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  1. NEVER give out your passwords on Canadian Fined For Not Providing Border Agents Smartphone Password (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Never, ever give out your passwords to any "law enforcement" (the reason for the quotes will be clear)

    - It's ridiculously easy to plant evidence on a cellphone or PC;
    - Your password can be used later for industrial espionage;
    - There is no guarantee that the law officer would really be a law enforcement officer or that he is honest and therefore not going to use your passwords for dishonest activities;

  2. Re:Inherently Insecure on Ask Slashdot: Are There Secure Alternatives To Skype? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty funny. Can you think of a reason why they can not make it to a selected target?

  3. Re:Why the obsession? on Ask Slashdot: Are There Secure Alternatives To Skype? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You are certainly ignorant, but I will explain briefly: A good reason is you despite being a law-abiding citizen, you do not agree with the current government and this current government has a history of "disappearing" with people who do not agree with it. And a second good reason is industrial espionage. Right now my country is suffering a coup being helped much by the NSA spying on Petrobras (state oil company) and the politicians who are not sold to the US. It is enough reason to seek communication protected against espionage?

  4. Re:You wanna put an end to this? on Rightscorp Threatens Every ISP in the United States (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Drop a nuke in the Rightscorp office and move on.

  5. Re:What it will really mean on Cory Doctorow On What iPhone's Missing Headphone Jack Means For Music Industry (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Good luck finding one adapter with a good DAC which is not expensive.

  6. Re:Acceptable Ads on Facebook Rolls Out Code To Nullify Adblock Plus' Workaround (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    This. Static images or plain text is okay, heavy scripted, deceptive, malware-laden is not.

  7. Re:Acceptable Ads on Facebook Rolls Out Code To Nullify Adblock Plus' Workaround (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The idea of the advertisers is that the site actual content is the distraction to make you see the advertisement.

  8. Re:Simple question on NASA Publishes a Thousand Photos of Mars (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    How does this affect you (typical north-american way of think where he is the center of the universe)? Well, the explanation is long and I'm not willing to spend time writing it because you will surely ignore it or more likely will not understand it. I'll give you the short version is that "anything can be useful sooner or later" where the part of the "sooner or later" may vary from days to decades.

    And if you keep idle and thinking that you should only do things when you have total certainty that they will have maximum and immediate return, you will continue in the stone age.

  9. "The problem is you can't fire your citizens."

    Quite true, but that does not stop them from trying anyway.

  10. This.

  11. You do not get the point. The issue is the difficulty of having children and keeping them, anyone can have children at will if he do not mean to give housing and education for them.

  12. Re:Contrasting anecdote on 8TB Drives Are Highly Reliable, Says Backblaze (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, think of it this way ... If the hard drive can survive in the environment provided by Backblaze, then they will certainly do better in a home computer properly built and will last longer than the hard drives that fail prematurely in the Backblaze environment. There is nothing better to test if a hardware is weak than to put it in a hostile environment and see what happens

  13. Re:Correct Seagate 8 TB Model on 8TB Drives Are Highly Reliable, Says Backblaze (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Quick ! Preserve him in carbonite before he gets away!

  14. Re: The Theater Experience on James Cameron: Theater Experience Key To Containing Piracy (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    If you can. Here all theaters are crap (Brazil), even the local IMAX.

  15. Uhh... Why 8k video? on AMD Unveils Radeon Pro WX and Pro SSG Professional Graphics Cards (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Why work with 8k video when we barely have content in 4k and equipment to display 4k?

  16. If you put the antialias a bit down, yes

  17. Re: Brazilian judges are egocentric ignorants on Brazil Judge Orders Phone Carriers To Block WhatsApp Message App (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    For those who think that what I said is flamebait: I am Brazilian, and you have not seen nothing yet. Judges here think they are God and that must be obeyed as such. And my country is medieval, do not be fooled by appearances. Many here still behave as if they were 19th century slaveholders.

  18. Re:.torrent!=pirated on Google and Bing Have No Obligation To Censor Searches For Torrents (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Try to explain this to for the stupid lawyers. I say that they should be killed with fire wherever they are found.

  19. Brazilian judges are egocentric ignorants on Brazil Judge Orders Phone Carriers To Block WhatsApp Message App (reuters.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A judge in Brazil usually are an ignorant and (very) egocentric monkey, unable to understand the logic and reason do not bend to the whims of it. They are the picture of a country still in the Middle Ages where authority think his word is divine law and can never be questioned.

  20. Re: The Republicans want to make everyone work on The Case Against a Universal Basic Income (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    "Going from lower class to middle or even billionaire (nobility) is very common in Capitalist societies, more than any other sort of society."

    Try this in my country (Brazil is officially a capitalist country). You will quickly find that if you are not the son of a wealthy family, you're very screwed.

  21. Re: The Republicans want to make everyone work on The Case Against a Universal Basic Income (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    You live into a modern version of feudalism, get over it.

  22. Re:Ignoring 98% consensus on UK Bill Introduces 10 Year Prison Sentence for Online Pirates (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Democracy these days is a smokescreen to keep the population under control while wealth is divided among the 1%.

  23. Re:What next? on Activision Abuses DMCA To Take Knock Indie Game Entirely Off Steam · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I fail to understand why someone can claim copyright on loose details where both models are obviously based on a real-life weapon. This is idiocy.

  24. And how to ensure it stays disabled?

  25. It is because the official client (happens with Windows Live Messenger and Skype too) is usually a bunch of crap, full of propaganda and botched functions that do not matter to people who just want to send text messages to your friends. That's why these people are using third-party clients to access servers of official applications and their respective accounts, they are simply much better.