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  1. I'm on Gingerbread, so... on 'Stagefright' Flaw: Compromise Android With Just a Text · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty fucked if anyone wants to pwn my Sprint HTC Evo 4G.

  2. Re:HL3HL3HL3 on Steam Bug Allowed Password Resets Without Confirmation · · Score: 1

    At this point, HL3 (or even just "HL2 episode 3") is going to become Valve's Daikatana or Duke Nukem Forever. Just following on from the end of Hl2e2 is going to be a huge hurdle (their writer must be at least this good in order to get on this ride) never mind whatever Source engine technology they want to show off.

    I think that Newell sees only two possibilities: 1) they never make the game or 2) they make the game and everyone hates it.

  3. Re:nothing new under the sun on Affair Site Hackers Threaten Release of All User Data Unless It Closes · · Score: 1

    Single 39.6% tax threshold: $41320
    Married 39.6% tax threshold: $46850

    In order for this to be a tax ADVANTAGE for two earners, the 39.6% threshold would have to be at least $82640. This is actually a penalty, since if both spouses make $40k, before they married their taxes each would have been below 39.6%, now that they're married, nearly all of the second spouse's income is taxed at the higher rate.

  4. Re:COMAPRISON REQUIRED on Tallying the Mistakes and Malfunctions of Robot Surgeons · · Score: 1

    Especially the % for "things dropped into the body". How often do human surgeons drop something in the body? My guess is that the issue in the robot case, the surgery has to be paused while a human scrubs in to fish the object out.

  5. Re:nothing new under the sun on Affair Site Hackers Threaten Release of All User Data Unless It Closes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You also get tax breaks for the marriage thing

    Standard deduction, single: $6300
    Standard deduction, married filing jointly: $12600

    The only tax break you get is if your wife is a stay-at-home mom where you can double your tax deduction. Of course, then she runs the risk of losing all her credits etc from having no income.

    if you have kids, you get those breaks too

    You get those breaks as a single parent too.

  6. Re:Remember, we're not like those other countries. on Citizenfour Director Sues To Find Out Why She Was Detained Every Time She Flew · · Score: 1

    Come on, folks, let's cheer with the AC "We're number one better than China! We're number one better than China!"

  7. Re:Can we hear from an IRS apologist? on Citizenfour Director Sues To Find Out Why She Was Detained Every Time She Flew · · Score: 4, Insightful

    it's not possible for an honest person to have need of the 5th amendment

    Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.

    Remember that next time you talk to a cop and they don't feel you were "concerned" enough about the situation and use that fact against you in a court of law: http://reason.com/blog/2014/08...

  8. The retroactive immunity came much later.

  9. Re:Why? on MUMPS, the Programming Language For Healthcare · · Score: 1

    nothing you can't have in perl today, with a relational database, and a table or two to track relationships between objects.

    Sure, and there have been written entire books and essays and algorithms on how to get your relational database to store and return a hierarchy. It reminds me of those highschool programming challenges where you implement a binary tree in a single array because why the fuck not?

    But instead, it's a whole new opportunity to create problems!

    Every language invented in the 60's was a whole new opportunity to create problems. The problem now is continuing to use it without fixing the problems. Even PHP has made improvements to the language.

  10. Re:Good point, but Uber is a bad example on Hillary Clinton Takes Aim At 'Gig Economy' · · Score: 1

    because the choice is between Government enslavement and anarchy.

    You seem to believe the choice is between ignoring laws because it suits you and ignoring laws because it suits me. The third option, which respects the rule of law: working within the framework of government to change the laws.

    As you pick and choose what laws you think you should bother to follow, keep in mind that whatever moral high ground you claim to possess that gives you this power will also be claimed by others.

  11. Re:Good point, but Uber is a bad example on Hillary Clinton Takes Aim At 'Gig Economy' · · Score: 2

    What makes it intrinsically illegal?

    What makes defeating Macrovision Copy Protection to copy your wedding tape from VHS to DVD intrinsically illegal?

    Just because there is a law?

    "Our great Republic is a government of laws, and not of men"

    Strange world view.

    So's anarchy.

  12. Re:Scarcity on A 'Star Trek' Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think · · Score: 1

    wants, needs and desires of the human race will expand

    Says the guy who wants 99,999 ferraris so he can drive a different one every day. You don't? Huh, weird, I guess there is a limit on want, need, and desire.

    There's reasons why this is bullshit (for instance, scarcity of raw materials and energy) but "people want infinite things" isn't one of them.

  13. Re: Hooray! on Bumblebees Being Crushed By Climate Change · · Score: 1

    This does not seem to be a serious problem to me...Even if their conclusions are true.

    If the "global warming alarmist religion"'s conclusions are true, then we're fucked. If that doesn't seem a serious problem to you, then I'd hate to see what is.

  14. Letting the cops walk off with the chemicals on Bomb Squad Searches House Over Teenager's Chemistry Experiments · · Score: 2

    They took some chemicals from my son's chemistry stocks that they're going to take and test in their lab that they felt were dangerous chemicals

    "Your honor, our lab tested every one of the bottles and found that this evil person had 83 bottles of marijuanas!"

  15. Re:Not what I want on NVIDIA Shakes Its Flowing Mane With Life-Like HairWorks 1.1 Demo · · Score: 1

    FF7's getting a remake, they should get in on that.

  16. Re:Trusted certificate owners on OpenSSL Patches Critical Certificate Forgery Bug · · Score: 1

    It sounds like if you are not verifying certificates then it's not critical, but if you've got client certificates to identify/authenticate users you need to update.

    If you're running any kind of client connection (for instance, consuming a https webservice) then you'll need to update (unless they're using gnutls or nss instead of openssl)

  17. Re:My limited personal experience on the subject on China's Stock Crash: $3.5 Trillion Wiped Out, $2.6 Trillion Frozen · · Score: 1

    has a good mix of income producing assets

    There's your problem right there. You're just not getting a good mix of blackjack hands.

  18. Re:more important question... on The Mob's IT Department · · Score: 3, Funny

    You get your choice of payment in silver or lead.

  19. Re:Master key on Crypto Experts Blast Gov't Backdoors For Encryption · · Score: 1

    Sort of like how Hacking Team had a separate watermark/backdoor into each tool they sold to governments.

    I'm sure the government's solution will be to outlaw backdoors in stuff they buy while mandating backdoors for everyone else. Not being a flaming hypocrite has never been any politician's strong suit.

  20. Re:Looking to move off of iTunes on How Apple Music Can Disrupt Users' iTunes Libraries · · Score: 1

    Not a mac user myself, but I use Quod Libet on both Linux and Windows for my 621 album collection of FLACs, and there's a mac version as well. It's written in Python using GStreamer for the audio support, so I suppose file support depends on what GStreamer can play on your platform. I'm pretty happy with its tagging support, it will bulk-tag selected files and can move/rename files if you want, great for when the track database gave the ripper "Sound Track CD 1" and "OST Disc II" (musicbrainz is just as shit at consistency as freedb).

  21. Re:It's most likely a sign of code age... on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Passwords Transmitted As Cleartext? · · Score: 1

    That's the excuse for when it's automated, but I get plenty of encrypted files that come in an email with "password sent in separate email" in the body where the password is steve55 or some such thing.

  22. Re:Help me I'm a blindly trusting Millenial! on When a Company Gets Sold, Your Data May Be Sold, Too · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or require that the entity purchasing an asset out of bankruptcy also inherits the contracts binding that asset. If my landlord goes bankrupt I don't get to say "Woo! Free house!" and ignore the terms of my contract with the landlord, why should whoever takes over after the landlord not be bound by the terms of the contract either?

  23. Re:What do you mean by versioning? on Ask Slashdot: User-Friendly, Version-Preserving File Sharing For Linux? · · Score: 2

    you could not use a filesystem to safely store a database file

    You can store the database file there, just don't let the power go out mid operation or make a copy of an active database's file(s) and expect it to work.

    In other words, exactly like how it is now.

  24. Re:The most underrated misconception of economics on The Vicious Circle That Is Sending Rents Spiraling Higher · · Score: 1

    If they're right, this has the effect of stabilizing prices

    If they're wrong? Well tgen, to co-opt the Keynesians: they can stay irrational for as long as they can stay solvent, and bailouts will just keep that going.

  25. Roko's Basilisk on Building the Face of a Criminal From DNA · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you're a bad person we'll reconstruct an identical clone of you and imprison it as your punishment.