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Comment: Re:Aaron Swartz must be (Score 1) 144

by Nexus7 (#43666155) Attached to: Feds Drop CFAA Charges Against 'Hacker' Who Exploited Poker Machines

Like with Swartz, this is the prosecutors Christmas-treeing up the charges, to psych and make it too expensive for the defendants; and make them settle - for money, some jail time, whatever. That way they can chalk one up in the win column, which looks pretty good when they run for office. I'm assuming the defendant here was white, because if he were black, I'd expect to see charges for tax evasion, aiding offshore combatants, and possession of skills with intention to use for mass destruction of capitalism.

Comment: Re:Probably not the best idea... (Score 1) 285

by Nexus7 (#43530881) Attached to: Protesting Animal Testing, Intruders Vandalize Italian Lab

I don't "need" to "prove" anything. I stated an opinion, based upon what I put out there, and based upon what you choose to google for and read, you can choose to believe it, or not.

And yes, pigs make for much better subjects. But you see, pigs can't be tailored or bread as fast as mice. And that is what determines what they use, not what is most suitable.Here's a long but interesting article about this.
      http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/the_mouse_trap/2011/11/naked_mole_rats_can_they_help_us_cure_cancer_.html

Comment: Re:Probably not the best idea... (Score 1) 285

by Nexus7 (#43526425) Attached to: Protesting Animal Testing, Intruders Vandalize Italian Lab

Animal testing is inhumane, but it is also mostly bogus. They immuno-suppressed the f out of these animals, right? So they'll easily develop cancers and other diseases, right? Yeah, so what relevance does that animal have to humans? Zilch. It is accepted that mice testing is simply something to get out of the way, something to get funding for ('cause all that the funders - like the NIH in the US - recognize is testing on mice). They get it out of the way, so they can get to human trials, and that's where you find out what works for humans and what doesn't.

Comment: Thunderbird - for when you're done with GMail (Score 3, Informative) 282

by Nexus7 (#43315727) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Archive and Access Ancient Emails?

I need to archive emails that I can search later - but with a twist. These are employees who've left the company. I can't keep 'em on at Google Apps 'cause I have to pay for that by user. So I use IMAP (making sure to set Chats to be shown in the IMAP list), create an account in Thunderbird, and slurp it all on to the local machine. It keeps all the folders, although I doesn't seem to be smart enough to figure out multiple labels, so it looks like it downloads the same email multiple times, once for it's folder, and once for "All Mail." Then I delete the account at Google. You just have to be sure to click through all the folders in Thunderbird and make sure it is done downloading before you blow the Google account away.

Comment: Re:They get it (Score 5, Informative) 404

by Nexus7 (#43287317) Attached to: T-Mobile Ends Contracts and Subsidies

No, T-Mobile's plans (well, at least the one I have) come with free and lousy voicemail. Ever want to hear that waiting voicemail early in the morning because it could be from work? Well, how's about you go through 29 of your saved voicemail that must be re-saved or will be deleted before you can hear the new voicemail? Hows about you can't go to their site and download the ones you want to save?

Oh, you want to do that! OK, well, that will be premium voicemail. But yeah, the cheap-and-it-shows version is free.

Comment: Re:It's ironic... (Score 4, Interesting) 300

by Nexus7 (#43161095) Attached to: GNOME Aiming For Full Wayland Support by Spring 2014

Something that's always been bugging me... why is RDP so much better (no, not flamebait, RDP has been buttery smooth even over ATT 1.5 Mbps "broadband")? And been that way for years, better than the lightweight VNCs, remote Xs, and the latest X2gos.

Is there a fundamental difference in how RDP does it vs X?

BTW, I'm talking the RDP clients that come with Windows, not the $$ Citrix ones.

Comment: Re:I don't get it. (Score 1) 1313

by Nexus7 (#42968055) Attached to: US CEO Says French Workers Have Three-Hour Work Day

And it is interesting that they don't fully understand the choice of lifestyle they made. So governments in Europe are moving to put in austerity measures, which is deepening their recession instead of helping. At least France did, until Hollande stopped going full bore austerity.

And they have a nice lifestyle, no healthcare bankruptcies, and they make decent stuff. They even decided not use LiON batteries in the A380, so it's not like they became completely vegetative because they don't have constant downward wage pressure to make them work hard like in a union-busting US state.

Comment: Re:It's time for a workers government (Score 3, Insightful) 154

by Nexus7 (#42895407) Attached to: Lawmakers Say CFAA Is Too Hard On Hackers

Oh, I missed the memo. Is the revolution here? Is it time to line 'em up against the wall?

But seriously, lawmakers talking of laws being too harsh? Judges releasing people convicted under three-strikes in California? For America with its chart-topping prison population numbers, that's revolutionary enough.

Comment: Re:Teaching The Controversy - Properly (Score 1) 813

by Nexus7 (#42883355) Attached to: Missouri Legislation Redefines Science, Pushes Intelligent Design

The evolution of sensory organs is satisfactorily explained by an increasingly complex series of organs in different species. ID, on the other hand, has no explanation (not that ID and reality - otherwise known as "science" need to have competing explanations). And Darwin != evolution.

But hey, nice troll.

Comment: Re:Digital Robin Hoods and Ned Kellys (Score 1) 98

by Nexus7 (#42709061) Attached to: Pod2g Confirms iOS 6, iOS 6.1 Beta 4 Untethered Jailbreak

Can someone clarify for me how exactly this is fighting for freedoms? AFAIK, iOS is pretty locked down, and this is in the EULA. Which ou agree to when you buy the device. I mean, no one who is carrying the mantle of digital freedom is lining up to get one of these iDevices thinking they're doing freedomish stuff, right?

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