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  1. "Lend", that's a burden, not a gift.

  2. Re:It's just moving your trust to someone else on Data Encryption On the Rise In the Cloud and Mobile · · Score: 1

    It's wrong.
    I suggest you look at your own text, see that you use both the words "appear" and "be", and then ponder the difference between /being/ random, and /appearing/ random (but being generated by an analytic funciton).

  3. Boohoo on GCHQ Warns It Is Losing Track of Serious Criminals · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Damn.
    That's exactly like criminals whining that police is interrupting the normal flow of their criminal operations.
    Disgusting. And very easy to see through, what a nonsense.

  4. Re:Tor directory servers on Tor Network May Be Attacked, Says Project Leader · · Score: 1

    They are not thirteen servers, they are thirteen clusters of servers. And they are better distributed over nations than Tor's DS's. Oh, and alternatives exist. Oh, and TOR is there only for the good people and therefore an easy target. DNS is also used by the bad guys (the governments) and therefore not an obvious target.

  5. Not for safety on Study: Red Light Cameras Don't Improve Safety · · Score: 1

    I thought traffic lights were for improving traffic /flow/, not safety. Who thought up they were for improving safety?

  6. You mean ad injection? on The Cost of the "S" In HTTPS · · Score: 1

    "the inability to offer any in-network value added services" - I was hoping you were referring here to injecting webpages with ads on mobile phones while browsing? Can that criminal behaviour be prevented by an all-HTTPS web?

  7. None! on Ask Slashdot: Best Biometric Authentication System? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can this discussion about the supposed virtues of biometric identification / authentication please die?
    Biometric properties are like usernames. Not like passwords. They don't "authenticate" anybody; your fingerprints e.g. can be found all over the world, right in the open.
    And on top of that they are BAD usernames, because they can not be changed. Once your biometric identity has been compromised, you have to give up to whole identification / authentication /system/, because the property can not be changed!

  8. Enemy on New Snowden Docs Show GCHQ Paid Telcos For Cable Taps · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Thie biggest enemy of citizens has been governments, for quite a while already.
    And as always these governments point to the hardly exisiting threats of "terrorism" (but not theirs) and child abuse to lure naive idiots (the vast majority of citizens) into acquiescing these programs.
    And oh, the civilians themselves pay for it all.
    Nice.

  9. Debian on What's Been the Best Linux Distro of 2014? · · Score: 0

    Debian. But of course not just in 2014, but since it's inception.

  10. Refreshing on Lennart Poettering: Open Source Community "Quite a Sick Place To Be In" · · Score: 0

    /Very/ refreshing to finally see someone else calling out Linus for the incompetent abusive narcissistic nonvaleur he really is.
    That was long overdue. Over the years he's been chasing away so many good developers with good ideas and good code, just because he saw them as a threat to perpetuating his tunnel vision on Linux. I've seen quite a number of good and needed kernel developments seen stamped out just because Linus did not understand the need and it irritated his superiority-sensors.
    I'm not into systemd, from what I read I read it seems like a good plan but indeed quite badly implemented, but Lennart is 100% spot-on in his evaluation of Linus and some of his inner-circle cronies.

  11. Re:Petitions.org... on Forest Service Wants To Require Permits For Photography · · Score: 0

    ^This. But actually...
    The talk about tripods really is utter nonsense; it's a rant of somebody just disliking tripods.
    If you do not use a tripod for your picture, YOU HAVE TO STAND IN THAT EXACT SAME PLACE YOURSELF! And probably for a much longer time than when using a tripod, because getting a sharp picture suddenly takes a hundred tries.

  12. Broken on GNOME 3.14 Released · · Score: 0

    As so often with Gnome, it does not work.
    As so often with Gnome, it gives no explanation as to how or why, or how to solve (`Options are not for idiots, therefore, you cannot have any').
    "Ohh nooo, something went went wrong! All `plugins' (WTF has Gnome regressed to a browser equivalent piece of software now?) were disabled. You can only log out (We disallow you to even try to solve the issue)"
    Gnomorons, blegh :.

  13. It's getting hotter still! on Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Levels · · Score: -1, Troll

    Let no one be distracted; it will be flooded here with nutcases very soon who will all claim that this -obviously- does NOT mean global warming isn't happening.
    As always, they "will just have to incorporate this new information into their models" :/.
    Bunch of climate terrorists :-|.

  14. What /is/ Google "Hangouts"? Some app for criminal unemployed youngsters?

  15. Lie on Fedora To Get a New Partition Manager · · Score: 2

    "The need of a new partition manager stems from the fact that none of the existing GUI partitioning tools supports all modern storage technologies."
    That would be a lie. If that is all, just contribute to Parted already. As always more will be at stake, probable things like "not invented here" and "I wanna have the power". And as a result we get to have a partition editor that needs Python??

  16. Imperial on Apparent Meteorite Hits Managua, Nicaragua, Leaving Crater But No Injuries · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Foot" ?
    Again? Seriously?? When will this braindead imperial insanity EVER stop???

  17. Re:Support for GNU/Linux sucks cause you let it on Ask Slashdot: Linux-Friendly Desktop x86 Motherboard Manufacturers? · · Score: 1

    Yup the power of Ignucius was strong in that post

  18. The title is a lie on Google Expands Safe Browsing To Block Unwanted Downloads · · Score: 1

    Apparently, it is not Google (as in the search engine, or the company) that will block things. It is their shady browser, Chrome, that will block things.
    So people not using Chrome (quite some, I'd say) are not helped by this endeavour.

  19. Borg on Microsoft Surface Drowning? · · Score: 1

    Hey,
    Maybe I am late noticing, but... Where did the VERY APT borg icon for microsoft articles go?

  20. Terrorism on UK Seeks To Hold Terrorism Trial In Secret · · Score: 1

    But.... Then it is /not/ justice!
    It is more like state terrorism against civilians.
    Civilians now know that the moment that the state will destroy them, in secret, for any petty offence is not far off. And out of terror, people will start acting afraid and careful.

  21. Re:"By Mistake" on Apple Says Many Users 'Bought an Android Phone By Mistake' · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you meant that in a funny way. But I find it almost frightening to realize that "Reality distortion field" seems to be about the only way to explain Apple fans' weird fanatism :s.

  22. Re:Other way around on Apple Says Many Users 'Bought an Android Phone By Mistake' · · Score: 1

    That's pretty uninformed.
    3x4 Is a very good format for reading, at any rate clearly better than any more elongated format like 9x16.
    Not all videos are 9x16; mine are 3x4 and will stay that way; it's a much more balanced format.
    Photos are, and will remain, what the photographer wants them to be. Normaly anything between 1x1 and 3x4 for artistic reasons.
    Mind you: Computer screen first went to longer formats because that was cheaper to cut when making LCD screens. Movie theater screenings are often even in something like 1x2.2 because of theater hall dimensions. All the talk about longer formats being more natural for humans is nonsense, the drive is purely financial.

  23. iShould have read on You Can Now Run Beta Versions of OS X—For Free · · Score: -1, Troll

    iOS iX iBeta iSeed iProgram iNow iFree iTo iUse.
    iAnnoyingly iChildish iApple iCrap :/ Who the hell would be interested????

  24. Re:It's Not Really Oracle on Oracle Deflects Blame For Troubled Oregon Health Care Site · · Score: 1

    Carrot? I would also produce an enourmous steaming pile of shit if you made me eat that many carrots.

  25. It's not Oracle's fault! on Oracle Deflects Blame For Troubled Oregon Health Care Site · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's the customers' fault. EVERYBODY in the IT business already knows that Oracle invariably gives you:
    - Bizarely high price
    - Incomplete project result
    - Project delays
    - Low quality
    - Extreme vendor lock in
    E.v.e.r.y s.i.n.g.l.e p.r.o.j.e.c.t they do.
    I'm not sure whther to cry or laugh at this. Just don't go with Oracle, every sane IT professional knows that.