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  1. This could be useful but won't be on Open Spectrum Does Not Mean Free Internet · · Score: 4, Informative

    IF local businesses used it to advertise and sell directly to consurmers through it. This would basically allow the traditional (city net) we used to see in matrix style hacking videos / books in the eighties and early nineties. If there is a critical mass of businesses offering services over a local wireless mesh network then the 'internet' will want to access that market. Make a peering deal and you could enable internet access to / between these citywide wireless nodes. The main issue at this point is making sure everyone has access to personal ipv6 addresses. It is possible, but not likely, as the general public has no knowledge of the benefits of having a free access local mesh network.

  2. Re:Oxidized stuff on Oil Detection Methods Miss Important Class of Chemicals · · Score: 1

    I work at a company that cleans oil spills and water. Sent this to a PHD project manager. His reply was "Interesting". So there is probably something to this method. Since the measurement of the amount not specified by the Gas Chromatography was dissolved en masse out of the sand there is some likelihood that some non-oil contamination was also dissolved out, and some likelihood that some was missed. Whatever the difference or perhaps deviation that is detected in the future form the results of this experiment, a 50% difference is just too large for it not to be a significant finding.

  3. Interesting change of opinion on Free Wi-Fi: the Movement To Give Away Your Internet For the Good of Humanity · · Score: 1

    From my memory, ten years ago many of the replies to this type of post on slashdot would have been more positive. Remember "Lans across america?". It seems that either the corporate propaganda has been succesful, private wifi services have become more sensitive, or that the slashdot crowd has become more conservative. It is REALLY remarkable how much the general consensus of slashdot has changed.

  4. Re:Not again... on 30 Days Is Too Long: Animated Rant About Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    LOL. My kids were navigating vitual cities before they could talk.

  5. Kinect on 30 Days Is Too Long: Animated Rant About Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Did you use it with a kinect? It was designed for use with a kinect from what I can tell. Were you using it as a home entertainment hub? I upgraded last weekend, and yes a lot of stuff broke. It's either that or you run viruses from the eighties. I enjoy then new interface, and am excited that all the content from my xbox will be available on my pc, which is a lot easier to hack than an xbox. go back, load all your movies, turn on netflix, amazon prime, buy a kinect and play with the development kit. Hook it up to a 42" screen. Until you have done that, then you have not tried windows 8.

  6. Re:HEADLINE: Scientists fear for their jobs, want on Ticking Arctic Carbon Bomb May Be Bigger Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Everything you say is 100 percent correct. All I'm saying is that North America is poised to weather the coming storm better than anywhere else, save perhaps australia, and the differences will be so extreme that we actually maintain and acccelerate our domination of the world economy.

  7. Re:HEADLINE: Scientists fear for their jobs, want on Ticking Arctic Carbon Bomb May Be Bigger Than Expected · · Score: 1

    My uncle died on breezy point. That being said, we seem to have dealt well with the impact of sandy, so I would disagree with the statement that we are not dealing with the inundation of New York effectively. That being said, a relatively instantaneous release of carbon in arctic soils coul possibly push the rate of climate change beyong the ability of most areas of the planet to cope with. I don't think North America is one of those areas. North America generally benefits from increased dysfunction in the world economic system. This has been shown time and time again. Financial collapse generate by wall street that rippled worldwide has resulted in people buying dollars for their percieved stability, allowing the US to maintain huge trade deficits, budget deficits, and a relatively stable currency. The chaos of world war II helped america become the dominant economy of the twentieth century. The USA's good relationship with canada, canada's small population and willingness to accept educated immigrants may,with massive damage to the climate of areas of the world that are already overstressed and overpopulated could be very much in the interest of the united states. This would cause disruption in the short term but may set north america up as the last standing first world country after all is said and done.

  8. Re:Congress Sucks on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 1

    A large part of health care being expensive is due to doctor's being on a pay per unit of activity billing style instead of on a salary. American health care, per individual, is more expensive than most NHS and it still leaves out the previously cited 30 million people. Stop and think about it for a second. If a specialist surgeon got a set salary instead of getting a headhunter fee for each operation that he/she in fact sets, what do you think would be less expensive? Is it entitlement to make sure that our elders, after working their whole lives, are not just cast out onto the street to starve and die of disease? Perhaps medicare is so out of whack because private health insurers reap 65 years of relatively happy profits from relatively healthy people, and then when retirement comes on they walk away with that money and leave the taxpayers with the bill? If old people on medicare were in the same insurance pool as people in their thirties then the system would work. It is private companies walking away with 60 years of premiums that is the issue here. Please stop getting your information from conservative radio hosts and parroting it all over the internet, you are embarrassing yourself.

  9. As a Humanist..... on Report Says Climate Change Already Evident, Emissions Gap Growing · · Score: 1

    I am not sure what to tell you. More people getting better lifestyles = a warmer planet. We could solve global warming right now, all we have to do is start killing things. Global warming due to human activity is a walk in the park compared to the cataclysmic climate change the world experienced 12,900 years ago when a comet impacted with the planet and dropped the temperatures near chigago in 2 years to the same levels they were when Chicago had a mile of ice on it. If it gets too warm where you live, then move. That is why animals evolved legs. I am in support of minimizing the levels of carbon dioxide as best we can, but climate change is a reality. Cataclysmic climate change is a common occurence on our planet. If you feel that creating a museum of what the earth used to be is more important than humanity advancing our civilization to the point where we can take the life forms on this planet and colonize others then you are a luddite. In the future global warming will be called terraforming and it will occur on mars.

  10. Re:Quick... on Global Warming On Pace For 4 Degrees: World Bank Worried · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I work for a company that cleans groundwater in the marcellus play area. Fracking is not capable of "Destroying" underground water supplies, it can temporarily pollute some areas. The chemicals involved in fracking are not that bad. It is a rather simple and straightforward process to clean up groundwater. Currently, most of our really bad cleanup jobs involve gasoline spills, which are much more toxic, and of an order of magnitude more common. What your should really be worried about is in-situ partial combustion of coal seams. Now that mining coal is becoming less competitive this process may take off.

  11. Re:AD was orig. a copy of UNIX file permissions? on Ask Slashdot: Is Samba4 a Viable Alternative To Active Directory? · · Score: 1

    I remember when I could just open up a command prompt in windows nt to bypass the security. I don't think this was ever possible with unix.

  12. Re:This is wrong. on Papa John's Sued For Unwanted Pizza-Related Texts · · Score: 1

    Geekoid. Sorry I missed your comment the other week to my post. You commented that I was wrong wrong wrong when I stated that jesus was for returning all of the money to caeser and just sharing the food. I have over 10 years of bible study, 20 years after that of independent study on religion, and am interested on any facts you have from the bible that contradict my assertation on this. Please provide citations, and a realistic motivation for the roman and hebrew establishment at that time for the execution of jesus.

  13. Re:That's a long answer on Amazon Payment Adds "No Class Action" Language To Terms of Service · · Score: 1

    Maybe a few years after these things have been done we will have a congress that will pass laws that are for the benefit of the people, and they might just pass a law providing for the protection of consumers.

  14. That's a long answer on Amazon Payment Adds "No Class Action" Language To Terms of Service · · Score: 2

    Since there is no way congress is going to fix this when lobbied by the public we need to amend our political system in the following ways: : 1.) Stipulate that use of public airwaves by a licensed television station requires that the licensee provide access to the public airwaves for a reasonable amount of time. In this way we can provide access for advertising to public officials without requiring legislatures to sell their soul to gain access to what is basically a public right of way. 2) Make it illegal for congressman to be lobbied by people who are not from their district and they do not represent. Providing dinners / gifts by corporations or individuals to congressmen by people they do not represent should be the new definition of bribery. 3) Eliminate the integration of republican and democratic parties into the local election system. For example, the public voting machines and facilities should not be provided to private political organization. This should MOST DEFINITELY not be done for free. I am done with the republcian and democrat organizations wasting millions of taxpayer dollars for their own private ends. In this way, primaries need to be revised. Most explicitly, party allegiance should not be a factor for qualification for running in a primary election. This system disenfranchises independent voters. Maybe a few years after these things have been done we will have a congress that will pass laws that are for the benefit of the people, and they might just pass a law providing for the protection of consumers.

  15. AD was orig. a copy of UNIX file permissions? on Ask Slashdot: Is Samba4 a Viable Alternative To Active Directory? · · Score: 1

    This is pretty funny considering microsoft was nothing but a good late follower to this market. Samba, if not samba 4, is a pretty easy to use alternative to AD. Setting up a file share or administering a small office network with it is very much possible, and for most people preferable. Doesn't windows AD basically copy the original UNIX user permission structure, so, by definition, any UNIX System is a replacement for AD?

  16. Re:Distinguishing conflict from disagreement on Dr. Richard Dawkins On Why Disagreeing With Religion Isn't Insulting · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I am not a christian, just have studied this subject. Usually this is what a religion becomes after selfish people twist it to their own ends. Jesus was crucified because he told people they don't have to pay the jewish priests to get married or to bless their milk, and for also telling people that if they are sick of taxes they should give caeser all of his gold back and just share the food. (often misinterpreted as a reason to pay taxes "give unto caeser..." but which actually meant not just the taxes, but all of the money. This would be more in context with his teachings than saying pay your taxes.) So. You see, jesus was crucified for saying "You won't go to hell for disobeying the rules" I find that so entertainingly ironic, and the flips jesus has been doing in his grave for the last 2000 can easily be misinterpreted for rising from it.

  17. Re:Logical Fallacy Bingo on US Presidential Debate #2 Tonight: Discuss Here · · Score: 1

    People have been talking about getting the money out of politics for generations. I propose attacking the problem from another direction. Proportional representation with a threshold of 5-10 percent in statewide allocation of congressional representatives, electoral college, and the two highest candidates get senator seats. (Each a different election). The threshold for representation being a majority of the population promotes lord of the flies like behavior on a local level. Whatever can be changed on a state level is much easier to act upon.

  18. Re:Easy list on Ask Slashdot: What Books Have Had a Significant Impact On Your Life? · · Score: 1

    I still re-read one or two of these novels a year. Another set I found to be very profound were Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons.

  19. Python, Grass GIs and the Qgis viewer on Ask Slashdot: Best Approach To Reenergize an Old Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Making maps is fun,

  20. Re:Why? on Innocence of Muslims Filmmaker Arrested, Jailed · · Score: 1

    "Because it is quite likely that this arrest is about censorship to appease jihadists" This statement is bereft of facts or common sense. It comes from an outlook that perceives the president of the united states sides with terrorists when the truth of the matter is that the person making the statement is in fact defending someone who is NOT ACTUALLY FROM AMERICA, is a criminal, and is producing propaganda designed to put the lives of americans at risk. The fact that a large section of america's media is putting forth this type of bull is disgusting. I draw the line at slashdot. The statement changes the conversation form one that is based on facts to one that is based on propagandist conspiracy lies that favors a foreign operative above the office of the presidency of the united states. It is not a fit statement for a patriotic american nor for a person concerned with finding the facts of a situation, and therefore is not worthy of slashdot or any other mass media. Please idenify ONE fact that supports the statement above and I will retract my statement.

  21. Re:Why? on Innocence of Muslims Filmmaker Arrested, Jailed · · Score: 1

    This comment belongs here, not on slasdot: http://www.theblaze.com/tv/?gclid=CMe6gZPJ2bICFUqi4AodhwEAog

  22. Re:Why? on Innocence of Muslims Filmmaker Arrested, Jailed · · Score: 1

    Because I am one person with an opinion, not a group of people trying to change the conversation in order to manipulate people.

  23. Re:Why? on Innocence of Muslims Filmmaker Arrested, Jailed · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Get off slashdot. The people that modded you insightful need to get off slashdot as well. Please stop astroturfing our website with you propaganda. This guy is an egyptian criminal who came here with an agenda. The video was popularized through his contacts in egypt to stir up hatred of americans. He is a foreign terrorist operative. Locking up foreign criminals who are purposely trying to get americans killed is not censorship. I repeat. Get off slashdot your opinions are not welcome here. I hate to say that, but I have seen several posts this week that are obviously repeating propaganda with no attachment to the reality of the situation.

  24. Re:Breaking laws on Ask Slashdot: Ideas and Tools To Get Around the Great Firewall? · · Score: 1

    Your reply make no rational sense because you are not actually responding to what the guy said and what he is doing is not illegal in china. This guy is responding to work requests from his job in his home country. I doubt that is illegal in china or a violation of the visa he is there on. If he had said "I'm going to china on a tourist visa, but I'm actually going to stand on a corner and pick up some day labor work." And then he followed it with "Once I get established, I plan on overstaying my visa." then what you are saying would make logical sense, and would actually be related to the discussion the rest of us are having. What you seem to be doing is changing the basis of the discussion to something you feel obliged to harp on about to the rest of us in order to parrot an established belief system you feel the rest of us are too stupid to figure out. Even if the guy was looking for a job in china, it would be more effective and make more sense to jail the citizens of china who with full knowledge systematically break the law by hiring illegal immigrants. On your second point regarding web censoship. I am not sure people go to jail in china for violating the web censor. It's a technological solution to their goals. My guess is that china has instituted this technological solution, accompanied by prosecution of large scale violations of it by internet cafe's or dissident organizations. The idea that china wants to jail americans for watching youtube videos is pretty silly. Arresting foreign national for a systematic structural issue with your own country is not an effective way to solve a problem, you have to get government to reign in large scale corporate lawbreakers to have any real effect. The fact that this was modded insightful is rather disturbing.

  25. Re:So where did they come from? on FBI Denies It Held iPhone UDIDs Stolen By AntiSec · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is likely to be true of every action of every whistleblower from now until the end of time. The very act of getting protected data from an organization by definition results in this situation. The only resort is to look at context and evaluate the information on the knowledge you have of the participants. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_(software) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NarusInsight The FBI has a proven track record of secretly monitoring Americans for close to 100 years. Anonymous has a decent reputation as occasionally competent hackers. Given these facts I would tend to give more weight to the evidence presented by anonymous than the denials by the FBI.