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  1. Re:Then break my OTP! on Canadian Mint To Create Digital Currency · · Score: 2

    The encryption no. The device used to perform it, hell yes!

  2. Re:A better name on Canadian Mint To Create Digital Currency · · Score: 1

    That's the really strange part, unless you go south of Oregon, Americans don't sound very different to us Canadians. Then again, I live on the west coast, so there is a less french influence over here...

  3. Re:More Patents on Using Non-Newtonian Fluids To Fill Potholes · · Score: 1

    The trick in keeping the right proportions of water and starch, something that rain and sun will contrive to disrupt. Burst their bag and you have a big mess.

    Caption of the first image at the top of the page of TFA "Prototype. Waterproof bags filled with a shear-thickening fluid that resists compression when run over by traffic."

  4. Re:Perfect example of scope creep. on Interview With TSA Screener Reveals 'Fatal Flaws' · · Score: 1

    Having a joint is of no threat to the aircraft

    So long as you aren't the pilot

  5. Re:Fun prank of the week! on US Carriers Finally Doing Something About Cellphone Theft · · Score: 1

    The iPhone is no the only phone in the world you know.

  6. Re:Do employers really ask for your fb password? on Maryland Bans Employers From Asking For Facebook Passwords · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In British Columbia, Canada there is actually a list of things an employer is NOT allowed to ask you (age, marital status, religion, sexual orientation, etc), and almost all of them can be answered by viewing your facebook account.

  7. Re:When people abuse prices go up on Best Buy Scans Drivers License For Returns — No More Allowed For 90 Days · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I would have asked them why they are re-stocking a broken T.V.

  8. Re:Fun prank of the week! on US Carriers Finally Doing Something About Cellphone Theft · · Score: 1

    Except the phone won't be dissabled or bricked, carriers will just refuse to activate the phone on their network.

  9. Re:Fun prank of the week! on US Carriers Finally Doing Something About Cellphone Theft · · Score: 2

    Most stolen phones are not stolen for the phone itself, they are stolen for the already-paid-for plan by people who run drugs/etc. The only thing more anonymous than a pre-paid cellphone is a STOLEN pre-paid cellphone!

  10. Re:What about multinationals in China? on FBI Says American Universities Infiltrated by Spies · · Score: 1

    This just in, wage deprived 10 year olds in China know more about your iPad than you do!

  11. Re:The japanese on FBI Says American Universities Infiltrated by Spies · · Score: 4, Funny

    Patent trolls would sue anyone who had a bit of land that sloped into the ocean, a pool, a pond, a bird feeder, someone's iced tea or any other body of liquid.

    FTFY

  12. Re:Ummm.... on Windows 8 Metro Theme Created For Rooted Android Tablets · · Score: 1

    I'll just leave this here...
    http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android

  13. Re:The summary makes it sound as if on Windows 8 Metro Theme Created For Rooted Android Tablets · · Score: 1

    No, but there is a patent.

  14. Re:Unregistered boyfriends on IBM Patent: Smart Floors Detect Heart Attacks, Intruders · · Score: 1

    And what, praytell, would those wheels be sitting on?

  15. Re:Some possible models on Ask Slashdot: Viable Open Source Models For Early Startups? · · Score: 1

    Regarding 1) Nobody is going to want to contribute to an open source project if they can't read the docs. Don't expect ANY community patches or help if you go this route!

  16. Re:Sunset on Ask Slashdot: Viable Open Source Models For Early Startups? · · Score: 1

    If your proposing to release the previous version as open source every time a new version is release you are not going to get any community members working on it beceause they know any changes they make (and try to submit upstream) will probably be incompatible with the changes you are making on the currently-propietary version. Open Source (with collaboration) ONLY works when all parties are working on the SAME version. Otherwise all you will end up with is a fork every time a new version is released.

  17. Re:Who pays for the tile servers? on Wikipedia Mobile Apps Switch To OpenStreetMap · · Score: 2

    I'm fairly certain that our mapping rate has platoed and will increase at a logarithmic rate. The only exception would be if detail became increased (topo, satelite, etc). But as for roads/lake/borders, those are about as precise as anyone would need already (we just have some missing pieces so far).

  18. Re:Which collection? on Wikipedia Mobile Apps Switch To OpenStreetMap · · Score: 1

    Cubemail, Squirelmail, etc all have Ajax and contact.
    Archiving is as simple as "move to archives/" to match google's
    for collaborative anti-spam (and I don't even think google's IS collaborative) you can use spam-assasin on the server, the client (thunderbird, etc), or anywhere else along the line
    for searching there is thunderbird's search or notmuch search (both of which I have used and are VERY powerful).
    for the server itself you can go with dovecot or any number of OSS mail servers.

    Bonus: many e-mail clients support enigmail or simliar, gmail still relies on unsupported browser plugins for that!

    The nice thing about e-mail is that there is actually very little "glue code" required between the modules at all.

  19. Re:Pie in the sky on How To Share a Cake Over the Internet · · Score: 1

    There is a HUGE difference between a "strong" computer opponent and rubber band AI. Both can win, yes, but with a "strong" opponent, the better you play, the better you place. With rubberband AI, a noobie will get about the same placement as a professional since the strength of the AI is not fixed. I've seen NFS computer oponents half a lap behind go 600Km/h (250 is the fastest car in the game) to catch up and pass the human player on the last lap. It's not the difficulty that pisses off the players, it's the inconsistency. If the computer is able to do a lap in 1.5 minutes, then their is a goal to reach. If the AI is simply programmed to do the lap 3 seconds faster than you then it completely destroys the players will to play better.

  20. Re:Pie in the sky on How To Share a Cake Over the Internet · · Score: 1

    Tell that to EA. They are *still* resorting to $@&#% rubberband AI to make their games competitive.

  21. Re:thoughts on Update On Wayland and X11 Support · · Score: 1

    True, but you don't need to have the bloody thing RUNNING (hdd space is MUCH cheaper than memory)!

  22. Re:No thanks. on Battery-Powered Plasma Flashlight Makes Short Work of Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Do you know the name(s) of the dissinfectant(s) that you are allergic to? You only mentioned anti-bacterials in your comment.

  23. Re:HTTP Policies on Some Hotspot Operators Secretly Intercept, Insert Ads In Web Pages · · Score: 1

    The only things a secure access point are good for are protecting your LAN and protecting your bandwidth. Browsing the internet over a WPA2 connection is no more secure than browsing over an unencrypted connection because once the packets leave your router, all bets are off anyways. Using a WPA2 encrypted router to connect to unencrypted destinations on the internet is like a general giving his order to his messenger in code, who then writes it on his forehead before walking through the enemy command center.

  24. Re:What about older devices? on AT&T To Unlock Out-of-Contract iPhones · · Score: 1

    It won't cost you anything to call them and ask anyways (well, unless your phone plan REALLY sucks!).

  25. Re:We're NOT talking on Update On Wayland and X11 Support · · Score: 1

    Not all of it, just the portion of the libraries used by the clients.