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  1. Re:Yay meaningless prattle on unreadable hipster s on Does a Black Hole Have a Shape? · · Score: 1

    I thought that came along with being part of the Nerd Herd...

  2. Re:Still needs another vulnerability on Macs Vulnerable To Userland Injected EFI Rootkits · · Score: 3, Interesting

    still ring-0. quite a big deal...

  3. Re:Still needs another vulnerability on Macs Vulnerable To Userland Injected EFI Rootkits · · Score: 1

    you mean like the downward facing call-stack which has provided so many buffer overflows over the years? seems to me like they've been breeding fast inside Intel...
    (pun intended)

  4. Re:It's an accidentally-on-purpose. on Australian Law Could Criminalize the Teaching of Encryption · · Score: 1

    Using USD puts you under US jurisdiction. So any bank with a branch in the US would then not be allowed to trade with you. Same thing...

  5. Re:It's an accidentally-on-purpose. on Australian Law Could Criminalize the Teaching of Encryption · · Score: 1

    Sorry, brainfart, I meant to write evading.

  6. Re:I weep for my country on Australian Law Could Criminalize the Teaching of Encryption · · Score: 1

    Democracy: an endless cycle of elect and regret.
    (Eric X. Li on Ted.com, a very interesting video)

  7. Re:It's an accidentally-on-purpose. on Australian Law Could Criminalize the Teaching of Encryption · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't know. Consider the Swiss banks.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...

    It's common knowledge there is money on their accounts from several criminal practices, including avoiding taxes.
    The Banking Law of 1934 made it a criminal act for a Swiss bank to reveal the name of an account holder.

    That law has taken a lot of hits recently. Basically, Uncle Sam has threatened Swiss banks to revoke their license in the US (which would mean that they are not allowed to make any transactions in USD) if they don't cooperate with the IRS. It's blackmail, but it's also for a cause that most of the little people would see as good (tackling tax evasion). Now EU countries are negotiating the same kind of deals.

    Dear money launderers and tax evaders, please cross the border to Liechtenstein, or take your money to SE Asia or the Carribeans. Your Swiss representative has already set up your bank account there for you.

  8. Re:It's an accidentally-on-purpose. on Australian Law Could Criminalize the Teaching of Encryption · · Score: 2

    Actually, that raises a good point. It seems this only applies to communications to the outside of Australia, so there is probably a provision in the law for companies to hand over their encryption keys to the judicial authority if required, which means they wouldn't nail people in Australia communicating with their Australian bank. But tourists connecting to their bank abroad, well...

    (This is hypothetical, but probably not too far off the truth)

    Here in the UK, Cameron reportedly said that people shouldn't be able to communicate without some intelligence agency being able to snoop. So basically, he's just made math illegal...

  9. Re:satellites on Ask Slashdot: After We're Gone, the Last Electrical Device Still Working? · · Score: 1

    Only if it's sitting on its charger... It only had a week's worth of battery. Which is massive by today's standards, but still.

  10. Re: You mean, ensures detection on Self-Destructing Virus Kills Off PCs · · Score: 1

    ACs get less upmods than real accounts... but you're right, it made me laugh :-)

  11. Re:People still "buy" music - really? on Apple Gets Antitrust Scrutiny Over Music Deals · · Score: 2

    It depends. MP3s, probably not. But flac, why not? I know Amazon was looking at it.
    Led Zep remasters coming out these days are available in 24-bit flac, which is good enough for me (and way better than CDs with a proper DAC!)

  12. Re:That why there are elections on Canadian Town Outlaws Online Insults To Police and Officials · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem is that you're usually offered another lot of idiots to choose from...

  13. Re:Maybe they will move to court instead? on Windows XP Support Deal Not Renewed By UK Government, Leaves PCs Open To Attack · · Score: 2

    It's Whitehall. They'll pass a law through Parliament to make sure they have grounds for the suit ;-)

  14. Re: question on German Court Rules Adblock Plus Is Legal · · Score: 1

    Here is a Godwin point. Just for you.
    Have a nice day.

  15. Re:question on German Court Rules Adblock Plus Is Legal · · Score: 1

    And France, the UK,... Spreading racial/religious hatred is forbidden in most places in Europe.

  16. Re:Poor Design... on Networking Library Bug Breaks HTTPS In ~1,500 iOS Apps · · Score: 1

    Great. Bloat your executables to hell. I guess that's why Keynote takes 600M on an iPhone, Word 400~ etc.

  17. Re:Guardian scum on German Teenager Gets Job Offer By Trying To Use FOI For His Exam Papers · · Score: 1

    Not quite as embarrassing as asking someone in the streets of SF where you can buy a pack of cigarettes (but with the English slang term). It made people pull very very weird face.

  18. Re:Somehow I'm reminded of Kirk on German Teenager Gets Job Offer By Trying To Use FOI For His Exam Papers · · Score: 1

    This kid is a cheater. Plain and simple. Trying to paint him in any sort of positive light is plain sociopathy.

    Which rule is he breaking? He's only cheating if he's breaking a rule. Otherwise he's just using the system to his advantage and being a lot more clever than other people his age...

  19. Re:Somehow I'm reminded of Kirk on German Teenager Gets Job Offer By Trying To Use FOI For His Exam Papers · · Score: 1

    I get the idea that he doesn't want to find out how dumb he is by the fact he wanted to cheat.

    That he didn't think it would work doesn't mean he wasn't trying to cheat.

    FoI requests are legal. Cheating usually means breaking the rules, he's just testing the rules without breaking them.

  20. Re:Slashdotted before appearing on Slashdot? on Back To the Future: Autonomous Driving In 1995 · · Score: 2

    Same for me. The text seems to be white on white background which makes it hard to read...

  21. Re:When can we automate society? on Planes Without Pilots · · Score: 1

    Define *they*

  22. Re:Commercially makes sense ... maybe on Apple May Start Accepting Android Phones As Trade-Ins · · Score: 2

    Yep, I was just thinking the same, and I'm a hardcore HTC fan. But the markup thing hardly stands anymore. It sounds like HTC and Samsung have decided that the only way to make your phone as cool as an iPhone 6 is to price it like an iPhone 6... :-(

  23. Re: Transparency in Government is good! on White House Office of Administration Not Subject to FOIA, Says White House · · Score: 1

    Paddy's day means you speak Irish?

  24. Re:What if I link to sites that link to proxies? on UK ISPs Quietly Block Sites That List Pirate Bay Proxies · · Score: 1

    Just you wait. If you hear loads of footsteps around your house, there's a special forces team outside waiting to take you down.

  25. Godwin point as first post, quite a feat!