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  1. Re: Because it is not content or person based on Europe's 'Net Neutrality' Could Allow Throttling of Torrents and VPNs (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    So your advocating port 80 neutrality only? That'd be www neutrality not net neutrality

  2. Hows is this a net neutrality bill? on Europe's 'Net Neutrality' Could Allow Throttling of Torrents and VPNs (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If they are allowed to set priorities for different traffic, how is this a net neutrality bill?

  3. old school on Ask Slashdot: Local Navigation Assistance For the Elderly? · · Score: 2

    Lots of signage (eg "dinning --->"), a printed schedule (eg "12:30 be in dinning") and a watch (maybe with alarms?).

  4. We already have incompetent people killing others in mundane situations due to carelessness and incompetence

  5. purpose is to stop camera wearing on Police Body Cam Privacy Exploitation · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What better way for someone to get the department to stop using cameras?

  6. Re: Sadly, not surprising. on Australian Courts Will Be Able To See Your Browsing History · · Score: 1

    Were not.

  7. pay to have it reach everyone on Facebook 'Safety Check' Lets Friends Know You're OK After a Major Disaster · · Score: 1

    How much will it cost to make sure everyone sees it??

  8. uptime as spotty as wifi coverage on Eggcyte is Making a Pocket-Sized Personal Web Server (Video) · · Score: 1

    So my website goes down everytime I'm not in wifi range?

  9. Re: This shit is already polluting the SF Bay Area on Comcast Turning Chicago Homes Into Xfinity Hotspots · · Score: 2

    Why? What were you going to do with it?

  10. not just the mouse on Microsoft Admits Windows 8.1 Update May Bork Your Mouse, Promises a Fix · · Score: 1

    I upgraded and got a helpful "just swipe to see other apps" help bubble stuck on my screen, I don't have a touch screen so couldn't swipe it, and nothing I did with keyboard or mouse would remove it.

    I had to Google how to disable help tips and edit the registry - not a friendly os. still haven't got it to boot to desktop instead of metro either

  11. government privatized on Lawmakers Who Upheld NSA Phone Spying Received Double the Defense Industry Cash · · Score: 2

    good to see free market applied to governments - you go land of the free(market)

  12. punch holes on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Store Data In Hard Copy? · · Score: 1

    punch holes in cardboard.
    here at hobarthackerspace we have a pdp8 a chap is restoring so soon we may be able to have reliable paper backups.

  13. your patent number on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Sell an Algorithm To Venture Capitalists? · · Score: 1

    And clips from CSI

  14. Re: No thanks. on IllumiRoom To Take Gaming Visuals Outside the Box and Onto the Living Room · · Score: 2

    I agree its a few years old. I tried to do this 5 years ago bit got stuck on the rendering a larger view area at lower resolution overlapping but not including the main focal point. I saw in their last demo they used opensource game and must have resolved this issue. but I was trying for a more generic approach and actually thinking only of a desktop view

  15. solved problem on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Computer Lab In a Developing Country · · Score: 1

    http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html

    sugata has done the research, you just need to impliment it

  16. altering internet feed should be illegal on French ISP Blocking Web Ads By Default · · Score: 1

    I would not use an isp that thought they had the right to alter my free and unfettered access to the internet in a y way shape or form.

  17. Re:What's the catch? on EU Passes Resolution Against ITU Asserting Control Over Internet · · Score: 1

    the catch is the copyright trolls still run the internet

  18. not a mac fan but on Steve Jobs' Yacht Revealed · · Score: 1

    they are usually well designed. this is not.

  19. facebook gamed by mcdonalds on Man Physically Assaulted At McDonald's For Wearing Digital Eye Glasses · · Score: 1

    I tried to post a link to the article on Facebook, but it refused, claiming it had been flagged as abusive, Wtf!

  20. legally protect, unlike digital networks on Australian Gov't Loses Privacy Alert Subscription Information In the Mail · · Score: 3, Insightful

    atleast the packet has legal protection
    in australia, the government owned physical packet switching network known as 'australia post' has huge legal protection over every single packet switchted through the network, unlike digital networks. even retaining the header (sender/reciever) data is illegal, and any deep packet inspection will be met with the full force of the federal police. so from a legal perspective the data is a lot safer in post than in your email inbox

  21. AR tethered to a console on Leaked Document Hints At Augmented Reality Glasses For Future Xbox · · Score: 1

    Way to miss the point, again, Microsoft.
    I can only assume this is another example of bureaucracy and accountants getting in the way of tech.

  22. route around the damaged part on House Passes CISPA · · Score: 1

    Good.
    Now that all the speculation is over, can we accept that the USA is broken and just route all internet traffic around it? Surely the rest of the infrastructure is grown up enough to do without the rotting corpse that may have started the internet but is now too foobar.

  23. yeah! better than pi on MIT App Inventor Back Online · · Score: 1

    when can I host my own? wasn't it going floss?

    way better than pi, for $50 (or 0 for my old phone) I get 500mhz, apps, WiFi, gps, accelerometers, touchscreen, battery, card slot, another $50 at sparkfun gets me all the breakout usb io I want 'cept hdmi.

  24. get used to it on Small OSS Library Project Battles US Corporation · · Score: 1

    I'm from Tasmania, where our most recognisably tasmanian icon the Tasmanian Devil(TM) (since we killed the Tigers) is trademarked by a US company
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmanian_Devil_(Looney_Tunes)

  25. apple broadened the claims on Apple's New Patent Weapon — Location Services · · Score: 1

    in this re-issue apple have broadened the claims to include a 'beacon'.

    GPS was not mentioned in the claims of the original patent, and the claims are the only part you can use to control what others do.

    somehow apple got the patent expanded well after the issue, the original claims require a location specific object (quite obviously a satellite is not a earth location specific object)