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  1. Re:Out of Curiosity... on US Congress Votes To Shred ISP Privacy Rules (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Have one of your Linux machines be its gateway.

    And then run something like OpenSwan on the Linux machine? I think I can figure that out. Thanks.

  2. Re:Out of Curiosity... on US Congress Votes To Shred ISP Privacy Rules (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I'm asking for my Windows machine.

  3. Re:Out of Curiosity... on US Congress Votes To Shred ISP Privacy Rules (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Which VPNs are most trustworty, if any? Are they easy to turn off if I want to play an online game or something? How bad do they slow everything down?

  4. DOG eat dog on US Congress Votes To Shred ISP Privacy Rules (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    Soylent Green is...your online history!

  5. Re:Democrats on US Congress Votes To Shred ISP Privacy Rules (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Ironically, the "House Freedom Caucus" supported this bill.

  6. Re:Democrats on US Congress Votes To Shred ISP Privacy Rules (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You said,

    It's not just one party doing it.

    The summary said,

    The measure passed by 232 votes to 184 along party lines

    Yes, it's one party doing it. First they changed the rules via the FCC, and now they've made it permanent. It's the very definition of "one party doing it".

  7. Re:Republicans on US Congress Votes To Shred ISP Privacy Rules (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    The truth is that this vote changes nothing. The FCC had already revoked most privacy protections, and this vote just prevents those rules from being reinstated.

    There are three assertions in those two sentences. The first and the third are directly contradictory.

  8. Re:Scientific Reports on Climate Change Is Altering Global Air Currents (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    But that might not indicate that it is reviewed by "your peers".

    I have no peers.

  9. I got your dimpled balls right here.

  10. Re:Scientific Reports on Climate Change Is Altering Global Air Currents (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    From now on, I only trust peer-reviewed Slashdot comments.

  11. Re:Scientific Reports on Climate Change Is Altering Global Air Currents (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Did you actually ever read a peer reviewed article?

    Jesus, I would have thought that putting the name of the peer-reviewed journal in the subject line would have been enough of an indication that I was kidding.

  12. Re:Scientific Reports on Climate Change Is Altering Global Air Currents (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    you are one of the leading denialists on slashdot

    Ah, so you've heard of me. I'm also one of the leading conservatives on slashdot and a staunch supporter of President-for-life Trump.

  13. Scientific Reports on Climate Change Is Altering Global Air Currents (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 0, Troll

    If climate change is real, why is there no peer-reviewed research that shows it?

  14. Hyundo on New AI Algorithm Beats Even the World's Worst Traffic (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Soylent Green...is cars!

  15. Come down to Houston. I'll buy you some barbecue that will make you weep with joy.

  16. It's more pleasant than West Texas.

    Yes, it is. And the food is better.

    South Texas is the best, though.

  17. The House Always Wins on No One Knows What To Do With the International Space Station (popsci.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Turn the ISS into a Trump-branded casino. The president has the necessary expertise, and it could be a big draw.

    And if nobody ends up showing up and it starts losing money, well, the President knows what to do then, too.

  18. Expect to see a few corporate headquarters relocated to East Texas

    Except don't nobody want to go to East Texas.

  19. in B4 on 17-Year-Old Corrects NASA Mistake In Data From The ISS (bbc.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How long until the first comment that says this is proof that climate change isn't real?

  20. Do you think the lawyers reading the ACA legislation and the children reading Harry Potter are equal?

    I'm pretty sure lawyers' reading skills outpace those of Harry Potter-age children.

    Plus, the lawmakers are being very well-compensated to read legislation. It's like their one fucking job, you know?

    If Trump and the GOP couldn't unravel the 3500 page health care law, how are they going to pull off reforming the tax code, which ran like twenty-three volumes (without addendums) back in the 1990s? That's not counting the judicial precedents which are now law. Hell, there's like several hundred pages of law that just governs the taxation issues related to owning racehorses.

  21. Re:Take whoever came up with this on Comcast Launches New 24/7 Workplace Surveillance Service (philly.com) · · Score: 1

    I've seen IT directors who drive Teslas but who still pocket RAM sticks from the lab.

    The problem is, there is zero probability that this new corporate surveillance will be aimed at IT directors.

    Because if there's one thing we've learned, it's that if you are rich and you steal, it's considered, "smart". If you're making $35k/yr and you make an unauthorized copy of your tax return on a company xerox machine, you're going to get frog-marched out of the place.

    Late-stage capitalism is a cancer.

  22. It wasn't a law. It was a regulation the FCC made up without the authority to do so. Congress slapped it down, now they will write a real law.

    This Congress has definitely proven how good they are at writing "real laws".

  23. Re:Wrong direction? on 'Why The US Senate's Vote To Throw Out ISP Privacy Laws Isn't All Bad' (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Waste of govt time to discard this little bit of regulation, congress should be working on drafting a real privacy law that actually helps people.

    Congress has important tax cuts for rich people and corporations to worry about. They have no time for your measly privacy.

  24. Glaciers melting in the dead of night on Supermassive Black Hole Rocketing Out of Distant Galaxy At 5 Million MPH (blastr.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    And the superstars sucked into the super massive

  25. Re:Neglect is more likely on Massive Ukraine Munitions Blasts May Have Been Caused By a Drone (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Nearly right. The "South Vietnamese" government was an illegal and illegitimate device conjured up by Washington to justify its violent intervention. There was a nation called Vietnam. After international talks, an election was scheduled for Vietnam. Washington decided that the Communists were certain to win the election, so it engineered a "rebellion" by a newly-invented entity called "South Vietnam". Insofar as it ever existed, South Vietnam must have seceded from Vietnam, just as Washington maintains

    That's a very good summary.