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  1. Re:Excellent Halloween Costume . . . on The Mercedes-Benz 'Cloaking Device' · · Score: 1

    Ben Heck did a Portal costume for Halloween just like what you describe.

  2. Re:"Starting with the Nazi military during WWII" on The Vortex Gun Coming Soon To a Protest Near You · · Score: 1

    Hello,
    Studying German history atm (superficially for points) in German, and I would like to inform you that The Nazi "upbringing" were so permeated through the generations until Allied victory, that an estimated 90% of the population had some not insubstantial tie with the party.

    At least that's what my German history books say (Deutsche Geschichte in Schlaglichtern and Deutsche Kultur Geschichte), once I've deciphered them.

    Thus the Entnazifisierung, which unfortunately only bothered the true nazis like a fart in a dinner party.

  3. Re:Ready? on Why Didn't the Internet Take Off In 1983? · · Score: 1

    This is what I've read too. Isn't everything whoppee unencrypted?

    Could be they mean viruses or other "Internet threats".

  4. Re:totally and completely useless on Smithsonian Aims To Make Objects In Museum Collection 3D-Printable · · Score: 1

    Seems like you want to go to the circus or the fair and not a museum..

  5. Re:Digital Rothschilds on Schmidt: Google Once Considered Issuing Currency · · Score: 1

    Thing about govt is that there can be only one. A system such as the one you describe would be permitted only until it was fat enough for slaughter.

    Military trumps "terrorist assets" any day.

  6. The calendar is not enough... on Study Suggests Climate Change-Induced Drought Caused the Mayan Collapse · · Score: 1

    .. now we're gonna need the Mayan Almanac.

    And when does THAT end?

  7. Re:Advanced as They Were on Study Suggests Climate Change-Induced Drought Caused the Mayan Collapse · · Score: 1

    "Or we can get dragged into the future kicking and screaming and burdening the human race with massive ecological damage."

    Oh, come on. You say that like it's a bad thing!

  8. That's why on Is Hypertext Literature Dead? · · Score: 1

    Hypertext was written by hyper people in hyperspace. They're all on Advil now.

  9. Re:A government that seems to understand the Inter on Pakistan Looking For Homegrown URL Blocking System · · Score: 2

    Painting Islam in broad strokes as fascism is not very helpful nor descriptive. Most muslims are moderate and/or secular.

    Remember that Islam is some 80% jewish/christian theology at the least, and that it is regional culture and real world politics that prompted what we do recognize as fascist movements to grow.

    You want the moderate and intellectual muslims, as well as like-minded jews and christians, on your side against totalitatianism.

  10. Re:Both sexes are valuable on Biologists Debunk the "Rotting Y Chromosome" Theory · · Score: 2

    You seem to completely overlook existentialism (Sartre is raving ONLY about free will) as well as everything else post Newton (yielding the title of latest and greatest to someone like Hobbes).

    Causality does not pose a problem for free will. On the contrary, I should say it enables it.

  11. Re:It's awesome to live in a good country :) on Last Day To Tell Google To Forget You · · Score: 1

    Can't confirm it from the loo, but I think Downtown Oslo is the most surveillanced spot in any city on earth.

    Thing is, I don't think the police are monitoring. So who are?

  12. Re:WebOS is quite nice actually on The webOS Features Other OSes Should Steal · · Score: 1

    iCloud is the one ring to rule them all.

    Seriously, Apple and privacy are different solar systems. Even if you like Apple, you shouldn't have to trust them, and you shouldn't trust them.

  13. Re:I'm not supersticious, but... on Russian Scientists Revive Plant From 30,000-Year-Old Seeds · · Score: 1

    If grass had guns....

  14. Re:IRB? on Stealing Laptops For Class Credit · · Score: 1

    There is no contradiction between theft and being ethical (or moral, rather) provided your ethical ground does not respect property, property rights aso.

    In example, utilitarianism is perfectly compatible with any conceivable horror, as long as the net pleasure outweighs the pain. (Most utilitarianist will not agree, and they are wrong.)

    However, the story in casu is a competition not a crime.

  15. Re:being able to buy things and share them on Ask Slashdot: Dividing Digital Assets In Divorce? · · Score: 1

    The 1950's called and asked for their anti-feminist views back.

    Seriously, it's troubling to observe how backwards our culture is becoming. Research clearly shows that "homemakers" (bah!) Only reluctantly leaves the society of free and grown up individuality.
    Similar research has been conducted with slaves and wwii era jews; if you tell someone they are homemakers they will eventually know their place as one.

    I would not raise my daughter, if I ever had one, to become somebody's housepet.

  16. Re:Easy to be the best on Hotmail's Spam Filter: The Best In the Business? · · Score: 1

    Couple of years back my mother received a two year old e-mail.

    Today, e-mails and SMS messages are expected on the day. Only Apple's iMessage get away with longer delays.. (may be intended as IRC but used as IM).

  17. Theft-safe working *nix solution, free of charge! on Ask Slashdot: Making a Tablet Run Only One Application? · · Score: 2

    Auto-run an SSH session with credentials supplied and X forwarding to the machine serving the videos running a simple webpage in a webkit window. Have the script auto reload same window if closed.
    Naturally limit the user privileges and limit network abuse with MAC filtering.

    I'm kidding, but it could work:)

    That said, how to theft-safe the device? Glue it to the wall.

  18. Re:Virtual Desktops on GNOME 3: Beauty To the Bone? · · Score: 2

    I took it even further and piped each of Gimp's menus and toolbars through X out to their own Kompiz enhanced virtual desktop, using synergy to move between them.

    Atm, I'm being productive editing pics of my dog across 6 x 24" LCDs in a row across my CAT 6A lan.

  19. Re:To the Bone! on GNOME 3: Beauty To the Bone? · · Score: 1

    Yep. The next, deeply beautiful version will be red, and say: DO NOT PRESS

    If pressed it will send an acpi sleep command to the monitor.

  20. obligatory on 83-Year-Old Woman Gets New 3D-Printed Titanium Jaw · · Score: 1

    I, for one, welcome our Titanium-jawed Belgian grandmother overlords!

  21. Re:as far as copyright law allows on How Far Should GPL Enforcement Go? · · Score: 1

    MAD is redundant compared to MAnon-D. The former presupposes will to die, the latter the will to live.

    People who support MAD usually think as Thomas Hobbes; every man's warre against every man.
    Thomas Hobbes presupposed a Newtonian model of man that is wholly incorrect with THE FACTS.

    If you want to use the Cold War as a standard of man's "natural state" go right ahead.

  22. Re:Well, well. on Angry Birds Boss Credits Piracy For Popularity Boost · · Score: 1

    I don't think it counts when you just copy your own material.

    *rimshot!*

  23. Re:Obviously on Tenative Ruling Against Kaleidescape in DVD CCA Case · · Score: 1

    Pics or it didn't happen!

  24. Re:Yes on Ask Slashdot: Does Europe Have Better Magazines Than the US? · · Score: 1

    Seems like the rulers that be are aiming for the latter.

  25. Re:natural right on Twitter Can Now Block Tweets In Specific Countries · · Score: 1

    Actually, I would say the 'inalienable human rights' are de facto Western products because they rely on dependencies such as individualism and universialism stemming from German Idealism (and earlier) as well as principles of Western civilization like Habeas corpus.

    In fact, I would argue that only such a historical contingency (hard birth) makes these values worth fighting for, so as to decouple them from historical struggle and aim towards global law.

    You can have parallell rights in other world views. Chinese culture has a stronger sense of community that I speculate is due to a we-before-I thinking, bereft of the universal individualism of the west. These rights could even be similar in effect, bur would mean entirely different things.