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  1. Re:My goodness on U.S. District Judge: Forced Decryption of Hard Drives Violates Fifth Amendment · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm just guessing here, but I believe the judge sees that "You were looking for CP. You found it. What are you looking for now? He's already guilty on the CP charge. You don't get to fish for more stuff on other drives."

  2. Re:Perspective on World of Warcraft Film Shooting Begins Early 2014 · · Score: 1

    Scene changes have to wait for the hearthstone cooldown.

  3. Re:WoW hate? Really? on World of Warcraft Film Shooting Begins Early 2014 · · Score: 1

    That's because you only played for 2 years. I'm going to assume it was either Vanilla or The Burning Crusade that you played? Those were good times! The story was interesting, the encounters challenging, the end-game exclusive.

    Don't ever, ever go back. End-game is faceroll easy, level progression is so fast you miss all of the awesome content (Duskwood is empty, as is the entirety of Outland), and good story telling has been exchanged for lame puns and double-entendre. You will be disappointed.

  4. Re:Most of the exploits.. on Banking Malware, Under the Hood · · Score: 1

    I use Privoxy instead of AdBlock. It doesn't matter what browser you use. Also blocks some identifying information about your browser / system being reported to the site your visiting, which is nice.

  5. Re:Target Microsoft on Google Security Expert Finds, Publicly Discloses Windows Kernel Bug · · Score: 1

    Google is still better than AT&T, whose motto is "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Executive bonus recovery fee tagged to your wireless bill: $0.96

    Well, either they tagged that on during a contract term and you should have cancelled immediately, or you agreed to pay it when you signed the contract. Either way, if you're still with AT&T you're an idiot.

  6. Re: tough decision!!! on Beer Fridge Caught Interfering With Cellular Network · · Score: 1

    We have a similar feature in the UK. It's called Caller ID :)

  7. Re:Noooooooooo! on Green Lantern Writer To Pen Blade Runner Sequel · · Score: 1

    It could be worse.

    Uwe Boll could decided to move out of decimating game franchises.

  8. Re:it's really really hard on Ask Slashdot: How To Determine If a Video Has Been Faked? · · Score: 1

    I'm picturing a giant Catseye, or bicycle reflector on the moon. That wouldn't need to be aimed at all, just plopped down somewhere face up, on a relatively flat surface, somewhere on "our" side of the moon.

  9. Re:They saw this coming for ages... on Main US Weather Satellite Fails As Hurricane Season Looms · · Score: 1

    Why do I have to come half way down the fucking page to learn this? Why is all the dogshit fear-mongering at the top?

    We should have a separate mod "Pertinent" which promotes you up the comment history so people can stop hand-waving unnecessarily. Maybe only available for comments with links, or something.

  10. Re:Because it's broken by design on Why We Should Celebrate Snapchat and Encourage Ephemeral Communication · · Score: 1

    People who post here know that you can circumvent these protections trivially; It doesn't need to be explicitly stated. I was talking about a way of retrieving the data from the phone through software only, something which Snapchat explicitly tries to protect against. Saying that, it only needs to inconvenience the majority of the population to be successful in that purpose; The rest will get access whatever they do. Some because they can, some for nefarious purposes, but ultimately they are the minority. As long as Alice can send Bob a picture of her you-know-what without risking him putting it up on Facebook 5 minutes later without some not insignificant effort on his part, then it fulfills its purpose.

  11. Re:Fear Mongering on Terrorist Murder In London Could Revive Snooper's Charter · · Score: 1

    Did you see the footage on YouTube? Just moments after the attack the guy was talking to other members of the public, still holding the cleaver and covered in blood and people were just walking around oblivious.

    The only terrorism here is from the media hyping this up into fervor just to sell some headlines, and the politicians jumping all over this to further encroach into the lives of the general populace.

  12. Re:Impossible? on One-Time Pad From Caltech Offers Uncrackable Cryptography · · Score: 4, Informative

    Eve is better off using $5 cryptography to get at the message.

    Rubber Hose Cryptanalysis Just FYI.

  13. Re: Snap What? on Why We Should Celebrate Snapchat and Encourage Ephemeral Communication · · Score: 1

    Snapchat makes it slightly more cumbersome to keep a permanent record of the message contents. You have physical access to the device, so obviously you will be able to copy the message somehow. All I meant is that there are methods to circumvent the protections offered by the software using software only, but that they require a rooted Android phone to work.

  14. Re:Because it's broken by design on Why We Should Celebrate Snapchat and Encourage Ephemeral Communication · · Score: 1

    This is a serious "Whoosh", not one of those comedic ones. You have totally missed the point of this service.

    Imagine a situation where you wouldn't want the recipient to have a permanent record of your message. If you can't then this app isn't for you. Please keep on using one of the many services offering a logged history.

  15. Re:Snap What? on Why We Should Celebrate Snapchat and Encourage Ephemeral Communication · · Score: 2

    If you send naughty pictures to a recipient you don't trust, you deserve the fallout. Learning who is trustworthy is a valuable life skill; It shouldn't be hacked around by technology.

  16. Re: Snap What? on Why We Should Celebrate Snapchat and Encourage Ephemeral Communication · · Score: 4, Informative

    Snapchat is a picture messaging service which displays the image, once opened, for only 10 seconds, then deletes it. You can't screenshot the image because you need to hold your touchscreen for the image to display for those 10 seconds.

    There are hacks to bypass this security feature, but they require a rooted phone.

  17. Re:So... on German IT Firm Seeks Autistic Workers · · Score: 1

    No sane parent would bring a severely autistic child to a restaurant. If they have a problem processing stimuli or expressing emotion, they will react very strongly to such a high level of stimulation. It's new surroundings to process and understand, and respond to accordingly.

    There was a story a couple of months ago regarding Auti-Sim. I work with kids with ADSs, and while I can't say how accurate the "game" is to how they actually perceive the world, I can definitely appreciate that over-stimulation can cause some pretty violent behaviour.

  18. Re:Science on Physicists Create Quantum Link Between Photons That Don't Exist At the Same Time · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let Heisenberg maybe!" restored the status quo.

  19. Was it really Anon? on Thousands of Whistle Blowers Vulnerable After Anonymous Hacks SAPS · · Score: 2

    From the second article, emphasis mine:

    "The hackers (@DomainerAnon) â" believed to be associated with hacktivist group Anonymous..."

    Has a confirmed Anon source stated that it was an Anon op? A splinter group like LulzSec? An agent provocateur?

    This reeks of a frame. It's out of character.

  20. Re:rather have money on Do Developers Need Free Perks To Thrive? · · Score: 1

    For a sample size of one, any theory is demonstrably true. When did you last statistics?

  21. Re:textbook publishers use all kinds of BS to keep on Latvian Police Raid Teacher's Home for Uploading $4.00 Textbook · · Score: 1

    I also haven't learned to preview my posts for closing tags. God damn it.

  22. Re:textbook publishers use all kinds of BS to keep on Latvian Police Raid Teacher's Home for Uploading $4.00 Textbook · · Score: 0

    "I've got some advice for you, little buddy. Before you point your finger, you should know that I'm the man. If I'm the man, then you're the man, and he's the man aswell, so you can point your fucking finger up your ass."

    "Hooker With a Penis" - Tool

    I was going to do "... the government it deserves." quote, but I don't know who it was.

  23. Re:Or on Uptick In Whooping Cough Linked To Subpar Vaccines · · Score: 1

    SHIT. It was a broken line break tag.

    - House Season 1 Episode 2 "Paternity" (2004) House, MD

  24. Re:Or on Uptick In Whooping Cough Linked To Subpar Vaccines · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "All natural, no dyes. That's a good business - all-natural children's toys. Those toy companies, they don't arbitrarily mark up their frogs. They don't lie about how much they spend on research and development. And the worst that a toy company can be accused of is making a really boring frog. Gribbit, gribbit, gribbit. You know another really good business? Teeny tiny baby coffins. You can get them in frog green, fire engine red. Really. The antibodies in yummy mummy only protect the kid for six months, which is why these companies think they can gouge you. They think that you'll spend whatever they ask to keep your kid alive. Want to change things? Prove them wrong. A few hundred parents like you decide they'd rather let their kid die then cough up 40 bucks for a vaccination, believe me, prices will drop *really* fast. Gribbit, gribbit, gribbit, gribbit, gribbit."

  25. Re:Can they just stack them? on Uptick In Whooping Cough Linked To Subpar Vaccines · · Score: 1

    And if not, why not just do the weaker one yearly?

    Ho ho! I smell a lucrative reoccurring contract here!

    "Not had your Whooping Cough jab this year? INSURANCE PREMIUM UP 2000%. Yes, I know the price of the vaccine increases 20% per year, and we have a significant stake in the company... What's your point?"