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  1. Vice investigates Soylent, finds rats and mold on Soylent: No Food For 30 Days · · Score: 1

    http://pandodaily.com/2013/11/12/vice-investigates-soylent-finds-rats-and-mold/

    It's being sold as a supplement so they don't have to prepare it in a facility that meets FDA rules for food preparation.

    This is a typical food fad fraud organization.

  2. Re:You had me at ... on Scientist Seeks Investment For "Alcohol Substitute" · · Score: 1

    If I can't brew it in my bath tub it ain't 'MERICAN enough fer me!

    I also brew it in three sheds. Of course I only brew 200 gallons a year for personal consumption.

    However if I'm forced to I can work with a sleezy science teacher and cook up some pseudo-cannibanoids. We'll dye the powder blue.

  3. Re:Wait, what? on Blockbuster To Close Remaining US Locations · · Score: 1

    My parents have satellite TV and Internet you insensitive clod! It's also cheaper than cumcast though the internet is capped.

  4. Re:National Interest? on Republican Proposal Puts 'National Interest' Requirement On US Science Agency · · Score: 1

    How about just quit stealing money to fund it and let me send my kids to a really good school so they can do it with private money for private interests?

  5. Why are there maggots in my geek soup? on Microspotting: Inside the Microsoft Archives · · Score: 1

    WHY? OH WHY?

  6. Re:Remind me on You're Only As Hirable As Your Google+ Circles · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I won't hire someone who admits to being on G- or has a resume or card with G- on it. It shows an inebriated lack of the skills I need.

  7. Re:Unimaginable wasting of money on EU Considering Sensors In Sewers To Detect Bomb-Makers · · Score: 1

    And the chemicals that will set that off are uncontrolled so just saturate a town with it, suck off resources and funding and repeat until they have no funds to do any enforcement.

  8. Re:oh look on HP Sues Seven Optical Drive Makers Over Price-Fixing · · Score: 1

    Sony was involved with bribing several media content creators AND player manufacturers to get bluray adopted as a 'standard'. One encrusted with enough patents and other restrictions to leave only a few players in the beginning.

    Sony went from pure bred stallion to a whore for money selling muck to sheep.

  9. Re:Key phrase on Carbon-Negative Energy Machines Catching On · · Score: 2

    The fuel will be free right up to the point there's a demand then it will go up. Turkey guts, fry oil, etc are no longer cheap or free. Hell I can't even get scrap or chipped wood like I used to from a landscaping company at the low price I was paying. They're selling all their scrap to a company making wood pellets for stoves.

  10. Re:The problem - yellow dog journalists on Swartz-Designed Whistleblower Tool "SecureDrop" Launched · · Score: 2

    Fat asses want a fat paycheck without working for it. Real investigative journalism is a passion, it is expensive and it is exhausting.

    I remember with Geraldo Rivera had a new TV show and had assembled an exceptional group of people and he did this and it was awesome. By the third episode he was a tripe spewing shill ... again.

    Slowly all that exceptional talent meandered away.

  11. Re:Fingerprint != user authentication on MasterCard Joining Push For Fingerprint ID Standard · · Score: 1

    Quotable: "Half the problem with biometrics is keeping the body parts alive."

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwxld-gs3Xk

  12. Re:OpenWRT on Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source Project For a Router/Wi-Fi Access Point? · · Score: 1

    Yea, sure so tell me does it work or doesn't it work? DD-WRT just works. When all this babble is clean out and it says "Supported withotu BS" I may try it.

    Installation

    The WHR-G54S runs a tftp server at 192.168.11.1 on the LAN interface during the boot process. OpenWrt should be installed via TFTP, follow the instructions in the HOWTO section.

    If the device has been installed with OpenWrt in the past, it is possible that (somehow) the tftp server address is set to 192.168.1.1 (mine was)

    In the past there have been some reported problems with the 2.6 kernel versions but these appear to be resolved. Although Attitude Adjustment 12.09-rc1 does appear to run on this router it is extremely slow.

    Now officially Trunk and AA are not supported for this router (from Attitude Adjustment announcement) "Lower end devices with only 16 MiB RAM will easily run out of Memory, for bcm47xx based devices is Backfire with brcm-2.4 recommended" Backfire 10.03.1 (suggested previous to my edit of this wiki) provides a more acceptable level of performance.

    The base trunk as of r36656 will OOM this router at boot time, even without wireless drivers loading (https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/13558)

    In any case the generic brcm47xx image should be used. The filename for that image will be something like openwrt-brcm47xx-squashfs.trx

  13. Re:Pay Scales on US Nuclear Commander Suspended Over Gambling · · Score: 1

    It's very reasonably and they will actively look for it. They have the authority to get bank account records, credit reports and traceable purchases such as land or cars and other indicators. If there is any hint investigators will go ask everyone in a command about everyone else.

    When the government spies on it's self it's just good clean fun.

  14. Re:Die already Blackberry on BlackBerry Confirms 4,500 Job Cuts, Warns of $950 Million Loss · · Score: 1

    Watching the unfit commit sepuku is always good entertainment.

    Blackberry earned the contempt. At my job they flushed them not because of the glittering iphone but because it was going to cost us around 500k a year to provide the licensed servers and crap required plus replace all the old phones. They went with the eyephone for the same reason they went with the BB 10 years ago. They got a deal. In this case it saved 400k. In 10 years someone will have some other spiffy communication device and we'll most likely go with it.

  15. Re:So stop using corks on Molecule In Corked Wine Plugs Up Your Nose · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bag in a box wine review: The polyvinylchloride adds a particularly delightful emphasis to the cardboard while the shades of petroleum
    byproducts are a welcome ablative to the virus stunted grapes musty
    grandeur.
    --mrmeval 2007

  16. Re:How is this news? on How Amateurs Destroyed the Professional Music Business · · Score: 1

    The other problem was Sony's inability to release the technology for licensing. There were a few like Zenith who bowed to their will and bought the entire VCR for rebranding aka label slapping. Sony resisted unclutching their fist but did allow other companies to buy the internals. Eventually VHS won and Sony was left with severe psychological trauma. I feel that was what led them to spend so much money to get blu-ray adopted.

    I still do not have a bluray player. I'll get the stuff by other means.

  17. Re:My father once said... on 45% of U.S. Jobs Vulnerable To Automation · · Score: 1

    http://www.thatsnerdalicious.com/cooking-gadgets/robotic-burger-flipper-may-revolutionize-the-fast-food-industry/

    Built by San Francisco-based Momentum Machines, this robotic burger maker is designed to do the work of three full-time kitchen staff. The current alpha version of the machine grinds, stamps, and grills patties (made to order), then cuts and layers lettuce, onions, pickles, and tomatoes before slapping everything on a bun and wrapping it to go. The only human labor involved is that needed to take the customerâ(TM)s money and hand over the completed burger.>

  18. Re:On the iPhone it will be... on New Smartphone Tech To Alert Pedestrians: 'You Are About To Be Hit By a Car' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, they need to play irritating music with a DO YOU WANT THIS IMPORTANT MESSAGE DISPLAYED? By the time they figure out how to dismiss it their genes will be out of the pool.

  19. Re:This is why encryption isn't popular on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Request Someone To Send Me a Public Key? · · Score: 1

    I ask if they can accept an PGP encrypted message or an encrypted zip file or I'll tell them I'll send them the files by mail or I'll send the printed information by mail. If they can't deal with that I don't need to deal with them.

  20. Re:Tips for Tor on Half of Tor Sites Compromised, Including TORMail · · Score: 1

    That can still expose a signature of the hardware. If you do pick up some malware your hard drive is still available unless you've unplugged it or encrypted it. I'll stick with the VM solution.

  21. Re:You should have told me it existed! on Geeks.com Online Shop Has Closed · · Score: 1

    I never heard of them either but I don't buy refurb ever now. I looked at the other site and won't deal with "log in to view prices" from anyone.

    I have at least 20 vendors I buy from which usually beat the juggernauts in one way or another. Since I don't have to spend gas and I can shop for free shipping I'll piece together a system from a dozen vendors.

  22. Re:Smart move on After a User Dies, Apple Warns Against Counterfeit Chargers · · Score: 1

    A customer had an issue with our product which runs on +24VDC. We specify a fully isolated supply that is UL, CSA and other certifications that costs around $40 - $60 depending on the maximum current it will safely supply.

    They'd bought their own supply. I asked them to send me one so I could test it and they did. It had a rectifier diode and a resistor divider in it. They had high enough wattage they didn't fail and the plastic was designed to not melt from the heat. That's it. It did tend to make the system somewhat psychotic since it wildly fluctuated and there was no safety isolation. It had all the spiffy labels on it saying it was approved. It was made in China.

    Test the chicom crap you buy if it's going in something that can kill people.

  23. Re: Maybe this time they'll get it RIGHT! on HAARP Ionospheric Research Program Set To Continue · · Score: 1

    Worming is a word in the dictionary.

    Exterminationist is not but should be.

  24. Maybe this time they'll get it RIGHT! on HAARP Ionospheric Research Program Set To Continue · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They were supposed to burn the face off the earth. They were supposed to cause hallucinations. They were supposed to cause Global Worming!!! They were supposed to call Lucifer from the pit to rape innocent virgins who lead the damned in a war against Heaven, er no that's a porn flick.
    WE SHOULD BE DOOMED dammit.

  25. Go Postal! on Door-To-Door Mail Delivery To End Under New Plan · · Score: 1

    Go Postal does not have the same connotation as Go Federal.

    The postal orifice had it's chance when the trial balloon of personal eternal email addresses was popped by corprat interests.