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  1. Remember AllOfMP3.com? on Colocation Provider PRQ Raided; Wikileaks and Many Torrent Sites Offline · · Score: 1

    Russia is not immune to pressure about IP laws.

  2. /. worthy? tech section? on Texas Opens Fastest US Highway With 85 MPH Limit · · Score: 0

    what's "tech" about raising the speed limit? why is this on /. anyway?

    why don't we just directly set up a feed from the Daily Mail

  3. Crashed != slowed down to a crawl on Firefox 15 Released: Silent Updates, Compressed Textures, Add-on Memory Leak Fix · · Score: 1

    I have about 10 tabs open throughout the day. At the end of the day, the browser starts to slow down to the point that a restart is necessary to refresh it.

    Just because it has a memory leak doesn't mean it will crash. But using more than 1 GB of memory is not really needed, especially when after a restart the memory usage goes to between 200-300 MBs. And yes, it still retains my history for each tab, which I can visit just as well by pressing the BACK button.

    I don't understand the need to keep all my history cached in memory.

  4. AND STILL BUGGY RSS FEED on Firefox 15 Released: Silent Updates, Compressed Textures, Add-on Memory Leak Fix · · Score: 1

    Which they keep breaking every few releases, and it takes several more releases before it's fixed.

    For example, I have Slashdot as an RSS feed. After visiting a link, the feed doesn't get updated, unless I right-click and select "Reload Live Bookmark".

    The bug is filed here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766799

  5. apples and oranges? on Electronic Retailers In Europe Now Required To Take Back Old Goods · · Score: 1

    How is this the same? This bill is forcing retailers to accept your old equipment for recycling. As in, you have an old laptop that works or doesn't work, you want to throw it out. Now you can take it to the retailer and deposit it there.

    Environment fee is not the same thing, though both apples and oranges are fruit.

  6. Wow, approval poll + conspiracy tagging, all in 1 on Poll Finds Americans Think the TSA Is 'Doing a Good Job' · · Score: 1

    What's so fascinating about this, is that it not only attempts to inculcate into people's minds that TSA = good job (with a D- mark of 54%), but also any critique of TSA come only from internet websites with questionable reputation, mostly driven by conspiracy nuts is the logical conclusion.

  7. You don't "run" the virus on Flame Malware Authors Hit Self-Destruct · · Score: 1

    That's why when you have a copy of the infected files, or the hard disk, or the virus itself, you don't run the system. You analyze it from another system, to ensure no writes are done by the infected system.

    Fear not, once it's in the researchers' hands, it ain't going anywhere.

  8. it still doesn't change anything on Debate Over Evolution Will Soon Be History, Says Leakey · · Score: 1

    You can also say "back in my father's day, things were so and so". Day indicates a period of 24 hours (modern), or from sunset to the next sunset, or whatever other 24 hr mark you choose. But it can also be used to signify an era.

    The parent poster is correct, "day" as used in Genesis signifies a period of time, but not a specific period of time (such as 24 hours, or 1000 years) - it could be any length of time.

  9. ignorant evolutionists on Debate Over Evolution Will Soon Be History, Says Leakey · · Score: 0

    I find it funny how ignorant evolutionists are when talking about creationists.

    Whatever you are accusing creationists of, you are doing the same thing - being absolutely ignorant of the beliefs of the other side.

    There's only a minority of creationists who believe that the earth/universe is only 6,000 yrs old. But it's much more convenient to lump all into one, and use the overused, tired, and just bland attack of 6-day 24-hr creation of the earth (a theory that has been injected by various overzealous evangelical groups, which doens't even have a biblical basis)

    Creationism is about acknowledging the existence of design in all things (molecular, atomic, sub-atomic), and believing it to have been purposed, instead of having come to be by pure chance. That's the bottom line.

  10. ignorance != knowledge on Debate Over Evolution Will Soon Be History, Says Leakey · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sometimes people cannot accept we don't live in a world of their design

    And other people choose to accept the world that is fed to them by the mainstream media, the government, and popular opinion. It requires no effort, and does not upset their existence. Otherwise, of course, there'd be a responsibility to do something about it.

  11. if they're doing nothing wrong on FBI Quietly Forms Secretive Net-Surveillance Unit · · Score: 1

    then they have nothing to hide.

    So what are they doing wrong?

  12. goal of setting up the EU on European e-ID Announced · · Score: 1

    But now in the last 5 years I've seen measure after measure which are raw power-grabs by the EU to try an mitigate the sovereignty of individual member states.

    What makes you think that wasn't the goal from the beginning?

  13. better UI != better product on Mozilla Ponders Major Firefox UI Refresh · · Score: 1

    that's why.

  14. you're pathetic on Google Drive Goes Live · · Score: 1

    1. Don't use Google Drive. Who's forcing you to?
    2. Why not go with Dropbox? Oh, right, they can do the same crawling through your data.
    3. Finally, uhm.. Thought about encrypting with TrueCrypt and uploading the entire encrypted file?

    Ahh, but why think proactively about security on a free service but useful service when it's much easier to complain and bitch.

  15. it's truly mind-boggling on Asian Call Center Workers Trained With US Tax Dollars · · Score: 0

    that people still can't put pieces together to paint a fuller picture of the deliberate transformation happening in their countries, and a great change to the way of life that's coming especially to the western world.

  16. iCloud and iTunes incompatible on iTunes' Windows Problem · · Score: 1

    Bought an iPhone for my wife ~ 2 months ago. Set it up without a PC (the newly advertised feature of iOS 5). Obviously created a new Apple ID. She also has been using iTunes on her laptop for a while, and imported some music from some of our CDs. That iTunes has not been linked to an Apple ID.

    Now, we decided to sync her address book from an old Nokia phone via Windows' Address book to her iPhone. Naturally, I also wanted her new iPhone to also work with her iTunes library. Can't do it. It cannot combine her iTunes library and link it with the iCloud. The iPhone had to be erased (not apps, but all iTunes stuff), and re-synced with the PC.

    If she bought any albums via iTunes on her phone, it would've been a nightmare. Once again, iTunes is a complicated piece of crap. It is so freaking complicated to figure all the sync to PC/iCloud settings out that it's not the "Apple way".

  17. Horsesh!t on FCC Wants To Fine Google $25K For WiFi Investigation · · Score: 1

    Google doens't "forget" to do anything. They're not high school CS students.

  18. Lookig up postal codes is free on Canada Post Files Copyright Lawsuit Over Crowd-sourced Postal Code Database · · Score: 1

    on Canada Post website. What's the problem?

  19. Blame science on Losing the Public Debate On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Really, blame science and scientists. There are FAR, FAR more serious problems to worry about than CO2. Why are we jumping on the bandwagon of excessive CO2 emissions, while ignoring a lot more immediate and deadly dangers?

    When there are "scientific" opinions released in the wake of Fukushima that radiation is good for you...

    When dosages of "permissible" radiation are adjusted to be significantly higher...

    When each industrial heavy pollutant is counteracted with "scientific" studies that the pollutant is not proven to cause damage, and it's all in people's heads who are out to get the corporation...

    When our water supply is "medicated" because of countless drug prescriptions that seep back into the water supply...

    When "science" is attempting to regulate emissions of private vehicles, but completely ignores pollution from commercial shipping...

    When "science" says we need to install fart bags into cows, stop eating meat, but doesn't give a hoot about hundreds of tons of antibiotics that are fed into livestock (and which propagate into our bodies)...

    When "science" lobbies to remove labeling of GMO foods... (think about this one: for whose benefit is it?)

    Who, then, trusts this "science"? People are not as dumb as you think, and science hasn't made a good name for itself. Science, as used by politicians and corporations, is becoming more and more clear as a lie, as propaganda to manipulate people's thinking, however not for the altruistic intentions, but for the benefit of a few.

    I want unbiased science, one that doesn't call for a solution from provider X where billions of dollars will be channeled.

  20. lol on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 3, Insightful

    [ Similarly, the statement "we don't need you to do that" is a friendly way of saying "don't do it." ]

    911 dispatchers are trained to give orders. They are trained to deal with people in various excited emotional states, and their job is to convey instructions as clearly and loudly as is necessary. "Sir, STOP DOING THAT. DO YOU UNDERSTAND? STOP FOLLOWING THE SUSPECT AND WAIT FOR THE ARRIVAL OF THE POLICE".

    See how much more effective that is? If you listen to various recordings of 911 calls, you will know that's the language they know how to use and are trained for. This "you don't need to do that" does not convey a directive.

    P.S. I'm responding to your comment, not the entire case, by the way.

  21. What if it's already a CIA/FBI/NSA front co? on Super-Privacy-Protecting ISP In the Planning · · Score: 1

    Of course, it would be far more elegant if the three letter agencies are behind this company in the first place. No need for any accidents, and you get users' trust.

    I'm not suggesting that's the case, just a "what if"...

  22. My Mac crashes, in a worse way on Assessing Media Bias: Microsoft Vs. Everyone Else · · Score: 1

    Have been using a Mac at work for nearly a year now. Prior to that, used Win7 PC for 1.5 yrs. What I found surprising on the Mac, when I experience an app crash, the whole system freezes, locks up. I cannot do a single thing to close the process becuase I cannot launch anything via the UI.

    I have not had such experience with the Win7 PC. Apps crashed, but never locked my system up.

    Overall, both are rock-solid stable, with crashes occuring extremely infrequently, however, I do prefer Windows' way of handling crashes.

    Take it for what it's worth.

  23. Can someone... on MIT Fusion Researchers Answer Your Questions · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can someone encode this transcript in a video format, please?

  24. Pagan, common knowledge on NYC Bans Mention of Dinosaurs, Dancing, Birthdays On Student Tests · · Score: 1

    There's nothing "Christian" about All Hallows Eve. It is common knowledge, and even says so in the link you yourself provided:

    "The Halloween holiday is commonly thought to have pagan roots, even though the etymology of the word is Christian."

    Perhaps "Christian" in the sense when pagan beliefs and Christianity were "fused" together under Constantine, thus forming Christendom, but certainly that would not be a practice for the first-century Christians.

    There's a night and day difference between original Christians and the mainstream Christianity that followed.

  25. cars emit only 10% on After Legal Fight, NCI Researchers Publish Study Linking Diesel Exhaust, Cancer · · Score: 3, Informative

    I wish I bookmarked/copied/saved an article I came across a few years ago. It was a study/research paper that split emissions as follows:

    personal automobiles - 10% diesel transport trucks, diesel trains - 90%

    Not talking about CO2 emissions, but about other harmful gases. I applaud that we don't have smelly car exhausts, but not looking to regulate diesel trucks/trains is just like putting a band aid on a gushing wound.