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  1. Re:Unless you've spent $300 on a GPU... on Watch Dogs Graphics and Gameplay: PC Vs. Xbox One, With Surprising Results · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Really? Games published by Ubi (Watch Dogs) and EA (Titanfall) didn't live up to their hype?

    I am Jack's total lack of surprise.

  2. Re:"What to do before selling or giving away your. on Avast Buys 20 Used Phones, Recovers 40,000 Deleted Photos · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well no, it doesn't. You've contradicted yourself. What iOS does is delete the encryption key, as you stated, which renders the data inaccessible without recovering the key. The data is still entirely intact; Just really, really hard to recover :)

  3. Re:Will local rights holders sue? on New Zealand ISP's Anti-Geoblocking Service Makes Waves · · Score: 1

    What's betting rights holders go nuclear and mandate NZ IP block blacklisting or they'll pull their content from the streaming services?

  4. Re:Actually makes good sense on TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes · · Score: 4, Funny

    My snark detector needs retuning.

  5. Re:Actually makes good sense on TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Certainly there are so vanishingly few legitimate reasons a persons phone would be discharged...

    Certainly there are far fewer reasons a person would want to go to the USA anymore. Or, rather, people value their dignity more than US culture; That you continue to have a tourism industry is beyond belief. Further, with Germany setting the standard for tearing US businesses out of their public infrastructure I'd be surprised if the US continues be a player in international business for much longer.

    Anyway, to answer your question about why my phone would be discharged, it's because I'm forced to wait for three hours in the damn departure lounge because getting through security takes an age. I pass the time by browsing the internet, listening to music, watching streaming video... On my phone.

  6. Re:Just think of what you can do with this! on New Single Board Computer Lets You Swap Out the CPU and Memory · · Score: 1

    I have my pi running a Tor relay 24/7 (not an exit node; I'm not suicidal).

    Because fuck the NSA.

  7. Re:Sad, sad times... on Study: People Would Rather Be Shocked Than Be Alone With Their Thoughts · · Score: 2

    Perchance, does your gastric repository conceal a recently masticated pulp of wood fibers, previously incarnated as a tome of alphabetised antonyms and synonyms?

  8. Re:I smell a rat. on Use of Encryption Foiled the Cops a Record 9 Times In 2013 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Your "burn safe" is vulnerable to denial of service. Say you lose the key, or the keypad is damaged; How do you get your documents? What if someone just hits it with a hammer until the system is activated, just to piss you off?

  9. Re:I smell a rat. on Use of Encryption Foiled the Cops a Record 9 Times In 2013 · · Score: 2

    This only applies for the US, where anything they say "... can be used against them..." Sworn testimony, or evidence given under caution or arrest, in the UK for example, can be used by both prosecution and defense.

    Still, you're definitely supposed to talk to a legal representative prior to talking to Police in any jurisdiction.

  10. Re:Email Insecure on Goldman Sachs Demands Google Unsend One of Its E-mails · · Score: 1

    Email could be secure, but PGP is still too complex for the average user. Key pair generation and storage within AD / Exchange during account creation might help with this in the enterprise, but there needs to be an easy key management scheme for the SME as well. You'd think it would be baked in by now. Public key sharing could be as easy as automatically attaching a small XML formatted file when emailing a new contact, parsed seamlessly by the recipients email server / client.

    Someone with programming knowledge get on it.

  11. Re:Very bad car analogy on Austrian Tor Exit Node Operator Found Guilty As an Accomplice · · Score: 1

    You're absolutely right.

    Now, if we were talking about wearing a balaclava while driving...

  12. Re:Parents are all guilty on Austrian Tor Exit Node Operator Found Guilty As an Accomplice · · Score: 1

    By allowing that jackass tailgating you to pass, you are an accomplice to his speeding.

    Pick up that can.

  13. Re:Non-compete agreements are BS. on Amazon Sues After Ex-Worker Takes Google Job · · Score: 1

    This will likely end in their favour; You have no contract, you can be fired at will.

    Then again, I hear that there's parts of the US where this can happen anyway. Boggles the mind...

  14. Re:The problem with traffic engineers... on Unintended Consequences For Traffic Safety Feature · · Score: 1

    Not having five highways intersecting at one point would also solve the problem.

    Check out Spaghetti Junction in Birmingham, UK for a nightmare of a road design if you're not a local, and that's two "highways" (motorways) and two major roads (A-road). I can't imagine what your five highway junction looks like.

  15. Re:OR on Unintended Consequences For Traffic Safety Feature · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Without even reading the article I can grok that this is about vehicle-vehicle collisions increasing, by the fact that vehicle-pedestrian collisions are excluded by being the reason for the safety system in the first place.

    This is almost certainly about cars charging out into intersections to "beat the timer" and losing control, or cars stopping safely when they should, only to be rear-ended by some knob who looks at the timer and thinks the guy in front will try and the race the lights.

  16. Re:I say XPrivacy on Ars Takes an Early Look At the Privacy-Centric Blackphone · · Score: 1

    As an alternative, both Cyanogenmod and ParanoidAndroid ROMs contain permissions managers. There are more than likely others, but those are two I've used.

    Unless there's some fundamental changes to the OS that isn't included in the press reporting, I'm not really seeing anything that great about Blackphone other than the bundled services. My Nexus 4 has exactly the same protections: Baked-in permission control, including system apps, and VPN connectivity to my home / third party VPN service, or Tor network browsing. Kismet SWM is available on the Play Store store for free. Silent Circle services require a subscription, but available on any Android device.

    Have I missed anything? I just don't see anything remarkable about "PrivOS".

  17. Re:Serious? on KeyStore Vulnerability Affects 86% of Android Devices · · Score: 1

    The purpose of the Nexus line of devices is twofold:

    1) You get the stock Android experience, not some third-party vendor bastardisation with bundled crapware
    2) You can root and flash them in moments, there is no locking in place to prevent it

    Making use of 2) above will allow you to run Android 4.4.3 on your Nexus One

    Yes, it's sucky that Google abandon their devices like all other hardware manufacturers, but Google isn't a hardware company. Google produce Android so they can use it as an advertising and user profiling platform. The hardware is just a delivery mechanism.

  18. Re:No sovereign immunity on Massachusetts SWAT Teams Claim They're Private Corporations, Immune To Oversight · · Score: 5, Informative

    harge 'em with breaking and entering, assault and battery, and conspiracy to do those things. Guys, are you sure you're not with the government?

    Massachusetts has a pretty strong Castle doctrine

    I'm not saying you should shoot Police officers, lawfully executing a warrant. I'm just pointing out that these guys don't seem to want to be considered Police officers.

  19. Re:We keep getting closer to a dystopia on MP Says 'Failed' Piracy Warnings Should Escalate To Fines & Jail · · Score: 1

    You're responsible for what other people do on your router.

    That's why my ISP's router is nothing but a passthrough device for my own router, which in turn routes all traffic through a VPN out of the country. It's none of your fucking business what I do with the connection, just like as a Common Carrier it's none of my ISP's business. If you want to search my shit, get a warrant. Not wanting you logging at what I choose to read or watch online is not "reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing".

  20. Re:Doesn't give warm fuzzies on Hospitals Begin Data-Mining Patients · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hmmmm... I'm not so sure it's so unbelieveable. If you can be labelled an enemy combatant for wearing a Casio wristwatch I'm pretty sure you can be labeled a smoker for buying some cigarettes.

    You're still thinking rationaly. You can't do that around these people.

  21. Re:Doesn't give warm fuzzies on Hospitals Begin Data-Mining Patients · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One step further; You're with a friend and stop at a convenience store, he asks you to get a pack of smokes. Your insurance states you're a non-smoker. They use this data to refuse a claim in the future.

  22. Re:Cool solution looking for a problem on Ask Slashdot: What Would It Take For You To Buy a Smartwatch? · · Score: 1

    The kind of person who would benefit from this kind of tech carries a tablet in a jacket pocket or a bag, and has bluetooth headphones for their music. The watch then becomes a remote control device, or a means to check notifications on the tablet without removing it from where it rests.

    Having bought a tablet a few months ago, I can see the appeal.

  23. Re:That's not far fetched. on The Higgs Boson Should Have Crushed the Universe · · Score: 1

    A non-crushed universe should be proof enough that our current theories are missing something.

    IANAP, but this seems easy to explain. We are observing our universe from the inside; To outside observers in other universes, our universe is crushed! We just can't tell because we, too, are crushed.

    Is that how IANAx works?

  24. Re:Haha, nobody will do this. on The Simultaneous Rise and Decline of Battlefield · · Score: 1

    They'll keep buying the games as fast as EA pushes them out.

    I don't know, boycotting worked well for Modern Warfare 2 (JPEG, SFW)

  25. Re:Lets list other free energy communication scams on $500k "Energy-Harvesting" Kickstarter Scam Unfolding Right Now · · Score: 1

    free energy claims are 99.999999999999999999999999999999999999999% likely BS,

    Your numbers are almost as questionable as the ones posted by the iFind developers.

    Almost.