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  1. Way more important than the gulag right? on Mastermind of 9/11 Attacks Designs a Secret Vacuum Cleaner · · Score: 0

    Yep, I can see why this makes slashdot. After all it's way more important than the fact the guy was arrested, tortured and is being held for years in an American Gulag without so much as a show trial.

  2. Re:And this is why we should fear government on Tennessee Official: Water Complaints Could be "Act of Terrorism" · · Score: 0

    Your government intrudes all your lives. That's something you brought upon yourself with 8 years of Bush to put it all in place and 4 years of Obama doing nothing about it.

  3. It's not just deaths on NTSB Recommends Lower Drunk Driving Threshold Nationwide: 0.05 BAC · · Score: 0

    It's injuries as well. Anyway, tendency here seems not to want to improve safety, that's fine. I've seen you lot drive between the texting, phone calls, huge mugs of coffee and reading the newspaper.

  4. Re:Too easy on World of Warcraft Loses 1.3 Million Players in First Quarter of 2013 · · Score: 0

    Even just leveling at the lower levels it's no fun any more. You're steered and rushed trough everything. There's no chance to explore, do shopping. You're more at risk dying by stepping of a mountain than you are from the quests. Boring!

  5. Re:Assholes on Protesting Animal Testing, Intruders Vandalize Italian Lab · · Score: 0

    Funny how it's always morons.

  6. plant rights people on Protesting Animal Testing, Intruders Vandalize Italian Lab · · Score: 0

    We got those in Europe which is why we're still fighting the Frankenstein creations from Monsanto.

  7. Re:News for nerds? on Protesting Animal Testing, Intruders Vandalize Italian Lab · · Score: 0

    Wondered that myself. This is so common it's hardly news. What's next? Car crashes? Celebrity divorces?

  8. The Hacker Crackdown version 2.0 on Cyber Criminals Tying Up Emergency Phone Lines Through TDoS Attacks, DHS Warns · · Score: 0

    Time for Bruce Sterling to write another book? :-)

  9. grab 'm where it hurts on Ask Slashdot: How To Collect Payments From a Multinational Company? · · Score: 0

    Sue locally. Get a court order that allows you to impound computer/laptop power cables and coffeemachines. Hire a couple of bailiffs and pay a visit. Alternatively, buy a few share (a dozen should be affordable enough). Speak at the next shareholders meeting

  10. No oracle unless! on Official Doc Reveals Oracle's Cloud Rules · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm an infrastructure architect. My rule is no oracle unless you can prove to me you really need it and there's no alternative. Oracle always tries to screw you over with their licensing and their pricing.

  11. Re:I'm not British on BBC Turns Off CEEFAX Service After 38 Years · · Score: 0

    So true! It helped me a lot when learning English. Fond memories. Ceefax was glacially slow over here on Dutch cable though, like accessing a BBS with a 1200/75 modem

  12. local tv storage? on A Day in Your Life, Fifteen Years From Now · · Score: 0

    Local storage of a TV episode? The US running on metric? People working in an actual office? Yeah right! In 15 years time there won't be much real offices more, rather dynamically picked meeting offices for ad-hoc work.

  13. Re:mileage on Gas Prices Jump; California Hardest Hit · · Score: 0

    Well, it's your choice!

  14. mileage on Gas Prices Jump; California Hardest Hit · · Score: 0

    Well we do pay about $10 per gallon here but on the other hand 33miles per gallon is pretty normal for a European car. I drive a relatively old car with a horribly inefficient engine which only gets me 26 mpg.

  15. Also live in Holland on Dutch Police Ask 8000+ Citizens To Provide Their DNA · · Score: 0

    People shrug it of where I live.

  16. loss of freedom how? on Dutch Police Ask 8000+ Citizens To Provide Their DNA · · Score: -1

    Being asked to supply a sample is a loss of freedom how? American legal rights... like shooting each other, suing each other silly. Enjoying a legal system where the law is whatever you pay a politican to make it?

  17. Superbowl? on The Dutch Repair Cafe Versus the Throwaway Society · · Score: 1

    Isn't that the same thing?

  18. High, for americans perhaps on Big Rigs Go High Tech · · Score: 1

    I always have to laugh when I see american trucks. They try so hard to stay a decade behind the rest of the world. They are failing though, that adaptive cruise control and lane change detection are fairly new.

  19. SCO software? NEVER! on They Make Stuff? SCO's OpenServer 6 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I think that when I'd had to choose between installing a box with anything SCO made or chew off my own foot, well... better give me some time to think this over.

  20. Re:Just confirms on Microsoft's 10-year-old Certified Professional · · Score: 1

    :-) Reminds me of the MCSE courses I did back in '97. First course, networking essentials. 14 guys in the group, 3, including me, with previous working experience in IT. We 3 flunked the examn the first time because we knew what worked instead what Uncle Bill reccomends.

  21. Re:Too Simple on Forget GPS, Hello WPS · · Score: 1

    Actually, that might be sellable on ebay. Call it the low budget fuzzy logic locator or something. :D

  22. Great player! on Review of iRiver iFP-899 · · Score: 1

    Wife's got the ifp 799 which is the same player in a different housing. Bought it after a very frustrating weekend trying to get to grips with an iPod mini. Well, I can tell you, the iriver has everything the iPod doesn't (except teh image). It's incredibly easy to use and has by far the best sound quality I've ever heard on a portable device!

  23. rbls do work on Should You Trust MAPS? · · Score: 1

    From my home system's logs: number of messages blocked by which dnsbl number of messages blocked by bl.spamcop.net 32 number of messages blocked by relays.ordb.org 0 number of messages blocked by sbl.spamhaus.org 2 number of messages blocked by dnsbl.sorbs.net 26 number of messages blocked by cn.countries.nerd.dk 3 number of messages blocked by tw.countries.nerd.dk 3 number of messages blocked by br.countries.nerd.dk 3 number of messages blocked by hk.countries.nerd.dk 4 number of messages blocked by kr.countries.nerd.dk 9 Granted, a blacklist isn't ideal but it's the only defense I have against spammers. Now, I'm wondering, which netblock is the OP complaining about?