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  1. Something like an Apple Store? Microsoft Store? Something else?

    So you're really just asking what it should *look* like? As in, what should the aesthetic design be?

    Nah, he's asking whether it should be like an Apple store and filled with people or like a Microsoft store and usually deserted except for the people who work there... ;-)

  2. Re:Snowden + Russia + no encryption = ? on Edward Snowden Is Not Dead Despite Mysterious Tweets, Says Glenn Greenwald (inquisitr.com) · · Score: 1

    The only exception the Russian law gives is for agents of the state and foreign embassies. There are no other exceptions but you can go on believing that he can use outlawed methods to communicate "because you think so".

  3. Re:Sounds like bullshit to me. on Peter Thiel Is Interested In Harvesting The Blood Of The Young (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone that isn't a Gawker employee would take a quick look at their history and understand. Why are you incapable of backing away from Gawker as a reliable source? Why must you continually use ad-hominems instead of answering simple questions?

  4. Re:Snowden + Russia + no encryption = ? on Edward Snowden Is Not Dead Despite Mysterious Tweets, Says Glenn Greenwald (inquisitr.com) · · Score: 1

    The point is that the use of such is illegal in Russia today so either:
    1) Snowden is breaking Russian laws by using outlawed methods to communicate and will shortly be thrown in a Russian Jail
    2) Snowden has given copies of all his keys to the Russian Government and nothing sent-to/received from him is safe
    3) Snowden is now a Russian agent (has been all along?)

    In any case, secure/confidential communication with him is no longer possible.

  5. Snowden + Russia + no encryption = ? on Edward Snowden Is Not Dead Despite Mysterious Tweets, Says Glenn Greenwald (inquisitr.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Russia which is harbouring Snowden has made it illegal to use encryption unless you give them a copy of the keys used.

    So, how exactly is Snowden supposed to be conversing with others without friendly old Vlad listening in?

  6. Re:Sounds like bullshit to me. on Peter Thiel Is Interested In Harvesting The Blood Of The Young (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you a (soon to be ex-) Gawker employee? It'd explain your inability to recognise or admit Gawker for the lying muckraking entity that it has proven to be. In fact it fits perfectly with your ad-hominem & non-sequitur filled statements you have displayed to date.

  7. Re:Sounds like bullshit to me. on Peter Thiel Is Interested In Harvesting The Blood Of The Young (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't have to call you a liar, you did that to yourself when you stated "If i took gawker at face value" as you'd have to know something about them, and then directly contradicted yourself with "I don't know anything about Gawker". Your continued refusal to back away from claiming Gawker as a reliable source also makes you a fool.

  8. Re:Sounds like bullshit to me. on Peter Thiel Is Interested In Harvesting The Blood Of The Young (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    For you, dim appears to be asking for you to renounce Gawker as a reliable source, or to be coherent in your claimed ignorance of Gawker when called upon to renounce them as a reliable source. A "lemme check, ah yeah they're really not a source I should've relied upon" is clearly beyond you. No, for you, reading something on the internets, whether it be Gawker or "my struggle", that makes it credible enough for you to use and promote.

    It leaves one with the distinct impression that you know much more of Gawker than you admit.

  9. Re:Sounds like bullshit to me. on Peter Thiel Is Interested In Harvesting The Blood Of The Young (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, Used the sig loooong ago for a specific /. message, never saw any reason to change it and have been amused a number of times since when twits attempted to equate it with something.

    What's this? "If i took gawker at face value" you'd have to know something about them, directly contradicting "I don't know anything about Gawker". So which is it?

  10. Re:Sounds like bullshit to me. on Peter Thiel Is Interested In Harvesting The Blood Of The Young (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    Well then, my advice on not believing anything Gawker has ever written and refuting your implicit agreement with their bullshit holds. Funny that you're unable to say so, it's as if you'd like to slam Thiel for something but have nothing other than the repugnant Gawker to do it with.

    I've often used Winnie's Democracy quote on /. myself.

  11. Re:Sounds like bullshit to me. on Peter Thiel Is Interested In Harvesting The Blood Of The Young (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    Some sources do not merit to be referenced without qualifiers such as "from what has been written -- which coming from Gawker deserves no merit whatsoever" as otherwise you appear to be giving the unreliable source some credence. So, are you giving Gawker any credence or not?

  12. Re:Sounds like bullshit to me. on Peter Thiel Is Interested In Harvesting The Blood Of The Young (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    From what's been written by Gawker.

    I'm no Thiel fan but I think we'd all be better off not believing anything Gawker has ever written.

  13. The pro audio crowdfunding will continue to use Jacks. Everyone else? Not needed.

    It's already to the point where eveyone who comes to my house and wants to play a song asks if they can AirPlay/chromecast it.

  14. Every single computer, router, modem, firewall and most printers came with serial ports a decade or so ago and the Gordian panties crowd was just as worked up about losing the internal serial port. USB dongles? NOT ACCEPTABLE!!! WHINE!!!

    Now, most new network equipment comes with USB serial ports or can be configured over a management ether port and the predicted fall of civilisation has not come to pass (however with Trump/Hillary...).

    Most new TVs, sound systems, game boxes are ethernet/wifi connected and know how to chromecast/airplay/DLNA/...

    Technology moves on. Deal with it.

  15. Re:Cut the fake histrionics. on Phones Without Headphone Jacks Are Here... and They're Extremely Annoying (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    So, AC, where were you when serial ports were no longer on the newest models? You're either too young to remember (in which case, grow a pair, log in and learn to do your own research, worm) or purposefully forgetting the apple bashing fests of yore where haters were predicting that Apple would burn in flames for removing the holy serial port.

    The histrionics are on the part of those claiming that the sky is falling because some phones will no longer have a mini-jack.

  16. Re:Passcode? on Homeland Security Border Agents Can Seize Your Phone (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Which is why if you worry about "the evil government you" turn it off before the border as iOS refuses to unlock with SecureID after a reboot. If you're using an old iPhone or an android leave it at home as they are essentially insecure.

  17. When PC's started coming out without serial ports, I remember the exact same gnashing of teeth, and wailing that this was a technology that HAD to be present on all PCS because of it's idiot-proof design and the fact that EVERYONE needed it for one thing or another. MY GOD PEOPLE, CIVILIZATION WOULD FALL WITHOUT INTERNAL SERIAL PORTS!!!

    Fast forward to today: Yeah, I have a USB-serial cable in my bag which I use regularly but I'm the vanishingly small exception and almost nobody cares. This panty knotting party will blow over and be forgotten in a few years as well.

  18. Re:My illusions have been shattered on UK Gov Says New Home Sec Will Have Powers To Ban End-to-end Encryption (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Really? You anticipated it? Your assumed superiority must make you feel so superior to everyone you meet. Too bad both are lies you tell yourself to make yourself feel less alone.

  19. Re:I believe this violates the Outer Space Treaty on Russia Is Building a Nuclear Space Bomber (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    "planned to only ascend": What exactly is it "ascending" with? MPPSP? Magic Putin Pixy Snorting Powder?

    The X37B is launched with an Atlas V so if this russian nationalist's wet dream is anything like the X37B it's just a jumped up ICBM.

  20. Re:My illusions have been shattered on UK Gov Says New Home Sec Will Have Powers To Ban End-to-end Encryption (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I argued that the protest vote was more important, giving the example of France which is clearly pro-european yet shot down a european referendum to protest an unpopular government.

    You argue that "many" brexit voters are closet racists because you label them so -- with no further proof than your opinion.

    There is indeed an idiot here, but it's not me.

  21. Re:My illusions have been shattered on UK Gov Says New Home Sec Will Have Powers To Ban End-to-end Encryption (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    So all brexit voters are just racists that don't realise that they are racists... because you say that they are racists. That certainly makes everything clear.

    France had it's own referendum on Europe in 1995 that was defeated by an even higher margin than for brexit. Not because the majority that voted no is racist, but exactly like for the brits as a protest vote against an unpopular government. The only difference is that Sarkozy overrode the referendum and agreed to the European Constitution anyway whereas Cameron folded like a dishrag.

  22. Re:My illusions have been shattered on UK Gov Says New Home Sec Will Have Powers To Ban End-to-end Encryption (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    That there are UK racists who voted for brexit but that does not mean that everyone who voted for brexit is a racist. Many who oppose racism voted brexit to protest the former government and/or because Corbyn, the current Labor head thinks that he has a better chance at becoming PM without the rest of the EEC socialists telling everyone he's daft.

  23. Re:It's the economy, stupid on Bitcoin 'Miners' Face Fight For Survival As New Supply Halves (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    So why bring it up, other than to attempt once again to paint your falsehoods as truths? What's rich is that the acuisition of German subs by Greece was something the _Greeks_ requested as an addition to their bill, not something the Germans were foisting unwanted upon the Greeks. Given how deep into debt the Greeks are, it's a hidden subsidy to HDW by the German government that will be forgiven and never repaid. Kockums should be complaining but you don't notice the Greeks or the Germans saying anything.

    And again, the Greeks free capitol addicts did not get to take everyone's money to continue living beyond their means. Once they showed signs of kicking their free spending ways they received more loans. The only ressemblance to a loan shark is in the mind of those for whom thievery is justifiable.

  24. Re:The lesson to learn here on Kentucky Anonymous Member Indicted Three Years After FBI Raid (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That would be the lesson you would draw from this...

  25. It's the economy, stupid on Bitcoin 'Miners' Face Fight For Survival As New Supply Halves (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah so it is the submarines that were the biggest issue in the Greek debt crisis. Yup, that's what every meeting between the Greeks and the IMF/EEC spent the most time on which was reflected in the importance Submarines were given in newspaper headlines of the day where The Submarine Issue dominated economic reform...

    That you think an argument as weak and easily provable as a minor detail as this is is important shows how poorly you understand the Greek crisis & the IMF. It does serve to clearly display (at least some of) your bias though.