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  1. my suggestion on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Secure Your Parents' PC? · · Score: 1

    Windows 7 and Chrome with Adblock+Ghostery

    That's what I did and it hasn't worked out too bad yet.

  2. So what have we learned on How the Lessons of Columbine Saved Lives At Arapahoe High School · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The way to deal with shooter situations is having a better emergency procedures? What about all the hidden surveillance and monitoring and CCTVs and metal detectors and RFID tags? What did they do to help?

  3. Not restrained by law? on Obama Praises NSA But Promises To Rein It In · · Score: 1, Troll

    How is the NSA not restrained by law when operating outside the USA? Does this mean that there are no laws outside the USA? Does this mean I can finally kill anyone I want without repercussions, because I don't live in the USA? Europe, fuck yeah!

  4. A big boat eh? on World's Largest Ship Floated For the First Time · · Score: 1

    Are there any emission or pollution laws that are enforceable when you're on international seas?

  5. Re:Why not quantum entanglement? on How Microwave Transmission Is Linking Financial Centers At Near-Light Speed · · Score: 1

    Not yet, but I can guarantee someone out there is working on it.

  6. I wonder how long on Group Thinks Anonymity Should Be Baked Into the Internet Itself Using Tor · · Score: 1

    until someone simply creates an STCP/SUDP/SIP standard where the first thing any newly established connection does is negotiate SSH-style encryption (fuck TLS), with fallback to regular TCP. Can't be that hard, can it?

  7. Re:Sharepoint and SQL? on Microsoft Certifications For High School Credits In Australia · · Score: 1

    And how many students with Macs do you _really_ think have ever opened the terminal or used the free dev kit? Seriously?

  8. First Men were from Mars and Women from Venus on Mystery Humans Spiced Up Ancients' Sex Lives · · Score: 1

    And now it turns out that pretty people are of Elven descent, and ugly people are of Trollish descent? Who knew!

  9. Re:Next comes the blood. on Venezuela: Cheap Television Sets For All! · · Score: 1

    And during which point will USAcare swoop in and save the day/oil?

  10. Re:Recurring theme? on Chinese Bitcoin Exchange Vanishes, Taking £2.5m of Coins With It · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Who cares so long as it's only end users that suffer?

  11. Question about robotics on Robots Can Learn To Hold Knives — and Not Stab Humans · · Score: 1

    Why do robots need to learn how to use a people-knife? Why not just make a robot-knife and be done with it? Define a standard "accessory" slot that supports circular or square objects to be fitted with a magnetic lock.

    Oh wait.. Making a standard just means everyone will make their own standard... Nevermind then..

  12. Declaration of Independence on F-Secure's Hypponen: The Internet Is a 'US Colony' · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it's about time we overthrow the evil overlords and take the wild west for ourselves?

  13. Re:Finally, it is now clear why Microsoft on Most IT Workers Don't Have STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math) Degrees · · Score: 1

    All the technicians and support people secretly went and purchased billions worth of Microsoft products, and installed them all over the company infrastructure without telling anyone? What?

  14. Re:Personally on Most IT Workers Don't Have STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math) Degrees · · Score: 1

    Forcing yourself to get a useless degree could also show you have no sense of direction and have seriously fallen victim to the whatsitcalled fallacy, the one where you go "Well, I already sat twiddling my thumbs for 3 years, might as well finish it". That kind of behaviour is very dangerous in a business where everything changes from year to year.

  15. Re:Unusable browser on IE 11 Breaks Rendering For Google Products, and Outlook Too · · Score: 1

    The best part is that the only useful feature that IE had, the compatibility mode, was removed because Microsoft didn't want people using it. Seriously. "The web isn't supposed to be run in compatibility mode. Either people make their websites work with IE or fuck them." I'm paraphrasing of course. Can't be bothered to go look up the actual quote.

  16. Re:The question has already been answered on The Battle For the Game Industry's Soul · · Score: 0

    You can't get AAA games on Linux. The editors are bitter children, angry on the inside because they're left out time and time again. So yes, the question must be asked.

  17. Re:Yeah, right ... on Facebook Comment Prompts Arrests In Cyberbullying Suicide Case · · Score: 1

    Don't have the kind of control? You mean they can't cancel the phone subscription? You mean they can't lock the kid in a room and take away the phone? You mean they can't beat the kid senseless? What?

  18. Re:Nice! on EU Court Holds News Website Liable For Readers' Comments · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We're already paying for our ability to comment on Slashdot. Granted it's not in dollars, but in the collective effort and time spent down-voting bad comments and up-voting good ones.

  19. Re:Mini computer?? on Intel Launches 'Galileo,' an Arduino-Compatible Mini Computer · · Score: 1

    Words evolve.

  20. When did on Mars Orbiter Spies Comet ISON · · Score: 4, Funny

    When did miles become a valid unit of distance in astronomy? Haven't we all agreed on a standard unit of measurement for all things science, such as the meter, by now?

  21. Re:The Blame Game on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 1

    They're like the guy who saws off the tree limb he's sitting on.

    They're like the guy that goes "Oooh, what's this button do?" while visiting the local soon-to-be-decommissioned nuclear power plant.

  22. Re:I do not understand why this is a story on Somebody Stole 7 Milliseconds From the Federal Reserve · · Score: 1

    You also shouldn't assume the speed of light inside a fiber optic cable is the same as speed of light in vacuum.

  23. Re:Time for a good timebomb. on Utility Sets IT Department On Path To Self-destruction · · Score: 1

    Just tell NSA whodunit is a terrorist. They'll have those disks opened up in a jiffy.

  24. What's the point? on Lockbox Aims To NSA-Proof the Cloud · · Score: 1

    They won't ever catch up with a government that essentially prints its own money to fight against terrorism.

    http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/08/feds-plow-10-billion-into-groundbreaking-crypto-cracking-program/

  25. Re: and why not? on How One Man Turns Annoying Cold Calls Into Cash · · Score: 1

    Writing other peoples information on forms is probably identity fraud to some degree or another