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  1. Good luck Govt Guys.... on US Government: You Don't Own Your Cloud Data So We Can Access It At Any Time · · Score: 3, Funny

    All my data on the Google Drive and Dropbox is encrypted by me first. Have fun trying to crack it.

    Fun note: some of the files are simply dumps of /dev/random with fun filenames like "secret-files.zip" and "plan-b.tgz"

  2. Re:Ebay & Paypal pissed off a lot of people on PayPal Security Holes Expose Customer Card Data, Personal Details · · Score: 1

    It's why I dont use ebay any more. Their fees are insane and overall it's a bad deal for everyone involved.

  3. A lesson to you all... on $1,500,000 Fine For Sharing 10 Movies On BitTorrent · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Play the video on the screen and record it with your camcorder before you share it. The analog-HOLE will save you from detection.... Unless they do the punched hole technique that Hollywood does on some frames in a movie.... Then you are hosed....

  4. Re:Collapse for the muggles... on Nexus 7 and Android Convertibles Drive Massive Asus Profit · · Score: 1

    No it wont, because by then I'll be editing 12K video and have a render farm of 12 512 core Intel i97 processors running at 60ghz.
    And windows will STILL be slow on it.

  5. Re:Elightenment is nice but also terrible on Rasterman On The Impending Release of Enlightenment 17 · · Score: 1

    I am so using that for my new sig.....

  6. Re:Did the cop got fired? on Supreme Court Hearing Case On Drug-Sniffing Dog "Fishing Expeditions" · · Score: 1

    And every honest cop I know is no longer a cop. They could not stand working with the other scumbags anymore. One is a female cop who was heavily harassed daily by her co workers, she never filed any complaints because she remembers what the department did to the last woman cop that complained.

    Your local police department is a group of gang members. They will do what they want, when they want, and they will hit you in the face with the butt of a rifle and get a raise for doing it.

    Never forget that. NEVER trust a cop, never ever think they are there to help you.

  7. Re:38% of crime on Stolen Cellphone Databases Switched On In US · · Score: 2

    Thy already took the resources from those for Copyright infringement enforcement.

  8. Still not enough. on Stolen Cellphone Databases Switched On In US · · Score: 2

    Both android and iphone have the ability to be "rendered useless" by the OS maker. let me be able to set a "stolen flag" that locks the phone in a states that says "STOLEN PROPERTY CALL 1-800-XXX-XXXX to report and return" that cant be easily bypassed. I.E. restoring the iphone will not disable it, etc... this will make the street value of any stolen smartphone $0.00 instantly. THAT will fix the problem and apple could put that in place with a trivial amount of coding as they already have "find my iphone" as a part of the OS. Android on the other hand will take some work as it lacks that feature.

    The phone OS makers refuse to put a simple system like this in place because stolen phones make them money.

  9. Re:Elightenment is nice but also terrible on Rasterman On The Impending Release of Enlightenment 17 · · Score: 1

    "At first it seems neat because it fast and funky but after using it for a few weeks it starts to give me a headache. It's just too weird, it looks weird, behaves weird, just weirdness all around."

    Then you are going to utterly LOVE Windows 8. It's built on wierd.

  10. Re:Did the cop got fired? on Supreme Court Hearing Case On Drug-Sniffing Dog "Fishing Expeditions" · · Score: 1

    In an ideal world, cops would hold true to their oath to "serve and protect the public".

  11. Re:Did the cop got fired? on Supreme Court Hearing Case On Drug-Sniffing Dog "Fishing Expeditions" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's easy, you smell someone smoking pot, and look for the guy puffing away on his fatty sitting on the front porch. Some days at the grocery store I almost get a contact high from the potheads on a munchy run.

    Wait, I'm being insensitive... The "medical patients" who are taking their "medication".

    I don't want pot to be illegal, but it needs to be regulated like alcohol. If you go to the store drunk as hell it is as rude as going there completely baked, and you have a major problem if you do that.

    I just wish the stupid republicans would stop being turd sandwiches and just make it legal and wrap it into the Tobacco and Alcohol rules.

  12. Re:Did the cop got fired? on Supreme Court Hearing Case On Drug-Sniffing Dog "Fishing Expeditions" · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Cops NEVER get fired. NEVER. Not unless there is a ton of publicity and the mayor is forced to demand it. You cant get fired from the worlds largest gang.

  13. Collapse for the muggles... on Nexus 7 and Android Convertibles Drive Massive Asus Profit · · Score: 1

    I still use laptops and desktops heavily. But I actually USE a computer unlike 99% of the people out there. I write software for multiple platforms, I also edit professional video and have a 8 core monster for rendering. but then I used to have a power-mac and a stack of 12 hacked AppleTV-1's running OSX as a Final cut render farm. I still hate that apple turned final cut into iMovie....

    Anyways, there will ALWAYS be a market for pc's and high end laptops. I just wish that high end operating systems like linux would have video editing software that was not crap (everything for the linux platofrm for video editing is utter crap, yes I tried all of it... it's all useless crap) Or had a comparable replacement for lightroom. No, none of the OSS photo management apps can even get close to lightroom. Gimp is usable as a replacement for Photoshop despite what the whiners say. And office is a very suitable replacement, again despite the whiners. But there are huge gaping holes in the OSS world for heavy lifting. I just hope that apple does not further dumb down final cut, and that windows does not continue it's downward spiral as the only other real editing platforms are on Windows (AVID and Vegas)

    Lickily Linux has it all wrapped up for software development with the best platform. well except for ios development. I still need a mac for that. but everything else that matters is easily programmed for under linux.

  14. Re:nexus 7 i hardly open on Nexus 7 and Android Convertibles Drive Massive Asus Profit · · Score: 1

    Then buy one. X86 tablets have ben around for more than a decade.

  15. Re:Innovation on Nexus 7 and Android Convertibles Drive Massive Asus Profit · · Score: 2

    WAH! You have been able to buy a 100% unlocked and not locked down tablet for years. I am betting you are just too cheap to buy one. Fujitsu Stylistic or one of the higher ASUS tablets that are X86 based. they work great and run linux or windows or whatever you want.

    Stop whining and buy one. Yes they cost around $800-$1000 but who cares, it's 100% open and you can install whatever OS you want on it.. Even X86 android!

    You can tinker if you choose to, by buying the right device.

  16. Re:The War On Common Sense on Glow-In-The-Dark Smart Highways Coming To the Netherlands In 2013 · · Score: 1

    Buick and BMW cars have had freeze warning sensors in them cince 1979. Why is this not stock in all cars made?

  17. Re:The War On Common Sense on Glow-In-The-Dark Smart Highways Coming To the Netherlands In 2013 · · Score: 2

    I drive in massive snow, and a "glow in the dark" road will be useless as it will be under 1 foot of snow.

  18. Re:Wind Powered on Ask Slashdot: What Stands In the Way of a Truly Solar-Powered Airliner? · · Score: 1

    The same reason why you cant sail around the world by using s fan to blow into the sails....

  19. Physics is what is in the way... on Ask Slashdot: What Stands In the Way of a Truly Solar-Powered Airliner? · · Score: 2

    164 Watts per Square meter is all you will get from the sun. THIS is the number 1 reason why you will never ever see a Solar powered airliner.

  20. Re:Ha, you threaten teacher jobs and see what happ on Are Teachers Headed For Obsolescence? · · Score: 1

    Here in the USA we have to because A - public schools are nothing more than daycare. and B - I dont like my daughter raped daily by gangs in the bathrooms.

    And yes, I am dripping in money... OOOOOZING it... That is why I drove a 1988 junker the entire time my daughter went to school. Because I am one rich mofo!

  21. Re:eBay... on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Over 500 Used DIMMs? · · Score: 1

    Or bothered by retards that only send one email.... "do you still have the _____ for sale?"

    I get about 900 of those for every listing, some I get within seconds of posting the item.

  22. Re:Ha, you threaten teacher jobs and see what happ on Are Teachers Headed For Obsolescence? · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Ha, you threaten teacher jobs and see what happ on Are Teachers Headed For Obsolescence? · · Score: 1

    You are right, They actually value education and educators there.

  24. Re:Ha, you threaten teacher jobs and see what happ on Are Teachers Headed For Obsolescence? · · Score: 1

    And rents in non gang raped neighborhoods are at $2500.00 a month.

  25. Re:Ha, you threaten teacher jobs and see what happ on Are Teachers Headed For Obsolescence? · · Score: 1

    WE did the same thing and had ZERO problems like you did. There was two differences...

    1 - Private School.
    2 - No Teacher Union.

    Public schools have these problems, Private schools don't.