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  1. Re:Screw You Obama on Snowden Gave 15,000 Documents to Glenn Greenwald; Obama Cancels Russia Summit · · Score: 1

    Billions? You're a few orders of magnitude off...

  2. Re:Nvidia... on IBM Opens Up POWER Architecture For Licensing · · Score: 1

    Since when are two numbers "comparable" when one of them is 54 to 92 percent larger?

  3. Re:What a clusterf**k. on Obamacare Exchanges Months Behind In Testing IT Data Security · · Score: 2

    Very few people successfully sue an insurance company. So actually unless you're a multi-millionaire who can hire the best lawyers possible you're unlikely to get any legal recourse. But at that point you likely didn't need insurance. Oh and if you died you can't get any recourse either way.

  4. Re:What a clusterf**k. on Obamacare Exchanges Months Behind In Testing IT Data Security · · Score: 2

    Nationalized, rationed healthcare is no problem while you are healthy. But when you get sick (and sooner or later you will), you face things like this:

    Since when do private insurance companies not ration care? Many have yearly and lifetime limits on coverage amounts. Many will deny or try to weasel out of paying for covering treatments. It's quite easy to find numerous cases of people dying because their insurance company denied them coverage.

  5. Re:What a clusterf**k. on Obamacare Exchanges Months Behind In Testing IT Data Security · · Score: 1

    Take your own advice. One way Britain's NHS saves money is by not covering expensive anti-cancer drugs. It makes more sense, financially, to let women die from breast cancer.

    Because we all know that private health insurance companies never refuse or deny people certain treatments, right? What a ridiculously silly complaint especially when insurance companies are terribly about trying to deny coverage and play all sorts of games to weasel out of paying even what they claim to cover.

  6. Re:A new logo?? Eyeroll on Firefox 23 Arrives With New Logo, Mixed Content Blocker, and Network Monitor · · Score: 1

    To add:

    http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/releases/0.1.html

    Phoenix is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component, similar to Galeon, K-Meleon and Chimera, but written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform. More information about Phoenix is available at the Phoenix Project Page.

    http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/releases/0.6.html

    Mozilla Firebird, formerly known as Phoenix, is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component, similar to Galeon, K-Meleon and Camino, but written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform. More information about Mozilla Firebird is available here.

  7. Re:A new logo?? Eyeroll on Firefox 23 Arrives With New Logo, Mixed Content Blocker, and Network Monitor · · Score: 5, Informative

    Phoenix was the original name of Firefox until there were trademark issues woth Phoenix Technologies. Then it was callef Firebird but was changed because of the Firebird database project. It was not until Feb 2004 that it was finally named Firefox.

  8. Re:why was nmap a fail? on Pwnie Awards 2013 Winners: Barnaby Jack, Edward Snowden, Hakin9, Evad3rs · · Score: 2

    It wasn't. As others have said the guy who writes the Parity News spam blog is simply an idiot. Slashdot should really stop providing that site with pages hits since it's simply a site that regurgitates other articles and does so poorly.

  9. Re:Privacy concerns now outweigh terrorism in poll on NSA Director Defends Surveillance To Unsympathetic Black Hat Crowd · · Score: 1

    Incorrect, that is,

  10. Re:Privacy concerns now outweigh terrorism in poll on NSA Director Defends Surveillance To Unsympathetic Black Hat Crowd · · Score: 1

    To add from Article III Section 2:

    In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.

  11. Re:Privacy concerns now outweigh terrorism in poll on NSA Director Defends Surveillance To Unsympathetic Black Hat Crowd · · Score: 1

    My logic is not correct in the least. Original jurisdiction if SCOTUS only applies to cases involving ambassadors, ministers and consulates and those involving a state. Everything else is appelette jurisdiction which Congress has Constitutional authority to regulate and has done so in the past. The only way such a case could fall under SCOTUS original jurisdiction is if a state government filed a case against the Federal government.

  12. Re:Privacy concerns now outweigh terrorism in poll on NSA Director Defends Surveillance To Unsympathetic Black Hat Crowd · · Score: 1

    And since a case like this doesn't fall under SCOTUS original jurisdiction Congress can simply pass a law disallowing them to hear any cases.

  13. Re:Que surprise? on Government Study Finds TSA Misconduct Up 26% In 3 Years · · Score: 2

    Sure. But their point was to impugn the TSA agents by mocking them as mininum wage earners which they aren't. Now a number of themdefinitely deserve criticism but not based on something so silly.

  14. Re:Que surprise? on Government Study Finds TSA Misconduct Up 26% In 3 Years · · Score: 1

    Especially when the story doesn't even prove his claim.

  15. Re:Que surprise? on Government Study Finds TSA Misconduct Up 26% In 3 Years · · Score: 1

    368 allegations of which 157 claims were denied by SSA is not even remotely the same as your ridiculous claim that half of all people claiming SS disablity benefits aren't disabled .

  16. Re:Que surprise? on Government Study Finds TSA Misconduct Up 26% In 3 Years · · Score: 1

    Because it's provided by "duh gubmint" so it's evil and wrong. Duuuh.

  17. Re:Que surprise? on Government Study Finds TSA Misconduct Up 26% In 3 Years · · Score: 2

    The security screeners make between around $23000 to $35000 plus locality pay. That is not minimum wage. 40 hour per week minimum wage job pays only $15000 a year.

  18. Re:How about... on Microsoft Will Have To Rename SkyDrive · · Score: 1

    To add further, they were integrated together in 2012 a year after Google Drive launched. If Google Drive were the rebranded Google Docs they would not have existed as separate products which they did for a year.

  19. Re:How about... on Microsoft Will Have To Rename SkyDrive · · Score: 1

    Nope. Google Docs was integrated into Google Drive as it used that as its new storage engine. It was not a rebranding.

  20. Re:How about... on Microsoft Will Have To Rename SkyDrive · · Score: 5, Informative

    SkyDrive (formerly Windows Live Folders when it came out in August 2007) predates Google Drive by 5 years, Apples iCloud by 4 years and DropBox by a year. So how exactly is it a "me too" service?

  21. Re:Why not more than a clone of Windows and Office on A Year of Linux Desktop At Westcliff High School · · Score: 1

    Because such tools pop out of thin air? How would writing those tools be any less work than what is required now to support those formats in existing tools?

  22. Re:xbone on Fifth Circuit Upholds Warrantless Cellphone Location Tracking · · Score: 1

    No they only shafted the states in the Fifth Circut.

  23. Re:Fourth Amendment on Fifth Circuit Upholds Warrantless Cellphone Location Tracking · · Score: 1

    Only someone ignorant would think thay SCOTUS will overturn this decision. And the House and Senate impeaching them? You're joking right? How wonderful it must be to be so naive.

  24. Re:None of this needs to be networked on Why the Internet Needs Cognitive Protocols · · Score: 1

    If my house knew when I left and when I was 20 minutes from being home it could turn off climate control for the entire period I was gone, without any reference to a schedule or the like, and still be at the desired temperature whenever I was present.

    You can already do this without having to network up every appliance in your house.

  25. Re:Made Up Problem (see semantic web) on Ask Slashdot: Tags and Tagging, What Is the Best Way Forward? · · Score: 1

    The "problem" is that someone is likely needing help to hype some useless new tagging system so they can be bought out by Google.