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  1. intead of wasting time on your request on Seeking Fifth Amendment Defenders · · Score: 1

    People too ignorant of history to understand why we have a Fifth Amendment aren't worth our time.

    Instead, let's take this space to discuss the kind of encryption system we need to protect our privacy from our police state government's unconstitutional witch-hunts and dragnet operations.

    We need a system that will encrypt an amount of useful data and an equivalent amount of useless but coherent text. The system when given one password will provide our information; when presented with the "emergency-under-duress-of-jackbooted-thug" password will present the alternative but plausible set of data.

  2. Re:The law is irrelevant and does not apply on Intelligence Director Claims NSA Surveillance Reports Inaccurate · · Score: 1

    all I see is a two party system where both sides are 99% fascist bitches of mega-corporations. vote for the bum of your choice?

  3. Re:interview on World's Oldest Tumor Found In a Neanderthal Bone · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    yes, that is indeed the plan. now clip your tie back on, get back into your little Volkswagen and scare up some work, geek!

  4. interview on World's Oldest Tumor Found In a Neanderthal Bone · · Score: 4, Funny

    When questioned, the Neanderthal said, "It's naht ah tumah!" and then ran off to fornicate with his housemaid.

  5. Re:Mental Image on Google Patents Frowns and Winks To Unlock Your Phone · · Score: 1

    especially with more creative people using alternative portions of their anatomy to authenticate.

    "I was NOT masturbating in the plane seat, merely authenticating"

  6. Re:SQL? on Ask Slashdot: Getting Exchange and SQL Experience? · · Score: 1

    yeah really, why does he want the massive pay cut of being a microsoft bloatware monkey?

    true heavy duty exchange experience that is worth money would be knowing how to set up and admin clustered disaster recovery with virtualization, i.e. Vmware and SAN with Exchange experience.

  7. that's an article about Educap on Ask Slashdot: With Grants Drying Up, How Is a Tech Non-Profit To Survive? · · Score: 1

    what's that got to do with United Way?? You're posting about the interday price of yo-yo's on the chinese market.

    EduCap is an on-profit student loan company made of t three organizations: EduCap, Loan to Learn and a charitable fund operating as the Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation

  8. Re:Run your non-profit as a for-profit on Ask Slashdot: With Grants Drying Up, How Is a Tech Non-Profit To Survive? · · Score: 1

    do you have proof United Way has bought private jets? I can't find any only internet rumors without substance.

  9. Re:And that name is..? on Lizard Named For Jim Morrison · · Score: 2

    Rex stellio ebrius morissoni

  10. Re:Run your non-profit as a for-profit on Ask Slashdot: With Grants Drying Up, How Is a Tech Non-Profit To Survive? · · Score: 1

    sorry to burst your bubble, but there are laws about how much extra money your non-profit can make, what happens to money made in activities "not closely related to its public purpose", and what can be done with extra money (hint, no bonuses). Consult a lawyer, this is complex subject at state, federal and local levels.

  11. Re:Conservation of Energy on Own the Controversy! Blackbird DDWFTTW Up For Auction! · · Score: 2

    a prop is just a bunch of sails on an axis 8D

  12. Re:How on Beer Fridge Caught Interfering With Cellular Network · · Score: 3, Interesting

    eh? where I come from people plug in their fridge and let it go for 30+ years. what are the brushes of an ac motor going to look like then?

        heck the one I grew up with (from the 60s) my dad took it down to my grandmother's in mid 1990s, he gave it a freon charge right before plugging it in and after my grandmother's death my uncle is using it today. Surely that thing puts out some RFI though who'd notice out there in farmland....

  13. Re:How on Beer Fridge Caught Interfering With Cellular Network · · Score: 1

    Arcing and sparking can release noise across a huge portion of the spectrum. That's how microwaves from 60 to 120 GHz were first made in the 19th century, with a spark gap and resonate cavities.

  14. Re:Conservation of Energy on Own the Controversy! Blackbird DDWFTTW Up For Auction! · · Score: 1

    true for conventional sail but there is also the "windmill sailboat" which can pull the "faster than the wind directly downwind" trick. So nothing unique about this craft, on land and ice done decades ago, and in last decade turbines and mills on boats have done it.

  15. Re:Conservation of Energy on Own the Controversy! Blackbird DDWFTTW Up For Auction! · · Score: 3, Informative

    quite right, and of course sailboats going faster than the wind exist too. Momentum and energy are conserved, and the wind has plenty of both to offer.

  16. Re:The government is obsessed with felons on SCOTUS Says DNA Collection Permissible After Arrest · · Score: 1

    if the U.S. government labels you a "traitor" or "drug smuggler" you'll be doing that without a passport.

  17. Re:Funny thing predicted. on SCOTUS Says DNA Collection Permissible After Arrest · · Score: 1

    Myself, most my friends and relatives, are strong supporters of gun rights, but none agree with things such as this that turn our country into even more of a fascist police state.

    As an aside, the Founding Fathers recognized the right to bear arms again "despots at home, and enemies from abroad". We continue the move toward despotism.

  18. medical? on SCOTUS Says DNA Collection Permissible After Arrest · · Score: 4, Interesting

    think more broadly. studies may show a person with certain sequences might be more likely to commit certain crimes. We need to keep extra surveillance on such people for safety's sake.

    And maybe you shouldn't reproduce, citizen, given your suspicious DNA sequences.

  19. 6502 still around, huge on Salvaging E.T. In Software, Instead of New Mexico · · Score: 4, Insightful

    the CMOS version of the 6502, the 65C02 and the static core version (clock can be slowed down or stopped without data loss) are still made and still used for embedded applications. We're talking annual volume in the hundreds of millions of units!
    http://www.westerndesigncenter.com/wdc/

  20. Re:It's relative on Salvaging E.T. In Software, Instead of New Mexico · · Score: 2

    or being on slashdot

  21. yes I do

    so your telling me you deeply care about your great-great-(twenty times) grandchildren? bullshit. you'll never know them, they're total strangers.

  22. oh yes, totally a replacement for a DSLR on Chicago Sun Times Swaps iPhone Training For Staff Photographers · · Score: 0

    that 3.85 mm f/2.8 lens totally can replace anything the lens collection of my SLR, I'm flinging it into the trash.

        (for angle of view and "fastness" it's basically like a 30mm (wide angle) f/22 lens on a 35mm camera)

  23. Re:Soon we'll be able to model coal on Researchers Determine Chemical Structure of HIV Capsid · · Score: 1

    breakthroughs in AIDS research have in fact come from supercomputer modeling.

    Strange we have the simple equations of gravitation, but can't solve them for even the simple general case of three interacting bodies. But we can use numerical methods on supercomputer good enough for modeling interactions of millions of gravitational bodies. Something must be wrong about your assumptions.

  24. Re:this was with 0.011 exaFLOPS on Researchers Determine Chemical Structure of HIV Capsid · · Score: 1

    oh really. so Intel's promise to deliver such a system by 2018 to DOE and NNSA is nonsense. or the Indian government's 2017 system by the ISRO and ISRC? see you in five years....

  25. Re:Romania! on Switzerland Tops IPv6 Adoption Charts; US Lags At 4th · · Score: 1

    what about that other thing, how are the vampires in Transylvania doing?