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  1. Propaganda on Did Russia Trick Snowden Into Going To Moscow? · · Score: 2

    Just more propaganda and doubt to bring into the mix

  2. New Market on Driverless Cars Could Cripple Law Enforcement Budgets · · Score: 1

    This is creating a market for even tinier violins. I can't seem to find one small enough.

  3. Solution to my housing crisis on US Climate Report Says Global Warming Impact Already Severe · · Score: 1

    I bought my house and went crazy upside down on it. I'm in the better part of nation for climate predictions. Looks like my property value is set to skyrocket once everyone else runs out of water/food.

  4. Download and never watch on How Much Data Plan Bandwidth Is Wasted By DRM? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it cost Hulu/Netflix more bandwidth to allow this (and therefore more money in infrastructure)? Many users are going to download movies and never watch them, causing them lost bandwidth and possibly lost ad revenue. With a streaming model if you decide you don't like the movie, you just stop streaming. If you had downloaded the movie, the bandwidth required to give you that part of the movie you didn't watch is "wasted".

  5. Similar to the Bill Gates funded laser? on First Automatic Identification of Flying Insects Allows Hi-Tech Bug Zapping · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Psh, jQuery. on HTML5 App For Panasonic TVs Rejected - JQuery Is a "Hack" · · Score: 1

    Ya, just write these 20 lines of code to do what one line does with jQuery. I think the point of the site is that you can easily write your own wrappers for IE9+. Then again, since jQuery 2.x doesn't support IE below version 9, presumably 2.x is such a wrapper (2.x has a notably smaller file size than 1.x). It just wraps everything you could possibly need. If you only need fade in/out, perhaps you should just write your own wrapper.

  7. Multiple protocols at the same time? on Old-school Wi-Fi Is Slowing Down Networks, Cisco Says · · Score: 0

    Excepting noise, is there a reason you can't implement 802.11 and a new protocol at the same time? Similar to the 2.4 and 5Ghz dual band devices?

  8. Little yellow street view guy on Google Removes "Search Nearby" Function From Updated Google Maps · · Score: 1

    The same reason the little yellow street view guy wasn't in the new version either (he is now). They are releasing a rolling beta and using you to test their products.

  9. gmail plus sign postfix on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Misdirected Email? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, I have a solution to your "email has already been registered" issue. Gmail will treat yourname+blah@gmail.com as the same address as yourname@gmail.com, both will go into the yourname@gmail.com account. Give the site an email address with a plus sign postfix like that and it should detect it as a new unique address. Some sites don't allow the plus symbol in email addresses (even though it's a valid character), so mileage may vary.

  10. Re:Just the processors on Intel Challenges Manufacturers To Avoid "Conflict Metals" · · Score: 2, Funny

    Intel recently stopped making motherboards

  11. Old Man Winter: The Terrorist on Hearing Shows How 'Military-Style' Raid On Calif. Power Station Spooks U.S. · · Score: 1

    Terrorists should just pray for snow, that seems to take out the power to enough people every season. It's completely ridiculous for so many thousands of people to be losing power in 2013 due to weather that's predicted to happen several times each year.

  12. WebApp runs through their servers on Google Testing Smart Appliance, Would Compete With Nest Thermostat · · Score: 2

    I'm not buying a Nest, so please don't make that the quality target.

    With the Nest, the thermostat sends data to their servers and your browser/phone app communicates to their server. What if they decide to close shop next year? Definitely no web access anymore. What else on the thermostat will stop working without a server to phone home to? Not to mention, if you want to find your foil hat, why do they need to know when I'm home or not?

    Why can't we just have UPnP and connect directly to the thermostat? You might say that's too complicated for the average person, but that's the point of service people, to fix things you can't or don't want to fix yourself. Why do I have to give up so much because Uncle Joe still uses AOL?

  13. raspberry pie and a usb drive on Ask Slashdot: Simple Backups To a Neighbor? · · Score: 1

    Probably a only suitable for a pure Linux solution, but I have this setup using a raspberry pie, a usb harddrive (that has it's own AC adaptor), and rsnapshot. I mount a scp share that uses a truecrypt file volume. This way I get point in time snap shots, using all free software, and the remote computer doesn't need to know the encryption keys.

  14. Signup form as of today on How To FIx Healthcare.gov: Go Open-Source! · · Score: 1
  15. It's all in the name on Curiosity Confirms Origins of Martian Meteorites · · Score: 1

    Martian meteorites come from mars

  16. Entertainment on Ask Slashdot: Why Isn't There More Public Outrage About NSA Revelations? · · Score: 2

    I have TV and Video games that need watching/playing. Stop bumming me out.

  17. The Great Horse-Manure Crisis of 1894 on At Current Rates, Tesla Could Soon Suck Up Worldwide Supply of Li-Ion Cells · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The Great Horse-Manure Crisis of 1894. Writing in the Times of London in 1894, one writer estimated that in 50 years every street in London would be buried under nine feet of manure.

  18. Promise ;) on US, Germany To Enter No-Spying Agreement · · Score: 1

    Promise. *wink* *wink* ;)

  19. It's okay, this is illegal on College Students Hijack $80 Million Yacht With GPS Signal Spoofing · · Score: 1

    I think we're going to be okay because this is illegal. It doesn't matter that it was done far away from Texas, US laws apply everywhere.

  20. Who did they survey? on Most Americans Think Courts Are Failing To Limit Government Surveillance · · Score: 1

    I've spoken to about 10 people about all the recent NSA stuff. Most hadn't heard of the NSA "issues" and none of them cared that the NSA was collecting information on everyone. A few didn't care if NSA flat out recorded all conversations. Who did they poll?

  21. Great way to teach children on Chinese Firm Huawei In Control of UK Net Filters · · Score: 2

    Cameron is just trying to motivate the young to learn technology. Tell a 12 year old boy his reward is porn and he'll learn how to bypass those filters in no time flat.

    I've always thought about doing something similar with my own kid. Steadily increase the completeness of the filters until he has taught himself how to get around all of them. As of now, he's more interested in Elmo.

    Stage 1 - Proxy Settings
    Stage 2 - DNS filters
    Stage 3 - Net Nanny
    Stage 4 - Deep packet at the router level
    Stage 5 - ?

  22. GGPL on MySQL Man Pages Silently Relicensed Away From GPL · · Score: 0

    LPGL, lessor GPL, is offered. Perhaps a GGPL, greater GPL, should also be written up as a guarantee that it will never be closed.

  23. Re:Is this legal? on MySQL Man Pages Silently Relicensed Away From GPL · · Score: 1

    Nope, a few projects have done this. I can think of ExtJS, Boxee, pChart, and I'm sure tons more.

    Apparently, assuming you were the original author of the software, you can switch to any license you want. You just can't retroactively apply it to version past. IMHO, it does seem like stealing from the people that gave their time for free to contribute to the software.

  24. video games and stability on What Keeps You On (or Off) Windows in 2013? · · Score: 1

    Windows still just works. I've tried really hard to make the switch and can't.

    Steam (or video card drivers?) still isn't good enough to get me to make the switch. I have a pretty recent AMD card that gets around 300fps on Windows with the recommended settings. The radeon xorg driver gets 30-40fps with terrible jitter and fglrx has too many bugs in general to make much use of. I've done a lot of searching and tried many things, nothing helped much.

    I have wireless usb headphones and, for some reason, they really only work well in Ubuntu with Unity. As much as I hate Unity (it's un-user friendly, buggy mess), it's the only DE that allows me to easily select that output and has support for the volume wheel on the headset. I've tried several of the popular distros and DEs. As an example, the volume wheel works in Mageia, but it kicks me out of full screen mode. I can't even select the headset output through other DE's like Cinnamon or MATE.

  25. Not my choice on White House: Use Metric If You Want, We Don't Care · · Score: 1

    You can't put XBMC to Celsius unless you tell it you don't live in the US.