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  1. Re: The real problem with Tor on Open Source Tortilla For Tor To Be Released At Black Hat · · Score: 2

    Exactly. Using Tor in a DPI world is waving a big red flag, and yelling, "I'm hiding something!!!"

  2. You haven't told us what you want/need to do. on Ask Slashdot: Learning DB the Right Way; Books, Tutorials, or What? · · Score: 2

    Are the databases preexisting, and you'll be "just" querying and modifying (inserts and deletes count as modifications)? In which case SQL is "all" (note the quotes) that you need to know.

    Or do you also need to design systems? Then you need to know UML, data normalization, access strategies and a dozen other things.

  3. This is why... on How DRM Won · · Score: 1

    we buy what we want to watch.

  4. Re:Or we could just... on Fighting Street Gangs With Military Counter-Insurgency Software · · Score: 1

    Well, I'm glad we got the two most worn-out stereotypes out of the way so quickly.

    So you don't think that there's a noticeable minority of blacks who think it's degrading to do manual labor for whitey, and who spend half their time pulling up their pants and all their time listening to music from earbuds.

    How about legalizing or decriminalizing those things sold on a black market removing the financial incentives?

    Agree.

    How about early intervention through more funding for pre-schools in urban areas to provide the structure the kids' parents cannot?

    How early do you intervene?

    For how many hours per day?

    If we keep on extending before-care and after-care and to younger and younger children, at what point do the people paying for all this say, "To hell with this, just take the children away from these incompetents?" But then, where do you put them?

    Where will you get the people to take care of all these children? Toddlers and infants need a high adult-child ratio.

    Or about a million other things that would be more effective than "hand-outs"

    Carnac the Magnificent says... Poverty Rights activists will file suit before the President/Governor/etc finished putting his pen down.

  5. Re:A military solution? on Fighting Street Gangs With Military Counter-Insurgency Software · · Score: 1

    Reread the summary and pay attention this time.

  6. Re:Or we could just... on Fighting Street Gangs With Military Counter-Insurgency Software · · Score: -1, Troll

    give them jobs

    Give them???? How many trillions of dollars have been transfered from the workers to the non-workers, and how effective has it actually been?

    Besides, why work mowing grass and digging ditches (what else are they qualified for, given their piss poor grades in their piss poor schools) when (a) that's "Mexican work", and (b) you can make more by selling drugs and living off the dole?

  7. Re:What's the big, bright glow in the... on Mars Curiosity Rover Shoots Video of Phobos Moon Rising · · Score: 1

    Atmospheric scattering was actually the first thing I thought of.

    According to Wikipedia and a calculator, Martian air pressure is 1/159,489th that of Earth's (I already knew that it was a tiny fraction), so that's why I questioned how much scattering could happen.

  8. What's the big, bright glow in the... on Mars Curiosity Rover Shoots Video of Phobos Moon Rising · · Score: 2

    lower center of the move? The Sun? (This was supposed to be just after sunset.)

  9. Re:"Natural" manufacturing is material-limited on Improving 3-D Printing By Copying Nature · · Score: 1

    Current trends in materials use carbon nanotubes and proteins which make lighter and stronger structures

    Still in the laboratory. Call us back when a company is mass producing something out of carbon nanotubes.

  10. Re:More important than using recycled stuff on Improving 3-D Printing By Copying Nature · · Score: 2

    I don't think I'd want a gear for my car made out of wood chips.

    30 years ago, I was driving down the Interstate in my Chevy Monza (hey, it was cheap and fuel efficient) when the engine suddenly sputtered to a halt. The mechanic showed me that the timing gear was made of particle board which had disintegrated after about 50,000 miles worth of centrifugal force.

  11. Re:Easy on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Store Data In Hard Copy? · · Score: 1

    With consumer-grade drives, at least, they'll have trouble spinning up properly after a few years. (I know this from personal experience.)

  12. Sung to the "I'm a Little Tea Pot" on Revelations On the French Big Brother · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'm a little tea pot short and Froggy,
    Here is my hypocrisy,
    There is my irrelevance.
    When I get all steamed up,
    Hear me bleat.
    Tip me over and kick my ass.

  13. Re:If they're monitoring our every move... on Technology, Not Law, Limits Mass Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Anytime someone is improperly on a terrorist watch list, or no-fly list, or was denied a passport, or denied security clearance, or denied entry into the country as a result of this apparatus.

    Finally, a viable answer.

    Now: do the Snowden releases mention whether the NSA Panopticon is used to populate those lists?

  14. Re:If they're monitoring our every move... on Technology, Not Law, Limits Mass Surveillance · · Score: 1

    That's a murky non-answer.

  15. Re:If they're monitoring our every move... on Technology, Not Law, Limits Mass Surveillance · · Score: 2

    Non-NSA methods of Panoptical (Facebook, for example, and toll road "tags", credit cards, cell phone companies, Google, etc, etc) social control are doing a darned fine job, than you very much, of tightening the politicians' grip on the country.

    So, give me another reason for worrying about the NSA.

  16. Re:If they're monitoring our every move... on Technology, Not Law, Limits Mass Surveillance · · Score: 1

    but will be used to perpetrate them.

    When? The murky always-future?

  17. Re:If they're monitoring our every move... on Technology, Not Law, Limits Mass Surveillance · · Score: 1

    gives them an excuse to tight their grip

    "They" the NSA, or "They" the politicians?

  18. If they're monitoring our every move... on Technology, Not Law, Limits Mass Surveillance · · Score: 4, Interesting

    why didn't they notice that the Boston Bombers were planning on setting off bombs in public?

    Either:
    (a) they're not a Panopticon, or
    (b) they're massively incompetent, or
    (c) they don't care what happens to the Plebs.

    In any of the cases, we don't actually have anything to worry about.

  19. Re:Sabotage??? on Russian Rocket Proton-M Crashes At Launch · · Score: 1

    You must be Russian.

  20. Re:why? on Firefox 23 Makes JavaScript Obligatory · · Score: 1

    As far as Adblock goes... I'll just edit /etc/hosts.

    Ummm, yeah, I'll go tell my wife+kids right now to deinstall ABP and edit /etc/hosts instead.

  21. Re:why? on Firefox 23 Makes JavaScript Obligatory · · Score: 4, Informative

    I uninstalled NoScript years ago because of weird failures even with whitelisting. Essentially, I had to whitelist so much that NoScript became pointless.

  22. Re:why? on Firefox 23 Makes JavaScript Obligatory · · Score: 4, Informative

    Flashblock (and to a lesser degree, AdBlockPlus) is excellent for reducing CPU usage.

  23. I don't care about 202MPH. on New World Record For Electric Car Speed: 204.2 MPH · · Score: 0, Troll

    I need 303 miles of range from a EV the same size and cost as a minivan.

  24. Re:202 ? on New World Record For Electric Car Speed: 204.2 MPH · · Score: 2

    The TGV doesn't have to carry it's own power source.

  25. Re:US Citizens Only on Use Tor, Get Targeted By the NSA · · Score: 1

    So you think only US citizens should be protected by the Constitution?

    There are no black and whites.

    Everyone in this country should have speedy trial by jury.

    Innocent until proven guilty.

    OTOH, people here on Green Cards and student visa should be snooped on more extensively than citizens. (As should members of US security services, but for different reasons.)