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  1. Re:Maybe I'm being stupid, but on "Back To My Mac" Catches a Thief · · Score: 1

    add to that that she took a photo instead of just using printscreen.

  2. Re:Privacy concerns on "Back To My Mac" Catches a Thief · · Score: 1

    Yeah but how long until the next one, nice fanboying,

    Besides once somebody got access to your machine, e.g you through your back to mac account, lets say they used a phising (site because safari wont protect you from them), I suspect the green LED can be turned off with a firmware patch

  3. Re:Why take a snapshot? on "Back To My Mac" Catches a Thief · · Score: 1

    I have a purpose key and 4 buttons (possibly more if i can be bothered to set them up), does that mean I win?

  4. Re:Why take a snapshot? on "Back To My Mac" Catches a Thief · · Score: 1

    I always wonder how to setup a secure recoverable system, i mean if i encrypted my HDD & lock my bios for security then if it gets stolen its a brick, but atleast none of my deatils are stolen. OTOH if i leave my system open, i can run a script to report where it is at all times and try and recover it, but ofc they get all my details.

    Currently im too lazy to do either so i just keep my laptop safe.

  5. Re:Why take a snapshot? on "Back To My Mac" Catches a Thief · · Score: 1

    Agreed shes an idiot, what if the guy had blocked it, what if the guy couldnt be recognised, she just blew her cover for nothing. shes a complete idiot. FFS he was buying beds just let the guy buy a bed then give that address, THEN take a screenshot of his face, that way the guy doesnt know hes been caught.

    If the guy wasnt just a local theiving idiot, then her photo would have been useless compaired to what she could have got, but then again if he wasn't such an idiot hed have wiped the system before connecting it to the internet

  6. Re:Imagine on "Back To My Mac" Catches a Thief · · Score: 1

    I very much doubt the LED cant be disabled in software, besides if the camera was always on then youd assume it was just t show the camera was working

  7. Re:First on Microsoft IM Blocking YouTube Links · · Score: 1

    just tried it now on kopete no problems

  8. Re:Perfect Slashdot Article on Microsoft Prefers Flash To Silverlight · · Score: 1

    Its ok it'll be duped on monday just like the MS server flaw. this is just a preview to give you a chance to get all the microsoft bashing planned

  9. Re:Twofo Gay Niggers on First Release Candidate of Wine 1.0 Released · · Score: 1
    isnt that

    coprophiliac individuals who enjoy the carnal pleasures afforded by goats
  10. Re:So what's the definition? on First Release Candidate of Wine 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Pretty much arbitrary, but it marks a point of fairly good stability & usability.

  11. Re:When in Rome... on Google's Street View Meets Resistance In France · · Score: 1

    torrentspy is a non-u.s corporation, right? but they still got fined by an american judge.

  12. short answer
    longs answer compared to what they charge they make the money back instantly. They also make money back along the way, "so your hospital wants to be part of our trial for a cancer drug? it says here that only 80% of your patients are receiving ACME drugs during their stay..."
    Sure if for every drug that makes it 100+ dont, but most that dont are scraped before they cost much, and those that do make it can easily pay for 1000+ drugs to be developed.

  13. Re:So what's it gonna take... on Infringement 'Detrimental To the Public Health, Safety' · · Score: 1

    Shame the whole thread got over politicised but that was exactly my point, weather left or right anybody with 2 braincells watching fox news goes, "WTF?, that's bullshit not news"
    anybody with 2 braincells reading the sun goes, "boobs....WTF?, thats not news"
    Unfortunately most people dont.

  14. Re:Don't forget NPR on Infringement 'Detrimental To the Public Health, Safety' · · Score: 1
    well i think Markus pretty much ripped you apart but one ineresting point was:

    and FOX has lost a ton of credibility due to Ron Paul as well. You speak as if anybody cares, sorry but believing Ron Paul had widespread support shows you are extreme (liberal-)right.
  15. LINK: on Infringement 'Detrimental To the Public Health, Safety' · · Score: 1

    oops didnt spell check the link its http://www.politicalcompass.org/

  16. Re:So what's it gonna take... on Infringement 'Detrimental To the Public Health, Safety' · · Score: 1

    If only somebody could put all this information on some sort of 2d grid to represent the orthogonality between personal and cooperate rights. Oh wait Like this?
    Interestingly the US is still right and above centre.

  17. Re:What is their masterplan? on Google, Sprint, Others to Build Wireless Data Network · · Score: 1

    The plan is simple, get more people using the internet more, same as android. If your not online they cant sell you ads.
    They dont really have their finger in that many pies just lots of different mechanism to sell you ads.
    At the point where setting up a new market becomes more rewarding than competing in existing ones that's what they do.

  18. Re:define human rigthts Re:Google may not be evil on Google's Shareholders Vote Against Human Rights · · Score: 1

    i generally go by the http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu6/2/fs16.htm , unfortunately its not ISO aproved :(

  19. Re:Entertainment on MPAA Seeks $15 Million From The Pirate Bay · · Score: 2, Funny
    Truely a great site, for when your board:

    Hello and thank you for contacting us. We have shut down the website in
    question.

    Oh wait, just kidding. We haven't, since the site in question is fully
    legal. Unlike certain other countries, such as the one you're in, we have
    sane copyright laws here. But we also have polar bears roaming the
    streets and attacking people :-(.

    Hello, my dear sir(s)!
    We all like Evangelion a lot. This, however, does not mean that we like
    YOU.

    Dear Sir(s), Madam(s), and/or Slimemold(s), ....
    I would also advise you to
    a) not write the subject all in UPPERCASE, as it makes spam filters go
    nuts
    b) not attach meaningless data from trademark registrys in PDF format
    and
    c) stop lying.

    Please sue me in Japan instead. I've always wanted to visit Tokyo.
    Also, I'm running out of toilet paper, so please send lots of legal documents
    to our ISP - preferably printed on soft paper.
    No, but seriously. That's simply not how international law enforcement
    works. Using the same logic, a country where web sites are forbidden could
    press charges against you for having one. Dont suppose anybody could recomend a good sweedish -> english translator, for the few that are in sweedish?
  20. Re:It's not that people are stupid on Infringement 'Detrimental To the Public Health, Safety' · · Score: 1

    You must be new^h^h^h old here

  21. Re:This always happens on Infringement 'Detrimental To the Public Health, Safety' · · Score: 1

    What if they already are? The state of student protests against anything is shocking, people just dont care anymore.

  22. Re:So what's it gonna take... on Infringement 'Detrimental To the Public Health, Safety' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    true but hes only managed to fuck up:
    Iraq & Afganistan
    International respect for America
    The economy ....list goes on

    It was congress that fucked up the privacy, its only congress that can fuck up the laws.

    But hey im not from america so im not 100% sure this is the case?

  23. Re:So what's it gonna take... on Infringement 'Detrimental To the Public Health, Safety' · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Ill repharse that for you so you dont get marked troll

    when there is no one going to sleep hungry, when there is no one sleeping in the streets and no ones constitutional rights (and i mean all of them, not just the ones that two certain big parties find noble while shitting on the others) are being threatened can you even BEGIN to think that your so-called right to download ac-dc albums is worth electing an official over.

    just where in the world do you rate a bootleg copy of ironman in relations to anyones right to a decent life outside of the threat of harm or oppression from the government?

    i can't believe this is still coming out of people's mouths after how politicized slashdot has become. it's truely pathetic. And just in case I wasn't going to get moded troll too ill add, promoting an unpopular opinion isn't trolling, is this how groupthink slashdot moderation has become, That is truly pathetic.
  24. Re:This always happens on Infringement 'Detrimental To the Public Health, Safety' · · Score: 3, Funny

    Capitalism takes a while to iron out the glitches. We've reached democracy 2.0, we can assure you that these sort of bugs no longer exist.

  25. Re:So what's it gonna take... on Infringement 'Detrimental To the Public Health, Safety' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    (And yes, I think voters are morons. disclaimer - I've lived in Germany for a few years and have developed the same opinion of the average German voter. It seems that people are just stupid.) A quick guide to any country
    america: most popular tv news network: FOX
    uk: most popular news paper The sun
    just look up thier most popular news network/paper and you'll realise how fscked you are.
    The problem is that idiots are very easy for big corporations to guide, and while they cant agree on everything, they sure as hell like copyright & IP.