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  1. Re:This will be a boon to other countries on Have a Privacy-Invasion Wishlist? Peruse NSA's Top Secret Catalog · · Score: 1

    How so? These exploits also cover non-US companies.

  2. Re:Don't buy from US companies on Have a Privacy-Invasion Wishlist? Peruse NSA's Top Secret Catalog · · Score: 1

    Because all Samsung HDDs poofed out of existence once they sold the division? So, as mentioned this is a 5-year-old document being written about which clearly predates that sale.

  3. Re:Don't buy from US companies on Have a Privacy-Invasion Wishlist? Peruse NSA's Top Secret Catalog · · Score: 5, Informative

    Huawei and Samsung are US companies? Because if you read the article these things are not limited to US companies despite the implication of the summary.

  4. Re:Hmm... on Tech Startup Buffer Publishes Every Employee's Salary, Right Up To the CEO · · Score: 3, Funny

    Especially with this on their front page:

    There are currently NaN people using Buffer who have shared 115,681,392 updates through Buffer.

    Sounds like some top-notch talent working there!

  5. Re:Wasting Your Time on Ask Slashdot: Will You Start Your Kids On Classic Games Or Newer Games? · · Score: 1

    (1) Kids of this age do not have the higher thinking skills to appreciate sacrificing something for longer term gain.

    *groan* That was also being said of kids 50+ years ago. Go back to bed, grandpa, with your stupid "in my day" bullshit:

  6. Re:the games haven't changed much on Ask Slashdot: Will You Start Your Kids On Classic Games Or Newer Games? · · Score: 1

    You need a PC to play strategy and puzzle games? Since when? I was playing games like Tetris and Dr Mario on my Gameboy 20+ years ago. I was also playing RTS games on the original Playstation.

  7. Re:Americans surrendered in Vietnam on Battlefield 4 Banned In China · · Score: 1

    You can't just wipe that away by claiming the mistakes that followed on another day mean it didn't happen.

    Considering the events of what happened were lied about, you clearly can.

    It is not simply that there is a different story as to what happened; it is that no attack happened that night. [...] In truth, Hanoi's navy was engaged in nothing that night but the salvage of two of the boats damaged on August 2.[8]

    In 1965, President Johnson commented privately: "For all I know, our Navy was shooting at whales out there." [40]

  8. Re:Americans surrendered in Vietnam on Battlefield 4 Banned In China · · Score: 1

    Just another case of communist aggression and lying.

    Sort of like how Lyndon Johnson lied about the Gulf of Tomkin incident?

    In 2005, an internal National Security Agency historical study was declassified; it concluded[7] that the Maddox had engaged the North Vietnamese Navy on August 2, but that there were no North Vietnamese Naval vessels present during the incident of August 4. The report stated regarding August 2:

    At 1500G, Captain Herrick ordered Ogier's gun crews to open fire if the boats approached within ten thousand yards. At about 1505G, the Maddox fired three rounds to warn off the communist boats. This initial action was never reported by the Johnson administration, which insisted that the Vietnamese boats fired first.[7]

    Regarding August 4:

    It is not simply that there is a different story as to what happened; it is that no attack happened that night. [...] In truth, Hanoi's navy was engaged in nothing that night but the salvage of two of the boats damaged on August 2.[8]

    In 1965, President Johnson commented privately: "For all I know, our Navy was shooting at whales out there." [40]

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident

  9. Re:Americans surrendered in Vietnam on Battlefield 4 Banned In China · · Score: 5, Informative

    We stopped the communist threat

    In what way? The entire country of Vietnam became communist after the end of the war.

  10. Re:Americans surrendered in Vietnam on Battlefield 4 Banned In China · · Score: 0

    Immediately? They fought the French Indonchina war from 1946 until 1954 when they withdrew and they were smart to do so. Unlike the US who continued to fight a losing war for two decades wasting tons of money and wasting lots of lives.

  11. Re:Stop trying on How Ya Gonna Get 'Em Down On the UNIX Farm? · · Score: 1

    Powershell. Welcome to 7 years ago.

  12. Re:Stop trying on How Ya Gonna Get 'Em Down On the UNIX Farm? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How many people writing applications on Linux ever regularly read the kernel code? Or, for example, the Qt source code beyond the headers? Yeah, next to none of them.

  13. Re:Stop trying on How Ya Gonna Get 'Em Down On the UNIX Farm? · · Score: 0

    Exactly, fisted's comment about OS X is particularly retarded in an article about Unix. I can only hoping it was some sort of clever troll and they aren't really that fucking stupid.

  14. Re:What a load of BS on Surge In Online Orders Overwhelms UPS Christmas Deliveries · · Score: 2

    As others have said above, UPS and Fedex were both stating close to a week before Christmas that they couldn't guarantee shipment times. If you were given such a guarantee even after that point it was because the retailers were lying to you.

  15. Re:No sympathy here on Surge In Online Orders Overwhelms UPS Christmas Deliveries · · Score: 1

    Nope.

  16. Re:"next generation" my ass! on Hawaii Desktop Stable Released, Powered By Qt 5.2 & Wayland · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why would QuickTime need to be web scale?

  17. Re:this is like on Netflix: Non-'A' Players Unworthy of Jobs · · Score: 1

    Its*

  18. Re:this is like on Netflix: Non-'A' Players Unworthy of Jobs · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually...Netflix does quite a lot of research. They are famous as being tireless in their quest to improve every aspect of their business...and while most of those changes are invisible to us there are still plenty that are quite apparent.

    Yeah and so was Microsoft and it's decade+ of stack ranking was a complete disaster despite the arrogant HR managers thinking they were as great as these Netflix ones.

  19. Uhhh... on Is the World Ready For Facial Recognition On Google Glass? · · Score: 1

    instant facial recognition has been one of the most exciting ideas in the pipeline.

    For what party? The NSA? The LEOs?

  20. Re:Better proposal. on Ulbricht Admits Seized Bitcoins Are His and Wants Them Back · · Score: 1

    Of course they do.

  21. Re:WOW even the summary is wrong on Run Netflix On OpenSUSE · · Score: 2

    It's just some guy spamming his website here for page hits. Pipelight was already posted about here back in August.

  22. Re:Worse than censorship on UK Govt's Censorware Blocks Tech, Civil Liberties Websites · · Score: 4, Funny

    A comma? Did it punctuate you?

  23. Kinds? on UK Govt's Censorware Blocks Tech, Civil Liberties Websites · · Score: 1

    Too bad Nanny Tory does not want kinds to read up on tech web sites

    Kinds of what?

  24. Re:so a guy works for free and quits and people fr on Kdenlive Developer Jean-Baptiste Mardelle Has Been Found · · Score: 1

    Nice try at goalpost shifting. So now do you care to show how it will "disappear"?

  25. Re:so a guy works for free and quits and people fr on Kdenlive Developer Jean-Baptiste Mardelle Has Been Found · · Score: 1

    It will disappear? How so? Is Microsoft going to force people to uninstall it?