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Comment Idiot... (Score 1) 376

I wish there's a poll option, who thinks he should be allowed to do this, and who thinks it was wrong. Because I think what he's done is wrong. What would be next, record the browser's history, filter those who visit Facebook, get their public images off their accounts, put them on a blog, and call that art?

If he was secretly taking pictures of girls to keep them and jerk off with them, would you be okay with that? Oh, sure, it's fine if he's an "artist", making an "art" project is it?

Comment Re:It is a jobs program. Doesn't actually do anyth (Score 1) 457

Private airline eh? I wonder if a major airline can just declare itself a private club which flies people, and people can be a member for free, and pay a price for flying each time. Private club would mean private security, and one that doesn't molest people... But anyway, the FAA would probably not let them fly..

Comment Re:It is a jobs program. Doesn't actually do anyth (Score 3, Informative) 457

Come on, any major bomb or hint of a bomb, and everything gets shut down for several hours... I really doubt the TSA would discover a bomb and just say "oh good job we caught that one. Next!"... If there had been 20 bombs this year, there would have been 20 airport shutdowns, 20 airspace shut downs, and 20 instances of week-long yapping of every moron who can get on TV...

Comment Re:Please listen (Score 1) 171

I've been trying to get DOCSIS (Data over Cable) Internet, and it has been a freaking pain of dealing idiocy (strangely, it's the first time in my life that I've had to deal with something that involves multiple phone calls). Luckily the robo-lady stops talking whenever I've pressed the correct menu button even though she hasn't finished talking, but one question which tickles me is "We will record your call for [standard bla bla] purposes. Say yes if you agree with this.". So far I've been saying "yes" before she's even asked the question. And each time I chuckle at the thought, what if they change the question to something like "We are now going to take a million dollars from your account, say yes if you agree.".

OK, that anecdote sounded funnier to me...

Comment Re:Back on topic... (Score 2, Interesting) 391

No, customer.. you will take it up the butt because that's what the MAFIAA wants.

Isn't it also the fact that BluRay players need extra CPU power just because it has to decrypt the disc content, and probably re-encrypt it for the HDMI stream, which your display unit then needs to have CPU power to decrypt? Geez, I wonder who's paying for all that hardware?

Yeah... yet another confirmation Apple is working for the evil assholes.

Comment Why is this on Slashdot? And a week late? (Score 1, Offtopic) 370

Subject says everything. It "went viral" last week, so does Slashdot have a good antivirus, or why does it like being late? Not to mention the rambling summary is written by Hugh Pickens, who seems to fancy himself to be a journalist, but whose website contain a lot of poorly written articles...

Comment Re:Norway isn't a member of the EU. (Score 1) 350

What I was saying is that it's not unheard of for people to (wrongly) refer to Europe as EU or EUR as a form of 'country code', even though it refers to the European Union or the currency.

No, that was not what you were saying. (Oh dear, now we've gotten into an "that's not what I/you said!" argument). At least if that was you were trying to say, you didn't articulate it very well at all.

And your third paragraph is also just gibberish.

Comment Re:Norway isn't a member of the EU. (Score 5, Informative) 350

EUR is the code for Euro, the money not the continent...

It's not being pedantic. I live in the EU, and I've never heard of EU being "the short code for EUrope" ever. And it's not "good enough", being a member of the EU means you have to follow laws agreed by the EU, and if Norway's not in the EU, and EU has this law against looking up digital skirts, and Norway doesn't, it means it won't be illegal in Norway...

Is that pedantic enough for you, Mr. Know It All?

Comment GOD FUCKING DAMNIT... (Score 1) 106

That video pisses me off... the guy says "Science!" as if what he's doing is science, and that is something mystical and unapproachable. And it's a 3 minute video which could've been replaced with one sentence of "The image recognition system couldn't recognize my bag after 5 scans.". Fuck you Luke Hopewell, you useless idiot!

So, what do the red lines have to do with the RFID? Wait, is it an image recognition trying to detect the shape and size of the bag, or is it a barcode scanner (with 2 lines to catch different orientations)? In which case, that would mean the attendant forgot to attach the luggage tag to the bag (and why is there a luggage tag at all?)

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