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  1. Refuse to be Terrorized on Thousands of Muslims Protest 'Age of Mockery' At Google's London Headquarters · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This goes for all peoples, including muslims: Refuse to be Terrorized!

    You're not terrorized by anything unless you choose to be.

  2. Recording on Felix Baumgartner's Supersonic Skydive Attempt · · Score: 1, Informative

    Did anyone record the live stream? Having missed the event itself, I'd like to watch it.

  3. ARM on Linux Foundation Offers Solution for UEFI Secure Boot · · Score: 1

    Does this fix the Windows 8 ARM tablet problem?

  4. Blockable on WikiLeaks Tests Donation Pop-Ups For Leaked Material · · Score: 5, Informative

    AdBlock Plus can block the popups using these filters:

    wikileaks.org###boost

    wikileaks.org###entry

  5. Abolish on Tech Firms and Regulators Meet At UN About Patents · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's simple: get rid of them all.

  6. Tests are filtered through people on Lance Armstrong and the Science of Drug Testing · · Score: 1

    Tests are only as good as the people who perform and interpret them. None of us have ever seen the tests themselves; we've only heard about it from third parties.

  7. What risk? on Study Finds Unvaccinated Students Putting Other Students At Risk · · Score: 1, Interesting

    How can the vaccinated students be at risk? They're supposed to be immune.

  8. Re:So... on Fathers Pass Along More Mutations As They Age · · Score: 1

    But then isn't mutation the key to natural evolution?

    Since our civilization isn't very natural anymore, the selection of species leads to a somewhat unpleasant conclusion.

  9. Alpha Centauri on Earth's Corner of the Galaxy Just Got a Little Lonelier · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What about Alpha Centauri? I suppose the binary nature of the star system could make it hard to detect any planets there.

  10. From the article:

    The latest draft amendment proposes far less than what some German publishers sought from the beginning. Throughout the last three years that a neighbouring right has been under consideration in public hearings, the publishers have insisted that the use of its material for any commercial gain - both in the online and offline spheres - should be reflected with some recompense to them. "The example that was given at the hearing was: a bank employee reads his morning newspaper online and sees something about the steel industry, and then advises his clients to invest in certain markets," says Mathias Schindler of Wikimedia Deutschland, who has attended the hearings. "The publishers argued that the bank consultant was only able to advise his clients because of the journalistic work in the published article. So that means the publisher deserves a fair share of any money made from that scenario. This was the proposal from the start."

  11. Centralized systems on Google+ Account Suspended? You Won't Find Out Why · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yet another example of how centralized systems are bad.

    Social networks, torrent indexes, search engines, you name it. All of them censored and/or unreliable.

    We need decentralization.

  12. Re:Wait what? on 'Wi-Fi Police' Stalk Olympic Games · · Score: 1

    Normally there ought to be laws against that kind of prevention. None of the articles I've found says anything about that.

  13. No money on IFPI Won't Share Pirate Bay Damages With Musicians · · Score: 2

    Of course, the MAFIAA isn't getting any money either, because the Pirate Bay people don't have any.

  14. Windows 95 on Windows 8 Graphics: Microsoft Has Hardware-Accelerated Everything · · Score: 1

    I remember them doing something similar in Windows 95. Of course, back then it was 2D graphics accelerators rather than 3D...

  15. Obligatory on Varnish Author Suggests SPDY Should Be Viewed As a Prototype · · Score: 1

    This is one of the things which makes it hard to avoid the feeling that SPDY really wants to do away with all the "middle-men"

    Half the human race is middle-men, and they don't take kindly to being eliminated.

  16. Alternatives on An Android Tablet Victory May Be Problematic For Free Software · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Android is problematic, yes, but iOS and Windows are far worse.

  17. Word on Linux Users Banned From Diablo III Servers · · Score: 0

    We have only the word of Blizzard that they banned people for the right reasons. There is no third-party review whatsoever.

  18. Rate limit on High-Frequency Traders Are the Ultimate Hackers, Says Mark Cuban · · Score: 2

    Stock exchanges could institute a limit on how often one may trade. Perhaps once per second, or even once per minute. Shouldn't affect human trades. May have to be legislated.

  19. Re:What's the future for Nokia? on Microsoft To PC and Tablet Makers: You're Not Our Future · · Score: 1

    They're down and out, they just don't know it yet.

  20. Useless site on Google Bars Site That Converts YouTube Songs Into MP3s · · Score: 1

    Not only did it recode the audio data, losing some quality, but it was also closed-source software-as-a-service. Good riddance.

  21. Re:Governments can't inflate the currency on With Euro Zone Problems, Bitcoin Experiencing Boost In Legitimacy · · Score: 1, Informative

    But we don't want the economy to grow any more. The planet can't support it.

  22. Re:ARM on Asus Announces x86 Transformer · · Score: 1

    Imho, they do look rather bad. Old CPU, old/small/slow flash drive, unknown amount of RAM. I'd like a Cortex-A9 or above, 2+ GB RAM, and a mechanical hard drive. Where is this market with "many many more" ones? I've searched for a long time and can't find anything except for the EFIKA, Lemote, and a few old demonstrations.

  23. ARM on Asus Announces x86 Transformer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Enough with the x86's already. Where's my ARM laptop, dammit?

  24. Public domain? on Programmer Admits Stealing US Gov't Accounting Software Source Code · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Normally, works of the US federal government are in the public domain, and not protected by copyright. How is this not the case here?

    On another note, Slashdot editors, please stop using the word "stealing" for immaterial right infringements.

  25. Why 2035? on Ask Slashdot: What If Intellectual Property Expired After Five Years? · · Score: 1

    Why 2035? Let's do it right now!