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  1. Re:Hope and change on U.S. Spy Panel Is Loaded With Insiders · · Score: 1

    The people who own the media pick the president... please get it right...

  2. Re:Easy, kill the TSA... on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 1

    Just wait until the TSA start putting checks on trains and busses and also pulling random road checks (ie making everyone on an interstate pull over into a service station for a full checkout). They won't be quite so keen on them then.

  3. Easy, kill the TSA... on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 2, Informative

    and stop giving billions of your tax dollars to the Israelis... In one fell swoop, your party would ride back in on a massive wave of goodwill as the TSA goons who make life such a misery would have been consigned to the dustbin of history...

  4. Re:In before on Dialing Back the Alarm On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    explain low-carb high-fat diets then... They work, I'm on one myself. I was losing some 2 lbs a week yet eating more calories per day and doing hardly any more exercise per day than I did before switching. I'm now in maintenance phase having achieved my target weight and have excellent blood glucose control (the reason I went onto the diet in the first place). The calories you get when you combust food in a bomb calorimeter do NOT equal the calories released when that same food is metabolised in the body. Unfortunately, all calorie figures in the nutrition info are based upon the burning in presence of excess oxygen method of calculating them.

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

    don't forget some unscrupulous venue owners have invented "Pay-to-play" where the band has to actually pay to perform by selling the tickets they've had to buy as they're getting valuable "exposure"

  6. is what we're doing, we've jumped to windows 7 on our desks but are still running lagacy items using XP in virtual machines. The hardware is good enough to get decent performance with XP in those VMs.

  7. Pissed off because... on Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol. 1 Released in HTML Format · · Score: 1

    I studied physics at 'A' level in the early 70's and also at University in 1975, but absolutely NONE of this work was available to me at all... and it predated my courses by a decade :(...

  8. Re:Barely related question on Linux 3.12 Codenamed "Suicidal Squirrel" · · Score: 1

    could do with a steel bar to be placed vertically to protect the exposed crewman's position when driving at night un-buttoned in areas where there are treess...

  9. Re:This is why I have a 1 week delayed install pol on Microsoft Botches More Patches In Latest Automatic Update · · Score: 1

    Reliable: Windows is also plenty reliable enough. We aren't on Win95 any more.

    except that EVERY month, you run the risk of your system breaking badly...

  10. Re:No on Exxon Charged With Illegally Dumping Waste In Pennsylvania · · Score: 1

    I'm convinced this is why the US is so desperate to kick start WW3 via intervention in Syria... to get a massive reduction in the world's population level.

  11. Re:You can switch it off. on UK Mobile ISP Blocks VPN, Citing Access To Porn · · Score: 1

    You need to give your passport number to giffgaff in order to lift the ban.

    And what if you don't have a passport? The last I heard possessing them isn't mandatory if you never wish to leave the country...

  12. Facebook has ads? on Ask Slashdot: Can Creating New Online Accounts Reduce Privacy Risks? · · Score: 1

    no, don't see any ads with adblock plus

  13. don't forget that the settlement is sealed as well... with a big gagging order...

  14. Re:Biased charges, clearly tilted toward convictio on Russia Issues Travel Warning To Its Citizens About United States and Extradition · · Score: 1

    suddenly its discovered that he visited prostitutes

    hmmm I wonder how that fact got found out and then slipped out to the friendly media? All this email and internet traffic hoovering is giving them a massive blackmail source...

  15. Re:hipocrites on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered · · Score: 1, Troll

    MOD parent UP...

  16. Re:Grocery Store Secrets on Researchers Discover Way To Spot Crappy Coffee · · Score: 1

    Oven??? I roast my coffee beans on the stovetop in a pan. I get a bit more control than roasting in the oven.

  17. Meanwhile... on UK Government Destroys Guardian's Snowden Drives · · Score: 2

    the Daily Mail is leading with some b0ll0x about some royal baby's first portrait photo... all across the front page... the Miranda detained in Heathrow news item is there, but buried under all sorts of rubbish about what various z-lister's had for their breakfast etc.

  18. Re:Really? No thanks. on Netflix Comes To Linux Web Browsers Via 'Pipelight' · · Score: 1

    If they want to take the black box route, then fine--they can write a native program with their DRM crap built in, compile it and package it for the major distributions (.deb, .rpm, .txz, .tar.bz2/.tar.gz). And keep the damn thing up to date, fully patched and supported, unlike Adobe's treatment of Flash on Linux.

    They don't trust the environment that black box would be running in...

  19. I can see the big boys killing this on Colorado Teen Designs Robotic Arm With 3D Printing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    with all kinds of regulations and safety cases that have to be complied with... things they can cope with because they're so large, but little upstart companies can't afford to comply with...

  20. Re:woosh on "451" Error Will Tell Users When Governments Are Blocking Websites · · Score: 1

    unless they get told to block it under a secrecy order which gags them from revealing why it's blocked.

  21. Re:LIcense Plate Scanners on Next Up: the Jamming Wars · · Score: 1

    your linky thing is broken. Here's where you were trying to link to

  22. Re:Flooding on Next Up: the Jamming Wars · · Score: 1
    an app in your phone that floods nearby wifi routers with random MAC addresses... so they have problems tracking YOU amongst all the other data. See here for what some sleazebag company has been doing in London

    That's what he meant.

  23. Re:LIcense Plate Scanners on Next Up: the Jamming Wars · · Score: 1

    They're already doing that. Those average speed cameras being set up do automatic number plate recognition to track your time between the two points. This dataset is retained by the police instead of being dumped automatically after use. Ideally, if you are not exceeding the speed limit, your number plate details and times should be erased from the data, but they're NOT doing this as it's too convenient for them to gather number data and times for later use.

    This is why you continue to hear stories on the news how they were able to track down that a suspect was in a particular area at the time of the crime as a justification for the retention of this data.

  24. Graffitti campain on US Lawmakers Want Sanctions On Any Country Taking In Snowden · · Score: 1

    get out with your friends and start writing phrases on walls such as "Snowden is a true patriot", "The NSA are reading your emails" etc. Like the 911 Truthers are doing.

  25. Re:Bury on Microsoft Is Sitting On Six Million Unsold Surface Tablets · · Score: 1

    step 1) Give away inventory for free at schools etc

    They'll get sued for interfering with their competitors...