Lev13than - Slashdot User

Comment: Just buy RIMM (Score 4, Funny) 160

by Lev13than on Monday May 28, @02:53PM (#40136543) Attached to: Is Facebook Working On a Smartphone?

Well, Facebook could just go out and pick up RIMM for the price of six photo apps (give or take - there may be another 1/2 app in premiums). However, they probably wouldn't have the slightest idea what to with a profitable company that generates $18B in revenue every year.

Comment: Re:Pardon my ignorance (Score 3, Informative) 223

by Lev13than on Monday May 28, @10:39AM (#40134949) Attached to: Remembering America's Fresh Water Submarines

But wouldn't building submarines in the great lakes be a violation of the Rush-Bagot treaty?

http://www.aandc.org/research/rush-bagot_agreement.html

They swapped diplomatic notes a few times during the war, which were essentially waivers on the treaty to support the war effort.

Comment: Zero? (Score 4, Insightful) 280

by Lev13than on Friday May 25, @02:14PM (#40111135) Attached to: % of my digital storage that is solid-state:

Have a hard time believing that none of the people who clicked "zero" (31% right now) own a smartphone, a portable music player, a tablet, a digital camera or a USB thumb drive.

Comment: Seen this before (Score 4, Funny) 249

by Lev13than on Wednesday May 23, @09:07AM (#40086295) Attached to: Russia To Establish Bases On the Moon

Popovkin went on to announce that Drax Industries has been awarded the tender for construction of the new shuttle fleet and moon base. He went on to note that Drax's recent announcement of a toxic orchid-farming operation in the Amazon jungle was pure coincidence, and by the way did anyone know of an orthodontist in Washington who knew how to work with steel?

Comment: Re:Next (Score 2) 50

by Lev13than on Wednesday May 16, @02:22PM (#40019671) Attached to: Kevin Bacon Meets Wikipedia With New Pathfinding Program

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Warcraft
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outbreak
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexually_transmitted_disease
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_intercourse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_virgin

Technical virgin redirects to Virginity, so that's four steps, no assistance from the Oracle...

Canadian Internet Surveillance dies a quiet, lonely death.-> 0

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Dr Caleb

on Tuesday May 15, @03:04PM

Dr Caleb writes "The Internet surveillance legislation sponsored by Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has disappeared down a dark legislative hole. For all intents and purposes, the bill is dead. If the Harper government still wants to pass a law that would make it easier for police to track people who use the web to commit crimes, it will have to start from scratch.

A follow up from the Minister of "Against Online Surveillance? You Must Be 'For' Child Porn""
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Byron Sonne Cleared of Explosives Charges-> 0

Submitted by davegravy on Tuesday May 15, @12:49PM

davegravy writes "Byron Sonne, the Toronto-based security consultant / chemistry hobbyist / geek who was arrested leading up to the Toronto G-20 for alleged plans to bomb the event, has been found not guilty of all charges.

Sonne was held in prison for 11 months without receiving bail and the ruling comes 2 years after his arrest. Sonne is considered by many in the Toronto security community as a champion of civil rights and a sharp critic of security theatre."
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G20 critic acquitted of trumped up bomb charges-> 0

Submitted by Lev13than on Tuesday May 15, @01:35PM

Lev13than writes "A Toronto-based G20 activist has been acquitted on all charges after the Crown failed to prove the Toronto man was planning to combine chemicals to make bombs. Byron Sonne, a self-described security geek, said the chemicals were for his rocketry hobby. Mr. Sonne also maintained he was trying to expose gaps in the $1-billion summit’s security, which the judge agreed was plausible. At trial, his lawyer argued that suggestions Mr. Sonne was planning to blow up the summit flew in the face of his openly stated intentions to expose security gaps. Police found no bombs when they arrested Mr. Sonne, but they did seize potato guns from his cottage. Mr. Sonne's arrest was one of a series of police missteps during the G20 summit held in June 2010 in Toronto."
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Comment: With Apologies to Zaphod (Score 1) 910

by Lev13than on Monday April 23, @11:26AM (#39771437) Attached to: In Nothing We Trust

But methinks Occam's Razor suggests that there is a powerful, sinister organization which is ruthlessly stamping out any leaders who even start to surface.

"The President in particular is very much a figurehead - he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the people, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. On those criteria Barak Obama is one of the most successful Presidents the United States has ever had... Very very few people realize that the President and the Government have virtually no power at all, and of these very few people only six know whence ultimate political power is wielded. Most of the others secretly believe that the ultimate decision-making process is handled by a computer. They couldn't be more wrong.

Comment: Re:Its about profit (Score 4, Informative) 92

by Lev13than on Monday April 09, @03:03PM (#39621635) Attached to: Sony Slashes 10,000 Jobs

I wonder how many millions of dollars bonus the CEO will earn by cutting the workforce so drastically...

Executives are being asked to return their bonuses, so don't think it's a big win for him.