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  1. Re:I beg to differ. on Pedophile Asks To Be Deleted From Google Search After European Court Ruling · · Score: 2

    If Google can handle millions of DMCA requests, then they can handle these request. Of course the bigger questions is why should Google have to handle DMCA or these request at all?

  2. Re:Repeatable as Fuck on How Predictable Is Evolution? · · Score: 1

    To me consciousness is just memory and the ability to make decisions based on old memories. "Couldn't the whole universe work like it does without it existing". Yes sure it could, for simple lifeforms you really don't need consciousness, just look at plants they don't have consciousness and are just programmed with specific reactions to specific circumstances. But for complex lifeforms that need to adapt and survive in complex environments I think consciousness is a necessary trait to have to be able to react to unknown circumstances correctly.

  3. Re:Put this in perspective on What Caused a 1300-Year Deep Freeze? · · Score: 1

    Yes every species that is alive today survied, but that doesnt mean they will survive another glacial retreat. In fact many species that are currently not here have died out.

  4. Re: Typcial on Physician Operates On Server, Costs His Hospital $4.8 Million · · Score: 1

    Yes the mistake was using Microsoft software, which has these major bugs. You don't have the encryption connected to the domain...period.

  5. None of the above on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 1

    The correct answer is not to swerve either left or right but apply maximum breaks going forward.

  6. Re:Premature much on Consumers Not Impressed With 3D Printing · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No I am sure they will succeed. I mean they managed to add hidden markings that are printed in almost all paper printers to track you and with some scanners you can't copy images of money.

  7. The backdoor is not in the source on First Phase of TrueCrypt Audit Turns Up No Backdoors · · Score: 3

    The backdoor is not in the source it is in the MVC++ compiler. NSA is not stupid, putting the backdoor in the source itself would be risky, it would be much wiser to put the backdoor in the MVC++ compiler itself.

  8. Re:OTA updates on Replicant OS Developers Find Backdoor In Samsung Galaxy Devices · · Score: 1

    On the included SD card? On the manufacturer website?

  9. Re:Still abusive on Gabe Newell Responds: Yes, We're Looking For Cheaters Via DNS · · Score: -1

    So if spiteful people start to embed non functioning image URLs to these DRM servers in forums and other public web sites it means a lot of innocent users will be banned because they will have these sites in the their DNS cache even if they never visited them personally. Thanks Valve.

  10. Re:or stop hiding... on Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK · · Score: 1

    The issue is not the deportation which could be valid for all I know, but that it was carried out illegally. In a civilized country under the rule of laws there should not be any example of circumventing the law WITHOUT any consequences as was in this example. 13 years is not long ago, I doubt there have been massive changes in the legal and political system in Sweden in that time period.

    If you want more examples you can take a look at the Pirate Bay trial, where the US entertainment industry basically controlled the Swedish courts to do their bidding.

  11. Re:or stop hiding... on Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't just the prosecutor need to drop the current case and then the UK permission wouldn't be needed and then he could be extradited with out any problems? But in any case the Swedish government has shown before that they don't exactly follow the law.

  12. Re:or stop hiding... on Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK · · Score: 1

    Here are two Egyptian asylum-seekers that where extradited illegally from Sweden by the CIA and tortured.

  13. Re:or stop hiding... on Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK · · Score: 1

    The two Egyptian asylum-seekers that where grabbed on the street in Sweden and deported illegally out of the country by the CIA didn't have much protection.

  14. Re:or stop hiding... on Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK · · Score: 1
  15. Re:or stop hiding... on Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK · · Score: 1

    Well tell that to the two Egyptian asylum-seekers that where grabbed on the street and deported illegally out of the country by the CIA with the full knowledge and approval by the corrupt Swedish government.

  16. Re:or stop hiding... on Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK · · Score: -1, Troll

    Because the UK is not as corrupt as Sweden. They actually follow the rule of law there, but in Sweden the US could just send some agents to Sweden and he could be flown out of there on the next plane.

  17. Re:or stop hiding... on Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK · · Score: 1

    Really? You don't think that the US can make up some espionage or terrorist charges so that Assange can be extradited to the US from Sweden? Don't be so gullible man.

  18. Re:or stop hiding... on Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK · · Score: 1

    Because the Pirate Bay trial showed that the Swedish courts are easily controlled by the US entertainment industry, so just imagine how much more the US justice system can control the Swedish courts.

  19. Re:Celsius on How Russia Transformed a Subtropical Beach Resort To Host the Winter Olympics · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Metric Conversion Act would disagree with you.

  20. Re:Well, uh... on Senator Bernie Sanders Asks NSA If Agency Is Spying On Congress · · Score: 1

    Yes and it has been shown that there are no consequences to lying to Congress if you are part of the NSA. So NSA can lie all they want and nothing happens.

  21. Mini Micro on Standardized Laptop Charger Approved By IEC · · Score: 1

    Great, so I guess this standard will include the "normal", "micro" and the "mini" laptop charger, just like all other "standards".

  22. This is intentional on Exponential Algorithm In Windows Update Slowing XP Machines · · Score: 1

    This is intentional because they don't want people to keep on using Windows XP, therefore they add crippling code, and just throw up their hands and say it is a bug they can't fix.

  23. Re:Why would he? on Was Julian Assange Involved With Wiretapping Iceland's Parliament? · · Score: 1

    >Why would Assange wiretap the Icelandic parliament and how could he? I doubt he has that powerful connections up there.

    Actually he had an Icelandic person known here in Iceland as Siggi "the hacker" working for him, and he was actually implicated in a hack attempt at the parliment:

    "In January 2011, Thordarson was implicated in a bizarre political scandal in which a mysterious "spy computer" laptop was found running unattended in an empty office in the parliament building. "If you did [it], don't tell me," Assange told Thordarson, according to unauthenticated chat logs provided by Thordarson."

    From http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/28/wikileaks-mole

  24. Siggi "the hacker" on Was Julian Assange Involved With Wiretapping Iceland's Parliament? · · Score: 1

    It is possible this was the work of Siggi "the hacker".
    http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/28/wikileaks-mole
    He was fired from Wikileaks after he transferred money from Wikileaks to his personal account. He then contacted FBI and was thought he was to be used as some kind of bait for Wikileaks. He has then been connected to number of other shady deals here in Iceland. I believe he is currently in Prison for a sexual assault.

  25. How this is usually handled in my experience on Ask Slashdot: To Publish Change Logs Or Not? · · Score: 1

    The issue management system usually includes two fields and one check box. One internal text field that includes information about the issue in great detail aimed for the core developers, and another text fields which includes simplified information about the issue targeted for the end user or management, and then a check box which specifies if this issue should be publicly visible. Usually an issue has both fields filled out and the check box checked, but if an issue is set as private it's usually because it concern a security issue, it's a really minor fix or it's a major embarrassment for the company :)