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  1. Re: Bees knees on Ask Slashdot: Which VHS Player To Buy? · · Score: 1

    http://www.ebay.com/bhp/profes.... Usually used for Production recording and playback.

  2. Re:Again a clueless article... on iOS 7 Update Silently Removes Encryption For Email Attachments · · Score: 2

    Doesn't the master code get stored on Apple's iCloud network for iOS devices? I know it's optional to have it backed up there when using FileVault for OSX. Anyways, all the NSA has to do is subpoena the information from Apple and they're in like Flynn!

  3. Oculus Rift? on Washington Files First Consumer Protection Lawsuit Over Kickstarter Fraud · · Score: 1

    And what of Oculus now that they sold out to Facebook? If I actually contributed to it, I would be royally pissed by now!

  4. Re:"Three years ago today" on The Guy Who Unknowingly 'Live-Blogged' the Bin Laden Raid · · Score: 1

    YET! All it takes is someone with in insane cult of personality in authority to use the bomb. That, or under the guise of some religious prophetic movement. It's one thing if you fear losing it all, it's quite another if losing is required to "win".

  5. Re:If you're gonna keep running XP on XP Systems Getting Emergency IE Zero Day Patch · · Score: 1

    Vendors?! You mean like a dev team that built an old Intranet site? The same dev team that long disbanded and a copy that doesn't have a migration path to a new platform? Yea, that company is pretty much fucked with their ass hanging in the breeze.

  6. That's one helluva double-bounce. Start jumping Russia, well keep up!

  7. Re:engineering heaven on Toyota Describes Combustion Engine That Generates Electricity Directly · · Score: 1

    Elegant design, and lots of HP per liters of displacement. The problem is that you often run into carbon fouling and the apex seals break. They also need oil metered in with the fuel as there isn't an oil sump. Now combine the need to burn oil with the fact a combustion cycle doesn't have enough time to stay in the chamber and you have pollution. It's why the entire length of the exhaust system is one giant catalytic converter.

    Now if they can make a diesel Wankel with strong enough apex seals, now you're talking!

  8. Re:Efficiency? on Toyota Describes Combustion Engine That Generates Electricity Directly · · Score: 1

    Well that, and Toyota is behind this. But I'm rather surprised that it's that efficient. I would think there would be a substantial inductive loss in the form of wasted EM radiation along with heat. At least with mechanical energy, it goes directly from the combustion chamber to where the rubber meets the road; effectively.

  9. Re: This isn't why they had a security breach on Target Moves To Chip and Pin Cards To Boost Security · · Score: 1

    Wasn't the hack accomplished by reading the data unencrypted in RAM?

  10. Re:Time to move into the Century of the fruit bat. on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First of all, how do you decide who is a "waste of taxpayer money"? That seems to me like a slippery slope that could be applied to any group if the mob so deems it.

    We already have death panels (cost of life analysis and funding) under Obamacare. Slippery slope you say? Keep on sliding and pickup speed along the way.

  11. Re:You're not the first person to think of this on Ask Slashdot: How To Back Up Physical Data? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, a lean on the property in exchange for a safety deposit box doesn't sound like such a deal to me either. A box that you're still paying for in fact.

  12. Re:You've proved that? on CISPA 3.0: the Senate's New Bill As Bad As Ever · · Score: 2

    The AC is correct in that you can't prove a negative. Meaning, you can't prove God exists, but can't prove he doesn't either. Faith and science are two entirely separate systems. Science through it's process describe the 'how' of the universe. Faith attempts to address the 'why'. And while I freely admit that my belief in God is based on faith, you still can't touch it with science =).

  13. Re:Mini gaming PCs on Mini Gaming PCs — Promising, But Not Ready · · Score: 1

    Like a miniature Hercules for its size, but still weak compared to the real thing. Lame!

  14. Re:why don't we keep them and use them? on Decommissioning Nuclear Plants Costing Far More Than Expected · · Score: 2

    Which is ironic because nuclear fallout preserves nature but wipes out mankind from the lands. Given that these environmentalists are anti human civilization, you would think they would be all over nuclear energy.

  15. Re:Let's try an experiment. on CISPA 3.0: the Senate's New Bill As Bad As Ever · · Score: 2, Interesting

    May 5th, 9pm EST, I will be praying to God to deliver justice upon her and people like her. Let Him decide her fate.

  16. Re:"...and said she had never seen one that big" on US Nuclear Missile Silos Use Safe, Secure 8" Floppy Disks · · Score: 0

    That's what they all say to me.

  17. Netflix price increase on Netflix Confirms Deal For Access To Verizon's Network · · Score: 2

    And the cost of doing this will be passed down to the consumer. Netflix confirmed that it will be raising its prices for streaming customers by 1 to 2 dollars for new customers only (depending on country). I can only imagine once this trial balloon proves viable, the rate increase will be for existing customers too. Obviously they don't want to lose existing customers now, hence the hold off. Also, a price increase is due thanks to inflation; so there is always that.

  18. Re:Except, government ISN'T government on To Save the Internet We Need To Own the Means of Distribution · · Score: 1

    Layers of abstraction in democracy also provides layers of abstraction in morality.

    You can quote me on that.

  19. Re:Coal Oil and Gas are all dying industries on The Koch Brothers Attack On Solar Energy · · Score: 1

    You haven't a frackin clue! Texas will soon be the second largest producer of oil and gas in the world. Modern civilization's chemistry is build around the hydrocarbon chain. Everything from pharmaceuticals, lipstick, solvents, to plastics. The very notion of doing away with LNG or oil is sophistry. It will happen when we run out of the stuff purely on market forces alone. And when that happens, you will have WWIII as nations fight for it. That last bit is not meant as a joke. It's deadly serious. That's how dependent the world is on the stuff in all aspects.

  20. Re:Greedy douchebags. on The Koch Brothers Attack On Solar Energy · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Does it make me a bad person... on Australian Exploration Company Believes It May Have Found MH370 Wreckage · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    MSNBC. Done! Well actually, "good left-leaning news" is an oxymoron. Don't feel to bad.

  22. Re:No thanks on Nuclear proliferation... on Waste Management: The Critical Element For Nuclear Energy Expansion · · Score: 1

    Now find a way to deliver that power to Europe. Solve that, and you've solved the solar base-load issue.

  23. Re:The diffciulty in getting carnivores to switch on Bill Gates & Twitter Founders Put "Meatless" Meat To the Test · · Score: 1

    It could replace taco meat.

  24. Re:I'm sure it will work.... on Nissan Develops a Self-Cleaning Car · · Score: 1

    But can you?? I can imagine this stuff degrading to where the self-cleaning action is no longer useful, but still intact to where a new coat of paint wont stick either. It's like state of purgatory for paint.

  25. Re: Oxymoron on White House Worried About Discrimination Through Analytics · · Score: 1

    Need more data. Does this hold true for newer cities vs older ones with regards to infrastructure and buildings? So far, Chicago, DC, and parts of the east coast are popping up all over my Googling of this topic. And guess where the inner city African American's live. Interesting. Very interesting!