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  1. Re:So on Peter Adekeye Freed, Judge Outraged At Cisco's Involvement · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So, where is the outrage from the "left" here?

    Maybe read all the comments to this story? You're like a guy wearing a blindfold shrieking "I DON'T SEE IT"

  2. Re:Yay. on Peter Adekeye Freed, Judge Outraged At Cisco's Involvement · · Score: 1

    Only the vast majority of extradition requests are for people who actually broke laws, oftentimes serious ones. Remember, slashdot only posts stories that are (supposedly) news. They're not going to post a story about someone being properly extradited.

  3. good on Frustrated Judge Pushes For Solution In Google Books Case · · Score: -1, Troll

    Google is getting way too much of a monopoly here for very little money.

  4. Re:Conflict of Interest on Apple Hopes To Drop Samsung As Chip Supplier · · Score: 1

    In other words, you don't know but you're too embarassed to admit it.

  5. Re:Conflict of Interest on Apple Hopes To Drop Samsung As Chip Supplier · · Score: 1

    What exactly did Samsung steal from Apple?

  6. you know on TSA Announces Pilot of Trusted Traveler Program · · Score: 1

    The fastest I ever got through security (well, second fastest after a commuter shuttle flight) was when I forgot my driver's license, was taken to the side, given a quick pat down, and sent through.

  7. Re:I'd Rather on Open Radeon 3D Driver Runs At 60~70% of Proprietary Driver Speed · · Score: 1

    There's a workaround program that will get you significantly improved performance on your linux box...it's called Windows 7.

  8. Maybe open source software is just naturally inferior to proprietary?

  9. hmmm on The Science Behind Fanboyism · · Score: 0

    What would be interesting would be to figure out why certain products attract the more shrill fanboys. The worst two are easily Apple and Nintendo; I would guess Apple attracts the most brainwashees because they have a slick marketing operation, and Nintendo does because a lot of people grew up on Nintendo so had it imprinted early.

  10. Re:More Ammo on Flood Berm Collapses At Nebraska Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    Shhhh, hide the truth because it's inconvenient!

  11. Re:Most insecure ebanking ever. on Citi Hackers Got Away With $2.7 Million · · Score: 1

    Developer skills were never part of the equation.

    They never are on Slashdot, where all programmers are brilliant, handsome, and competent.

  12. Re:I don't see how they stay in business on Hulu For Sale: Is There Good News For Users? · · Score: 1

    Apples and oranges. Hulu is a different kind of service, more akin to cable TV channels--which, yes, have ads.

  13. Re:And this is why virtual objects have no real va on Sony Shutting Down Star Wars Galaxies MMO and TCG · · Score: 1

    LucasArts presumably would rather SWG players join the new Old Republic MMORPG rather than play SWG on private servers.

  14. Re:I don't see how they stay in business on Hulu For Sale: Is There Good News For Users? · · Score: 1

    It's only ridiculous if you truly believe that your $8 a month, even aggregated with everyone else's $8 a month, covers the entire cost of Hulu's operations, including the cost to obtain the content you're watching. Which, honestly, is ridiculous itself.

  15. Re:Licensing Fees on Hulu For Sale: Is There Good News For Users? · · Score: 2

    My time is valuable. I'd rather pay $8 a month and get guaranteed access to those few shows I like to watch than waste time hunting down individual shows and dealing with low bandwidth sites.

  16. Re:Awesome on Fired IT Worker Replaces CEO's Presentation With Porn · · Score: 1

    I call it a suggestion released by a non-governmental agency and completely non-binding. In any event, the rules you list are for USERS. Anyone who thinks that user-level password practices are intended for teams of network administrators does not know anything about IT.

  17. Re:Awesome on Fired IT Worker Replaces CEO's Presentation With Porn · · Score: 0, Troll

    It could also be because there were no formal rules defining who an authorized user was. Childs made up the definition.

  18. Re:Stealing underpants for real cash on Winklevoss Twins Finally Give Up Fighting Facebook · · Score: 1

    "Heh seems to me that for this one story, the idea was quite a lot important;"

    What idea? It was a myspace ripoff that managed to implement it slightly better.

  19. Re:Just a thought... on Winklevoss Twins Finally Give Up Fighting Facebook · · Score: 3, Informative

    They come from family money, too; their father runs a successful actuarial consulting company that I've dealt with, and if he chose they could have never worked again without the $65 million dollars.

  20. Re:Awesome on Fired IT Worker Replaces CEO's Presentation With Porn · · Score: 1

    "The only problems were: 1) his supervisor was not authorized to have those passwords."

    Yet he had sent that same supervisor passwords previously. Why do you suppose that is?

  21. Re:Blaming others for your mess on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Scrub Pirated Music From My Collection? · · Score: 1

    Actually it has been tested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMG_v._MP3.com

  22. Re:No surprises here on EFF Stops Accepting Bitcoin, Regifts All Donations · · Score: 1

    I had no idea that their judgment was that bad.

    Really? What about Eldred v. Ashcroft?

  23. Re:Contracts about up any how. on Verizon To Drop Unlimited Data Plans In Two Weeks · · Score: 1

    I do mind having my data plan change without options. So guess I'll be moving on to another carrier.

    Isn't that an option?

  24. hmmm on 13-Year-Old Password Security Bug Fixed · · Score: 1

    In a sign that many eyes don't really make (security) bugs shallow

    Also proof that security through obscurity works.

  25. Re:Ran WinMo 2003 on an ARM processor years ago on The Ugly State of ARM Support On Linux · · Score: 1

    Huh? What does that have to do with anything? The point raised was, Microsoft has previously supported ARM architecture. Someone else then argues a nonsequitur that one Microsoft platform is not the same as another. If the point is, the COMPANY obviously has no problem with supporting the ARM architecture, merely pointing out that not everything the company builds supports it does not refute the central point. A more appropriate analogy would be, "why should you be surprised that Ford is using Part X in the F-150? They've used it before in the Escape."