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  1. Re:Web browser plugin? on Facebook Tracks the Status Updates and Messages You Don't Write Too · · Score: 1

    Came here to say this, but you beat me to it. :)

    Pity it doesn't work with some custom input fields, though (Gmail comes to mind), as it looks for the element. Also, I believe it's Firefox-only.

    If you use Chrome you're sending your data to your google account all the time anyway...

    Probably best to go back to using Lynx ;-)

  2. Re:OKAY NEW ZEALAND WHERE IS ZEALAND !! on NZ Developers Win 'Koha' Trademark Case · · Score: 2

    As explained in this brief but very informative video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE_IUPInEuc

  3. The words 'foil', 'hat' and 'tin' spring to mind in another order.

    But then again, maybe I'm missing something...

  4. Re:"legends John Carmack and John Romero"? on Doom Is Twenty Years Old · · Score: 1

    He can't play the guitar either, but boy the E street band are good!

  5. Re:"legends John Carmack and John Romero"? on Doom Is Twenty Years Old · · Score: 1

    Hey, attacking Art Garfunkel isn't fair. He isn't the songwriter Paul Simon is but he helped in the latter's fame. Name Paul Simon to random people, they won't necessarily know him until you say he was the Simon in Simon and Garfunkel.

    (Personal experience of the Graceland tour 2 years ago, and not just one person)

  6. Re:Went down, then came back. on China Bans Financial Companies From Bitcoin Transactions · · Score: 1

    Dollars have been around long enough to earn their trust.

    LOL

  7. Re:Fuck You, USA on NSA Tracking Cellphone Locations Worldwide · · Score: 1

    They're the only ones who got exposed until now, but it's quite obvious most countries with proper Intelligence services will be doing the same... Fuck you, World! ;-)

  8. Re:Reasonable expectations on NSA Tracking Cellphone Locations Worldwide · · Score: 1

    Top-posting, on Slashdot? What are the bouncers doing?!?

  9. Re:Mod parent up! on Intelligence Officials Fear Snowden's 'Doomsday' Cache · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seeing that I was a young boy in Dallas when this happened and actually got to shake his hand earlier in the day...

    Could you please make sure we never shake hands?

  10. Re:Weed and Dandilions on NASA's Next Frontier: Growing Plants On the Moon · · Score: 1

    Well, considering the relative weight of seeds versus the weight of the final product, as well as the cost of getting things up versus getting things down, this might stand a chance of being profitable...

    If it heats up too much on the way into the atmosphere, the headlines won't be about greenhouse gases provoking global warming anymore ;-)

  11. Re:Posting to undo accidental mod on Chinese Gov't To Tighten Internet Controls Even Further · · Score: 1

    On the first post?? Oo

  12. Re:A big improvement indeed on GCC 4.9 Coming With Big New Features · · Score: 2

    No it's a relief. Hopefully Sun will follow suit soon...

  13. Re:What about the Japanese casualties? on World War II's Last Surviving Doolittle Raiders Make Their Final Toast · · Score: 2

    >>November 11th was the end of World War I (28 July 1914 - 11 November 1918; the USA got involved in 1917).

    Wow, not only did you not RTFA, you did not read (or understand) that the F'ing summary is talking about a tradition from a WWII event. At least make ignorant comments or trolling 'corrections' on things that are true or that you actually understand.

      Slashdot where have you gone?

    It still took the USA 2 years and a cowardly attack on Pearl Harbour to pull their fingers and start getting involved.

  14. Re:It's true. on What Apple Does and Doesn't Know About You · · Score: 1

    For the sake of argument all of the $4.26B was iTunes sales. That means Apple gets $1.26B after they give their 70% cut to the copyright/developer. But that's revenue not profit. Well $1.26B is a lot of revenue and again let's assume it's 100% profit (it's not). However, they make almost 6x as much revenue on the iPhone and 18x much on the iPad. In other words, their software sales is a pittance compared to hardware.

    If Apple tell you in their results that they made $4.26B, it's probably how much they cashed in, developers' share taken out...

  15. Re:Help me! I'm desperate. on Google Relying On People Power For 'Helpouts' · · Score: 1

    This is the first time I hear about paying for a service delivered via webcam that isn't porn yet.

    FTFY

  16. Re:Passwords are property of the employer on Withhold Passwords From Your Employer, Go To Jail? · · Score: 1

    So in other words he's a bit of a second Snowden, really? Why didn't he blow the whistle?

  17. Re:Appealing to the inner pirate ... on Bribe Devs To Improve Open Source Software · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ransom implies hostages... But bounty sounds exactly right, indeed! I personally probably would get off my lazy backside and start coding a bit more if there was a little reward involved

  18. Re:Internet Facing? on Users Slow to Update Netgear ReadyNAS Boxes Open To Remote Exploit · · Score: 1

    The firewall wouldn't change anything. If you want to access the NAS from the internet, you would open ports anyway, and leave accessible to attacks...

  19. Re:Stallman would have something to say about this on Call Yourself a Hacker, Lose Your 4th Amendment Rights · · Score: 1

    Your analogy has no relation to the subject. If I follow your idea, people in IT engineering / computer science should register themselves as potential hackers, a bit like sex offenders?

  20. Re: Really? on Shutdown Cost the US Economy $24 Billion · · Score: 1

    UPS only dropped coverage on employee spouses who had insurance through their own employer. Any who didn't are still covered by UPS. What is wrong with that?

    Media sensationalism and gullible people reading half of the news diagonally...

  21. Re: Really? on Shutdown Cost the US Economy $24 Billion · · Score: 1

    In my country, 20% of my income goes to health care, and everyone finds it normal.
    It's the Americans that are weird.

    17.9% of American GDP goes on health care, or an average $7,960 per person per year

    Compare to Canada, which is 11.4% and $4,314 per person per year

    You don't understand... 20% of the guy's salary goes to fund public healthcare directly. And then the state also gets money out of people's income tax (which is separate) and other income (VAT for instance). And that doesn't even factor in people who pay for private healthcare insurance. Wonder why Europe is on the brink of bankruptcy?

  22. Re:It's simple physics on Ocean Currents Explain Why Northern Hemisphere Is Soggier · · Score: 1

    It's a good thing Europe was civilised first, otherwise it would the other way around...

  23. Re:2013 Year of the Linux Network on Your Next Network Operating System Is Linux · · Score: 1

    Can't wait until Cisco starts a line of routers and switches powered by Win 8. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to start your TCP session :-D

  24. Re:2013 Year of the Linux Network on Your Next Network Operating System Is Linux · · Score: 2

    This one won't get modded up or down if people try it beforehand ;-)

  25. Re:insouciance? on Online Journalism Is Becoming a Billionaires' Plaything (Again) · · Score: 1

    Moi !