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  1. Re:Similar levels of "protection" on Sun Advice Columnist Advised MPs On UK Porn-Block Plans · · Score: 4, Funny

    The nudity isn't on the front page of the newspaper. It's "protected" from viewing by children by being on page 3, which means it is obscured by page 1. I expect any internet schemes to be equally technically effective and equally difficult to circumvent (i.e. as difficult as turning the page).

    I would say clicking on "Yes I am over 21" in the first screen many sites fits this level of access control rather well. It might actually be harder, as it requires reading skills and more hand eye coordination.

  2. Re:I can't even on Sun Advice Columnist Advised MPs On UK Porn-Block Plans · · Score: 1

    Because however sad it is, the sun has a very large audience. Not that this helps my faith in humanity in any way.

  3. Re:It's the Sun wot won it on Sun Advice Columnist Advised MPs On UK Porn-Block Plans · · Score: 4, Funny

    He meant the pictures. Using the old 1picture equals 1000+ words formula the topless girl alone has more "content" than most NYT articles. Not even counting the short bio next to the picture.
    Also remember that content comes from contain, so even if it is full of sh*t, it still contains something. (Hint: it's brown)

  4. Re:Headline = Misleading on Feds Shut Down Tor-Using Narcotics Store · · Score: 1

    It would have made some really interesting reading though. Not that I have any idea in what part of the TOR protocol the would be used as an attack vector.

  5. Re:Finally on Feds Shut Down Tor-Using Narcotics Store · · Score: 1

    That's exactly what I thought. I mean slashdot had many stories about bitcoins getting mined or stolen but this is the first time I remember bitcoins actually being used to purchase real world goods in an online shop. Looks like they aren't hypeware after all.

  6. Re:Anesthesia stories on Drugged Honeybees Do the Time Warp · · Score: 1

    You do know that there is a different method of counting for some of the countries that mess up the numbers? (eg stillborn)

  7. Re:General for Wisdom Teeth? on Drugged Honeybees Do the Time Warp · · Score: 1

    All you need is a large enough mouth and some luck with their orientation. That way all you got to do, is wait till they are up and use them together with the other 28 to chew your dinner. No anesthetics needed whatsoever ;)

  8. Re:they got one thing right! on Software Engineers Remain Top US Job · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wonderful, now I got the Monty Pythons song stuck in my head for the rest of the day.

  9. Re:Hook on Opiates on Indian Man Charged With Blasphemy For Exposing "Miracle" · · Score: 4, Funny

    not really, because having female priests would be unthinkable to the catholic church

  10. Re:Darn that dirty hydrogen on Self-Sustaining Solar Reactor Creates Clean Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    My idea would be to NOT store it, but to use it in chemical reactions. There are hundreds of industrial products and materials that need Hydrogen to produce. You could even hook it up with atmospheric CO2 and get a much easier to store, handle and burn fuel source with a (mostly) neutral CO2 footprint.

  11. Re:Darn that dirty hydrogen on Self-Sustaining Solar Reactor Creates Clean Hydrogen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are you out of your mind? Shipping dihydrogenmonoxide in trucks on regular roads. Do you have any idea how many people die each year because of dihydrogenmonoxide overexposure? Dihydrogenmonoxide was the main reason for the Fukushima disaster. It can already be detected in drinking water supplies of all mayor US cities. This stuff is dangerous!

  12. Re:Darn that dirty hydrogen on Self-Sustaining Solar Reactor Creates Clean Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    Something like this might be a good way to set things going. Most modern petrol engines are easily capable of using natural gas. The conversion is a rather simple process (add storage tank for gas, tune the combustion settings for the engine add a switch to change between petrol and natural gas). If it would be possible to produce this gas from hydrogen and atmospheric CO2 a lot of the infrastructure problems could be overcame.
    People and car manufacture companies would (and already do) install these conversion kits because gas is cheaper if available. If you can't get gas on a trip, you just use normal petrol.

  13. Re:Isn't it obvious? on Robotic Squirrels Battle It Out With Rattlesnakes · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually it's more like "This is not the droid you are looking for" as the action reduces the chance of getting eaten greatly.

  14. Re:Define on Ask Slashdot: Is a Home Drone Feasible? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Silly me. I thought that the poster was seeking to draw on the combined IT and engineering expertise of slashdot, not get information he could easily google for. I guess I stand corrected.

    I do have a hard time to recall the last time anything really helpful was posted in reply to "ask slashdot" that couldn't have been found by researching google for a few hours. It might be my foulty impression, but usually the "IT and engineering expertise of slashdot" boils down to:
    1)" Use Linux you idiot"
    2)"Apple is better"
    3)"Apple sucks, Android is way better"
    4)"Google is evil"
    5)"Why would you want Software that needs Windows"
    6)"There is a cool new open source project" (Link to unusable pre alpha software that never matures and only remotely fits to topic)
    7)"You might want to heck these out "(Links to several actually useful sites that might have been found by Google)
    8)Offtopic rantings (see this post)
    Most times the "IT and engineering expertise of slashdot" only helps by recommending better places to look for answers. But maybe I'm just bitter because of the lousy weather around here.

  15. Re:Canada Here I Come on Supreme Court Approves Strip Searches For Any Arrestable Offense · · Score: 1

    I thing he meant a**holes holding up "God hats F*gs!" signs at funerals of AIDS victims and other happy american traditions.

  16. Re:Poor people exist on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't Schools Connected? · · Score: 1

    You could even skip the act of wiping because the s**t is already provided courtesy of /.

  17. Re:Poor people exist on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't Schools Connected? · · Score: 1

    By the way, is there such thing as a grammar socialist, and what exactly would one do? There are grammar feminists/genderists demanding everything to be written either neutral, for both sexes ("he/she"), or even all female. But what would a grammar socialist stand for (except adding a lot of "comrade")?
    On second thought they might already be there. Hidden in the abbreviated end of the term "Nationalsozialist" or short nazi.
    On third thought I need more caffeine. Now!

  18. Re:I've had worse questions... on Ask Slashdot: How Have You Handled Illegal Interview Topics? · · Score: 1

    Ok. That is a good reason for once.

  19. Re:As a business owner on Ask Slashdot: How Have You Handled Illegal Interview Topics? · · Score: 1

    I probably had to pick up my jaw from the floor first, which might take a while in that case.

  20. Re:As a business owner on Ask Slashdot: How Have You Handled Illegal Interview Topics? · · Score: 1

    I would have stopped somewhere in the middle of your first option. My FB profile is boring and I make sure there is nothing on it, that I would hurt me if it showed up on some newspapers front page. It is Facebook after all. Still this is something private that I have explicitly limited to a few friends (and regrettably every FB advertising partner).
    It is this invasion of privacy that would make me shun this employer. I consider this unacceptable and it would be a breach of trust for my friends who shared their information with me.
    Stuff like that might be ok if you applied with the cia and the likes or maybe as an important figurehead with high public exposure. But that's about it

  21. Re:As a business owner on Ask Slashdot: How Have You Handled Illegal Interview Topics? · · Score: 1

    you forgot to insert "God loving" "faithful" and "law abiding" and probably "proud", "family" and "citizen".
    But I too feel sad for the sheer amount of people unable to detect sarcasm.

  22. Re:As a business owner on Ask Slashdot: How Have You Handled Illegal Interview Topics? · · Score: 1

    Yeah but your show can't claim "with genuine HMN"
    The good news for the employer would be, that in that case being an HMN (I sure hope this acronym doesn't for anything more weird) is arguably a necessary part of the job prescription. Also Norway has big oil industry so they know how to "lay some pipe".

  23. Re:Of course they do. on Ask Slashdot: How Have You Handled Illegal Interview Topics? · · Score: 3, Funny

    It gives me a very nice warm feeling, that there is still some hope for humanity, if even drug producing gangsters can get over hate and prejudice and work together for a common goal.
    These are the shining examples our shaken world needs!~

  24. Re:As a business owner on Ask Slashdot: How Have You Handled Illegal Interview Topics? · · Score: 1

    Interesting line of thought. Also very difficult to argue for the rejected outside of his peer group bar.
    "They didn't hire me because I wouldn't work with *insert swear word for group of choice here*!"
    Still I have to agree with the grandparent to some point. If people are supposed to work as a team, the new member has to fit into this team. On the other hand this has lot more to do with personality, than with sexual/religious/racial background. No one wants to work with a*holes and a*hole are a*holes whatever flavor they come in.

  25. Re:As a business owner on Ask Slashdot: How Have You Handled Illegal Interview Topics? · · Score: 1

    I think it is safe to say Norway is a lot more boring than Iran. Also a lot more pleasant and quite scenic.
    Bad news is alcohol: expensive as hell in Norway, against the religion and therefore frowned upon in Iran.
    Why not Ireland? Religious extremists blowing people up (gotten more peaceful lately) but affordable decent beer and good whiskey. A little wet though at times.