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  1. Re:Still up. on Peter Sunde: the Pirate Bay Should Stay Down · · Score: 1

    Really? Thanks for pointing that out. I always just use torrentz.eu anyway. Not to be a bitch, but do you have any proof of that?

  2. Still up. on Peter Sunde: the Pirate Bay Should Stay Down · · Score: 1, Troll

    The instances at thepiratebay.ee and thepiratebay.cr are still up.

  3. Re:Hey Look on Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay Again · · Score: 1

    That's down now too, although it was up when you posted it. Probably got slashdotted...

  4. Re:Are there any good alternatives? on Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay Again · · Score: 3, Informative

    torrentz.eu has never let me down.

  5. Re:Boy that will win more users.... on Microsoft's New Windows Monetization Methods Could Mean 'Subscriptions' · · Score: 1

    Fair enough. I had no idea.

  6. Re:Boy that will win more users.... on Microsoft's New Windows Monetization Methods Could Mean 'Subscriptions' · · Score: 1

    This, exactly. I'm currently taking care of a house for a guy in Costa Rica. Included with the house is a Generation 1 iPhone. He never installed any apps on it when he first got it, and when I went to try to put some one, it's impossible. All the apps currently available will only work with newer OS/hardware versions than the phone has. There's no way to make it compatible with the new store at all, so I'm stuck with it being just a phone. Not that I care (PC guy here) but if I'd bought an Gen-1 iPhone at the original insane price, and I'd managed to keep it alive all these years (what with the non-replaceable battery) I'd be pissed as hell that I couldn't actually use it with any of the currently available software. (note: this came up because my wife wanted to use the Kindle Reader app on the iPhone - not a spec-hod application in any way, and yet totally not backwards compatible.)

  7. Re:You're doomed :-( on Ask Slashdot: Making a 'Wife Friendly' Gaming PC? · · Score: 1

    But when people walk in front of a flat screen they block your view. When they walk in front of a projector screen, the image is shown on them, so you can still see what's going on. Your one argument makes no sense.

  8. Re:Goddamn it! on World's Youngest Microsoft Certificated Professional Is Five Years Old · · Score: 1

    Base eight is just like base ten... if you're missing two fingers.

  9. Re:Install a VPN-faker on Ask Slashdot: Getting Around Terrible Geolocation? · · Score: 1

    Seriously. It lets you proxy from any location of your choosing with a simple browser-bar pull down menu. Set different locations for different sites (eg USA for pbs.org and UK for bbc.co.uk) so you can make geofencing work in your favour.

  10. Install a VPN-faker on Ask Slashdot: Getting Around Terrible Geolocation? · · Score: 1

    like hola.org

  11. Re:Woo-hoo! on HBO Developing Asimov's Foundation Series As TV Show · · Score: 1

    Ok, but only 'cause you have the lowest UID on this thread...

  12. Re:Woo-hoo! on HBO Developing Asimov's Foundation Series As TV Show · · Score: 1

    Ok, but only 'cause you have the lowest UID on this thread.

  13. Re:Woo-hoo! on HBO Developing Asimov's Foundation Series As TV Show · · Score: 1

    My sentiment exactly.

  14. Re:She? on Tor Project Mulls How Feds Took Down Hidden Websites · · Score: 1

    Computers are like cars, boats and airplanes - if you don't call it "her" you're obviously gay.

  15. Re:Science fiction comes to life, again on The Disgruntled Guys Who Babysit Our Aging Nuclear Missiles · · Score: 2

    With Minuteman you may be correct (I have no idea - never looked into them.) However with the original Titan silos there was only one capsule and one key. (photo of it right here: https://www.facebook.com/photo... ) I've got a whole album with 156 photos from the silo tour up here if you want to view it: https://www.facebook.com/Nicke... (must be logged into Facebook to see the photos - sorry about that - can't be arsed to put them up elsewhere)

  16. Re:Domestic Violence on Interviews: Ask Executive Director Andrew Lewman About Tor and Privacy · · Score: 1

    Been there - sorta. The only time I ever hit my wife was when she had me in a choke hold and I was on the verge of blacking out. One quick shot with a closed fist to just below her left eye was enough to make he break the hold so I could run from the room. You actions were not unreasonable, but yes you are a wife beater (as am I - deal with it) and no, you should not have shot or otherwise escalated it. This isn't the type of thing you can't come back from, either - mine was the low point in our relationship, and things have been getting better ever since - we both just needed that one crazy moment to let off some steam...

  17. OPP are idiots. on Canadian Police Recommend Ending Anonymity On the Internet · · Score: 1

    When I was in highschool I spent a summer as a student trainee for the OPP. They knew pretty much nothing about computers and the internet - my main task that summer was helping the Staff Sargent install pirate software on his home computer and his computer in the detachment. This was before it was really feasible to DL pirate software online (whole detachment was on a dial up connection - we were about 2 hours north of Toronto) so he would drive to Toronto's China Town and buy CD-Roms full of pirate apps then bring them back and get me to install them for him. Ever since, I've given no fucks about pirating as much of whatever I want. I figure, if it's good enough for the OPP, it's good enough for me.

  18. Re:Have we discovered all there is to discover? on Why Scientists Think Completely Unclassifiable and Undiscovered Life Forms Exist · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Basically Gödel 101.

  19. Re:Happy Friday from The Golden Girls! on Why Scientists Think Completely Unclassifiable and Undiscovered Life Forms Exist · · Score: 1

    Thanks for this. Is it weird that I actually missed it?

  20. Re:Interesting on 'Star Wars: Episode VII' Gets a Name · · Score: 1

    I have a friend whose sister live in L.A. and knows H. Ford. She says that, contrary to popular belief that they had a falling out, he and Mark Hamill still get together regularly and smoke blunts that they light with burning hundred dollar bills. True story.

  21. Re:falling door on the Millennium Falcon? on 'Star Wars: Episode VII' Gets a Name · · Score: 2

    I wonder if this sequel will finally explain what happened to those Imperials who were knocked out during the Death Star landing in Ep. IV and stowed away in the smuggling compartments? I always figured one of them had woken up and subsisted on the corpses of the other ones while sneaking around in the bowels of the ship causing havoc. That's why there are so many mechanical problems with the MF later in the OT.

  22. Re:No thank you on 'Star Wars: Episode VII' Gets a Name · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Which is why he's perfect for Star Wars.

  23. Re:No thank you on 'Star Wars: Episode VII' Gets a Name · · Score: 2

    You can fuck right off about Oceans 11. The original was wonderful because the underlying tale about morality was just totally boffo. The remake was amoral bullshit.

  24. Re:No thank you on 'Star Wars: Episode VII' Gets a Name · · Score: 1

    The BSG reboot started off great. It had that fucked up "shroom vision" effect when they went into hyperspace the first time that totally fucking blew my mind. That hooked me, and so I watched the entire remainder of the series waiting for them to do it again. THEY. NEVER. DID. Holy fuckin' sci-fi blueballs. The rest of the series was just a complete letdown after that.

  25. Re:Another terrorist off the street on Pirate Bay Co-founder Arrested In Northeastern Thailand · · Score: 1

    Yes. This. WTF happened to CNET? It used to be great, now it's a total garbage hole. Why do so many small coding houses use them to distribute shareware/freeware/demo versions now? Their website is total crap!