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  1. Re:Importation on US Now Produces More Oil and Gas Than Russia and Saudi Arabia · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The problem with stockpiles, as the US will eventually find out, is after a few years the amount in reserve doesn't equal the amount on the books.

    So you're predicting the future, Svengali? Here's my prediction; the US won't notice as the loss, even if in the millions of dollars, as an elephant notices a gnat, so I'm not sure what your point is, unless you're pretending to be relevant in a conversation where adults are talking; and a question (not to you, but to the other adults in the room) is this going to lower the price of gasoline anytime soon? I'm guessing not.

  2. Re:The solution is simple. on Google Cracks Down On Mugshot Blackmail Sites · · Score: 2

    Most employers are going to conduct a criminal background check, and the data will come from the courthouses themselves, not Google.

    Ultimately, employers are people, not machines. One of my friends was recently told by a prospect that they weren't interested, despite a pretty stellar career. One thing that's been happening in his life is a an ex gf has for the past 3 years been conducting an on-line smear campaign against him. He suspects this is why he didn't get the job. I'd post links but that only increases his google hit score to those sites, so, just take my word for it. Where was your courthouse god in that case?

  3. Re:The solution is simple. on Google Cracks Down On Mugshot Blackmail Sites · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That post was moderated "troll", seriously? And I thought /. was populated with atleast a few thinkers... I defy anyone to make me see the light and explain how that was a troll?

  4. Re:The solution is simple. on Google Cracks Down On Mugshot Blackmail Sites · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is a real problem. In an age where you can destroy a completely innocent life with a few mouseclicks I'm really surprised there's not been more of an outcry. Its trivial to destroy some one's credit and make them look like they're felons... and complete hell to correct these things.

  5. Re:Who cares about? on Microsoft Makes Another "Nearly Sold Out" Claim For the Surface Line · · Score: 1

    How far can this train metaphore express itself?

  6. Re:And we're reading about it here why? on US Forces Undertake Two African Raids, Capture Embassy Bombing Figure · · Score: 2

    Wrong; Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai was captured, the other raid as of right now its not clear if they captured the target. As for "lies", and the "United Snakes" comment; its clear where your sympathies lie, so, fuck off.

  7. Hey, that's cool... on Boston Dynamics Wildcat Can Gallop — No Strings Attached · · Score: 1

    ...in a creepy sort of way.

  8. Re:Imagine this: on Google Wants Patent On Splitting Restaurant Bills · · Score: 1

    I would hope a moderately intelligent patent judge would toss this crap out.

  9. Re:I feel safer... on US Intelligence Chief Defends Attempts To Break Tor · · Score: 1

    Uh, NOW? OP should be modded up.

  10. Re:I feel safer... on US Intelligence Chief Defends Attempts To Break Tor · · Score: 2

    ...[they] don't even comprehend that what they are doing is wrong. They genuinely believe they are doing good!

    This is the opening logic of every tyrant in history.

  11. Re:OpenBSD - compact base + up to date PF! on Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source Project For a Router/Wi-Fi Access Point? · · Score: 1

    The BSD's pf (or packet filter) is the best stateful packet inspection-style firewall, bar none. I'll go to my grave knowing this; but it is difficult to master the many configuration options. Luckily there are lots configuration examples and I like its flat, one config file style of doing it, like most BSD utils. If you really want to use BSD as your firewall software I would grab the latest rel. of OpenBSD, fire up pf, and play with it for a bit, see if it might work for you. On the other hand, after years of using a spare pc running that to do my firewall/NAT/cached name serving, and replacing hard drvies and upgrading and installing this and that I gave it all up for a netgear firewall/router for under $50 and never looked back.

  12. Re:Big Oil is Dancing on Tesla Model S Catches Fire: Is This Tesla's 'Toyota' Moment? · · Score: 1

    So when me an my buddies break those things for fun after work out back by the dumpster we should be calling the EPA & the other assorted Gov. acronyms before we can touch it, let alone clean it up?

  13. Re:Big Oil is Dancing on Tesla Model S Catches Fire: Is This Tesla's 'Toyota' Moment? · · Score: 1

    creating a nuke generator small enough to put in a car would be a good thing, really. I know they have pretty small ones, but I think the output isn't enough or something...?

  14. Oh? on Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Approve Work On DRM For HTML 5.1 · · Score: 1

    A Web where you cannot cut and paste text; where your browser can't 'Save As...' an image; where the 'allowed' uses of saved files are monitored beyond the browser; where JavaScript is sealed away in opaque tombs;

    I hope the Merchants of copywritten content aren't resting their laurels on this EME thing, as long as something has to be rendered on the client side people will figure out way to copy it.

  15. Oblug. on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 1

    Queue the jokes/cuts/nasty remarks in 3... 2... 1...

  16. Re:"We believed we knew better what customers need on How BlackBerry Blew It · · Score: 1

    I think Jobs took consumers to products they didn't know they wanted... yet. Blackberry seems to have simply started shoving customers over a cliff into products they didn't want or care about.

  17. Yeah, well, I picture a Benny Hill type leading this "army of hackers", so get off your high horse. Or we'll nuke you.

  18. Re:Stock trending down on Apple Now the World's Most Valuable Brand, Knocks Off Coca-Cola · · Score: 1

    ...emotional responses from "investors"...

    Did they figure out a way to program emotion into those automated trading apps?

  19. Re:Obligatory Steve Jobs quote on Apple Now the World's Most Valuable Brand, Knocks Off Coca-Cola · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Woz created the consumer personal computer. and Jobs certainly gets credit for knowing better than the HP execs when they asked him what consumers needed computers for. After that, it all comes down to the "great artists steal" line. And Jobs was like a robber baron.

  20. Re:Obligatory Steve Jobs quote on Apple Now the World's Most Valuable Brand, Knocks Off Coca-Cola · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's what I'm talking about. The Mac-ites act like St. Steve cured cancer.

  21. Re:Dcentral? on John McAfee's Latest Project: Shielding Against Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Maybe it will come with guns, drugs, and dogs.

  22. Re:Where to start with this one...? on Saudi Cleric Pummeled On Twitter For Claiming Driving Damages Women's Ovaries · · Score: 1

    It's wanting your beliefs to trump reality, when it's your beliefs that are faulty.

    Its worse than that, becuase if you're a "modern" world citizen, to believe this cleric would mean that you would have to ignore the fact that women of other countries the world over are doing damage to their overies on an on-going basis, thus Saudi Arabia must have the highest birthrate in the world. Or worse, these clerics have such power over their people that they have no idea what people in other countries do on a day-to-day basis. "Women drive cars in France? Rediculous!"

    The psychosis of totalitarianism is interesting to me; North Koreans who have escaped North Korea talk about how the regime tells their people life in the west is filled with harsh brutality, yet there are over 17 active gulags working in N. Korea currently. The line, obviously, is "You think life is rough here, you should see what's going on there!", yet people still manage to trickle out of Best Korea. The only people fooling themselves are the leaders as far as I can tell.

  23. Re:Bulffing with nukes on US Nuclear Commander Suspended Over Gambling · · Score: 1

    "I'm not horsing around, that's how it decodes..."

    (The first draft of the film script had Goldberg reveal the code as "L.S.M.F.T...")

  24. Re:Megalomanic on New Unix Implementation Turns 30 · · Score: 1

    It's worth remembering that Unix got its start as more or less as a fun project...

    You mean GNU, not "unix", right? "Unix" began as one man's (Dennis M Ritchie) cry in the dark about how stupid his school's operating system (Multic's) was.

  25. Re:Illusion of privacy on Google To Encrypt All Keyword Searches · · Score: 1

    If you would have included ALL of my post my stance on the matter would have been a little clearer for you. Would some one mind closing the door to the bar behind them so these children won't wander inside?