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  1. Re:Canada is run by a dictatorship on Canada Launches ACTA Bill · · Score: 1

    Did you have to stand on your head while reading my post to interpret it that way?

  2. Re:A Thought on Steam For Linux: A Respectable Showing · · Score: 1

    s/prime/primary/

  3. Re:A Thought on Steam For Linux: A Respectable Showing · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't be hard at all actually. Just take any of the tiling window managers, rip all the resizing code out and add prime colors.

  4. Re:duh on Hit the Wrong Button, Drone Goes Boom · · Score: 1

    Well it kind of makes sense. Drone pilots only need a portion of the training. They don't need to be physically conditioned to deal with g forces, how to survive an ejection and most of their communication (radio/etc) is probably handled by somebody else in the room.

  5. Re:Canada is run by a dictatorship on Canada Launches ACTA Bill · · Score: 1

    Make that 12. off-by-one bites me again. But my point still stands.

  6. Re:Canada is run by a dictatorship on Canada Launches ACTA Bill · · Score: 1

    As much as I do not like Harper, he was elected under the rules. Even if we assume the robocall, etc. stuff happened as alleged, it wouldn't necessarily be enough to take away from his majority government.

    11 less seats (166 won, 155 needed) and he would have lost his majority government. He wouldn't "necessarily" have lost it, but there's still a damn good chance he would have.

  7. Re:Translation: We Don't Have Gigabit Fiber on Time Warner Cable: No Consumer Demand For Gigabit Internet · · Score: 1

    For me it's the up speed that pisses me off. I have 20/0.5 (yes, that's a decimal!) for over $50/month in Canada. To get above 15mbps up I have to pay well over $100/month and that's only if they happen to offer it in your area.

  8. Re:Translation: We Don't Have Gigabit Fiber on Time Warner Cable: No Consumer Demand For Gigabit Internet · · Score: 1

    Just use a different DNS server.

  9. Re:How about the price? on Time Warner Cable: No Consumer Demand For Gigabit Internet · · Score: 1

    Where is your imagination now? Exactly where are you going that is going to require you to go 100km/h?

    • Doing remote backups to/from a friend's house.
    • Accessing files from home as if they were on your local machine.
    • Synchronising your music from your computer to your phone from the airport before you flight leaves.
    • Letting MULTIPLE people browse your photo gallery on your home server's website.
    • Uploading youtube videos in seconds instead of hours.

    Intead of asking "what do you need it for" ask "what could you use it for". People don't demand it because servives don't use it beceause people don't have it because people don't demand it.

  10. Re:You've come to the right place. on Home Server On IPv6-only Internet Connection? · · Score: 1

    If his home server is on IPv6 and he has to worry about dynamic IP's, his ISP is doing something terribly, terribly wrong.

  11. Re:Slashvertisment on CES: American-Made, Industrial-Strength Smartphone and Tablet Cases (Video) · · Score: 1

    It looks like they intentionally make the outer edge of the case more malleable so that it will absorb the force of an impact instead of sending the shock trough the device hidden within.

  12. Re:Had this problem on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    Last i checked woks, pringles cans and tinfoil glued to paper were within a high-school student's budget.

  13. Re:More like Nikon is the victim. on Nikon Buckles To Microsoft, Will Pay "Android Tax" For Smart Cameras · · Score: 1

    Do you stop talking to friends because they paid for Windows?

    I would if they walked into BestBuy, approached the cashier and said "Please send this $100 for a windows license to Microsoft. Oh, no, I don't need a copy, thanks."

  14. Re:Of course it is! on Microsoft Azure Overtakes Amazon's Cloud In Performance Test · · Score: 5, Funny

    If a system is fast but nobody is there to use it, does it do things quickly?

  15. Re:Does your router support captive portal? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    Due to the amount of effort this guy is obviously putting into getting into this network there are 3 possibilities I can think of:
    A) He is planning some VERY illegal activities he does not want tied to his connection.
    B) The submitter has some VERY valuable on his network and failed to mention it
    C) The attacker has some kind of mental illness and has fixated himself on this person for some weird reason.

    C is unlikely and if B were true, the submitter would know this and probably not attract unwanted attention which leaves the most likely (and dangerous) option A) for which such actions would be fully acceptable.

  16. Re:Hello, IT on NASA Loses Contact With Space Station Over Software Update · · Score: 1

    Actually I am (I've seen every episode). Maybe you haven't seen Lord of The Rings.

  17. Re:Oxford on Oxford Temporarily Blocks Google Docs To Fight Phishing · · Score: 1

    They don't _claim_ there's anything particularly secure about PayPass etc.

    When I got my new credit card I actually phoned the company and specificaly requested (quite firmly) that they deactivate the feature on my card. I know they can't "special make" me a card that doesn't have the chip, but they absolutely REFUSED to deactivate such payments on my credit card account. They also kept repeating (as if they were reading) that it is completly secure.

  18. Re:Had this problem on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    But did you try it with a directional antenna? I've seen those suckers work from BLOCKS away!

  19. Re:Whitelist!? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but they are transmitted in cleartext every time one of your devices connects to it.

  20. Re:Don't need a directional antena on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    Anyone who clicks on an exe download on slashdot should NOT be matching witts with someone that knows how to perform WPA2 intercepts.

  21. Re:Does your router support captive portal? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter. Say that you suspect he's using your internet for identity theft/child porn/terrorism/etc and they may just send someone over.

  22. Re:i like to limit my DHCP scope on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    Dude, my phone actually LISTS hidden access points as "". Time to stop making yourself a target.

  23. Re:Next, Perl ? on Python Trademark Filer Ignorant of Python? · · Score: 1

    Does perl have a soul?

  24. Re:Hackers reported that the malware "just worked. on Apple Hit By Hackers Who Targeted Facebook · · Score: 1

    Being that this was a Java exploit which required a visit to a website at the least, I would say that those that got infected have more time on their hands than they know what to do with.

    Security starts and ends with the user. If someone gets a virus, it is most likely that they do not care, are not paying attention, or are clicking on stupid links that go to stupid things that are not related to their work duties.

    Corporations have yet to learn that training is required (less than 30 minutes to show someone the tricks to look out for), and an actual damage assessment and punishment system in relationship to breaches.

    Sure IT may get an increase in calls at the start, but it is worth it in the long run.

    Riiiigth.

  25. Re:Pirate a pirate on TPB Files Police Complaint Against CPIAC for Copying Website · · Score: 1

    Bullshit.

    Bullshit bullshit.