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  1. Re:Be interesting if the course were a book on Feds Target Instructors of Polygraph-Beating Methods · · Score: 2

    And you can probably forget about your security clearance if you order any of these books.

  2. Re:What does this mean exactly? on Google To Encrypt Cloud Storage Data By Default · · Score: 4, Informative

    It means that they don't provide the encryption keys. And the unencrypted data is provided to government agencies in accordance with the law. Since there are secret laws, we don't know under what conditions the data is provided.

  3. Re:I will agree that VR is cool on John Carmack Joins Oculus VR As CTO · · Score: 1

    VR for personal use so far has failed because the hardware was crap or unaffordable. I will buy an Oculus Rift and I don't care how it looks. I won't use it for an audience.

  4. Frequency hopping rates on Microsoft's Cooperation With NSA Either Voluntary, Or Reveals New Legal Tactic · · Score: 1

    Wasn't the frequency hopping rate in cell phone standards lowered to make surveillance more easy? AFAIK this happened far more than a decade ago.

  5. Dolce and Gabbanna on Sexism Still a Problem At E3 · · Score: 1

    I think it was a Dolce and Gabbanna store that had young men posing half-naked in Baywatch costumes. There was a long queue in front of the store. While I personally don't understand why these people were willing to wait half an hour to buy some shirts, I utterly fail to feel offended by such promo tactics. Seriously - relax.

  6. Re:Apologists Be Damned on What Can You Find Out From Metadata? · · Score: 1

    Maybe Gravel or Kucinic would have been different. But they only ever had a slim chance, if any.

  7. Re:Teh Terrorists on US Entertainment Industry To Congress: Make It Legal For Us To Deploy Rootkits · · Score: 1

    One can only wonder whether all the existing interfaces for "lawful interception" have been compromised or have insiders using them for espionage.

  8. Re:Citizens want lawmakers regulated by Constituti on California Lawmaker Wants 3-D Printers To Be Regulated · · Score: 1

    A democracy stops working for the benefit for all as soon as people stop ignoring the constitution.

    Please re-read that sentence.

  9. Re:Can't write concurrent code? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Programmers Who Have Not Stayed Current? · · Score: 1

    Minimizing mutable state helps. A lot.

    Have a look at functional and object-functional languages and the communities around them. You can make use of their concepts even if you don't switch languages.

  10. They do work on Kenya Police: Our Fake Bomb Detectors Are Real · · Score: 1

    The feedback of the indicator is open to interpretation. If you want to search a car, just use it and claim a positive reading. This gives you probable cause for a search. Same as K9 dogs. They are able to detect stuff, but that seems to be becoming merely an additional benefit.

  11. Re:what are you even saying? on Stop Standardizing HTML · · Score: 1

    Nope. Each element would use the relevant display properties defined in the CSS. If the value of a property is not explicitly defined, the default value of the property is used. Some of the inconsistencies between browsers stem from the fact that they assume different default properties (like margins) for specific elements.

    Personally, I like the clean minimalism of what I think is being proposed.

  12. Re:What about stairs and ramps? on Omnidirectional Treadmill: The Ultimate FPS Input Device? · · Score: 1

    One step after the other.

  13. Re:Probably won't work. on Testing an Ad-Free Microtransaction Utopia · · Score: 1

    That's why flatr might work. You decide to spend a fixed amount of money per month and that amount is split equally between all the pages that you "flatr'd" in that period.

  14. Re:ISPs can do the same thing. on Nokia Redirecting Traffic On Some of Its Phones, Including HTTPS · · Score: 1

    No. You would have to run a browser that accepts the certificate of the ISP for any domain as well.

  15. Kills the competition on Adobe's Strange Software Giveaway: Goof, Or Clever Marketing? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you need some legal photo editing software at your company, but it's not justifiable to buy Photoshop, you can now use this old version for free. That kills the competition with cheaper products. And if at some point you need something more powerful than this old version, you're probably going to buy a new version of PhotoShop instead of learning to use a new software.

  16. Re:Sleep. on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your New Years Eve Tradition? · · Score: 1

    Your lady won't be happy with that.

  17. Wind and solar are mostly hot air on Germany Exports More Electricity Than Ever Despite Phasing Out Nuclear Energy · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's a lot of talk about wind energy in Germany, but in truth most of our energy stems from coal and natural gas plants. And that's not going to change in the foreseeable future. Check out the up-to-date statistics on power production in Germany that eex provides.

  18. Re:Seriously?! on Surfcast Sues Microsoft Over Tile Patent · · Score: 1

    B) How it wasn't picked up on a patent search.

    Microsoft has been aware of the patent. It's even referenced in Microsofts own patent on displaying tiles on mobile devices.

    Software patents are fundamentally wrong :(

    No kidding.

  19. Re:Better have a a warrent or what? on Supreme Court Hearing Case On Drug-Sniffing Dog "Fishing Expeditions" · · Score: 2

    Obviously, you don't use a rock, you use a wand. It works - even if it doesn't work - by giving you a justification to search any car you want.

  20. Finally good news... on Shut Up and Play Nice: How the Western World Is Limiting Free Speech · · Score: 1

    Finally good news for the members of the Church of Scientology, probably the most ridiculed religion on earth.

  21. Re:Winter Biking? on As Gas Prices Soar So Does City Biking · · Score: 2

    If the bike lanes are not usable due to snow or ice, you're allowed to use the road in Germany.

  22. Re:Video of the capture on ISS Robotic Arm Captures Dragon Capsule · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Space travel was more exciting before I was a kid:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bLH11-DbqM

  23. Re:Voyager discs on Gold Artifact To Orbit Earth In Hope of Alien Retrieval · · Score: 1

    Realistically, the messages are messages to ourselves. It's ok for them to be about what we want to be, to provide inspiration to our descendants and ourselves.

  24. Voyager discs on Gold Artifact To Orbit Earth In Hope of Alien Retrieval · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I prefer the Voyager discs. They provide a more positive look on mankind. These photos look more like a guilt trip.

  25. Re:But that's not the real problem. on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 1

    It's dangerous because cars will overlook you. You're often hidden behind parking cars or bushes and cars will turn a right without noticing you. Also when a car exists a driveway, they won't expect anyone fast on the sidewalk. And you can't avoid the car because all escape routes are blocked by walls, fences and parking cars.