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  1. Re:smoke signals, searchlights and satellite TV/HB on Police Don't Need a Warrant To Track Your Disposable Cellphone · · Score: 1

    Troll!

  2. Re:smoke signals, searchlights and satellite TV/HB on Police Don't Need a Warrant To Track Your Disposable Cellphone · · Score: 1

    Circular Logic!

  3. Poor Mitt on MplayerX Leaving Mac App Store · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What an inept campaign staff Mitt Romney has. Gaff after gaff, and now we're dealing with endless boilerplate spams from his "social media" people. Really, conspicuously lame. Kind of undercuts his basic argument, that we should vote for him because he's a good manager. In fact, he makes me think of every bad manager I've ever worked for.

  4. Re:smoke signals, searchlights and satellite TV/HB on Police Don't Need a Warrant To Track Your Disposable Cellphone · · Score: 1

    If human senses are required, then bloodhounds and sniffer dogs are unconstitutional.

    You might try actually reading the ruling before attacking it.

  5. Re:I visited the National Ignition Facility this y on Paul Ryan's Record On Science and Government · · Score: 1

    Sure, they do important work. But it makes perfect sense to demand that they be accountable for the way they spend money. On this I have to agree with Paul Ryan, even though I consider him brainless on most issues.

  6. Re:The customers have spoken on Trouble At OnLive · · Score: 2

    What, you're under the impression that OnLive is a typical public cloud service? They rent virtual desktops, and there doesn't seem to be much demand for that.

    More typical are services like Windows Azure and AWS, which concentrate on backend services. Those are very healthy indeed.

  7. Re:*Very* Sloppy Summary on Google Employees Find 60 Security Holes In Adobe Reader · · Score: 1

    There's never been a PDF reader built into Chromium.

    Reading skills, dude. I didn't say there was.

  8. Re:*Very* Sloppy Summary on Google Employees Find 60 Security Holes In Adobe Reader · · Score: 1

    Chromium seems to have diverged a bit from Chrome. The Google PDF reader I was describing is built into Chrome. It's not a plugin. I can't say for sure that it contains no 3rd party software, but I doubt it. It's pretty feature-limited.

  9. Re:PDFs on Google Employees Find 60 Security Holes In Adobe Reader · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Lots of products get "improvements" that are anything but. The point of making stuff is to sell it, and you can't sell new stuff unless you can convince folks that their old stuff is obsolete. You can see that any time you visit a car dealer.

    Ratchet design isn't static because their makers woke up one day and said, "It's perfect! Let's stop trying to improve it!" They just don't have any design improvements that will convince you to throw out your old ratchets and buy new ones. If they could, they would.

  10. *Very* Sloppy Summary on Google Employees Find 60 Security Holes In Adobe Reader · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The summary muddles two distinct PDF readers, the PDF reader built into the current version of Chrome (purely Google) and the PDF reader from Adobe that's completely separate. The Google reader is relevant only because the vulnerabilities in the Adobe reader were discovered using the tools developed to find vulnerabilities in Chrome.

  11. Re:So it ends on Police Don't Need a Warrant To Track Your Disposable Cellphone · · Score: 1

    Sure, I'm the troll because I ask you to explain your argument. There's nothing trollish about going on and on about how evil people are without any facts to back it up.

  12. Re:Wireless Mesh Network? on Project Byzantium: Zero To Ad-Hoc Mesh Network In 60 Seconds (Video) · · Score: 1

    My favorite episode of King of the Hill is the one where everybody goes crazy about Y2K. Peggy wants a computer for her birthday, but Hank gets her a grandfather clock instead. Dale, the neighborhood survivalist and conspiracy nut, fills his basement with Mountain Dew and what he thinks is the seed of a hamster farm. When his wife points out that one of his breeding pair is actually a gerbil, he threatens not to share his "gerbster meat" with her!

  13. Re:Does this also include on eBay Bans the Sale of Spells and Magic Items · · Score: 1

    Allowing holy water (which any priest can create BTW) doesn't represent a pro-Christian bias, it represents allowing tangible items. They also allow pagan items like amulets. Banning sale of spells is akin to banning sale of prayers to a Christian saint.

  14. Re:Wireless Mesh Network? on Project Byzantium: Zero To Ad-Hoc Mesh Network In 60 Seconds (Video) · · Score: 2

    Your WiFi router has a legally-mandated limit on signal strength. Hopefully the FCC will be a little less zealous once the first zombies appear.

  15. Re:If unsafe use of the internet is a concern... on Ask Slashdot: How To Best Setup a School Internet Filter? · · Score: 1

    They have to have filtering software, of course. I never said they didn't. But filtering software is good for little more than hiding offensive content. This guy wants to protect students from their own mistakes, and there's no software that can do that.

  16. Re:So it ends on Police Don't Need a Warrant To Track Your Disposable Cellphone · · Score: 1

    Could you pause in your flow of passion long enough to explain how the argument is circular?

  17. Re:It was me! on Project To Turn Classical Scores Into Copyright-Free Music Completed · · Score: 1

    You're thinking of Bill Gates, of course, who's notable for not giving any money to charity until he was so rich he had no hope of spending all his money himself. And once he did start being a philanthropist, there was a big element of ego in it. For example, the goal of his anti-malaria campaign is complete eradication of the disease. Experts agree that this is impractical, and more suffering would be eliminated if he concentrated on prevention and mitigation. But no, he wants to go down in history as the guy who killed malaria. It's all about him, not the people who need help.

    The kind of philanthropist I admire is Joan Kroc, who often tried to give away huge sums creatively and anonymously. For example, people who'd lost their homes to the 1997 Red River flood received large anonymous gifts from her. Of course, you can't give away that much money at one time and not be found out.

  18. Re:If unsafe use of the internet is a concern... on Ask Slashdot: How To Best Setup a School Internet Filter? · · Score: 2

    I never said he shouldn't put up a filter. But he wants a filter that protects kids from doing stupid stuff, and there's no such thing.

  19. If unsafe use of the internet is a concern... on Ask Slashdot: How To Best Setup a School Internet Filter? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... then your school should be teaching kids how to use the Internet safely. There just isn't any technology that will protect your kids from everything they might do wrong.

    I suppose you have to block sites that would offend parents (though the kids probably know all about them) but relying on filtering software to keep your kids safe is abdicating the school's responsibility

  20. Re:So it ends on Police Don't Need a Warrant To Track Your Disposable Cellphone · · Score: 1

    I hardly know where to start. You take a word and spin a lot of complicated theories about the secret intentions of the people who used them. You "evidence" is so subjective it's impossible to argue with.

    I'll just say it one last time, and maybe you can respond without complicated references to Plato: the word "liberty" appears exactly 3 times in the U,S. Constitution. Not one of them uses the word you say it does.

  21. Re:Oh man, not another console on Ouya Teams Up With XBMC · · Score: 1

    You still have your VCR connected to your TV? Why?

  22. Re:So it ends on Police Don't Need a Warrant To Track Your Disposable Cellphone · · Score: 1

    My mistake. Your weird theories are entirely original. I have to compliment your imagination, though not your logic,

  23. Re:When I was on Cyber Attack Knocks Offline Saudi Aramco · · Score: 1

    No no, the Zionist Lobbies secretly control all American politicians. They're too busy with that to bother with sabotage. For that, look to Mossad. Let's keep our conspiracy theories straight!

  24. Re:So it ends on Police Don't Need a Warrant To Track Your Disposable Cellphone · · Score: 1

    And the court ruled that tracking a radio signal does not violate the forms of law.

  25. Re:Priorities! on Indian Prime Minister Formally Announces Mars Mission · · Score: 1

    What makes you think they're not trying to do the simpler stuff first? Getting people to use more efficient transportation is a lot more difficult than space travel! There will be a manned colony on Pluto before we fix the traffic mess In Los Angeles, never mind Delhi!