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  1. Re:It SHOULD be illegal on Australian Tax Office Stores Passwords In Clear Text · · Score: 2

    So you would put the blame on the person that failed to stop someone from doing something illegal as in "felony-type illegal". Should the blame and punishment be applied to the real criminal instead? Our mailboxes don't even have locks around here. And it's not a problem. Why? Because there are severe penalties for touching someone elses mailbox. You would rather jail the owner of the postbox because they did not prevent the theft by putting a lock on the postbox. Why not jail the person breaking into the postbox? Or do you steal peoples mail (or passwords) and not want to worry about going to jail if caught? If you steal from me it is not my fault for leaving something unlocked, it is your fault for being a thief.

  2. Why people reuse passwords. on Australian Tax Office Stores Passwords In Clear Text · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Most of us have very busy lives and not enough time to remember long passwords especially long paswords with CAPS and numbers. It is quicker to sign up for a new gmail account than figure out that password you never used in a month. Now why don't people think of the poor abandoned email accounts tying up that username you really wanted? Now my bank and credit card pins came in the mail in plain text. Its not usually a problem. Why you ask? Because it is very illegal and you will spend a lot of time in jail. This attitude the the internet is a toy and the rules don't apply "cause yer l33t if you can break into someones computer or steal personal info" has to change. If you unlawfully access my computer or personal info you should go to jail just as if you were caught with your hand in my mailbox.

  3. Re:Canada = police state. Spend tourist $ elsewher on Cellphone Privacy In Canada: Encryption Triggers Need For Warrant · · Score: 1

    Please tell me where there is a better place to live than Canada.

  4. Microsofties? on Everything You Know About Password-Stealing Is Wrong · · Score: 1

    Really?

  5. Re:Why Slashdot ignoring the big Blackberry 10 lau on Polymer Patches May Enable Effective DNA Vaccines · · Score: 1

    There was an article about the last Haiku release.
    Personally a Haiku release is more important than a BB release.

  6. Re:Ridiculous on Student Expelled From Montreal College For Finding "Sloppy Coding" · · Score: 1

    He was a student there. He was making sure "his" personal info was secure. The colledge has a responsibility to make sure the info they collect from paying students is secure.

  7. LTS on LTSI Linux Kernel 3.4 Released · · Score: 0

    should be at least 5 years.
    Do you know what a pain in the ass it is keeping all your relatives pc's backed up and updated? And the phonecalls about the updates not working anymore. And trying to explain that the repositories don't work anymore and they need to reinstall a new version of ubuntu and you can't really help them over the phone because you don't use ubuntu very often and oh yah this is about the kernel not ubuntu.
    Try telling my dad ununtu isn't linux.

  8. Re:Yeah it's useful... and horrible at the same ti on 'Bankrupt' Australian Surgeon Sues Google For Auto-Complete · · Score: 1

    But you are not strictly anonamous . You forgot to check the little ac box.

  9. Re:Let's help the poor guy! on 'Bankrupt' Australian Surgeon Sues Google For Auto-Complete · · Score: 1

    There did it.
    Wanted to help the poor guy out.

  10. I like auto complete on 'Bankrupt' Australian Surgeon Sues Google For Auto-Complete · · Score: 2

    It really help those of us that can't type faster than 50 wpm and can't spell worth a shit.

  11. Re:I must agree on Fedora 18 Installer: Counterintuitive and Confusing? · · Score: 1

    I never got around to installing F18 yet. However I did read the release notes especialy the part about the incomplete installer that was having some not so slight problems with it's partition tool.

  12. Re:Shut up and take my money! on CES: IN WIN Displays Costly but Beautiful Computer Cases (Video) · · Score: 1

    I have no problem typing with one hand while "it" is in the other hand.

  13. Re:Suck it up. on Ask Slashdot: Should Employers Ban Smartphones? · · Score: 1

    Thats funny if I take time off for a Dr. or dentist I have to be able to prove I was there and get permission to go in the first place. So my boss knows anyway. How do your employers know you are not just skiping work. At most work places thats a firing.

  14. cross-eyed on Now You Can Control Any Win 8 Kit With Your Eyes · · Score: 5, Funny

    How many people are going to end up cross-eyed from trying the pinch-to-zoom feature?

  15. Re:Suck it up. on Ask Slashdot: Should Employers Ban Smartphones? · · Score: 2

    My daycare insists on my work number or I can't drop the kids off. I think making personal calls or text msging is the big problem. If you need to make a doctor apointment you can easily do that from your desk. Where I work I can bring whatever phone I want but half the time there is no cell service anyway.

  16. Re:An e-book is not a book. on Death of Printed Books May Have Been Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    No time to read and I had to give away most of my book in the last couple moves. I still have books I was given 25 years ago. And I still read the newspaper almost every day.

  17. Re:An e-book is not a book. on Death of Printed Books May Have Been Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    I have 3 young kids the youngest is 6 months old and I have apox 2 free hours a day. Kids get my free time and I don't consider "see spot run" a book. Soon they will be old enough they won't want to spend time with me then I can pick up my reading again.

  18. An e-book is not a book. on Death of Printed Books May Have Been Exaggerated · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I just can not become totally immersed in an e-book. It started when I was a little kid and I read every book I could get my hands on. E-books will never replace the feeling of nostalgia from my childhood. Unfortunatly I rarely read anymore unless it is a manual or some such.

  19. Re:Or they could just increase gas tax on Oregon Lawmakers Propose Mileage Tax On Fuel Efficient Vehicles · · Score: 0

    Construction and I said kilos not pounds. And I pay for EI and WCB.

  20. Re:What about people who bus, bike or walk? on Oregon Lawmakers Propose Mileage Tax On Fuel Efficient Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Let me correct that for you "we don't tax large business we take it out of the small business that employs locals and no people from china or other third world contries"

  21. Re:Or they could just increase gas tax on Oregon Lawmakers Propose Mileage Tax On Fuel Efficient Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Yes that is what us with comercial vehicles have to pay. We use our vehicles for work and have to pay ou the ass. If you are taking your vehicle to work why shouldn't you pay the say rate?

  22. Re:Or they could just increase gas tax on Oregon Lawmakers Propose Mileage Tax On Fuel Efficient Vehicles · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We do I have a Dodge 3500 plus a 34 foot trailer. I pay by the kilo for my registration and I pay 4 times for insurance plus I pay $500 anually for inspections plus I have to pull over for way scales while I am payin 3-4 guys to sit in the truck while some dipshit takes 3 hr to look over my truck and fine me $250 because I am missing one out of two licence plate lights. Way to encourage small business.

  23. Re:Political Correctness on Oregon Lawmakers Propose Mileage Tax On Fuel Efficient Vehicles · · Score: 2, Informative

    Has nothing to do with being PC I own a small bussiness and need my pickup for work so I can employ 3-4 people in the summer and I pay an assload of taxes for the priviledge. So thank me for helping the economy and fuck off.

  24. Re:I do feel sorry for XP users on New IE Vulnerability Used In Targeted Attacks; IE9, IE10 Users Safe · · Score: 1, Funny

    How do I install IE in Ubuntu? I can't find it in the repositories.

  25. Re:Make love not war on Child Gets Nintendo 3DS Full of Porn For Christmas · · Score: 2

    "Do you like getting your dick sucked?
    Do you like sucking dick?
    If you don't like sucking dick you sir are a hypocrite."