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  1. Blackberry has become less secure on How BlackBerry Blew It · · Score: 1

    I was considering the Q10 (I like the keyboard) as my next device. BB had a good reputation about security, anfd not being a US company was definitely a pre, but several issues with the Indian and Saudi gouvernments had eroded that trust a bit. Then the links with the NSA came known. Combined with this: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/07/18/1249236/blackberry-10-sends-full-email-account-credentials-to-rim and I decided to stick with my Nokia E72 for the time being.

    That phone also tries to snoop your email password (to use it with a discontinued service) if you setup your mail but I can easily overcome that by misttyping my mail provider and switching to manual input.

  2. Re:What about getting it into Church as well? on California Elementary Schools To Test Anti-Piracy Curriculum · · Score: 1

    Sounds like scientology to me...

  3. Re:Indoctrination and Propoganda on California Elementary Schools To Test Anti-Piracy Curriculum · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Makes me wonder if there'll ever be a Star Trek-esque Utopia..."

    The USA seems to me more en route to a Babylon 5 police state under president Clark.

  4. Re:Give consumers more privacy? on Google May Replace Cookies With Unique AdIDs · · Score: 0

    Maybe via Javascript? That would explain the move from Firefox to remlve the "disable Javascript" from the GUI in version 23 (use the settingssanity plugin to get it back).

  5. Re:Give consumers more privacy? on Google May Replace Cookies With Unique AdIDs · · Score: 1

    Seems like trackingblockers like Ghostery will need an update.

  6. Land of the "free" on Linus Torvalds Admits He's Been Asked To Insert Backdoor Into Linux · · Score: 2

    But he is forbidden to talk about it and has to communicate it this way. Reminds me of the proposal to publish your pgp key with the note "this key has not been compromised". When thr government demand the key you remove the note.

  7. Re:Good idea but... on With XP's End of Life, Munich Will Distribute Ubuntu CDs · · Score: 1

    I've never seen a tablet that could burn DVD's. Perhaps the Surface Pro could with an external writer but that one is much too expensive.

  8. Re:Microsoft will pull back on With XP's End of Life, Munich Will Distribute Ubuntu CDs · · Score: 1

    If there is a driver for win8 it will probably work also for win7. I had more problems when I downgraded my new laptop to windows 7 32 bit: in the end I ended up switching to win7 64 bit anyway because I couldn't find working 32 bit drivers for the network card. Now I have to change a lot of programs, and invent trics for others (I installed Delphi 7 in C:\Programs because it tends to change things in its install dir when you install a package which gives errors when it tries to do that in C:\Program files (x86) ).

  9. Re:Microsoft will pull back on With XP's End of Life, Munich Will Distribute Ubuntu CDs · · Score: 1

    Migration away from XP can also go the other way - if the hardware is too slow for windows 7, it might run windows 2000 fine - a version currently too obscure for hackers to attack.

  10. Re:Like a Nokia Android wouldn't have bombed? on Nokia Had an Android Phone In Development · · Score: 1

    They are still general-purpose phones that could run native programs. I bought my first smartphone, the Nokia E50, because I could run car navigation on it. I still use a Symbian device (Nokia E72) today (mostly because it has a decent keyboard, I'm not a touchscreen fan) and it can do almost the same as most Android phones (although it doesn't run Angry Birds and I'm still looking for a decent usenet text group application).

  11. Re:No wonder we have no [music] legends anymore... on How Amateurs Destroyed the Professional Music Business · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Of course we have - go listen to a classical concert and you see a lot of good, well trained musicians.

  12. What about the rebels? on US, Russia Agree On Plan To Dispose of Syria's Chemical Weapons · · Score: 1

    They seem to have chemical weapons too. They should be disarmed from them as well.

    To me, this plan looks like a setup to disarm Syria to prevent it from attacking Israel or US invasion troops when (not if) they declare he has not cooperated enough. The same happened with the UN inspectors in Iraq, it didn't matter what they reported they just were there as an excuse to start the attack.

    The US has not even declared war with Syria. Seems they learned the lesson Japan gave them in 1941 about the effectiveness of sneak attacks well.

  13. Re:Angling to get Iran too on US Intercepts Iranian Order For Attack On US Embassy In Iraq · · Score: 1

    So does the US, bombing civilians in Pakistan for example.

  14. Re:BS Detectors at Maximum, Mr. Sulu on US Intercepts Iranian Order For Attack On US Embassy In Iraq · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Considering past history, Iran has not started any wars in the region. The US-backed Iraq has. Iran with nukes will probably only use them to prevent US and Israeli attacks. Even better if they get rocket technology to deliver them: hey, US, you attack and we'll probably loose but some of your cities will be finished too. I think it would actually promote peace since it would prevent US agression.

  15. Re:BS Detectors at Maximum, Mr. Sulu on US Intercepts Iranian Order For Attack On US Embassy In Iraq · · Score: 2

    Self determination is not robbing other people's land. But it is understandable the US and Israel are such close friends, the US originated in the same way by robbing the land of the indians (or native Americans if they are now often called).

  16. Re:America would deserve it... on US Intercepts Iranian Order For Attack On US Embassy In Iraq · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes you did. If you had any brains you should have known the US acts like the worlds bully. If you were too blinded by your idea of "patriotism" too see it, now's the wakeup call.

  17. Re:A little Pyrrhic there. on Would You Tell People How To Crack Your Software? · · Score: 1

    Psst, this is software for penetration tests, not a game.

  18. Re:Tongue in cheek on Would You Tell People How To Crack Your Software? · · Score: 1

    And even better, his instructions are sufficient to make people crack the trial version themselves. Then they can be sure there are no additional backdoors in it than those that might already be in there.

    Considering the probable userbase of the software (penetration testers), this shoudn't be too difficult for most users.

  19. Re: Interesting on Epic: A Privacy-Focused Web Browser · · Score: 1

    It will only make you stand out if it identifies itself as Epic instead of standard Chrome.

  20. Re:Interesting individual on Kim Dotcom Resigns From Mega To Fight Extradition, Run For Office · · Score: 1

    Getting a law passed that abandons copyright? That would be an interesting experiment. It could bring the local economy a lot of profit when companies rush in from oppressed countries.

  21. Re:Surprised? on Kim Dotcom Resigns From Mega To Fight Extradition, Run For Office · · Score: 1

    So what? Current and former US presidents should be facing a Neurenberg trial but only escape it because they have power.

  22. Re:Gee, he's got my vote on Kim Dotcom Resigns From Mega To Fight Extradition, Run For Office · · Score: 1

    Well, you catch bandits with bandits. About time someone stepped up against the criminals who don't work in the interest of the voters but in the interest of the criminal empire the US is.

  23. Re:failure to respond... on Syria: a Defining Moment For Chemical Weapons? · · Score: 1

    Well, many... The vote against the war proposal was turned down only by 285 against 272.

  24. Re:bullshit on Syria: a Defining Moment For Chemical Weapons? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No it's not, the US sees itself as the world police. Most other nations wished you didn't and minded your own buisiness.

  25. Re:Get involved but on a limited scale. on Syria: a Defining Moment For Chemical Weapons? · · Score: 1

    We Europeans can get our oil from Russia and Iran. But the US seems not to like that so a puppet regime has to be created in Syria.