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  1. Since the editors are too lazy to do their job on Patient Just Wants To See Data From His Implanted Medical Device · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's a link to the actual post.

  2. Re:"Conservative" on Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing), Gun Control, and Patent Law · · Score: 1

    There is a significant difference.

    Barry Goldwater would beg to differ. Dont attribute neoconservatives to the entire spectrum of conservatism.

  3. Re:Use a Frame on ACLU Questions Privacy of License Plate Scanners · · Score: 1

    *sigh* I swear I read that 5 times and it said KY :(

  4. Re:Not the scanners but how they use them. on ACLU Questions Privacy of License Plate Scanners · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you shouldn't be driving then.

    (Red and Green are opposite colors and if you see the lights out of your direct vision, they can seem the same color.)

    Why would it be out of your direct vision? Lights are at such a small minute of arc out of your normal sight line, if you can't tell what color it is, you cannot operate a vehicle safely.

  5. Re:Use a Frame on ACLU Questions Privacy of License Plate Scanners · · Score: 4, Informative

    Dont read your own laws then?

    186.170 Display of registration plates, insignia-
    No rim, frame, or other covering around the plate shall in any way obscure
    or cover any lettering or decal on the plate

    186.170 00449 RIM OR FRAME OBSCURING LETTERING OR DECAL ON PLATE VIOLATION

  6. Re:Maybe same old 'leave your guns at entrance' ru on 12 Dead, 50 Injured at The Dark Knight Rises Showing In Colorado · · Score: 1

    Depends on the jurisdiction. In TX there is a legally defined format the sign must have or it isn't enforceable. They can have a sign that says "No guns please." and if you carry, the worst that can happen is they can kick you off the property.

  7. Re:In fairness to Scientology on Church of Scientology Enlisting Followers In Censorship · · Score: 1

    > However, compared to the Judeo-Christian-Islamic trinity, they are responsible for much less evil and far fewer deaths. Between those three religions you have tens of millions slaughtered in pointless wars over minor differences in doctrine

    They've also been around over 40 times longer then Scientology. It's a baby religion, but look what it's been able to do in its first 60 years.

  8. Eh? on Software-Defined Radio: the Apple I of Broadcast? · · Score: 1

    Most significantly, the widespread adoption of software-defined radio hardware could undermine the FCC's control over the electromagnetic spectrum itself.

    No, no it wont. The FCC will bring down the banhammer. If you cause issues, they *will* be knocking on your door.

    Right now, the FCC largely focuses on limiting the transmission frequencies of radio hardware. But this regulatory approach is likely to work poorly for software-defined radio devices that aren't confined to any specific frequency.

    Yes, yes it will. You cause issues, FCC gets complaints, it sends in the goon squad to shut you down.

  9. Re:Unit of time on Keeping Your Cloud Costs Under Control · · Score: 1, Informative

    Well, lets go look

    Pricing is per instance-hour consumed for each instance, from the time an instance is launched until it is terminated. Each partial instance-hour consumed will be billed as a full hour.

    Man, that was hard.

  10. What? on Chatbot Eugene Wins Biggest Turing Test Ever · · Score: 5, Funny

    My convo:

    Me: Are you a bot?
    It: . I'm real
    Me: No you're not.
    It: Really? Oh, you always say banalities in the way like you present a sensation! By the way, what's your occupation? I mean - could you tell me about your work?

    Totally a 13 year old.

  11. NewEgg on NewEgg: Installing Linux Breaks Laptop · · Score: 2

    NewEgg long ago stopped being the go-to site for tech stuff and went full on commercial.

  12. Re:Educate the public? on DVDs, Blu-Rays To Show 20-Second Unskippable Govt. Warnings · · Score: 1

    So it's a rebranded xbmc?

  13. Probably . . . on Microsoft Using Linux To Optimize Skype Traffic · · Score: 5, Funny

    They likely couldn't afford the cost of the server licenses.

  14. Hahahahah on Bill Banning Employer Facebook Snooping Introduced In Congress · · Score: 1

    The difference this time is that the concept has its own bill, while its previous incarnation was an amendment to an existing bill about reforming FCC procedures.

    That's one of the few guaranteed ways of killing something, attach it to the FCC.

  15. What did you expect? on FBI Seizes Server Providing Anonymous Remailer Service · · Score: 1

    When their reply was basically "If we dont let them send bomb threats, we're undermining free speech and the Internet"

  16. Doing it wrong. on Ask Slashdot: A Cheap, DIY Home Security and Surveillance System? · · Score: 1

    Six weeks ago, my home was broken into while my fiance and I were at work. [...] a safe (complete with several years worth of taxes, my birth certificate, and old copies of my driver's license)

    Locking things up in a safe is completely pointless if they can pick it up and take it with them. All you've done is give them an easy way to quickly steal all of your important things.

  17. Re:Tape never died or lost its supremacy on After 60 Years, Tape Reinserts Itself · · Score: 1

    A backblaze box. 1PB for about $55k.

  18. Re:I knew it was too good to be true. on LightSquared CEO Resigns Amid Appearance of Bribery · · Score: 5, Informative

    You know, really depressing thing I've found is that there appears to be no proof of this allegation. The accusation enough seems to have been sufficient to stop anyone from even trying to prove it.

    Because there isn't anything to prove, it's basic physics. But to appease shills like you, they did do that test.

  19. Re:What we need on Apache 2.4 Takes Direct Aim At Nginx · · Score: 1

    In case some people don't know, nginx uses http1 to connect to the servers, which means a new connection for reach request.

    HTTP/1.1 proxying is currently available in the development version so if needed you can use that.

  20. Re:IE's fault? on Microsoft Accuses Google of Violating Internet Explorer's Privacy Settings · · Score: 4, Informative

    It looks to me that Google is doing exactly what their p3p policy says they will do.

    No, it's doing the exact opposite. P3P is a list of things you *WILL USE* the cookie data for, not what you *WILL NOT* do. Per the spec, if it's not a valid tag it gets ignore, remove all the invalid stuff and google is effectively sending P3P="", or in other words, they wont use it for anything.

  21. Re:Why? on No More SSL Revocation Checking For Chrome · · Score: 0

    Because blaming CAs is easier then blaming your own product.

  22. What? on No More SSL Revocation Checking For Chrome · · Score: 3, Interesting

    He said the services, which browsers are supposed to query before trusting a credential for an SSL-protected address, don't make end users safer because Chrome and most other browsers establish the connection even when the services aren't able to ensure a certificate hasn't been tampered with.

    So he admits Chrome is broken, so he doesn't fix it and blames the CA's . . makes sense.

    Chrome will instead rely on its automatic update mechanism to maintain a list of certificates that have been revoked for security reasons. Langley called on certificate authorities to provide a list of revoked certificates that Google bots can automatically fetch.

    So basically he wants CRLs? I thought he didn't want CRLs?

  23. Re:This is news? on Google Starts Running Fiber In Kansas City · · Score: 1

    I guess it is for KC folks, but I've had fiber to my house for years here in Texas from Verizon.

    Um, no? This is ten times faster then verizon's fastest offering* which isn't even available everywhere, so yes, it is news.

    *Yes I know 1 Gigabit isn't 10x greater then 150 megabit.

  24. Re:FUD on Shmoocon Demo Shows Easy, Wireless Credit Card Fraud · · Score: 2

    Can't remember the last time a cashier looked at my card or asked for the CVV.

    Because that information is on the stripe.

  25. Re:Is this news? on Shmoocon Demo Shows Easy, Wireless Credit Card Fraud · · Score: -1, Troll

    Paget’s firm has been working on a more sophisticated fix: a credit-card-shaped protection device known as GuardBunny that sits in a wallet alongside payment cards and blocks any would-be RFID fraudster.

    It's news because s/he's spewing FUD to make a buck.