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  1. Gee on Boston Tracks Vehicles, Lies About It, Leaves Data Exposed · · Score: 1

    Is anyone shocked at this from a state that criminalized everyone by barging in to houses to try and find the Boston bombers? But yeahhhh, think of the children.

  2. Shhashy!!! on Microsoft Continues To Resist US Warrant For Irish Data · · Score: 1

    They'll never get me pot o gold!!!

  3. Re:that's what FedEx/UPS are for on TSA Luggage Lock Master Keys Are Compromised · · Score: 1

    Well if you are not half an idiot you can do this think called "planning" and your luggage will be waiting for you at your final destination. Funny how that works, huh?

  4. Re:i haven't bought a car in a while... on When Do Robocars Become Cheaper Than Standard Cars? · · Score: 1

    All these things are issues that have been easily dealt with in the past and throwing a million dollars at a 5 dollar problem is just stupid no matter how "great" or "convenient" people think it would be. I see the robo cars like "The world of the future" clips from the 50's. Lots of money poured in to ideas that never came to fruition.

  5. Whole lotta bullshit involved. on Come and Take It, Texas Gun Enthusiasts (Video) · · Score: 1

    Ok, the guy has what they consider a 80% lower, meaning that 80% of the lower receiver of the gun is already milled. You can buy these on the internet and not need a FFL to purchase one since it's not a completed lower (has no trigger area, no area for the clip to go in, and a couple different pins and mechanics holes that are needed) I can get one forged and partly machined for a lot cheaper plus less time consuming and I wouldn't have to finish the outside of it. I would need the jigs to machine it properly and I for one would not trust doing it with hand tools or the machine shown because I wouldn't trust the accuracy and would fear catastrophic failure. You can clearly see it only a 2 axis machine. It would take more then some battery power to machine a block of aluminum in that. You'd have to do at least 3 setups of the stock. That battery would die after the first half of machining. The guys in the video seem to think people are idiots and no one knows about machining


    But let assume you have a lower. Fine, but you need all the rest of the parts that make up the gun. The upper that includes the barrel, the bolt, the charging handle, on and on which you are not machining or even consider making on your own. Then you have to put it together, which by it's own is not the easiest thing, but parts a lot of times need gunsmithing to get them to fit properly. So there are tools for both the assembly AND working on parts fitment. That only is going to scare off 90% or more of people in even trying to build one. Add the cost (80% lower that's decent about 90 buck, upper kit that decent at least 500 if luck to find, the jigs 100+ dollars, tools to put it together properly 100+ to 200, time to do it all and the equipment which the "ghost gunner cnc" doesn't even tell you a price, just $250 NRD to "reserve" a spot to get one) and you pretty much eliminate it down to a select few that would enjoy this as a hobby. Oh, and you can legally only make them for yourself. Can't sell them either unless you get a manufacturers license, and nobody with a rickety l

  6. Re: nice, now for the real fight on FCC Approves Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1
  7. Re: nice, now for the real fight on FCC Approves Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So how exactly was it not working? Seemed like it was all fine. Even those netflix notices were proven false. If anything this will slow everyone's speeds down for the minority extreme users out there. Anytime there is legislation wrapped up in the "it's for the consumer" mantra it ends up costing the consumer more for poorer service. Track records speak for themselves.

  8. Re:Potheads on Mystery Ash Clouds Rain In Parts of Washington, Oregon · · Score: 2

    White guilt is "insightful" on a story about ash clouds??? WTF happened to slashdot???

  9. Spell check on Don't Sass Your Uber Driver - He's Rating You Too · · Score: -1

    I think you put a "t" where the "p" is supposed to go!

  10. Re:jessh on "Mammoth Snow Storm" Underwhelms · · Score: 1

    Yes because northern regions have never dealt large amounts of snow, nor should they get used to having to deal with it. Damage to infrastructure? WTF are you talking about? Parts of this country had more snow then they ever had and I don't recall buildings, bridges, and the likes collapsing. You're the kind of person the buys in to the sensationalistic media worry storm and thinks you need help from every government agency in order to survive. Grow a fucking set of balls man!

  11. Re: Not their fault on "Mammoth Snow Storm" Underwhelms · · Score: 1

    WOW they reporter Worcester having 26 inches at 1:46 today, but your telling me you got 10" sense then?? WOW that IS variable!

  12. Isn't it about time for the FDA to require all drugs sold in the US be made in the US?? We are told all the time that companies go over seas to get more competitive, yet the prices for their goods go up and up and up and up. They tell us it's so consumers get a better price that they crave. That is all complete and utter BULLSHIT. It's all to increase profit, lower operating costs, and fuel the people on wall street.

  13. Mantra on FBI Seeks To Legally Hack You If You're Connected To TOR Or a VPN · · Score: 1

    It's the same thing we always hear all the time. The lines that are an attempt to fool the general public. It goes "We need "x" because we can't do our job, and if we can't do our job your "(family, kids, wife, money, future, home, the earth)" are all in danger, so do it for them!"

  14. Re:God damn Bush and Cheney on FBI Seeks To Legally Hack You If You're Connected To TOR Or a VPN · · Score: 2

    Beginning? You miss the last 15 to 20+ years or something?

  15. Re:Workstation?? on Ask Slashdot: High-Performance Laptop That Doesn't Overheat? · · Score: 1

    Should say "Short of" and meant to imply LAPTOP Workstations.

  16. Workstation?? on Ask Slashdot: High-Performance Laptop That Doesn't Overheat? · · Score: 1

    Sort of going for a desktop where cooling is not an issue, I think Workstations are the only why to go. They tend to be more bulky, but for a reason. SSD too, as they use less power and run a lot cooler. I buy Dell Workstations for my company and run heavy CAD programs (Catia, UG) on them with rarely any issues. I think, even though you might not need it, a Quadro or Fire level video adapter in it would serve you well also. Off loading as much of that processing from the CPU would make it run cooler.

  17. Re:Take a look at Sager Systems on Ask Slashdot: High-Performance Laptop That Doesn't Overheat? · · Score: 1

    The story say Clevo which is what Sager's are built on

  18. Re:Countless Comments on Prior Articles & Now on FBI: North Korean Hackers "Got Sloppy", Leaked IP Addresses · · Score: 1

    Probably about as impossible as North Korea having the entire network map, certificates, and hardcoded passwords in their script they used. One? Maybe. All three? No a fucking chance.

  19. HELLO!!!! on FCC Favors Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Any one need any more proof that Net Neutrality crusade is just about control and money? FCC all in? Aaaaahhhhh yeahh kinda says it all. Places like netfilx are all in because it fits their business model. Someone else taking care of bandwidth.

  20. "May be responsible"???? What happened to the FBI and their concrete "sources can't be reveled" proof?

  21. Re:Sony security: strong or weak? on Schneier Explains How To Protect Yourself From Sony-Style Attacks (You Can't) · · Score: 2

    This tells a lot about what was first reported and how the actual claim of it being North Korea was fabricated. Most interesting is the line "Among the more than 11,000 newly-released files are hundreds of employee usernames and passwords as well as RSA SecurID tokens and certificates belonging to Sony". Ahhhh yea I'm going to say North Korea wasn't involved in the least in this......... Former employee(s) seem about a million times more likely.

  22. Re:Official Conclusion on Schneier Explains How To Protect Yourself From Sony-Style Attacks (You Can't) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Add to it that Sony is NOT an American company, that the scripts used had HARD CODED passwords and network routes in it, plus the amount of people Sony laid off this year. The whole thing is utter bullshit and the FBI latched on to it for some reason, most likely PR or to use it as an excuse to stomp on US citizens rights. I can't believe on so many tech site that have people that have knowledge of networks and security you still have people that believe the whole thing and investigate it very little.


    Now we have douche bags like Bruce Schneier and Kevin Mitnick saying that the technology doesn't exist to stop these attacks. The author of Applied Cryptography first main point is that they shouldn't have made racist comments about President Obama or insulted its starsor (what ever the fuck that means)???? WTF???? How is that even part of the story of a so call security expert talking on the attacks? Gee wouldn't the first logical conclusion be that if they used simple encryption on their emails then even if stolen the attackers would have found the email files useless?


    I'm sorry, I'm sick of the "experts" insulting our intelligence with stupid comments that are pretty easy to see as nonsensical. The are either paid shills or make comments like those to keep their business revenue flowing.

  23. Recipe on Top Five Theaters Won't Show "The Interview" Sony Cancels Release · · Score: 1, Interesting

    1/2 a dash of PR


    1/2 a dash of bullshit (fresh)


    Two sprigs of the Smith Mundut act repeal


    1 whole FUD, chopped


    1 government w/control issues


    Mix ingredients in a large water cammode briskly then flush on to American public

  24. Think global! on Sir Richard Branson Quietly Shelves Virgin Submarine Plan · · Score: 1

    He probably doesn't want to disturb all that deep under water methane!

  25. Restored some faith on Linking Drought and Climate Change: Difficult To Do · · Score: 0

    Comments here have restored some faith in slashdot commenters to me slightly. I was always baffled when the so called tech savoy community was "all in" on climate change with all the information that is at their finger tips on the internet and articles like this resulted in trying to shout out people with the claims of "deniers, deniers, deniers!!!"