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  1. Re:So it's come to this. . . on Foxconn Sees New Source of Cheap Labor: The United States · · Score: 1

    According to the Chinese, Taiwan is indeed a part of China.

  2. Re:Never had that experience... on Smartphone Mugging More Popular Than Ever · · Score: 1

    It's an interesting concept really. Install a Windows operating system and you're gonna get a virus. Buy an Apple phone and you're gonna get mugged. Which one is worse?

  3. Re:Maybe I missed it... on Thousands of Muslims Protest 'Age of Mockery' At Google's London Headquarters · · Score: 4, Informative

    What good would that do? I'm pretty sure the Taleban doesn't live in London.

  4. Re:Stupider logic on Proposed Posting of Clients List In Prostitution Case Raises Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Market manipulation on Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week · · Score: 1

    Re-gu-la-tor? What is this?

  6. Re:The Authoritarian Personality on The Day Leo Traynor Confronted His Troll · · Score: 1

    So you keep showing up at his house and beat him up from time to time, just to make sure the message sticks, yah?

  7. Re:I can only assume on The Text Message Typo That Landed a Man In Jail · · Score: 1

    Them Englishmen really don't like their pedophiles.

  8. Re:Still not over. on NZ Broke the Law Spying On Kim Dotcom, PM Apologizes · · Score: 1

    We're sorry... http://vimeo.com/16337587

  9. Re:My first thought was on Austrian Skydiver Prepared to Leap From Edge of Space · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't there be that whole issue with atmospheric re-entry and burning up, if you were to jump from the ISS?

  10. Version control on Ask Slashdot: Explaining Version Control To Non-Technical People? · · Score: 1

    keeps a backup of all older versions, so it provides a reliable rollback plan in case the unthinkable happens, and as an added bonus it prevents new bugs from happening by keeping track of all changes.

    Don't be afraid to lay it on real thick with buzzword bingo terms like backups and rollbacks (or better yet, disaster recovery measures) and preventative processes and process management and all that jazz. It's all true... More or less... Hell they won't know the difference anyway.

  11. They only truncate new passwords on Hotmail No Longer Accepts Long Passwords, Shortens Them For You · · Score: 1

    Not existing ones, so quit pissin' yer pants over how Microsoft dun did it with storing passwords in clear text and whatnot.

    It's just like when they switched to a more reasonable password scheme some time ten years ago, they didn't force existing accounts to get longer passwords. My live id is still only 4 characters, all lower case.

  12. Re:Hah! Take that, my bank! on Hotmail No Longer Accepts Long Passwords, Shortens Them For You · · Score: 1

    Block for a set time after certain attempts. Even if you've got the biggest botnet in the world, if you can only try 5 passwords per hour, you're screwed. Granted the denial of service point is still an issue, but as it is now, there's no easy way to get around it.

  13. Re:Just Keep Pulling Shit From Your Asses. on 180k-Year-Old Mutation Allowed Humans To Become Vegetarians, Move Out of Africa · · Score: 1

    Man I really can't tell if you're serious or not. On one note it seems like you're just spewing shit for the fun of it, but looking at your previous posts, either you're fond of spewing shit or you actually mean what you're saying. Damn.

  14. Re:These guys don't screw around on Copenhagen Suborbitals Seeking $10k In Crowdfunding For New Space Capsule · · Score: 1

    It still is. Hacking just isn't what it used to be.

  15. Re:questions on Unusual Discovery of New African Monkey Species · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd say the most important question is this: Is it better at writing Shakespeare than other monkeys?

  16. Re:Apple is the new Microsoft on Apple Says "No" To Releasing New Dock Connector Specs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm pretty sure it's only called that when Microsoft does it.

  17. Re:Nah on Should Developers Be Sued For Security Holes? · · Score: 1

    Are you saying it doesn't already cost far too much to develop software? Here I'm of course referring to the several "Oh look we went $500,000,000 over budget" type software development 'woopsies' that are all too common in this industry. Not open source software that doesn't cost anything to develop, not even man-hours. Especially not man-hours wasted arguing semantics like which way to do something trivial is the better one.

  18. You can steal on How Plagiarism Helped Win the American Revolution · · Score: 1

    but I'll sue you if you steal from me.

  19. I'll believe it on Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headset Blows Past Kickstarter Goal · · Score: 2, Interesting

    when I see it. Too many times we've been promised the world with super cool VR goggles and helmets and appendages. Also, if I have to go buy a console first, no sale.

  20. Re:LED strip along the ground. on Speed of Sound Is Too Slow For the Olympics · · Score: 2

    Don't they have the "beep beep beep beeeeep" sound to indicate the start of the race?

  21. High expectations on Why Bad Jobs (or No Jobs) Happen To Good Workers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Requirements for senior level positions:

    PhD or equivalent level of education
    +16 years of relevant work experience
    Willingness to work for $40,000 a year or less with no benefits

    Requirements for junior level positions:

    PhD or equivalent level of education
    +8 years of relevant work experience
    Willingness to work for $20,000 a year or less with no benefits

    Requirements for internship positions:

    PhD or equivalent level of education
    Relevant work experience a big plus
    Willingness to work for free with no benefits

    "But we don't understand why we don't get any applicants that match these criteria! There must be a lack of skilled workers!"

  22. Re:They don't work with their own software... on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Beef With Windows Phone? · · Score: 1

    I suppose it's a question of security versus usability. I tend to prefer usability, because you can never have enough security for it to be secure. A secure system is a Utopian dream scenario that never happens except perhaps in a lab.

    So do I really want to maintain and manage a private certificate service and issue self-signed certificates to all my services, and then maintain the root certificates on every single client and device, no matter the type, forever and ever, to ensure connectivity, or do I just pucker up the $10 and get a signed certificate from a "relatively" trusted source?

    Honestly? I choose door number two.

  23. Re:Paid-for certs are LESS secure on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Beef With Windows Phone? · · Score: 1

    Then what's going to stop them from generating certificates for my domains anywho? It shouldn't matter whether I'm using their rogue service or not, should it?

    If they can just up and generate certificates left and right, clearly they don't need me to use their services first, no? They can just generate google.com and microsoft.com certificates at will and take over the internet, you know what I mean?

  24. Re:People first, data second on Ask Slashdot: How To Evacuate a Network · · Score: 1

    I daresay that depends on the people in question. There are quite honestly some I'd be willing to sacrifice, if it meant getting my data out with me.

  25. Re:They don't work with their own software... on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Beef With Windows Phone? · · Score: 2

    If you're working for a small business that's too cheap to pay for a signed certificate, how is it you haven't at least learned about the free signed certificate services that are out there aplenty?