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  1. Boycott on Palm Pre Reports Your Location and Usage To Palm · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ok, add them to the list.
    Actually it's getting hard to keep track. Should we start a wiki?

  2. Re:Can I ask.. on In UK, Two Convicted of Refusing To Decrypt Data · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What if, what if, what if...

    No cute little work-around is going to help, because the RIP act was designed as a tool of authoritarianism.
    Recently in historical terms, encryption has became essentially unbreakable, and this is the backdoor to it all.

  3. Anyone care? on Apple Balks, Finally Relents, At Possible User Queries of Dictionary App · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Does anyone actually care about these apple app stories?

    Users and devs both know what their getting into, when they jumped on apples' locked down platform.
    Everything that followed was inevitable.

  4. WTF? on Comcast the Latest ISP To Try DNS Hijacking · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There shouldn't be any hijack page, simple as that.
    And yes, you can register an account for OpenDNS. But why would anybody here be advocating standards-breaking, overcomplicated, web-based nonsense?

    There is nothing wrong with Treewalk, which is why I didn't mention it.

  5. Re:Personal caching nameserver? on Comcast the Latest ISP To Try DNS Hijacking · · Score: 1

    On ubuntu:
    sudo apt-get install bind9
    will give you a working caching nameserver.
    This page gives info about maintaining root hints: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO-8.html

    On windows XP I've been using Posadis which sort of sucks, except when compared to all the others I tried.

  6. Not OpenDNS on Comcast the Latest ISP To Try DNS Hijacking · · Score: 2, Insightful

    4.2.2.1
    4.2.2.2
    4.2.2.3
    4.2.2.4
    4.2.2.5
    4.2.2.6

    At least this story doesn't have OpenDNS in the "from the X department" this time.
    OpenDNS does exactly the same thing, so you might as well stick with your comcast servers.

  7. Re:This is how it always goes down on Wipeout HD Loading Ads Scrapped After Uproar · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ad-supported = free

    Otherwise I'd rather pay for it. And yes, I defenestrated my TV years ago.

  8. You read a book on Navigating a Geek Marriage? · · Score: 1

    That spells the end for this one.
    But you'll learn, augment your common sense (It's a super power!), and apply it to marriage 2.0

  9. Re:What we don't know on Major New Function Discovered For the Spleen · · Score: 1, Troll

    Scientific method. You've completely failed to understand it.

    Now GTFO.

  10. Re:How could the miss that? on Major New Function Discovered For the Spleen · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you persist with your LIES, you will be hearing from our lawyers.

    Yours sincerely,
    Yakult Honsha Co. Ltd

  11. Nice laws on Network Neutrality Back In Congress For 3rd Time · · Score: 2, Informative

    But just in case, encryption and protocol obfuscation for EVERYTHING.

  12. Re:Minister for Family Affairs on Even More Restriction For German Internet · · Score: 1

    Read it.
    But I thought, too obvious, slashdot is already overloaded with 1984 quotes already ;-)

  13. Minister for Family Affairs on Even More Restriction For German Internet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why are the most innocuous sounding positions in government, always the most malevolent?

    Minister for Family Affairs
    Home secretary

    I will literally shit myself if my government appoints a minister of puppies, pink ponies and day old baby ducklings.

  14. Re:I forsee on Orbit Your Own Satellite For $8,000 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    its orbit will decay and it will burn up in the atmosphere

    That's just a ridiculously elaborate cremation.

  15. Yes on The Ethics of Selling GPLed Software For the iPhone · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes it's fine

  16. Re:Faraday shield on School System Considers Jamming Students' Phones · · Score: 2, Funny

    Tin foil is even cheaper. And it looks really cool and quasi-futuristic.

  17. In before... on School System Considers Jamming Students' Phones · · Score: 4, Funny

    In before completely unrealistic, hypothetical scenario involving an off-work doctor who is out on his unicycle, when someone gets their second cellphone stuck in their throat, and would have been saved if it hadn't been for the phone-jamming equipment in operation at a nearby school.

  18. Re:Ekiga on Licensing Dispute Threatens Future of Skype · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I love linux. Love open standards. Love the unix philosophy of plugging software together.

    BUT, communication software is different because on the whole you don't get to choose.
    In an idea world, jabber, SIP OpenSSL, in reality you mum, gran, sister, girlfriend if you have one, and your pointy haired boss use MSN messenger and skype. No encryption out of the box is totally useless.
    Skype uses proprietary encryption, but that's better than none for non-businesses use.

    Seriously, fap away nerds because you know I'm right.

  19. Re:Ekiga on Licensing Dispute Threatens Future of Skype · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ekiga has no encryption. Everyone will be able to hear you chocking on dick.

  20. Everybody has AIDS on Malaria Vaccine, Via Mosquito · · Score: 4, Funny

    Next up, new AIDS vaccine is delivered by sluts.

  21. Re:Wow on Apple Says iPhone Jailbreaking Could Hurt Cell Towers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why single out Apple products. The whole concept of a "smart phone" is ingsoc lies.

    A phone is the piece of tech that you can never really own. Many people accept this and take the "free" phone, and pay the high monthly rental.
    The built in obsolescence has got to be one of the worst in the industry.

    MP3 player, calendar, organiser, GPS, ebook reader, camera, bomb, those can all converge as much as they like. Just not with anything that needs a SIM card.

  22. Re:Geniuses or Morons on The Pirate Bay Is Being Sued Again · · Score: 2, Funny

    Calling it piracy was a massive mistake.
    Piracy sounds totally bad ass, second only to Ninjas. White label burned discs, labelled in sharpie are cooler than the Fonz.

    They are never going to get rid of this image now. Here is an anti piracy video for your enjoyment.

  23. Re:Good (2) on China Bans Games That "Glorify Gangsters' Lives" · · Score: 1

    It wasn't peasants who were massacred at Tiananmen Square, it was students. Many from affluent backgrounds.

  24. Re:This should be good on Apple Kills Google Voice Apps On the iPhone · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Whoever wins ... apple fanboys lose.

  25. Why are shorter wavelengths cooler? on Finally, a True Green Laser · · Score: 1

    Blue > Green > Red

    At this rate, the next generation games consoles will need a UV power light.