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  1. Common sense on Ask Slashdot: Buying a Car That's Safe From Hackers? · · Score: 1

    If you're paranoid, buy a wheel clamp or steering lock. Otherwise, buy a cheap car and be paranoid, or do some smart stuff and/or don't mind.

  2. Beheadings still allowed on Nipples, Terrorism, and Sexual Descriptions - Facebook's List of Banned Content · · Score: 1

    Because torturing and killing people is not harmful to the children. They have to get used of seeing dying and dead people. Nudity on the other hand, is very unnatural and has to be shielded at any cost.

  3. Re:...and the next phase is scanning for murderers on Facebook Puts Users On Suicide Watch · · Score: 1

    Thought Police. This is just a precursor to get familiar with the technology.

  4. Cheap or bad on In-Flight Service Gogo Uses Fake SSL Certificates To Throttle Streaming · · Score: 1

    It feels like they're just using a cheap solution to control their bandwith. (Maybe weight of equipment plays a significant role in these applications, too.)

    Or they may be bad. I don't know. Either way it's a no go; think of something better.

  5. What great news! on Pseudonyms Now Allowed On Google+ · · Score: 1

    "What names are allowed on Facebook? [...] The name you use should be your real name as it would be listed on your credit card, driver's license or student ID" https://www.facebook.com/help/...

  6. When do people finally learn to avoid the US? You don't want to be a foreigner there, because you practically have no rights (and you will be harassed if you're not a white person). You also don't want to do business with the US, because your data will be stolen and used against you. We're trying to avoid US services more and more. Our government investigates a 'national cloud' to avoid these issues.

  7. Business, not consumer software on Pondering the Future of a Re-Org'd Microsoft · · Score: 1

    .NET Framework, Windows Azure, IIS, Windows Server is what I deal with every day. While I admit Microsoft nowadays also releases buggy software, with some knowlege great things could be accomplished with these technologies. Talking about openness, the .NET community is great. The main alternative, hosted by Oracle nowadays, raised some concern recently too..

  8. Have to double it on Deloitte: Use a Longer Password In 2013. Seriously. · · Score: 1

    That's a bummer. I always use 12345. Knowing this, I'm changing it to 1234567890.

  9. Ten fatal bugs versus thousands of human errors on How Do We Program Moral Machines? · · Score: 1

    The question here is whether we'll be able to accept the fact the system can't reduce traffic death to zero. In factual numbers, the improvement is significant. Morally, we will have to accept bugs in the system with death as result. Maybe, sometimes even indeed a school bus will be involved.

    If people are fine with this, fine. If they can accept the computer prefers their death over others, fine. You also need a very good DTAP environment in order to be able to be ultimately sure about any changes and fixes in this system. Continuing on this. At the moment, everyone is responsible for a safe traffic system. When this system comes to reality, responsibilities suddenly become very visible, material and calculable.

  10. Re:75 trillion on Limewire Being Sued For 75 Trillion · · Score: 1

    I agree. There IS no preservation of history or enrichment of culture anymore. Social mankind stopped being useful generally. Evolution has been stopped a while ago by humans. History will not be created too from now on. let's face it: Most (commercial) services we're all using at the moment will be gone within ten years. Without history writing, logging, let alone support whatsoever. Digital music, software, hardware support, books, blogs, all you clouds, all gone within, say, twenty years.. It's the shallow world we live in today.

  11. Re:The egg came first.. on The Chicken May Have Come Before the Egg · · Score: 1

    BUT.. How would you call, or define, the egg?? An X-egg (X = not 100% chicken) or a chicken egg? So wasn't what came out of the egg something other than a X-egg??