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  1. Re:TrueCrypt? on Cubans Evade Censorship By Exchanging Flash Drives · · Score: 1

    Also, obligatory.

  2. Re:TrueCrypt? on Cubans Evade Censorship By Exchanging Flash Drives · · Score: 2

    I am pretty sure a oppressive government would have no issue making the ownership of encrypted media a capital offense.

  3. Solutions on Cubans Evade Censorship By Exchanging Flash Drives · · Score: 2

    Sometimes a big problem can have a simple solution.

  4. Re:Deal breaker for me. on Galaxy S 4 Dominates In Early Benchmark Testing · · Score: 1

    If you think that has a market, design, manufacture, and market a phone case with a bottle opener and corkscrew and start reaping in the dough.

  5. Exactly why are transactions over $10,000 considered suspicious and cataloged by the government?

  6. Re:Who cares? on StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Released · · Score: 2

    No. I count one game and two fairly expensive expansion packs. They include a few extra units, some multiplayer tweaks, and a map pack.

    And a full length single player campaign.

  7. Re:I just wish ... on StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Released · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I guess you have never been to a LAN party without internet.

  8. Re:I just wish ... on StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Released · · Score: 1

    All multiplayer units and abilities are in single player. There is simply less units and abilities in multiplayer. You are correct that the stats are different but that is probably due to the constant race balancing updates they do.

  9. Re:Who cares? on StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Released · · Score: 2

    Have you played the Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty campaign? It is a full game all by itself. Starcraft 2: Wings of Libery + Starcraft 2: Heart of Swarm + Starcraft 2: Legacy of the Void, = 3 Games. Most triple-A companies would charge you $60 per game which comes out to $180 for the series. Assuming the final game is also $40, Blizzard is charging you $140. They are $40 cheaper than most triple-A companies.

  10. Re:Unappealing on Apple Bringing Second Lawsuit To Samsung, Won't Wait For Appeal · · Score: 1

    Have you used a modern Android? While its easier to "tinker" in Android than iOS, it is not necessary for the average individual. Android is nice on its own.

  11. Re:Electricty has made daylight savings obsolete on Is Daylight Saving Time Worth Saving? · · Score: 1

    Changing your schedule might and that is the whole post.

  12. Re:Good idea on City Councilman: Email Tax Could Discourage Spam, Fund Post Office Functions · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'd have to agree. What we really need to do shift from an address based physical mail to a person based official national email program. Everyone would be given a official email and CAC card. The CAC would be necessary for log in and document signing. The emails would be part of a publicly searchable contact directory. A small artificial cost would be applied to the sender to avoid abuse from advertising/SPAM agencies. All official government correspondence would be sent and received through said email program. Any document signed with the CAC would be seen as legally strong as a physical document signed by a handwritten signature. All libraries would be fitted with document scanners, computers, and CAC readers for those that do not have said equipment at home. Ideally, all government paper forms would be converted to digital forms. All correspondence or notifications could optionally be freely forward to your personal email so that you know when to check your government email.

    As far as the transport of non-message objects goes, we could either have a post office that delivers mail only a couple times a week or simply go completely private (UPS, Fedex, etc.).

  13. Suicidal on North Korea Threatens US With Preemptive Nuclear Strike · · Score: 1

    Only a suicidal country would openly use nuclear weapons against a United States controlled land. They would have to be sneaky and frame someone else.

  14. Re:Too Costly on ISP Trying Free (But Limited) Home Broadband Plan · · Score: 1

    By that definition of "spoiled", everything humanity has designed and created to make parts of our lives easier or more efficient "spoils" us. By that definition of "spoiled", we should all be living tool-less, outside, sleeping in the dirt or trees, and spending 90% of our waking hours hunting, planting, and gathering so that we can continue to live out our 20 to 30 year lifespans.

    Technological progress changes expectations.

  15. Too Costly on ISP Trying Free (But Limited) Home Broadband Plan · · Score: 1

    $1/GB? That is way too pricy for broadband internet. It would be a godsend for mobile pricing but not broadband. I guess people who barely use the internet might save money but a lot of us get our digital entertainment/media almost solely through the internet these days. Hell, if I bought a game off Steam, it would cost me $4 after the cost of the game. If I spent $20 on a game, that would be a 25% increase in price. This all assumes I use less than 10GB a month. I wouldn't be surprised if my household hits over 200GB a month.

  16. Re:The car analogy? on Microsoft Restores Transfer Rights To Office 2013 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because the only way to guarantee that your tires are 100% compatible with the roads on the way to work is to buy those tires.

  17. Changing Behavior on The Wall That Knows If You're a Criminal · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't this only work if people didn't know they were being scanned? Otherwise, they would probably purposely change their facial expressions every few seconds. If anyone questions it, they simply claim they are protesting the use of such a device. What are they going to do? Make it illegal to make silly faces?

  18. Re:Duh on Bitcoin Hits New All-time High of $32 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What about when people die or accidentally delete their wallet and their bitcoins are lost to the void? Realistically, wouldn't it mean that overtime the supply of bitcoins would decrease to zero; or is there a mechanism to reabsorb those coins after a set time of account inactivity?

  19. Re:Hurry up and die please on Bitcoin Hits New All-time High of $32 · · Score: 1

    I don't think you understand what gives money value. It has nothing to do with taxes.

  20. Re:Duh on Bitcoin Hits New All-time High of $32 · · Score: 2

    I thought Bitcoin supply slowly increase overtime at a predefined rate. Isn't that the whole point of Bitcoin mining?

  21. Re:Translation: We Don't Have Gigabit Fiber on Time Warner Cable: No Consumer Demand For Gigabit Internet · · Score: 1

    Or they simply rename one of them.

  22. Now if we only had a open filesystem specification that is implemented by all operating systems natively ...

  23. Re:CD's ARE digital on Music Industry Sees First Revenue Increase Since 1999 · · Score: 1

    That would depend on your purposes.

  24. Re:CD's ARE digital on Music Industry Sees First Revenue Increase Since 1999 · · Score: 1

    Actually, when something is stored on a digital medium, it is digital. You can store an analog data stream at a high enough bit rate and sample rate such that it is effectively "analog" for the projected purposes but the resulting file is still digital.

  25. Re:Keep your guard up on Music Industry Sees First Revenue Increase Since 1999 · · Score: 2

    Not if they want customers.