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  1. Re:Little Appliance Parts on 3-D Printing Comes To Amazon · · Score: 1

    No, this is the essence of nerd. And maker. No need to strip you of your card.

    The hard part is that you have to design it yourself. Sinec you call yourself a nerd, I recommend downloading Blender or OpenScad and give it a try. Just send me the STL file and I'll happily print it for you. You can find me, or any of my clones, at your local hackerspace.

  2. Re:child casualties on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 1

    Can someone explain what is happening in that video? I see some children, and an old guy ducking down below then, and someone setting up some piece of equipment I don't recognize. Call me naive, call me stupid, whatever: but seriously, please explain.

  3. Especially since the alternative is for the government to delegate the monopoly to another company. It's a monopoly either way.

  4. Color vision? on Laser Eye Surgery, Revisited 10 Years Later · · Score: 1

    Has anyone ever done a comparison of color vision before and after laser eye surgery?

  5. Staged deployments and Agile on Social Security Administration Joins Other Agencies With $300M "IT Boondoggle" · · Score: 1

    Have none of these places heard of replacing a system piece-by-piece? Or agile development? You don't take a decades old system and replace it in one step. You replace it piece-by-piece. That's not trivial to do, but these stories about "5-year project cancelled with absolutely nothing to show for it" are crazy.

  6. Re:Pft on The Daily Harassment of Women In the Game Industry · · Score: 1

    Have you ever listened to the audio chats of FPS co-op games when women are playing with men?

    Have you ever listened to the audio chats of FPS co-op games when men are playing with men? I've heard straight guys who threatened to hunt down their male opponents so they could rape them and murder them just because they got their ass handed to them in a game. The usual response is to laugh, then shoot faster.

  7. Re:Stop copying hard drives too! on New York Judge OKs Warrant To Search Entire Gmail Account · · Score: 1

    The rules are completely different when warrants are involved.

  8. Re:Stop copying hard drives too! on New York Judge OKs Warrant To Search Entire Gmail Account · · Score: 1

    I thought the judged dinged them only for using the data, not retaining it. I am under the impression retaining it is standard practice. Is that not the case?

    Who holds and filters the data in a civil case?

  9. Stop copying hard drives too! on New York Judge OKs Warrant To Search Entire Gmail Account · · Score: 4, Insightful

    no more invasive than the long-established practice of granting a warrant to copy and search the entire contents of a hard drive

    This "long-established practice" has always been a violation of the 4th amendment. The recent case where the US government used hard drive data from a *different* case is proof that they should not do this. They should never get the entire hard drive contents. A neutral 3rd-party should copy the drive, perform an appropriate search, then erase the copy. There's no reason for the government to indefinitely hold copies of data they should never have had in the first place.

    Just imagine if they had a warrant to get your address book, but they kept a copy of every piece of paper in your entire home, just in case it became relevant later. There is no way that would be allowed. But the digital equivalent is somehow acceptable.

  10. Ideas are not launched on ExoLance: Shooting Darts At Mars To Find Life · · Score: 1

    so a team of space enthusiasts has launched a more ambitious idea

    I don't think that word means what you think it does.

  11. Re:Ah, yes--the UN Declaration of Human Rights on UN Report Finds NSA Mass Surveillance Likely Violated Human Rights · · Score: 1

    Thank you for quoting the text. I've never seen this before.

    it says we are free from attacks to our reputation not that we are free from having our reputation harmed by ourselves and then reported by someone else.

    If it said that then there might be more agreement. But that isn't what the words you quoted say. It has no such caveat. The only caveat at all is the word "arbitrary" which is a legislative weasel word. If it said "libelous" or "untrue" or something to that effect then it would not be debatable. It simply looks like it is poorly written, even if it is intended to mean what you say it is.

  12. Re:What? on White House Punts On Petition To Allow Tesla Direct Sales · · Score: 1

    Actually, it turns out that the DOJ did do this. After coming back to the Slashdot discussion I see some other posters providing links to the DOJ's actions. Hunt around the discussion and you will find it. Clearly it wasn't enough though.

  13. Re:For The Love of Glob! on The Last Three Months Were the Hottest Quarter On Record · · Score: 1

    The executive branch decides what projects to work on, but but when the engineers calculate the height of levies, they are using current science and weather data.

  14. Re:Too true... on French Blogger Fined For Negative Restaurant Review · · Score: 1

    In France, what would the lawyer have cost her? More or less than the fine? It seems quite sad that modern justice systems require lawyers for common sense rulings.

  15. Re:What? on White House Punts On Petition To Allow Tesla Direct Sales · · Score: 1

    It seems like the FTC or the DOJ could address this by going after the car dealership cartels.

  16. Jurisdiction: This is actually a great reply on White House Punts On Petition To Allow Tesla Direct Sales · · Score: 2

    Obama gave the only reply he could. It essentially says "I don't control that, I can't help you. Sorry."

    When your local state passes a bad law, don't cry to the federal government. Call your local representatives and fix the law yourself. It's easier to get local laws changed, and that is the appropriate level to do it.

  17. Re:Wrong focus. on The Last Three Months Were the Hottest Quarter On Record · · Score: 2

    There aren't that many "coldest on record" events happening.

    Actually, there are: Google: "Coldest on record", first hit is "NOAA: Winter 2013-2014 Among Coldest on Record"

  18. Re:For The Love of Glob! on The Last Three Months Were the Hottest Quarter On Record · · Score: 1

    I believe that the US army corps of engineers accepts reality when designing levies and bridges to handle greater flood waters than what they have in the past. I did some searching but I couldn't find any definitive statement to that effect though.

  19. Re:For that reason... on Critical Vulnerabilities In Web-Based Password Managers Found · · Score: 1

    That's actually not a bad idea!

    Suppose you used 5 different password managers, and each one stored a password. Then, a password manager manager would glue the 5 passwords together to get the final password. Or maybe hash them to produce the final password. That way, when one password manager is cracked, it would not be enough to get your password.

    Of course, then the password manager manager could be cracked. Hmm.... so you would need 5 password manager managers. Which would require a single password manager manager manager.

  20. Actually, the edits look good! on Bot Tweets Anonymous Wikipedia Edits From Capitol Hill · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I started browsing it looking for anything juicy. The edits seem to be small, good quality, mostly political edits. They look like interns with an interest in politics, history, and dance movies. I'd love to have an app like this for my employer's corporate network, just to see what people here do (if anything).

    Here are the changes I've seen thus far:
    lawyer --> attorney
    remove "cold war" from some 18th century guy
    change someone from democrat to independent
    however --> then
    $ --> dollars
    Jiang Jiemin --> Zhou Jiping
    [[ --> ]]

  21. Alternate use for this technology on DARPA Successfully Demonstrates Self-Guiding Bullets · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Imagine a round that *avoids* a target. No more friendly fire!

  22. Re:Would be different on Judge Frees "Cannibal Cop" Who Shared His Fantasies Online · · Score: 1

    I bet you if he wrote about child pornography or terrorism it would be a different story.

    Is it? If so, why?

  23. Over-reacting ISPs on Ask Slashdot: Hosting Services That Don't Overreact To DMCA Requests? · · Score: 1

    Most seem to over-react and require an official counter-response

    That's because the law requires them to do this. They must either take down the content, or you must provide an official counter-response. There is no 3rd-option of saying "This request is bogus, ignore it" even if it actually is bogus.

  24. Re:I have to wonder on Following EU Ruling, BBC Article Excluded From Google Searches · · Score: 2

    It would be awesome if browsers provide add-ins that search using the US Google, then highlight the differences.

  25. Re:wait on Following EU Ruling, BBC Article Excluded From Google Searches · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They didn't remove the article entirely.

    we are no longer able to show the following pages from your website in response to certain searches on European versions of Google:

    They don't say which searches, but the wording implies that searches for Stan O'Neal will be affected. But searches for the former CEO of Merril Lynch should work just fine.