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  1. Re:Do Canadian credit cards for sub $10? on In Canada, a Government-Backed Electronic Currency · · Score: 2

    It not about what a single individual (you) thinks he can get away with by passing the costs onto another. Its about what removes inefficiencies from the system in general, and avoids the tragedy of the commons that we have now - which is that individuals acting under rational self interest reduce the general welfare of society as a whole.

  2. Adblock is already on it on Canadian Newspaper Charging $150 License Fee To Publish Excerpts · · Score: 1

    It looks like my adblock plus in Chrome is blocking this already

  3. Re:if it's all about women's protection... on EU To Vote On Proposal That Could Ban All Online Pornography · · Score: 1

    Seems pretty clear to me that this means I can put a religious symbol anywhere I want. Whether its a nativity, an upside down cross, a statue of Buddha, or the that Six Armed Hindu one. We just have to have equal rights for all.

    By your logic I can put a 10 foot tall dildo on an elementary school's front lawn.

  4. Re:if it's all about women's protection... on EU To Vote On Proposal That Could Ban All Online Pornography · · Score: 1

    Seems pretty clear to me that the Supreme Court disagrees with you.

  5. Re:if it's all about women's protection... on EU To Vote On Proposal That Could Ban All Online Pornography · · Score: 2

    So atheists asking for equal rights makes them have more rights? No, you self-entitled religious crybaby.

  6. Two Words on Why Can't Intel Kill x86? · · Score: 1

    Vendor Lock-in.

    ...or is that three

  7. Re:GF is a gamer on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Get My Spouse To Start Gaming With Me? · · Score: 1

    I can attest to this also. Recently got my gf into Zombicide, Catan, Munchkin and others.

  8. Re:The "g" is for global, not generic on ICANN Raffle Sets gTLD Processing Order · · Score: 3, Informative
  9. Re:Makes me glad I use an iPhone... on Huge Security Hole In Recent Samsung Devices · · Score: 3, Insightful

    other than stuff befalling jailbroken devices

    This is the important part. Walled gardens are inherently more secure, it has nothing to do with Apple's competence.

  10. Re:ATTENTION!!! on Hit Game Makes £52 In First Week On Windows RT · · Score: 2

    anyone been able to crack the admin pwd yet?

  11. What advertising? on Advertising May Soon Follow You From One Device To the Next · · Score: 1

    Adblock+Ghostery+Downloading all my movies/tv. I don't get any advertising, let alone that which "follows" me.

  12. Re:Feature/Bug in Outlook on Companies Getting Rid of Reply-all · · Score: 2

    Other advantage of gmail is it actually groups "conversations" so you don't end up with 100 emails for a long running converstation. Email becomes like a thread that you are subscribed to (with reply all) instead of a cluster fuck of messages all over the place. If people are smart about it you can easily take people in and out of the thread (we usually start emails with -Somebody or +Somebody when we do that).

  13. Re:Hardware level adblocking is the future. on Ad Blocking – a Coming Legal Battleground? · · Score: 1

    I believe cyanogenmod allows you to fine-tune application permissions.

  14. Re:What about LibreOffice on German City Says OpenOffice Shortcomings Are Forcing It Back To Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Actually the web/html is the analogy of English. Sending doc files around is antiquated, and if someone wants to send me one they better send it in a standard format.

  15. Re:GO UNIONS! on Hostess To Close; No More Twinkies · · Score: 1

    AND they were pillaged by a pair of VC firms to the tune of somewhere around $700 Million

    Can you provide a citation for this? I would like to rebut a friend of mine who is blaming this all on the union.

  16. Re:What about LibreOffice on German City Says OpenOffice Shortcomings Are Forcing It Back To Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I see it as someone sending me a garbage document. If you want to communicate with me, communicate in a known and accepted way. ie if you and Microsoft make up your own version of English, don't expect the rest of the world to cow-tow to you.

  17. Hurray for full CORS support on IE 10 Almost Finished For Windows 7 With Final Preview · · Score: 1

    Its about time... we might actually be able to start using it.

  18. Re:Windows is no longer relevant on Microsoft Escapes Kaspersky's Top 10 Vulnerabilities List · · Score: 1

    Windows is no longer the 800 lb gorilla - Apple iOS is.

    iOS is 2nd in market share in mobile just like Apple is 2nd in market share on desktop. How does coming in 2nd in every market they touch make them the "800 lb gorilla"?

  19. Re:Produce one then on To Mollify Google on Moto Patents, Apple Proposes $1/Device Fee · · Score: 1

    It's called ad hominem. The fact that it is Florian writing this does not necessarily make the facts wrong, but it makes it such that you must use a different source.

  20. Re:Not a journalist on Canadian Teenager Arrested For Photographing Mall Takedown · · Score: 1

    For the purposes of photography the law treats shopping malls as public space - ie you have no privacy. The owner can still have rules regarding photography, but the only way to enforce them is to ask the person to leave - which this teen was attempting to do when the guard assaulted him.

  21. Re:I'm sorry but.. on Canadian Teenager Arrested For Photographing Mall Takedown · · Score: 2

    Maybe you didn't read the story, but the teen was attempting to leave when the guard assaulted him.

  22. Re:Not a journalist on Canadian Teenager Arrested For Photographing Mall Takedown · · Score: 3, Informative

    1. It was in a public space. He was legally allowed to take that picture.
    2. Media credentials do not have anything to do with legality. The state need not recognize you as a journalistic institution for you to have freedom of the press.
    3. I applaud him photographing the takedown. Clearly we have different opinions there.

  23. Re:FREEZE! on Canadian Teenager Arrested For Photographing Mall Takedown · · Score: 1

    It was not a police officer that he was resisting, it was a security guard - who is a citizen. That guard should be the one who was arrested (for assault), not the teen.

  24. Re:RCMP staff should be sued and then fired on Canadian Teenager Arrested For Photographing Mall Takedown · · Score: 2

    You cannot arrest someone for "resisting arrest". He was resisting a false arrest by a citizen, therefore if they had actually assessed the situation, their legal duty would have been to arrest the security guard for assault, which in my mind should still happen - by all rights and by law, that guard should be behind bars at this very moment.

  25. Re:lawsuit time? on Canadian Teenager Arrested For Photographing Mall Takedown · · Score: 1

    Visit a spy shop and pick up something less obvious. Sunglasses maybe?

    You're missing the point. Modern technology (smartphones) is now allowing every citizen to keep "watch the watchers". Apparently this makes them uneasy as they've generally been able to get away with a lot of extra-legal actions for a very long time.

    Do not seek special gear to hide your surveillance. Publicize it. Advertise it. Challenge authority. Fuck the Police.