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  1. According to the summary, it appears they asked the code to be less buggy. Apparently, the code didn't respond as Mozilla wanted?

  2. Re: What a crock on Godfather Of Encryption Explains Why Apple Should Help The FBI (bgr.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Only if you're an idiot. It's only about the one phone until precedent is made.

  3. Re:IBM Finally... on IBM Sues Groupon Over 1990s Patents Related To Prodigy (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You think this is new behavior for IBM? Ignorant much?

  4. Re:Six quarter? on 90% of All SSL VPNs Use Insecure Or Outdated Encryption · · Score: 1

    Yes, it's called a union of two sets.

  5. Re:FTFY... on Twitter Bans 'Hateful Conduct' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Their house, their rules.

    Sure, and the GP never stated otherwise. But as has to be said every time this lame rejoinder is used, that does not put them above being criticized.

  6. Re:FTFY... on Twitter Bans 'Hateful Conduct' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Were you also dumb enough to believe that the Patriot Act wasn't going to be used for mass surveillance on US citizens? LOL. Yeah, this will start as only targeting "Islamic state assholes" but as history shows, these policies will be abused to go after far more than "duh terrists".

  7. Re:Math on Ubuntu User Count Pegged At Over One Billion (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    He is clearly not claiming that people who watched those movies are ubuntu users, but to point that many servers running ubuntu were userd in the proccess of making those movies.

    Wrong. He was claiming that as "indirect" use.

  8. Re:Does he have insurance coverage for his selling on iPhone Hacker Geohot Builds Self-Driving Car AI (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If killing people on the highway hacks out fixes, leading to quality AI for cars just a year or two sooner than a measured approach does, you will have net saved several million lives over a handful of people.

    Then why aren't you already volunteering yourself to be one of the other drivers around him while he tests his system? You're all gungho about deaths from testing this being fine yet you don't seem to be mentioning that you'll sacrifice yourself first.

    This is similar to arguments the FDA is a net killer -- the precautionary principle delays introduction of treatments rather than let some drugs get to market a little early, and dangerously.

    It's not really similar at all. Drug trials done for FDA approval use people who volunteer and give consent to be part of the trial. They aren't just random people that get injected the drug without their consent.

  9. Re:Geez, read a book on Seymour Cray and the Development of Supercomputers (linuxvoice.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, but the submitter's text makes it seem like that quote is talking about the first Cray supercomputer rather than that being about his work while still at CDC.

  10. Re:Geez, read a book on Seymour Cray and the Development of Supercomputers (linuxvoice.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah, the context of the quote is severely butchered. That's something an *editor* would normally fix.

  11. Re:300 Or 33? on Facebook Open Sources AI Hardware Design (facebook.com) · · Score: 1

    The 300 W value is from Facebook.

  12. Re:Beauty = copy Apple aesthetics? on Elementary OS 0.3.2 "Freya" Released · · Score: 1

    It's not even a convincing clone of OS X. It has a passing similarity but beyond that the two aren't even remotely the same. There's far more to how OS X looks and feels beyond a dock and left-hand window buttons. This distro epitomizes cargo cult programming.

  13. Re:Grey text, icons without buttons... on Elementary OS 0.3.2 "Freya" Released · · Score: 1

    No they don't. They're cargo cult programmers.

  14. Re:Now THIS is more like it. on Elementary OS 0.3.2 "Freya" Released · · Score: 1

    You're way more than "a bit"' disconnected.

  15. Trump is still around because there is a large base of people who buy into the stuff he says.

  16. Re: Jide Remix on Remix Mini Review: a $70 Android Desktop PC (liliputing.com) · · Score: 2

    What does Windows stop you from doing?

  17. Re:M$ position on open-source on Microsoft To Open Source Chakra, the JavaScript Engine In Its Edge Browser (windows.com) · · Score: 1

    1) Not thw actual quote.
    2) Ballmer quit.

  18. And of course, MS isn't opening it because they are benevolent, but rather because that's what they think is best for business.

    That's cute. You think any business actually open sources things out of altruism.

  19. Re:What new version of the iPod? on How Steve Jobs Outsmarted Carly Fiorina · · Score: 3

    This one.

    The iPod Photo is a portable media player designed and marketed by Apple Inc. It was the top-of-the-line model in Apple's iPod family. It was positioned as a premium higher-end spin-off of the fourth-generation iPod on October 26, 2004.

  20. Re:Don't... on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Recover From Doxxing? · · Score: 2

    Doxing is releasing personally-identifiable information. Pretty much all of what is part of "doxing" can be bought from public records sites for like $15.

  21. Re:Well there's a nice paradox for you on Trademark Trolls Stops University Nicknames · · Score: 1

    But again, a patent lawyer would not deal in trademarks as they are not the same thing.

  22. Re:Well there's a nice paradox for you on Trademark Trolls Stops University Nicknames · · Score: 1

    Summary makes no mentions of patents.

  23. You claimed that a mythical "computer guy" was gonna tell AVG's users about this. But I don't see any evidence that most people use AVG because of a "computer guy" versus it just being preloaded by an OEM.

  24. Re:Makes sense to me on AVG Proudly Announces It Will Sell Your Browsing History To Online Advertisers · · Score: 1

    Unless the specific product states otherwise, all AVG products and services are included under this Privacy Policy.

    That's from this new policy.

  25. Re:They made the disclosure on AVG Proudly Announces It Will Sell Your Browsing History To Online Advertisers · · Score: 2

    Except their policy states:

    Unless the specific product states otherwise, all AVG products and services are included under this Privacy Policy.

    So there's no reason to believe that their pay products aren't doing the same thing. The only choice is to stop using all their products.