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  1. Re:Help! Taco, come back to us! on Facebook's Faces Trademark Suit Over Timeline · · Score: 2

    An proper editor. I like!

  2. Help! Taco, come back to us! on Facebook's Faces Trademark Suit Over Timeline · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You have left us at the mercy of trolls and idiots. Headlines don't even make sense anymore.

  3. Re:Truly Remarkable on What You Eat Affects Your Genes · · Score: 1

    You are conflating germ line and somatic cells. The genetic particles discussed here affect the gene expression in somatic cells. This is not a hereditary change. Your germ and soma cell lines part ways very early in development, so for you to say that the germ line is somehow affected by these changes and more than that the change is hereditary is complete nonsense.

  4. Republican Mouthpiece on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    Since when did slashdot become a Republican mouthpiece? Plus, the quotes in the summary above ARE NOT FROM THE @#$%@# ARTICLES!!!!! Both of those quotes that samzenpus says are "From the article" are exactly nowhere in either article.

    The quality of the editing here on slashdot has gone down the drain recently. If this sort of fabrication occurred on a real news site, then samzenpus would be out of a job.

  5. Linux client on Netflix To Lose 1 Million Subscribers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Perhaps if they had a client for linux, there would be some amount of offset due to incoming subscribers. If there were a player, I would be fine with paying their new price for service on linux. The only computers I have run either linux or FreeBSD, so there are no options for netflix for me at the moment.

  6. Diginotard on Hackers May Have Nabbed Over 200 SSL Certificates · · Score: 2

    So, I still say that if trust is lost once, nothing that Diginotard touches can ever be trusted.

  7. Re:Already done on Diginotar Responds To Rogue Certificate Problem · · Score: 1

    Excellent, everything is working properly in my browser. If I visit Diginotar I get a message saying "The site's security certificate is not trusted! You attempted to reach www.diginotar.com, but the server presented a certificate issued by an entity that is not trusted by your computer's operating system. This may mean that the server has generated its own security credentials, which Google Chrome cannot rely on for identity information, or an attacker may be trying to intercept your communications. You should not proceed, especially if you have never seen this warning before for this site."

  8. Anyone with a full list on Another CA Issues False Certificates To Iran · · Score: 1

    Can anyone add to a list of CAs that have been involved in anything like this?

    I had already disabled all Comodo CA certs and and all COMODO certs in my browser after the comodogate incident. After I did that, I submitted complaints to any site that I noticed that use those certs (mainly Amazon's payment system). Other than all diginotar certs, which others should be deep sixed?

    I am a firm believer that once there is a loss of trust, anything that company touches should be black holed.

  9. Opportunity for linux? on Turning Chinese Piracy Into Revenue · · Score: 1

    Perhaps this could be an opportunity for linux or freebsd support companies to reach out to companies who pirate windows.

  10. Re:Not on YouTube on The Copyright Nightmare of 'I Have a Dream' · · Score: 1

    I'm confused. The link you provided seems to have the speech in its entirety. That is actually one that I have referred to for papers that I wrote in university. Is it not the complete speech? Hopefully, the King family don't attack UC Berkeley or the Internet Archive for sharing that file.

  11. Fix the crashes on Notch Shows Minecraft Adventure Update · · Score: 1

    As long as the crashes get fixed, I'm happy. I'm tired of it locking up when you go really far from your original spawn location.

  12. AT&T on Smartphones: the New Home of Crapware · · Score: 1

    You mean you don't use AT&T family map every day? And you would rather use Google maps' navigation function rather than AT&T Navigator? But it's a pay service. It must be better. What is wrong with you?

  13. Re:! transcontinental on Russia Approves Siberia-Alaska Railway · · Score: 1

    Not to mention Trans-Mongolian.

  14. Re:Single source? on Evangelical Scientists Debate Creation Story · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up!! Another thing to point out is the idea of species as a way to differentiate between individuals and groups of individuals at one single moment in time. When you bring time into the equation the idea of species becomes a different concept almost entirely. Since a population is always incrementally different from one generation to the next, it is simply a matter of convenience to call a certain population of organisms from time A to time B a species separate from a later descended population from time C to time D. An example of this is calling one species of Homo different from another ancestral species of Homo. If you have an unbroken line of ancestry between a specific fossil and modern humans, that particular fossil a different species is completely arbitrary and for convenience. If somehow you find a fossil of a descendant of that individual 100 generations later. Do you call it a new species? It may not be a new species in the formal ability to mate and have offspring sense, but you will never know because they are both fossils. Another way to think of it is take the common ancestor of rabbits and humans then line up one individual from each generation from ancestor to modern rabbits. You would have a very long line of organisms, but if you stand at any one point, you will see a line of animals that are nearly identical to one another except for color morphs and the like. But if you look at the first and the last individual they are probably going to look very different and obviously you will call those two members of two separate species, but how many species are between those two? How do you decide an exact point where one species ends and another begins? The answer is you can't, so you lay arbitrary center points at the locations of extant fossils.

  15. Re:Double Standard on Twitter To Meet With UK Government About Riots · · Score: 1

    Have you spent any time in London?

  16. Re:Before anyone points this out... on After Rick Perry's Stem Cell Treatment, Misplaced Enthusiasm? · · Score: 1

    I think you can answer your own question if you just stop at funding:

    "What is the conservative position on funding --------?"

    The answer is they are against funding things. Period. Oh wait, except if they can make money from funding weapons programs. Or, make money from funding drilling in wildlife refuges. Perhaps we have to come up with some way that Halliburton could make billions of dollars through embrionic stem cell research, conservatives would change their tune.

  17. Desensitization on Google's Amazon River Street View Project · · Score: 1

    Isn't it also important to desensitize populations to privacy violation, still photo, and video observation?

  18. Tired of the BS on Anonymous Breaches Another US Defense Contractor · · Score: 1

    When was the last time these losers actually released anything? All I've been hearing for months now, is Anonymous claims to have documents from X. Or Lulzsec breaches Y and has lots of their data. But I think it's just a bunch of hot air. Just like tits or GTFO. Dox or GTFO.

  19. Re:Slight problem... on Earth Ejecta Could Seed Life On Europa · · Score: 1

    I think you may be quite surprised at how many extremophile archaea there are, and what kind of conditions they can survive in. Alternatively, humans have been sending rocket-assisted ejecta into space for years and years.

  20. Re:this is why I want out of IT on Most People Have Never Heard of CTRL+F · · Score: 1

    Have you heard of unpaper and Tesseract? If you put these two tools together you get really really good OCR, and its all free software.

  21. Re:Newb on "Woot" Becomes an Official Word · · Score: 1

    I've never seen anyone use newb for newbie. But I've seen noob or n00b all the time. In fact if you do a google search for both newb and noob, it only returns a section of images for noob, therefore noob is more common and accepted.

  22. Re:American Heritage on "Woot" Becomes an Official Word · · Score: 1

    The American Heritage Dictionary is a good dictionary. But understand that there are two basic types of dictionaries and it should be important to have one of each kind and understand the difference in the two styles of dictionaries. One type is descriptive; the other is prescriptive. This difference extends from the two types of linguistics that bear the same name. A descriptive dictionary looks at how language is practiced and pulls the definition from that. This type of dictionary is exemplified by the Miriam-Webster Dictionary. A prescriptive dictionary builds its definition from accepted usage rules. These usage rules can come from different sources, but mainly it is a group of people who together come to a definition. An example of this type of dictionary is the American Heritage Dictionary. The definitions are agreed upon by a group of experts in this dictionary's case.

    This is an important distinction. And you should understand the difference. If you follow the American linguistic tradition as a break from the European, linguistic description is more in line with that. Prescriptivism is much more aligned with the ideas of French or Czech language protectionism rather than the ideas of early Americans who dropped the 's' organization or the 'u' in colour or reversed the 're' in theatre.

  23. Re:5 Levels of ISP EVIL -- OPEN VPN on The Five Levels of ISP Evil · · Score: 1

    OpenVPN is very nice. I use it all the time, but I pay for a vpn service through hidemyass.com. They are definitely a professional organization. The problem is that like you said there are many sites that offer free trials and such, but they don't seem very professional. Basically they seem to me to be one step above a scam. The other option is to run your own OpenVPN server somewhere, but again, that's not going to be free. I've decided that paying a small amount each month to a professional service is the best option.

  24. Geek status symbol on Copycat "hiPhone 5" Surfaces In China · · Score: 1

    I wonder if these bootleg iphones will become a truely geeky status symbol. "Forget the real iPhone. They are easy to come by. I have the super-exclusive hiPhone 5. You can't get these things ANYWHERE. I have a hookup in China that smuggles them into the states if you're interested. They cost four times as much as the real iPhone here in the US because they're totally illegal."

  25. Old Woman in Georgia on The Biggest Dangers to Your Fiber · · Score: 1

    Don't forget about the old woman in Georgia who took out most of the internet for Armenia when she was digging for scrap metal to sell.