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  1. Re:Better Plan? on Google and Microsoft To Block Child-Abuse Search Terms · · Score: 1

    Instead of blocking the searches why don't they just forward the request to the State Police or FBI along with their IP addresses and any other pertinent details they can?

    How do you know that they don't?

  2. Re:Just the Start? on Google and Microsoft To Block Child-Abuse Search Terms · · Score: 1

    Fair enough, child abuse is universally against the law (unless there are a few countries without such laws on their statue)

    Read most countries with sharia based law

  3. Re:Friendly request to non-Brits on Google and Microsoft To Block Child-Abuse Search Terms · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Please search for and compile the list of 100,000 terms.

    Which will inevitably all:
    - Have double meanings;
    - Be likely to be used by victims of abuse who are looking for help;
    - Be useful for legitimate research;
    - Be searched for by people looking for news or discussion on censorship;
    - End up with a lot of political hot topics thrown in.

    Thanks!

    Very true ..... for example I was thinking about searching about how this technology works but to do so would mean searching for dodgy things like "child abuse image filter"

  4. Re:Patents on Reports: Apple To Buy Israeli 3D Sensing Company PrimeSense · · Score: 1

    Seems like a good way to get some patents to use against Microsoft.

    And a good way to inject cash into a friendly nation's technology centre.

  5. It works by on Scientists Propose Satellite Early Warning System For Forest Fires · · Score: 1

    It works by tracking muzzies

  6. i just hope on Object Lessons: Evan Booth's Post-Checkpoint Airport Weapons · · Score: 1

    that the Muslims can't work out what he's doing from the video

  7. Re:OK, enough on Global Warming Since 1997 Underestimated By Half · · Score: 4, Funny

    Say what you will about anecdotes, I don't give a damn. My experience is unambiguous. The Earth is warming.

    No you must be wrong. It's as cool as it has ever been in my gas-guzzler with the aircon on full.

  8. He's wrong about BCPL on Zuckerberg To Teach 10 Million Kids 0-Based Counting · · Score: 1
    From TFA:

    and though BCPL arrays are zero-origin, the language doesn’t support pointer arithmetic, much less data structures

    In BCPL the only way of addressing arrays is by pointers. Pointers are fundamental. Variables can contain pointers to data (vectors), procedures, vectors of procedures etc. If you see that the only way of making structures is to use vectors and pointers you see that zero-indexing is fundamental.

  9. easy solution on We're Safe From the Latest SARS-Like Disease...For the Moment · · Score: 1

    Nuke Saudi Arabia in the middle of the Haj

  10. I guess they'll have to postpone on Military Drone Lost Over Lake Ontario · · Score: 1

    I guess they'll have to postpone the invasion of Canada.

  11. Re:The real Triumph.... on India's Mars Mission Back On Track After Brief Hiccup · · Score: 1

    This is exciting. Really exciting. First the successful moon mission and now this. However, from a ISRO's standpoint, this is more significant from another angle too. With such low cost, now others are looking at India as a satellite launch country. Even before, those who wanted satellite launches, often came to ISRO if cost was an issue. But success rate was not too good. With this mission reaching this stage, ISRO has shown that it can launch any type of satellite. From satellite launch perspective, this is a complete success. No doubt about it. All these dollars invested will come back over the next few years, as more and more companies gain more trust in ISRO launch capabilities. I won't be surprised if ISRO recovers all the costs of this mission from commercial launches within the next 5 years.

    That's an excellent point - and one that people who criticise India for spending money on research should listen to. If this demonstrates the ability of the ISRO it is a good investment with the potential of bringing in many times that money as revenue. Apart from that so little is known about Mars that all data collected will add to our understanding.

  12. This is good news for other services on Facebook Patented Making NSA Data Handoffs Easier · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, we'd love to be more cooperative, but I'm afraid that we don't have the patent rights ....

  13. Re:Casual slashdot racism in 3... on India's Mars Mission Back On Track After Brief Hiccup · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Of course the closet racists won't admit that there can be any other possible group association other than race...

    So true. I swear if the invasion of Pearl Harbour happened now people would be saying how wrong and racist it would be to attack Japan, and that they had as much right to Hawaii as America.

  14. Re:Casual slashdot racism in 3... on India's Mars Mission Back On Track After Brief Hiccup · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not racism to cry USA number 1 and hope other countries fail... (just nationalistic jingoism)

    And why not - America's German scientists did a better job laying the foundations of space flight than Russia's German scientists did.

  15. It will work on Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners · · Score: 1, Flamebait
  16. Re:I wonder how soon people will realise on US Postal Service To Make Sunday Deliveries For Amazon · · Score: 1

    It is required for legal notices and the court system. Unless you are suggesting a national email system...

    Don't these require tracked or signed-for delivery though?

  17. I wonder how soon people will realise on US Postal Service To Make Sunday Deliveries For Amazon · · Score: 0

    I wonder how soon people will realise that there is really no need for almost all normal non-packet mail. Most could be sent by email. There are very few documents that have to be sent physically but don't require signed or tracked delivery.

  18. Re:Dickish move... on Canonical Targets Ubuntu Privacy Critic · · Score: 1

    He probably meant to reply to the grand-parent (founder of this thread), but instead misclicked on the racist repl

    Nationalist stereotyping maybe but surely not racist ... unless you see it as anti-white somehow.

  19. Re:Talking about privacy... Qubes OS on Canonical Targets Ubuntu Privacy Critic · · Score: 1

    In those "best linux distros" I just discovered Qubes OS which achieves security (and privacy) through strong isolation.

    See what kind of activities can be isolated, in a picture.

    I think they got it right.

    Not very portable: one need to run it on bare metal (along with 4GB minimum), nomads will bring along their laptop, at least (also: secure boot optional).

    This is interesting and particularly relevant because it is the exact opposite to Ubuntu's theos. In ubuntu things you do on your local machine get propagated to the web. In Qubes OS, if I understand it correctly, things you do on your machine in one area, sites you visit in another (e.g. porn), and sites in a third (e.g. banking) will all be completely isolated from each other.

  20. Re:Dickish move... on Canonical Targets Ubuntu Privacy Critic · · Score: 1

    Use of trademarks descriptively is fair use. Thus I can say "I want a Coke", "No you're not having an XBox One for Christmas" or "fix Ubuntu" without any legal issues.

  21. Re:Anyone can disable third-party cookies ... but on Mozilla Backtracks On Third-Party Cookie Blocking · · Score: 1

    That's odd, because I've been running with third-party cookies blocked for years with no obvious problems.

    What have you got in your exeption list? I started building a list (with google.com so that 3rd party sites could log in, etc) but gave up.

  22. Re:Anyone can disable third-party cookies ... but on Mozilla Backtracks On Third-Party Cookie Blocking · · Score: 1

    You must have turned off *all* cookies.

    No.

  23. Anyone can disable third-party cookies ... but on Mozilla Backtracks On Third-Party Cookie Blocking · · Score: 0, Troll

    You suddenly find lots of things not working. Your credit card goes though the "verified by visa" then shows an error - leaving you unsure if the payment went (it didn't). The google login to other sites fail, facebook login fails all by itself. I tried it for a bit then gave up!

  24. Re:This is bad on Mozilla Backtracks On Third-Party Cookie Blocking · · Score: 1

    Names should be named.

    Lets make it recursive and then name the names of the named

  25. Re:This just in from Martian Air Defence on India To Launch Mars Orbiter "Mangalyaan" Tuesday · · Score: -1, Troll

    Do you know what happens when the Martians capture humans? They kill the men immediately. They take the captured human women and subject them to brutal rape. The woman are raped anally, but also vaginally so as to cause impregnation and gestation of a hybrid fetus which kills the mother during the birthing process. When the human female hosts are close to giving the fatal birth, they are moved under restraint into a special communal maternity ward so that they can witness their future fate, having been surrounded by other surrogates who were further along than they are. The hybrid children of the downed and murdered are indoctrinated from a young age to kill all humans, appearing as unsettlingly humanoid as Jerusalem Crickets.

    And you were modded funny for this? You sick, sick fuck.

    I think you are mixing up Martians and Muslims