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  1. Re:It's finally time on Feds Say It's Time To Cut Back On Fluoride In Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    MEDICAL TOURISM. Costa Rica is cleaner, and safer and if I recall cheaper.

  2. Re:It's finally time on Feds Say It's Time To Cut Back On Fluoride In Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    The same NIST that perverted standards for encryption to weaken it to help make it safer for them to use?

  3. Does Google actually sell this sort of data? on Supreme Court To Consider Data Aggregation Suit Against Spokeo · · Score: 2

    "Companies such as Facebook and Google are closely watching this case, given the potential of billions of dollars of liability for selling inaccurate information on their customers and other people."

    I was under the impression, and perhaps naively that Google did not under any circumstances sell personally identifiable data, or other information to 3rd parties. I know MS has been found guilty of breaching this, but what if at any, would Google be on the hook for here?

  4. Re:Should be used as precedent for sentencing Snow on Gen. Petraeus To Be Sentenced To Two Years Probation and Fine · · Score: 1

    "Also, he told secrets to the public, instead of his mistress."

    Snowden gave the documents to journalists for them to reveal. Don't be lazy and misrepresent it even accidentally. Beyond that they weren't even just "journalists" they were lawyers etc.

  5. Re:Doublethink on Except For Millennials, Most Americans Dislike Snowden · · Score: 1

    The very rhetoric the American politicians used about the evil russian empire is that they surveilled their citizens. spied on journalists, actively suppressed the ability for their citizens to dissent.

    This is the exact America we have now. Anyone who can claim to remember that era, yet conveniently capable of forgetting why Russia was bad, does not actually remember a damn thing. Also the Church Committee was still quite recent where the clear abuses of government and intelligence agencies was piled high upon the morass that was the Vietnam war which Ellsberg clearly dismantled for the propaganda it was. Anyone today who lived through that era, who can claim Snowden is the bad guy here, didn't understand it then, and doesn't understand it now.

  6. Re:Not just about terrorism on McConnell Introduces Bill To Extend NSA Surveillance · · Score: 1

    If they are too lazy to care and to react, they are too lazy to understand it.

  7. Re:Google updates on Google Lollipop Bricking Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 Devices · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If they let people upgrade their own phones this wouldn't happen

  8. Re:Pot vs. Kettle on Microsoft: Feds Are 'Rewriting' the Law To Obtain Emails Overseas · · Score: 1

    Are you too young to understand why Microsoft earned the nickname : The Evil Empire? Or are you just completely uninformed and willing to sound like a fool? If this seems rude to you, it is because you know you have no idea what you're talking about.

  9. Its called math on Ask Slashdot: What Would a Constructed Language Have To Be To Replace English? · · Score: 1

    Take out the ambiguities of linguistics and you need to remove the ability for it to evolve. The perfect language you seek is math. The issue is the limit of what it can honestly convey.

    Look at Esperanto and the wide adoption it has amassed over the last 50 years. Follow their successfukl formula and you should have something less universal than pig latin. With universal translators, the need of a universal language is falling out of necessity more rapidly than adopting a new one for the world will be able to outpace.

  10. Re:Too many pixels = slooooooow on LG Accidentally Leaks Apple iMac 8K Is Coming Later This Year · · Score: 0

    You can go ahead and do this. Just realize that there is no way that this will be handled well by an iMac with intel based GPU and RAM on a base model likely starting at about half whatever logic would tell you it should. iPad's with Retina on the first gen got burned, as they were under powered. MacBook Pro Retina's under powered on the first gen, and now this. Early adopters will pay dearly for adopting 8k with such pedestrian hardware specs.

  11. Re:Also: why? on New Smartphone Camera Could Tell You What Things Are Made of · · Score: 1

    Environmental remediation tasks. Although I'd imagine this is not great for finding trace elements present in a soil sample.

  12. Re:Spyware on US NAVY Sonar/Lidar Editing Software Released To the World · · Score: 1

    Unless the goal/userbase of the spyware is very specific to an industry.

  13. Re:I wouldn't mind the NSA so much if... on NJ School District Hit With Ransomware-For-Bitcoins Scheme · · Score: 1

    So if they caught these asshats the total surveillance state they (the NSA) built is justifiable? The ends justify the means... I can't say I agree with you.

  14. Re:Last week I tried to write a Win8.1 universal a on Microsoft Releases Windows 10 SDK · · Score: 0

    You mean like silverlight?

  15. Re:Windows is obsolete. on Microsoft Releases Windows 10 SDK · · Score: 0

    You had me till that last sentence.

    "Everything else is a joke compared to them."

    Keep telling yourself this. Your future looks great from here!

  16. Re:the server market cares about linux / VMware on OEMs Allowed To Lock Secure Boot In Windows 10 Computers · · Score: 1

    Name one enterprise willing to accept that. Dell won't piss off their customers that badly no matter how much MS offers them. It would become the new Nokia. Which OEM would accept willfully the kiss of death MS would be forcing on them?

  17. Re:Well no shit! on FTC: Google Altered Search Results For Profit · · Score: 1

    I went to pull up a link, and it seems as they changed this in the latest release of iOS (8.1) . As for using a limited subset of javascript that was quite old, while using a different set for Safari, didn't have any other browser on the same playing field, or responsiveness or capabilities.

    I could give a toss what you think, and this information is publicly available. Don't be a ponce limey.

    http://9to5mac.com/2014/06/03/...

  18. Re:Ridiculous on FTC: Google Altered Search Results For Profit · · Score: 1

    the browser they switch to is likely inferior to Google search? WTF does this even mean?
    A browser is not a search engine. People can change search engines and not need to change the software they are using to do so.

  19. Re:Well no shit! on FTC: Google Altered Search Results For Profit · · Score: 1

    In the US they got away with murder, most likely because they gave the feds any piece of data and every back door they could dream of.

  20. Re:Well no shit! on FTC: Google Altered Search Results For Profit · · Score: 2

    Wrong. You can use a deprecated engine which is limited slow and inferior. So all those who want to compete with iOS cannot have a level playing field.

  21. Re:Well no shit! on FTC: Google Altered Search Results For Profit · · Score: 1

    Microsoft was fined, they paid fines, and they had forced official remedies mandated, which they violated as well. The latter part being within the last two you years. You should be ashamed of yourself for coming here and deliberately lying so you don't have a way to get called out for being a shill/asshat...
    People like you keep conversations from moving forward. Nice to be that guy asshole.

  22. Re:Well no shit! on FTC: Google Altered Search Results For Profit · · Score: 1

    What about the lawsuits where no one else could have a browser installed in windows upon purchase? Or that you can't get a PC without paying for Windows whether you intended to use it with Windows or not?

  23. Re:I just don't care on FTC: Google Altered Search Results For Profit · · Score: 1

    By nature of Google making the algorithm which ranks the results, it is inherently biased. The only way to prevent bias, would be to make the results pages completely randomized. Even then the randomization would hint at bias in the way it defined random. Google and their search results are and always have been a carefully manicured set of results, based off of choices of those behind it.

  24. Re:I just don't care on FTC: Google Altered Search Results For Profit · · Score: 1

    Where is the lock in? Where are the predatory practices that make certain that no one can make a product that replaces Google? What are the costs associated with a user using Bing/DDG/Yahoo/dogpile or whatever?

    Now if Google mandated that you could only use Chrome to use the search engine, or Chrome OS/Linux then this may be slightly similar to MS in the 90's. But this isn't even close. Also where is the FUD campaign where anyone using another browser or search engine is getting threatened with a lawsuit? Where is Google hiring proxy companies to prevent MS from working on Bing as a competitor? Where is the mandate that only Google can be used by any pc that is purchased?

  25. Re:LiDAR solves for vegetation on Laser Imaging Drone To Hunt Out Unexploded Bombs In War-Torn Nations · · Score: 1

    The LiDAR I use for Drones and Construction/BIM are not capable of penetrating a canopy. Small holes in the canopy also are not enough. you need a fairly accurate measurement across the whole ground to find trenches and other ground anomalies.