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  1. The death of american software on The NSA Wants Tech Companies To Give It "Front Door" Access To Encrypted Data · · Score: 2

    This is moronic, if this is put in place only Americans will use American software (and then only some of them). NO other country is going to voluntarily use software they know has a "front door" regardless of all the "good intentions" promised by splitting the key up. May as well shoot Microsoft in the foot.

  2. Re:Clickbait-ish Headline on Has Google Indexed Your Backup Drive? · · Score: 2

    But that's the thing, the DID want to share it, probably not with everyone granted, but then they should have secured it so only the people they did want to give access to it would have access. I love the way the article implies it's somehow google's fault that some clueless idiot didn't click on a tick box and enter a user name and password. If people don't want to RTFM then they are going to get burned.

  3. What a tard on UK IP Chief Wants ISPs To Police Piracy Proactively · · Score: 1

    All this will do is force the file sharers to start encrypting everything. Give me access to the content I want, when I want it (I live outside the USA) and I will gladly pay. Until then, I will gladly pirate what I want, when I want it.

  4. Re:More... on Why You Should Choose Boring Technology · · Score: 1

    Sometimes, it's okay to just do a check twice
    No, it's not. Because now if you need to change the check (or more likely someone else) you have to make sure you do it in both places. If the other person does not even look for the second check then you now have broken code. If you have to copy paste your own code with minimal or no changes then you are doing it wrong and it's time to refactor.

  5. Re:Why is bitcoin popular again? on Evolution Market's Admins Are Gone, Along With $12M In Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they regulated it so well it plunged, the world into financial chaos.

  6. Great, just great on NVIDIA To Install Computers In Cars To Teach Them How To Drive · · Score: 1

    Great, just great, where I live the rules of the road are treated as a "guide" line. A million ass hats experience of bad driving here will outweigh the few who actually driver responsibly, so I will end up with computers tailgating me and going through red lights.

  7. Re:Not GoDaddy. on Ask Slashdot: Advice For Domain Name Registration? · · Score: 2

    My experience with GoFuckYourselfDaddy was also not pleasant. Had a VM with them which they arbitrarily shutdown due to "unusual traffic" took them a month to respond and restart the server, not even sure what the "unusual traffic" was since I was barely using it except for some ftp's. Maybe the "unusual traffic" was due to the fact that there was barely any traffic. Also it was slow, I think they have horribly oversold their services.

  8. Re:EA got too greedy (as usual) on SimCity's Empire Has Fallen and Skylines Is Picking Up the Pieces · · Score: 2

    Stopped playing battlefield and cod ages ago, I don't play online anymore, so for such a short single player campaign it's just not worth it. Been digging into the indie games on steam - some real gems in there - like "This war of mine", depressing as fuck - but still an awesome game.

  9. Re:Par for the course on Google Code Disables New Project Creation, Will Shut Down On January 25, 2016 · · Score: 1

    Please, I am relying on other search engines more and more.
    I go looking for a review of a movie and half of the google results are
    In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s)
    The automated DMCA removal requests are turning google search into a joke.

  10. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on UK ISPs Quietly Block Sites That List Pirate Bay Proxies · · Score: 1

    Well that's one way of getting rid of any UK /. members.

  11. Re:CHEAP Intel on AMD Enters Virtual Reality Fray With LiquidVR SDK At GDC · · Score: 1

    Talking CPU, dude.
    And yes, buying 4 PC's which can play any game currently on the market is not cheap, so the initial PC's were AMD because of the cost involved. When I was upgrading them the difference between AMD and Intel (cost and performance) was such that I found it cheaper to go Intel. I use "upgrade" rather loosely here, since we all know that after a couple years an "upgrade" means "buying another computer".

  12. Re:That's nothing on Robocops Being Used As Traffic Police In Democratic Republic of Congo · · Score: 1

    Yeah but in South Africa they are not working - much like the majority of the population.

  13. Re:No lyrics. on Musician Releases Album of Music To Code By · · Score: 1

    Same here, if you have heard it a few dozen times it's no longer a distraction (as long as you like the song) have hot keyed next song etc. to keys in my normal typing position so I don't even have to move my hands to the media keys. I listen to music to drown the rest of the office out, in todays open plan fvcken office it's too easy to get distracted by something. I miss out on some of the scuttlebutt, but I generally catch up on that during my lunch break so no great loss.

  14. Re:ATW and Late latching on AMD Enters Virtual Reality Fray With LiquidVR SDK At GDC · · Score: 1

    I used to be a rabid AMD supporter, until about ~5 years ago when I needed to upgrade the families PC's, did some research and picked Intel. AMD have really fallen behind, and I am sure the only reason the next gen console makers picked AMD is because AMD offered them bulk prices that they could not ignore.

  15. Re:You are free to have killer robots on Only Twice Have Nations Banned a Weapon Before It Was Used; They May Do It Again · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And yet we have them and they are largely, if not universally, obeyed
    What the hell are you smoking? Not even the US follows the Geneva conventions.
    Guantanamo bay, water boarding, drone strikes on vehicles with "suspected" terrorists without checking if there are children or other non combatants on board.
    I personally think Killer Robot's might be better in the field than some dumb jock with a trigger happy finger, and I don't just lump the US into this category, it's been an on going issue for EVERY army. Friendly fire isn't.

  16. Re:Soo soo tired..... on Superfish Security Certificate Password Cracked, Creating New Attack Vector · · Score: 1

    IMO if you bought Lenovo, you didn't give a shit anyway
    Couldn't agree more, the only time I ever used a Lenovo was when it was handed to me at work. Look's like a pregnant brick, weight's more than a pregnant brick, and generally suck in all ways considering the pricetag. Besides, I ALWAYS format a new laptop, drivers are usually out of date when it lands in your lap, so you may as well DL the latest ones and make a clean start. Look, what they are doing is wrong, and retarded, when this news goes mainstream a lot of companies that supported them will drop them like a hot... brick. Oh the irony. Almost all of the companies that handed my one for work were financial institutions, they will not be amused with this turn of events, talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

  17. Re:All the more reason... on Lenovo Allegedly Installing "Superfish" Proxy Adware On New Computers · · Score: 1

    I ALWAYS format a new laptop, don't need or want their stooped recovery partition, waste of space. Can understand how the other 90% of people on the planet love it, but for me it's a waste of space.

  18. Re:Pen name? on Wheel of Time TV Pilot Producers Sue Robert Jordan's Widow For Defamation · · Score: 2

    And a damn good job he did, as much as I love the series, the middle of it was a grind to get through. Seemed like a lot of dress twitching and braid pulling to me. Especially book 10, although the end was awesome getting there was painful (and I took a day off work to read it). But Sanderson brought the series back to vivid spectacular life again.

  19. Re:Time for men's liberation on Two New Male Birth Control Chemicals In Advanced Stages · · Score: 1

    if I would get a tiny life form growing inside of me, I would assume it's MY responsibility to decide if *I* want that to happen to me
    That's a bit egotesticle, if you choose to have sex with someone you should also bear the consequences, after all it takes two (or three or BUKAKKE!) to Tango.
    Placing all the anus on the female to prevent pregnancy is unfair and this will allow for more options when sex is wanted but progeny are not. A lot of people don't realise that something as simple as a runny stomach from a dodgy curry can negate the pill, as well as throwing up, anti b's, certain cough medicines etc. etc

  20. Re:ABC, DEF, WTF? on Ask Slashdot: Are General Engineering Skills Undervalued In Web Development? · · Score: 1

    Agreed, comes across as "I am so awesome, I can codez and tie my own shoe laces and wipe my own bumz" but no, I don' know what the difference between a value and reference type is, but that doesn't matter because I just learnt to feed myself.

  21. Re:The Secret of Nim on Nim Programming Language Gaining Traction · · Score: 1

    Awesome, would mod you up more but you are already on a 5. That was my favourite movie as a kid "is Timmy gonna die?"

  22. Re:Incorruptable on Facebook Adds Legacy Contact Feature In Case You Die Before It Does · · Score: 1

    I couldn't help noticing your tag line.
    "If you ignore it long enough, eventually the problem just goes away."
    Try that with your taxes and see what happens - I tried, it doesn't work :-(

  23. Stop autoplaying video's on Drone, Drone, Everywhere a Drone -- at CES (Video) · · Score: 1

    Not all of us think youtube is the best thing since a slice of bread.

  24. Re:Obligatory on Boston Dynamics Introduces Their Newest Four-Legged Robot, 'Spot' · · Score: 1

    1001100 1001111 1001100

  25. Re:A Bitcoin scam? Impossible! on Alleged Bitcoin Scam Leaves Millions Missing · · Score: 1

    And just get scammed in some other way
    http://www.therichest.com/rich...