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  1. Re:OK, I'll bite. on 1928 Time Traveler Caught On Film? · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, it's obvious, it's been fixed with a sonic screwdriver. Universal roaming, you know.

    But I must say the Doctor has really let his standards for Companions slide...

  2. Re:ugh on 'Officer Bubbles' Sues YouTube Commenters Over Mockery · · Score: 2, Funny

    We even have Royal Mounted Douches. Nothing is douchier than a horse's ass sitting on a horse.

  3. Obligatory on Pope Says Technology Causes Confusion Between Reality and Fiction · · Score: 0, Troll

    Forcing thousands of men to live celibate lives for no good reason causes confusion between consenting adults and altar boys.

    Pope Palpatine has zero credibility.

  4. Re:2d to 3d??? on Star Wars Films In 3D Due In 2012 · · Score: 1

    They all look wonky. They basically establish "layers" within a shot, of objects with similar depth, and then shift these around a bit so as to give the impression of depth between the layers. Someone earlier in the thread described it as "Viewmaster" which is pretty accurate.

  5. Re:Not a Reuters story on Former Military Personnel Claim Aliens Are Monitoring Our Nukes · · Score: 1

    This story is clearly false because no one uses word perfect

  6. Not so soft, after all on WikiLeaks Set To Release Unpublished Iraq War Docs · · Score: 1

    You don't think the CIA actually believed that bullshit they put out, do you? The Bush admin (the CIA's bosses) didn't want fact, they wanted justification. I don't think for one second there was any serious analyst in the CIA involved in Iraq who believed Iraq had serious WMD capabilities, or were in any kind of position to develop them.

  7. Re:Good for everyone on Rupert Murdoch Publishes North Korean Flash Games · · Score: 2, Funny

    You say that now, but North Korea cannot be allowed to acquire vector-based technology. Just think of the explosion gradients and cluster mouse over bombs they could launch.

    You lefties are all the same, crying peace and progress until Kim Jong launches an ActionScript 2 - powered missile up your arse!! Then you'll be begging for Sean Hannity to come save your ass from the anti-aliased koreamen.

  8. Re:Consumer Focus or Consumer Manipulation? on NAB, RIAA May Seek Mandate For FM Radios In Mobile Devices · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Good point, I hadn't considered the source of the hardware. Though I swear I found a GPS receiver whose power output was limited in the Canadian version despite using exactly the same hardware as the US version once. I think the possibility exists that the radio feature gets disabled in firmware by the vendor for whatever reason.

    Sure. But you're still paying for it.

  9. Re:Without any evidence? on Online Forum Speeding Boast Leads To Conviction · · Score: 1

    No, in this case, the other user meerly alerted police about the post In question. The actual evidence is the post which is made by the accused. Since this isn't someone's recollection of the statement, rather the statement itself, hearsay wouldn't apply. By your logic, any audio recording would be hearsay.

  10. Re:How about uname? on Oracle's Java Company Change Breaks Eclipse · · Score: 1

    It's not petty, it's rebranding.

  11. Re:Design Decisions on Oracle's Java Company Change Breaks Eclipse · · Score: 1
    It's ok though, cause it was preceeded by the following comment:

    //FIXME: this is a poor design decision and should be changed

  12. Re:They are "obviousness investigators" on iPad Owners Are 'Selfish Elites' · · Score: 1

    I see you're not orthodox cult of mac, rather a reformist.

  13. Re:US abuse on WikiLeaks Publishes Afghan War Secrets · · Score: 1

    So you're saying the wars are to keep the US's Nielsen Ratings up?

  14. Re:Brilliant.... on Blogetery Shutdown Due To al-Qaeda Info · · Score: 1

    Blogetery is one twenty something year old retard who had no idea what he was doing, and was just offering free blog hosting and collecting Adsense dollars.

    I agreed with the overall sentiment of your post, but if it was one guy, running 70k + blogs and collecting the adsense dollars, that's probably a decent living. While his biz may be done, he is unlikely to face prosecution (DMC safe harbor), and at worst now needs to go get a real job.
    One wonders if the feds went to blogetry, if so what happened, if not why, etc... but i agree that given the circumstances, in Bursts' position I'd pull the plug on their server like I was starting a lawnmower.

  15. Re:Old News? on Concrete That Purifies the Air · · Score: 2, Informative
  16. Re:Old News? on Concrete That Purifies the Air · · Score: 2, Informative

    You're right. In fact, I saw this on slashdot in 2006.

  17. Re:I wonder... on A Look Back At Bombing the Van Allen Belts · · Score: 1

    Right, but the scientist was referring to the side in darkness, so literally the dark side of the moon, as opposed to far side. Setting off a nuke on the far side of the moon would be fairly pointless since no one could see it.

  18. Re:I wonder... on A Look Back At Bombing the Van Allen Belts · · Score: 1

    The dark side of the Moon refers to either the face not currently illuminated by the sun (hence, dark) or the side which is never exposed to the Earth (the moon's rotation about it's own axis, as well as its rotation about the Earth is such that we only ever see one hemisphere).

    Not sure what you're complaining, it's a perfectly accepted (if somewhat ambiguous) term. The pink floyd album in fact refers to the latter

    As to altering the man in the moon, it's clear that, at least at one point, Cobra Commander was in charge of the USAF.

  19. Re:The steady slide to Police State continues on Police Officers Seek Right Not To Be Recorded · · Score: 1

    One thing that would be more apathetic is to come on slashdot and mock people posting about it for being apathetic. That's meta-apathy, the worst kind of apathy!

  20. Re:it wasn't a distraction last year on Obama Calls Today's Ubiquitous Gadgets and Information "a Distraction" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Seriously. I'd much rather have a president who used cocaine and lied about it...

  21. Re:From that infernal nonsense Pinafore . . . on The Pirate Party of Canada Is Official · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They call it theft for reasons that are quite clearly subliminal
    In order to support a business model that's primordial
    Infringement is a civil matter, extortion is criminal
    But they push legislation that will kill our highway digital
    And so we need a party that will argue antithetical
    In order to preserve our freedoms we hold indispensable
    So I say welcome to the party that is dubbed piratical
    You'll get my vote election time lest Bob Rae joins your ensemble!

  22. Re:Dumb terminals and smart people don't mix on The State of the Internet Operating System · · Score: 1

    So your implementation didn't handle faults well, therefore we should throw out the idea?

    There are certainly criticism to be made for the centralized model, but your anecdote isn't one of them. If the product you bought and/or stuff you built wasn't fault tolerant then you bought and/or built the wrong solution.

  23. Re:Well, what did they expect? on Wikileaks Receiving Gestapo Treatment? · · Score: 1

    I'm not saying the potential isn't there for abuse or problematic leaks. I've made two points: 1) leaks that are beneficial to society are often illegal, I would be suprised if laws are not being violated 2) There is some incentive for wikileaks to avoid leaking things that simply hurt security, e.g. detailed troop positions.

    Further I believe they have some ability to double check, since records have come out about a concerted misinformation campaign against them in order to marginalize them, which appears to have failed.

  24. Re:Well, what did they expect? on Wikileaks Receiving Gestapo Treatment? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think the counter point is that we don't know we have a fundamental problem without people leaking things.

    Further, giving away genuine, non "CYA" national secrets that puts civilians/military personnel at risk would be a horrible blow to wikileaks. My point is that there is incentive here for wikileaks to expose only BS-type classified stuff.

    Remember, "Deep Throat" gave up classified docs to the press, he broke laws in order to protect lawfulness.

  25. Re:What do you expect from ancient judges? on 11th Circuit Eliminates 4th Amend. In E-mail · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not "fair game". The constitution grants protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. Just because you leave something sitting on your porch does not give the gov't a right to walk up and grab it.

    Further, the presence of https is encryption simply between the user and their immediate provider. It has nothing to do with the format of the message on the server or in transit, hence it is irrelevant to this discussion. It is not, as you put it, "end-to-end". Something like PGP would be. That being said, the concept of having to actively add security in order to protect yourself from unwarranted search and seizure by the gov't is preposterous on its face, and certainly contrary to the spirit of the US constitution. The onus is on the government to provide just cause, not on the citizens to protect themselves from intrusive gov't measures.