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  1. Re:Meh on Google Announces Motorola-Made Nexus 6 and HTC-Made Nexus 9 · · Score: 1

    Why couldn't they have hit the sweet spot - 5", 1080p, and focused on camera quality & battery life?

    They already did that with the Moto G2.

  2. Re:Boycott will end this in less than a week on Netflix Video Speed On FiOS Doubles After Netflix-Verizon Deal · · Score: 1

    Verizon is tier 1. They dont buy transit. They do transit. You dont get to dump many times as much data on another transit network as they dump on yours without consequences.

    This is the crux of the problem. The FTC needs to break up backbone providers from their consumer ISP services or at least force them to manage them separately so that the 800 pound gorillas can't engage in these sort of anti-competitive practices.

  3. Re:why use this instead of say dm-crypt? on VeraCrypt Is the New TrueCrypt -- and It's Better · · Score: 2

    The benefit is cross platform support. It was Truecrypt's killer feature. TC is also just plain easier to set up than dmcrypt.

  4. Re:Every time XKCD 936 is Mentioned on Password Security: Why the Horse Battery Staple Is Not Correct · · Score: 1

    It would be nice if site operators would adopt entropy measurement as a way to force strong passwords rather than imposing some arbitrary minimum number of caps, digits, or punctuation. It's even more irritating when you get a braindead one that rejects a perfectly good password because it has some character they foolishly decided not to support. There's nothing weak about a 40-char password all in lowercase. Nobody will have its hashes in a rainbow table and the crackers will go for the low hanging fruit with all the Princess1 accounts.

  5. Re:You'll give them the password on VeraCrypt Is the New TrueCrypt -- and It's Better · · Score: 1

    The mistake is letting them think there is something "in there".

    "Those files are just a random collection of bits generated by Gnu Shred when the drive was formatted." is the correct response.

  6. What about... on Wind Power Is Cheaper Than Coal, Leaked Report Shows · · Score: 1

    Yeah but we all know that coal is so 19th century. What about clean coal?

  7. Re:wow, this site has really gone to shit on Samsung's Wi-Fi Upgrades Promise Speeds Up to 4.6Gbps · · Score: 2

    I don't get the point of the aggressive post rate limiting. It really gets annoying when you try to post as AC and someone else in your IP range has locked you out with their own earlier post. It's sad that in the past year I have been able to get first post on articles that have been up for 10+ minutes on multiple occasions. The user base has receded significantly but they persist in these silly policies that inhibit the active users.

  8. Re:I sure don't fit the profile on Statisticians Uncover What Makes For a Stable Marriage · · Score: 1

    No. It must have been one of those religions that say you're going to burn in eternal hell if you fuck before marriage. Lots of brainwashed young people are conned into quick marriages by these sort of organizations.

  9. Re:Questiona re a bit sexists on Statisticians Uncover What Makes For a Stable Marriage · · Score: 2

    I read that as there being a lot of miserable souls stuck in failed marriages because they fear the social stigma of being divorced that rains down from their church/cult. These are the sort of people who let their sense of social worth be impressed upon themselves by others rather than come from within. Meanwhile the rest of the secular world has wised up to the stupidity of wasting the remainder of one's life with the wrong person.

  10. Not a narcisisst on Ask Slashdot: Best Books On the Life and Work of Nikola Tesla? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because Edison was a Jobs-like narcissist who used people to elevate his status and promote himself. Tesla was too busy working in the lab to revel in fame and build a populist legacy.

  11. Re:Is this counting Apple's new encryption scheme? on Snowden's Tough Advice For Guarding Privacy · · Score: 1

    if you use a decent length pass phrase it should be unhackable. No?

    Only if you're naive enough to believe that a keylogger can't be installed surreptitiously.

  12. Re:Is this counting Apple's new encryption scheme? on Snowden's Tough Advice For Guarding Privacy · · Score: 2

    The key is on the phone. Easy enough for any TLA to get unauthorized access to without the owner's knowledge. Apple's new policy changes nothing.

  13. Re:Nice article on More Details On The 3rd-Party Apps That Led to Snapchat Leaks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A healthy percentage of those pictures are going to be of underage teens. They aren't going to be as readily distributed as the celeb leaks because of the real threat of jail time and a ruined life for anyone attempting it.

  14. Mowed grass on Antiperspirants Could Contribute to Particulate Pollution · · Score: 1

    Grasses accumulate silicates in their leaves. That's a more likely source of airborne particulates than a few armpits.

  15. Re:They _Should_ Replace It on CSS Proposed 20 Years Ago Today · · Score: 2

    That's because web pages aren't supposed to give fine grained control of layout. Switch to PDF or campaign for browser support of XSL-FO if you want to control layout.

  16. Re:Ruby? on Goodbye, World? 5 Languages That Might Not Be Long For This World · · Score: 1

    I don't get that either. I was under the impression that a lot of Perl refugees switched over to Ruby.

  17. Re:Blue LED should've never been awarded. on No Nobel For Nick Holonyak Jr, Father of the LED · · Score: 1

    toxic stress to the retina

    Sounds like they get their medical advice from Dr. Oz. I wouldn't take any such BS seriously.

  18. Taxes on US Remains Top Country For Global Workers · · Score: 1

    US citizens get screwed when they work overseas because we still have to pay US taxes. We also haven't recovered from the intentional devaluation of the dollar by Bush2 which makes our economic mobility limited. We are a nation of burger flippers enslaved to the 1%.

  19. Re:This just happened to me on AT&T To Repay $80 Million In Shady Phone Bill Charges · · Score: 2

    Why do you continue to give them your business?

  20. Re:We need a movie to spread the word on Co-Founder of PayPal Peter Thiel: Society Is Hostile To Science and Technology · · Score: 1

    and not particularly attractive.

    Hey now! Some of us are solid 7's.

  21. Re:Really? on The Greatest Keyboard Ever Made · · Score: 1

    That's where the Model M shines. Pop the key caps and the top cover and run them through the dishwasher: Sparkly clean just like new.

  22. Government involvement on Why America Won't Match Sweden's Cheap, Fast, Competitive Internet Services · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Most Americans would love to see government with municipal broadband. It would save them money despite typical government waste simply because of how much the incumbent ISPs are gouging with their ridiculous pricing structure. We can't have it because politicians are controlled through lobbying to eliminate new forms of competition and it flies in the face of populist "small government" ideology.

  23. Patent worthy on Europol Predicts First Online Murder By End of This Year · · Score: 1

    That sounds like an innovative business method patent for assassins:

    Claim 1: Murder, using a computing device consisting of a visual display and keyboard orchestrated using the internet.

  24. Re:Harley-Davidson laid off 125 Americans. on Former Infosys Recruiter Says He Was Told Not To Hire US Workers · · Score: 1

    Most of HDs customers are buying branded merchandise and don't even own an HD bike. The all-American image is the only thing the company is propped up on.

  25. Re:Corporate Malfeasance on Former Infosys Recruiter Says He Was Told Not To Hire US Workers · · Score: 1

    They should have all the visas they're sponsoring invalidated. That will put the hurt on where it matters with the companies that funnel money to Infosys by taking away their underpaid guest workers.