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Comment Re:Why not just change the background to black? (Score 1) 241

SOPA is pretty serious stuff. I don't think that a simple (but highly noticeable) change like the background color or pop-ups as suggested above and below would work. A complete shutdown is what is necessary. Change the main page to a notice about the bill, with links to more information and perhaps a listing of congressman or something. Shut down >all other services. If a site like Google did this, it would be very noticeable. No email. No transactions. No searches. Speaking of Google, if they changed all of their ads to a SOPA notice, that would be pretty noticeable and would cover a vast section of the internet. Too bad nobody really notices ads.

Comment Other parties exist (Score 1) 792

You know, most of you don't actually seem to support either the Republicans or Democrats. You are aware that the whole point of a presidential campaign is to get awareness for whoever you support, right? These politicians from both parties did not get well-known and elected by themselves. The responsibility is on the voter as much as the candidate.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Best way to destroy 10-15 hard drive 5

THE_WELL_HUNG_OYSTER writes: I have 10-15 old hard drives I want to trash, some IDE and some SATA. Even if I still had IDE hardware, I don't want to wait several weeks to run DBAN on all of them. I could use a degausser, but they are prohibitively expensive. I could send them to a data destruction firm, but can they be trusted? What's the fastest, cheapest DIY solution?

Comment Re:Solving this problem (Score 1) 898

I think that people who take things people say to their face to heart and have their feelings hurt are also being overly sensitive. Excluding provocation, you really shouldn't care what anyone says to or about you. Being insulted by anyone else to the point of emotional distress, especially by a total stranger or an anonymous stranger, is seriously one of those things you do to yourself. What I'm trying to say is that people need to protect themselves by learning that some people are rude or insulting, and that you just need to ignore them.
Education

UC Berkeley Asking Incoming Students For DNA 468

peterofoz writes "The students will be asked to voluntarily submit a DNA sample. The cotton swabs will come with two bar code labels. One label will be put on the DNA sample and the other is kept for the students' own records. The confidential process is being overseen by Jasper Rine, a campus professor of Genetics and Development Biology, who says the test results will help students make decisions about their diet and lifestyle." No word in the story on just what "confidential" means — who will have access to the results, how long they'll be kept, or what else they might someday be used for. Will the notoriously liberal Berkeley campus see this as a service or an invasion of privacy?
Image

Marine Mammals Used To Fight Terrorism 131

pinkstuff writes "The Navy unveiled its terror-fighting marine mammals at a two-day homeland security and disaster preparedness exercise in California this week. From the article: 'A Navy seal — actually a sea lion — took less than a minute to find a fake mine under a pier near San Francisco's AT&T Park. A dolphin quickly located a terrorist lurking in the black water before another sea lion, using a device carried in its mouth, cuffed the pretend saboteur's ankle so authorities could reel him in.' Queue the 'frickin lasers' jokes."
Firefox

76% of Web Users Affected By Browser History Stealing 130

An anonymous reader writes "Web browser history detection with the CSS:visited trick has been known for the last ten years, but recently published research suggests that the problem is bigger than previously thought. A study of 243,068 users found that 76% of them were vulnerable to history detection by malicious websites. Newer browsers such as Safari and Chrome were even more affected, with 82% and 94% of users vulnerable. An average of 63 visited locations were detected per user, and for the top 10% of users the tests found over 150 visited sites. The website has a summary of the findings; the full paper (PDF) is available as well."
Space

Water Not a Good Enough Guide To Find Alien Life 184

An anonymous reader noted an article in Cosmos that questions the conventional wisdom of the "follow the water" strategy of seeking extraterrestrial life, saying "There's an awful lot of places where water could exist — either on the surface of the Earth, or deep within it — yet life is largely concentrated in a small sliver of this."

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