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  1. Re:How 1960s on Satellite Glitch Leaves Northern Canada In the (Internet) Dark · · Score: 4, Funny

    Won't work. Hikers in the Canadian wilderness have long carried a piece of fiber optic cable with them. If they get lost, they just bury the cable and hitch a ride back when the backhoe comes to dig it up.

  2. Re:It's time to invade. on Iran Blocks VPN Ports · · Score: 2

    The problem is its actually the minority that wants freedom. Seriously.

    America and Iran have more in common than they'd like to admit.

  3. Re:All 65k+ of them? on Iran Blocks VPN Ports · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You don't just need to circumvent the block. You need to circumvent a block in a way that the authorities can't detect.

  4. Re:This ruling does not last long. on Calif. Appeals Court Approves Cell Phone Searches · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The constitution is open to interpretation, sure. Completely disregarding what the constitution says is not interpretation.

  5. Re:This ruling does not last long. on Calif. Appeals Court Approves Cell Phone Searches · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The damage to the 4th amendment is done. Our right to be free from unreasonable searches should not depend on the vagaries of elected representatives, but should be (AND IS!!!) enshrined in our very constitution.

    No reasonable person could believe that this search is reasonable. Our courts are completely off the rails. If they can't enforce the constitution, we have no legitimate government left.

  6. Re:Passcode on Calif. Appeals Court Approves Cell Phone Searches · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So where do we get a cell phone with real encryption?

  7. Re:I read somewhere... on Steve Jobs Dead At 56 · · Score: 1

    They eschew marketing, considering marketers to be liars who sell through deception. The ones who succeed do so after figuring out that a successful company needs a combination of good engineering and good marketing.

    These two things are not mutually exclusive. Marketers are liars who sell through deception. But lying makes money.

  8. Take that Rupert! on EU Sending a Probe To the Sun · · Score: 3, Funny

    First the News of the World, and now this.

  9. Re:Like the alternative is so much better on After Six Days of Outages, BofA Claims It Hasn't Been Hacked · · Score: 2

    What are the chances this is intentional stalling to make it difficult for their customers to cancel accounts after their new debit card fees?

  10. Insanely dangerous and unstable? on Neal Stephenson On 'Innovation Starvation' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sounds a lot like today.

  11. Re:70% on fully updated installs. on How Windows Gets Infected With Malware · · Score: 1

    How many are let through with a fully updated NoScript?

  12. Re:No on Ask Slashdot: What To Do In SW:TOR For Just 3 Days? · · Score: 3, Funny

    They should release a Star Wars version of Tor, to enable people to talk about SW:TOR.

  13. Re:Good! I love it! on Facebook Forming a PAC · · Score: 1

    If you don't want it, I'll kill and eat your bison for you.

  14. Re:Ok, how do they know? on Microsoft Killed the Start Menu Because No One Uses It · · Score: 1

    A bad one just makes it so hard that you just want to reach for a bash prompt.

    By that definition, all GUIs are bad.

  15. Re:The future of the desktop is mobile. on Microsoft Killed the Start Menu Because No One Uses It · · Score: 1

    If your start menu is properly organized by human logic, it's because you did it manually. Which is exactly what we did in the 3.11 days.

  16. Yes, of course on Climate Change Driving War? · · Score: 2

    As the Earth heats, we can expect to find less arable land. At the same time we're running out of fossil fuels which are required for the haber process to fix nitrogen for fertilizer. With nearly 7 billion people on the planet, something is going to give. There's going to be a great deal of conflict over the few resources we haven't squandered yet.

  17. Re:The future of the desktop is mobile. on Microsoft Killed the Start Menu Because No One Uses It · · Score: 1

    If you can't remember a simple file path, how can you remember the start menu hierarchy? It's the exact same thing really, the start menu hierarchy is even implemented as a directory tree. Finding things in Start->Programs is exactly the same problem as finding things in c:/programs/.

  18. Re:The future of the desktop is mobile. on Microsoft Killed the Start Menu Because No One Uses It · · Score: 1

    The Start Menu was an innovative answer to a then-inherent lack of organisation and difficulty in finding things. Yes, you had the File Manager on Windows and Finder on OS X, but good luck if you're looking for that "client document about some paintings" if you don't remember anything in its relative path.

    How exactly did the start menu help you in that circumstance?

  19. Re:Makes me want to burn my kindle on Amazon Re-Opens Affiliate Program In California · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Did you pay your use tax for that kindle? If not, you're the fucking sleazy tax dodger.

  20. Re:Yawn! Who cares? on News From Apple's iPhone Event · · Score: 1

    RIP Dr. Bob.

  21. Re:Very hard to encrypt a backup tape? on SAIC Loses Data of 4.9 Million Patients · · Score: 1

    Never understimate the bandwidth of a briefcase full of LTO tape. If it's encrypted, it should be absolutely no problem physically transporting the backups off site yourself.

    Don't get me wrong, this guy is an idiot. But the fact that he had backup tapes on his person, in his car, is not evidence for that.

  22. Re:There is no such thing as "censorship proof" on Belgian ISP Ordered to Block The Pirate Bay; Telecomix and TPB Offer Workarounds · · Score: 2

    There's also no such thing as circumvention proof. It's always been a cat and mouse game, and it always will be.

  23. Re:Motion Sickness on id Software Releases RAGE · · Score: 1

    Where they draw the gun is irrelevant. It doesn't affect aiming in any way. Use the crosshairs in the center of the screen to aim, and ignore the gun.

    Also, enemies come at you from whatever side happens to be facing them at the time. This depends as much on your position as on theirs. I'd be really really surprised if you could show statistically that they favor one side.

  24. Touch screens on One More Thing For Apple Stores: Food? · · Score: 1

    Hope you don't mind greasy fingerprints on those nice shiny touch screens.

  25. Re:thanks Princeton! on For Academic Publishing, Princeton Goes Open Access By Default · · Score: 2

    Researchers are pretty good about sharing their work through alternative channels. Most researchers will host PDFs of their work on their department web page. If not, email them and ask. I've never had a request for a PDF denied after contacting the author.

    Sure, it's not legal for them to do this. They usually have signed their copyright over to the journal. But no one enforces it, and if they tried the movement towards open access journals would be greatly accelerated.