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  1. Re:Meh? Really? on First Bay Trail Windows 8.1 Convertible To Start At $349 · · Score: 0

    It has the same resolution as my phone, so I wouldn't want to use it for writing any code. That my use for a keyboard. 2 GB of ram and an atom processor means I probably wont be able to play Dwarf Fortress at a decent frame rate, so there goes my hardcore gaming angle. I already have a phone and its lighter, so my emailing, quick messaging, and Angry Birds fix is satiated. I don't really have any reason to get this.

  2. Nothing too exceptional. on First Bay Trail Windows 8.1 Convertible To Start At $349 · · Score: 1

    Another windows 8 tablet. Quad core 1.8GHz, 1366x768 resolution. Meh.

  3. Re:Really? on SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, i wonder if anyone has ever told him about git. Too bad he didn't back it up. Now we will have to start a new Linux kernel.

    Sarcasm Intended.

  4. Re:Not family sharing, more like account borrowing on Valve Announces Family Sharing On Steam, Can Include Friends · · Score: 1

    Yeah, what I see this being used for is when I want one of my friends to try a game I can essentially give them a demo. You wouldn't want to play something like Skyrim on here.

    When I picked up a new game for the PS3 or XBox I can take it over to a friend's house and let them play the beginning of it. I see this as essentially giving that same ability to the PC.

  5. that's not good. on NSA Shares Intel On Americans With Israel · · Score: 1

    I feel very betrayed.

  6. Re:default methods for interfaces on Java 8 Developer Preview Released · · Score: 1

    I am also curious how they handle this. Before you could have multiple interfaces and It wouldn't matter if they all required you to have a specific method, because you had to implement it in the class (or parent). Now I'm not sure. Are they going to have a compile time error and require an annotation to tell us which to use if there are multiple? Has anyone tried this?

  7. Distributed source control. on Ask Slashdot: How Best To Synchronize Projects Between Shared Drive and PCs? · · Score: 1

    Use Git.

  8. this is part of the protocol on Researcher Spots a Drug Buy In Bitcoin's Blockchain · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A cryptocurency where everyone has a record of every transaction can be used to find a transaction between twoknown addresses? Is anyone surprised?

  9. Re:In the US on 400 Million Chinese Cannot Speak Mandarin · · Score: 1

    I went to school in the US. The only required language for us was English. You had opportunities to learn Spanish, German, or French, but they were not required to graduate. If all you spoke was Spanish, you still were required to learn English. I don't think its much different over there.

  10. Viral Marketing Campaign. Literally. on Would You Tell People How To Crack Your Software? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He's doing this to raise attention. For every 10 people who pirate it, someone will actually buy it.

  11. fool me once on Epic: A Privacy-Focused Web Browser · · Score: 2

    Post the source.

  12. Re:I, for one, welcome our bot overlords on Security Company Attributes Tor Traffic Surge To Botnet · · Score: 2

    This is true, but as we have learned this year the NSA already captures all encrypted traffic they can get their hands on. If the US, UK, German, Australian governments do it, I'm guessing they aren't the only country or organization that tap their civilians' communications.

    A botnet created by a virus is not a particularly great advantage for collecting that information, as it still needs to deposit it to a central server somewhere, and governments already have tapped the lines when it is transmitted in the clear. If they have software on the computers of people, it could be analyzed and they could find what information it was sending back.

    Most of the actual messages oppressive governments want to find will be sent within hidden sites in the darknet rather than out of it. Noise makes tracing of these harder.

  13. I, for one, welcome our bot overlords on Security Company Attributes Tor Traffic Surge To Botnet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The more peers and traffic, the better anonymity. If some of those peers are grandmas with 50 toolbars rather than paranoid crypto-nerds, we are better off.

  14. Re:Backlash is a wonderful thing on On Eve Of Election, Australia's Conservatives Announce Mandated Filtering Policy · · Score: 4, Informative

    In English, if someone says "I would that" it means "I wish that' in a more poetic sense.
    source

  15. Don't fix it on The Golden Gate Barrage: New Ideas To Counter Sea Level Rise · · Score: 1

    Let nature retake it. Before humans settled there and paved the swamps it was a great haven for all kinds of animals. Constantly pumping to avoid moving up the hill a bit is really wasteful and all it takes is a dam failure to have another Katrina style disaster.

  16. USA might help on Why the Japanese Government Should Take Over the Fukushima Nuclear Plant · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How about they ask the Americans for help? We have had a lot of experience with nukes, and could use a chance to prove that we can still do something in the world besides violate international law. If we fuck it up, then you can blame external powers for it.

  17. Yes on Technologies Like Google's Self-Driving Car: Destroying Jobs? · · Score: 3

    It will destroy jobs like the farm destroyed the jobs of hunters and gatherers. It happens. If you can be replaced by a cheap machine, find another line of work where the quality that you can produce beats the machines.

  18. Re:Isn't this what a TOR attack looks like? on Tor Usage More Than Doubles In August · · Score: 1

    Or can monitor every connection and retain the data indefinitely, even from US Citizens without a warrant.

  19. Self Driving on Uber Tip-Skimming Allegations Could Spark National Class Action · · Score: 4, Funny

    Good thing they bought all those Google self driving cars in that article a few days back! You don't need to pay the drivers or skim their tips. Good thing that actually happened.

  20. Seems legit on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Open Source Projects To Take Our Money? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Deer project owner,

    Our corporation has too much money. Please send details of how give you $500 Dollars US$ without donating.

    -Prince of Nigeria

  21. Re:Here we go... on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered · · Score: 4, Funny

    New York is noisy. Mount Rushmore is a better place.

  22. Re:One thing is for certain... on The World Fair of 2014 According To Asimov (From 1964) · · Score: 1

    Ironically, at the EAA already had one of these in their museum : Taylor Aerocar

  23. Re:Seriously, did you think the NSA was alone? on How Deadbeat Facebook Friends and Using ALL-CAPS Can Lower Your Credit Score · · Score: 1

    "were worried" as in past tense? Now I'm worried that the NSA (or underpaid official who works there) will start selling its profiles on people to corporations that cooperate with data collection. A trade of data as it were.

  24. Easy solution on How Deadbeat Facebook Friends and Using ALL-CAPS Can Lower Your Credit Score · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is why I friend corporations. It balances out the financial status of my real friends.

  25. Re:HTML encode & decode on Book Review: Hacking Exposed Mobile Security Secrets & Solutions · · Score: 1

    He is talking about html entities. If you want to use an & in html, you can write '&'. The book title has an & in it, and it is displaying as if they double encoded it, like I did to post that string.