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  1. Re:What do we lose? on Iceland Considers Internet Porn Ban · · Score: 1

    A sexual partner?

  2. Power nap... on Ask Slashdot: Really Short Time Wasters? · · Score: 1

    Learn to fall asleep very fast. You need a room where you won't get disturbed and that you can lie down in in relative comfort. Set the alarm on your phone for 10 or 15 mins; I find 15 to be optimal; and switch off. If you have problems clearing your mind then learn some meditation techniques or listening to something quiet and gentle can work. You can get white noise generator apps for your phone. Sleep is restorative and consolidates learning and if youre anything like me, this helps to balance out staying up too late cus someone on the internet is wrong.

  3. Re:Words mean things on How a Chinese Hacker Tried To Blackmail Me · · Score: 1

    On a computer? He should patent that.

  4. Re:Single point of failure on Facebook Breaks Major Websites With Redirection Bug · · Score: 1

    If you stay logged in to facebag they can still track you via the part of any webpage that loads a chunk of facebag inline. I load it ina seperate browser and use ghostery on my main browser to block third party shenanigans.

  5. Re:Speaking of "Smear Campaigns"... on MS Targets Google With Another Smear Campaign · · Score: 1

    I don't see any ads when I use email. Oh wait...Gmail allows me to use a desktop client no problem.

  6. Re:I don't feel sorry for those IE users on New IE Vulnerability Used In Targeted Attacks; IE9, IE10 Users Safe · · Score: 1

    Fair enough - never mind the collateral damage eh, carpet bombing is a proportionate and reasonable response.

  7. Islamic Hackers.. on Islamic Hacker Group Resumes Attacks On Banks · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ....are arseholes.

  8. As we all lnow: Correlation... on Using Multiple Forms of Media At Once Correlates With Depression, Anxiety · · Score: 1

    ...is not an excuse to trot out lazy memes.

  9. Re:Without the use of a loop!? on How Does a Single Line of BASIC Make an Intricate Maze? · · Score: 0

    Only try to realize the truth: there is no loop.

  10. Didn't Ecconomists..... on Climate Treaty Negotiators Are Taking the Wrong Approach, Say Game Theorists · · Score: 1

    ...take Game Theory to heart? How did that work out?

  11. Re:MSE is good enough - but teach him to reinstall on Ask Slashdot: Securing a Windows Laptop, For the Windows Newbie? · · Score: 1

    If he's going to stray then it will need a wipe/install every 6 months or so from experience (I'm on XP, YMMV).
    A clean reinstall from scratch is a PITA. I use Ghost to back up and restore to a known good state, other software is available. Takes 30 mins or so to restore the OS and progs back but any installs and updates made since the last backup will be lost.
    After restore, spend some time updating anything that needs it, install anything missing that you'd miss, take a backup and go on your merry way. My current install dates back from at least 6 years ago with incremental updates after each re-imaging.

    Still beats the crap out of reinstalling the OS from scratch each time, finding disks, installing drivers, installing progs from disk or after downloading, downloading and installing updates to everything you just installed and then the updates of the updates, yadda yadda. On the other hand, if he has anything of the nerd about him, letting him experience the wipe/clean install cycle will make him raise his basic computer admin game.

  12. We're there any good Sci Fi movies this year? on The Sci-fi Films To Look Forward To In 2013 · · Score: 1

    I have kids so don't keep up. The last two 'Sci Fi-ish' movies I rated was 'Moon' and 'Sucker Punch.' Have I missed much?

  13. Re:I want to hate Anonymous on Anonymous Helps Turn In Hacker Who Targeted Charity · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Bullshit. You immediately jump to the most contentious counter examples, and point at them as though they're representative. They're not.

    Anyone with the slightest idea how the world works would realize that if you tell people to ignore any law they don't like, you get chaos.

    Stop polarizing, things are only so black and white at the margins.
    He didn't advocate ignoring laws you don't like, he was talking about following his moral compass and you don't get chaos by advocating people follow their moral compass. You do get conflict and the need to compromise if people do that but how is that different from what happens anyway?

  14. Never mind robots... on XRL Hexapod Robot Gets a Tail, Learns To Use It · · Score: 2

    I want a tail. A prehensile monkey tail. I'd prefer to grow my own but if robotics get the solution before genetics I'll take a prosthetic one.

  15. Re:A lot of /. readers are emotionally stunted you on Scientists Keep Rabbits Alive With Oxygen Microparticle Injections · · Score: 1
    An eloquent and compelling argument. You nearly had me until I glanced at your ID.

    You'd say anything to avoid the micro-particle injections wouldn't you?

  16. Re:subject on Ask Slashdot: Good Low Cost Free Software For Protecting Kids Online? · · Score: 1

    Add moderate safesearch to google and that's my set up right there. Use strict if you've a mind.

  17. Re:This is bullshit. on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Most Dangerous Lines of Scientific Inquiry? · · Score: 1

    Brilliant. Can I use that for my new sig?

  18. Re:Huh? on DHS Will Now Vet UK Air Passengers To Mexico, Canada, Cuba · · Score: 2

    If the US is to 'fuck off' then they need some one to firmly and politely tell them to do so. It's unfortunate that, who ever is in power in the UK, they seem to show only gratitude to the US that we can continue to be it's bitch.

  19. Oh sure, science, very clever... on Findings Cast Doubt On Moon Origins · · Score: 1

    ...Sorry but if find this far more convincing than a bunch of scientists doing what amounts to guessing. Look at the quality...plus it was on tele, twice!

  20. Re:Male companion on New Doctor Who Companion Announced · · Score: 1

    Sandi Toksvig?

  21. Clickety pops! on Last Day To Tell Google To Forget You · · Score: 1

    Go to Google History and follow the instructions.

  22. Lemmie get this strait... on Ontario Teachers' Union Calls For Health-Related Classroom Wi-Fi Ban · · Score: 2

    ...Catholics are advocating pulling out?

  23. Re:Issues such as fair use & first sale on ReDigi Defends Used Digital Music Market · · Score: 1

    ...and the comments seem to be all off topic. Oh well.

    You must be new here.

  24. Re:Holy Fuck! Pre-crime??? on Man Who Downloaded Bomb Recipes Jailed For 2 Years · · Score: 2

    This isn't about knowing stuff. I just looked up the legislation and the key line I think is this:

      -A person commits an offence ifâ"

    (a) he collects or makes a record of information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism-

    So its not a thought crime. I can think about causing terror all day and that's fine but creating a record like this:
    *fuses
    *nails
    *fertilizer
    *fundamentalst dogma
    *?????
    *prophet (sorry)

    There, that could qll be useful to someone planning terrorist action. If you don't hear from me again in a few days, call me a lawyer.

  25. Re:Disagree on 4.74 Degrees of Separation on Facebook · · Score: 1

    I don't even have access to the internet.