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  1. Re:Cam-tastic on DEA Cameras Tracking Hundreds of Millions of Car Journeys Across the US · · Score: 1

    stop spending billions fighting a goddamn plant.

    You mean opium?

  2. Re:First Sale on Ubisoft Revokes Digital Keys For Games Purchased Via Unauthorised Retailers · · Score: 1

    We all knew that the DMCA (via DRM) was going to be used to break the first sale doctrine. This is just one more example.

  3. Re: Looks UGLY on Windows 10: Charms Bar Removed, No Start Screen For Desktops · · Score: 1

    In case you missed my point, Aero != Aereo.

  4. Re: Looks UGLY on Windows 10: Charms Bar Removed, No Start Screen For Desktops · · Score: 1

    In case you missed it, Aero != Aereo

  5. Re:Charms Bar vs Action Center on Windows 10: Charms Bar Removed, No Start Screen For Desktops · · Score: 1

    point your mouse to a corner and wait for a hidden window to magically appear

    Or press Win+C or swipe from the right on a multi-touch touchpad (or from the right on a touch screen).

    If you have a recent touchpad, I'd argue that the charms bar is *too* discoverable with most people finding it when they're trying to move the mouse or scroll.

  6. Re:Terrible names on Windows 10: Charms Bar Removed, No Start Screen For Desktops · · Score: 1

    will include a cat that's either possibly alive or dead?

    No, that's Mac OS X (pre-10.9)

  7. Re:Terrible names on Windows 10: Charms Bar Removed, No Start Screen For Desktops · · Score: 2

    Why don't you just admit the woosh and move on?

  8. Re: Looks UGLY on Windows 10: Charms Bar Removed, No Start Screen For Desktops · · Score: 2

    So you want the GPU to start tuning television channels over the web?

  9. Re:Avoid outing suspects, and other tips on Anonymous Asks Activists To Fight Pedophiles In 'Operation Deatheaters' · · Score: 1

    make sure that if you do run across child porn or links to what you think is child porn, you immediately report it to all relevant authorities

    I'm afraid that if you do this, you will be convicted for possession. The authorities are desperate for convictions and your browser cache is enough for them.

  10. Re:I Don't Buy It on Anonymous Asks Activists To Fight Pedophiles In 'Operation Deatheaters' · · Score: 1

    impossible to distinguish from the real thing

    So in this case, how do you prove an image is a simulation?

  11. Re:Nice troll on Google Explains Why WebView Vulnerability Will Go Unpatched On Android 4.3 · · Score: 1

    They just said "Google Nexus" but they probably mean Galaxy Nexus.

  12. Re:Think of the children! on Anonymous Asks Activists To Fight Pedophiles In 'Operation Deatheaters' · · Score: 1

    You don't see the downside of building a public database of child pornography information? No potential downside?

  13. Re: Good news on Disney Turned Down George Lucas's Star Wars Scripts · · Score: 1

    There was an endgame. The audience guessed it, but the writers changed it so that the audience's guess would be wrong. It's a stupid mistake that they never should have done. You can clearly see where that happened at the turning point of Season 6.

  14. Re:Can somebody clarify? on New Nicotine Vaccine May Succeed Where Others Have Failed · · Score: 1

    It makes you much more susceptible to various cancers, organ damage, neurological damage, and so on.

    Everything but the nicotine in the delivery method does that.

  15. Re:get off my lawn on Dish Network Violated Do-Not-Call 57 Million Times · · Score: 1

    That's a search from software - not from the phone provider/infrastructure. I get your point, since that's technically possible on any Android phone (not that I've seen any Play store dialers that have this).

  16. Re: Good news on Disney Turned Down George Lucas's Star Wars Scripts · · Score: 1

    Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindeloff are to blame for the terrible ending. Abrams gave them a great set-up to screw up.

  17. Re:Good news on Disney Turned Down George Lucas's Star Wars Scripts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    JJ is a fan of Star Wars, not Star Trek. He was even quoted as saying he didn't want to direct Star Wars because "I’d rather be in the audience not knowing what was coming, rather than being involved in the minutiae of making them.”

    Then again, M. Night Shyamalan was a fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender and we all know how that turned out.

  18. Re:Heroine vaccine? on New Nicotine Vaccine May Succeed Where Others Have Failed · · Score: 3, Funny

    heroine vaccine

    Or needed a special woman to come save the day.

  19. Re:Heroine vaccine? on New Nicotine Vaccine May Succeed Where Others Have Failed · · Score: 1, Funny

    That's horribly sexist.

  20. Re:get off my lawn on Dish Network Violated Do-Not-Call 57 Million Times · · Score: 1

    You only get limited caller ID with cellular. It's not like they do a name lookup (they sure could for landlines callers at least).

  21. Re:Cardholder services on Dish Network Violated Do-Not-Call 57 Million Times · · Score: 1

    That would break Google Voice (and also my VoIP service where I spoof to my GV number on outgoing calls). There are legitimate reasons for spoofing caller ID.

  22. Re: Nobody read the law, huh? on Illinois Students Suspected of Cyberbullying Must Provide Social Media Passwords · · Score: 1

    Legally enforced lying? What is this new invention?

  23. Re:Not to mention Audio Editing on The Current State of Linux Video Editing · · Score: 1

    In other words, you can't even play it back. But if you already had a surround file you could import it and do basic cuts. I'm assuming exporting to mapped surround is just a tiny bonus to multi-track editing just because it could technically be done.

  24. Re:4th amendment requires specifics on FBI Seeks To Legally Hack You If You're Connected To TOR Or a VPN · · Score: 1

    They are still getting warrants. Just non-specific ones. In other words, the use of encryption at all is an assumption of illegal activity and worthy of a warrant. Which is completely invalid, of course.

    The thing to be searched is specified (at a John/Jane Doe level - which case law supports) so I don't see why it's a 4th amendment violation on those grounds. The "why" is non-specific but encryption alone is being called probable cause. That's the violation.

  25. Re:Not to mention Audio Editing on The Current State of Linux Video Editing · · Score: 1

    I have not tried simple wav editing on a surround file.

    When I said multi-track, I didn't mean surround. I meant multiple stereo tracks that can be layered during editing. Which is absolutely essential for video, but also for studio music recording (one for drum, one for vocals, etc.). But surround support is something I didn't expect that Audacity had.