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  1. Now all they need.... on Sony Unveils the PS Vita TV and Slimmer Vita Handheld · · Score: 0

    Is to convince people to BUY PS Vita and it's games. It has the worst adoption rate of ALL handheld games, Even the out of date PSP still outsells it.

  2. Re:Ken Thompson, Anyone? on Ask Slashdot: Linux Security, In Light of NSA Crypto-Subverting Attacks? · · Score: 1

    Bingo!

  3. Video Editing on Thought Experiment: The Ultimate Creative Content OS · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Right now is Windows. Final Cut Pro was bastardized into Imovie pro. and Linux has absolutely nothing that is useable.

    Windows has a lock on it as the only platform that runs AVID and Sony Vegas for the only two professional platforms for video editing and After Effects as the ONLY EFX software platform that is useable.

    And this makes me sad. All the Linux options are utter garbage or for making videos of your cat, none are usable for a feature length film or even a professional looking TV show.

    The only good option is to use Blender, a 3D graphics program to do some video editing by using one of it's side functions, but it is unusable for anyone doing professional work or needs to collaborate with others OR work with large projects, Blender chokes hard on anything large. And the problem is that 99% of all the developers out there are far more interested in ooooh shiny features and not basics that need to be 100% reliable.

  4. Re:Ken Thompson, Anyone? on Ask Slashdot: Linux Security, In Light of NSA Crypto-Subverting Attacks? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe modern ones, but if you go back a few generations your chances of it existing drop drastically. so what you do for high security....

    1 - rely on OLDER hardware. Stuff from before the past two administrations would have a significantly higher chance of not having government back doors. Clinton era computers to start with.

    2 - use a completely different architecture. ARM is your best friend here or SPARC. The chances of SPARC having this are insanely small

    3 - Get processors from your countries "enemy" Russians dont use Intel processors for their KGB and Government operations. If they did they would be the biggest morons on the planet. Find out what they use and try to source them through the black or grey market channels.

    Welcome to the new world of underground computer science. Oh and keep your mouths shut. Don't do stupid shit like bragging as to what you have and where you got it. I'd say "hack the planet" but the safest thing is to go off the net and transfer data via offline means for the highest security.

  5. Re:DUH... on NSA Can Spy On Data From Smart Phones, Including Blackberry · · Score: 1

    No it's not, they simply stated they have access, having access to the main servers give them full access, what fool would waste time trying to crack a deep encryption when all you have to do is hold a gun to the CEO's head and they will give you the keys to everything.

    They did not say they "cracked" the encryption, you assume that. They said they have access and can read... Vague hoping people will assume they have superpowers.

  6. Re:THROW AWAY YOUR OLD AND BUY THE NEW !! on HDMI 2.0 Officially Announced · · Score: 1

    So is freedom.

  7. DUH... on NSA Can Spy On Data From Smart Phones, Including Blackberry · · Score: 2

    Blackberry gave up all security years ago... Nobody remembers that UAE demanded access and they rolled over nearly instantly.. They probably handed everything over to the NSA without them even asking.

  8. Re:Fail on Nokia Insider On Why It Failed and Why Apple Could Be Next · · Score: 2

    Absolutely. The hardware they made for the Windows Phone was top notch. If they offered it with a current release ANDROID and strived to be the only phone company releasing a clean android with updates that happen rapidly they could have easily decimated samsung and HTC in the market.

    Instead they went a completely dumb direction, and the knife in the back was Windows Phone OS.

  9. Re:U.S. people, not (necessarily all other) humans on Humans Choose Friends With Similar DNA · · Score: 1

    That awesome Booo-Tay? All the sisters got back!

  10. Re:The Army is not the only one who wants this on Wanted: Special-Ops Battle Suit With Cooling, Computers, Radios, and Sensors · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A swap is like a Gamer convention. Buttloads of stench and disease. Swapfunk in war will take out your entire army in short order.

  11. Wild speculation... on 'Half' of 2012's Extreme Weather Impacted By Climate Change · · Score: 1

    That report is as accurate as an old tymey Alminac that says that the last 4 years it did not rain today, so it wont rain today.

    I want to see the raw data and all the peer reviews of the same study. Too many of you people JUMP on the OMG sky is falling / OMG Sky is not falling bandwagons too fast.

    US scientists want to see the real meat and what a LOT of others scientists think.

  12. Re:Fail on Nokia Insider On Why It Failed and Why Apple Could Be Next · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, because a Microsoft guy was not sent in to destroy it from the inside so they could buy it later at a drastically reduced value.

    Everyone knew what they guy was up to, and the Board at Nokia had a lot to profit from it's demise.

  13. Re:Want NSA Proof? on NSA-resistant Android App 'Burns' Sensitive Messages · · Score: 1

    and also easy to do. but not automatic. if you had a flatfile you can automatically have the app auto increment the pad for every message sent to make it nearly invisible.

    Then when you are to the last 10 it warns you to get a new PAD file.

    you just have to be able to share the pad file out of band.

  14. Want NSA Proof? on NSA-resistant Android App 'Burns' Sensitive Messages · · Score: 1

    Then use a 1 time pad book and hand encrypt and decrypt your text messages. The NSA will never EVER decrypt your communications. Why has nobody made that simple app? a 1 time pad file that you pre-share out of band and then have it send and receive your text messages. Under Android this would be trivial.

  15. Re:Closed Captioning on HDMI 2.0 Officially Announced · · Score: 1

    Yes it does. I suggest you learn something about HDMI and digital video in general.

  16. Re:All the Backpedaled DRM.... on Xbox One Set To Launch On November 22 · · Score: 2

    Forza kind of jummed the shark anyways. I was excited about Forza horizon, then I discovered that I paid $60.00 for 1/2 a game. I have to pony up an additional $40.00 to get the rest of it. Bite me.

    I'm done with their entire franchise. If they want to do t he DLC dance then the starting price is $30.00 not $60.

  17. Re:How to crack: on NSA-resistant Android App 'Burns' Sensitive Messages · · Score: 1

    5. hacked rom authors discover this, post the information to their forums.
    6. news picks it up.
    7. Public outrage until some teen star twat shakes her butt on stange...
    8 Rinse
    9 repeat.

  18. Re:THROW AWAY YOUR OLD AND BUY THE NEW !! on HDMI 2.0 Officially Announced · · Score: 2

    http://www.hdfury.com/ Makes any DVD player 100% compatible with any TV. And it removes ALL of the useless encryption and DRM.

  19. Re:The real question on HDMI 2.0 Officially Announced · · Score: 1

    Wrong, Nickle does a better job, the hair thin Gold plating is marketing only.

  20. Re:Closed Captioning on HDMI 2.0 Officially Announced · · Score: 1

    HDMI supports FULL closed captioning, It has supported it since it supported video.

  21. Re:Please for the love of God get rid of the... on HDMI 2.0 Officially Announced · · Score: 1

    HDFury solves this problem completely. no home should be without one.

  22. What about HDCP? on HDMI 2.0 Officially Announced · · Score: 1

    Hopefully they dont change that so it stays broken.

  23. Re:NO WAR FOR BIG OIL on Software Brings Eye Contact To Video Chat, With a Little Help From Kinect · · Score: 1

    Wah,... Republican doesnt want to admit his blessed leader is the scumbag that started it all... wah....

  24. All the Backpedaled DRM.... on Xbox One Set To Launch On November 22 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Set to be silently put back in Januray 22 2014 with the first large software update....

  25. Re:Sometimes the easy way is the better way on Software Brings Eye Contact To Video Chat, With a Little Help From Kinect · · Score: 1

    on an android phone? yes. but why do that. Use the iphone as a display and pipe the video from the laptop to the phone, then the video from the camera to the laptop. two wires and all is done. but has limited use. nobody outside of podcast recording care about eye line and eye contact.