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  1. Re:What's his need? on David Cameron Says Fictional Crime Proves Why Snooper's Charter Is Necessary · · Score: 1

    I thought you were going on about the pointlessness of destroying The Guardian's computers and hard drives regarding the Snowden documents. That is, any hacker can find those documents so why would you bother destroying The Guardian's hardware?

  2. Re:The bigger problem on David Cameron Says Fictional Crime Proves Why Snooper's Charter Is Necessary · · Score: 1

    It's the same as the affect of 'CSI' on civilian expectations of police work.

  3. Re:Duh - help his state out on Senator Makes NASA Complete $350 Million Testing Tower That It Will Never Use · · Score: 1

    The cynic in me says it will be a way of pointing to NASA as being a waste of money: You spent money on constructing a tower only to mothball it upon completion? You don't deserve this money, NASA.

  4. Re:Ridiculous premise on When Cars Go Driverless, What Happens To the Honking? · · Score: 1

    Self-driving cars without a human operator will likely exist. Perhaps only in the form of public transport or replacing taxis.

  5. Re:A Button For Humans To Press on When Cars Go Driverless, What Happens To the Honking? · · Score: 1

    Are their cars powered by sound?

  6. Re:spam on Would Linus Torvalds Please Collect His Bitcoin Tips? · · Score: 1

    Here, I just made a little bookmarklet to make the bitcoin articles have a lower opacity.

    javascript:$('#firehoselist [id^="firehose-"]').each(function(i){var $article=$(this);if(/bitcoin/i.test($article.text()))$article.css("opacity",0.25)});

    Clearly I make a draggable link but you're probably a smart cookie and can figure out where to put it.

  7. Re:cared... on Map of Publicly-Funded Creationism Teaching · · Score: 1

    Neither is Alaska.

    Also, There is no reason to use 'an' when saying 'an US territory.'

  8. Re:Means "bird" in German on Valve Working on GNU/Linux Native Open Source OpenGL Debugger · · Score: 1

    Vogel makes me think of bread.

  9. Re:Privacy on Mozilla Is Mapping Cell Towers and WiFi Access Points · · Score: 2, Informative

    Also to improve GeoIP: If they connect to the WiFi, know the IP it uses to get to Google servers. Then they can provide the most probable location data back when some device on that IP asks for location information.

  10. Re:That's cute on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wouldn't it be trivial to use the ad blocker to block the ad block detection script?

  11. Re:Burn after reading? on TrueCrypt Master Key Extraction and Volume Identification · · Score: 1

    Clearly crashing and dumping is a feature in Windows to appease the NSA.

  12. Actually they knew they should be planning a new-os version at least since Vista was released. And probably pushed that planning into a release for Windows 7.

  13. Re:Raise Taxes! on U.S. Science Agencies Get Some Relief In 2014 Budget · · Score: 1

    I get the feeling that Texas doesn't like their anagram.

    Is a person who pays tax a taxen?

  14. Re:Finally! on Chinese Firm Can Now Produce 500 Cloned Pigs Per Year · · Score: 1

    No no no, keep out the nagging wife DNA and the razor burn DNA.

  15. Re:I'm personally way more interested in Hövd on Building a Better Bike Helmet Out of Paper · · Score: 1

    Same question is applied to traditional helmets. But I suppose you're talking about the time between helmet reacting and fully deployed airbag.

  16. Re:What's the difference? on Valve's Steam Machines Are More About Safeguarding PCs Than Killing Consoles · · Score: 4, Informative

    We're talking about Steam boxes, which run SteamOS, which is Debian based and therefore can run XBMC.

    There is a launcher from XBMC that will open Steam in Big Picture Mode.

  17. Re:What's the difference? on Valve's Steam Machines Are More About Safeguarding PCs Than Killing Consoles · · Score: 4, Informative

    SteamOS is Debian, so if there is something for Debian that sorts out Plex.

  18. Re:Javascript blocked by default. on Real-Time Face Substitution in Javascript · · Score: 1

    Do they require you to run some code on your machine?

    If yes, then it's just the same as if it was Javascript.

  19. Re:My Solution on Ask Slashdot: How To Protect Your Passwords From Amnesia? · · Score: 1

    My passwords are the domain name backwards.

    gro.todhsals

  20. Re:Just post it on Slashdot on Ask Slashdot: How To Protect Your Passwords From Amnesia? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Remember, posting your password on the internet will show the password to you as as your password, but others will see it as stars.

    See, look at my password ************

    So now if I get amnesia all I have to do is come back and check my comment history and I'll find my password.

  21. Re:Strange form factor on Intel Puts a PC Into an SD Card-Sized Casing · · Score: 1

    If you look at the picture it does look pretty much like an SD card.

  22. Re:Sounds good in theory... on Embedded SIM Design Means No More Swapping Cards · · Score: 1

    And I thought phones these days were packed with multi-frequency band capabilities to allow that crap.

    Or at least to make it cheaper for device manufacturer by selling one phone capable for all networks. But hey, I don't know the US mobile landscape.

  23. Re:oh boy... on Mark Zuckerberg Gives $990 Million To Charity · · Score: 1

    Yes, you may subscribe to my newsletter where I communication at great lengths. It is, in my opinion, quite an interesting read. You might be delighted to know that I was already planning my next issue to be about idiosyncratic rules for communication.

  24. Re:Sounds good in theory... on Embedded SIM Design Means No More Swapping Cards · · Score: 1

    I'd like it as if it was just:

    Settings > Networks:
    Set phone network to use.
    Set phone number to use (identity on the network).
    Set passphrase to use (probably a key given by the network, like PUK code).
    Connect to network.

    Ooooo OAuth2 like would be interdasting.

  25. Re:Would not be a problem at all on Embedded SIM Design Means No More Swapping Cards · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I don't know what all the functions of the SIM is, but I don't understand why it wouldn't need to just be the phone + something:

    User inputs their cell number, a passphrase to authenticate with that identity on the network, and selects the network.
    Network authorises that instance of the cell number on the network.

    Probable downside is the same as a lot of user+pass systems instead of controlled hardware key: multiple logins, probably from attackers.