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  1. Re:yeah okay on I Like My IT Budget Tight and My Developers Stupid · · Score: 1

    For example for the comment box, which is quite nice with its real time updating, image adding etc.

    Yeah yeah, we get off your lawn now...

  2. Re:yeah okay on I Like My IT Budget Tight and My Developers Stupid · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's why it's inevitable that everything will soon be moved to cheaper countries. That's why US is fighting so hard to get strict copyrights all over the world now, because entertainment is basically the only thing US still has major lead in. But growing amount of people are starting to understand there might be better entertainment than the bubblegum hollywood stuff. The giant is falling and trying to fight back off its inevitable end.

  3. Re:One right here! on Ubuntu Aims For 200 Million Users In Four Years · · Score: 5, Funny

    I personally find this good solution. You get the stability of Ubuntu, eye-candy of Mac and the security of Windows.

  4. Porn industry on The Dirtiest Jobs in IT · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A few years ago I was really actively working on porn industry, but against common believe it's not really that dirty. Well, for the women maybe. But otherwise it's really professional and actually a fun industry to work on.

  5. Re:Redirects on Drudge Generates More News Traffic Than Social Media · · Score: 2

    Even if they go via bit.ly the referrer still shows them coming from Twitter.

    It's a stupid comparison anyway, people go to Drudge to read news (I guess, I've never used it before) and Twitter isn't the same. Also Drudge only contains links to news sites, so there isn't anything else to click on anyway.

  6. Re:Ugly on Drudge Generates More News Traffic Than Social Media · · Score: 1

    Well, slashdot includes actual content like summaries and lots of comments. I do understand why the report it says it brings a lot of traffic to news site tho, since there is nothing else than external links to click on. Social media is a lot more than that.

  7. Re:Encrypt Everything Private on File-hosting Sites Not a Safe Haven For Private Data · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Crypting your data won't save it from rootkit...

  8. Re:Only a few left.... on Marking 125 Years Since the Great Gauge Change · · Score: 2

    Date format is stupid all around the world. Everyone should just use 2011-05-08 15:00. Yes, drop the stupid am/pm stuff too.

  9. And still shortsighted on Marking 125 Years Since the Great Gauge Change · · Score: 0

    It needs to be done once again when larger areas want to connect. And then continents. And again until we actually get the whole world to use the same. And by that time trains are obsolete already.

  10. Re:VPN? on Ask Slashdot: Alternatives To Tor Browser Bundle For Windows? · · Score: 1

    Well, you can use several VPN's between. That way the traffic that goes encrypted between you and first VPN won't leave unencrypted there. But yeah, you always have to trust the person or company that keeps it.

  11. Re:Tor on Ask Slashdot: Alternatives To Tor Browser Bundle For Windows? · · Score: 2

    DNS resolving depends on settings. You're correct about MAC addresses, but it's good to remember them too since they are still somewhat relevant if you really want good anonymity.

  12. Tor on Ask Slashdot: Alternatives To Tor Browser Bundle For Windows? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I personally find it funny when people use Tor and then leave behind the same cookies, the same user-agent, LSO and Flash cookies, same system configuration, same screen size, same fonts, same installation and versions of plugins, same MAC address, don't change DNS servers and countless amount of other things that make it very easy to identify your other activity or what you're doing. Especially to Google via Google Analytics.

    Nevermind also that half of the TOR network end nodes are monitored and sniff your traffic and can modify your browsing session in various ways. Just imagine the fun when you happen to use an end node that serves you a drive-by download exploit instead of the page you requested.

  13. Re:Clueless author on Groupon Deal Costs Photographer a Year's Free Work · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Besides, this guy or we know nothing at all about his business idea. Why does everyone just suddenly think he's some kind of a retard? Oh right, this is the internet..

    What if he has calculated that he can make a nice profit by selling them additional services? What if he has some students working for free and he is "outsourcing" the job to them, so that the students get experience and pass the class in school? What if..? You get the idea.

    Be it any way, if he has a good enterpreunish idea that the day-job-working newspaper-photographer just couldn't think he might be making good money on this. If he really didn't see it thru fully, he can cancel it and everyone just lost a few minutes. But people should stop thinking that everyone else is an idiot.

  14. Re:MPAA and Google on Google/Facebook: Do-Not-Track Threatens CA Economy · · Score: 1

    I take it you haven't heard about geo ip then. Yes, IP ranges have locations stored. Not in the number itself of course, but in separate databases.

    And it's not just ip and keywords you're seeing. You're also able to see where people click on the page. Since slashdot also has Google Analytics, all your individual clicks are all the time transferred to Google. Maybe they even store typing, I know several other web analytics services do. They know *exactly* what you're doing on the page, where you're clicking, what you're typing. Typed something and removed it afterwards? Yeah, they see that too.

  15. Re:FFS on Gitionary: the Git Party Game · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I have the same feeling. Now I usually just skip it completely in my rss reader, but when I happen to check it, it's still crap.

  16. Re:MPAA and Google on Google/Facebook: Do-Not-Track Threatens CA Economy · · Score: 1

    You know the notification that comes up when you lose your internet connectivity for whatever reason (excluding things like unplugging cable etc which are detectable)? Well, it needs to check for that somehow and you need to have a correctly responding party to surely know internet connection is working. You can disable that, of course.

  17. MPAA and Google on Google/Facebook: Do-Not-Track Threatens CA Economy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Would you really want MPAA to get limitless power to track your every movement? What next, install tracking equipment and video cameras in your home so can MPAA can make sure you aren't making backups own your movies? After all, that would be really good for MPAA and barring such would "unnecessarily burden MPAA and movie studios business".

    It's actually an interesting thing among slashthink. This is one thing Microsoft is doing right. You don't see Microsoft among the privacy invasive companies like MPAA, Time-Warner, Google, Facebook, ESA etc.. That's because they don't want to track your every movement. Microsoft sells you software. You buy it, they're happy, and you don't lose your privacy. Still most here think MS is evil and Google is some kind of white knight. Well, a few quotes.. Eric Schmidt: "We try very hard to look like we're out of control. But in fact the company is very measured. And that's part of our secret.". And Schmidt: "If I look at enough of your messaging and your location, and use artificial intelligence, we can predict where you are going to go ... show us 14 photos of yourself and we can identify who you are.", and again, "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

  18. So much fun! on Gitionary: the Git Party Game · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, this is going to be absolutely blast in parties!

    .. or what about if we would just even once leave the nerd stuff behind and, I don't know, talk with girls? Maybe even have sex with them? It's not going to hurt you..

  19. Re:There's still a lot to do in medicine on Doctors Are Creating Too Many Patients · · Score: 1

    Not specifically about shemales, I don't think that matters. However my patient papers does say I had countless amount of sex with both locals and local prostitutes, so I did tell that.

  20. There's still a lot to do in medicine on Doctors Are Creating Too Many Patients · · Score: 0

    Part of the explanation is technological: diagnostic tests able to detect biochemical and anatomic abnormalities that were undetectable in the past. 'But part of the explanation is behavioral: We look harder for things to be wrong.

    I wish this was true. I just spend 3 months in hospital after getting some disease in Asia. You want to know what disease? So would I know and probably the countless amount of different specialized doctors that were trying to figure out what I've got. I was unable to walk, even unable to move in bed first, I passed out for a week because I couldn't get oxygen and was put in to machines. They were sure that was the end of it and even called my relatives to come, because they were thinking I wont wake up. I of course don't remember any of it, I just remember that they plugged something on my neck when everything was hazy already and then I woke up one week later. I spent the next 2 months in bed, trying to get my legs working little by little. After 3 months I got out of hospital, but I still have pain in legs and my back and walking is a problem. I still have many hospital visits to come because my heart, lungs and liver are all destroyed. I sometimes get blood lines coming out of my head when my head hurts. And it's weird, because there's no any cut or anything, but it just comes through skin. They've finally diagnosed several diseases now, but it took them a long time and many, many painful tests and hundreds of blood tests. And yet they still don't know what caused all of them and still have to see whats wrong with my heart, lungs and liver too.

    Maybe the story is right for everyday diseases, but when you spend a long time in a hospital, unable to walk, unable to move in the bed, and the doctors just say they don't know what you've got and aren't really that sure how it's going to affect you rest of your life, you sure as hell aren't thinking "I wish they would diagnose and know less".

  21. Re:Most important of all? on JavaScript Creator Talks About the Future · · Score: 1

    Yes, like I said, underneath. But so much more people write html and javascript. And the main point is there really isn't replacement for JavaScript. However, there are several for C/C++.

    If you're just thinking what's undernearth, you might just as well say that without assembly there would be no C. Hell, without punchcard programming there would be no computers and internet at all!

  22. Re:Web browser/server on JavaScript Creator Talks About the Future · · Score: 1

    Apache Tomcat is written with Java.

  23. Re:Most important of all? on JavaScript Creator Talks About the Future · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I don't think C/C++ are so important anymore. Sure, a lot of underlying stuff is done with them. But so much more that billions of people see everyday is done with html and javascript. More stuff is created directly with those than C/C++. Besides, there's C#, Object Pascal, Assembly, Java and tons of replacements for C/C++. That isn't really the case with JavaScript.

  24. Re:Don't do it... on Ask Slashdot: Moving From *nix To Windows Automation? · · Score: 3, Informative

    And why not? Powershell is perfect for the job.

  25. Re:KeePass on LastPass Password Service Hacked · · Score: 1

    Well, most people type in their passwords so that is what viruses are looking for. Yeah, it's not really hard to implement something that looks for clipboard too, but it always helps being in the minority when it comes to computer security. Just like with Mac and Linux.