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  1. Re:Good reason for it to be illegal on Pull Lever, Don't Snap Shutter: It May Be Illegal To Post Your Ballot · · Score: 1

    The reason for using a machine is to help blind and illiterate people.

  2. Re:So it begins.. on Stolen Cellphone Databases Switched On In US · · Score: 1

    Except carriers typically subsidize a phone, so selling you a phone costs them money. They'd be much happier if you just keep using your old phone or buy second-hand phones.

  3. Re:Shocking on Yahoo Will Ignore IE 10's "Do Not Track" · · Score: 2

    That law is stupid, though. A browser could easily implement the same by asking you at every new domain it encounters. It would even get rid of 3rd party cookies from ad companies, which the EU law would not stop.
    The reason no browser is set up like that is that people don't want to be asked, just like always when it comes to security or technical questions.

  4. Re:I'm just switching to Seamonkey on Ask Slashdot: Seamonkey vs. Firefox — Any Takers? · · Score: 1

    So you've just switched in preparation for something you think will happen?

  5. Transferable fine. on FTC Offers $50,000 For Best Way To Stop Robocalls · · Score: 1

    Fine the operator, but make the fine transferable to the next operator in line.

    If you get a robocall, your operator is fined. Your operator gets your phone number and the exact time of the call, so they can see which of their operators / peers the call came from. The fine gets passed further in the system until some operator loses track or the culprit is found.

  6. Re:Just ship with a low-draw driver on Will EU Regulations Effectively Ban High-End Video Cards? · · Score: 1

    The shipper normally takes quite an extra fee. Last time I tried, the duty was $10 and the extra shipping fee was $30

  7. Re:Truth or dare... on Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week · · Score: 1

    You could do this without canceling orders, although a bit less optimal and with some risk:
    Just place low amount buy orders (buy one stock at 24.98, one at 24.96, 24.94 etc until you learned the lowest price. Other algorithms may increase profits).

  8. Re:I Don't Follow Your Logic on Can Google Base Ads On E-mails Sent To Gmail Accounts? · · Score: 2

    And I feel like someone should be free to stand up their own e-mail server and have complete freedom from ads at some expense to themselves and some work if they so desire.

    You can have freedom from ads. Gmail is not sending ads to non-users.

    If I made a deal with some ad-seller that I'd forward all my mail to him, and he'd send me back some ads, how would you conclude that the ad-seller infringed? Shouldn't you be mad at me, not the ad-seller?

  9. Re:Not vulnerable in the same ways? on SHA-3 Winner Announced · · Score: 1

    It still works somehow.
    In case SHA3 is broken: whatever, we'll make a new one.
    In case SHA2 is broken: whatever, we have SHA3.

  10. Re:Not vulnerable in the same ways? on SHA-3 Winner Announced · · Score: 2

    It makes it somewhat more impressive when the vulnerabilities of SHA-2 are not known yet.

  11. Re:obvious question on W3C Releases First Working Draft of Web Crypto API · · Score: 1

    Well, there's encryption egg sausage and encryption, that's not got much encryption in it.

  12. Re:They've got it backwards. on Intel Says Clover Trail Atom CPU Won't Work With Linux · · Score: 1

    No distance is safe.

  13. Re:Unsubstantiated Rubbish on Activision Blizzard Secretly Watermarking World of Warcraft Users · · Score: 1

    How about png? All modern OSes has png support, right?

  14. Re:Unsubstantiated Rubbish on Activision Blizzard Secretly Watermarking World of Warcraft Users · · Score: 1

    Because compression artifacts look terrible on most CGI

  15. Re:Unsubstantiated Rubbish on Activision Blizzard Secretly Watermarking World of Warcraft Users · · Score: 0

    Also, whoever decided that screenshots should be saved as jpeg by default (assuming it is default) should be fired.

  16. Re:10x the population on Election Tech: In Canada, They Actually Count the Votes · · Score: 1

    I can't see any reason that the share of trusted people in a population should change with population.

  17. Re:Don't worry, Romney... on Secret Service Investigating Romney Tax Hack Claim · · Score: 1

    Well it's not really the problem with going anon, it's the problem with getting your traceable money from crime.

  18. Re:Don't worry, Romney... on Secret Service Investigating Romney Tax Hack Claim · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the clarification. I figured it would happen like that, but my google-fu was too weak.

  19. Re:Don't worry, Romney... on Secret Service Investigating Romney Tax Hack Claim · · Score: 1

    Yes, receiving bitcoins reveals nothing about you whatsoever. But when you transfer bitcoin to another account, your IP is recorded. And all transfers are public.
    That means that if you use your freshly extorted bitcoin to buy stuff on Amazon (assuming they accepted it), you are traceable.
    You could shuffle your bitcoins around a bit on your various accounts and spend only a bit at a time, but that in itself devalues your money.

  20. Re:Don't worry, Romney... on Secret Service Investigating Romney Tax Hack Claim · · Score: 1

    No. Bitcoin accounts are a created on your local computer; a normal desktop can create ~100k/sec. They consist of a public and a private part, like async crypto. You use the public part to transfer funds to the account, and the private part to transfer funds from it.

  21. Re:OK, I really don't get BitCoin... on BitFloor Joins List of Compromised BitCoin Exchanges · · Score: 1

    Why can't it scale? There are about 10T microBTC in existence.
    And having a lot of money ending up in a pyramid scheme is hardly the fault of the currency.

  22. Re:Not safe on California To License Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    Ew, that Cnet article reads like a gossip magazine, or a script from Glenn Beck. Isn't there anything more... credible?

  23. Re:CRC on Ask Slashdot: How Do I De-Dupe a System With 4.2 Million Files? · · Score: 1

    the CRC is not just a bit more complex to generate, it forces you to read the entire file. Reading 5 TB data takes quite a lot more time than reading a filesystem with 4M files. So yes, delay the CRC, play with filesizes first.

  24. Re:Or he could... you know... on Apple Rejects Drone Strike App · · Score: 1

    On Android, you just fast-switch back to the browser app, which displays the same as when you left it.

  25. Re:No on Polish Researcher: Oracle Knew For Months About Java Zero-Day · · Score: 1

    "Not shitty" is entirely up to the programmer. You bitch and bitch, but you provide no reason. Where does "the UI" fall short? Why is WORE not working?