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  1. The guy might have a legitimate concern on Cisco VP To Memo Leaker: Finding You Now 'My Hobby' · · Score: 1

    The reason the guy doesn't want the email to leak is because it deals with an ongoing tender. Which he lost, but if you know companies like that, they're not going to take it lying down.

  2. Elon Musk on Elon Musk Will Usher In the Era of Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Someone with a name like that, is bound to be awesome!

  3. I don't mind, somehow on Skype Hands Teenager's Information To Private Firm · · Score: 1

    They could have broken privacy laws with this but if they didn't: what if, based on the evidence that they had, they just simply thought the boy was being a major asswipe? There is no *obligation* to use Skype, right?

  4. Your code only gets better on Why Coding At Fifty May Be Nifty · · Score: 1

    Seriously, it does.

  5. Slight plug here, and I told you so. on Industrial Control Software Easily Hackable · · Score: 1

    We've been saying this for years, but then again - our company makes data diodes.

  6. Re:Big surprise on Iran Running Out of Physical Currency, Satellite Broadcasts Dropped in Europe · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hardly. I'm not from the US, but I feel very much te same about Iran. I also say: let 'm drown. They run a pretend democracy that still have at least half of the population keep the current set of fear-driven, fear-mongering elite in charge, They simply cannot be persuaded to not fund and otherwise stimulate all sorts of terror groups that do all sorts of stupid and dangerous shiat all over the world. They purposely suppress women and gays. They do all that and still keep expecting to be treated with respect. I say: let 'em go under good this time. Relativism with respect to what the US does *is* apples and oranges.

  7. Re:Too much activity killed mine, I think on Ask Slashdot: How Do SSDs Die? · · Score: 2

    Did you mount it with noatime and nodiratime ?

  8. Re:Fact check on Shut Up and Play Nice: How the Western World Is Limiting Free Speech · · Score: 1

    'Protests' or whatever you call them, didn't just occur in Lybia and/or Egypt.

  9. Re:I dig his definition of "God" on Einstein Letter Critical of Religion To Be Auctioned On EBay · · Score: 1

    Spinoza made a compelling case for 'nature' /being/ 'god', so I don't see how the two were any different. No need for a separate definition.

  10. Re:Redbull on Felix Baumgartner's Supersonic Skydive Attempt · · Score: 4, Interesting

    He was also in a pressure suit the severely limited his motion. Maybe he was just too busy to talk, trying to figure out how to get certain things done.

  11. Well, here's a few suggestions on The Three Pillars of Nokia Strategy Have All Failed · · Score: 1

    Other cellphone makers are leaving a lot of 'easy' niches open IMHO:
    - You need a shop in high street. Android is too generic, Samsung is too much of everything else (TV's and stuff) - Nokia could have an 'Apple store' and get away with it.
    - You need security and robustness. Smartphones are moving from a hipster-thing to a commodity right now, so it's time you start addressing companies to use smartphones for company uses. And then I mean properly - with security inside the phone, bigger batteries and compatibility with office tools. Huge market.
    - Stop doing everything that's irritating about Apple: no app-store, no iTunes obligation, no stupid connectors, no wrong way to hold it. No selling your soul to placate His Steveness. Emphasize it. Android does that, but not enough - it has no commercial incentive: make sure that hipsters are on the defensive - it's easy: they're hipsters.

  12. Because 'assuming that the universe is really a simulation' is being paranoid (and thoroughly so). And paranoia is a function of our biology. Something to do with predators, you should look it up.

  13. Or just wipe unity from your machine on Stallman On Unity Dash: Canonical Will Have To Give Users' Data To Governments · · Score: 2

    And use kubuntu instead!

  14. Re:Lies! Lies! on DNA Analysis Probes the End of Human-Neanderthal Sex · · Score: 1

    No *you* lie! Posting on Slashdot and maintaining that you have a wife. And having sex with her and everything! Tss.

  15. Re:A comparison on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1

    You must be really popular.

  16. If you're not a people's person... on Ask Slashdot: Am I Too Old To Retrain? · · Score: 1

    Why are you in support?

  17. Re:Don't we already have good composting toilets? on Why Worms In the Toilet Might Be a Good Idea · · Score: 1

    You don't use it as fertilizer over plants that have already sprouted; you plow it into the earth.

  18. Physics on 802.11ad Will Knock Your Socks Off, Says Interop Panel · · Score: 1

    How is 60GHz going to reach any relevant distance at all without frying my brain at the same time?

  19. Seriously on Gold Artifact To Orbit Earth In Hope of Alien Retrieval · · Score: 1

    What vanity.

  20. Re:Dangerous precedent on US Court Says Motorola Can't Enforce Microsoft Injunction In Germany · · Score: 1

    You write it up as if it were somehow ridiculous and beyond the realm of the possible. But I wouldn't put it past a US court at all. 'Child endangerment' an' all that.

  21. Re:And on Monday, the headline will be on IPv6 Must Be Enabled On All US Government Sites By Sunday · · Score: 1

    Besides that, NAT *is* effectively a security measure - it masks your source address. It's like half-tunnel mode.

  22. Re:And on Monday, the headline will be on IPv6 Must Be Enabled On All US Government Sites By Sunday · · Score: 1

    Your argument is all about the lack of bits in an IPv4 address, not about NAT per se.

  23. Re:And on Monday, the headline will be on IPv6 Must Be Enabled On All US Government Sites By Sunday · · Score: 2

    Yes it is. Because inverse NAT requires you to specify where to send the traffic *to*. I'm a great proponent of IPv6 myself, but this argument of the IETF is bogus. Besides, 'centrally administered firewall' on each machine ? I think I see a flaw in your method.

  24. Re:Outside his area of expertise on Torvalds Uses Profanity To Lambaste Romney Remarks · · Score: 1

    Yes, it was obviously a joke. But then again, a) people have a right to take what is a joke, as not a joke, especially when that person has their finger potentially on the button (see also: Ronald Reagan we start bombing in fifteen minutes), and b) the comment was made on a superfluous, digital medium, not on a fully notarized official press-release, giving it somewhat the same level of seriousness.

  25. Re:The specific ruling: on Dutch Court Rules Hyperlinks Can Constitute Infringement · · Score: 1

    The 'intervention' criterium I can get along with - it means you're going out of your way to do something that can be interpreted as facilitating illegal activity. The other two criteria, however, I think are bogus: 'new audience' - this is about news, new audience is what it is supposed to do, and 'profit' is senseless as an argument. Typical Dutch aversion to capitalism.