Comment Fart Watch (Score 1) 79
I'd fill mine with cadaverine and mercaptan then put it near the desk of the woman that bathes and gargles in Emerude, cause she cooks up the bacon and brings it home like a man.
Comment You need to make a country. (Score 1) 330
If you want freedom you need to make a country. I'd suggest one in orbit. Then those countries that don't want to be smoking craters will leave you the hell alone. Then colonize the moon.
Comment Re:On the contrary: (Score 1) 276
If you do that with every website then gmail123, amazon123 etc is your password.
This
dd if=/dev/random bs=10 count=1 | hexdump
and a good encrypted wallet are your bestest friends.
My bank sucks since it will not allow all of that output, just 8 characters.
Comment Re:That doesn't seem right. (Score 0) 628
The Nazis bred better Jews. Get over it.
Comment Re:The basics... (Score 1) 324
Yep
Option 1) Use your vast political machine to convince congress to once again smash the HOA's in the mouth and allow it.
Option 2) You kill enough people in your community they vote to allow it
a)or vote to pay for the underground wires
b) or the remaining bleaters all leave and you ARE the
HOA and you can do what you want.
Option 3) You destroy the local telecom and plunder all of it's accounts of cold hard cash, launder it and use that to take over their infrastructure.
Option 4) Move.
All of them are expensive, some are more expensive than others. If you pick the most expensive and cruel congratulations Bezos has job for you.
Comment Re:Not neccesairly (Score 1) 324
You use the same constitutional provision the Nazi's used to stifle free speech. You've not stopped being evil.
Comment Now that I know this (Score 1) 243
I can forgo ordering from them and keep what they send me for free.
It's the law.
Comment 99% foreign made 100% American made (Score 1) 518
The corpratists have made sure the laws were changed so they could slap Made in America on it regardless of what is in it.
We manufacture stuff that is wholly done in China. Not all of the parts were made in China but none of them were made in the US.
All that is needed is some 'expert handwavium' such as a precision finishing touch or calibration, etc.
And as added bonus they can also slap "Union Made" on it.
U.S. Teenagers Are Driving Much Less: 4 Theories About Why 635
Paul Fernhout writes "U.S. teenagers just aren't as into driving as they used to be, U.S. government forecasters acknowledged in dramatically altered projections for transportation energy use over the next 25 years." Online presence is one of the reasons mentioned, which makes a lot of sense to me as a factor, no matter the age of the drivers involved. Whatever your age, do you drive less than you did 10 years ago?
Court Victory Gives Blogger Same Speech Protections As Traditional Press 137
cold fjord writes "Reuters reports, 'A blogger is entitled to the same free speech protections as a traditional journalist and cannot be liable for defamation unless she acted negligently, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday. Crystal Cox lost a defamation trial in 2011 over a blog post she wrote accusing a bankruptcy trustee and Obsidian Finance Group of tax fraud. A lower court judge had found that Obsidian did not have to prove that Cox acted negligently because Cox failed to submit evidence of her status as a journalist. But in the ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said Cox deserved a new trial, regardless of the fact that she is not a traditional reporter. "As the Supreme Court has accurately warned, a First Amendment distinction between the institutional press and other speakers is unworkable."... Eugene Volokh, [a] Law professor who represented Cox, said Obsidian would now have to show that Cox had actual knowledge that her post was false when she published it. ... "In this day and age, with so much important stuff produced by people who are not professionals, it's harder than ever to decide who is a member of the institutional press."' Further details are available at Courthouse News Service."
Alleging 'Malpractice' With Climate Skeptic Papers, Publisher Kills Journal 314
sciencehabit writes "A European publisher today terminated a journal edited by climate change skeptics. The journal, Pattern Recognition in Physics, was started less than a year ago. Problems cropped up soon afterward. In July, Jeffrey Beall, a librarian at the University of Colorado, Denver, noted 'serious concerns' with Pattern Recognition in Physics. As he wrote on his blog about open-access publishing, Beall found self-plagiarism in the first paper published by the journal. 'In addition,' says another critic, 'the editors selected the referees on a nepotistic basis, which we regard as malpractice in scientific publishing.'"
Comment What me worry? (Score 1) 118
So they dump a small portion of them for free all over the place. If some who use it get busted it's a smoke screen but they can claim they're freedom fighting Robyn Hoods or something. My bank can only dock me $50 except that I have a plan that is free which means I don't get docked squat the bank eats it.
Comment Re:concerning is ... (Score 3, Insightful) 154
ADP forces the use of an ancient and bug infested version of java for it's timecard application. We've been infected SO MANY times they finally decided to setup a dedicated PC that has no other access.
This of course removes all the benefit of having web acdess to time card entry, eats up time employees could be working but the gossip and knife fights are good entertainment.
Comment Re:Skynet (Score 1) 514
Learn to own hardware or it will own you.
Same for cooking by the way.
Learn to cook or the cook will own you.
University Developing Technology To Vote On Your Tablet, Smartphone 259
smitty_one_each writes in with this story about a professor developing a new electronic voting system. "A Clemson University professor is developing a new electronic voting system that will allow voters to cast their ballots from home computers, tablets and smartphones. As Clemson's chair of human-centered computing, Juan Gilbert has lead teams of students over the last 10 years to create an online voting system accessible at home or on the go that will be more accurate, have increased verification and make voting more accessible to people with disabilities by offering mobile and voice-command options."
