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  1. Re:Cinder-block walls around transformers. on Hearing Shows How 'Military-Style' Raid On Calif. Power Station Spooks U.S. · · Score: 1

    Terrorists don't care about killing transformers. They care about killing people... and right away. Not standing around later to see if a ventilator fails somewhere. This is a non issue.

  2. Re:first shot on Hearing Shows How 'Military-Style' Raid On Calif. Power Station Spooks U.S. · · Score: 1

    Yes, quite frightening. No Slashtot for a few days. The horror.

  3. Funny on Convicted Spammer Jeffrey Kilbride Flees Prison · · Score: 1

    Kind of funny how we can track kids at school with rfids but not inmates. Despite 10 fold in spending.

  4. Re:What happened to you Sweden? on Swedish Man Fined $650,000 For Sharing 1 Movie, Charged Extra For Low Quality · · Score: 3, Funny

    When was Sweden ever cool?

  5. Re:Boston PD on Boston Police Stop Scanning Registration Plates, For Now · · Score: 1

    Yes, he could have just walked around freely even though the entire nation had seen his face on every web page and newspaper in the country.

  6. Re:Boston PD on Boston Police Stop Scanning Registration Plates, For Now · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the heroic efforts of the Cape Cod SWAT team. I wish I was making this up.

  7. Re:Do different rules apply to senior managers? on Porn-Surfing Execs Infecting Corporate Networks With Malware · · Score: 1

    Oh you silly Slashdotters. The CFO certainly has a reasonable golden parachute. He probably has gold digging wife at home that would be really pissed off if he were caught watching porn. Thus, just watch it at work. Worst case, he gets fired and paid off. He'll move on to another company. Rinse and repeat.

  8. Re:Game disk images in licensed emulator bundles on Apple II DOS Source Code Released · · Score: 1

    Have you considered the possibility that Apple simply wouldn't release the source code at all, if there were no copyright protection?

    To keep companies from "hoarding," as you put it, would require a sort of negative copyright, where they are forced to escrow their source code for public release at the end of the copyright term (which would also need to be reduced). This is an interesting idea; if you want copyright protection, you have to vouch that you will release what is being protected at the end of the term. Sounds fair to me. If you don't like it, you'll have to rely on trade secrecy instead.

    He's suggesting 10 years copyright. Not no copyright at all. Seems perfectly reasonable.

  9. Who cares? on Journalists Banned From Using Smartphones At 2014 Sochi Olympics? · · Score: 1

    Does anybody really watch the Olympics anymore?

  10. Re:Thank You Veterans on World War II's Last Surviving Doolittle Raiders Make Their Final Toast · · Score: 1

    On this Veterans Day, I would like to thank all veterans for serving our country for protecting our freedoms and way of life. Without these brave men and women, we would not be the mightiest, richest, most powerful nation on Earth. God Bless America.

    How original. Brought to you by Wal Mart!

  11. Re:Biased on MPAA Backs Anti-Piracy Curriculum For Elementary School Students · · Score: 1

    You forgot child porn.

  12. Not a problem for us Irish on Scientist Seeks Investment For "Alcohol Substitute" · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I have Irish genes. I haven't had a hangover in 20 years. And yes, I drink like an Irishman.

  13. Re:False information on One Year Since John McAfee Fled Belize · · Score: 1

    Well said. Ambergris Caye has one industry: divers. It's not big enough nor developed enough for a rich person's "compound". At least not yet :(

  14. Re:The best schience dance video on "Dance Your PhD" Finalists Announced · · Score: 1

    If I didn't know better I'd swear it was a Monty Python sketch.

  15. Re: Two things to remember about polygraphs: on Full Details of My Attempted Entrapment For Teaching Polygraph Countermeasures · · Score: 1

    Caffeine and alcohol are drugs. Other than that, I believe you.

  16. Uhh... on Police Use James-Bond-Style GPS Bullet · · Score: 1

    That's all super until he just ditches the car and just carjacks another. Brilliant!

  17. Re:Red state on Would-Be Tesla Owners Jump Through Hoops To Skirt Wacky Texas Rules · · Score: 1

    You're looking at partly dry counties. Not dry counties.

  18. Re:Red state on Would-Be Tesla Owners Jump Through Hoops To Skirt Wacky Texas Rules · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Sounds ominous, but... on TSA Airport Screenings Now Start Before You Arrive At the Airport · · Score: 1

    Not to mention you can fill the car to your heart's content with all those dangerous liquids.

  20. Re:Can someone explain why websites were down? on The Cost of the US Government Shutdown To Science · · Score: 1

    Which ones were down? I saw a few that weren't updated, but none that were outright down. JPL's was up, for example.

  21. Re:Why? on The Cost of the US Government Shutdown To Science · · Score: 2

    In their defense, the towel service at the gym was unavailable during the shutdown.

  22. Re:Stop carrying life jackets? on Redesigned Seats Let Airlines Squeeze In More Passengers · · Score: 1

    Passengers are where the weight is a real concern. Fatbodies cost the airlines money way more than life preservers. Charge by the pound.

  23. Re:Because Apple on Irish Government May Close Apple's Biggest Tax Loophole · · Score: 1

    It's worse that that: http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workplace/16-giant-corporations-have-basically-stopped-paying-taxes GE, Boeing, Verizon, Kraft, Citigroup, Dow Chemical, IBM, Chevron, Fedex, Honeywell (really?), Lockheed Martin, Merck, Apple (as we see), Pfizer, Google, Microsoft. None of the these non-job creators pay shit in taxes.

  24. Re:Or maybe, just maybe we quit taxing on Irish Government May Close Apple's Biggest Tax Loophole · · Score: 1

    Try starting a few land wars in Asia with that philosophy.

  25. More Apple innovation... on A Peek At Apple's Planned $5B HQ · · Score: 1, Redundant

    They took the Pentagon and rounded the corners. Apple is good at the rounded corners thing.