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  1. Re:Interesting on Dish Introduces $20-a-Month Streaming-TV Service · · Score: 1

    rather than paying $100+/mo to TWC for an array of several hundred channels

    The Weather Channel has hundreds of channels now? /badjoke

  2. Re: Whoever is in physical possession of the drugs on Who's Responsible When Your Semi-Autonomous Shopping Bot Purchases Drugs Online? · · Score: 1

    And I'd be willing to bet that even the "legal" merchandise is illegal - even the Lord of the Rings box set. If it weren't stolen goods, you'd sell it on a bigger market (Amazon or eBay) and likely get a higher price.

  3. Re:Do whatever the f. you want with VPNs... on Netflix Denies There Was a Policy Change With VPNs · · Score: 1

    Hollywood content is bad enough with a big budget. Imagine if everyone took your view and they had zero budget.

  4. Re:YAIH on Netflix Denies There Was a Policy Change With VPNs · · Score: 1

    Just as long as you leave port 443 open. You'll have most of the Internet, just no Slashdot.

  5. Re:Metadata on How a Wildfire Helped Spread the Hashtag · · Score: 1

    I thought it was 41414, but I haven't used that in almost a year. I think it's still active. I only bought a smart phone this year and I had been using it before that from time to time.

  6. Re:Did you say hashtag? on How a Wildfire Helped Spread the Hashtag · · Score: 1

    Or as shorthand for weight measurements

  7. Re:from the what-until-they-get-a-load-of-this dep on Amazon "Suppresses" Book With Too Many Hyphens · · Score: 1

    To someone unfamiliar with that idiom, it sounds like someone who isn't fluent in English. Now that I know what it means, I just think it's weird to hear that phrase used for a non-person entity.

  8. Re:from the what-until-they-get-a-load-of-this dep on Amazon "Suppresses" Book With Too Many Hyphens · · Score: 1

    One of what? Why does it have a home?

  9. Re:Only Kindle store and DRM-free books on Amazon "Suppresses" Book With Too Many Hyphens · · Score: 1

    If you buy music from an artist, the album is an integrated work of art.

  10. Re:While we're on the subject... on Amazon "Suppresses" Book With Too Many Hyphens · · Score: 1

    So that the ereader can be quickly and cheaply based on a modified Webkit engine

  11. Re:from the what-until-they-get-a-load-of-this dep on Amazon "Suppresses" Book With Too Many Hyphens · · Score: 1

    Different breading, but similar idea.

  12. Re:from the what-until-they-get-a-load-of-this dep on Amazon "Suppresses" Book With Too Many Hyphens · · Score: 1

    Judging that you're not American, "Chicken-fried steak" is a tenderized steak, breaded and fried in the manner that "fried chicken" is done. Common usage/writing leaves out the hyphen (even on restaurant menus), so it's unclear that it's a compound adjective. As a result, people assume that it contains chicken or have no idea what to expect.

  13. Re:from the what-until-they-get-a-load-of-this dep on Amazon "Suppresses" Book With Too Many Hyphens · · Score: 1

    What on Earth is one of those when it's at home?!?

    Cannot parse.

  14. Re:Only Kindle store and DRM-free books on Amazon "Suppresses" Book With Too Many Hyphens · · Score: 1

    But for nearly a decade after the iPod came out, the major record labels refused to sell DRM-free audio files over the Internet for fear of a leak to Napster or its successors

    Which was even more ridiculous, since they were already selling easily-ripped, drm-free physical CDs.

  15. Re:from the what-until-they-get-a-load-of-this dep on Amazon "Suppresses" Book With Too Many Hyphens · · Score: 1

    Or why nobody understands what "chicken fried steak" is, but might very well understand what chicken-fried steak is.

  16. Re:from the what-until-they-get-a-load-of-this dep on Amazon "Suppresses" Book With Too Many Hyphens · · Score: 1

    Flooding their market with junk books devalues the market as a whole.

  17. Re:Man, am I old ... on Backblaze's 6 TB Hard Drive Face-Off · · Score: 1

    I copy the contents of all of my DVD and Blu-Ray movies to a RAID. Since storage is (relatively) cheap, I can shrink my physical hoarding to the space those discs take up in a binder in a closet and still watch my movies on-demand.

    It's true that I own many movies that I may never watch again, but I'm paying for the opportunity to watch it whenever I want. Netflix doesn't even offer that level of custom content. It's a personalized Netflix.

  18. Re:Man, am I old ... on Backblaze's 6 TB Hard Drive Face-Off · · Score: 1

    Nobody is cataloging every shot, and nobody really needs the 15 shots taken in the space of 3 seconds using sports mode / virtual motor wind etc. You need the "best" shot(s) from that group.

    Storage is cheap and sometimes you just never get around to paring it. You're right that it's all about the "one" shot for most people.

  19. Re: Stupid on Google Proposes To Warn People About Non-SSL Web Sites · · Score: 1

    nearly a decade ago, but not viable until April - when XP was officially deprecated.

  20. Re:So perhaps /. will finally fix its shit on Google Proposes To Warn People About Non-SSL Web Sites · · Score: 1

    SSL everywhere defeats fishing expeditions.

    Not really - most phishing attacks are hosted on compromised servers. They could just as well be serving content via SSL as not.

  21. Re:So perhaps /. will finally fix its shit on Google Proposes To Warn People About Non-SSL Web Sites · · Score: 1

    cookie, which contains my login credentials

    Contains your session ID. Someone could steal your current session, but not your credentials. I'm sure you could argue that a session ID is a credential, but unlikely. Can be mitigated (if known) by simply logging out of the site and invalidating the session ID.

  22. Re:So perhaps /. will finally fix its shit on Google Proposes To Warn People About Non-SSL Web Sites · · Score: 1

    Enterprise? Install your own CA on the client machines and just MITM proxy it, then.

  23. Re:503 on Google Proposes To Warn People About Non-SSL Web Sites · · Score: 1

    Why must any site be unencrypted?

    Because we haven't fully moved over to IPv6 and support for SNI is still a bit spotty.

  24. Re:503 on Google Proposes To Warn People About Non-SSL Web Sites · · Score: 1

    Especially on pages that don't collect data and have no form fields on them.

  25. Re:Go ahead on Sony Leaks Reveal Hollywood Is Trying To Break DNS · · Score: 1

    Except that the modern Internet doesn't route that way. You can't independently tell other routers along the way to route that way.