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  1. Re:That's fine on Think Tank's Website Rejects Browser Do-Not-Track Requests · · Score: 1, Informative

    Adblock allows 'some ads' by default. I'm not recommending it. There's a fork Adblock Edge that is a fork in protest to the 'some ads' by default.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/adblock-edge/

  2. Re:A call for hardware on/off switches on PlaceRaider Builds a Model of Your World With Smartphone Photos · · Score: 1

    There is a hardware fix for the camera, it's called duct tape. You can get it in a variety of trendy colors.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCzXbz47Zpw

  3. Re:And the motorcycles .... on Ask Slashdot: Hacking Urban Noise? · · Score: 0

    There are some who like loud pipes just to be pricks but the more experienced want them so dipshit drivers don't kill them. Since dipshit drivers refuse to see them they cannot as easily ignore that blatting noise near them. I can't operate a motorcycle but I'd risk noise fines because of what I've seen on the road if I could.

  4. Re:LOL, American "democracy"! on Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots · · Score: 1

    It's a decidedly evil system when a voter is identified with his vote in large blocks. If someone wants to scam that paper system it is possible but it's damnably hard for a handful of individuals to do it even for a small voting area (not sure what yours are called). Evoting is the easiest method and Diebold proved either their evil incompetence or their deliberate evil in designing their voting systems.

    I'm still grinding on my home state to provide hardware specs and source code for the voting machines. I'll vote absentee till that happens.

  5. Re:LOL, American "democracy"! on Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots · · Score: 1

    Does that mean Obama is the same corprat welfare authorizer as Bush?

    It might be that you'd have to go back and find a president that never signed any corprat welfare bill. I'm drawing a blank.

    Note Graymer gNazis: corprat is the correct spelling.

  6. Re:How to decide the fate of helium on Scientists Speak Out Against Wasting Helium In Balloons · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hydrogen embrittles metals. There are some alloys that can mitigate the embrittlement but it's easier to use helium.

  7. Re:Oh, an online petition? on New Twitter Policies Put the Kibosh On Mashup Services · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I never got the point of twitter. I have an account and followed the people I know from various blogs and ended up whittling away the morons who'd post inane content. It's like they swallowed stupid pills. It seemed that a high percentage of the bloggers who are erudite and have great content on their blog would allow garbage on twitter. I quit logging in, I'm about to fart loop the email address on the account by changing it to their autoresponding yet otherwise worthless customer service email address.

  8. Re:LOL, American "democracy"! on Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots · · Score: 1

    I disagree with that. I don't think either side would have failed to hand cash to GM. In fact the Republicans would have done it just to sway an enormous number of voters to their side. I can't even say they'd be any more fiscally responsible. There are other ills of this administration which they're directly responsible for but on this you're asking me to believe the corporate welfarist would not have given out welfare. I don't like that it happened and I don't want a welfare car but I won't now say it an evil of only one party.

  9. Re:LOL, American "democracy"! on Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots · · Score: 2

    We lost the Republic and it had to happen to remove something evil. We still have some of the trappings of a republic and some of the trappings of democracy; these still have power based on habit and belief but that is and will continue to be eroded. Small protections can be worked into the new fabric from the grass roots on up and everyone should be trying. Active participation, not just voting for whichever spox is prettiest is what is needed.

    I wish we were farther ahead in space technologies with some chance of having a colony break off from Earth. A break away group has worked to provide an avenue for liberty to flourish several times.

  10. Re:LOL, American "democracy"! on Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We call it demockracy and that's not what we had. What we have now is an unstable crypto-plutocracy with the trappings of fairness and equality slathered on and maintained through the inertia of habit. We've not had a republic since the civil war which for the most part destroyed the concept of the sovereign nature of the states. There were a few amendments that eased the process. Governments will invariably acquire more power, sometimes it's given to it with great cheering and sometimes it's sullenly forced upon it and sometime it takes it by force.

  11. Re:Sigh. on QR Codes As Anti-Forgery On Currency Could Infect Banks · · Score: 1

    Holy Timex Datalink retrofuturo Batman!

    Upon closer inspection however a small lens at the position of 12 o' clock on the watch face indicated the mode of the wireless data transmission.[2] Data was transmitted from the CRT of the computer through a series of pulsating horizontal bars,[5] that were then focused by the tiny lens and inputted into the watch EEPROM memory through an optoelectronic transducer operating in the visible light spectrum. The CRT synchronization was possible only for systems operating on Windows 95 and Windows 98.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Datalink

    Oh, someone pen test google goggles with malicious QR Codes for fun and...giggles.

  12. Re:Sigh. on QR Codes As Anti-Forgery On Currency Could Infect Banks · · Score: 1

    Go grab the old png library and then process a malicious QR code image with that library. It may or may not have enough payload though QR codes can 7,089 bytes which may be enough to infect a system though it may only be enough to do a denial of scan attack. It is possible it could carry enough code to rewrite the in memory software of the scanner to approve everything from that point on.

  13. Re:Good work environment is everything on Ask Slashdot: How Much Is a Fun Job Worth? · · Score: 0

    Don't be a fungus. Yea all the things that's been said but consider the people in your team. If there is one who has been there for you and your company and they can do your job you can leave it to them and go see if the new one is more fun. Stuff that 10 percent in another account by payroll deposit and the savings in travel time and if it gets bad you have a cushion to find another job. Since you've said you competent even factors outside your control should not wreck the new job in under a year.

  14. Re:The bounce is the problem on Mark Cuban Blames Himself For Losing Money On Facebook IPO · · Score: 2

    In a truly free market you are chattel.

  15. Re:This is why we cook our meats on California's Unspoken Health Problem: Brain Parasites · · Score: 1

    Oh my don't get me started. It's not the polyticks who suffer but the people who live there. The polyticks all live in places like Woodbridge, VA or any yuppieville outside the beltway. There are a few gated communities in DC for the ultra wealthy and there's the Whitehouse but there were few really safe places there in the 80s and none of the nomenclatura sent their kids to the local schools system they'd spend the money for a private school outside DC and have the private transport to deliver and return them.

  16. Re:Mostly meh, but some Grr on No Opt-Out For Ads On New Kindle Fires · · Score: 1

    I've had android app angry birds call up flash and play a full screen ad. I was going to buy it and their halloween edition but decided to delete it. I'm at the point I test apps in the andriod emulator and look at what it's network traffic is over a week before I'll load it on my phone. As you may guess I do not bother with many android apps from google as it's a sewer not an ecosystem.

  17. Re:LittleSnitch like App for tablets? on No Opt-Out For Ads On New Kindle Fires · · Score: 2

    Do not buy hardware you cannot hack. If you're abused by your hardware you don't own it the people who control it own you.. I'll never touch their excrement.

  18. Re:My opinion of e-books are reinforced on No Opt-Out For Ads On New Kindle Fires · · Score: 2

    No but I have a few with the thick cardboard cigarette and other ads still in them. Surprisingly that increases their value now. There are also the pulp novellas that have the trashy ads in the back. I'm not sure if it was cost or advertisers felt it was worthless which stopped those.

    Tobacciana
    http://wellmedicated.com/lists/40-gorgeous-vintage-tobacco-advertisements/

    Nah, it's not as pretty as it looks. Take a smokers shirt and soak it in a sink and watch the water change color. I quit smoking and am glad of it.

  19. Re:WHAT? on Rhombus Tech A10 EOMA-68 CPU Card Schematics Completed · · Score: 1

    I have a stack of 486 cards that have all but the peripherals. It's made by epson but I have almost zero data on them. I just looked for Epson card PC and found something but it's slim. It's about the same size as a PCMCIA card but it uses a 236 pin edge connector. Maybe EASI interface Embedded all in one system interface

    Our company had made an attempt to interface them with the PLC of a joint venture only to have that flop for various reasons. It's a full featured 4mb 33mhz 486 PC that needs a connector for power, drive, vga display, keyboard and mouse, battery. I have one mounted in a development device that I ran DOOM on. Slllloooowwwwllly.

  20. Re:WHAT? on Rhombus Tech A10 EOMA-68 CPU Card Schematics Completed · · Score: 1

    Yes, would someone translate that into Engrish Please?

  21. Re:It's not broken. on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Fix the Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    You won't get anywhere with this. The "zOMG M$ evil" snails would shoot you if they even thought you had a following. I tried this in the 90s and had death threats. There were a few attempts but with the harassment, threats and the zealots actively trying to do the developers reputation harm in the real world they quit. This is why you see such utter insanity as Gnome and it infects KDE as well. It's why even 'normal' desktops such as LXDE and others will damn near crucify you if you suggest it.

    I can't get anyone I know who is not a Linux geek to touch a Linux distribution for more than a couple hours without getting complaints to fix their broken PC.

  22. Re:This is why we cook our meats on California's Unspoken Health Problem: Brain Parasites · · Score: 0

    What about regions in the process of going back to third world status? You have Louisiana that can't process it's drinking water kill one type of brain parasite. Now you have Cali with an infestation? WHO IS NEXT?

  23. Re:Obligatory on California's Unspoken Health Problem: Brain Parasites · · Score: 2

    That's Goa'uld and their pretty nasty and it takes a lot to get cured of them.

    For the children
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa'uld

  24. Re:Call the lawyers on Nokia Claims a Memory Card Slot Would Have "Defiled" New Phone · · Score: 1

    Interesting. I have been unwilling to buy the card to see. I have a Samsung Vibrant running a custom rom. I'd checked to see if anyone had luck using more that 32gig with any stock rom or that custom rom but have not found it. I may just be failing to search right. The rom is Teamwhisky Froyo Bionix 1.3.1 Fishmanmod using kernel 2.6.32.9-Bali_v1.8.8UV. Since this phone is considered 'old' it's not getting much love now. I'll ask again and see if I get a response on the XDA forum.

    Thanks.

  25. Re:Call the lawyers on Nokia Claims a Memory Card Slot Would Have "Defiled" New Phone · · Score: 2

    An external slot is about worthless. It's prone to dirt and other problems. I prefer the internal slot. Not putting any slot on it is idiotic. Another idiocy is having a cap on how much memory can be used. I want a 64gig card for mine but it's limited to 32gig.