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  1. Re:"Facebook's Skype?" on Ask Slashdot: Companies That Force Employees To Join Social Networks? · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think you're the one who's asleep. Skype is owned by Microsoft.

  2. Re:Just do it the traditional way on Google Working On Password Generator For Chrome · · Score: 1

    /dev/random may be random, but it's not cryptographically secure. You would be better off using a dedicated password generator (eg. pwgen or apg).

  3. Re:xkcd on Google Working On Password Generator For Chrome · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I think this comic is much more related.

    Before I started using keepass I actually stored the majority of my passwords in gmail in plaintext. I figured that google already has enough dirt to send me to gitmo for life from my search results alone, giving them more data isn't going to hurt.

  4. Re:Change Universities on Universities Agree To Email Monitoring For Copyright Agency · · Score: 1

    27.50/8000=0.34375%, which I rounded down to 0.3% since $8000 only has one significant digit.

    I still maintain it's substantial, considering that students gain absolutely nothing from this $27.50.

  5. Re:Change Universities on Universities Agree To Email Monitoring For Copyright Agency · · Score: 2

    Engineering undergrad at UofT is around $8000 a year. $27.50 would be appropriately 0.3% of tuition. To me that feels quite substantial, considering that this $27.50 fee doesn't help students at all; they still have to spend hundreds of dollars every year on textbooks.

  6. Re:More Sources on Universities Agree To Email Monitoring For Copyright Agency · · Score: 5, Informative

    The agreement reached last month with the licensing agency includes provisions defining e-mailing hyperlinks as equivalent to photocopying a document, an annual $27.50 fee for every full-time equivalent student and surveillance of academic staff email.

  7. Re:Don't refill the yellow, duh. on FOIA Request Shows Which Printer Companies Cooperated With US Government · · Score: 1

    Lots of printers will refuse to print other colors (or even B&W) when the yellow cartridge is empty. Those who work in the printer servicing industry have my sympathies. Most customers probably think it's price gouging scheme.

  8. Re:um... on FOIA Request Shows Which Printer Companies Cooperated With US Government · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's a partial list:

    lexmark
    Kodak
    TVS Electronics
    WeP
    PENTAX
    Planon
    prolink
    Olivetti
    Epson
    Lenovo
    OKI
    Panasonic
    Dell
    Samsung
    Kyocera

    Someone already made the bad printing quality joke so I won't bore you with it again.

  9. Re:Ah, central planning. on Aderall Or Nothing: Anatomy of the Great Amphetamine Drought · · Score: 1

    Imagine if you're the CEO of Porn Corp #1 and also serve on the board of Porn Corp #2...

  10. Re:Bizarre and Confusing Summary on Major Bitcoin Exchange Ceases Operation · · Score: 2

    You seem to forgot that the US government controls the DNS system and can confiscate domain names at will.

    Also we're not talking about a Bitcoins to seashells exchange here; we're talking about a Bitcoins to USD exchange. Any such exchange must perform transactions with other banks that operate with USD. Guess where a majority of those USD-handling banks are located?

  11. Re:Legal Extortion? on Intel Settles NY Antitrust Case · · Score: 1

    You just need laws that limit political funding to reasonable amount given by individuals.

    Too bad SCOTUS shot it down.

    Also forbid industrial ownership of medias

    Let me be the devil's advocate here: wouldn't that be infringing on the freedom of the press and the freedom of speech? In trying to safeguard democracy you're ironically abridging the two essential freedoms that make democracy possible in the first place.

  12. Re:Can somebody link, please? on Intel Settles NY Antitrust Case · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here you go.

    On a related note, I wish there was a job where you just google things for people. That seems to be the only thing I'm good at now.

  13. Re:No More Nuclear Waste Siting Problem? on US Approves Two New Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ironically, coal-burning power plants actually emit more radiation than nuclear plants.

    If these fear mongers really want to protest against nuclear waste they should be picketing coal plants.

  14. Re:Better analogy on US Approves Two New Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    Or if you know precisely when lighting will strike a particular structure...

  15. Re:banks make only $40 million? on Facebook Orders Banks To Stop Leaking IPO Details · · Score: 2

    The IPO will raise $5B, so it's 0.8%. You're probably confusing the market cap with the IPO size.

  16. Re:What was it? on Text Message Brands Quebec Man a Terror Suspect · · Score: 2
    Your translation is wrong. As the article points out directly below the text message:

    The term "blow" the competition is regularly used in motivational speech to mean a victory and thus does not cause confusion, according to the complaint.

  17. Re:Yup on Text Message Brands Quebec Man a Terror Suspect · · Score: 1

    For our friends outside America who didn't get the reference.

    As a side note, I forgot his name so I had to google him. He was the first hit for "republican bathroom". Bravo, google.

  18. Re:It's all in the unAmerican-sounding name on Text Message Brands Quebec Man a Terror Suspect · · Score: 1

    You meant un-Canadian.

  19. Re:The text message is the least of my worries on Text Message Brands Quebec Man a Terror Suspect · · Score: 1

    That makes perfect sense actually. Before the gang initiation can begin they probably need to check that you're not working for another gang.

  20. Re:Look who were targetted by the West ? on The Destruction of Iraq's Once-Great Universities · · Score: 3, Informative

    There was this one guy, but the CIA managed to replace him with a monarchy.

  21. Re:Books and computers and desks are easy to repla on The Destruction of Iraq's Once-Great Universities · · Score: 1

    What you're saying only applies to the STEM and other technical fields, unfortunately. Most of the fine arts and humanity subjects still rely heavily on dead trees.

    Regardless of how useful these assets are to the researchers, they should definitely not fall into the hands of thefts and plunders. Even if supposing all the books, equipments, and furnitures are worthless they should still be recycled or donated away, instead of funding criminal activities.

  22. Re:awesome on ACTA's EU Future In Doubt As Poland Suspends Ratification · · Score: 1

    Technically if there was super-majority opposition to this ""executive agreement" in the congress Obama could be impeached. Unfortunately this technicality can only occur in the fantasy world where elected representatives are not corporate sock puppets.

  23. Re:Hmm on How the GOP (and the Tea Party) Helped Kill SOPA · · Score: 1
    According to wikipedia:

    in December 2008 the Bush administration provided a "bridge loan" to General Motors with the requirement of a revised business plan.[22] It said it needed $4.6 billion in loans within weeks, from the $18 billion it had already requested, and an additional $12 billion in financial support in order to stave off bankruptcy. On Feb. 26, 2009, General Motors announced that its cash reserves were down to $14 billion at the end of 2008. G.M. lost $30.9 billion, or $53.32 a share, in 2008 and spent $19.2 billion of its cash reserves. Mr. Wagoner met with President Obama’s auto task force, and the company said that it could not survive much longer without additional government loans. On the March 30, 2009 deadline President Barack Obama declined to provide financial aid to General Motors, and requested that General Motors produce credible plans, saying that the company's proposals had avoided tough decisions,

    Both presidents spent billions bailing out hundreds of undeserving corporations, but GM was one mostly bailed out by Bush and mostly ignored by Obama.

  24. Re:Incentives for Space Travel on Next-Gen Spacesuits · · Score: 3, Interesting

    IMHO it's quite certain that mankind will fail. But that doesn't mean we should just give up and stop trying right now.

  25. Re:Incentives for Space Travel on Next-Gen Spacesuits · · Score: 3, Informative

    Insightful? I hope you realize that Earth's orbit will be engulfed by the Sun in a few billion years. Not leaving the planet = extinction.