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  1. Re:Good on Greece Rejects EU Terms · · Score: 1

    Germany never surrendered to Greece. They surrendered to the Allies. That's what Greece won't accept. IF Greece wants repatriation, they should look towards those Western, Central and Eastern countries that happily switched sides when they realised the Axis powers couldn't win.

  2. Stupid on How To Design Robot Overlords For "Robot Overlords" · · Score: 1

    So fucking stupid, pointless and dumb movies with bad scripts, blue filters and moronic, plagiaristic morals being a total waste of resources, time, effort and the rest of the shit I can't think of at the moment. That sub-genre is dead and they're still pushing it. Fuck off.

  3. Original Dune on Frank Herbert's Dune, 50 Years On · · Score: 1

    I read the original Dune book quite fast as soon as I discovered that reading every 2nd chapter (the sci-fi parts) were a lot more interesting than the arab based filler.
    I never really paid that much attention to it until I saw the movie many years later.

  4. Re:Why does Jobs always steal the limelight? on "Jobs" vs. "Steve Jobs": Hollywood Takes Another Stab At Telling the Steve Jobs Story · · Score: 1

    I think it was called 'Sweet 16" ROM that he wrote that put it all together.

  5. Re:"Musk" "Elon Musk" "Minky Musky Sly Stoaty Stoa on "Jobs" vs. "Steve Jobs": Hollywood Takes Another Stab At Telling the Steve Jobs Story · · Score: 1

    Can we have some BBWs in there as well?

  6. Re:Mincraft is for cows. on Microsoft To Launch Minecraft Education Portal For Teachers · · Score: 1
  7. Re:blu ray? on Where Facebook Stores 900 Million New Photos Per Day · · Score: 1

    You are right. There's no reason for why you can't 'spin down' a rack of cheap server grade HDs to save power.
    What happened to Bernoulli disks anyway?

  8. Re:Does Facebook compress pictures? on Where Facebook Stores 900 Million New Photos Per Day · · Score: 1

    They resize them first, then compress. A 3~5mb pic is stored around 10% of the uploaded size.

  9. Re:Mincraft is for cows. on Microsoft To Launch Minecraft Education Portal For Teachers · · Score: 1

    MOOOOOOO! MOOOOOOO!
    So let's teach WWII by playing Wolfenstein.

  10. Re:alogrithms aren't racist on Google Apologises For Photos App's Racist Blunder · · Score: 4, Interesting

    OTOH If it was a pic of a gorilla but labelled 'Black Afro-American' then you would have the same issue.

  11. Re:We will be finding an alternative on Cisco To Acquire OpenDNS · · Score: 1

    I thought all those with ID >101 have ascended or have had their consciousness uploaded into some kind of silicon based brain!
    Thanks for being here for us, guiding the way.

  12. Re:is anyone using it? on Cisco To Acquire OpenDNS · · Score: 1

    Yeah. If your ISP's DNS server is in a country that is monitoring requests, then:
    A: Your ISP can see what you are viewing
    B: They would be bound by law to hand over the logs.
    By going out of the geopolitical boundary (that's if you can) for DNS, then it's 1 chink in your armour.

  13. Re:Velcro? on Touring NASA's Space Shuttle Cockpit Trainer · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the clarification!

  14. Velcro? on Touring NASA's Space Shuttle Cockpit Trainer · · Score: 1

    My memory of Apollo 1 was that the fire had to do with teflon and not velcro. Am I mistaken?

    FTA "In spite of how it burned in the Apollo 1 fire, velcro isn’t a significant fire hazard. The space shuttle kept its cabin pressurized to an Earth-normal 14.7 psia with a mix of about 80 percent nitrogen and 20 percent oxygen, and under those conditions velcro is not flammable"

  15. Re:Pissed on France, Up In Arms Over NSA Spying, Passes New Surveillance Law · · Score: 1

    Some are too apathetic to procrastinate. Slashdot is my way of avoiding apathy and is perfect to practise the zen of avoidance.

  16. Re:Pissed on France, Up In Arms Over NSA Spying, Passes New Surveillance Law · · Score: 1

    Well these disclosures are attacks on them. They are losing face because they are being exposed.
    Just when they think attention on them is waning, they get hit again and again. They probably do not care but their 'we're the good guys because we fight terrorists' persona is definitely crumbling.
    That's not a judgement on why they do what they do. For example, they MUST find out what is happening in the world, so they crack into friendly governments. Just goes to show that the NSA operates outside of normal diplomacy and by their actions do not trust other friendly intelligence organisations or the controlling governments.
    I wouldn't be surprised if they are monitoring representatives and senators of their own government. That's scary especially if they achieve self consciousness and try to become our overlords.

  17. Re:Oh, sure, Tegra on NVIDIA Begins Supplying Open-Source Register Header Files · · Score: 1

    Hmmm... Maybe you/GP is right.

  18. Re:You don't get it on France, Up In Arms Over NSA Spying, Passes New Surveillance Law · · Score: 1

    You've got to take one more step. These new laws will allow French intelligence agencies to spy on the NSA as well. As you point out though, the NSA are aware of this and the whole 'cold war' thing gets reborn.

  19. Re:what about us? on France, Up In Arms Over NSA Spying, Passes New Surveillance Law · · Score: 2

    Wow! And here, everybody is blaming DICE/SJW/SystemD for it and APK for the cure.

  20. Re:Liberty on France, Up In Arms Over NSA Spying, Passes New Surveillance Law · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure there was a big sarcastic WOOSH there somewhere.

  21. Pissed on France, Up In Arms Over NSA Spying, Passes New Surveillance Law · · Score: 1

    The NSA are getting mighty pissed by now.

  22. Re:Oh, sure, Tegra on NVIDIA Begins Supplying Open-Source Register Header Files · · Score: 1

    Not so.
    There are more devices out there than you think:
    http://www.nvidia.com/object/t...

  23. Re:Trabant was light too on 3D Printed Supercar Chassis Unveiled · · Score: 1

    I smelled formaldehyde from the exhaust following one of them.

  24. 60 mph on 3D Printed Supercar Chassis Unveiled · · Score: 1

    So how fast does it accelerate to 62.5 mph?
    (just asking for us metric folk)

  25. Unsolicited Calls on Aussie Telco Caught Handing Over User Mobile Numbers To Websites Without Consent · · Score: 1

    This may be slightly off topic but I'm very careful whom I give my number to. I do get human calls from certain businesses like car servicing/hotel/insurance surveys and I'm comfortable with that as I gave them my contact number.
    What gets me is I also receive calls from charities, solar sellers, telco sellers etc, so someone is trading my ph number. I have blocked these (many are voip) and currently I get none of them. However every time I'm asked for my number, I ask why and often refuse to give it to them as there are other ways they can contact me.
    So you can be proactive here and not share your number especially if it is not required. Otherwise block, block, block!