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  1. That's just too damn bad. on Weary Homeowners Wage War On Waze · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We are all paying the taxes necessary for you to have a road to your home. So get over it. If it was a private road, that you alone bared the burden of paying for, then Waze wouldn't use it.

  2. Bio auth NOT protected by 5th Amendment on Google Plans To Bring Password-Free Logins To Android Apps By Year-End (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Do not want. Courts can, and do, compel people to provide bio-metric data, as that is not protected by the 5th Amendment. Only passwords and pass-phrases are protected. Government agencies would LOVE this trend, especially if it became the only form of authentication on your device(s), as they wouldn't need a back door to your encryption anymore. Do not accept this weakening of your security.

  3. Hang him as a traitor. on Former Tor Developer Created Malware To Hack Tor Users For The FBI (dailydot.com) · · Score: 2

    Subject says it all.

  4. Oh my god... on Small and Heavy Arms Traded On Facebook By Libyan Militants (rt.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    they found me, I don't know how but they found me. Run for it, Marty!

  5. Re:The best part about this... on Hackers Leak List of FBI Employees (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, thank you. You cannot trust such people with anything in your company. They willingly and knowingly worked for agencies that break the law and violate citizens rights. They chose to be complicit by working there. That means their ethics are proven to be poor, at best. Them applying for your company could be part of an investigation, at the worst.

    Besides, if ever they were to lose their agency job, why would you reward their treason with a pay check? Let them starve.

  6. The best part about this... on Hackers Leak List of FBI Employees (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is we can use it to start making a hiring blacklist for the private sector. Refuse to ever employ anyone who's ever worked for the FBI. Hopefully this list can grow to include NSA, as well.

  7. So that means... on Twins Study Finds No Evidence That Marijuana Lowers IQ In Teens (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    ... my kid was always stupid, then? Well, shit. :(

  8. Why can't it be... on Comets Can't Explain Weird 'Alien Megastructure' Star After All (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    a planet that's broken up, creating an asteroid belt?

  9. I'd much rather have my ass beat or murdered by a criminal who likely will do hard time for it, than by a cop who gets away with it 'because he's a cop'.

  10. Welcome to the American FoxConn on The Google Employee Who Opted For a Truck Over Bay Area Rents (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Mired in debt, sleeping on corporate campus, don't even have a toilet of your own. Yup. Taste that American dream! ... tastes a bit nutty.

  11. You should have expected this. on Beware: FBI, Other Agencies Might Go After Your Voluntary DNA Records (theneworleansadvocate.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I did.

  12. Wipe it with stock or CM, then... on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Android Malware? · · Score: 2

    ...don't install stuff you don't need. Don't pirate apps. Educate yourself via XDA on what is safe, what is not, and what apps are simply performance suckers.

  13. You're opening the door to your competitors... on Netflix Is Becoming Just Another TV Channel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Taking away popular movie titles is only going to give your competitors an in. I didn't have to go see films at the theatre if I didn't want. It would end up on Netflix. I didn't need Comcast, it would end up Netflix.

    Simply put, if things stop coming to Netflix, so will the viewers. We aren't locked in to 2 year contracts, so we can come and go as we please. Maybe, Netflix, you should continue to court us.

  14. CLONE IT! on Four-legged Snake Fossil Stuns Scientists, Ignites Controversy · · Score: 2

    Need to know if it can talk!

  15. Are drones really THAT dangerous? on California Legislation May Allow First Responders To Take Out Drones · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm sure helicopters have to deal with birds sometimes. These drones don't appear to be that durable or heavy, are you telling me that the propeller blades can't handle these little things without causing a disaster?

    I am not a drone owner or user... but I just can't believe these things are that hazardous to an aircraft the size of a helicopter. Am I very very wrong here?

  16. Nice trains, or no. on Ask Slashdot: If Public Transport Was Free, Would You Leave Your Car At Home? · · Score: 1

    If the ride is in a well maintained and decent looking (and smelling) train, that delivers me to within a 20 minute walk of where I need to go, sure. But smelly buses, filled with smelly sick people, that make me wait in the cold and wet to transfer from place to place? No. Not when I can ride in comfort in my car, listening to my audio book, or my music... with the temperature set at what I prefer and air that doesn't stink of body odor, piss, vomit, or yes, as my wife has witnessed, even feces. Plus those buses can't even do the speed limit on the freeway, yet they are allowed to block the HOV lane at 35-40 MPH, when no one is holding them back.

    I loved it when I had a train to my work. Nice trains or no deal.

  17. He knew there was an investigation. on US Prosecutors Say Clearing Browser Data Can Be Obstruction of Justice · · Score: 2

    He already spoke to the police, then cleared his browser later. That means he knew there was some form of investigation already underway at the time he deleted the browser history.

    Unfortunately, I think that means intent doesn't matter now, except when it comes to sentencing. It was evidence, by not preserving it once he knew there was an investigation, he fell into the trap. He may have been ignorant of the trap, but he stepped in it.

    That sucks. But I don't see a way around them getting him for that.

  18. Good. on Mandriva CEO: Employee Lawsuits Put Us Out of Business · · Score: 1

    It was an overdue justice.

  19. Re:FINALLY! on Mandriva Goes Out of Business · · Score: 1

    Sad you folks consider it a troll. They really did do that, and left many of us really upset over it. Upset enough to stop buying their product and switch to other distributions.

  20. FINALLY! on Mandriva Goes Out of Business · · Score: -1, Troll

    Been waiting for this to happen ever since they pulled a bait and switch on the StarOffice deal many many years ago. Glad to see these charlatans shuttered. Victory!!! Take THAT, you lying jerks!

  21. Dear Peter F. Hamilton, on Biologists Create Self-Healing Concrete · · Score: 1

    You can now stop calling futuristic concrete 'enzyme bonded concrete'.

    Thank you,
    Reader

  22. Thank you AdBlock! on How Light at Night Affects Preschoolers' Sleep Patterns, Part Two (Video) · · Score: 2

    Was able to adblock the video thumb on the front page. Yay! Please don't clutter the front page with video crap.

  23. Simple, stop the IM, Email, and walk-up spam. on Technology and Ever-Falling Attention Spans · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Oh don't know, but if I could, you know, work through a ticket to completion without interruption, that would be great!

    * Boss promotes too many tickets at once to the same priority. Meaning you work 3,4,5 or more tasks at the same time with similar time tables.
    * People with tickets given a lower priority IM you again and again, and you keep telling them they are a priority 2 or 3... And until all the p0 and p1's are gone, you'll never even get a chance to look at it. Take it up with the boss if you want a higher priority.
    * Dev and QA email threads you don't need to be on (yet, maybe) spamming your inbox. But you need to check if they actually are asking you something now, so you stop to read it.
    * Walk ups. - Same as IM.

    Let people focus on a task and get it done. If they get blocked, let them tell you they are blocked, and they can move onto another task until the first one becomes unblocked. It really can be that simple, if people will let it.

  24. Finally, a hiring black list! on LinkedIn Used To Create Database of 27,000 US Intelligence Personnel · · Score: 1

    May they never be able to get a job on the outside ever again! The price you pay for betraying your country and spying on your own.

  25. Re: Piracy will not cease on UK IP Chief Wants ISPs To Police Piracy Proactively · · Score: 1

    I don't pirate Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Why? Because it's available via an affordable subscription to watch whenever I want. Go Netflix!