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  1. Re:Putin's getting desperate... on NASA Denies New Space Station Partnership With Russia · · Score: 2

    Almost in Europe? what weird ass map are you looking at? it is close to some European countries, most of which are not really indicative of Europe. Russia has plenty of pretty good cities, include Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Pskov, Vladimir and quite a few others, though I have not spent enough time in others to truly judge them. You are heavily focused on the western mentality and propaganda and forgetting that most of the wests wealth is centred around a very select minority (happy to admit I am in that minority). Whilst Russia is very similar in this respect china is NOT, it has a middle and upper middle class that vastly outnumbers the entire population of the US and this group is rapidly rising in wealth. China are already only second to the US in the official number of millionaires, china has half a billion middle class.

  2. Re:Don't blame me. on Australia Passes Mandatory Data Retention Law · · Score: 1

    They are all pretty much scumbags. Not even most environmentalists vote for the greens anymore as they are little more than an extension of the labor party, focused on short term thinking and power plays.

  3. Re: Don't blame me. on Australia Passes Mandatory Data Retention Law · · Score: 1

    You do know the greens today are pretty much labor a couple decades ago?

    yep and I think even that is a polite way of saying how bad the greens are today. I think the biggest indictment of them is the fact even my highly pro environmental friends refuse to vote for them as they see them as only a destructive force towards environmental sustainability and see either coalition or labor as a better choice for the environment.

  4. Re:not the problem on Micron and Intel Announce 3D NAND Flash Co-Development To Push SSDs Past 10TB · · Score: 1

    So your doing enterprise level syslog aggregation and archiving on consumer level hardware? really?

  5. Re:Tipping point? on Micron and Intel Announce 3D NAND Flash Co-Development To Push SSDs Past 10TB · · Score: 1

    64GB and 128GB ram is already available. You just don't see them at the consumer levels as their is no need or demand for them. a consumer benefits more from persistent storage, the advantages of ram drives is really non existent for all but a very small niche of users. Server side we have had this for a long time. The two servers I am currently playing with have 4TB of ram.

  6. Re:Good points, bad points on Ford's New Car Tech Prevents You From Accidentally Speeding · · Score: 1

    I would add a few bad points. generally you should not be watching your speed anyway, if you have trouble estimating and maintaining your speed then you probably lack driving experience, you should be staying at a safe consistent speed as the rest of the traffic, significantly slower or faster regardless of the actual limit is dangerous. I also absolutely hate the idea of not having speed when it is required, shit does happen where you need to be able to react quickly and any system that may limit my ability to do that with artificial limits is something I am not keen on.

  7. Re:I must be reading it wrong on Draconian Australian Research Law Hits Scientists · · Score: 1

    As much as I hate the patent system CSIRO DID create/invent critical parts of what Wi-Fi is today, would someone else have solved the problems had they not done so.... probably, but at the time it was them that solved them allowing for it to move forward.

  8. Re:Why? on Microsoft Releases Windows 10 SDK · · Score: 1

    desktop Linux had a far smaller share of the market when everyone on Slashdot was screaming that developers should be supporting it. MS are targeting write for a single platform for them. they may only be 3% of phone market and 5-10% of tablet but they are still 90%+ of the desktop market. An app that with little or no effort runs on all 3 is a win win for developers.

  9. Re:Not Surprising on World's Largest Asteroid Impacts Found In Central Australia · · Score: 1

    The animals really aren't downsides, they keep the tourist population in check.... well them and the insane prices for everything here.

  10. Re:Metric on World's Largest Asteroid Impacts Found In Central Australia · · Score: 1

    US military is mostly metric.

  11. why does this take creative thinking? on How 'Virtual Water' Can Help Ease California's Drought · · Score: 1

    Why does this take creative thinking? this is something other countries have been doing for years. In Australia my parents quite often sell some or all of their water license to others downstream or upstream in the river when they are rotating crops or using crops with lower water requirements. I am somewhat stunned this doesn't already happen in the US?

  12. Re:With Uber at least there is tracking and identi on Taxi Companies Sue Uber For False Advertising On Safety · · Score: 1

    maybe for you, personally I nearly always book my taxi through a dispatcher or online use a PC or a mobile app. tracking is the same, but on top of that I get insurance coverage and a reasonable certainty that the driver is actually licensed and his vehicle is regularly inspected (pretty important in an accident).

  13. Re:It's win-win. on Tag Heuer Partners With Google and Intel To Create Luxury Apple Watch Rival · · Score: 1

    Tag prices actually are one of the more reasonable in the quality brands. having said that I still can't understand why the fuck people are racing to create smart watches. how many times does this segment have to fail before they realize this is a case of them searching for a problem that doesn't exist.

  14. overdue on Uber Shut Down In Multiple Countries Following Raids · · Score: 1

    Well many of us predicted this day was coming rapidly. You can't just ignore a countries laws because you don't like them and expect them to just sit idly by, especially after receiving so many warnings. I predict many more shutdowns and potentially arrests to come yet! and thoroughly deserved. No company should ever be permitted to make decisions on what laws to obey, It can be excusable for individuals out of protest etc, but companies get away with enough shit without allowing them to dictate which laws they need to obey.

  15. Re:Fail on Microsoft Blacklists Fake Finnish Certificate · · Score: 3, Insightful

    To accept a request just because the email address "looks" like it could be legitimate is worse than moronic. 10 combinations?, you could easily come up with 100's if not 1000's of subtle versions, misspellings etc. The fact all the register does is say, "well that address looks legit lets trust it" is fucking scary. People laugh at users for falling for phishing attacks and that is against people that know no better.

  16. Re:Solar flares? on Most Powerful Geomagnetic Storm of Solar Cycle 24 Is Happening · · Score: 1

    obviously he wasn't using ECC and the flare had corrupted 2 bits.

  17. Re:Poor first sentence on Researchers Find Same RSA Encryption Key Used 28,000 Times · · Score: 1

    The same thing happened to my mother in a shopping mall a few years ago. She had an older Renault, literally got half way home before she realised it wasn't her car.

  18. Re:Do that for the laptops as well on Fujitsu Could Help Smartphone Chips Run Cooler · · Score: 1

    laptops and desktops don't have the space restrictions and hence heatpipes and many other cooling solutions are readily available and already in use.

  19. I would be shocked if they could site a study that shows less than 90% fail!

  20. FLOSS has the same issues on Ask Slashdot: What Can Distributed Software Development Teams Learn From FLOSS? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Who told you FLOSS doesn't have those problems? they lied. many FLOSS projects fall apart because of the "virtual teams" of people with different goals and aspirations. I would not be surprised if the failure rate is even higher than 70%

  21. seems strange on BlackBerry's Latest Experiment: a $2,300 'Secure' Tablet · · Score: 1

    If you remove the blackberry android references it sounds like they are describing a windows tablet, complete with Bitlocker, applocker, MS store and hooked up to active directory. Is android really that far behind in security and flexibility that this requires a such an expensive service?

  22. Re:Unconstitutional? on California Looking To Make All Bitcoin Businesses Illegal · · Score: 1

    barter agreements aren't always as trouble free as many think. you run the risk of not just the other party reporting the income but also someone else finding out and reporting. My brother ran afoul by the person he had bartered with deciding he had a loss on his business so it was in his interest to report the income and costs in the exchange and he did so without telling my brother leaving my brother with a nasty letter from the tax department of please explain.

  23. Re:Unconstitutional? on California Looking To Make All Bitcoin Businesses Illegal · · Score: 1

    Citizens ARE allowed to trade in whatever means you desire. however those that operate businesses have reporting and legal obligations. you can trade in potatoes and Spanish onions as your currency if you want, but even then expect regulations if you make transfers between people and in and out of other currencies possible.

  24. retarded article on California Looking To Make All Bitcoin Businesses Illegal · · Score: 3, Informative

    This looks like a simple case of a blogger not knowing what the fuck he is talking about. Nothing being banned in the legislation, seems to merely be trying to ensure virtual currency is regulated in the exact same way as dollars. If anything you could say this is a positive for bitcoin, but it seems the tards that support bitcoin look at anything that takes away there opportunities for fraud and tax evasion as the government stomping on their god given rights.

  25. R5 on Open Source Hardware Approaching Critical Mass · · Score: 2

    Perhaps this time they will get Robocop right!