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  1. Re:DISCLAIMER: IANAL on Obama Faces Major Online Privacy Test · · Score: 1

    I imagine they would use the proposed bills listed as a basis for the legal jargon. I really don't think they would be taking this as is. And can't...

  2. Re:Define rules on Obama Faces Major Online Privacy Test · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up. I'm signifigantly less worried about an action if the eff is supporting it. Hell many /.ers are eff donors as well so I can only assume the people freaking out didn't know this fact.

  3. Re:Double Speak on Obama Faces Major Online Privacy Test · · Score: 1

    Thank you for a perfect example of wallowing in paranoia. You illustrated GP's point brilliantly.

  4. Re:Double Speak on Obama Faces Major Online Privacy Test · · Score: 1

    No Apparently they mean enforce the government needing warrants and things like that. As others have said the EFF is a member. I think the topic/summary is a troll.
    I don't mean to rock the boat and not jump to conclusions though. For that I apologize.

  5. Re:Laws on White House Issues New Gas Mileage Standards · · Score: 1

    Which was my point. It really isn't enforcing anything to do with the environment. It is just annoying car companies to no real results. The on the road mpg average might hardly change at all. All ford has to do is offer a fuel efficient vehicle.

    It is like my dad buying vegetables to be healthy. Without actually EATING them it doesn't help a whole lot.

  6. Re:Please! on White House Issues New Gas Mileage Standards · · Score: 1

    Lol... oddly enough, the first time I read that. I thought you were being pro-carbon credits. Since that makes our healthy air an asset that can be traded under capitalism. But that'd be socialist... somehow.

  7. Laws on White House Issues New Gas Mileage Standards · · Score: 0

    How do you enforce an average?...

  8. Re:I know this is an April Fool's joke, but ... on Slashdot Discussions Now Include Roulette Video Chat · · Score: 1

    Achievements WERE added last april fools.

  9. Re:Bah....Bah on IsoHunt Told To Pull Torrent Files Offline · · Score: 1

    I would probably try out vuze if i were you (switch to classic view to get rid of uglyness). But it will move things when you are done seeding.

    OR if I were lazy I would put completed on the NAS. It is shitty to your lan some since it would still be seeding across the servers which is stupid.

    Orrrrr you could potentially care less about stability and put it on the same computer. Crappy but still possibly better than moving all your stuff around all the time. *shrug*

  10. Re:Bah....Bah on IsoHunt Told To Pull Torrent Files Offline · · Score: 1

    Forgot to link: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=40516

    Incase you really prefer utorrent to vuze. Seeing that you have two servers I'm going on a limb and saying you can script this :P.

  11. Re:Bah....Bah on IsoHunt Told To Pull Torrent Files Offline · · Score: 1

    If I do recall that feature is available in azureus (i stopped using it a few months after vuze stupidity). So you could try it out... Atleast the sold out crap will be invisible if you use it over web ui.

    What specifically you are looking for is a 3rd stage folder. Downloads -> Downloaded -> Done_seeding/Removed. The 3rd folder could be on your NAS. After a bunch of snooping around it is definately not available in utorrent, with like 5million people requesting it over the last 6 or more years. :/ boo closed source since it is such an easy thing to add codewise.

  12. Re:Better driving skills on "Supertaskers" Can Safely Use Mobile Phones While Driving · · Score: 1

    In Italy I was told by a local. When you wish to cross a street without lights you must do so with conviction, without hesitation, and most importantly it requires courage.

  13. Re:Yup.. on "Supertaskers" Can Safely Use Mobile Phones While Driving · · Score: 4, Funny

    When I got my smartphone I didn't have an auto-lock set for it. I left it in my pocket one night when I passed out, it ended up calling my dad twice.

    Two days later my thigh was at it again. It went into my e-mail, found an email from a school club mailing list i was part of. Replied to the whole mailing list (the club was setup so anyone posting to the mailing list would have their message relayed to the whole group). I got like 15emails like "what is 'sadofiefew'?".

    From this I concluded of course that my thigh is smarter than a monkey. And there is a hypothesis that it is upset about the IE number of users.

  14. Privacy on Microsoft Claims Google Chrome Steals Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    If you search for everything with google anyways this shouldn't worry you. If you send data to your ISP unencrypted which almost everyone does you shouldn't be too worried. If you allow cookies this shouldn't really bug you. If you use facebook/myspace or some regular social media you shouldn't care at all. I'm sure there is a long list of other crap invading your privacy as well. I'm not saying it doesn't matter, I agree with MS. Just, there is lots of crap data mining you, live with it or become a hermit. Not a ton of other options.

  15. Re:Bah....Bah on IsoHunt Told To Pull Torrent Files Offline · · Score: 1

    In utorrent and azureus atleast you can set options to automatically move torrents to a 'completed' folder when it finishes downloading, that could be on a seperate drive. Pretty sure in vuze you could even sort different types of stuff into different folders (movies vs tv shows w/e).

    As for a file server, why not put the torrent ap on the file server and use remote web control. utorrent and az both have decent web uis...

  16. Re:Surprised on First Collisions At the LHC · · Score: 1

    No, I imagine that if you were put into a car crushing machine, while you would be smaller you don't just shrink. Similar except the forces are enough to shear your atoms apart rather than just bones.

  17. Re:This will fail on Rapidshare Trying To Convert Pirates Into Customers · · Score: 1

    I know gamer types not /. types, ones that didn't know what DRM stands for that were not going to buy assassins creed 2 because of the server stupidity.

  18. Re:This will fail on Rapidshare Trying To Convert Pirates Into Customers · · Score: 1

    It is legally completely different as well...

  19. Re:Well, why don't we change it? on Could Colorblindness Cure Be Morally Wrong? · · Score: 1

    There is no evidence for a gay gene. And if there were one it would only be responsible for a small small number of cases amongst humans.

    I'd like to think that by the time we find and can edit said gay gene that any countries that can afford it would be over their whole anti-gay religious stupidity. It'd be especially stupid to 'cure' gayness en masse as our planet's population begins to peak.

  20. Re:WTF? Just ask the patient. on Could Colorblindness Cure Be Morally Wrong? · · Score: 1

    If it is an asset, more valuable than normal sight then they could in the same way remove red from soldier's visions (or give more colours, 4~5 would likely have the same camo killing effect). People would go both directions. Of course, if this were true they could be using tinted glasses RIGHT NOW to the exact same effect. Which kind of shows that being partially blind isn't an asset, sorry.

    Functioning autism is a little different. I don't think as we are right now many people would choose to change their brain so radically. And that could effectively end a group that has a unique advantage. It may be that it genuinely isn't worth the tradeoff. But perhaps it will just be that we are too short sighted. Especially with autistics going through an early very difficult period.

  21. Re:Never, ever, ever, ever trust the government on Energy Star Program Certifies 15 Out of 20 Bogus Products · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "a secret evaluation conducted by the Government Accountability Office."

    From that I take it that you just closed your eyes and fled from this story? Government busting government doing bad things. BTW, there was nothing stopping a private company from trying this, but government did it. I guess it isn't all bad? They are improving or does that anger you? I don't know these days with anti-government types.

  22. Re:So, its a marketing label only on Energy Star Program Certifies 15 Out of 20 Bogus Products · · Score: 1

    Unless you get cremated at death you at least sequester carbon, maybe you should get a tax credit. By 'you' of course I mean a non-/.er that actually has sex.

  23. Re:Why not use Ecofont? on College To Save Money By Switching Email Font · · Score: 1

    Sort of, with smaller fonts and a not super accurate printer the font doesn't look like that. With that said, the idea of using less darkness is probably way easier.... grayscale fonts.

  24. Re:Ah on College To Save Money By Switching Email Font · · Score: 2, Informative

    A proper submission protol will show whether or not a file was recieved. File format is easy to fix; Require a certain file format, I fail to see a problem on the last one.

    Also, all your points on hospitals are void. You give an opinion but studies show otherwise. http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_releases/2009/01_26_09.html

    Last one I agree with but I think you'd be greatly helped out by a good e-ink type tablet with stylus. The tech is there or getting there depending on how fussy you are.

  25. Re:Why not laser print? on College To Save Money By Switching Email Font · · Score: 2

    Because apple products are cost effective office tools..........