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  1. If I attach a gun to it ... on NBC News Reports US Will Require Registration For Consumer Drones (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Will I still have to register?

  2. Re:Until you experience the speed ... on Google Fiber Launches In Provo — and Here's What It Feels Like · · Score: 1

    Sure, but do you really want to live in a country where there are on average 1200 people per square mile

    Yes.

  3. Re:Show us your papers on DHS Still Stonewalling On Body Scanning Ruling One Year Later · · Score: 2

    Which is why we're screwed. The 99% have the soap and the ballot. The 1% have the money to heavily influence the soap and the ballot and they have all the money for the jury and ammo.

  4. They should mount a camera on the front too on Rearview Car Cameras Likely Mandated By 2014 · · Score: 2

    As looking at the source of the statistics just as many kids are harmed and killed by frontovers as well as backovers.

    http://www.kidsandcars.org/userfiles/dangers/shared/non-fatal-pie-chart.pdf
    http://www.kidsandcars.org/userfiles/dangers/shared/fatalities-pie-chart.pdf

    Also, they should install a camera inside the car so parents don't forget to leave their kids in the car as 16% of kids are killed from Heat Stroke and over 50% are harmed from being left in the vehicle.

  5. Re:Hard to believe on Are You Better At Math Than a 4th (or 10th) Grader? · · Score: 1

    This was the one question I got wrong. I wasn't wearing my glasses and read it as (47 x 75) plus 25.

  6. Useful on Ask Slashdot: Is Reverse DNS a Worthy Standard For Fighting Spam? · · Score: 2

    If your email server does not have rDNS records then it's very likely half your mail is not getting delivered. aol.com, gmail, hotmail, etc all require rDNS.

    Blocking on invalid rDNS, invalid or missing A records and not following proper smtp protocol is helpful on a email gateway. However, if you are a relay for clients you'll have problems.

  7. Re:That's my big issue with them on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    1) What are your problems?

    - AT&T wants to buy T-Mobile
      - Day traders sucking money out by rapid nanosecond transactions and then blowing it on coke and hookers
      - The supreme court decision about corporations are people
      - Unlimited contributions to campaigns by PACs.
      - Monsanto
      - Having an economy based on consumerism

    2) What shall we do about them?

    - Not allow AT&T to buy T-Mobile
      - Regulate day traders better. The fact you have a server located closer to the stock exchange should not be an advantage
      - Corporations are not people
      - Limit campaign contributions by PACs
      - Ban the use of genetically modified seeds. Buy local. Grow your own and share.
      - Support your local economy. Read more books. Watch less TV.

  8. Re:Get some integrity, guys! on Startup Flees To Seattle Amid Amazon's Tax Fight · · Score: 2

    I think what he meant was if NH has less people then why can't CA balance the budget.

    But a quick look on wikipedia shows NH gets most of it's income from property taxes. CA has always had trouble with that income stream due to prop 13. The burst of the housing bubble made it worse. With folks not spending all that much sales tax revenue has declined.

  9. Re:I would like to invite Amazon... on California Assembly Approves Internet Tax · · Score: 1

    My guess is that data came from here: http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/22685.html It's really hard to find.

    California had a recession hit in 2008 which we are still experiencing. As California has a GDP of 2 trillion it's understandable we would have such a huge deficit as a result. There's a lot of money in the state. Montana on the other hand only has a GDP of 35 billion.

  10. Link to the actual study on Texting On the Rise In the US · · Score: 1
  11. Re:California wants $30B from Feds for itself on Is a US High-Speed Railway Economically Feasible? · · Score: 1

    I just wish instead of the $30B on this project they spent the money to lay extra track for the Amtrak route between Sacramento and San Jose. And also maybe rework the route through the carniquez strait. I live in Sacramento and don't need high speed rail but rail that at least will go about 60mph and not have to sit in the middle of a corn field waiting for a freight train.

    Extending BART to Tracy/Stockton, Antioch and San Rafael/Petaluma will also help alleviate the traffic.

    LA is a lost cause as it's just a giant suburb. I like my road trips so would just hop in the car and drive there although usually I just bypass it and go straight to Arizona.

  12. Re:Whew on BP Claims Gulf Well Has Been Stopped · · Score: 1

    The hookers and blow are awesome. Things are great. I don't have a care in the world.

  13. What is wrong with broadband in the US on FCC Dodges Pointed Questions On US Broadband Plan · · Score: 1

    The major incumbents do not want fast low-latency broadband. It will cut into their profits. Right now they make 15.99/month of a me for basically doing nothing. That's what I pay for most basic land line in order to have DSL from my ISP. The only time I hooked a phone up to it was to figure out which phone jack to plug my dsl modem into. My DSL provider also has to pay AT&T $20 for access to provide my DSL. So, of the $40/month I pay for DSL, AT&T gets $35 and my provider gets $5.

    For my cell phone I pay $49.99. I suppose I only need the phone minutes because my carrier requires it. So I got the minimum. Why it costs $10/month for unlimited texting is beyond me considering I have "unlimited" internet for the same amount. Why can't I just get a mobile phone with unlimited internet and use that for voice, data and text? Why does it need to be split up? Oh, I forget profits.

    And for those who think well it's just all capitalism and AT&T has to recoup the costs of maintaining their infrastructure let me tell you a story.

    I work for a public access television station and when Uverse came to town I was involved with getting our signal on to their system. The process went like this:

    - Conference call with four AT&T reps. They spent the first 15 minutes gabbing a bunch of marketing crap about the Uverse system. I asked them what this had to do with getting our signal to them and could we please talk about that. They remarked "I didn't realize your time was so important". Apparently theirs isn't but we had four reps from our end and I sure didn't want to waste a bunch of time.

    - Then we had a site visit. Three reps in stinky leather jackets who could easily be mistaken as Mafioso. They took a bunch of pictures and asked a bunch of lame questions.

    - Then we had yet another conference call with four of the reps to make sure we did everything required as determined by the site visit.

    - They then sent out an installer for a T1 line. Not once but twice. The installer had absolutely no clue they were installing the T1 on behalf of AT&T not us. I didn't order it. I did not care. He kept handing me cards and telling me where the POE was. I threw the cards away. Not my responsibility.

    - Finally the day of installation came. Two techs and their manager drove up 350 miles from LA in two separate vehicles to install the equipment. All eight rack spaces of it. Took them all day.

    Contrast this with how Comcast got our signal:

    - Head end tech calls me to make an appt to install the equipment. Five minute call.

    - Head end tech arrives with one rack space unit hands it to me and says plug audio in here, video in there and the fiber in here. Then leaves.

    - I spend 15 minutes racking the unit and the job is done.

  14. The Letters on Congressmen Send Letters, Hope For Net Neutrality Fades · · Score: 5, Informative
  15. Can someone please explain to me on "Phone In One Hand, Ticket In the Other" · · Score: 1

    Why driving with one hand by your ear and talking via bluetooth on your cell phone is legal but driving with a cellphone in that hand is illegal?

  16. Re:Welp, that's it on Southwest Declares Kevin Smith Too Fat To Fly · · Score: 1

    Or how about selling seats based on waist size. Eventually planes would be outfitted with a number of seats for 28-32 (probably less wide then the current), 32-36, 36-42, etc. In other words this situation is all the airlines fault. They just need to have a variety of different seats to accommodate the different waist sizes of passengers. So, a size 32 would be just as uncomfortable in couch as a 64 inch waist. The airlines need to accomadate for this. It's a reality they have to face. I'm fine with having the fare based on weight or waist size, but then I'm thin.

  17. Distributed ssh attacks on Crazy Firewall Log Activity — What Does It Mean? · · Score: 1

    Over the past week I've had the following countries hitting my ssh:

      108 location: RO
      121 location: CZ
      122 location: HU
      133 location: AU
      142 location: HK
      143 location: MX
      145 location: BR
      151 location: TH
      152 location: CO
      158 location: IN
      183 location: MU
      184 location: NL
      191 location: ES
      205 location: ININ
      234 location: JP
      252 location: FR
      270 location: CA
      306 location: PL
      313 location: GB
      314 location: TW
      355 location: CNCN
      364 location: IT
      379 location: RU
      399 location: KR
      632 location: DE
    1361 location: CN

  18. Re:Only matter of time? on Half the Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped · · Score: 2, Funny

    Surely the best way would be to download a torrent from The Pirate Bay in front of the Judge, leave it downloading during the trial (no intervention), and then once it was complete, show that you downloaded a copyrighted piece of material.

    While at the same time the sysadmin at the piratebay monitors connections from the courthouse and reroutes the request for the pirated torrent to http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/4469310/Rick_Astley_-_Never_gonna_give_you_up.avi.4469310.TPB.torrent

  19. Awesome on Report Claims 95% of Music Downloads Are Illegal · · Score: 1

    The internet the new radio. I wonder if they ever did a study comparing how many people just listened to the latest top 40 hit on the radio (usually played every hour) compared to how many people actually bought the 45.

  20. Re:Wow! Top 10?? on Pirate Bay Gets a 4,000-Page Complaint · · Score: 1

    I believe the author was citing Rick Falkvinge, the founder of the Swedish Pirate Party. Specifically, his Copyright regime vs. civil liberties keynote address. As popularized by the article mentioned in the recent slashdot post Interview With Pirate Party Leader Rick Falkvinge

    In this address Falkvinge stated while the Pirate Party is only the tenth largest party in Swedish politics. This was a first for a newly formed party and support is rapidly growing (especially under the youth demographic.)

    His presentation showed a graphic pie chart with the Pirate Party as a wedge between the two equal divided dominant parties. Who is Prime Minister is quite often determined by the swing voters and Falkvinge states the Pirate Party, and thus it's platform, is a dominant player in that area.

  21. Re:They're free to share... on Interview With Pirate Party Leader Rick Falkvinge · · Score: 1

    and yet you'll continue to post on slashdot for free. While those of us who choose to produce and distribute our works via p2p won't be able because p2p technology will be banned or seriously crippled. All because some require financial incentive to express themselves and others are afraid there won't be any future Star Wars episodes. Or god forbid the next Brittney.

    I feel a lot of folks are still under the impression there's a chance they'll get their fifteen minutes of fame. Well, not anymore. Popularity is a old and tired meme. Soon, there will be no more celebrities. No more Entertainment Tonight with Mary Hart, no more TV Guides and Star Trek: Episode XIXVI The Last Temptation of Kirk will never get past the story boarding phase.

    Trust me. The world is going to be a much better place once we don't have all these public relations and advertising agencies spewing there garbage into our public space.

  22. Re:cts's holiday guide to ripping off the riaahole on RIAA Writes Its Own News For Local TV · · Score: 1

    You could just buy the download then. But I like a good balance between buying stuff I like and being able to access information. The RIAA wants to charge for buzz and hype and I'd prefer not to pay for that.

  23. Re:Revocation is pointless on AACS Hack Blamed on Bad Player Implementation · · Score: 1

    Well that's a damn good point. But you may be mixing up your keys. Easy to do. But hacked player keys in the wild will allow people to decrypt any disk. Hacked volume and title keys are the ones tied to the disk itself. No mechanism to revoke those, until new disks are manuafactured. But by that time your point comes into play and it doesn't matter.