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  1. Did you? on An Argument For Not Taking Down Horrific Videos · · Score: 1

    BTK video ... of your young niece?
    Or a snuff video ... of your mum?

    Can't walk the walk? Then don't talk the talk!

    More to the point - all copyright or ownership of the video became forfeit to the young man when he was being tortured. And it has passed to his legal hiers. So if they don't want you to watch it, or wish to remove certain portions, you do not have the right to watch or distribute it.

    The only exceptions are fair use, or genuine public interest (with 'public interest' determined by a legitimate authority - like a government fighting the murderers)..

    Supporters of the GPL, or any copyright-based licenses - this is particularly applicable to you.

  2. Re: In other news... on The NSA Is Viewed Favorably By Most Young People · · Score: 1

    In related news, free-will has been conclusively proven to be an illusion - whether for man or angel - by a Slashdot forum poster studying the BiBle. Imprisoned serial killers have used this fact to successfully challenge their sentences.

    Pesky references to God opposing, curtailing, casting down Satan in certain books of the Old Testament have previously been mitigated by skillful redaction efforts.

  3. Re: In other news... on The NSA Is Viewed Favorably By Most Young People · · Score: 1

    In related news, free-will has been conclusively proven to be an illusion - whether for man or angel - by a Slashdot forum poster studying the BiBle. Imprisoned serial killers have used this fact to successfully challenge their sentences.

    Pesky references to God opposing, curtailing and casting down Satan in certain books of the Old Testament had previously been mitigated by skillful redaction efforts.

  4. Re: Not a college kid on Behind the MOOC Harassment Charges That Stunned MIT · · Score: 1

    No power? She was his student and he was her teacher. Education is still education even when performed on the Internet.

  5. Re: And they may have. on Belgian Raid Kills 2, Said To Avert "Major Terrorist Attacks" · · Score: 1

    Shush, don't bother this guy with facts. You're just making little tears in his comfortable conspiracy-cocoon.

  6. Re:Still useful research on Beware Headlines Saying Chocolate Is Good For You · · Score: 1

    I reviewed the parent post and don't find that insulting at all... I thought he was quite polite.

    Cadbury, for their part, aren't timeless traditionalists. Famously, they had to revert oil its substitution of cocoa butter by palm oil in Australia:
    http://www.news.com.au/finance...

  7. The best voicemail system... on The Slow Death of Voice Mail · · Score: 1

    ... transcribes speech, and presents both media - interleaved - in real-time.

    The recipient can now skip between listening and reading, alter playback rate, even 'catchup' with, and interrupt the caller to speak directly.

  8. Re: Don't worry guys... on Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney · · Score: 1

    Well I'm not, so speak on please ...

    What false flag operations?

  9. Re: What the hell is wrong with Millennials?! on Peru Indignant After Greenpeace Damages Ancient Nazca Site · · Score: 1

    Americans! You seem to think the entire world shares in your American memes (and counter-meme in this case).

  10. And the winner is... on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 1

    ... at least for gaming, the winner is 3 x 30" LCDs pivoted to portrait mode, according to MaximumPC magazine in 2011:
                      http://www.maximumpc.com/artic...

    I don't have this setup but tried pivoting (smaller) monitors before (work apps, not games). I hit these issues:

    1. Mainstream monitors (22"-24") are too narrow for some websites or applications

    2. The 'Colour inversion' effect
    This is worst with TN panels.You basically need the panel more or less perfectly vertical and have to look at it dead-on.
    Even with TFT IPS panels, there's something a tiny bit 'off' that I can't put my finger on - its as if colour reproduction was designed to be optimal in landscape mode. Or something different about pixel spacing, or how sub-pixel colour elements stack up next to each other... Just guessing here.

    3. For desktop use, you end up bobbing your head up and down.

  11. Re: What in the hell was he thinking? on Man Caught Trying To Sell Plans For New Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 1

    Who told you that he believed them, when they said they were Egyptians?

  12. Re: What in the hell was he thinking? on Man Caught Trying To Sell Plans For New Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 1

    No, that's SHIELD.

  13. Re:I don't care on Ask Slashdot: Non-Coders, Why Aren't You Contributing To Open Source? · · Score: 1

    Hi - Try this therapy named 'Insulin Potentiation Therapy' - in one study, it magnified the anti-tumour effect of chemo 10000 times.
    See research paper linked to on the last page of this link:
      https://docs.google.com/file/d...

    Its a sort of research paper I did on behalf of a family friend - start on the second page.

  14. Re: Better Question on Ask Slashdot: Best Drone For $100-$150? · · Score: 1

    Weighted plastic sheet, nylon netting, strands of rope... Or your own drone trailing any or all these things.

  15. Re:Community is just as important as car on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Hackable Car? · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, he's probably just angry at Prius hypermilers taking 'advantage' of speed limits - by not breaking them ;)

  16. You mean, "Big data boom!"

  17. Re:uh, no? on Alleged Satellite Photo Says Ukraine Shootdown of MH17 · · Score: 0

    Its likely Russia-allied militia (not Russia) which brought MH17 down, because of two points:

    1. As someone else wrote. "Pro russian/rusian forces used BUKs to shot down three other Ukrainian planes days before the MH17"...
    2. Days previous, an entire air defense regiment, and its missiles, defected (the rebels apparently crowed about this on Twitter days prior to the attack).

    But knowing about both points, Ukrainian ATC in Kiev cleared civilian aircraft to transit through the same airspace. This is either callous incompetence combined with greed (for airspace transit fees), or something worse. A fair enquiry should establish this.

  18. [OT]Elephant versus Hippo! on Giant Dinosaur Unearthed In Argentina · · Score: 1
  19. Simulate this... on Google Wants To Test Driverless Cars In a Simulation · · Score: 1

    Bit-flip error in specific hardware triggered by the 2022.3.5 version driving in Death valley for over 6.5 hours.

  20. Ãs Free Career Advice/Pet Theory on Switching Game Engines Halfway Through Development · · Score: 1

    Principle 1. Create something you own

    Spend time and energy making something that: (1) you own fully (2) is of value to others (3) you can exchange for value
    This is because you can only ever give what you own. Examples: a mobile app, personal skills, bookshelf. Even raising poultry/vegetables in your backyard counts - you exchange these with yourself for money (a.k.a. 'saving cash').

    Note, 'Writing code for cash' fails on point (1), but 'Honing C++ skills' ticks all three points. A life devoted tohelping others is the best deal of all - you exchange your life for treasure in heaven.

    Principle 2. If you cannot work for yourself, search for a workplace like how long term investors search for stock.

    Consider the most famous one of them all - Warren Buffet. He uses 'intrinsic value' to value stock. Companies with price to intrinsic value ratio (lets call it 'P/V' for this post) lower than 1 are more likely well-managed but undervalued -- and hungry to be valued higher -- so Warren 'buys' those companies.

    My pet theory: unlike Warren, you want to 'buy into' workplaces that are consistently profitable and whose P/V ratio is as close to 1 as possible. This is because such companies are typically profitable, well run and will treat you fairly -- leaving you enough time and energy for Principle 1.

    Let take a look at Netflix (NFLX) -- a well regarded company with a demanding work environment -- their ratio 1.85
      http://www.gurufocus.com/term/...
    (To check others, replace 'NFLX' in the URL with another stock ticker - remember, its the median ratio we're looking for)

    NFLX (1.8) , AMZN (4), and EA (2.5) for instance, have high 'stock price/intrinsic value' ratios. So, while these are very successful companies, these are more likely high-pressure work environments with little time to yourself outside of work. Even GOOG (1.6) and APPL (1.5) are getting a bit up there.

    Going lower: SPLS (1.3), MSFT, WMT (Walmart), BA (Boeing) (all 1.2), and INTL (1.1).

    Now the magic unity figure -- BRK.A (Warren's Berkshire Hathaway itself), BAC (Bank of America), PFE (Pfizer) - all around 1. Strangely, so is ODP (Office Depot - 0.97).

    Further down seems to be the domain of banks -- FNF (Fidelity National -- 0.9), PRU (Prudential - 0.28), MS (Morgan Stanley - 0.26), JPM (JP Morgan - 0.27)

  21. "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" on Not Just For ThinkPads Anymore: Lenovo Gets OK To Buy IBM Server Line · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...thinks the Chinese MBA at Lenovo HQ, Beijing

  22. Re:It's tinfoil time! on Fugitive Child Sex Abuser Caught By Face-Recognition Technology · · Score: 2

    Correct - lets hamstring the police. Information technology, image recognition, automation, are only permissible for use by mobsters, etc.

    *Private* data should not be accessible without a warrant. Image recognition on data already presented to the government (a passport photo in this case) is perfectly permissible.

  23. Chinese Government Probes Microsoft For Breaches.. on Chinese Government Probes Microsoft For Breaches of Monopoly Law · · Score: 1

    ... read this and thought this was a hacking-related article

  24. Re: Finally! on World Health Organization Calls For Decriminalization of Drug Use · · Score: 1

    I think china tried both prohibition and non-prohibition, sometime back. The latter didn't work out so well for them.

  25. Re:complex application example on Linux Needs Resource Management For Complex Workloads · · Score: 1

    Try putting a load balancer (Cisco ACE, Citrix NetScaler) on a virtual IP and load balancing the UDP packets across several nodes behind the balancer.