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  1. 12 Characters? on Motorola Uses NFC To Enable Touch-to-Unlock For Smartphones · · Score: 2

    Why would you ever need so many. Only allow fives tries a minute, after the twentieth try go into deep lock-down mode and only allow some admin password to unlock. There three digit password is good enough now.

  2. Driving Freedom Never Existed on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Driving is a privilege, that you have to earn, and comes with a thousand point list of rules and regulations.

    You can only drive when they want, where they want, and how they want. So were is there any freedom to loose?

  3. Re:Hormone therapy? on Bradley Manning Wants To Live As a Woman · · Score: 1

    I disagree. Your interpretation makes anything funny, a trivialization, but that would mean that there are no acceptable social/political commentary jokes possible, unless the politically correct viewpoint is to trivialize.

    Comedian activists joke about rape, atrocities, brutalities, and corruptions and that does not trivialize any of these things. I say again, it is an right and completely fine mode of political/social commentary. It is not only fine for trivial things, and it does not inherently trivialise anything.

  4. Re:Why is this on Slashdot? on Bradley Manning Wants To Live As a Woman · · Score: 1

    How about a Dolphin (http://24.media.tumblr.com/198cdd15d91b75fb66a447a9cfe2371d/tumblr_mhgnhmMYxw1rlo1q2o1_1280.jpg)

  5. Re:Hormone therapy? on Bradley Manning Wants To Live As a Woman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Comedy is a legitimate form of social/political commentary.

    Everything is funny, everything should be discussed and criticize, and joking is a way to do that.

  6. Re:Hormone therapy? on Bradley Manning Wants To Live As a Woman · · Score: 1

    I doubt it, but prisoners are renounced for their acceptance of men living as women. In fact being somewhat small and effeminate looking already, he probably would of been forced to live as a woman regardless of his choice.

  7. Re:Impeach Obummer! on EFF Wins Release of Secret Court Opinion: NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    "The President of the United States of America (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces."
    "The executive is the part of government that has sole authority and responsibility for the daily administration of the state."

  8. Re:Their admins are the worst trolls on Huffington: Trolls Uglier Than Ever, So We're Cutting Off Anonymous Commenting · · Score: 1

    That is just everyone. It might just be my extreme liberal slant but any, and pretty much all, communities I join and actively participate in I tend to get banned.

    Every community has some very specific agenda, and very little interest is hearing opposing views.
    The Richard Darwins Foundation for Reason and Science (???) for example. They are just a bunch of American Military nuts. All of their articles are 1 or two things. 1) atheists in the military articles. 2) Articles making fun of Muslims and others (most of them outright lies or factually inaccurate). I got banned for commenting that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanism and Elbert Einstein was anti war/military (and for pointing out that a few articles were full of factual inaccuracies).

    Then the latest, and most ironic, I got censored by an Anarchist admin, who rejects hierarchy and believes that all decisions must be made by consensus (and get this, it was for personally offending him, a misunderstanding).

    It really highlights just how awesome /. is. You can have detailed meaningful discussions here, and disagree. And by the end of the day no one is banned, the comments are not filled with trolls, and most people even end up with positively rated comments. It is not just one specific opinion that everyone up votes, and any deviance gets an immediate downvote.

  9. Re:Impeach Obummer! on EFF Wins Release of Secret Court Opinion: NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional · · Score: 1, Troll

    He is the President of the country. Everything that the country does wrong, on purpose or by negligence is his fault. And that starts the day he took office. Even if he had only been president for a week, that is no excuse for allowing any branch of the government to break the law.

  10. Re:Shut it down on EFF Wins Release of Secret Court Opinion: NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shut down all the garbage mashers on the detention level!

  11. 47K out of 120K on Single Developer Responsible For Over 47k Apps In BlackBerry World · · Score: 1

    So basically one person wrote half of all of the BB apps?

  12. Make it more Firefox Like on Google Chrome 29 Is Out: Omnibox Suggestions, Profile Resetting · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I really do not want a bar that auto searches through my history. 99% of my history is one off sites I will never visit again. Give me a bar like FF's where I can exclusively search through my bookmarks (you know the list of sites that I want to visit again).

  13. Combined mood and mental state on Predictors of Suicidal Behavior Found In Blood · · Score: 1

    And how accurate were the "clinical measures of mood and mental state" by themselves?

  14. Re:Honeypots create copyright confusion on Comcast Allegedly Confirms That Prenda Planted Porn Torrents · · Score: 1

    what makes you think that the NSA does not have it just off of your local area network?

  15. Re:Evidence seems compelling on Comcast Allegedly Confirms That Prenda Planted Porn Torrents · · Score: 1

    But your own quotes show that in both situations the content was made to look illegitimate. In both situations, all the users had no expectation of legitimacy.
    The Pirate Bay was in a similar situation to Google. And there users of one were in the same situation as the users of the other, except in the google case they seem to have done a far better job of hiding the legitimate nature.

  16. Re:no on Comcast Allegedly Confirms That Prenda Planted Porn Torrents · · Score: 1

    That is how it works. When the owner of a copyright says, here take this. That gives me the right to take it.
    When the owner of copyright uploads a video to YouTube, I cannot be considered breaking the law to watch it.

  17. Re:They don't need to on Why the NSA Can't Replace 90% of Its System Administrators · · Score: 1

    And you want the job of spying on your fellow citizens, breaking the law, abusing your power, and covering up for others who do the same?

  18. To The Cloud on Why the NSA Can't Replace 90% of Its System Administrators · · Score: 1

    My not just migrate To The Cloud.

  19. The abundance of Unix-specific apps on The Steady Decline of Unix · · Score: 1

    "the abundance of Unix-specific apps" is killing Unix?

  20. Re:How does google account for 40% of traffic?! on Google Outage: Internet Traffic Plunges 40% · · Score: 1

    You think that in no one 2 minute period that anyone in the world uses Google to search for new web pages?
    That is a whole new level of stupid.

  21. Re:How does google account for 40% of traffic?! on Google Outage: Internet Traffic Plunges 40% · · Score: 1

    No, but 40% of all traffic is found using Google search reasonable.
    Without Google search I am stuck only using the websites that I use everyday, facebook/slachdot.

  22. How can you admit to that? on How the UN Might Have Inadvertently Started a Cholera Epidemic In Haiti · · Score: 1

    We just killed tens of thousands of people. woopsy!

  23. Re:"Partner" on Partner of Guardian's Snowden Reporter Detained Under Terrorism Act · · Score: 1

    Partner implies that he was his journalistic partner in Snowden case.

  24. TL;DR on Yahoo Deletes Journalist's Pre-Paid Legacy Site After Suicide · · Score: 1

    There is a novel sized amount of text here.

  25. Re:Better explanations please on Why Weather Control Conspiracy Theories Are Scientifically Ludicrous · · Score: 1

    These debunking articles are always completely scientific garbage.
    Weather is chaos theory. Theoretically you do not need much power at all, just incredibly precise and detailed knowledge.

    And of course they could spray chemicals into the contrails of aircraft, if they wanted to.