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

    \o/ Dans mes bras ! \o/

  2. Re:Colonial Cousin? on Glenn Greenwald Leaves the Guardian To Start His Own Site · · Score: 1

    I think the roles were turned around after WWII. The UK has acted like a 51st state for a while now (the French call it "the state who didn't row fast enough"). Hence GCHQ being neck-deep in an NSA-driven surveillance scheme, not the other way around -- and ECHELON was the same.

  3. Re:Trespassing on Company Using Proxy To Evade Craigslist Block Violated CFAA · · Score: 1

    Imagine a massive banner on every website:
    NO PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY

  4. Re:Lots of this research going on... on Twitter Eyes Signatures To Kill Fake Followers · · Score: 1

    I always find it harder to focus on the content if the grammar gets so bad... The compiler stops at type checking.

  5. Fresh criticism on global warming? on Google's Science Fellows Challenge the Company's Fund-Raising For Senator Inhofe · · Score: 1

    Do they cancel each other out?

  6. Re:No, it's not really Linux on With Microsoft Office on Android, Has Linus Torvalds Won? · · Score: 2

    Android is collecting all your data, that's why it's free. Linux is truly free, unlike Android.

    Unless you root your phone, which is easily done, so no, not in my case.

    Actually, what you did was probably install a rom compiled by someone else, so you still have no idea what it does. The correct answer is: you haven't a clue...

  7. Re:The title is rather misleading... on NSA Director Defends Surveillance To Unsympathetic Black Hat Crowd · · Score: 1

    i was looking for that too :-D

    do you know who got it?

  8. Re:Open Source Alternatives? on The Old Reader To Close Public Site In Two Weeks (Unless It Doesn't) · · Score: 1

    I'm getting a little sick of all the cloud evaporation lately.

    The best weather joke I've heard in ages ;-)

  9. Re:Is a way to change permissions on the android on Study Finds iOS Apps Just As Intrusive As Android Apps · · Score: 1

    There are, but it isn't illegal to root a device here in Europe. Once you own it, it's yours, you do whatever the f*** you want with it.

  10. Re:Is a way to change permissions on the android on Study Finds iOS Apps Just As Intrusive As Android Apps · · Score: 1

    But you have to be rooted.

    After it became illegal to root a device in the United States of America,(...)

    FTFY

  11. Re:Does anyone care? on Current Doctor Who Warns Against Facebook · · Score: 1

    Some love their privacy

    Davros (Revelation of the Daleks, Pt.2): You can not steal what already has been abandoned.

    Or as kids say it, "Finders, Keepers" ;-)

  12. Re:One size does not fit all... on Ask Slashdot: Using a Tablet As a Sole Computing Device? · · Score: 2

    Just because she said "Who's yo mommy now" doesn't mean it was a mom... ;-)

  13. Re:But on my computer... on Google Engineer Shows How To Forge Swords and Knives · · Score: 1

    What do you mean, for my benefit? Have I missed something in the moderation system? Simply an anonymous poster won't get notifications about his posts being modded up or down, I don't see the point...

  14. Re:blah blah Capitalism Evil blah blah on Reason On How and Why 38 Studios Went Bust · · Score: 1

    Crony capitalism is not capitalism

    Crony capitalism is what actually happens when you implement captialism in the real world. Capitalism is the theory, cronyism is the practice.

    In the same way that socialism is the theory, and communism is what happens when you implement it.

    I could go on with other ideologies, but I'm trying very hard not the get a Godwin point here, so I'll end this way: Maybe we're all fallible so the people at the top will always end up being greedy and corrupt. But then there's no good way of "governing", and for the moment capitalism has given more people a chance than any other before so I'll keep that for now thanks.

    (One hint of a solution, make sure every political office term comes with no pay to show your commitment, and with a year in prison at the end, you know, just in case ;-)

  15. Re:It's capitalism because... on Reason On How and Why 38 Studios Went Bust · · Score: 1

    It sure as hell ain't communism, Vladimir.

  16. Re:But on my computer... on Google Engineer Shows How To Forge Swords and Knives · · Score: 1

    But you lost your mod point so... Well, it's not nice to pick, so no. You're not.

  17. Re:But on my computer... on Google Engineer Shows How To Forge Swords and Knives · · Score: 2

    There's a tendancy not to mod Anon Cowards up or down -- I very rarely do. Because they're anonymous, it doesn't actually affect your karma/profile, so it would be useless. This leaves you prone to more statistical anomalies than if you actually had a profile and used it to post.

  18. Re:Slashvertisment, but: on Google Engineer Shows How To Forge Swords and Knives · · Score: 1

    Gain and Profit are usually quite close in meaning. Money is also a mean of recognition :-P

  19. Just like everyone else on What's In Steve Ballmer's Inbox? · · Score: 1

    Enlarge your penis!

  20. Re:So we are to believe on Security Firm Predicts "Murder By Internet-Connected Devices" · · Score: 1

    Even worse than that!!!

    Examples include a pacemaker that can be tuned remotely, ...

    Fear your pacemaker!!! People with heart problems will now have an increased risk of death!!!

    I take it you haven't watched Homeland?

  21. Re:Coincidence? on Apple and HTC Settle Patent Dispute · · Score: 1

    Now that HTC has switched to Windows they can be considered as dead:

    Have I missed something here? The One X+ which is out in the coming days ships with Android, doesn't it?

  22. Open source // code review? on CyanogenMod Android ROMs Accidentally Logged Screen Unlock Patterns · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's one of the issues with many committers, you can't review all the code before it ships off in a build. I seem to remember a bug in openssl where some kid commented an entropy line "because it showed warnings at compile-time" and managed to commit it without raising suspicions.

    Bottom line, where are the code reviewers in this process? QA?

  23. Re:I'm not British on BBC Turns Off CEEFAX Service After 38 Years · · Score: 1

    I've lived close to the British culture and deep in the French one. It sounds a bit like when the French turned off the Minitel (http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/06/28/1241252/france-ending-minitel-service). Both early interactive services which came over an old delivery method (TV sets for Ceefax, telephone lines for the Minitel).

    It's sad to see them go, but it's probably also time to acknowledge that they are obsolete (and costly to maintain) compared to the Internet.

  24. Re:Ugh. on Black Sheep Blackberry Blackballed By Business · · Score: 1

    Not according to everyone...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliteration

  25. Re:I guess you could say Sealand is now left... on Prince of Sealand Dies At 91 · · Score: 4, Funny

    If Paddy Roy Bates is the master of Sealand, do his subjects call him Master?