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  1. Re:Sad on CryptoSeal Shuts Down Consumer VPN Service To Avoid Fighting NSA · · Score: 1

    I don't know your Constitution, but I guess it's written in plain and clear english, as its purpose is just to set principles to be understood clearly and without doubt.

  2. I guess we'll have to live with that in the future on CryptoSeal Shuts Down Consumer VPN Service To Avoid Fighting NSA · · Score: 1

    But hey, then don't expect me to feel guilty if I download a movie!

  3. Re:DoS? on CryptoSeal Shuts Down Consumer VPN Service To Avoid Fighting NSA · · Score: 2

    Which would be an OK trade-off for me, and I think would be an OK trade-off for a lot of people...

    Until the day you want to leave a comment on some sites criticizing your last govermnent law, or visiting an opposing political party site, or (just to be informed and not to do something wrong) searching google for security systems on planes, or lock-picking, or Hitler's book, etc, etc, etc.... Then you would feel that fuzzy feeling of someone observing you.

  4. Re:DoS? on CryptoSeal Shuts Down Consumer VPN Service To Avoid Fighting NSA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In Italy we call that "mafia". That is, paying criminals against your will, to protect you from themselves and other bad guys.

  5. Re:This NSA crap is much too much, and ungentleman on CryptoSeal Shuts Down Consumer VPN Service To Avoid Fighting NSA · · Score: 1

    And especially, it was against other countries, not against your own citizens.

  6. Re:We aren't 'forcing' anyone! on Foxconn Accused of Forcing InternsTo Build PS4s Or Lose School Credit · · Score: 1

    You ignored the fact that "commie" is not an insult in China...

  7. Re:Can we finally agree on Foxconn Accused of Forcing InternsTo Build PS4s Or Lose School Credit · · Score: 1

    No wait, I did some research and that number is probably too high, but a 3-4x factor would not be too far from reality.

  8. Re:Can we finally agree on Foxconn Accused of Forcing InternsTo Build PS4s Or Lose School Credit · · Score: 1

    Yes, but I read somewhere that if the iPhone was made in the USA, it would cost around 16000$. Economy is ill, until all the countries in the world will have reached an equilibrium.

  9. Re:Dumber and dumber on Ford Showcases Self-Parking Car Technology · · Score: 2

    Ok, I always forget the pedantry of average slashdot readers, let me explain better: let's say that I mean "the aspects of behaviour of the car when it comes to common situations happening with a non-neglectable probability". I don't expect people to be able to control a car if it suddenly breaks in a crucial part, but being able to park a car in a tight place is basic control of the car. For example, how can you estimate if there's room between me and another car to pass between, or estimate how much you can pass near to a pedestrian if the other lane is busy, if you cannot estimate how to place a car in a rectangular place having all the time of the world?

  10. Re:Dumber and dumber on Ford Showcases Self-Parking Car Technology · · Score: 1

    That's true, but maybe in dangerous things like cars I would prefer people have good skills in every aspects of the machine, so they know how it will behave in every moment. And these skills are usualy proportional to the accumulated driving hours, and so to the general driving skills.

  11. Next year's Nobel? on Collapse of Quantum Wavefunction Captured In Slow Motion · · Score: 1

    Definitely possible.

  12. patent trolls? on Fusion Reactor Breaks Even · · Score: 1

    Why do I suspect that they will go on the rampage when this technology will be promising?

  13. Re:Holy fucking shit, this is AWESOME. on Fusion Reactor Breaks Even · · Score: 1

    Yes, but harnessing thermal energy from a reactor is what we always did in every energy production plant, so that's the easy part.

  14. obligatory joke on Why the FAA May Finally Relax In-Flight Device Rules · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Gnome? Not for long on Middle-Click Paste? Not For Long · · Score: 1

    Seriously, they can have my middle mouse button paste when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

    And my middle finger, too!

  16. Re:Good idea- difficult to implement on ArkOS: Building the Anti-Cloud (on a Raspberry Pi) · · Score: 1

    And OSs like this are not tied to a particular hardware. If ported to another platform, probably all you need is copying the home and etc folders.

  17. A simple misunderstanding on Shots Fired At US Capitol · · Score: 1

    She thought the police was closed.

  18. They would deserve it! on Swiss War Game Envisages Invasion By Bankrupt French · · Score: 1
    Really, they live on money from all the other european countries! And San Marino, you're the next one!

    (add some joking expressions from my face...)

  19. Re:the amazing morphing discussion on Imprisoned Physicist Honored For Refusing To Work On Iran's Nuclear Program · · Score: 1

    Why would it be a problem? I feel natural to put an event in a broader context to evaluate it in light of the international relationships, and the so-called rogue countries are not the only one doing horrible things like that when they feel it compelling.

  20. Re:Iranian Snowden on Imprisoned Physicist Honored For Refusing To Work On Iran's Nuclear Program · · Score: 2

    And strangely the american dissident did not win the american prize, even if, on a pure theoretical plane, refusing to spy emails is less damage to a nation than refusing to work on a nuclear program. And I think Snowden would get no less prison years than Kobabee. The only difference is the more civil trial he would have in USA (even if... even if... let's not start mentioning things happening somewhere outside USA...). I see a lot of hypocrisy in those cases, accuse one and defend the other one. I'm not talking about USA only, this happen in every country. Take Putin: he keeps the Pussy Riot girl in a prison camp for years, without seeing her daughter, for a contestation, then give asylum to Snowden... Human rights are quite optional when it comes to your own interests.

  21. Re:So, how about... on Imprisoned Physicist Honored For Refusing To Work On Iran's Nuclear Program · · Score: 1

    Eh eh, they're all heroes unless they cross your interests, or interests you have in common with someone else. NSA docet.

  22. Re:College loans == illegal earnings . . . ? on Imprisoned Physicist Honored For Refusing To Work On Iran's Nuclear Program · · Score: 1

    Don't muslim workers have salary?

  23. Re:Questions on Imprisoned Physicist Honored For Refusing To Work On Iran's Nuclear Program · · Score: 2

    1) Why was an Iranian national studying in the US to begin with?

    Entering US is quite regulated, so I think US government knows and accepts that students or workers from Iran go there, and think it's an advantage for both. The world is no more the one from the cold war era, and many people from Bin Laden's country (for example) always were and are in USA (even his relatives if I remember correctly).

  24. A couple of clarifications on Imprisoned Physicist Honored For Refusing To Work On Iran's Nuclear Program · · Score: 1
    I hope that prize is meant for "fighting for your ideas against tyranny" and not for having refused to work on a nuclear program, otherwise hundreds of american scientists would be outlaw.

    And, several iranian students are attending phds here at our university (Italy), some of them in microbiology to cite something that could be "borderline", so are all they at risk now?

  25. Re:Still better than Apple on Why Are Some Hell-Bent On Teaching Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    But women have strong DRMs in their mind.