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  1. Re:dumb phones might be the smarter choice on Your Phone Number Is All a Hacker Needs To Read Texts, Listen To Calls and Track You (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    The tracking method doesn't use the phone's location service, it's done by triangulating the signal so a dumb phone won't help in any way.

  2. Re:Get rid of the side mirrors on Tesla Updates Model S With New Front-End, Air Filtration System, Faster Charging (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    a massive decrease in aesthetics

    That's a very subjective view. You say it needs to look like a car but just because that's what cars have looked like for 100 years, it doesn't need to remain the same.

  3. Re:Get rid of the side mirrors on Tesla Updates Model S With New Front-End, Air Filtration System, Faster Charging (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    However little it is, it adds up. That's how things are made to be efficient - by adding up lots of tiny improvements. It's very rare these days that by changing one little thing you will get huge improvements.

  4. Re:Can't have everything for free forever. on Google Fiber Drops Free Basic Service In Its Original City (engadget.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Obligatory "I live in Romania and I have a 1Gbit (up/down) connection for less than $15 a month.". And it really does work at those speeds. When I installed WoW it downloaded the client at 100MB/s, 19GB went so fast I thought I already had it installed previously.

    The thing is 3g/4g connections while cheap still have data caps which sucks.

  5. Re: Clearly on How a Young IRS Agent Identified the Man Behind Silk Road (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't get it, what attitude do they have with Low Earth Orbits?

  6. Re:Why is not itself a civil offense? on Lawsuit Filed Over Domain Name Registered 16 Years Before Plaintiff's Use · · Score: 2

    It would be just as you say it should in a world of common sense. Bullying people with lawsuits and using the justice system to do your bidding should be punished harshly. Specifically, the people responsible for this should be punished, not the company (i.e. just slapping them with a fine or with court costs).

    However as it looks to me (disclaimer, I'm not from the USA), the US justice system is taking everything literally and specifically. For example, just this week someone was complaining that there is no specific law against online harrasment. Why should there be? Shouldn't there be a law against harrasment and have that blanket every possible medium?

    Honestly, to me as an outsider, all these lawsuits about copyright, privacy, antitrusts, piracy and so on that I see in the news every day sound like an argument with a teenager. Just a ton of energy expended "explaining" to him something that he clearly understands but still doesn't want to accept so he keeps saying stuff like "nuh-uh, I was crossing my fingers when I said that, it doesn't count".

  7. Re:Something Awful on SpaceX Looking For Help With "Landing" Video · · Score: 1

    I'm not an expert but it looks like what happens when a keyframe is dropped. Maybe reverse engineering (or solving like a puzzle) the key frame would yield some results?

  8. Re:Pretty big differencfe on For the First Time Ever, the FAA Is Trying To Fine a Drone Hobbyist · · Score: 1

    So if you jump and hit someone or if you throw a rock at a window it's the FAA's turf?

  9. Re:Will read later on Nine Traits of the Veteran Network Admin · · Score: 1

    It gives me 403 forbidden... so that's ironic

  10. Re:what? on Linux 3.11 Officially Named "Linux For Workgroups" · · Score: 1

    I think this was Linus' plan all along when he set the main linux version to 3 and made the second number grow faster.

  11. Re:Could be a good sign... on No US College In Top 10 For ACM International Programming Contest 2013 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you can get a programmer that writes beautiful frame-worthy code that doesn't work and I will hire programmers that solve the problems they are presented with.

  12. Re:Eh? on Scanner Identifies Malware Strains, Could Be Future of AV · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not really, heuristic analysis means looking for specific patterns in code or other data. Things like the program setting himself to start at bootup while deleting itself from the initial run location and so on.

    What this guys does is divide the code in small pieces and comparing those. The thing is I know for a fact that AVs today already do that so unless he has some really smart way of analyzing those "structures" his research is too late.

    Disclaimer: I used to work at an AV company and actually I used to work on the part of the product that does exactly what this guys does.

  13. Re:News For Nerds? on "Terrorist" Lyrics Land High Schooler In Jail · · Score: 2

    I'm still pretty sure Osama was not the one who came up with the plan. I know this sounds like all the other conspiracy theories but whoever is pulling the strings in the US right now are the ones who have the most to profit from the so-called anti-terrorism.

  14. Re:What are we going to do tonight Brain? on 'Master Gene' Makes Mouse Brain Look More Human · · Score: 3, Informative
  15. Re:Excessive smiley faces on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Anti-Spam Service Extortion? · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Yep, they remind me of forum/irc operators with a god complex. Example:

    We feel sorry for you :-) but it appears that you sent SPAM to the wrong people :-)

  16. Re:Success Seems Unlikely on Notch Expands On 0x10c, Microsoft and Quantum Computing · · Score: 1

    I think it will be a great game. And if it's good enough that non-programmers will want to join it will get interesting because programmer will become the most important characters of the game. Everyone will need their help with programming and if something like trading programs for money/other stuff will be possible it might become really nice to play as a programmer.

  17. Tag suggestion. on Study Claims Human Intelligence Peaked Two To Six Millennia Ago · · Score: 1

    Duuuuh! We see this trend everyday, people refusing to think further than what the TV tells them to, people relying on safety measures and warning signs instead of common sense, people preferring to do mindless repetitive tasks instead of thinking of ways to improve their work/life.

  18. Re:"Flaw" allows us to be tracked. on Flaws Allow Every 3G Device To Be Tracked · · Score: 1

    Challenge accepted!

    DeBeers, OPEC, all IT firms, all food/drinks chains
    Zionists, Illuminati, jew conspiracy, mormon conspiracy
    JFK inside job, 9/11 inside job, terrorism in general inside job
    USA wants oil, europe is USA's bitch, USA doesn't care about selling out to china, Russia is too drunk to care
    I dunno, I'm running out of shit to say but there you go

    I'm not a journalist nor an anonymous coward so I guess I don't apply to your comment?

  19. Re:Yes, this is a problem on Laser Strikes On Aircraft Becoming Epidemic · · Score: 1

    Do you still think you're in the 90s too? Everytime I hear about someone born in '95 and see he/she is a 17year old I shit bricks.

  20. Re:Warm Gas on Milky Way Is Surrounded By Halo of Hot Gas · · Score: 1

    I spent 30min on Wikipedia because of you...

  21. Re:What software ?? on Gates and Others Offer $150k For Open Source School Software · · Score: 0

    No.

  22. Re:Sure Jimmy, sure. on Wikipedia Scandal: High Profile Users Allegedly Involved In Paid-Editing · · Score: 1

    Ok then, I just looked on the wikia site at the "about us" and nothing came up... Pretty sneak I guess.

  23. Re:Plasma Active 3 on Notification UI Overhauled in KDE 4.10 (And a Plan For Modernized Notifications) · · Score: 1

    It might be beautiful but it's huge and still seems clunky and wasteful.

  24. Re:Sure Jimmy, sure. on Wikipedia Scandal: High Profile Users Allegedly Involved In Paid-Editing · · Score: 1

    Wikia is not owned or doesn't have any connection to Jimmy Wales...

  25. Re:An eclipse is NOT more common in S. hemishere on Curiosity Rover Sees Solar Eclipse On Mars · · Score: 1

    I meant number of occurences