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  1. Re:You're ignoring facts. on Why Iron Dome Might Only Work For Israel · · Score: 2

    you mean like the spying we have several three letter agencies plus several military intelligence services doing to everyone including them. Spying on foreign powers is almost expected.

  2. Re:Romney endorsement on Intel CEO Paul Otellini Retiring · · Score: 1

    that is more to do with the south being racist, while the dems have a black candidate so of course they voted for the white guy

  3. Re:Easy on With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers · · Score: 1

    SCOTOS is part of the federal government any challenge to federal authority by a state is a challenge to their authority, what would stop a lower court from overruling their(SCOTUS) judgment in their(lower court) own jurisdiction using the same logical argument. its all about preservation and expansion of power

  4. Re:Prior Art on Brazil and Peru Dispute .Amazon TLD · · Score: 1

    prior art is for patents. this is about use of a new tdl

  5. Re:This seems halfway reasonable *smirk* on Brazil and Peru Dispute .Amazon TLD · · Score: 1

    no. breaking DNS and making people switch to IPv6 would be a pain in the ass. what we should do is use moving to IPv6 as an exuse to go to contry code based tdl's. then split the country codes up into subdomains of com mill gov org net edu or their lingual equvilents for for non english speaking countries. and let people keep using the currents sytem but only on IPv4.

  6. Re:Stand-By! on Brazil and Peru Dispute .Amazon TLD · · Score: 1

    depends on if we ever leave this planet and get a hold of FTL, if traveling between stars ever takes less then a few months than we may well end up with companies that straddle galaxies in which case a company outliving a river is not impossible.

  7. Re:Treating the Symptoms... on Ask Slashdot: How Should Tech Conferences Embrace Diversity? · · Score: 1

    most people dont post on the forum of computer programming conference to pick up chicks it was purely Politically Correct trolling

  8. Re:Stop complaining, and do it yourself on Ask Slashdot: How Should Tech Conferences Embrace Diversity? · · Score: 1

    no actively building a white only team would be where you limit you scope of tallent to white only then deside, when you choose your talent based on marit and they happen to be all of one race that is a coincidence.

    Technology is an area where northern europena and Asian make up a majority of the flied. this is due in large part to ethnic values where intellectual achievement, and education are valued not alway but generally more so than in other subcultures, couple this with science traditionally being seen as a mens domain, and put conference in norther europe a area the is preponderately white it is statistically likely that even a random sampling would be of the same sex and ethnic background when you make base your selection based solely on the best in field in this particular geographic area.

    this is merely statistics and geography at work.

  9. Re:None whatsoever on Ask Slashdot: How Should Tech Conferences Embrace Diversity? · · Score: 1

    race is not the only thing that makes us different. we have religion, economic background and more, but as this is about technology not technology in society where any of those might matter the only diversity that matters is the areas theis technology is used in, gui design, serverside scripting, unix admining windows databases are all diverse areas under the umbrella discussion, where you ancestors 500 years ago happened to live on the pigment concentration are not what matters.

  10. Re:You don't get to design your robot on Syfy Reality Show Will Feature Giant Boxing Robots · · Score: 1

    the mythbusters did or at least the several of the hosts did. in fact they have cannibalized there robots for parts several time on the show especially in the early seasons. Now if they did this show much more like discovery did junkyard wars where several teams build vehicles siege engines and robots from scrap metal and junked car parts then we would have something, other wise this is just televised knock-um sock-um robots. where the end result is even easier to stack/throw in favor of one competitor then it is in real boxing/wrestling.

  11. Re:No time like the present... on That Was Fast: Leahy Drops Warrantless E-mail Surveillance Bill · · Score: 1

    or we could simply use a separate header for authorized cirts and self signed explain to people the defference. or we could make signing free or cheap.

  12. Re:No time like the present... on That Was Fast: Leahy Drops Warrantless E-mail Surveillance Bill · · Score: 1

    Lets assume for a minute that the government and carriers/isp's and mail providers were willing to abide by the rules and actually care about and respect people privacy you would still have the problem of crackers and other malicious entities. The government is just the most potentiality scary bogeyman. Every one should be using encryption on all communication and conceivably sensitive/embarrassing/compromising data. I personaly have to settle for merely cryptographically signing rather than encrypting most of my emails because people are unwilling to take security measures that they perceive as being complicated even when they aren't. While true no encryption key is stronger than the physical/mental protection of the key-holder most people aren't going to get their knee broken over their personal correspondence but it could still be used as black mail if found. For example a while ago there was a cracker breaking into college aged womens computers stealing nude photos and then blackmailing the women for more nude footage. Had they women encrypted all of their photos the cracker would have had nothing to black mail them with.

    law breakers will break laws limiting what people can do with data
    unfortunately
    law maker will make laws exempting themselves

  13. Re:No time like the present... on That Was Fast: Leahy Drops Warrantless E-mail Surveillance Bill · · Score: 1

    you forgot employing scare tactics against people who don't pay for the little bits of math opting to generate it on their own computer. go look at any https site that uses a self-signed certificates, the first thing your browser does is give you a large warning about how you are at risk. then make you click through several dialog boxes saying you really are sure that you simply want to veiw the encrypted page

  14. Re:No time like the present... on That Was Fast: Leahy Drops Warrantless E-mail Surveillance Bill · · Score: 3, Interesting

    try convincing nongeeks and nontinfoilhaters to use double public key encryption for all of their communication be it email chat or voip. they will fight it tooth and nail because it "more complicated" translated requires one additional click per message maybe a couple keystrokes for your password.

  15. Re:Surface iOS Bridge on Is Oprah Cheating On Her Microsoft Love? · · Score: 1

    i would but there aren't that many gnu/linux/x11 tablets on the market with descent specs

  16. Re:Silly season is over. on Intel CEO Paul Otellini Retiring · · Score: 1

    really? we hae tons of partisan arguing.
    vi vs emacs
    rpm vs deb
    apple vs ms vs linux
    android vs ios
    C vs any other language
    risc vs cisc
    amd vs intel
    kde vs gnome
    gnu vs bsd
    linux vs gnu/linux
    sql vs nosql
    steve woz vs steve jobs

    its all partisan arguing just our arguing is usually more interesting than which power hungry liar is worse

  17. Re:Romney endorsement on Intel CEO Paul Otellini Retiring · · Score: 0

    the Republican party was the party in favor of freeing slaves while the democratic party wanted to keep them chained.

    "Founded in the Northern states in 1854 by anti-slavery activists, modernizers, ex-Whigs and ex-Free Soilers, the Republican Party quickly became the principal opposition to the dominant Southern Democratic Party and the briefly popular Know Nothing Party. The main cause was opposition to the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise by which slavery was kept out of Kansas. The Northern Republicans saw the expansion of slavery as a great evil. The first public meeting where the name "Republican" was suggested for a new anti-slavery party was held on March 20, 1854 in a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin"
    -the all knowing wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)#History

    Who was worse again?

  18. Re:This sounds like a money grab on How RapidShare Plans To Avoid MegaUpload's Fate · · Score: 2

    prepaid credit card purchased with cash

  19. Re:Hey Guys on Ask Slashdot: How To Make a DVD-Rental Store More Relevant? · · Score: 1

    redboxs are a much different animal than traditional dvd rental store

  20. Re:Hmmm on Cisco To Buy Meraki For $1.2 Billion · · Score: 3, Funny

    iHoho's, gTwinkies, Microsoft Ding Dongs#

  21. Re:Bad summary on Cisco To Buy Meraki For $1.2 Billion · · Score: 2

    they are a crappy Internet proxy service for "open wifi" where none of your traffic is encrypted but still requires a user-name and password. my college uses them all it seems able to do is block legitimate services that require Internet access, log you out periodically and not let log back in, and slowly throttle your connections bandwidth down to nothing, while not stopping or slowing down torrents which is one of the reasons they started using it. oh and it has stupid site balcklists (well that might be the local admin) blocking things like dropbox,

  22. Re:This is what I don't understand on John McAfee Launches Blog, Offers $25K Reward For "Real Killers" · · Score: 1

    evidently belize does not either

  23. Re:This is what I don't understand on John McAfee Launches Blog, Offers $25K Reward For "Real Killers" · · Score: 1

    i mean really why not go to a European tax shelter, Monaco, Switzerland, or other such place. the government is slightly less corrupt and you are less likely to be framed for forgetting to pay the local police chief off.

  24. Re:Hmmm on Valve's Big Picture Could Be a Linux Game Console · · Score: 1

    Still, ALSA+Pulse do a decent job of integrating with each other.

    sometimes

  25. Re:Or even older on It's Hard For Techies Over 40 To Stay Relevant, Says SAP Lab Director · · Score: 1

    i thought that the unix epoc was a mostly solved problem. simply use 64 bit unix time which should last till a couple million years b4 or after the sun explodes, by then pretty much all desktops servers and mobile devices will be 64 bit anyway to simply keep up with Morres law as applied to ram and possessors.