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  1. Re:Protecting what? on US Gov't Makes a Mess of Classifying Sensitive Data · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you closely tag it to everything you do, you're doing it wrong. Unless they are a financial institution, tell em to shove it. Hell, it took my university until 2004 to figure out not to use that as a student ID number and encoded (without encryption) in the magstrip of the ID cards. Most places will allow you to get credit from them (like utilities) without it... if you ask.

  2. Re:Make the punishment fit the crime on Rogue Employees Sell World Cup Fans' Passport Data · · Score: 5, Insightful

    On a serious note, if it's the second scenario supposed in TFA.... Keeping that sort of personal data for that long without any proper use for it shows either a heavy degree of incompetence or a desire to use it for their own promotions and that they are sour that "rogue" employees beat them to selling the information.

  3. Re:Lost the war? on Sony Has Lost the PS3 Hacking War · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Once again Microsoft abandons innovation on Google Says Microsoft Is Driving Antitrust Review · · Score: 1

    Ah, someone who still can't spell Microsoft with the correct case...

  5. Re:'OCGA' on Plagiarizing a Takedown Notice · · Score: 1

    Well then RTFA, it doesn't. The presence of OCGA gives support to the idea that this guy just copy and pasted it.

  6. Re:Lost the war? on Sony Has Lost the PS3 Hacking War · · Score: 1

    You can blame the auto correction on an iPhone and my failure to correctly preview...

  7. Lost the war? on Sony Has Lost the PS3 Hacking War · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Maybe this battle was a loss, but as long as Song can force firmware updates, the war is far from over.

    There's aslo an iOS version being made that'll run from a jailbroken iPhone.

  8. just because I can. on Best Way To Archive Emails For Later Searching? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    just because I can.

    That's a big assumption. You are asking slashdot, so I'm thinking you can't. Especially because imap never occurred to you.

  9. Re:Cars Don't Cause Accidents... on Gubernatorial Candidate Wants to Sell Speeding Passes for $25 · · Score: 1

    This morning I followed an elderly lady onto the on-ramp in a major city. It twisted and turned and she entered the US Highway at ~35 MPH. Going faster would have been safer for me, as cars routinely hit the end of this on-ramp at 60+ MPH to properly merge with traffic. Unless she was driving a sports car, there was no way to properly sample the passing cars and choose where to merge at this ridiculously low speed. Her vehicle and all the ones behind it just had to pray that a 18 wheeler wasn't coming and people on the highway were courteous to our tortoise-like merge.

    They are designed (even if you argue poorly) to accelerate your vehicle to the flow of traffic. If you can't handle that, stay on the surface streets (coincidentally, she took the next off-ramp, making it a big exercise for a few minute travel time savings).

  10. Re:Cue increase in accidents on Gubernatorial Candidate Wants to Sell Speeding Passes for $25 · · Score: 1

    Oh, are you the guy passing me at 105 MPH in the fog on Interstate 5? I had a T-Bird that maxed at 85, but depending on where you are driving on 5, that could also be way too fast. I-5 in CA and many highways in NV desperately need maintenance. For example, 90 MPH wouldn't be safe on much of US50 or I-80 entering NV from the CA side. Besides, the NV State Troopers need somewhere to hang out...

  11. Re:That's not copy protection on Medieval Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    I don't see how world-wide viewership of a performed show is the same as dissemination of a script.

  12. Re:That's not copy protection on Medieval Copy Protection · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can you fork it? Can you modify it? Can you sell it?

    Nope, you can walk into any bookstore and get the original untranslated version, and only that, for free. There aren't any other versions allowed and nobody ever sells it.

  13. Re:How to avoid it? on Apple Patents Remotely Disabling Jailbroken Phones · · Score: 1

    Still loving it too, eh? Eventually it may break down, so I wouldn't say it's the last. What if you were to accidentally drop it in a pool for more than five metric minutes? You'd have an innate need to acquire a new iOS device.

  14. Re:What's the difference between threat / menace? on Net Neutrality — Threat Or Menace? · · Score: 1

    It's quite simple. He's drunk, just like the CSS designer of that site.

  15. Re:Comments Disabled on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 1

    Wait, has anyone mentioned the Denon ethernet cable yet?

  16. Re:Nuts on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 1

    A good, cheap stereo amp from NAD and some Dali, or B&W speakers can be had for a reasonable price and will sound very good.

    B&W? Thanks, but I prefer my speakers in technicolor.

  17. Re:Standard audiophile stuff on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 1

    I've heard people say a lot of things about timothy, but I don't think he's been called new in a very long time.

  18. Re:Innovation has been replaced by litigation on Why Software Patents Are a Joke — Literally · · Score: 1

    Care to mention any of the reasons the fashion industry wasn't allowed instead of making me watch a boring 15 minute flash video?

  19. Re:Ah, the memories! And lessons, too. on Stupid Data Center Tricks · · Score: 1

    but only on the drives which were oriented north-south; those oriented east-west were not affected. So came the directive that all drives, henceforth, needed to be oriented north-south.

    That seems counter-productive. They were oriented into the less optimal position?

  20. Re:Not using Cisco ACLs on Stupid Data Center Tricks · · Score: 1

    I've done this before without any ill results. What consumer router provides DHCP to WAN?

    Or better, what university thought it'd be a good idea to pass DHCP from ports dedicated to students?

  21. Re:Wonder on Inmates Escape As Guard Plays Plants Vs. Zombies · · Score: 1

    It's a very popular game that ranks high in the sales charts of iOS and is on many platforms. I doubt they ever wonder if anyone is playing their game.

  22. Re:That's why on Inmates Escape As Guard Plays Plants Vs. Zombies · · Score: 2, Insightful

    With wanting to snipe from the corners, if it was a pool level the cat would be good too. She can hit any lane.

  23. slashdotted on How Death Rally Got Ported · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm sorry, I get the nerd part, but where is the news part? The article was slashdotted less than 20 mins after posting, so I don't get what your point is.

  24. Re:Not surprising to me... on iPhone vs. Android Battle Goes To Afghanistan · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you are in the military and are surprised that they aren't setting up systems via an uncontrolled 3G network, get the fuck out.

  25. Re:so that bigger then going after rapist in DNA l on FBI Prioritizes Copyright Over Missing Persons · · Score: 2, Funny

    what an asshole