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  1. Re:The truth of the matter on Google Throws Microsoft Under Bus, Then Won't Patch Android Flaw · · Score: 0

    "This is standard stuff" - like being a d*ck is ok because it's standard? The only thing standard about the 90-day notice is someone made it up. Can't imagine who lol. "Keep vulnerabilities out of the NSA toolkit" - your tinfoil beanie is slipping. This is just another case of a big tech company being a-holes just because they can be.

  2. Definition on Bitstamp Bitcoin Exchange Suspended Due To "Compromised Wallet" · · Score: 1

    Hacked = CEO and CFO ran off with the money

  3. The most important function of a Smart Watch on Ask Slashdot: What Can I Really Do With a Smart Watch? · · Score: 1

    Serving me ads when I don't have my phone out of my pocket, so Google can make more money.

  4. There is no vaccine for the worst diseases on Time To Remove 'Philosophical' Exemption From Vaccine Requirements? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Stupidity and fear.

  5. Re:Honest question ... on How the NSA Is Spying On Everyone: More Revelations · · Score: 0

    Everyone has been spying on everyone else in every imaginable way (and some unimaginable ways) since time immemorial. Only the fundamentally naive and those who didn't, and still don't, care thought/think no one was/is spying. Nothing has changed and the world hasn't ended ... but several pseudo-journalists make a decent living fanning the flames of paranoia amongst the conspiracy theorists.

  6. Re:Change in operations instead of cash.... on 10-Year-Old iTunes DRM Lawsuit Heading To Trial · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd like to put Chevy parts in my BMW, but it's neither Chevy's nor BMW's problem, it's a problem with me feeling self-entitled to have things "my" way regardless the realities of life.

  7. In the news today on Supreme Court To Decide Whether Rap Lyric Threats Are Free Speech · · Score: 3, Insightful

    An imbecile makes threats specifically against his ex-wife and local police, then tries to hide behind "freedom of speech" after they took his intimidating and threatening rants (calling them rap lyrics is being way too generous) seriously. I guess he thought this was golf and he'd get a mulligan.

  8. A flight risk? on Kim Dotcom Faces Jail At Bail Hearing · · Score: 2

    I didn't know Kim Dotcom could fly. Float, maybe.

  9. Snowden? on New Snowden Docs Show GCHQ Paid Telcos For Cable Taps · · Score: 1

    Besides being the subject of a lot of clickbait, exactly what has he accomplished?

  10. He doesn't want it to end on Swedish Court Refuses To Revoke Julian Assange's Arrest Warrant · · Score: 1

    Because then he becomes even more irrelevant than he already is.

  11. Games are getting to be like TV shows on Player-Run MMORPG By Former Ultima Online Devs Finding Kickstarter Success · · Score: 1

    Everything is a boring clone of some other game. so lacking the ability to raise capital through the usual investment channels this one has decided to fleece the kickstarter crowd.

  12. What he specifically means on Joey Hess Resigns From Debian · · Score: 0

    Any decision he disagrees with is a) any document or rule he disagrees with is toxic, b) any decision he disagrees with is misguided, and c) he's taking his ball and going home.

  13. Re:Nice on Court Order: Butterfly Labs Bitcoins To Be Sold · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Recognizing the value of an asset (e.g. stocks, bonds, paintings, sculptures and etc.) doesn't confer legitimacy as a currency.

  14. Re:Of course not. on Is Public Debate of Trade Agreements Against the Public Interest? · · Score: 2

    There is no democratic process in international treaties and agreements and only a naive person would suggest there was. In international trade, as in any business agreement or contract negotiation, both parties are out to get as much from the other side in the agreement as they can while giving up as little as possible. And as negotiations proceed it's common for things to be included in the bargaining that the proposer has no intention of actually giving away or accepting ... it's just part of the negotiations. Open the negotiations up publicly and no deal would ever be reached because neither side would be allowed to compromise.

  15. Re:Oh, so long as it's precise... on Is the Outrage Over the FBI's Seattle Times Tactics a Knee-Jerk Reaction? · · Score: 1

    the press is too busy pretending to be a news organization to impersonate a government organization.

  16. Norm makes the original argument with his data on Dwarf Galaxies Dim Hopes of Dark Matter · · Score: 2

    It doesn't matter what you call it ... declining or dilution ... the end result is fewer women in CS career fields than men. The effect is less a less robust CS field and the resulting negatives that come along with a technology field operating with blinders.

  17. Who "needs"? on We Need Distributed Social Networks More Than Ello · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I love when someone writes drivel assuming what they think is what everyone needs or wants.

  18. Re:I'm glad on Eric Schmidt: Anxiety Over US Spying Will "Break the Internet" · · Score: 1

    And then you connected to the internet to make it all work and your emails and files were routed through Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft datacenters and your effort was wasted.

  19. What's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose on Eric Schmidt: Anxiety Over US Spying Will "Break the Internet" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Every country (and reasonably sized corporation) on the planet is doing the same thing, always has done the same thing, always will do the same thing. Only fools believe their online activity is safe from snooping or ever will be.

  20. Every defendant makes the same claim on Ross Ulbricht's Lawyer Says FBI's Hack of Silk Road Was "Criminal" · · Score: 0

    Remember the old adage; don't do the crime if you can't do the time. Ross needs to stop whining and pull up his big boy pants and take what he's got coming. If it hadn't been the US gov't it would have been another gov't that took him down. Ross should be happy it was the USA. Some of the less polite gov'ts would have just wacked him, dumped him in the ocean, and saved the legal expenses.

  21. Reader's Digest Version on Study Weighs In On the Reliability of Eyewitness Testimony · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Eyewitnesses testimony is not nearly as accurate as one would have hoped.

  22. Re:People trust their phones with their lives on iOS Trojan Targets Hong Kong Protestors · · Score: 1

    If you are one of the mobile phone developers who think the security of mobile phone operating systems is in any way acceptable and you jailbreak your device to make it more secure, you will have blood on your hands. FTFY

  23. Re: If you sit on a phone with your big fat arse on Users Report Warping of Apple's iPhone 6 Plus · · Score: 2

    Yes, because people's fat beer belly's and thighs are not on the other side of the cloth, so it must be the cloth that's bending it.

  24. Unfortunately on Now That It's Private, Dell Targets High-End PCs, Tablets · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    They're still Dell computers.

  25. Re:a collision wouldn't surprise me on 2 Mars Missions Set For Arrival, Both Prepare for Orbital Maneuvers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm having trouble remembering the last time two gov't funded space exploration vehicles collided. Oh wait, you were just trying to appear clever but collided with fail.