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  1. Re:Privacy Issues on Officials Say HealthCare.gov Site Now Performing Well · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not what they know about you, it's what whoever decides to hack their site with untested security knows about you.

  2. Re:Simple. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Protect Your Privacy These Days? Or Do You? · · Score: 1

    If that's what you're worried about wouldn't you want to give them more information so they'd have a better picture of you rather than less?

  3. Re:Sabotaged on Blue Light of Death Plagues PlayStation 4 · · Score: 1

    If the story is true, they wouldn't have started sabotage from the beginning so the first few batches off the line would most likely pass inspection. After the first ones passed, the inspection would most likely take place at the factory, where the inspectors may very well have been in on it.

  4. Re:Proxy? on NJ Gamblers May Be Locked Out By Flaws In Virtual Fence · · Score: 2

    They'd be renting a virtual room, much less expensive.

  5. Re:I guess what is comes down to ... on Why Letting Your Insurance Company Monitor How You Drive Can Be a Good Thing · · Score: 1

    You can stand there all day at a pedestrian crossing and nobody will stop to let you cross.

    In Oregon, that's how it is supposed to work. The people who stop for a pedestrian who isn't in a crosswalk are actually creating the hazard because others will not expect them to do that. Oregon says that a driver is required to stop only when the pedestrian is IN the crosswalk with an intent to cross. You can stand on the sidewalk and look woefully at the drivers going by, but until you stick a toe out over the crosswalk they don't have to stop.

    So they feel it's more hazardous for people to stop slowly to let a pedestrian cross than it is for people to slam on the breaks because the pedestrian has to enter the crosswalk to get them to stop?

  6. Re:I like driving on Most Drivers Would Hand Keys Over To Computer If It Meant Lower Insurance Rates · · Score: 1

    Either pay for insurance as it drives or pay for the manufacturer's insurance up front when you buy the car, either way you're going to end up paying for it.

  7. Re:It's not about me on Most Drivers Would Hand Keys Over To Computer If It Meant Lower Insurance Rates · · Score: 1

    That last one might be a disadvantage for the street racing...

  8. Re:Noun, verb, noun noun verb (or: terrible headli on Hacker Spoofs Track Plays To Top Music Charts · · Score: 1

    nvanpvan where a is adjective

  9. Re:I don't suppose... on Feds Confiscate Investigative Reporter's Confidential Files During Raid · · Score: 1

    Which, when combined with including receipts or bullets in the warrant, lets them search just about anywhere to find things.

  10. Re:Cryptographically signed elections? on Azerbaijan Election Results Released Before Voting Had Even Started · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How do you prevent people from being forced to give up their SN to prove how they voted?

  11. Re:Elections don't work that way on Azerbaijan Election Results Released Before Voting Had Even Started · · Score: 1

    His approach is the one used in the US...

  12. Re:JIT Education on US Adults Score Poorly On Worldwide Test · · Score: 2

    100% of the remaining seats are left. Or did you mean what percentage of the seats not filled by VIPs are empty?

  13. Re:I find it more interesting... on 8 Users of Silk Road Arrested, 'Many More To Come' · · Score: 2

    I don't know about all of them, but for the arrests I heard about they didn't. They had to use information from both inside and outside silk road to match people to their identities online.

  14. Re:Can't change more than nine times on MasterCard Joining Push For Fingerprint ID Standard · · Score: 2

    Most people don't actually remember phone numbers anymore.

  15. Re:A testament to engineers on The Story of the Original iPhone's Development · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of my final project in a CS class, we had a program that actually worked but didn't have time to compile all the data for it. Instead, we made a quick mock up that responded to specific buttons in a specific order, creating what was essentially a slide show of how it actually worked.

  16. Re:"Domestic"? on Ask Slashdot: Time To Regulate Domestic Drones? · · Score: 1

    To be fair, the gliders you're talking about are generally tethered to something that flies, not something on the ground.

  17. Re:Is there really any point to this? on Tech In the Hot Seat For Oct. 1st Obamacare Launch · · Score: 1

    It would put health insurance companies out of business.

  18. Re:So... on Massachusetts Set To Repeal Controversial IT Services Tax · · Score: 1

    This is an inevitable result of a two party system. The simplified version is that each party is more or less guaranteed to get the votes that are more extreme than their position so they only compete on the votes that fall between the two parties. This leads to a natural tendency towards each other.

  19. Re:Masachussetts Time Machine on Massachusetts Set To Repeal Controversial IT Services Tax · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I don't think you're going to get too many people willing to rebel over taxation without implementation.

  20. Re:Massachusetts legislature admits incompetence on Massachusetts Set To Repeal Controversial IT Services Tax · · Score: 1

    That's not true, their constituents had no idea they were putting it into the budget until after it was passed.

  21. Re:Sounds about right... on Massachusetts Set To Repeal Controversial IT Services Tax · · Score: 1

    Better ones that let the life guard rescue them than ones that grab the life guard and start swimming for the bottom.

  22. Re:For those of you that don't RTFA... on TSA Reminds You Not To Travel With Hand Grenades · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because you didn't read the line that immediately follows the one you highlighted.

  23. Re:Pseudoscience debunked? on Feds Seek Prison For Man Who Taught How To Beat a Polygraph · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They're generally inadmissable as evidence or at least require both sides agree to them as evidence here as well, however they still see use for job screenings and parole.

  24. Re:Pseudoscience debunked? on Feds Seek Prison For Man Who Taught How To Beat a Polygraph · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe you didn't flunk the lie detector, they just wanted to hire people that could lie convincingly.

  25. Re: Government vs terrorists on Lord Blair Calls for Laws To Stop 'Principled' Leaking of State Secrets · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If we were well informed of its activities this wouldn't be an issue in the first place.