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  1. Re:Is Apple being compensated? on Apple Deluged By Police Demands To Decrypt iPhones · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Maybe the backdoor isn't so much the crypto format itself - it's in the password to decrypt. After all - these companies have a thing for you sharing information 'in the cloud', right? What's to stop them from simply posting your password somewhere central - for recovery purposes on your (and apparently, other people's) behalf? I reckon 90% of users would find it super-convenient!

  2. I think you misrepresent a little bit on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Programmers Who Have Not Stayed Current? · · Score: 1

    You act as if versioning systems and concurrent programming have only been invented in the last ten years. And that is simply not true, so there must be another problem underlying yours.

  3. Little tidbit on Biometric Database Plans Hidden In Immigration Bill · · Score: 1

    "Employers would be obliged to look up every new hire in the database to verify that they match their photo."

    Are employers officials of the state now? This sounds very un-American, and very un-doable too.

  4. I agree on Antivirus Firms "Won't Co-operate" With PC-Hacking Dutch Police · · Score: 1

    'Good malware' is the stupidest idea ever.

  5. Re:zero on IBM Researchers Open Source Homomorphic Crypto Library · · Score: 1

    brainfuck?

  6. Seems like a risky proposition on The Text-Your-Parents-Your-Drug-Deal Experiment · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In the United Paranoid States.

  7. FSM help you all on Former Microsoft Managers Now In Charge of Washington State's Budget · · Score: 2

    I had the pleasure of working with Windows 7 a week ago, on the rare occasion I had to set up a demonstration on a netbook. Hadn't seriously touched windows since.. I don't know. Probably NT. And it *still* is a toy-OS.

  8. Yes it may. on Browser Choice May Affect Your Job Prospects · · Score: 1

    Just like the color of your shoes. Or it may not.

  9. I didn't know on Hatebase Tries To Scan For Precursors of Genocide In Language · · Score: 1

    That we had already established beyond any reasonable doubt that hateful language was a predictor of genocide?

  10. Re:In other news... on Microsoft Creative Director 'Doesn't Get' Always-On DRM Concerns · · Score: 1

    If a game was as necessary for survival as food, and if Microsoft was the State, not a private company that is allowed to whatever it pleases with its own products then yes, your point would be perfectly valid.

  11. Maybe it was the labelling on USPS Discriminates Against 'Atheist' Merchandise · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Did they cross check with similar sized, similar colored, random dictionary words-labeled packages?

  12. Re:Not a smart move on Game Site Wonders 'What Next?' When 50% of Users Block Ads · · Score: 1

    Because they load the pages, but they don't load the ads. You do a simple count-comparison between serverlogs.

    If advertisers want their ads to be seen, they need to either run worthwhile content on their servers (so that users are loathe to let their adblockers block it), or inline the ads within the page (which is such an easy solution, I can't believe I'd have to tell them).

  13. Re:A school to teach them to act elitist? why? on MIT's Charm School For Geeks Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    Obviously, it's off the Charm class for you!

  14. Formatting on When 1 GB Is Really 0.9313 Gigabytes · · Score: 1

    Mac OS loses 4GB in formatting a filesystem? Wow.

  15. Yes, it's a joke on Press, Bloggers Fall For iPhone Cup Holder 'Joke' · · Score: 1

    And the networkworld guy is a sour-ass.

  16. Re:A bit disingenuous on JSTOR an Entitlement For US DoJ's Ortiz & Holder · · Score: 1

    Nuance exists for a reason, you know. People do *not* normally commit suicide, even if they're in a confrontation with the DoJ. People however, *do* normally drown when their feet are cast in concrete.

  17. Re:As fastweb in italy on UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6 · · Score: 1

    A million is probably a bit of an exageration, as there are only 64K source ports to distribute. Minus a few, even.

  18. Re:Psychopaths on US Attorney Chided Swartz On Day of Suicide · · Score: 1

    I meant the 'normal' lack of empathy. We cannot all have the same amount of empathy, or too much of it, or else our coffers would all go to Africa, nor can we all have complete lack of it. I meant the lack of empathy that comes with having a demanding job. It happens to IT-people as well.

  19. Re:Psychopaths on US Attorney Chided Swartz On Day of Suicide · · Score: 2

    Not psychopaths. Fused with their jobs + lack of empathy. Just like IT-people can sometimes have a problem imagining that there are other people who do not know, understand, or even like, IT, these people cannot empathize with other people that are not lawyers, or bureaucrats. They think that they have the most wonderful job in the world and imagine that everyone else wants to have it too. And therefore, do not mind dealing with the lawsuits and the paperwork. Those are fun challenges!

  20. Quickly, get the news out on Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy Discovered · · Score: 4, Interesting
  21. Re:It was written over 100 years ago... on TSA 'Secured' Metrodome During Recent Football Game · · Score: 1

    The alternative of which is: total anarchy.

  22. Not if you do serious typing on Ask Slashdot: Using a Tablet As a Sole Computing Device? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Or serious processing.

    But if the stuff you do at home consists of watching youtube or playing games - I couldn't for the life of me imagine an existance so boring - go for it!

  23. Facebook still isn't obligatory. on Rusty Foster Isn't Dead · · Score: 0

    Or a human right. As long as you don't need facebook to get a job, file a criminal report, register a car or whatnot, I can't lose any sleep over this. It's just a website, folks.

  24. I love netbooks on Does 2012 Mark the End of the Netbook? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They serve as ideal small computers in all sorts of laboratory set-ups. Use them as network line-debuggers, use them as front-end mockups - I just love them!

  25. Re:Yes we can! on New Documents Detail FBI, Bank Crack Down On Occupy Wall Street · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The excuse that Obama is still busy cleaning up Bush's mess is wearing a bit thin, I suppose.