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  1. Jeremy Irons talks about the Death Penalty on Web Developer Sentenced To Death In Iran · · Score: 0

    I very rarely post links to YouTube videos, but this one is very much related to the topic, and I fully agree with it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVMho2cP1NE.

  2. Re:All the better to watch you with, my dear on London Installing Largest Free Wifi Network · · Score: 1

    The common tourist doesn't know how to change it. The common iPhone user doesn't know how to change it. I'd even say the common Android user doesn't know how to change it. All because it _can_ be changed doesn't mean it _will_ be changed.

  3. Re:All the better to watch you with, my dear on London Installing Largest Free Wifi Network · · Score: 0

    It's called a MAC address.

  4. Re:What's the best low bandwidth way to send a msg on Kazakhstan Disables the Internet , Telecomix Restores · · Score: 2

    Even if you don't have a large following on Twitter, for things like this situation, there is almost always a hashtag for the protest in use. For Egypt, it was #jan25, so if you wanted to send a message about Egypt to as many people as possible, you send a message with #jan25 somewhere in it, and people would easily find it, and retweet it to their followers.

    Abstractly, in a lot of ways a hashtag on Twitter is like an asynchronous equivalent to an IRC channel, in that you can search for it and get any messages from that tag at any time, and share them with your followers. Hope that helps.

  5. Re:Try minus the condescension on Google To Shutter Knol, Wave, Gears · · Score: 2

    Beyond the fact there's a typo in my original quote, your statement hardly changes my point, and in fact reaffirms it. It makes perfect business sense to cancel services that the market is showing people do not need or want, and that's why said products would be cancelled. Beyond the fact that we're talking about free services, I'd hardly call Knol, Wave or even Gears "basic services".

    When they cancel GMail arbitrarily, let me know. Until then, my argument remains valid.

  6. Re:They cancel products left and right on Google To Shutter Knol, Wave, Gears · · Score: 0

    "I will not use other successfully products by company X because they cancel support for products that I don't use and others don't either." Intelligent.

  7. Invalid syntax is valid on The Great JavaScript Debate: Improve It Or Kill It · · Score: 1

    Try: + + "y";

    This is valid syntax in JavaScript. Kill it with fire.

  8. Article is false. on Telstra Fears LulzSec Attacks, Hesitates On Internet Filter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Never trust News Corp. Here's some real journalism: http://delimiter.com.au/2011/06/25/telstra-proposes-to-filter-interpol-blacklist/

    Not that the real answer is any better than what the Australian said, but the truth is what matters.

  9. Re:Proprietary format. on Wii U Faster Than 360 Or PS3, No Blu-ray Or DVD Support · · Score: 1

    Given that the Wii U can read the disc, if hacked and given internet access or SD card access, it's not inconceivable that the discs could be dumped as files over a network or to the flash media like was already done on the previous gen consoles.

  10. Proprietary format. on Wii U Faster Than 360 Or PS3, No Blu-ray Or DVD Support · · Score: 2

    I'm pretty sure it has very little to do with the patents and more to do with the same reason they used those awkward, little, inverse-reading GameCube discs: fear of homebrew and fear of sharing backups.

    But as we know from both the GameCube and the Wii, it's only a matter of time before people work around those limitations.

  11. Software Patents. on HTC Is Paying Microsoft $5 For Every Android Phone · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Software patents need to be abolished internationally, it's that simple.

  12. Re:Haha. on Should a Web Startup Go Straight To the Cloud? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The question lacks any signs of expertise, critical thought or realistic planning. It's nonsensical.

  13. Haha. on Should a Web Startup Go Straight To the Cloud? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously. What is this on Slashdot for?

  14. Re:And what the fuck will groklaw do ? on Groklaw Torch Handed To Mark Webbink · · Score: 1

    This does not change the grammatical fact that the correct pronoun for a feminine proper noun is in fact "she". Your argument is invalid for so many reasons.

  15. Re:And what the fuck will groklaw do ? on Groklaw Torch Handed To Mark Webbink · · Score: 1

    She.

  16. Below Germany? on Australia Ranked Fourth In Internet Freedom · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm pretty sure Germany has actively filtered their internet before, and possibly still continue to do it. As for America, hello ICE domain seizures? Wtf.

  17. Re:Waste of money. on Motorola's Sholes Bootloader Unlocked · · Score: 1

    I said absolutely nothing about hacking or tinkering, not even insinuated it. It was more of a shot at Motorola for making generally crap products.

  18. Waste of money. on Motorola's Sholes Bootloader Unlocked · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why do they spend so much money locking down the phone instead of making a competitive, lasting product that the consumer actually wants? "They also locked the memory.", what the fuck.

  19. Re:Appeal on Julian Assange To Be Extradited To Sweden · · Score: 1

    I am aware of this, but it seems unlikely that they'd do it now due to the fact there's already extradition proceedings to Sweden.

  20. Appeal on Julian Assange To Be Extradited To Sweden · · Score: 2

    It can and will likely be appealed, leading it to drag out for much longer so the US finally has time to enact the SHIELD bill and have him extradited from Sweden. And the soap opera continues.

  21. vim on IT Turf Wars: the Most Common Feuds In Tech · · Score: 5, Funny

    it's the best.

  22. Competition on Cheap Games a Risk To the Industry, Says Nintendo President · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's hard to compete with value for money, isn't it Nintendo?

  23. Seamless on Internet Groups To Stream Live IPv4/6 Announcement · · Score: 1

    The transition is so seamless that there has to be a massive function to signal that change must occur now, not just should have. Pretty good fail there.

  24. Re:Well I'll be damned.... on Amazon Flaw Lets Password Variants Through · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Now they should consider implementing a 'set new password on next login' rule to rectify this before someone gets screwed over and is enraged.

  25. Re:Looks pretty bad here. on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 2

    Consider responding with browser and version so they can look into it :)