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  1. Re:In what universe? on What Happens When the "Sharing Economy" Meets Higher Education · · Score: 0

    Your sig is spot on. Your comment does indeed seem ignorant. Now go RTFA.

  2. Re:No issues here on Wi-Fi Issues Continue For OS X Users Despite Updates · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess Apple can close the trouble ticket now. Thanks!

  3. Re:Climate change on Mathematicians Uncomfortable With Ties To NSA, But Not Pulling Back · · Score: 1

    Are you likening climate science to math, because climate science is so rigorously proven?

  4. Re:Shame on them on Mathematicians Uncomfortable With Ties To NSA, But Not Pulling Back · · Score: 1

    DARPA doesn't kill people either. But I think gp was using blood money metaphorically.

  5. I don't get it on Tech Companies Worried Over China's New Rules For Selling To Banks · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They want the source code and backdoors written in? Why not write your own backdoors?

  6. Re:What's the point? on Microsoft Launches Outlook For Android and iOS · · Score: 1

    I don't use Windows so why should I (or anyone else for that matter) care?

    I had no idea that only your opinion mattered! Please tell me what I should think about everything!

  7. Re:So, what's the practical concern of this? on Reverse Engineering the Nike+ FuelBand's Communications Protocol · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I work in a secure facility, and activity tracking wristbands (among many other things) are forbidden.

  8. Re:ok then... but on New Study Says Governments Should Ditch Reliance On Biofuels · · Score: 2

    the problem with solar is that you do get energy supply from it, but only during the day, so we need to come up with much more efficient ways of storing that energy. We don't have this yet.

    We don't use as much power at night. And batteries are pretty good these days.

  9. Re:Vast... Tracts of Land on New Study Says Governments Should Ditch Reliance On Biofuels · · Score: 1

    So I guess it wouldn't matter to you if there was no corn for you or other animals to eat, so you wouldn't have any milk, cheese, corndogs, cornchips, ice cream, etc as long as the same amount of corn is grown.

  10. Re:Demand on New Study Says Governments Should Ditch Reliance On Biofuels · · Score: 1

    Are you asking what would happen if we didn't have enough fuel for our trains, planes, ships, cars, trucks, etc? Because, yeah, it would be pretty bad. Imagine having no food, clothes, medicine, or anything else you buy in store. Because it's all shipped in with fossil fuels.

  11. Re:So.... on FDA Wants To Release Millions of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes In Florida · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you perturb them, it just re-stabilizes at a new equilibrium point.

    Right. But that may takes hundreds of thousands or millions of years and a mass extinction. That new equilibrium point may not be something we want, and it may be completely devoid of humans. A desert is in equilibrium. So is Antarctica. So yes, the environment and the Earth will trudge along and find a stable point, but that doesn't give us free reign to introduce invasive species.

  12. Re:Naive to say the least. on Proposed Disk Array With 99.999% Availablity For 4 Years, Sans Maintenance · · Score: 1, Funny

    Girls suck at math.

  13. Re:Too late Snowden on Snowden Documents: CSE Tracks Millions of Downloads Daily · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dipshit. He turned over everything to journalists long ago. They're going through FSM only knows how many terrabytes of information and releasing stories as they put it together. Snowden isn't releasing anything anymore.

  14. Re:Urban legend? on Plan C: The Cold War Plan Which Would Have Brought the US Under Martial Law · · Score: 1

    The govt can actually keep secrets sometimes. Crazy, right?

  15. Re:The solution is obvious on Google Explains Why WebView Vulnerability Will Go Unpatched On Android 4.3 · · Score: 2

    Why would they bother to fix it if the carriers aren't going to deploy the fix? Again, this isn't on Google, but on the carriers.

  16. Re:Jackpot! on Secret Service Investigating Small Drone On White House Grounds · · Score: 1

    That wasn't Al Qaeda. And you're an idiot.

  17. Re:"at least theoretically" on Data Encryption On the Rise In the Cloud and Mobile · · Score: 1

    I really didn't say everything I said. [...] Then again, I might have said 'em, but you never know. - Yogi Berra. In this case, he didn't.

  18. Re:Please do on FBI Seeks To Legally Hack You If You're Connected To TOR Or a VPN · · Score: 1

    Maybe that was the solution 40 years ago. I haven't seen it. There are trusted one-way links that allow movement between networks with automated filtering for questionable content. You're not going to fat-finger pictures, videos, and other non-text from one network to another, are you?

  19. Re:Please do on FBI Seeks To Legally Hack You If You're Connected To TOR Or a VPN · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I had this proof of concept for how to infest even well guarded VM-secured analysis centers to the point of taking them offline or making them my bitch on my PC

    Good luck with that. I don't know if you watched Skyfall one too many times, but all of those centers are disconnected from the internet and run on their own network, precisely for this reason.

  20. Re:horse drawn transport on Ask Slashdot: Sounds We Don't Hear Any More? · · Score: 1

    I grew up in Amish country. Still an all too common sight in those areas.

  21. Re:must be some wrong interpretation of statistics on Radio, Not YouTube, Is Still King of Music Discovery · · Score: 1
    Hey thanks for the anecdata.

    radio is as retro format like vinyl.

    ...which is still really popular. Vinyl manufacturers can't keep up with the demand of record sales.

  22. Re:Subject Cop To Same Spying They Use On Us on LAPD Orders Body Cams That Will Start Recording When Police Use Tasers · · Score: 1

    Perpetual recording to include taking a shit, badmouthing their boss while driving in the cruiser, talking to victims, informants, and others who would rather not have their identities known? Yeah, that's well thought out.

  23. Good idea on LAPD Orders Body Cams That Will Start Recording When Police Use Tasers · · Score: 1

    I think this is much better than the always-on cams the police clearly don't like. It doesn't make sense to record going to the bathroom, talking to victims and informants, making chitchat in the cruiser about coworkers, ad nausem. Just record the altercations, and this is a good start.

  24. Re:I probably would upgrade if I could, but... on Is Kitkat Killing Lollipop Uptake? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I got the update to my Google Nexus 5 and hated it. It was slow and buggy at first (5.0.1 fixed some things within the week), the UI was a little weird, etc. I really didn't like the look at all. I ended up finally rooting my phone and went to Kitkat with Cyanogenmod. I should have done that months ago.

  25. Re:US-centric on Gun Rights Hacktivists To Fab 3D-Printed Guns At State Capitol · · Score: 1

    It is currently pretty easy in most states. But there is a fear that it will become much harder. We had the Brady Bill not long ago (1994-2004, IIRC) that put some hard limits on gun ownership, and that (and other laws and threats of laws) have made some gun owners concerned that not only will it be harder or impossible to buy guns in the future, but that the guns they currently own will become illegal.