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  1. Re:2014/04/01 on Nature Publisher Requires Authors To Waive "Moral Rights" To Works · · Score: 1

    Slashdot uses the WTF8 standard.

  2. Re:opinion on Russians Take Ukraine's Last Land Base In Crimea · · Score: 1

    As a Latvian you're fairly safe since your country is a member of NATO and you get to have the US come fight for you if you get invaded.

    Want to bet?

  3. Re:If you can't beat them... on L.A. Police: All Cars In L.A. Are Under Investigation · · Score: 1

    Bill template:

    Clause A.
    XXX will be punishable by...

    Clause B.
    Clause A will not apply to law enforcement, governmental agencies or anyone designated by them.

    Any questions?

  4. Not every company has this bias on Ask Slashdot: Will Older Programmers Always Have a Harder Time Getting a Job? · · Score: 1

    I joined the company I currently work for at 40+. Since then, we've hired people older than me (young ones too).

    Shameless plug:
    We're looking for good C++ developers. Age is not an issue.
    Good company. Turnover is close to nonexistent. Interview is murder.
    Location: Richmond Hill, Ontario

  5. decent lawyers

    Syntax error.

  6. Re:Short sighted on Mozilla Scraps Firefox For Windows 8, Citing Low Adoption of Metro · · Score: 1

    My company's moving to Windows 8.

    All 20-something employees?

  7. History repeats itself? on IBM Distances Itself From the NSA and Its Spy Activities · · Score: 1
  8. Resolution wars on Camera Module Problems May Delay Samsung's Galaxy S5 · · Score: 1

    What good is a tiny 16MP sensor if the lens cannot match that resolution?

  9. Re:Hypocrisy is always on topic on Russia Blocks Internet Sites of Putin Critics · · Score: 1

    I assume that more extreme measures are needed because, on the aggregate, the Russian population is harder to control than the American one.

  10. Re:Won't do any good. on Cameras On Cops: Coming To a Town Near You · · Score: 2

    The problem isn't a small minority of bad cops, it's the alleged majority of good cops that don't immediately report and ostracize the bad cops.

    a.k.a. bad cops

  11. Re:umm no on We Can Avoid a Surveillance State Dystopia · · Score: 1

    You are more free to do anything that poses no threat, real or imagined, to your masters and your masters' masters.

    In other words, the cattle is better cared for.

  12. Re:Kentucky Fried Dodo on The Mammoth Cometh: Revive & Restore Tackles De-Extinction · · Score: 1

    I also discovered that both dodo and booby (the bird) are probably portuguese words.

    Ah, the Booby, my second favourite bird, right after the Parus major.

  13. Re:write it yourself on Does Anyone Make a Photo De-Duplicator For Linux? Something That Reads EXIF? · · Score: 1

    Visipics is showing it's age.
    The UI is very limiting (although the algorithm is still the best of all the alternatives I tried)

    I wish the author would open-source it.

  14. Re:Time travel is not possible without on Searching the Internet For Evidence of Time Travelers · · Score: 1

    I routinely time-travel at a speed of 3600 sec/hour.
    Fast enough for you?

  15. Anything travelling through the intertubes can be copied by the NSA.

  16. Re:You can smell the fear... on No Question: Snowden Was 2013's Most Influential Tech Figure · · Score: 1

    ...that the federal government has. And it's not the muslim jihadists they're worried about. It's us.

    -1 delusional.

    The federal government does not fear "you".
    "You" have neither the will nor the means to effectively oppose them.
    Hell, "you" can't even inconvenience them.
    "You" are not even a blip on their radar.
    "You" are nothing but a resource to be exploited.

    The only thing Showden accomplished is reassuring the powers that be that they can get away with anything and don't even have to hide their misdeeds anymore.

  17. Re:And as usual... on Canadian Spy Agencies Deliberately Misled Courts · · Score: 1

    Banana constitutional monarchy.

  18. Re:Not surprising on Genome of Neandertals Reveals Inbreeding · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Oh Dear. on Thousands of Germans Threatened With €250 Fines For Streaming Porn · · Score: 1

    Going at this rate, do you have any countries left on your list?

  20. What to do on Employee Morale Is Suffering At the NSA · · Score: 1

    Ratchet it up.
    Out them, shun them, ostracize them, publicly insult them, treat them like scum.
    Everybody who's even suspected of being a TLA employee or contractor should get nothing but a cold shoulder and a middle finger.

  21. Re:Stem Cell "Training Project" for Skin Cancer on Killing Cancer By Retraining the Patient's Immune System · · Score: 1

    Immunovative as well.

  22. We need to send a strong message on eBay Founder Pleads For Leniency For the PayPal 14 · · Score: 2

    Dissent will not be tolerated!

  23. Re:Australia has always been a social engineering on Australian Spy Agency Offered To Share Data About Ordinary Citizens · · Score: 1

    -voting is compulsory. You break the law if you refuse to vote. Of course, since anyone who votes, no matter how they vote, gives active support to the current system, every citizen of this sick nation is FORCED to actively support the current system- BY LAW.

    You are not prevented from casting an invalid vote.

  24. Australian / Canadian ? on Australian Spy Agency Offered To Share Data About Ordinary Citizens · · Score: 2

    This includes legal, religious and medical information, which was shared about this Canadian women.

    How does the Australian spy agency share medical data on a Canadian woman?

  25. Re:Need more mental health centers not prisons on A Review of the "Mental Illness" Definition Might Prevent Crime · · Score: 1

    tl;dr version: Your laws matter only as far as you can enforce them, and since the entire fight was about ability to do so...

    Please mod parent up.