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  1. Re:America on DHS Detains Mayor of Stockton, CA, Forces Him To Hand Over His Passwords · · Score: 1

    You have to be a heartless psychopath to even get the job.

    Agreed and you have to be in collusion with all the other powerful psychopaths as well.

  2. Re:Jumping to the conclusion on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Android Malware? · · Score: 1

    Replying to undo a mismod

  3. Re:You're naive. on Volkswagen Ordered To Recall 500K Vehicles Over Its Own Malicious Programming · · Score: 1

    Around here, I get my car's emission test done at a drive-through oil-change place. It's all they do there. Never a garage where other repairs are offered. Kind of like the separation between doctor and pharmacist.

  4. A breach is very different from a policy.

  5. Airtime on John McAfee On Why He's Running For President · · Score: 1

    I hope they mention his name on mainstream media a few times so my coworkers might finally stop pronouncing it MAC'afee.

  6. Re:Not many morals in the federation really on The Politics of Star Trek · · Score: 1

    In the pilot, Dr Crusher is shopping in the mall at Farpoint and asks to have something charged to her account.

  7. Re:Glued to their damned faces ... on Most People Use Their Phones During Social Events, Despite Thinking It Harms Conversation · · Score: 1

    I have a coworker who even interrupts himself whenever his phone makes a sound. He'll stop talking mid-sentence and forget what he was talking about after he's finished fussing with his facebox or whatever. He'll ask to be reminded what he was talking about but never gets an answer. Like we're all supposed to wait in suspense for the rest of the sentence.

  8. Re:Nothing New Here... on A Breakdown of the Windows 10 Privacy Policy · · Score: 1

    Right on. I admit I never really gave them much thought before, but simply can't agree to the new eula.

  9. Re:I'm not worried about performance on Virgin Media To Base a Public Wi-Fi Net On Paying Customers' Routers · · Score: 1
    The public's traffic will be logically separated from the router's main user.

    the publicly viewable overlay would operate over "a completely separate connection,"

  10. Re:Let me get this straight on Amazon Work-Life Balance Defender: Prior Employer Nearly Killed Me and My Team · · Score: 1

    Yup, and his disagreement is based on "other managers abuse too"

  11. Re:False dichotomy on Donald Trump Thinks Going To Mars Would Be "Wonderful" But There Is a Catch · · Score: 1

    Space exploration is needed for long-term survival - ours and every other known form of life. This place isn't forever.

  12. Trust Indeed on Tech Firms, Retailers Propose Security and Privacy Rules For Internet of Things · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Microsoft:

    We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders)...

  13. Re:Snooping... on Microsoft Releases Windows 10 IoT Core For Small, Embedded Devices · · Score: 1
    Sure sounds that way:

    We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders)...

  14. Re:Already propagating on Coca-Cola To Fund Research That Shifts Blame For Obesity Away From Bad Diets · · Score: 1

    Unless you have a calorimeter in your pipe, that equation is worth exactly 1000 millipiles of poo (or about a day's worth)

  15. Re:or $2,000 per household, owed by non-subscriber on Big Telecoms Strangling Municipal Broadband, FCC Intervention May Provide Relief · · Score: 1

    The municipality can build a network infrastructure without necessarily providing Internet service. You could wind up with a wider choice of ISPs.

  16. Re:"Energy Balance" an overly simplistic view on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    energy consumed minus energy used

    They never talk about energy excreted. It could be that different bacteria in different people's intestines may also burn more or less energy, which wouldn't be known without studying fecal matter. But I'm not volunteering.

  17. Re:Amazing work.. on Star Trek Continues Kickstarter 2.0 · · Score: 1

    I fully expected them to spend the next movie going back to 'correct the timeline' and save Vulcan. They've gone back to save other things, why not for a whole planet? Leaving it destroyed is kinda un-treklike.

  18. Re:my lightbulbs are on the internet! on Nest Will Now Work With Your Door Locks, Light Bulbs and More · · Score: 1

    I can confirm the bridge that comes with Philips Hue lights has a wired ethernet port (no wifi), an open restful api and works just fine without access to the Internet.

  19. Re:News for Nerds? on Tim Cook: "I'm Proud To Be Gay" · · Score: 1

    May your opinion receive exactly the attention it deserves.

  20. Re:Can we skip this stage of UI on Microsoft Shows Off Its Vision For Gesture-Controlled PCs · · Score: 1

    maximizing windows ... non-mouse hand

    ALT-Space-X does that

  21. Re:If his initials were NSA on Arrest Made In Webcam Highjacking Extortion Case · · Score: 1

    Agreed. My Logitech camera has a light but sadly it's controlled by software and can be turned on or off independently from the camera. W.T.F???

  22. Re:He just sold a hell of a lot of pasta on Social Networks Force Barilla Chairman To Apologize For His Anti-gay Remarks · · Score: 1

    deviant behavior

    If there isn't anything you do that someone somewhere would consider deviant, I feel sorry for you.

  23. Re:Bogus headline, flamebait. Shame, EFF. on EFF Slams Google Fiber For Banning Servers On Its Network · · Score: 1

    posting to undo mod misclick

  24. Re:Serious Rethinking on Why the Internet Needs Cognitive Protocols · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Want to know how much electricity my dumb toaster consumes when I'm not using it? None. Zero. Dumb toasters rule!

  25. Re:nope on Windows: Not Doomed Yet · · Score: 1

    Yes! The ribbon... Death to the ribbon!!