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  1. Re:WTF? on Uber Revises Privacy Policy, Wants More Data From Users · · Score: 2

    This kind of thing has been keeping me from getting a smartphone.

    So, I have a question: The smartphones people carry are getting more and more powerful. Is there no way to run an app in a sandbox or an emulator that is running on the phone? Like a VM? I'd love to be able to install an app and only give it the contacts I want or let it have the GPS coordinates when I want.

  2. Re:So this is what they use donations for on Wikimedia Foundation Files Suit Against NSA and DOJ · · Score: 1

    Sure they had privacy. You went into a field and made sure no one was around. Then, you talked privately. If you want to keep who you met with and how long you met private you did it at night.

  3. Re:We got bigger problems on Hockey Sticks Among Carry-On Items TSA Has Cleared For Planes · · Score: 1

    Don't forget, they also now reenforce / lock the cabin door. It helps that the hijackers can no longer control the plane.

    www.schneier.com

  4. Re:Let me get this straight on Hockey Sticks Among Carry-On Items TSA Has Cleared For Planes · · Score: 1

    Hello. Fellow Spyderco carrier here. You mention the Honeybee and the sibling post before you mentions the ladybug. However, both of those are fixed or locking blades. Those are two things that are not allowed. Plus, the blade can't have a molded grip which removes most (all?) of the Spyderco catalog. *Then* the thing can only be 1 half inch wide. This is a stat I do not see on the Spyderco website but I bet that also removes most / all of their brand. *sigh*

    I'm going to get some cheap knives and ship them to each hotel I fly to.

  5. Re:about time on Hockey Sticks Among Carry-On Items TSA Has Cleared For Planes · · Score: 1

    "She has her TSA agents stopping traffic on Interstate 40, in Tennessee, and shaking them down" I like what you are saying and I like your enthusiasm, but, citation, please?

  6. Confession on Interviews: Ask James Randi About Investigating the Truth · · Score: 1

    Mr. Randi,

    Of the people you have debunked, how many of them admit to deception verses how many continue with the charade, either by moving the goalposts or somehow attacking the validity of the test?

  7. Re:But how does it sound? on GIF Becomes Word of the Year 2012 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's the thing: If you invent something, you get to name it.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Interchange_Format#Pronunciation
    " According to Steve Wilhite, the creator of the GIF format, the original pronunciation deliberately echoes the American peanut butter brand, Jif, "

  8. Re:1 of my favorite Antenna channels on Grad Student Wins Alan Alda's Flame Challenge · · Score: 1

    500 specialized channels so anyone could find the kind of material they wanted to watch anytime.

    Remindes me of Wierd Al's Cable TV

    I got celebrity hockey
    The Racketball Channel too

  9. Re:And why exactly.. on Gene Therapy Extends Mouse Lifespan · · Score: 1

    918 year old? So, thats a what G^34GILF? A GGILF to the 34th degree?

  10. Re:I would recommend not signing that on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the heads up. I signed it with a mailinator.com email. The other option would be to set a filter on your regular email.

  11. Re:I fail to see the point on Nearly 150 Companies Show Interest in the Tech Love Boat · · Score: 1

    firing injured people

    "Did it anyway. Ramps are expensive."

  12. Re:Windtrap on Wind Turbine Extracts Water From Air · · Score: 1

    Obviously: F is Furlongs and lb is LibBraries of congress.

  13. Re:Bad summary: the airline, not the government on Damaged US Passport Chip Strands Travelers · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm sure all the Ross Perot voters thought that in '92. If 85% of those people had voted Bush and 15% had voted Clinton, Bush would have won. (I know it is unlikely, please bear with me) Your vote will not put Obama in office or keep him out but the sum of all the people influenced by Ron Paul and his supporters? Who knows?
    Feel fee to check my math. http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/data.php?year=1992&datatype=national&def=1&f=0&off=0&elect=0/

  14. Re:You know... on 'Alternative Medicine' Clinic Attempts To Silence Critics · · Score: 1

    My mistake. The properly attributed quote is above: http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2550102&cid=38206204/

  15. You know... on 'Alternative Medicine' Clinic Attempts To Silence Critics · · Score: 3, Funny

    You know what they call alternative medicine that works?


    Medicine.

    I'm here all week. Tip your veal, etc.

  16. Re:It already is... on Petition Calls For Making Net Access Inalienable Right · · Score: 1
    A quote from Carlin. I tried to edit this down but all of it is good and each paragraph builds on the last. Skip to the bottom for TL:DR summary.

    "Boy everyone in this country is running around yammering about their fucking rights. "I have a right, you have no right, we have a right."

    Folks I hate to spoil your fun, but... there's no such thing as rights. They're imaginary. We made 'em up. Like the boogie man. Like Three Little Pigs, Pinocio, Mother Goose, shit like that. Rights are an idea. They're just imaginary. They're a cute idea. Cute. But that's all. Cute...and fictional. But if you think you do have rights, let me ask you this, "where do they come from?" People say, "They come from God. They're God given rights." Awww fuck, here we go again...here we go again.

    The God excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument, "It came from God." Anything we can't describe must have come from God. Personally folks, I believe that if your rights came from God, he would've given you the right for some food every day, and he would've given you the right to a roof over your head. GOD would've been looking out for ya. You know that.

    He wouldn't have been worried making sure you have a gun so you can get drunk on Sunday night and kill your girlfriend's parents.

    But let's say it's true. Let's say that God gave us these rights. Why would he give us a certain number of rights?

    The Bill of Rights of this country has 10 stipulations. OK...10 rights. And apparently God was doing sloppy work that week, because we've had to ammend the bill of rights an additional 17 times. So God forgot a couple of things, like...SLAVERY. Just fuckin' slipped his mind.

    But let's say...let's say God gave us the original 10. He gave the british 13. The british Bill of Rights has 13 stipulations. The Germans have 29, the Belgians have 25, the Sweedish have only 6, and some people in the world have no rights at all. What kind of a fuckin' god damn god given deal is that!?...NO RIGHTS AT ALL!? Why would God give different people in different countries a different numbers of different rights? Boredom? Amusement? Bad arithmetic? Do we find out at long last after all this time that God is weak in math skills? Doesn't sound like divine planning to me. Sounds more like human planning . Sounds more like one group trying to control another group. In other words...business as usual in America.

    Now, if you think you do have rights, I have one last assignment for ya. Next time you're at the computer get on the Internet, go to Wikipedia. When you get to Wikipedia, in the search field for Wikipedia, i want to type in, "Japanese-Americans 1942" and you'll find out all about your precious fucking rights. Alright. You know about it.

    In 1942 there were 110,000 Japanese-American citizens, in good standing, law abiding people, who were thrown into internment camps simply because their parents were born in the wrong country. That's all they did wrong. They had no right to a lawyer, no right to a fair trial, no right to a jury of their peers, no right to due process of any kind. The only right they had was...right this way! Into the internment camps.

    Just when these American citizens needed their rights the most...their government took them away. and rights aren't rights if someone can take em away. They're priveledges. That's all we've ever had in this country is a bill of TEMPORARY priviledges; and if you read the news, even badly, you know the list get's shorter, and shorter, and shorter.

    You don't have rights, you have privilages and they can be taken away.

  17. Re:As a switcher and a switcher. on What's Keeping You On Windows? · · Score: 1

    there is no compelling reason to switch. Whatever platform you currently have and invested time in is probably good enough for you and switching isn't going to solve that many more problems.

    This is the same reason I give as to why the US is not on metric. :)

  18. Re:Um. excuse me? on Researchers Debut Proxy-Less Anonymity Service · · Score: 1
  19. From wikipedia:
    Thing a Week One (2006)
    Thing a Week Two (2006)
    Thing a Week Three (2006)
    Thing a Week Four (2006)
    Artificial Heart (2011)

    You went from writing a thing a week for 4 albums in a year to a 5 year break from new material. What happened?

  20. Re:Same legal protections? on EFF Advocates Leaving Wireless Routers Open · · Score: 1

    A lot of home invasions start with the attacker shouting POLICE! A criminal is not above impersonating an officer.

  21. Re:Last words... on FBI Releases Document Confirming Roswell UFO · · Score: 1

    "Space, the final frontier" puts it at 1964.

  22. Re:Who will all just plug their ears on Sludge In Flask Gives Clues To Origin of Life · · Score: 1

    Your argument against abiogenesis is the same one used for arguments against evolution. Here is the evolution rebuttal: Blind Watchmaker

    It does not refute your argument specifically but one point is valid. Pieces of metal are not individual molecules. Molecules attract and repel each other in certain ways. They do it differently after you heat them. They do it differently in the presence of other chemicals (catalysts).br>
    There are theories about how proteins could come to be withour DNA or RNA. Metabolism First

  23. Re:Yes, but.... on Meteorites Brought Ingredients of Life To Earth · · Score: 1

    The God in the bible is infinite. How is a solution that requires an infinite being the most simple answer?

  24. Re:Of course they did on Verizon Sues FCC Over Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    We pay for our bandwidth

    To put it another way you want others to invest and support infrastructure that you want to use for free.

    For goodness sake, read the whole post and/or stop trolling.

  25. Re:Illegal? on Bus Company Says Thin Drivers Deserve Better Pay · · Score: 1

    Just a quick note: If you are not eating breakfast or lunch and eating 8 hours before bed... You are starving yourself for 16 hours. No matter how much you eat, that's not healthy. Don't take my word for it, talk to a nutritionist.