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  1. Re:Provoking on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 1

    Right, because there's no such thing as a suicide bomber.

  2. Re:Does it matter? on The Android Lag Fix That Really Wasn't · · Score: 1

    Links coming up in Chrome from external apps are slow as heck. Once Chrome starts it's fine, but it just sits there. *Tap* 5-6 seconds, then Chrome.

    Haven't noticed anything about battery life, although I had previously disabled Currents, which is the supposed cause.

  3. Re:Does it matter? on The Android Lag Fix That Really Wasn't · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My Google Nexus tablet begs to differ with your assessment.

  4. Re:links to NIST on BLAKE2 Claims Faster Hashing Than SHA-3, SHA-2 and MD5 · · Score: 1

    No, nobody SHOULD depend on the hashing function alone.

    There's a big difference between "shouldn't" and "doesn't"

  5. Re:Uhm... on Cheap Indie Games Make Wii U a Better Value · · Score: -1

    You don't need to buy a subscription to buy or play squat. Silver is just fine for XBLA

  6. Re:No ads in Linux on Microsoft's Hidden Windows 8 Feature: Ads · · Score: 1

    Not an Ubuntu user then I take it.

  7. Re:Or on Free Online Education Unwelcome In Minnesota · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So you're saying the degree that CourseRA offers isn't worth the electrons it's written with?

    Oh, wait, they don't offer one.

  8. Re:Cablecard is currently an anti-feature on Boxee TV's Unlimited Cloud-based DVR Holds Users Hostage To Monthly Fees · · Score: 2

    So it actually pays attention to the flag? That's DRM.

  9. Re:Then I've evolved to not buy EA games... on EA Exec Won't Green Light Any Single Player-Only Games · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nope, you're not alone. I'm the same way, have been for years.

    I play for fun, I'm not going to make it another job trying to arrange my schedule around raids or matches, or dealing with a lot of the cheating idiots.

  10. Re:how about a library card? on Ask Slashdot: I Want To Read More. Should I Get an eBook Reader Or a Tablet? · · Score: 1

    Yes, there can be.

    I have series on my tablet that takes up a full shelf by itself. Lugging around 700-1000 page books is not fun.

  11. Re:Don't on Ask Slashdot: How To Best Setup a School Internet Filter? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's easy to pull off a man in the middle attack if you control the computers.

    You generate your own certs with a CA that you've installed on the computer. At least one commercial product does this automatically.

  12. Re:Any worse than elsewhere? on Dozens of Reported Plagiarism Incidents On Coursera's Free Online Courses · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Given that coursera courses tend to be orders of magnitudes larger than those at universities, dozens actually sounds pretty low to me.

  13. Re:Keep trying till they sneak it through? on WIPO Broadcasting Treaty Back On the Table · · Score: 2

    Except this still gets voted on by the people you elected.

  14. Re:Oh, man on Solar X-Flare Blasts Directly Toward Earth · · Score: 1

    Six days to clean up the mess, so there's still hope.

  15. Re:Thats what virtual machines are for. on Criminals Distribute Infected USB Sticks In Parking Lot · · Score: 1

    He's not saying the software on the stick is a keylogger. He's saying the stick itself is a keylogger. Just because it looks like a flash drive doesn't mean it is one.

  16. Re:Ok no problem on Ask Slashdot: How Long Should Devs Support Software Written For Clients? · · Score: 3

    Figuring out which of those cases hold takes work. Work that may or may not be maintenance. How do you bill?

  17. What's good for the goose... on Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wouldn't that mean that SQL is also copyright, completely destroying Oracle's business?

  18. Re:protecting pseudoscience on Florida Thinks Their Students Are Too Stupid To Know the Right Answers · · Score: 1

    "God created the Earth in 7 days"

    Testable, and disproven. Billions of years != 7 days, and the order is wrong.

  19. Re:Is he not aware of Windows? on Viewfinity CEO Says Many Computer Users Are Overprivileged (Video) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not quite. Not even Administrator is root. LocalSystem is root.

  20. Privacy policy is worthless on Samsung Says Their TVs Aren't Really Spying On You · · Score: 2

    . We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time

    It also looks like they may not have even thought things through particularly well. I started seeing articles March 20th.

    This Privacy Policy is effective as of March 26, 2012,

  21. Re:Fast and reliable? How about cost? on With Cinavia DRM, Is Blu-ray On a Path To Self-Destruction? · · Score: 1

    15/5? I wish.

    We're about 15/0.5. And this is in a tech city.

  22. Re:No justification for the current media pricing? on With Cinavia DRM, Is Blu-ray On a Path To Self-Destruction? · · Score: 1

    There are Blu-Ray players under $100 at Costco.

  23. Re:The Car Analogy on Microsoft Barring Certain Staff From Buying Macs, iPads? · · Score: 1

    It's kind of hard to develop Office for the iPad or Mac if you're not allowed to buy any. So yeah, it does make sense that it's limited to certain departments.

    That also means that the ban doesn't make much sense even for Sales, since they'll have to demo the things that run on Apple.

  24. Re:Similar things have happened before... on The Dark Side of Digital Distribution · · Score: 1

    I've done the same. Finding this (first in NWN in the sale, then the America Conquest release, I don't know where else) has destroyed some of my good will towards them.

    I wish they either said no to the original publisher or bundled the keygen with the downloads.

  25. Re:Similar things have happened before... on The Dark Side of Digital Distribution · · Score: 1

    It's still dependent on them.

    The real fix, without rewriting the protocol, would be to bundle the keygen with the main download. No master ship for key requests.