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  1. Interesting. on Startup Out of MIT Promises Digital Afterlife — Just Hand Over Your Data · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tell me more about can a chat bot plus big data really produce anything beyond a creepy, awkward facsimile?

  2. Re:Bad Lawyers on Copyright Trolls Sue Bloggers, Defense Lawyers · · Score: 1

    Why do I get a sickly feeling that Prenda Law is a law firm owned and managed by an Indian?

    Racism on your part, I figure.

  3. Re:As a voter from the US on Swiss Referendum Backs Executive Pay Curbs · · Score: 1

    it's nice to be directly able to intervene the politics.

    I don't doubt it, but it's worth noting that the quality of the decisions made by the electorate isn't uniformly high -- there was that embarrassing business with the minarets...

  4. Re:Surely this is expected on Bypassing Google's Two-Factor Authentication · · Score: 1

    An application specific password is meant to be given to the application once and then never typed again, heavily reducing the chance of it being compromised.

    If it's kept in persistent storage by the application, that actually increases the chance of it being compromised. Rather than logging keystrokes or peeking at RAM or man-in-the-middling the application in some way, you can just read a file.

  5. Re:You use GPUs for video games? on New GPU Testing Methodology Puts Multi-GPU Solutions In Question · · Score: 1

    To think that he's some kind of forest-destroying air-blackening capitalist is about the furthest from the truth as you can get. Check your assumptions.

    His heart is pure, so his free money scheme has no externalities? All righty, then.

  6. Re:Next news articles: on New Malware Wiping Data On Computers In Iran · · Score: 1

    Netcraft confirms it.

  7. Re:And yet... on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 1

    3) Arm society, making the murderer less effective.

    Or making murder even more common. Hard to say.

  8. Re:Uh...it's still there, you know on The Web We Lost · · Score: 2

    You run the risk of losing control of your site content if you have a server in the corner, too, because someone might break into it. For that matter, it might be stolen by burglars.

  9. Re:A bit late on GIF Becomes Word of the Year 2012 · · Score: 2

    Still no Unicode support here at Slashdot, I see, speaking of outdatedness.

  10. Re:A bit late on GIF Becomes Word of the Year 2012 · · Score: 1

    People turn little video clips into animated GIFs for joke purposes. Theyâ(TM)re not posting MNG (or whatever the carefully designed and basically unused animated PNG format was called) to their Tumblrs.

  11. Re:Piracy on Ouya Android Console Blows Past Kickstarter Goal · · Score: 1

    Further, the game could have some online component, in which case the pirates are costing him in bandwidth.

    Actually, if that's the case, he needs to charge for the online component, and then the pirates are just helping with distribution.

  12. Re:Rating a game before buying it on Ouya Android Console Blows Past Kickstarter Goal · · Score: 1

    It might be almost like the old days of cartridge rentals, but it's exactly like shareware.

  13. Re:Ok... on The 300 km/h Superbus · · Score: 1

    That's all it is, another lane.

    With vehicles moving at 300 km/h on it, you're going to need a bit more segregation than a painted line, if only to keep other traffic from being sucked into the wake of the "super bus."

  14. Re:Yet another "supercar". on The 300 km/h Superbus · · Score: 1

    Batteries make about as much sense as the rest of the concept — gimmicky car is gimmicky.

  15. Re:Prepare for it to get even muddier... on Turing Archive Director Questions Alan Turing Suicide Report · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "...he died a couple of years after the (grossly wrong) conviction..."

    Because if he didn't kill himself that very day, it isn't a plausible cause?

  16. Re:Kettle, black, etc on Misleading Robocalls Went To Voters ID'd As Non-Tories · · Score: 1

    Though that event could certainly still happen in the future - and at that point the implication would be true.

    On the off chance that you're not trolling: this is why people tend to end their conversations with you by wincing in agony and shouting, "Oh, fuck you."

  17. Re:Who is responsible? Irrelevant... on Misleading Robocalls Went To Voters ID'd As Non-Tories · · Score: 1

    Normally it goes like this: [...] the runner-up is declared winner.

    The most likely scenario is that a by-election would be called.

  18. Re:Who is responsible? Irrelevant... on Misleading Robocalls Went To Voters ID'd As Non-Tories · · Score: 1

    Who profited from this? So far it seems the Liberals have...

    Sabotage your own candidates in close races so that, a year later, they might get to run again in a by-election? I've accused the Liberals of not really wanting to win, but that's ridiculous.

    but the phone was registered to a pierre poutine of separist street Quebec - would the Conservatives do that?

    The person who registered the burner phone was a bit of an ass, apparently. I used to know a Tiny Tory who would have loved that joke — not that I'd want to help anyone pin this multi-riding scheme on poor old alleged ballot box toucher Michael Sona, who's terrible at looking innocent but incorrectly placed to have masterminded the scheme.

  19. Re:Kettle, black, etc on Misleading Robocalls Went To Voters ID'd As Non-Tories · · Score: 1

    If you're calling someone a liar who has not in fact lied...

    The implication was that Ignatieff had returned to the United States following his failed leadership stint. Since he hasn't, really, the implication was false.

  20. Re:It makes no sense at all on Misleading Robocalls Went To Voters ID'd As Non-Tories · · Score: 1

    After the Conservatives were convicted, the NDP settled and repaid.

    Did the NDP blow anywhere near as much hot air in denying any wrongdoing as the Conservatives did? Conservatives and their supporters were carrying on about Elections Canada being out to get them, and how dare anyone question the propriety of their practices... basically the same tone that they're taking now.

    Which happened under the previous Liberal administration.

    A lot of high-handed and infuriating stuff happened under the previous Liberal administration, and eventually they got stuck with the "arrogant and corrupt" label and lost. (They also collapsed due to petty leadership infighting.)

    Ever heard the tale of the boy who cried wolf?

    Yeah, at the end, it turns out that there was a wolf, and it ate all of the town's sheep.

  21. Re:Who is responsible? Irrelevant... on Misleading Robocalls Went To Voters ID'd As Non-Tories · · Score: 1

    What are Canadians smoking?

    Incumbency, plus the major opposition party sabotaging itself with infighting in the last two elections ("Wahh, I don't want to win if he's the leader.").

    That said, we will kick a party out based on a corruption scandal â" if we can find a replacement. As much as I'd enjoy an NDP/Green coalition, what's really going to happen, eventually, is that the Liberals will recover with an electable leader and sell the concept of the Conservatives as arrogant and corrupt. I think Rae could do it absent punditry spending the whole campaign declaring him unelectable, but that's like saying that an empty balloon would float if it had helium in it.

  22. Re:Kettle, black, etc on Misleading Robocalls Went To Voters ID'd As Non-Tories · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Odd, cause the NDP were fessing up to it according to the National Post.

    Rae was NDP back when he was premier of Ontario, but he's federal Liberal leader now.

    ...none of the parties are looking that great lately...

    I certainly hope you're not trying to put the Vickileaks Twitter prank, a protest against the provisions of Bill C-30, in the same category as scumbag election tampering. One hurt the feelings of a cabinet minister who'd just called everyone who didn't support his stupid bill child molesters; the other was an attempt to stop people from voting.

    I really wish they'd do something more productive.

    The Conservative agenda proceeds apace, with an austerity budget — hey, everyone's doing it, great excuse to gut the public sector — out in a week or so.

  23. Re:It makes no sense at all on Misleading Robocalls Went To Voters ID'd As Non-Tories · · Score: 1

    A committee will get formed that, after lengthy discussion...

    It's worth noting that Elections Canada is investigating, and they have burned the Conservatives before (on the so called "in-and-out" campaign spending limit violations). This won't go away entirely based on a committee of politicians meeting in camera and deciding that everything's dandy.

  24. Re:Why so many excuses? on Misleading Robocalls Went To Voters ID'd As Non-Tories · · Score: 1

    We have dozens of parties!

    Orientation note for foreigners: it's really more like three or four.

  25. Re:Many people don't understand on Misleading Robocalls Went To Voters ID'd As Non-Tories · · Score: 1

    And with so many calls, has there been any attempt to cross-reference them with phone logs to try to figure out where the calls originated from?

    Oh, yes. The most hilarious detail is a burner phone registered to "Pierre Poutine, Separatist Street, Joliette Quebec." It's one of our best/worst political scandals in a generation.