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  1. 3..2..1.. on NASA Explores the Moon's Water/Oxygen Deposits · · Score: 1

    .. till we get "save the moon" morons.

  2. Re:...and how would you do that? on Banks Urge Businesses To Lock Down Online Banking · · Score: 1

    it's not hard to lock down banking, it's called one time passwords/cc numbers. we pay more then enough in banking fee's that the banks can afford to issue us a FREE token that produces a unquie password that is synced with the bank's systems. it's only good for one use and must be used with a traditional 6 pin access you remmeber.

  3. Re:Green... eh - manufacture on off planet ... coo on Air Force & NASA Fire Off Green Rocket · · Score: 1

    shh don't tell them the whole "green" movement is bullshit it'll kill their buzz.

  4. Re:open source... Likely defence on Goldman Sachs Code Theft Not Quite So Cut and Dried · · Score: 5, Interesting
    fail. if it's sitting on the companys computers and you've been working on it in company time, they own it. i can't fathom a reason he would copy personal projects onto company hardware if it wasn't to work on it.

    this is something that scares me a bit about the work i do. i've had employers get really pissed off at me leaving before, my greatest fear is that one day they might pursue me in this kind of manner out of spite. a perfect example was one of my early gigs - a fully automated laboratory system that ran linux. i developed it, supported it 24/7 and saved the company a fortune. in 3 years they never gave me a single pay rise. so i was forced to leave to better my financial situation, and my god my last 2 weeks consisted of snide remarks and petty shots at my work. I handled it by just going about my work as normal and tieing up as many loose ends as possible, not taking the bait at their attempts at rattling me. once my notice was up i offered them a very fair rate if they ever wanted me back as a contractor to fix things or do new developements, and it was turned down without even a moments consideration.

    the fearful part comes from how much work i took home with me, a really committed employee who enjoys his work will tend to wrap his life around his work. at that time it would have been hard to separate personal life from work. i don't think anyone should be penalised for that.

  5. Re:Thwarted by properly designed online banking on Real-Time Keyloggers · · Score: 1

    my bank does something similar - all transfers require inital confirmation via an sms sent to my mobile.

  6. Re:we need to end drug prohibition on Mexico Decriminalizes Small-Scale Drug Possession · · Score: 2, Insightful
    when did we start talking about legal drugs? oh thats right you need to muddy the waters.

    ironically i had a drug test at work today and it came up positive for opiates, good thing i told them about the cold and flu medication i'd been taking (swine flu i'm sure of it)

  7. Re:we need to end drug prohibition on Mexico Decriminalizes Small-Scale Drug Possession · · Score: 0, Troll

    Move in beside a crack house, then come back to me. that shit being legal won't change it's effects on people. for the record i'm against jail time for small time offenders on pot or LSD - a couple of tabs or a dime bag shouldn't result in jail time, a fine will suffice. But we honestly have enough problems with legal drugs like alcohol, in the face of the overwhelming evidence that legal drugs are a problem, how can you suggest MORE legal drugs will make anything better??!!

  8. Re:we need to end drug prohibition on Mexico Decriminalizes Small-Scale Drug Possession · · Score: 0
    hang on a second, i never mentioned legal drugs. lets stick to the topic at hand son.

    I suggest you stop watching desperate house wives so much if you suspect people leading these secret drug filled lives in the suburbs. since you insist i will use my neighbors as an example, on my left is a family with a small son who was born very premature, so smoking of anything is out of the question. the father works in the mines so he is drug tested constantly and the mother won't even drink alcohol. on my right are muslims, who won't touch even alcohol either.

    so i suspect you are the one deluding yourself thinking the world is full of secret drug takers - less sitcom time might help you.

  9. Re:legalization on Mexico Decriminalizes Small-Scale Drug Possession · · Score: 1
    you must be on some drugs of your own sir to think drug dealers are going to have any say on such policy, or that the UN see's drugs as anything but a world wide problem.

    the only reason no one has gone for wholesale legalisation is you'd have to have rocks in your head to stay there after. there's enough problems with legal drugs like alcohol, why do you people keep insisting the answer is MORE drugs?!?!

  10. Re:we need to end drug prohibition on Mexico Decriminalizes Small-Scale Drug Possession · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm fine with your proposal as long as all of the supporters of free drug use are forced to live in the druggie parts of town.

  11. Re:Not good at dinner. on BrainPort Lets the Blind "See" With Their Tongues · · Score: 0

    you wouldn't give a shit if you were blind, you'd find a way.

  12. Re:The US isn't all first world. on Developing World's Parasites, Diseases Enter US · · Score: 4, Informative
    while you are reasonably correct on the causes of the great depression, you fail hard.

    1. is over already

    2. paying off loans isn't what causes contraction of money supply.

    3. if you want to single out houses as the only asset, then yes.

    4. yes, there's no getting away from the fact companies have taken a hammering

    5. most places have had a fall in profits, there are some standouts though. gold producers are one of them.

    6. here is your big fail. jobless rate in 1933 was 24.9% http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/cm20030124ar03p1.htm

    7. here is your biggest problem - doomers like yourself who are still claiming the sky is falling when their are CLEARLY signs of recovery worldwide.

  13. Re:real problem is not enouch choices on How To Prove Someone Is Female? · · Score: 1

    1 in 1000? i think you missed a few zero's on the end of that one.

  14. Re:Medical advantage on How To Prove Someone Is Female? · · Score: 1

    i think you mean .01 of a second champ, and that compared to this "chick" who bettered the 1500m record by 25 whole seconds, is nothing.

  15. Re:Medical advantage on How To Prove Someone Is Female? · · Score: 1

    your missing the point. taking 25 seconds off a world record like that indicates more then being born with a good pair of legs. shaving, chest muscles and her bone structure indicate "she" may indeed be a man with female genitals in addition to her testicales. you can try muddy the waters all you want, but if you've got a pair of nuts, your not female.

  16. Re:"texting is free"...? on Why AT&T Killed iPhone Google Voice · · Score: 3, Insightful

    but it's not expensive to send a text, so lets drop the term expensive from this conversaion completely. and lets not call it free either, because you are ALREADY paying your carrier for access to thier network, and part of that deal means people can contact you on your phone with them. exactly what right do they have to impede that because it's a competing application/carrier? i would have thought this would fall under anti competitive laws.

  17. Re:I would like to have universal health care but on SSN Overlap With Micronesia Causes Trouble For Woman · · Score: 0
    government programs are NEVER more efficent then private companies in fiscal management, and here is why - a government agency will be penalised if they don't spend 110% of their budget each year, by having that budget reduced. the logic being if they didn't use it they don't need it. a private company always strives to decease it's budget and incease it's profits, profits are something a government agency never worries about.

    is profit chasing the best way to run a health care system? probably not. you can't put a price on a person health. but if you want to start arguing that government departments are efficent with money, you'll lose lose lose.

    at the end of the day, fixing health care is going to leave someone unhappy. if it's done right it's going to be drug companys and health insurance company's who will have their profits cut and prices regulated. health care can't exist as a for profit entity, because you've literally got a gun to their heads demanding money.

  18. Re:Try Windows 7? on XP Users Are Willing To Give Windows 7 a Chance · · Score: 1
    i think it's funny, you morons were saying the same thing about win98 > XP, and now your defending XP.

    there was nothing wrong with vista aside from a bit of bloat and a new security model that got a bad wrap.

  19. Re:That's only 20 Amps at 115V on NASA Developing Nuclear Reactor For Moon and Mars · · Score: 1

    you can do a lot with 20amps.... whats your point?

  20. Re:mmhmmm on NASA Developing Nuclear Reactor For Moon and Mars · · Score: 1, Interesting
    solar panels are more fragile, don't last as long as you think and they don't work on the dark side of the moon/mars, which is a prick of a problem when that power keeps you alive.

    oh and this is space we are talking about - inside the reactor is safe compared to most environments you'll encounter...

  21. what rubbish on Comcast Seeking Control of Both Pipes and Content? · · Score: 1

    they own the pipes, they can already control what you watch. end of story.

  22. Re:Uh-huh. on Dell Considering ARM-Based Smartbooks · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    attention microsoft hating slashdot drones. this has nothing to do with microsoft. relax and go back to beating off over pengiun's

  23. Re:What the fuck on Australian ISPs Soon To Become Copyright Cops · · Score: 1
    the greens? rofl fuck no they are even MORE clueless. they would have us all living in bush shacks and wiping our arses with sea sponges out of the belief the environment needs it.

    australia doesn't have a single glimmer of hope on the political front, at both a state and federal level. that about sums it up.

  24. sweat shops on On Transitioning To an Asian-Style MMO, Such As Aion · · Score: 2, Insightful

    i'm sure sweat shops are very social - all day farming gold leaves time to talk.

  25. Re:grow the fuck up on Why the UK Needs the Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    they want to play in the same league as established parties gimmicy names only hurt them and marginalise them as yet another crack pot party. this just hurts anyone trying to take a stand against unfair copyright laws.