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  1. Re:no problem on NYC Police Comm'r: Privacy Is 'Off the Table' After Boston Bombs · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Don't commit crimes, it's that simple. If you're falsely arrested or have your rights violated, that can translate into a lawsuit for you especially if there's video evidence.

  2. Re:The Senate did something right at last. on CISPA Seems Dead In the US Senate · · Score: 1

    Obama just asked everybody to take a 5% paycut too. Who needs pay when you can make an overnight fortune via an inside trade.

  3. Re:I hope not. on Paul Thurrot Predicts November Debut, $500 Tag For Xbox 720 · · Score: 1

    Ya, they really didn't think this one through did they? You're right though they have plenty of room to dumb it down and remove features, but of course I'd rather not have to worry about that and just decide it based on membership fees, no ands. Besides, like 70% of the xbox experience is on xbox live, so it's not like people are not going to get it.

  4. Re:The Senate did something right at last. on CISPA Seems Dead In the US Senate · · Score: 1

    No the relief act will come in the form of an anal probe from the tsa at sporting events.

  5. Re:The Senate did something right at last. on CISPA Seems Dead In the US Senate · · Score: 1

    source?

  6. Re:Oh noes! on Earth's Core Far Hotter Than Thought · · Score: 1

    Looks like...

    we need to journey to the center of the earth to save the planet!

  7. Re:No - Resources on Ask Slashdot: Do You Move Legal Data With Torrents? · · Score: 1

    You're correct there, it would take a little longer for anybody to get it as the file seeds, but the 10th person would get it a ways faster and at around the same time as the others. However, traditionally this problem is handled via a file share server, but of course not everybody has / wants one.

  8. No - Resources on Ask Slashdot: Do You Move Legal Data With Torrents? · · Score: 2

    Moving large data requires resources. In the case, of bittorent most things don't qualify because it's a distributed network, if 10 people in the office have the file and all know how t seed / use bittorent, you'd still be throttled by your bandwidth. Bittorent has however time and time again shown that it's distributed architecture can get something out to the masses very effectively.

  9. Re:Where we stand on Federal Magistrate Rules That Fifth Amendment Applies To Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    If a cop sees paraphernalia in a car, he has "probable cause" and can search the vehicle including forcing his way in. If an officer sees kiddie porn on a laptop, he has the same probable cause to search the laptop and force the defendant to turn over any "keys" necessary to do so.

  10. Where we stand on Federal Magistrate Rules That Fifth Amendment Applies To Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    There is a baseline to all of this and that's: does the government know what's on the encrypted drive?

    If it does, such as in the case of the guy moving child porn across the border from Canada, the agents SAW the kiddie porn, so when ordered to decrypt the harddrive the government already knew what was on there.

    If the government doesn't know what's on there and only suspects it thats when the 5th kicks in.

    Make sense?

  11. Re:what are you even saying? on Stop Standardizing HTML · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yep, the author doesn't truly understand WHY HTML works and that's because it's interpreted by the browser a certain way. There already exist a plethora of differences between IE and firefox/chrome, de-standardizing HTML would make it impossible to create websites that look consistent to all users.

  12. Re:Please standardize more on Stop Standardizing HTML · · Score: 1

    Not so much that as there's new ways to do things, you can still make a plain html / css / jscript site just fine, it's just that jQuery may solve a lot of jscript headaches for you & a server side language can allow you to data mine, as well as google who can keep track of your traffic.

    Those layers have made the web a lot more capable to the point where you can administrate an enterprise network through a browser.

    Why would you want to do that? Well, nobody wants to be attached to their work computer at the waist.

    Also, what standards aren't in place now that were then?

    I emphasize with you that there's so many plugins / add-ons / languages around now that it's hard to pick what's easiest / works the best, but remember that 99% of stuff can be done using basics.

  13. Re:The drivers still suck, so why bother? on AMD Radeon HD 7990 Released: Dual GPUs and 6G of Memory for $1000 · · Score: 1

    Right, the people that are complaining aren't the brightest tools in the shed if you catch my drift... what i've come across is sometimes a version of a driver will be less than stable on either OEM, but so far I've been able to switch between 1 version back stable & beta and find a compromise where the card is stable. My experience is from using the cards for gaming, I've never had any issues running the basic OS on any driver from either OEM. And of course, you never know when a game update can introduce an incompatibility or bug, so even then it's not always the graphics card's fault for a crash.

    In regards to heat, I used to fix this with a little $10 PCI turbo fan from newegg that pushed out the hot air I can't find a link to anymore, as with all things that actually work and are cost effective, it's been replaced by a bunch of flimsy fans that doesn't look like it will work nearly as well on the site.

  14. Wow on The Dark Side of Amazon's New Pilots · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I was gonna call the guy who wrote this a complete moron, except for this...

    http://forums.androidcentral.com/tablet-apps/239022-amazon-prime-video-app.html

    http://betanews.com/2013/04/22/why-is-there-no-android-app-for-amazon-instant-video/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed+-+bn+-+Betanews+Full+Content+Feed+-+BN

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000645111

    We're missing something here namely something like this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netflix.mediaclient&hl=en

    Yep, there doesn't appear to be an Android app for amazon prime. So either Amazon is telling android users to f off, or they're unaware of the issue they'd cause with DRM.

    Annoyed yet? It's available for iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/amazon-instant-video/id545519333?mt=8

  15. Possible scenario on Dropcam CEO's Beef With Brogramming and Free Dinners · · Score: -1, Troll

    I start a company with 8 of my FRIENDS and stay profitable... there's the 100% retention rate. If it was a big company with a 100% retention rate, I'd be impressed. Also, they make a camera... a cheap one, while I can't say either way on the value, I can't imagine they're doing anything cutting edge here. Coincidentally, he's keeping costs down by not offering any perks to his employees in turn supposedly keeping the cost of the camera down, that's too much trust there imho. I do agree with the capping of worker hours, but here's the flip side, why should a w-2 worker who gets paid a salary for 40 hours no more work even the extra 15 minutes in 40.15 hours for free? Nobody should be feel obligated to do that (I know I'm being idealistic, but numbers are numbers). Another asshole CEO trying to fluff up his image by talking about how great he is while lining his pockets imho.

  16. Re:Futurama! on Amazon Debuts Mixed Bag of Original Comedy Pilots · · Score: 1

    I think you mean justify it, Amazon can "afford" your freedom if it wanted to.

  17. Re:Animal Cruelty on Protesting Animal Testing, Intruders Vandalize Italian Lab · · Score: 2

    That's sad to hear as they sell muzzles that allow a dog to both pant and still keep it from biting someone. In addition, it is my understanding that most of these people have experienced 0 hardship in life thanks to daddy, so a deeply embedded lack of empathy comes as no surprise.

  18. Re:seriously? on Wikipedia Moved To MariaDB 5.5 · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the OSI community, we do things cause we think its cool and then wonder why we fail. We need wikipedia though, it serves a purpose beyond its maintainers, so either join the community and protest, fork over some more money, or... do nothing and hope it stays up.

  19. Re:Animal Cruelty on Protesting Animal Testing, Intruders Vandalize Italian Lab · · Score: 1

    It's people like in TFA that make this particular POV group look bad, and it's not like this is the first time animal lovers have attacked people or anything.

  20. Re:This is a losing proposition. on Building a Small IT Consulting Business Based on Linux (Video) · · Score: 1

    Some aspects of Linux are truly better designed than windows, that's a two way door, but not everybody has access to non-retail cost windows 7 licenses. I actually built a computer for a guy a long time ago and installed ubuntu because he didn't want to pay windows licensing... of course if he played a MMO he would've sucked it up and payed, but get my point?

  21. Re:This is a losing proposition. on Building a Small IT Consulting Business Based on Linux (Video) · · Score: 1

    The games would have to utilize it for me to care... but ya steam on Linux is a big step into the unknown, at the very least Linux user's won't have to dual boot to play an MMO.

  22. Re:I'm gonna say... on Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade · · Score: 1

    You're correct, the network stack is virtualized and if I remember correctly you have two options: to pass through the win 7 instance or go directly out, the firewall only kicks in on the former.

  23. Re:I'm gonna say... on Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade · · Score: 1

    I respectfully disagree, periodic upgrades need to be factored into IT's cost because....

    1. Relevance: don't upgrade long enough and you're going to have trouble finding reference material for your technologies (classic ASP is an example)
    2. Ease of use: GUI design is constantly evolving, newer software streamlines processes better
    3. Upgrade paths: if you stay up to date there is typically an upgrade path from last version to next version, not always so 2-3 versions down.
    4. Support: EOL products don't get any, and all software has an EOL pretty much, unless you're paying 6 figures annually of course for support.

    I'm sure I can think of a few more, but hopefully that drives home the point of save money now pay a lot more later with stale IT.

  24. Re:Certification on Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade · · Score: 4, Informative

    Coincidentally, you've never worked in the medical industry. The software itself may cost $5-$10k, then the SEPARATE cost of validation tacks on that 20k.

  25. Re:Unplug the computer from the WWW on Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade · · Score: 1

    The people with BYOD policies for one.