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  1. Re:lol on Windows 8: a 'Christmas Gift For Someone You Hate' · · Score: 1

    I'm using mate right now out of a ppa but gnome fall-back works fairly well, you could alway try kde. xfce is fairly light weight but is a little to utilitarian for my taste, have heard good things about e17 haven't gotten around to trying it though. don't care for unity but like the HUD con sept maybe if the could separate it from the unity bar and let you use it in other DE's also don't like the global menu or the horrible scroll bars.

  2. Re:lol on Windows 8: a 'Christmas Gift For Someone You Hate' · · Score: 0

    In Ubuntu i can chose any of a dozen desktop environments, and not have to switch between them to simple thing like shutdown.

  3. Made you give them back? on Dotcom Drags NZ Spook Agency Into Court · · Score: 1

    New Zealand is a sovereign nation right? (or were b4 you sold out to big media) How can France force you to give them back?

  4. Re:Yes but on Race To Mine Bitcoins Drives Enthusiasts Into the Chip Making Business · · Score: 2

    you mean like just before the great depression when people started to by stocks on credit and pay them off with the returns? yeah that worked out well for everyone involved.

  5. Re:A Positive Move on Disney Switching To Netflix For Exclusive Film Distribution · · Score: 2

    easy netflix is legal, the pirate bay is illegal and you can be sued by the riaa/mpaa, netflix streams on demand you have to wait for torrents to download, bluray players televisions tablets phones and $30 streaming boxes from walmart come with netflix apps, netflix sends you dvds/blurays that you can rip return and get more, netflix has relevant movie recommendations the pirate bay has popups and porn ads.

  6. Re:encryption on The Trouble With Bringing Your Business Laptop To China · · Score: 1

    *Chinese agents

    (damn you auto/spell correct)

  7. Re:encryption on The Trouble With Bringing Your Business Laptop To China · · Score: 1

    A liveCD is not a form of encryption

  8. Re:Americans to cops: on Cops To Congress: We Need Logs of Americans' Text Messages · · Score: 1

    That is non sequester as that was a problem before people switched to gmail. stupid people are always are a security whole.

  9. Re:The solution for data theft? on The Trouble With Bringing Your Business Laptop To China · · Score: 1

    ...next use stenography to hide encrypted data in. they will notice a difference in each copies checksum ...

    Please, people, it's Steganography, not Stenography. Stenography is a manual transcription process that was practiced in the days of Shorthand.

    (Please show some consideration for the CDO sufferers among us!)

    Sorry I used mistakenly listened to spell check.

  10. Re:End-to-end encryption on ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection · · Score: 2

    double public key is hard to man in the middle when you exchange public keys in meatspace

  11. can you say hell no on ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection · · Score: 4, Interesting

    lets assume that the governments don't say no, they would still have to overturn wiretapping laws in the US at least. but maybe we could use this to get our security complacent friends to use strong encryption.

  12. Re:Like the drake equation on Other Solar Systems Could Be More Habitable Than Ours · · Score: 1

    it takes centuries for reach point of no recovery for climate change even then whats to stop adaptation/mutation form saving your species? on a spaceship your air filter system dies you die in hours

  13. Re:I wonder if this will work? on The Trouble With Bringing Your Business Laptop To China · · Score: 1

    why toss it? you could give it to the kids to play flash games and minecraft on.

  14. Re:The solution for data theft? on The Trouble With Bringing Your Business Laptop To China · · Score: 1

    one terabyte drive filled with goatcx, lemon party, and two girls one cup, in the highest resolution you can find, next use stenography to hide encrypted data in. they will notice a difference in each copies checksum and spend years analyzing the worst porn on the planet. you have now made some poor chinese persons life miserable.

  15. Re:encryption on The Trouble With Bringing Your Business Laptop To China · · Score: 4, Interesting

    better yet live cd let them try installing malaware on there then, encrypt the whole drive and only use it for data storage, when chinless agents tries booting and no OS is found so he simply images you drive for later analysis let him stew for a few billion years trying to decrypt it.

  16. Re:of course they are. on Nokia Selling Its Headquarters To Raise Funds · · Score: 1

    They probably don't "need it" but with the MS surface move Microsoft has made signals that they want a more apple like hardware operation, where they control hardware and software. Nokia has everything MS need aside for a phone and tablet show. Nokia had had dismal product lines recently but that because their CEO is trying to kill them so his former employer can buy up Nokia on the cheap. mind you much of thier products lines failing has been because they killed everything except windows phone but even there the hardware is descent quality and they have a record of building great phones before E(f)lop came along.

  17. Re:Like the drake equation on Other Solar Systems Could Be More Habitable Than Ours · · Score: 1

    because if you have a power, lifesupport, radiation containment, etc, failure on a space ship everyone on board would die. mean while on a earth like planet you have a power failure you can open a window for light and air, and nuclear fallout on a planet can be survived on a spaceship your shit out of luck

  18. Re:Like the drake equation on Other Solar Systems Could Be More Habitable Than Ours · · Score: 0

    The Drake Equation alway seemed like numbers Mr Drake pulled out of his @$$ to me. You see we only really have one data point to speak of and that is our own planet we don't have any idea what else there is out there until we can do a detailed survey of at least our Galaxy. For all we no we may be a unique planet or outside of our veiwing range the universe may be teaming with life, thats the problem with trying to look at a universe where you can't see the other side; or the other side of you own galaxy is so far away that whole civilization my have risen and fallen and its species last member died before the light of their first fire ever reaches our planet. Hell Drakes equation only even speculates for earth like life what about silicon or arsenic based life? Lets hold off as i on the estimation of the universe population until we have found at least one non-terrestrial lifeforms, or explored outside of our own planetary system? As it stands now only a few people have looked at maybe a couple square miles of our own moon.

  19. Re:Can't be a replica, only a scale model... on Star Wars Fans Plan Full-Size Millennium Falcon Replica · · Score: 2

    as we don't have technology to make hyperdrive yet (or maybe if someone from Zone 51 can leak the needed information...)

    that would be area 51. you may turn in your tinfoil at the door.

  20. Re:They're forgot one thing on Star Wars Fans Plan Full-Size Millennium Falcon Replica · · Score: 1

    So maybe Han Solo is from Gallifrey.

  21. of course they are. on Nokia Selling Its Headquarters To Raise Funds · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why of course they are selling the headquarters. Why would Microsoft need it when they already have a headquarters? All they just want the patents software(nokia maps) talent and factories. They already have all the bureaucracy and buildings they need.

  22. Re:Preference on Android Rules Smartphones, But Which Version? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "But which version of Android is most preferred by users?".

    CyanogenMod

  23. Re:Ok, I'll say it on Cops To Congress: We Need Logs of Americans' Text Messages · · Score: 1

    as for fb chat logs use a xmpp chat client and pgp plugin

  24. Re:encryption is not compatible with a free societ on Cops To Congress: We Need Logs of Americans' Text Messages · · Score: 1

    Hypothetically speaking her easy way to fix it encryption bans would be to sniff the wifi of congressmen's parents for bank info transfer all of their funds to their neighbor. Move their own to the local indian casino, start planting pron on their computers. Start monitoring their email and publishing it all on wikileaks pastebin and 4chan. or just post their own browser history and book marks. suddenly encryption looks like a great idea

  25. Re:Americans to cops: on Cops To Congress: We Need Logs of Americans' Text Messages · · Score: 2

    i use PGP with gmail, i write my emails on thunderbird sign encrypt, thunderbird has via pop access to gmail so i'm good.