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  1. i hate being g a bitch on ABC Kills Next-Day Streaming For Non-Subscribers · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Managers on Do Non-Technical Managers Add Value? · · Score: 1
    Send out a short daily newsletter:

    Did all your office tech equipment work today?

    Your Welcome, IT dept.

  3. I like the idea on Congressman Accepts BitCoin For His US Senate Run · · Score: 4, Informative

    I like the idea of crypto currencies, but many of these news articles seem made to fuel further speculation in the market. It needs to become less speculative and more stable to be a true alternative.

  4. Re:Filter on 100-Year-Old Photo Negatives Discovered In Antarctica · · Score: 1

    It's called old fart pictures for dummies.

  5. If I have a briefcase full of papers at the border can that be searched without warrant or suspicion? If not, then why cana device which serves similar purpose be searched?

    Because fuck you (and the constitution), that's why. Oh sorry, because terrist bogeymen, that's why.

    My ass hurts.

  6. This just in, spy wants spy rules to stay on Former Head of NSA Calls For Obama To Reject NSA Commission Recommendations · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They'll poll damn well after the next attack

    The next attack will happen with or without illegal, unconstitutional domestic spying. I don't want you magic tiger protection rocks sir.

  7. Re:BeOS? on If UNIX Were a Religion · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sorry, I couldn't finish my previous comment. I had a bsod of 0x00000allahuakbar.

  8. Re:BeOS? on If UNIX Were a Religion · · Score: 5, Funny

    As much stuff as Windows had blown up over.the years I am thinking fundamental Islam.

  9. Re:The press and the people... on USA Today Names Edward Snowden Tech Person of the Year · · Score: 1
    It seems you and a few others have decided to disagree. But instead of succinct counter arguments I am met with derision and ad hominem. Yes my post was clichéd. There is a reason things become cliches, normally because there is a basic truth in there. Still, no one has answered why, or skillfully debated other options.

    Both I think prove my original clichéd conjectures. Some times I wonder if this type of inarticulate attack is really do to some deep seated inner loathing at recognition of oneself in the original argument.

  10. The press and the people... on USA Today Names Edward Snowden Tech Person of the Year · · Score: 4, Insightful
    ...are divided as usual, but many seem to applaud what he did. I do.

    The government however is not divided that I can see. They want his ass on a platter. Strung up, drawn and quartered with his parts sent to the four corners of Scotland as a message. This is telling in this day and age of 'partisan' bickering to keep the masses distracted with largely inconsequential issues. Patriotism is not serving in office. Or recording every bit of data you can weakening our country, technology and economy in the process, to supposedly protect us. It is not giving lip service to the constitution, while you wipe your arse with it by your actions.

    It is about standing up. It is about saying wait, this is NOT what MY country is supposed to be. It is about being able to stand up to a Tory, or a Tea Partier, or a Donkey and saying "fuck you, give me my rights, give me my liberty, or give me death", to paraphrase Patrick Henry. It is not in cow towing to the powers that be, but resisting the ever reaching yoke of the powerful.

    But we don't stand by and large. We listen to Fox news and MSNBC talking heads and nod. We scream at our football games or hope to see a blurred nipple slip on TMZ. We laugh at cat memes and snapchat sext our co-workers while the spouse is away. We wonder at the changes in the climate then get into our unneeded and wasteful SUV.

    What happened to our spine? The one that beat the brits? The one that helped show Germany and Japan where they could put it when they wanted to remake the world into their bleak image? Why are we more interested in goatse, and goth chicks and godzilla than righting our government? Why can 10 random people not discuss issues without at least 1 to 2 people completely derailing any progress? Why do we continually bend over while those in power plum our innermost depths to their own ends?

    I wish I knew the answers. I though many of these thoughts as a teen 20 years ago. Then I had the optimism to think that we were on the brink. That we would stand, that a revolution was imminent. That the way things were would be changed and we had the power to do it. I was cynical then, but had hope. Now I think I am a defeatist. I would like more than just a few people to prove me wrong. The Snowdens of the world are currently the exception that proves the rule. Why is this?

  11. no bugs are random on Not All Bugs Are Random · · Score: 1

    In my mind all bugs arise from an unexpected set of conditions and/or poor coding. They may be unanticipated but that does not make them random.

  12. day after christmas on Space Junk or a Meteor? Fireball Lit Up Midwestern Skies · · Score: 5, Funny

    Drunken Santa miscalculated and burned up on reentry.

  13. Hmmm on Snapchat Users' Phone Numbers Exposed To Hackers · · Score: 1

    Snapchat downplays the significance of the hole.

    Isn't that their entire business model? Encourage more people to show of their naughty bits, therefore "downplaying the significance of the hole."

  14. Re:42.8GB ZIP on Archive.org Hosts Massive Collection of MAME ROMs · · Score: 1

    SEED PLS!

  15. inside job? on Encrypted PIN Data Taken In Target Breach · · Score: 1
    To me this whole fiasco smacks of an inside job, or at least having a compromised employee/contractor. Certainly other scenarios are plausible, but IIRC they got into a system that pushed corrupt firmware to the card readers. I am assuming Target uses such firmware to put their graphics on screen, plus other Target specific things (like discount ts for target debit card users).

    The number of people with knowledge of how to change the firmware is probably a pretty short list. When crossed against the list of people who have access to the compromised systems it likely gets smaller

    Could others break in and figure it out? Sure, but I think Occam's Razor applies. The data is likely already split and sold (Krebs evidence suggests this). So the guys at the top, if smart, have made their money, and can sit back and relax.

  16. Magic rocks on US Federal Judge Rules NSA Data Collection Legal · · Score: 1
    Are you scared of tigers?

    Take your pants down while a cast a spell to protect you from tigers.

    Next time, take off your underwear also, this way the spell can effect you better.

    This time, for the spell to work, I have to touch you down there.

    ...

    Pretty soon, your fucked either way, but at least it's not ERMAGHERD TIGERS.

  17. Wasn't that the problem on NSA Drowns In Useless Data, Impeding Work, Former Employee Claims · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/view/

    The NSA knew about some of the 9-11 hijackers, but it was lost in the noise (and in lack of interdepartmental information sharing). The solution, suck in more noise? Makes little sense to me.

  18. Re:In other news, the Dutch warn about tulip mania on India Cautions Users On Risks Associated With Virtual Currencies · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Dollars, pounds, euros et al have no intrinsic value. And are also volatile (even if not as much as crap to currencies currently are).

  19. Re:Romances go fast... on E-Books That Read You · · Score: 1

    Eroticas go faster because people are skipping over the pages of badly written sex trying to find more plot.

    Are you dyslexic?

  20. Not worried much on E-Books That Read You · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I am far less concerned with research about how I read than information on what I read and who I share it with being given to those in power. How I read may make for better written, more useful tomes. Information on what I read can be misconstrued and misused. Unfortunately, what I read has been a matter of record since long before data on how I read.

  21. Re:'A' Players Make a Lot of Questionable Decision on Netflix: Non-'A' Players Unworthy of Jobs · · Score: 1

    They're the largest in their field and have little real competition, so they must be doing something right.

    They were the first in the field, and no one has done it better - yet. FTFY

    Remember myspace?

  22. so the options are... on Smaller Than Earth-Sized Exomoon Discovered? · · Score: 1
    Its a moon

    Or

    "That's no moon"

  23. Re:I am dropping RSA on F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen Cancels RSA Talk In Protest · · Score: 1

    Apparently you didn't get the hint either as you are just now prepping to change.

  24. Re:Responsive Web Design on Ask Slashdot: Why Do Mobile Versions of Websites Suck? · · Score: 1

    This is what I do. It just works. The main problem is getting the CSS right across all browsers can be tough, but as usual you settle for the majors and cover 95+ percent. Then yo do not have the nightmare of separate pages and sites for mobile with all the attendant linking issues. Just one site to rule them all and resize as needed.

  25. My ex girlfriend... on Japanese SCHAFT Takes the Gold at DARPA Robot Challenge · · Score: 1

    Wanted a SCHAFT robot. I got her one, then she dumped me.