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  1. > But it still feels brazen hearing the commission staff repeatedly discount Americans' preference for consumer protections, simply because they aren't phrased in legal terms. Lets face it, its nothing to do with legal terms or not, its about following the money, and the money says end NN.

  2. Re:A non-issue, just update the device! on Nintendo Switch Ships With Unpatched 6-Month-Old WebKit Vulnerabilities (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Just because everyone does something crap doesn't make it ok - if Nintendo cared at all about their customers they wouldn't do this.

  3. Re:Oh my god! on How is The New York Times Really Doing? (om.co) · · Score: 1

    clearly the US president thinks it very important, so someone must care

  4. Re:Stop with the Nag screen on Apple Will Finally Let Developers Respond To App Store Reviews (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I completely agree that they are annoying, but as an app developer I know that the nagging works, and reviews are so important for getting downloads - our app downloads per day go up and down with our rating

  5. if you dont like it, just delete the app and travel some other way, there is no point hating it.

  6. Arrested for what? on Teenager Accidentally Launches DDoS Attack On 911 Systems (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Surely if anyone is at fault here it is apple for deploying buggy code and the department responsible for a 911 system that crashes under 6000 calls...

  7. Re:Google is out of their fucking minds on Google Announces Support of the Controversial TPP (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    The only debate has been between those with a vested interest in it happening, and no one else having a look at it

  8. Re:No suprise on Google Announces Support of the Controversial TPP (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Yes, because guns are the solution to all the problems everywhere

  9. How is there news about Office 2010, which was presumably released 6 years ago. Who even uses Office these days, Google docs all the way... or a Markdown editor.

  10. Disappearing step by step

  11. It's a shame one of the biggest cloud hosting providers, aws, doesn't provide ipv6 support.

  12. Re: Email? on Ask Slashdot: Jamming UK Metadata Collection? · · Score: 2

    Actually with the data ISPs will collect and given that all of those providers use https for the webmail, your ISP will only know you accessed gmail, but have no idea of the contents of your mail

  13. Boring on 10 Years of Intel Processors Compared · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I was hoping to see an article discussing the changes in architecture and how the improvements have been made, not just regurgiting lists of bench marks

  14. Re:FBI director on Tim Cook: "Weakening Encryption Or Taking It Away Harms Good People" · · Score: 1

    I think that is the craziest part, that again the people involved know about, that they can never hope to control all the software in the world. And as much as they can might be able to stop ordinary americans using real encryption they have no chance of stopping the 'terroists' that they claim to be really trying to spy on.

  15. FBI director on Tim Cook: "Weakening Encryption Or Taking It Away Harms Good People" · · Score: 1, Insightful

    When politicians say this things - you can maybe believe that they don't understand the impossibility of undermining encryption such that only the 'good guys' can do it. But the director of the FBI, would must know what he is talking about, and must know that its just completely wrong.

  16. Its hard to say what i would think, when it comes to a personal family member, but honestly, freedom is worth the price.

  17. Idiots at work on UK Prime Minister Says Gov't Should Be Capable of Reading Any Communications · · Score: 2

    Unfortunately this is a recurring theme that GCHQ has tried to push on each of last few governments seemingly in an attempt to legalise what they are already doing.

  18. Re:IPv6 as a help? on Tor Project Mulls How Feds Took Down Hidden Websites · · Score: 1

    You could easily right, its something that we will have to fight for when the time comes.

  19. Re: Ask yourself these questions... apk on Comcast Using JavaScript Injection To Serve Ads On Public Wi-Fi Hotspots · · Score: 1

    I don't disagree that hosts file might not be better, adblock is just a very simple solution, for non Slashdot users, my point is simply that I am not interested in working around the problem, I would be more interested in solving the problem at the source.Clearly ISPs are lacking proper regulation, net neutrality is being allowed to be destroyed, by a lack of response to such things.

  20. Re:Hosts file solution? on Comcast Using JavaScript Injection To Serve Ads On Public Wi-Fi Hotspots · · Score: 1

    Everyone agrees that its easily worked around, a simple adblock extension will do it, but the point is rather more serious, that comcast think its ok to supply you not with the internet, but the internet according to comcast.

  21. Re:So setup a case where harm is being done on Comcast Using JavaScript Injection To Serve Ads On Public Wi-Fi Hotspots · · Score: 0

    take em to court for claiming to provide free internet and actually providing something quite different

  22. Best change in a while on Choose Your Side On the Linux Divide · · Score: 1

    Its true, I prefer the upstart syntax, but either way, its a damn sight better than those scripts that we had to write for years. Why must people hang on so much to the old when there are so many clear advantages.

  23. Re: About time on Former FCC Head: "We Should Be Ashamed of Ourselves" For State of Broadband · · Score: 1

    They brain wash you well over there - http://www.speedtest.net/my-re...

  24. Re:About time on Former FCC Head: "We Should Be Ashamed of Ourselves" For State of Broadband · · Score: 1

    Maybe thats what they tell you, but I get near to 80 Gbps - here in eastern europe.

  25. Re:Open source failed on Heartbleed Coder: Bug In OpenSSL Was an Honest Mistake · · Score: 1

    in the same way any company using open source can pay for a professional code audit