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  1. Re:This makes sense if they're recording *raw* dat on NSA Claims It Would Violate Americans' Privacy To Say How Many of Us It Spied On · · Score: 1

    i hope that there speech recognition engines is better than the one on Google voice that transcribes phone calls and messages. other wise you may be under the looking glass for its screw ups and it makes a lot of them

  2. Re:Companies are known to strike back on Hacked Companies Fight Back With Controversial Steps · · Score: 2

    not unless they are under 3 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0429493/)
    A-team movie 2010

  3. Re:Wow on Windows 8 Pre RTM Metro UI Leaked · · Score: 1

    BB10 takes things even further with 'flow' -- no buttons need apply.

    how exactly do you turn it on without a button?

  4. Re:Wow on Windows 8 Pre RTM Metro UI Leaked · · Score: 1

    oh you mean the super key i hit to trigger desktop cube in compiz that on the one that dosbox won't let me map to a control

  5. Re:No more fatties anymore. on MIT Creates Glucose Fuel Cell To Power Implanted Brain-Computer Interfaces · · Score: 1

    Mcdonalds would be the new gas station. Oh no my phones dead I need a big Mac.

  6. Re:Don't you mean... on Linus Torvalds Awarded the Millenial Technology Prize · · Score: 1

    not necessarily many people will use a mix of BSD and gnu utilities many more people use android Linux. also many embedded Linux installs use custom code not owned by gnu. rms is fine calling android android/Linux and desktop Linux gnu/Linux because they use a different base but where do we draw the line i have a bunch of apache licensed code open office; Mozilla licensed Firefox liferea Thunderbird; various programs using a BSD licensed database so do i have a gnu/BSD/apache/Mozilla/Linux where do i draw the line? why should gnu get credit if the others don't and we aren't always talking about desktop/server Linux so i say just calling it linux is the most rational dissension.

  7. Re:What?? on With Euro Zone Problems, Bitcoin Experiencing Boost In Legitimacy · · Score: 5, Funny

    next week RaspberryP cluster used to farm Bitcoins

  8. Re:Speaking as an ignorant layperson on Hungarian Sequencing Company Vets DNA For 'Gypsy Or Jew' Genes · · Score: 1

    George Zimmerman is a white man

    nope he Hispanic/Latino
    try again ac

  9. Re:In case you were wondering on Hungarian Sequencing Company Vets DNA For 'Gypsy Or Jew' Genes · · Score: 1

    correction: trolls are so stupid, as is anyone who blames all Americans for being prejudiced

  10. Re:Archery on ICANN Draws Ire Over Batching For Dot.word Domains · · Score: 1

    i want to register for ".tld"

  11. Re:Both Ways on Search Tracking Purports To Show Effect of Racism On '08 Election · · Score: 4, Insightful

    both sides have nut jobs you just don't like the republican ones more that you don't like the democrats ones so you vilify them. unfortunately under the current two party system the most whacked out nut-jobs are generally the one elected on both sides and then we wonder why the country is headed to hell.
    four years ago it was those war mongering right wing nut jobs killing th economy now it is the left wing socialist commies giving away all of the money they can ruining our economy. really what we need is a third party who can sit in the middle and say your both nucking futs and come up with a less insane perhaps even a workable solution but as soon as a third party starts up it is killed by the other two or is even more insane than the other two we already have and is shunned by the rest of the country

  12. Re:Failure is guaranteed on Patent Granted on Mandatory Digital Keys to Prevent Textbook Piracy · · Score: 1

    but the casual infringer can still download the copy the dude with talent ripped the drm out of or he can use the analog hole and ocr the book like people have been doing for years, or he could take a screen shot of each page of the book. this is just half-assed drm scheme that doesn't do any good anyway.

  13. Re:FBI angry? on FBI Hunt For Child Porn Thwarted By Tor · · Score: 2

    there is a law that stops them from doing just that it is called the statute of limitations it keeps them from prosecuting you for a crime that you committed years. by the time they manage to brute force decrypt all of the layers of encryption that tor uses even with magical quantum algorithms that don't exist yet on hardware that dose not exist yet. not to mention all of the pytabytes of each years accumulated encrypted traffic the statute of limitation would kick in and it would be pointless to go through it all then their is all of the wire tapping laws they would be braking in the processes that it would require a truly herculean legal effort to prosecute you for that nudey picture of the seventeen year old girl in a picture on 4chan you download that her ex-boy-friend had posted {no really her phone was hacked honest}. it would not be worth their time when they have real criminals like copyright infringers to kill.. i mean take care of.

  14. Re:Look and feel of QT on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't You Running KDE? · · Score: 1

    you mean like http://community.kde.org/Mac you have to compile from source but you can run it

  15. Re:gnome2 user on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't You Running KDE? · · Score: 1

    or you could use mate and it will still be gnome 2.

  16. Re:No problem on An HTTP Status Code For Censorship? · · Score: 1

    Besides we are not a democracy. We are a democraticly appointed republic. In a democracy we all would vote on everything insted we elect representatives who then democraticly vote on the issues.

  17. Re:Ubiquity and the McDonalds Playground on Microsoft Relents On Metro-Only Visual Studio Express · · Score: 1

    what have their ide associated with fatty foods? or with a childs play area? i don't get how thats good for them :D

  18. Re:Which side are we on? on Sprint Moves To Eliminate 'Blood Minerals' From Cell Phones · · Score: 2

    You gotta be pretty bad if your corporation is too evil for the USA.

    then why is oracle still here?

  19. Re:What OS is Azure based on? on OpenLogic Backs Linux On Windows Azure With SLA · · Score: 1

    i think it based off of hyper-V/custom mod'ed nt

  20. Re:Step 1 - on Dept. of Homeland Security To Build Better Cyber Workforce · · Score: 1

    i though that the US marshals were the nation police force

  21. Re:Some of your points are PURE "b.s." on Dept. of Homeland Security To Build Better Cyber Workforce · · Score: 1

    android is a bad example of why Linux is insecure. First off name one drive by download virus or self executing virus for android, scrap that name one actual virus for android, there aren't any at least in the wild. what there are is malware. malware exist for all systems and is an entirely different problem than viruses, maleware must be installed by the user/admin to run. meaning you have to give it permission to run i the first place. secondly the permission system on android is fubared.

    these problem don't occur in gnu/linux (as opposed to android/linux) for a number of reasons, one of whice is that you are allowed to be root and that isn' the special right of google, phone carrier, or manufacturer it is you. you can secure it and fix holes, those holes are left in the android system to make it easer for grandma to use her phone. where on gnu linux there is maleware you don't usualy see it because most apps are available via a well vetted repository system where the maintainers and users can review the source code and catch malaware ( malware writers don't want you to see the code because you might remove their crap and have a usable app and they would get caught.) there are also binary only apps in some distos repositories but those are still vetted nut not at the source level. with google apps however the is a much less stringent vetting system they are trying but there is still the issue of fubared permission that they are not willing to fix, which will perpetuate the problem.

  22. Re:Key words... on Dept. of Homeland Security To Build Better Cyber Workforce · · Score: 1

    but in the cloud

  23. Re:This can't be good. on Dept. of Homeland Security To Build Better Cyber Workforce · · Score: 1

    That because we Americans are the descendent of those utter bastards you sent out, only these utter bastards decided not to repatriate their assets to you any more.

  24. Re:I agree on An Asian Origin For Human Ancestors? · · Score: 1

    yelling "run" seems to be to swift and simple enough

  25. Re:It will be a pain in the ass to remember... on World IPv6 Launch Day Underway · · Score: 1

    can't you just use ipv4 internally and save ipv6 for external? or you could assign them both an ipv4 and ipv6 addresses? i mean i realize that ipv4 has a limited number of available addresses but for internal use i doubt that you would run out well ever inn the conceivable future.