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  1. Prison labour? on 45% of U.S. Jobs Vulnerable To Automation · · Score: 0

    The prisons will be empty then :)

  2. Having lived there on Online Law Banning Discussion of Current Affairs Comes Into Force In Vietnam · · Score: 0

    I have lived in Vietnam for 18 months 8 years ago and i am planning to retire there soon. There is already censorship of Facecrack and other social sites, but most of the users get around it by using proxies. The BBC in Vietnamese is also banned and blocked by the parties firewall and again its easy to circumvent for the technically minded. The problem is not necessary the decrees as most of the population south of Hanoi simply see the police and government as a nuisance, its the punishments if you get caught publishing information about the corruption that's rife from the top down. When you get to court you have no defence and you will be punished as the government sees fit. http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=15824 https://www.cpj.org/2013/02/vietnam-detains-blogger-who-covered-corruption.php They recently stated that all Vietnamese must report if they see anyone using the internet in any way that opposes the government, which makes it difficult to know who is watching you, let alone the ISP's reporting your internet usage and the sites you visited, and any activist would not use a public terminal as eyes are everywhere. If they cant arrest you, they can make it very hard for you, we got moved 3 times by the police telling our landlords that we were not allowed to live in the places we rented just because we are legally married lesbians and we choose to live together in Saigon, during the harassment by the police we were detained and questioned by plain clothes police. They threatened to deport me and imprison my Vietnamese wife just because we choose to co-habit, in the end we had to lie to the police saying that we lived in separate houses, just to be able to live there. I think they have since relaxed the homophobic laws and I they say they will allow gay marriage in Vietnam at some point soon, but they will never relax the laws about reporting corruption as they are scared very scared.

  3. Should have on The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever · · Score: 0

    Ctrl-A, Ctrl-X this post

  4. Cant wait! on Linux 3.11-rc7 Release Celebrates 22 Years of Linux · · Score: 0

    I cant wait till the windows version comes out!

  5. It was good to see you when you visited, your belief in the upcoming project will put you before others and you will be welcomed into the kingdom. The day is nearly upon us, I have been told that you have everything you need, to bring US to the attention of the world once more. Allah be with you. Ohmar

  6. Piracy on Motorola Is Listening · · Score: 0

    So when the NSA or Motorolla make illegal copies of our information is that piracy? After all we are the copyright holders and we have not authorised the copy

  7. People will get upset! on Legislators Introduce Bill To Stop Set Top Boxes From Watching You · · Score: 0

    That's going to piss the NSA off then!

  8. Re:Our Hobbies are Actually the Same on 2013 Nominees For Hobby Gaming's Top Prize · · Score: 0

    Hobbies also suggest that they are not developed by professionals so the list should be even shorter. How crap do you have to make your stuff to become a hobby game? What if an someone like me makes makes a game and makes money does it stop being a hobby? or vice versa, what if I make games all day every day and make no money am I Indie or hobby?

  9. Considering the success of DRM on US Entertainment Industry To Congress: Make It Legal For Us To Deploy Rootkits · · Score: 0

    Considering the success of DRM over the years, I think this will be a fool proof plan that cant possibly go wrong!

  10. Electric Chairs on Ask Slashdot: Wiring Home Furniture? · · Score: 0

    Electric Chairs for when the in-laws turn up!

  11. Re:Wow! on Three Low-Tech Hacks for Phones and Tablets · · Score: 0

    TOLD!

  12. Re:Heh... Radical...Islamists...redundant... on Islamist Hackers Shut Down Egyptology Research Journal · · Score: -1

    Shiite branch.

    I think you have spelt shit wrong, there is only one i and no e!

  13. They will only do it once on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Theft Devices For Luggage? · · Score: 0

    Carry an extra bag with containing a Tiger!

  14. No survey on the pirate bay? on UK Internet Porn Blocking Rejected · · Score: 0

    So for porn they have a survey and the results was no blocking, so what happened to the survey on blocking the pirate bay? would we have had the same turn out? would the government have lost that one, that's why there was no survey. hmmmmm!

  15. There are no charges on Navy Seals Disciplined For Revealing Secrets As Consultants On Video Game · · Score: 0

    How can they be charged with giving secrets away when they did not kill bin laden. he was killed pre 2008 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKDYZfEbEow 2:10 mins in

  16. So if it is a Simulation on Physicists Devise Test For Whether the Universe Is a Simulation · · Score: 1

    Future News. Recently, a group of hackers have figured out a way to mine bit-coins on the universes GPUs, and later a group of terrorists have devised a way that will reboot the universe!

  17. Re:You know, I'll forgive them for this mistake on Halliburton's Missing Radioactive Cylinder Found · · Score: 0

    Dick Cheney is a war criminal.

    agreed, Can you add Tony Blair to the list of war criminals

  18. Picture Kiosk on Algorithm Brings Speedier, Safer CT Scans · · Score: 0

    Looks like there may be an answer for failing KODAK. While you wait CT Scans. Kiosks on ever high-street :)

  19. I would say very nice on Tetris In 140 Bytes · · Score: 0

    But there are some bugs in it, like scroll your block left left left and it fills the screen with blocks, while also taking the block back up the screen..... so nice idea nice try but no cigar! it cant be called a game it can be called a test demo, not much more! Sorry for being so harsh.

  20. Hes dead let him rest on Steve Jobs' Missing License Plate · · Score: 0

    Stupid stories about a dead guy, should we keep creating stories about JFK or Bin laden for all eternity..... He's dead, he's gone, snuffed it..... move on

  21. Re:Does this COMPLETELY delete them? on Facebook Blocks KDE Photo App, Deletes Users' Pics · · Score: 1

    Yup i have closed my Farceborg account before , only to be told, as soon as i log in again my account is re-activated.

  22. Rather that than latin on Idle: New Species Named For SpongeBob SquarePants · · Score: -1

    its better to have a modern name that a Latin name.

  23. Re:This is scary on Interpol Issues Wanted Notice For Julian Assange · · Score: 0

    So the condom broke on both women at once, or was it that the first condom broke on the first woman and then he carried on until he shot his load, then he got another condom and refused to stop again after the second one broke. HOW can two women make the same complaint? surly one is a witness and one is a victim, or am i missing his birth defect or being born with two sets of genitalia? Smearing again.

  24. Re:At last! A story *made* for slashdot! on Are Keyboards Dishwasher Safe? · · Score: 0

    I have washed motherboards in the kitchen sink with fairy, and hot air dried them in front of the heater, they worked a treat after, gets rid of all that human dust build up.

  25. Secrets on UK Cold War Era Nuclear War Plans Revealed · · Score: 0

    What worries me is, we now have the information from 1975, so what will we discover about Blair in 2035. Will anyone care?