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  1. Re:The Whistleblowers' Blues on Wikileaks Founder Advised To Avoid American Gov't · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A little information and suddenly you think it's all brand new. The transparent stuff that we know about today was stuff that got people labeled as crazy gun nuts 30 years ago. Just because most people didn't know about it it's not like it wasn't happening. And happening a lot more than it does now.

  2. Re:Old news on Schools, Filtering Companies Blocking Google SSL · · Score: 1

    Been working on a current project using a mitm sslproxy custom written to do both snort for DLP scanning and havp for clamav antivirus scanning. It's a fun project have it dynamically generating certs for sites with our in house CA. Was planning at some point to contact the OpenDLP project and see if they want any of it.

  3. Re:Terrible headline on Sleeping iPhones Send Phantom Data · · Score: 5, Funny

    HEY!!! you almost tricked me into taking it off!!! You're one of "THEM" aren't you?

  4. Re:With apologies to Philip K. Dick on Sleeping iPhones Send Phantom Data · · Score: 1

    No, they seem to dream about racking up bandwidth charges.

  5. Re:Carbon Footprint? on How Sperm Whales Offset Their Carbon Footprint · · Score: 1

    but you + the previous sequencers become neutral together.

  6. Re:It's easy to feel good about Apple's policies.. on Apple Reverses Rejection of Ulysses Comic · · Score: 1

    No, no they haven't.

  7. Re:It's easy to feel good about Apple's policies.. on Apple Reverses Rejection of Ulysses Comic · · Score: 1

    Actually it's just hard, just like turning a corvette into a 4x4 isn't easy and almost nobody does it. You have a preconceived idea of what Apple products should do but they designed the product and supporting infrastructure outside your idea. Easy, don't buy one, get an android or blackberry or go without. That's what I've done.

  8. Re:It's easy to feel good about Apple's policies.. on Apple Reverses Rejection of Ulysses Comic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why do you care why someone else buys something? Unless you're employees in apples marketing department does it really matter? My wife's ear rings have no functional value there were purchased strictly because they were shinny. Does that make them less valued? I haven't purchased an iPad, iPod or iPhone, although I have nothing against them I just haven't had the need. Though I am considering an iPad as it does run pretty slick and allows much easier access to the things I fumble through to get at now.

  9. Re:It's easy to feel good about Apple's policies.. on Apple Reverses Rejection of Ulysses Comic · · Score: 0, Troll

    So you're saying the Chevy Corvette is trying to control people because it limits the roads it can be driven on. My 4x4 has far more options when it comes to possibilities.

  10. Re:It's easy to feel good about Apple's policies.. on Apple Reverses Rejection of Ulysses Comic · · Score: 0, Troll

    ROFL, so instead of "The Devil made me do it." the new ridiculous defense will be "My iPad made me do it."

    did you even reread your post and notice how stupid it is? Nobody's iProduct tells them what to do. People get them because they do what the user wants it to do. If it doesn't do what you want it to do then don't get one.

  11. Re:Wage Gap on The Real Science Gap · · Score: 1

    If sales is a drone job making 500k-1m then the obvious thing to do would be; become a sales drone. If it's not something you can do maybe it requires more skill/talent than an engineer. I have accepted this as a fact, my personality doesn't fit the sales mentality so I do the best with what I have. Engineer it is.

  12. Re:ZFS? on Volume Shadow Copy For Linux? · · Score: 1

    Might be ok if it weren't so painfully slow. By the time I turn of the hogging features I might as well use a better supported file system.

  13. Re:"does not yet support my older 2.4 Linux server on Volume Shadow Copy For Linux? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Exactly, about 2 1/2 years ago I worked for a large company that everyone here has heard of that at the time was running ~4000 servers on a modified Redhat 6.2 image. There was a large code base that got lost sometime in the start-up phase of the mid 90s that was much easier to never touch the OS then to re-write the code.

  14. Re:Real Ratina Display on iPhone 4's "Retina Display" Claims Challenged · · Score: 1

    Not when slashdotters are around.

  15. Re:Real Ratina Display on iPhone 4's "Retina Display" Claims Challenged · · Score: 2, Informative

    You have obviously never hung around places where really rich people do. My wife works with a lot of people that are in the $1M+ salary range so occasionally I have had the chance go to these things. You will meet the slutiest gold diggers there you've ever seen. It really is a different world when you're rich. I'm not sure I would like it that much.

  16. Re:Bad joke on AT&T Leaks Emails Addresses of 114,000 iPad Users · · Score: 1

    So if a store has an "OPEN" sign out front but nobody in watching everything it's ok to walk in and take what you want?

  17. Re:First thoughts on FAA Adds a Study On Adding Drones To Commercial Aviation · · Score: 1

    Get off my lawn!!

  18. Re:First thoughts on FAA Adds a Study On Adding Drones To Commercial Aviation · · Score: 1

    I sure don't want that job no matter how good I was at it?!?

  19. Re:First thoughts on FAA Adds a Study On Adding Drones To Commercial Aviation · · Score: 5, Insightful

    UPS and FedEx and other air cargo type things I could see as a huge advantage.

    Eventually refining the confidence and quality of the AI to the point where it could haul actual passengers. I'd bet that they mean time between failures of machines could out pace that of human error fairly quickly so it'd actually be safer.

    Remember the Elevator had the same type of history. There was a time when an attendant was there to push the button for you as a way to reassure everyone that it was safe. Eventually people learned they could push the button on their own.

  20. Re:Two Words: on Why Are Video Game Movies So Awful? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would have shot the other three. They are the ones that gave me expectations to be let down. Uwe Boll never set anything as good.

  21. Re:Better Title: Return of the Jedi? on The Star Wars Kid Is Back · · Score: 1

    A new hope?

  22. Re:High School Was the Worst Years for Me as Well on The Star Wars Kid Is Back · · Score: 1

    "On the "positive" side, one of the big bullies that went after me also made the mistake of driving a stolen car with a huge stash of "controlled substances"... and spent twenty years (that I know of) in the state prison system. Somehow I found that to be very satisfying when I found out. He stole the car at the age of 18, so essentially threw away his life and didn't even graduate from high school unless he somehow finished in prison."

    This story would be so much better if you add a part about how you knew he borrowed someone's car, stashed the controlled substance in it, then reported it stolen.

  23. Re:3 people in 2 don't know math. on 2 In 3 Misunderstand Gas Mileage; Here's Why · · Score: 1

    it might make more since for the sticker to have the rubber stamp of the government based on who ever paid them more i suppose.

  24. Re:there's already competition on Apple Announces iPhone 4 · · Score: 1

    Well, we wouldn't have gone to the moon in 1969 if it hadn't been for the space program!

    Most of the others are similar. They may have shown up, eventually, but the space program accelerated them significantly.

  25. Re:Competition is a good thing on Apple Announces iPhone 4 · · Score: 3, Funny

    magically delicious

    iPhone = Lucky Charm