  25. Re:It is disturbing... on Rand Paul Launches a Filibuster Against Drone Strikes On US Soil · · Score: 1

    Did I say that?

    As I explained this 9th grade logic to another poster, if I say "I like red truck," it does not logically follow that "I don't like blue trucks," or that "if the truck is not red, I don't like it."

    Grow up.