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  1. Re:Buzz on Scientists Breeding Super Bees · · Score: 1

    Google Bee! Social Networking in a Hive!

    Tao Pollinates this.

  2. Re:Big enough on New IMF Head Says US Must Raise Debt Limit, or Face 'Nasty Consequences' · · Score: 1

    Sure, good point ...

    I have a minivan, and I'm racing the national default to pay it off.

    Really, I'm starting to get really nervous about the Mayan date for the end of the world... the national collapse of the US might just do it...

  3. Re:Quote from the Manual on Google Blocks co.cc From Search Results · · Score: 1

    "And in the end, the MAFIAA acted more like the Government, and the DHS acted more like a greedy coproration, until it was no longer possible to tell them apart."

    With a nod to George Orwell - Animal Farm.

  4. Re:Homeless on New IMF Head Says US Must Raise Debt Limit, or Face 'Nasty Consequences' · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Been there, learned a trick.

      If you saw anything coming before hand, you might still have a car left. You can sleep in your car. Your first X bucks go to a gym membership. That's your shower. Then your next $20 goes to one of those fancier "street boxes" where they can't tell what 188 Main St #24 is.

    Rent + cars are the killers of today's economy - a lot of places have really skewed rents vs the jobs available.

  5. The Banks go Marching Two by Two Hurrah! ...

    And we all come crashing down!

  6. Re:In Today's Society on Google Blocks co.cc From Search Results · · Score: 2

    Better to accuse 100 innocent people than let one guilty one go free!

  7. Re:8 Bit Soundtrack! on Space Invaders: The Movie · · Score: 1

    I smashed together a soundtrack based on an old Commodore-Format Sid tune from somewhere!

    http://taophoenixmonitoring.dontgetcaughtwithoutone.com/sid2mp3_idler_fi_1310268370.mp3

  8. Re:we have to decide (on) the risk on Ex-NSA Chief Supports Separate Secure Internet · · Score: 1

    We sorta have decided. We're getting divided and conquered.

    The smart liberals, of which several inhabit slashdot, know it is not worth it. But alone we are not enough.

    The "innocent" masses, who just want to check their email and post a picture to their wall, Like this stuff. "Click Here to keep Terrorists Away! * (*Doing so means agreement with the implementation of the following 147 pages of policy.)

    Dammit, I gotta get going - Since "Book" seems to have been taken by FaceBook, I need a new second noun. Call it VoteForum. (Look! Prior Art! I hope...) If we move Voting SOCIAL, the suddenly our friends in .Gov will be faced with 30% turnarounds in single elections because the *real americans* will have thrashed out the issues.

  9. Re:pony up $185K to ICANN on Ex-NSA Chief Supports Separate Secure Internet · · Score: 2

    Simpson's Nelson has some advice here. "Ha Ha".
    US .Gov: "Hi. We'd like a .secure TLD."
    ICANN : "Sure. $185,000 please."
    US .Gov: "Sudo give us .secure Now to combat pedophilic terrorists and people who photo people in Apple stores."
    "I can do that, Yes ICANN."

  10. Re:France on German Parliament Backs Nuclear Exit By 2022 · · Score: 1

    Three Strikes and Germany is out of electrical power!

  11. Re:Steves on How Apple Came To Control the Component Market · · Score: 1

    Did Steve Jobs create any jobs?

  12. Re:HistoryBook on America: Like It Or Unfriend It · · Score: 1

    FaceBook's Lawyers Like this.

    The wall posts need to be TFA type story link though. So then you get all your detail, but it's sorted as 200 articles and not like an author who keep writing and writing in one, long, incredibly unbroken chapter moving from topic to topic so that the student cannot interrupt it. Those books are really quite hypnotic.

  13. Re:As well they should on WikiLeaks To Sue Visa/MasterCard · · Score: 1

    Let's cut to the endgame of this.

    Response from Visa & MC:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdCUpiI1MSA&NR=1

    "Here's a settlement of $10,000 without admission of wrongdoing. Plus fees to the Simpsons for legal advice. Now go away."

  14. Re:Come Clean on World's Best Chess Engine Outlawed and Disqualified · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What if someone made it financially tenable for him to show his code?

    "Oh. You did in fact innovate. Okay, we're sorry. But we won't take back the reputation tsunami we unleashed on you."

    Anyone see parallels with the whole DHS theme of accuse first and question later?

  15. Re:Ladies Night on Using Facial Recognition To Find the Best Bar · · Score: 1

    Sure, but that's so "old school analog".

    This story & spinoff tech is talking about micro-quanting the game. You open your phone and check the Barz app. "Joe's Irish has 7 women tonight... no, wait, that's now six, now ten, ... two more and our percentage ratio of boobs will reach the scientifically determined threshold whereupon men drink one extra drink each, so we want that revenue. We'll pay the square root of the price of 12 additional drinks divided by the two extra babes we need."

  16. Re:It's a brave new world... on Using Facial Recognition To Find the Best Bar · · Score: 1

    Mods, he's right.

    Just think, you can pay the girls to optimize your gender ratios!

    Also I love the Black Horse phrasing. They're putting facial recognition in bars and all they can figure out what to do with it is count gender ratios? What about the complete lists of patrons, tagged, who have ever been there?

    Cops will luv this!

  17. Re:False Positives on Survey Shows Support For New Privacy Laws · · Score: 2

    Good try, but False Positives are deadly. Reason: you can't deny them!

    "Retroworks is a terrorist! Prove you're not." The whole Security Theater adventure is fueled by false positives.

  18. Re:tenured on Supreme Court To Weigh In On Warrantless GPS Tracking · · Score: 1

    What does it take to kick off a Supreme justice?

    By not answering to anyone a justice can go on a rampage.

    With the Repub/Conserv leaning court we could damage civil rights for decades.

  19. Re:Successfully reading the court in advance on Supreme Court To Weigh In On Warrantless GPS Tracking · · Score: 1

    Or study under Asimov's psychohistory.

    We're seriously on a path to *someting*. I keep hoping it's a Privacy Rebellion rather than the Mayan's End of the World in Dec2012 (your month here.)

    I just suk as a psychic so I can only read tier 3 trends.

  20. Re:From what connection? on Ask Slashdot: Mobile Data In Canada For a US Citizen? · · Score: 1

    Quoting from elsewhere:
    "Re:Island only accessible by boat.. (Score:3, Insightful)
    by BitterOak (537666) Alter Relationship on 08:16 PM June 27th, 2011 (#36591412) ..Make sure it has cell network coverage first.

    As a Canadian, I can tell you that unlike the US, cellphone coverage in Canada isn't universal. There are regions where there is simply no coverage. Make sure, before you invest in one of these plans, that there is coverage where you'll be. Probably the first thing you do is talk to some of the islanders and ask what they use. Maybe someone living there will even let you share their wireless!"

    This is the clarifying question. Is he going to a 40 by 40 foot island with no one else in sight, or a "small village island" where someone else on the entire island has data service of any kind? I was counting on the second, where anything from any one restaurant with free wifi, or one of the 20 residents has service, etc. These options avoid the cell roaming bit. If it's truly a Robinson Crusoe situation, then all the questions make a little more sense about the phone being the only data option, but then the question should have read differently, less about Canada, more about the isolation.

  21. Dammit none of you have the right reply on Ask Slashdot: Mobile Data In Canada For a US Citizen? · · Score: 1

    Post the pics to a free webserver. All thephone + Canada is noise.

    Your loved ones / friends download the pics at home .

  22. Re:education on Ask Slashdot: CS Degree Without Gen-Ed Requirements? · · Score: 1

    I am on the verge of compiling and submitting seven years of general studies as a BFA fine-arts in Digital Studies. Y'all are as good as first round critique as they get, and 400 pages of coments have to count for something! Plus I have evaluated web hosts and after I get bck on track overseen a web site's digital archives. I keep debating whether to go for a Masters in Digital Privacy or stay general with a BFA Culture Studies. The latter would allow the looser approach I employ, though I have put modest work into the privacy field.

  23. Re:95% on Could Wikipedia Become a Supercomputer? · · Score: 1

    Nope.
    Welcome to the new paradigm. Das Tubes moved your cheese.

    Try this:

    Employ researchers to correct Three Mistakes Per Article.

    Anything so hoplessly confused not to survive that metric gets tagged as Start Over.

    I'd much rather broken information on any topic than elite info on more than seven topics.

  24. Re:should just open source it on Sony Shutting Down Star Wars Galaxies MMO and TCG · · Score: 0

    "No! Never! All that iProperty must be kept locked up and unused forever because there might be a single still shot they can reuse somewhere!! What do those players mean, they want to set up their own rogue servers to keep it going? Get the terrorists NOW!! P.s. We agree it's the appropriate time to end a game *before Christmas* so that here will be two sales weeks forcing familes of gamers to buy them something else!"

    / SarcasmQuotes

  25. Re:Give Free Stuff Away on FTC To Open Antitrust Investigation Against Google · · Score: 2

    Isn't Gmail recognized as mostly the best free email? They had to beat out incumbents Yahoo, Hotmail, and AOL.

    They bought Google Earth and started working on Street View. There's your geo angle.

    Your choice of a third app they remade into the best.

    Is it a sin when the same company gains dominance by winning multiple categories?

    And yes, if we're playing lawsuit dominance games, include Apple and Facebook in the fun too.