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  1. Re:Sounds good to me on U.S. Gov't Still Fighting the Man Behind Buckyballs; Guess Who's Winning? · · Score: 1

    s/buckyballs/any product that could potentially cause harm to anyone/g

    Say goodbye to commerce.

  2. Evidence? on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered · · Score: 1

    Call me skeptical, but...

    I know it's been said there's no doubt that Assad is responsible for this. But is there actually any evidence of this? And if there is, why aren't we seeing that evidence plastered over the media?

  3. Re:GoDaddy IIS on Apache Web Server Share Falls Below 50 Percent For First Time Since 2009 · · Score: 1

    They switched because your assumptions are wrong.

  4. Re:Idea on Bill Gates Promotes Vaccine Projects, Swipes At Google · · Score: 1

    news flash: if you have a savings account then you have are invested in the same companies.

  5. Re:Dissapointing... on Bill Gates Promotes Vaccine Projects, Swipes At Google · · Score: 1

    sounds like pascal's wager to me.

  6. Re:Gates needs to see it from other viewpoints on Bill Gates Promotes Vaccine Projects, Swipes At Google · · Score: 1

    1) the wi-fi balloon will provide more opportunity for Google.com to sell ads
    2) the gates foundation is a philanthropic institution. google.org is a philanthropic institution.

  7. Re:That's Just Silly on Bill Gates Promotes Vaccine Projects, Swipes At Google · · Score: 1

    he's finding ways his philanthropy is better than what everyone else is doing

    either that, or he's trying to find the best ways to help people...

  8. Re:Bull-Fucking-Shit on Encrypted Email Provider Lavabit Shuts Down, Blames US Gov't · · Score: 1

    the problem is that a statute is not unconstitutional until the supreme court says so.

  9. Re:Bull-Fucking-Shit on Encrypted Email Provider Lavabit Shuts Down, Blames US Gov't · · Score: 1

    actually, these bullshit laws are legal until the supreme court rules otherwise. however, since the these laws are secret, and the FISA court that deals with them is secret, and has already ruled that everything the NSA does is legal, it's going to be a warm day in hell before any objection ever reaches the supreme court.

  10. Re:How about ssh? Http? on Ask Slashdot: Secure DropBox Alternative For a Small Business? · · Score: 1

    yeah, let me know when you have that working... until then, i'm running sync...

  11. bittorrent sync on Ask Slashdot: Secure DropBox Alternative For a Small Business? · · Score: 1

    it's not open-source, if you care about that, and it's still in beta (what isn't these days?), but it's free, secure and it works well.

  12. Re:Oops, forgot Visual C++ 4.0 on Windows NT Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    huh? everything in that wikipedia (except the name 'developer studio' which was decided on for 4.0 by Julie Larson in a rather contentious meeting) was part of Visual C++ 2.0.

  13. Re:Lesson One on Windows NT Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    DLLs are entirely user-mode.

    absolutely nothing to do with the kernel.

  14. Re:Ah, the mythical CS skills shortage on MS Tackles CS Education Crisis With Popularity Contest · · Score: 1
  15. Re: A whole 100,000 bucks? on MS Tackles CS Education Crisis With Popularity Contest · · Score: 1

    most of those skilled permanent residents came here first on H1B.

  16. Re:It just takes one. on German Drone Darts Off and Hits Transport Plane On Ground · · Score: 1

    GOSUB yourself

  17. Re:bittorrent sync fs on BitTorrent Sync Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Imagine you have a lot of music or movies and want to keep them in sync in multiple locations securely

    isn't this exactly what BTsync does?

  18. Re:Enough with the cloud crap already!! on Dropbox Wants To Replace Your Hard Disk · · Score: 1

    I use bittorrent's syncapp to sync my documents folder between my various machines. It's pretty-much the best thing ever.

  19. Re:PRISM leak: Dropbox soon on Dropbox Wants To Replace Your Hard Disk · · Score: 2

    Better yet, encrypt the cat pictures and give them suspicious sounding file names. Revel in joy when you hand over the keys to the judge...

  20. really? on Exposed SSH Key Means US Emergency Alert System Can Be Hacked · · Score: 1

    Although there was no zombie apocalypse...

    oh, phew. thanks for that.

  21. Re:Makes sense on HTTP 2.0 Will Be a Binary Protocol · · Score: 1

    same for all those silly files in /etc. bring on the registry!

  22. Re:Makes sense on HTTP 2.0 Will Be a Binary Protocol · · Score: 1

    are you saying that php, perl, ruby, java, etc... don't support sessions?

  23. Re:Bring back the Pharoahs on Egyptian President Overthrown, Constitution Suspended · · Score: 1

    I'm talking about the real world here...

  24. Re:regarding constitutions on Egyptian President Overthrown, Constitution Suspended · · Score: 1

    yeah, id' say any constitution that can be changed unilaterally is pretty flawed.

  25. Re:Bring back the Pharoahs on Egyptian President Overthrown, Constitution Suspended · · Score: 2

    how about just a strong secular constitution backed by an independent judiciary?

    hmm... July 4th might be a good day to declare you're going to do such a thing.

    a constitution that can be changed by the president when he feels like it is not worth the paper used to wipe the asses of the people that wrote it.