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  1. Re:The Charlie H killers were roommates on Snoopers' Charter Could Mean Trouble For UK Users of Encryption-Capable Apps · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They also have no way of distinguishing codes used in furthering their goesl. For instance we could nickname components of a bomb recipe the same as foods. "I'm having a party, what can you bring that we can put on the grill" could be a code for lets bomb something, got any explosives. And the response "nothing but i have plenty of eggs and bacon if I can stay over" could mean I'm in- no explosives but lors of ammo and guns. Someone else could chime in with "i need to stay over too and i have plenty of beer and some beef for the BBQ" could mean I'm in and have these components of explosives.

    And all that can be determined over the kitchen table or in another country or whatever in advance. No amount of listening in will catch that before something happened and would be a shaky guess only pointing to a connection between people after the fact.

  2. Re:The Struggle on Is the Amazon-Led Economic Boom Wrecking Seattle? · · Score: 1

    I would suggest that if you say things neo-nazis say, you might be considered associated with them. Just like if you say things communist, or republican or fascist or whatever, people might connect you to them and think you support the crazy shit the crazy people say.

    Now if you are complaining that there are not enough minorities or enough gays or whatever, then yes, you have to either defend or distance yourself from crap others like you say.

  3. Re:The Struggle on Is the Amazon-Led Economic Boom Wrecking Seattle? · · Score: 2

    Words are generally the catalyst of violence.

    When is the last time a bar fight broke out when no words at all were said? How often does it happen?

    Get real, live in the real world. Even the courts recognize that there are such things as fighting words.

    Yes, he is saying that when you go around pissing people off, do not be surprised when they get pissed off and get violent. That is what some people do when they get pissed off and it's been a part of human nature and probably an evolutionary key to survival since we were apes. And yes, apes do get malicious and violent when pissed. It's even part of animal nature.

  4. Re:The Struggle on Is the Amazon-Led Economic Boom Wrecking Seattle? · · Score: 1

    It shouldn't be unlawful in the first place (and ultimately will be found unconstitutional if the woman raises enough funds to challenge it properly).

    It wasn't that the woman refused to serve them, she refused to serve them in a way that went against her constitutionally protected freedom of religion. That is the discrimination involved here. But instead of the gay couple going to one of the hundreds of other bakers capable of making a wedding cake who have no issues at all with gay weddings, they are intolerant and sue knowing that it is a religious belief because they want to attack the religious.

    And don't give me that but she is running a business bullshit. Soldiers can object and opt out of killing the enemy when we are at war because of religious freedoms and they openly entered into a profession that is somewhat of a known job requirement that you might have to kill someone. The first amendment says congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion- not that you lose your rights and freedoms if you open a business.

  5. Re:The Struggle on Is the Amazon-Led Economic Boom Wrecking Seattle? · · Score: 1

    I'll tell you right now that your experience isn't typical. It's not even based on reality from my experience. I've worked at a lot of jobs doing a lot of things- most of these things are crap jobs most others do not want to do. I've had minorities work circles around me and I have had idiots who were basically place holders for quotas that caused me to work 3 times as much as I should have.

    There are jobs run by incompetent management who value race, gender, and appearances over skills or performance specifically because it fits some magic number that they think stops them from being at risk for some lawsuits. It's like getting stuck working with the boss's relatives who only have a job because of their relation else they would have already been shit canned long ago.

  6. Re:Gentlemen: Start your Hummers! on Double-Dynamo Model Predicts 60% Fall In Solar Output In The 2030s · · Score: 1

    I played that game too. I even spent 400 bucks on a sound blaster multimedia kit for my 486sx just to have sound for it. However, that is just full throttle, not a full throttle hummer.

  7. Re:The Struggle on Is the Amazon-Led Economic Boom Wrecking Seattle? · · Score: 1

    you sure you don't mean violence against people who are anti queer?

  8. Re:Gentlemen: Start your Hummers! on Double-Dynamo Model Predicts 60% Fall In Solar Output In The 2030s · · Score: 1

    It's not a game man.. A full throttle hummer is.. well. umm.. here read this.

    http://www.siliconvalleybachel...

    And check this out, http://www.blowbyblowparty.com...

  9. Re:The Struggle on Is the Amazon-Led Economic Boom Wrecking Seattle? · · Score: 1

    anti-queer violence? You mean bigots are getting beat up?

  10. Re:Leftist propaganda article on Is the Amazon-Led Economic Boom Wrecking Seattle? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Umm.. your confused. That was Harpo Marx not his retarded cousin Karl. Sorry, I know it's hard to tell the clowns apart but Harpo rarely spoke but had a lot to say.

  11. Re:Talk to a lawyer on Ask Slashdot: How Should Devs Deal With Trademark Trolls? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately this case is not even to the state of courts. His livelihood (or part of it ) is being denied without any court at all so far.

    Even in losers pay areas, you still have to front the money and if you run out, are you still going to win? But more interesting might be the value of the app verses the costs of courts. If the app only generates $5k a year income, How do you justify a million or even 50k dollars in defense costs knowing you might lose and possibly have to pay their costs.

    It also means a lot less legitimate case goto court too.

  12. Re:India?? on Lenovo Will Sell Ubuntu Laptops In India · · Score: 2

    I don't think Linux users is the intended market here. It's more likely a move to get lower income people to purchase. They might keep linux installed or void the warranty and install some pirated windows version. When i say void the warranty, I mean disqualify the setup for support and make it difficult to get warranty support (because the diagnostic utilities don't run right in user supplied operating systems ).

  13. Re:absolute BS on Boeing Patents an Engine Run By Laser-Generated Fusion Explosions · · Score: 1

    Another posted pointed out to me that it was the brits in world war two not the cold war. In my civil air patrol days of the mid 1980s as a cadet (before i discovered the preacher's daughter and drugs/alcohol) I'm pretty sure i was told it was the cold war but i or the guy telling the story could be wrong.

    Of course we heard a lot of stories. Part of the experience probably had more primitive camping than the boy scouts wished for in training for the search and rescue (sar) portion. But the CAP, as part of it's mission was propaganda er educating the public.

  14. Re:Well, she was an interim. on Ellen Pao Leaves Reddit; Site Founder Steve Huffman Makes a Triumphant Return · · Score: 1

    Yup..

    And they didn't wait for anything to happen to the right person. They created the incident in order to have a complete record along with witnesses. She was sent to create the issues that were common to other blacks which is why her name is associated with it.

  15. Re:absolute BS on Boeing Patents an Engine Run By Laser-Generated Fusion Explosions · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Perhaps this patent is part of a psychological operations in which someone wants to make someone else believe we have capabilities we don't.

    This is where the rabbit wearing glasses thing comes from. We hid our radar capabilities in the early days of the cold war by saying carrots improved your vision and our pilots ate tons of them. This had the added benefit of spys recording locations of orange people and we got good ideas on locations of Soviet air bases as well as identities of suspected pilots that could be worked for info.

  16. Re:Bullshit on Bumblebees Being Crushed By Climate Change · · Score: 1

    How do I figure?

    Let's imagine for a minute that bees rely more on the sun and its pisition than the available food sources. We do know after all that bees navigate and communicate by the sun and representations of it.

    So why would bees migrate if readily available food sources were already nearby? Or perhaps if they do, it is at a lot slower pace than other animals or insects. So let's assume that the location is relatively static which is why there appears to not be any northern movement. Now we need to figure out why the southern boundaries are shrinking. The food sources are not disappearing and climate change has been happening longer than this observed trend. So what is different in the south than the north? Pests is likely the difference. More pests means more pesticides in use. Those pesticides have gotten more efficient and we know bees get addicted to some of them.

    But let's see if we can make a car analogy out of this. Let's suppose we have two different areas. In one area (north) you have a few bars and a mild drug problem. In the other (south ) you have 10 times as many bars per square mile and a heavy heroin problem. Which area is likely to have more deaths from drunken/drugged driving accidents? Which area is likely to have an overall better health?

  17. Re:Bullshit on Bumblebees Being Crushed By Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Actually, There was a study a short time ago that said bees become addicted to nicotine based pesticides and prefer it to sugar water or regular food.

    Pesticides are likely the issues here.

  18. Re:Mercury switched = pin ball tilt switch on Bomb Squad Searches House Over Teenager's Chemistry Experiments · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Its breaking and entering in my neck of the woods if you enter any premises unlawfully or by deception, or coercion with the intention of committing a crime. There is no need to actually break anything physically.

    I'm assuming they did talk to the boy. However, would you volunteer information that could further convict you of criminal acts? I sure wouldn't so even if i was building a bomb, i wouldn't admit to it without knowing they already knew. Even then i would likely deny it. The cops probably know i would not be the first person to ever think that way. Their caution was justified even though it turned out to be for nothing.

  19. Re:Mercury switched = pin ball tilt switch on Bomb Squad Searches House Over Teenager's Chemistry Experiments · · Score: 2

    The mercury switches were a source of mercury not a source of switches. The presence of chemicals suggest the possibility of making mercury fulminate which is a friction and pressure sensitive explosive that can be used to trigger larger explosive charges.

    In other words, The fear wasn't that he would make some elaborate Hollywood bombs, it is that he would make blasting caps and explode real explosives that could be a bomb. If you have a legitimate reason - and yes experiments is legitimate - to have mercury, you can order it. There will be a record and paper trail though. Stealing mercury suggests that for whatever reason he doesn't want the paper trail or more likely the hassle or expenses of it.

    I can understand why they treated this the way they did. You as an outsider would not know what it is being used for until you saw evidence of its use. When it's use can be completely innocent or explosive, you need to approach the situation with as much caution as the worse case scenario deems necessary. If the guy wasn't breaking and entering to steal the shit, this story likely wouldn't have played out.

  20. Re:Outage.. on Ask Slashdot: How Much Did Your Biggest Tech Mistake Cost? · · Score: 1

    Something similar. Took almost an entire ISP down. Had a few servers with about 200 domains running bsd located at thier "data center " which was more like a couple shelve and a long bench. Anyways, they where supposed to be running a script to verify two servers were mirroring the other two. I got lazy and stopped checking the logs for it and eventually they stopped running the backups or the script to verify it. One day a drive failed and about 50 domains were off line. I couldn't remote into any server and started getting a run around from their techs so i loaded up all the backup servers i had and a file share with copies of everthing and drove the 200 miles to the isp.

    Turns out one of their techs tried to fix the problem by pulling a good drive from one of the other boxes but wasn't the one mirroring the bad drive. This then caused issues in the raid for the good box which he tried to rebuild by pulling the a drive from the mirroring box and ended up breaking all the configs. The worse part is that he thought he had the right tools to fix everything at home and instead of going to get them, he loaded my servers up and took them home.

    So i show up, realize i have to start from scratch, set up a couple makeshift boxes that likely wouldn't survive a month, then i connected an old NetWare server. I enabled SMB on the two new servers and started transferring files from the NetWare server. Next thing i know, someone came in and started rebooting all the routers. I looked and jokingly said a reboot is not a fix.

    Well, this went on for about two hours with about half a dozen people working on it, making phone calls and claiming they were under some DOS attack. My file transfer was finished, i disconnected the NetWare server, and it all magically stopped. I had misconfigured the SMB and created a packet storm that their routers and modems gladly repeated and multiplied to the point it almost melted their network.

    My real servers finally showed back up so i loaded them up, built new ones and had a t3 ran to a commercial building near the house that became their new home. There was a lot of finger pointing and talk about compensation but it got dropped when i reminded them that the only reason i had access of that kind was because they failed to fulfill a contract obligations and then screwed the pooch trying to recover.

  21. Re:No, it ISN'T free speech. on Trolls No Longer Welcome In New Zealand · · Score: 1

    And there's a problem with your concept too. You do not know god doesn't exist. All you know is that you have not been convinced that one or more God's exist or existed at any time. And no, saying if god exists do X to prove it does not mean one doesn't exist when X doesn't happen any more than i wouldn't exist if you demanded i took a dump on your door step while you sleep as proof i exist and i didn't.

    The worse part. In your fervor to proclaim a scientific untruth (science cannot prove a god doesn't exist, only that one is not needed ), you miss the entire point of the clause. However you were created, a common inborn desire of man is to strive for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness which is not limited to a select few born into the right families or royalties , or bestowed upon by some king or whatever for the success or pursuit in those goals.

    All through human history, this is a desire of the human race. Choices and ideas on how to achieve it varies, but it has been present. People naturally desire it. The fact that they were created (in however that came about ) means this exist.

  22. Re:No, it ISN'T free speech. on Trolls No Longer Welcome In New Zealand · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Its because you have no rights to impose on other free people your freedoms and rights outside of what they are willing to allow through contract or good will where the government is bound to not use the force of law to restrict the same.

    In other words, my rights do not create an imposition on you and the government cannot take them away. The US constitution recognizes the right already exists and bars government from infringement of it.

  23. Re:If you're using GPL code, you have no choice on Ask Slashdot: Choosing the Right Open Source License · · Score: 2

    It still wouldn't matter. The other authors can license any way they want as long as it is compatible with your license. In the case of the GPL they can release their software as later version and still push back to your project under your version. You can take your code and release it proprietary and gpl at the same time because it's your code.

  24. Re:make-your-own-dildo on Ask Slashdot: For What Are You Using 3-D Printing? · · Score: 4, Informative

    They have had kits that do not require a 3d printer for that for a long time now. There are a few different companies offering it. Here are a couple that I know of.

    http://www.willykit.com/

    http://www.createamate.com/

    And I there there is a clone a willy kit somewhere but cannot remember the URL for it. All of these options are much cheaper than a 3d printer and you can put vibrators in them as well as glow in the dark colors and even lights. Lots of fun- just don't make a bunch of them and hand them out in the secret Santa at work next year. Trust me, it's not as fun or funny as you might think.

  25. Re:200 cycles? on Samsung Nanotech Breakthrough Nearly Doubles Li-Ion Battery Capacity · · Score: 1

    I saw that number written on the bathroom wall at the club I was at last night. You must get around.