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  1. Re:Wow on Massachusetts Enacts 6.25% Sales Tax On "Prewritten" Software Consulting · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hammurabi, benevolent as he may have been, didn't have to "pass" anything. He simply decreed it.

  2. Re:New Cold War on Several Western Govts. Ban Lenovo Equipment From Sensitive Networks · · Score: 1

    ...China has already proven that they are willing to do whatever is necessary to stay ahead there.

    They aren't ahead, hence the spying.

  3. Re:Their loss on Several Western Govts. Ban Lenovo Equipment From Sensitive Networks · · Score: 0

    That so? Care to illustrate your POV with some solid evidence?

  4. Re:Don't forget on Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be Abolished · · Score: 1

    There is no need to spy on close allies.

    I disagree, and so would Israel. If you know anything about the cold war you'd know that both sides spied on their own allies all the time, and often for pretty legitmate reasons.

  5. Re:GMO Oranges? Altering a Fruit's DNA To "Save" I on GMO Oranges? Altering a Fruit's DNA To Save It · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Don't forget on Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be Abolished · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The world, regardless of your hippy views, is still divided up into nation-states. The duty of the US government is to protect and serve US Citizens, not the entire world. That mission includes spying on the citizens of other nation states from time to time, as do the governments of other nation-states spy on the US. If you're trying to claim that the US is the only nation that spies on its allies and others you're going to get laughed out of the courtroom, so your implied objection is DENIED.

    Spying on EVERYONE, including US Citizens, is typical of a Government that is ill and out of control, and THAT is something that US citizens need to correct.

  7. Re:For a spy all you need is 1 shot on In Canada, a 3D-Printed Rifle Breaks On First Firing · · Score: 1

    You're talking about a completely different scenario. A combat situation IS NOT an assassination. Turns out that .22 LRs are perfect for assassinations by gun.

  8. Re:Does anyone actually... on Retail Stores Plan Elaborate Ways To Track You · · Score: 1

    She could have made bucks in the futanari world.

  9. Re:Does anyone actually... on Retail Stores Plan Elaborate Ways To Track You · · Score: 1

    Only as long as I'm listening to my headset. I love bluetooth for this, but as soon as I'm not wanting to listen to music, it comes off. Still, I can listen for hours to the music playing on my phone w/my headset.

  10. Re:For a spy all you need is 1 shot on In Canada, a 3D-Printed Rifle Breaks On First Firing · · Score: 3, Informative

    Quite wrong. the .22 Long Rifle with hollow point, frangible, high velocity AND subsonic loads are all favored by assassins. The subsonic is especially accurate and if you're not shooting through armor or a helmet is going to take your target out if placed right. The load used by the Jackal (in the origiinal 1964 film) was a .22 LR exploder.

  11. Re:Windows on Ask Slashdot: Hardware Accelerated Multi-Monitor Support In Linux? · · Score: 0

    No, I'll windows in a vm before I run linux. I get so much more usefulness out of linux than anything else.

  12. Re:Multi-Monitor Support in 2013?!? on Ask Slashdot: Hardware Accelerated Multi-Monitor Support In Linux? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Ok, Linux needs help in the video department, but its more the fault of the manufacturers who want to keep their code licensed in such a way that it exludes OSS. Intel has been good, but the support from all the major gpu vendors could be better. And I know what OP means by developing on Linux; doing development on Windows is like keeping one arm tied behind your back after doing Linux development, target platforms aside.

  13. Re:Hurrah! on The Shortest Internet Censorship Debate Ever · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Either something is legal or it isn't. As idiotic and possibly dangerous as porn is (Ariel Castro, the Cleveland basement kidnapper, recently admitted to an "addiction to porn", whatever that is) censorship just covers up societal problems and redirects the issue so that politicians can point to it and say they're doing something about it. Good on these Pollack ministers for doing the right thing.

  14. So if as a consultant I install and show people how to use DTrace on Linux (its available at least for debian systems) and they pay me, would Oracle feel entitled to go after me?

  15. Re:Hey... on Court Upholds Ruling On Dish Network's 'Hopper' · · Score: 1

    Some one Godwin this THREAD NOW.

  16. Re:If you can't trust the authenticity of the sign on Fake "Speed Enforced By Drones" Signs On California Freeways · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think the fake signs are a completely on-point commentary of the time.

  17. Re:$100 for useless is still useless on A Radical Plan For Saving Microsoft's Surface RT · · Score: 1

    The only way to do an EFI-booted install is to install it as if it's the only OS present.

    Ok, this I know something about. This is an UNTRUE statement. With a boot manager such as rEFind you can install as many os' as you want.

  18. Re:The rift supports OSX... on Vendetta Online Becomes the First MMO To Launch Support For the Oculus Rift. · · Score: 1

    They're probably only 'willing' to support windows right now. Which means if you're happily playing on OSX and all of a sudden it stops working don't some to them for support. Official support comes only after first party testing, they're not going to slap a "supports OSX!!!" sticker on it becuase YOU say it works.

  19. Re:$100 for useless is still useless on A Radical Plan For Saving Microsoft's Surface RT · · Score: 1

    Honestly, its not that amazing. Cry me a river msg board morality cop. Apprently you have nothing better to do that THIS CRAP.

  20. NEWSFLASH!!! on McAfee Exaggerated Cost of Hacking, Perhaps For Profit · · Score: 1

    Peanut vendor caims peanuts can cure cancer! News at 11!

  21. Re:Unfortunately... on US Gained a Decade of Flynn-Effect IQ Points After Adding Iodine To Salt · · Score: 1

    LOL!

  22. Atari ST on Atari Facing $291 Million Debt Claim From... Atari · · Score: 1

    Best 16 bit pc ever. I shed a tiny tear whenever I think about that machine and the Laser C compiler I got for it.

  23. Re:$100 for useless is still useless on A Radical Plan For Saving Microsoft's Surface RT · · Score: 1

    Apple laptops don't use secure boot. EFI does not imply secure boot.

    Ok, good 'nuff. I have to admit I wasn't really sure. Believe it or not I actually have more to do than stay on top of SecureBoot, UEFI, EFI, CIA, FBI, ee-eye ee-eye oh.

  24. Re:Dumping? on A Radical Plan For Saving Microsoft's Surface RT · · Score: 1

    "Such is the /. way..." ho ho ho...

  25. Re:$100 for useless is still useless on A Radical Plan For Saving Microsoft's Surface RT · · Score: 0

    SecureBoot is no big deal, at least I haven't had too many problems with it. I'm running Linux right now on a 13" Pro Retina, and UEFI wasn't too much of an issue.