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  1. Re:So slashdotters on An IP Address Does Not Point To a Person, Judge Rules · · Score: 1

    Wait, you mean the police might have to do actual police work rather than relying on shoddy "evidence" that doesn't point to the right place, raiding innocent people's houses, trampling all over civil liberties...

    Gee. I must be insane to think we could agree that the cops should be required to do their due diligence...

    Good thing the only thing in the courts are criminal cases and nobody ever has to bring a civial suit.

  2. Re:GL on MIT Blackjack King Takes SMTP Public · · Score: 2

    Yes, but:

    An intriguing Boston-area tech company is going public after more than 10 years

    They've already been going a decade.

  3. GL on MIT Blackjack King Takes SMTP Public · · Score: 1

    The company has grown a lot in the past year and has been making a small profit—just under $400,000 after tax in 2010, on $2.7 million in revenue.

    Good luck with making that billion?

  4. Re:North America like Europe ? on ARIN Implements DNSSEC · · Score: 1

    I'm glad that North America (ARIN) is now doing what Europe (RIPE) did earlier this month.

    So which zones does RIPE sign? None? So not the same.

  5. Re:The public is unwilling to use PC HDMI out to T on 77 Million Accounts Stolen From Playstation Network · · Score: 1

    I myself know it's possible, but the general public is unwilling to do that

    Yes they are, what % of households have TiVO, Dish, etc.

  6. I dont buy it on Amazon EC2 Failure Post-Mortem · · Score: 1

    During the whole issue they never posted a cause and took them forever to even say 'still investigating'. Even if they have a bare bones monitoring system up, it should have been readily apparent that traffic was flowing over the wrong network.

    [..] because traffic was purposely shifted away from the primary network and the secondary network couldn't handle the traffic level it was receiving.

    So they're basically saying if the primary network has issues theres not really a point in the backup because the backup network will make things explode just as much as having no backup.

  7. Re:Monitor size; Amiga; custom soundtracks; Spock on 77 Million Accounts Stolen From Playstation Network · · Score: 1

    Because most PC monitors are not big enough for two to four players holding gamepads, and the general public is unwilling to try to connect a PC to a TV.

    HDMI out on computer to HDMI in on TV. Done.

  8. Re:Heaviest Antiparticle Claim is Ridiculous on Antihelium Discovered By STAR · · Score: 1

    Try RTFS and/or RTFA:

    It’s likely that antihelium will be the heaviest antiparticle seen in an accelerator for some time to come..

  9. Err no on Licensing Problem Silences Internet Radio Stations · · Score: 1

    Apparently SoundExchange has a new president, and this might be a factor in acting on several years of missing payments. In the meantime, SWCast radio stations suffer after paying to legally broadcast.

    No, they weren't paying to legally broadcast. Yes they were paying SWCast, but since SWCast wasn't paying their fees, they had no license, and as such they shouldn't have been telling their clients everything is ok.

  10. Re:Severe weather in Virginia likely the culprit on Major Outage At the Amazon Web Services · · Score: 0

    after a tornado took the power out that powers the power station.

    Does not compute. Once it's running why can't a power station use it's own power.

  11. Re:Find Your iPhone on Apple Logging Locations of All iPhone Users · · Score: 1

    Nothing scary here, though the fact this data is available means people will try and extract it.

    If *any other company* was doing this, people would be grabbing pitchforks.

  12. Re:Hm, could it be nobody likes IPv6? on IPv6 Traffic Remains Minuscule · · Score: 1

    I know I don't. Could they have come up with a more hard to remember addressing scheme?

    If only they could invent a system that could translate from easy remember names to addresses

  13. Re:Well crap on TEPCO Unveils Plan To Deal With Fukushima Crisis · · Score: 1

    Yes, we all know how combustion works. If TFS means combustion it should say that, it shouldn't bandy about phrases like the above. Bad science is bad science and we shouldn't encourage it.

  14. Well crap on TEPCO Unveils Plan To Deal With Fukushima Crisis · · Score: 0

    Hydrogen, when exposed to oxygen, combusts.

    You better not tell water that.

  15. A better question on Ask Slashdot: Do I Give IT a Login On Our Dept. Server? · · Score: 1

    is if IT should even allow it on the network.

  16. No, no it doesn't on The End of Content Ownership · · Score: 1

    This article sheds some light on how the cloud, along with subscription and on-demand services, will transform our perception of content access and ownership.

    If you put your stuff in the cloud you dont own it. Period. Full Stop. You're just licensing it. If you stop paying, your stuff will disappear. That's the opposite of ownership.

    Furthermore, none of his supposed points are actually advantages of the cloud, just advantages of digitized content, the cloud is just one of a myriad of storage and distribution methods.

    Ownership will become an anathema as consumers realize they don't want to risk losing content as they switch services

    How's the cloud supposed to fix that? I can't switch from amazon to netflix and expect all my stuff to still work.

  17. No on Internet2 Turns 15. Has It Delivered? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    [...] to develop technologies that would advance the state of the 'commodity' Internet. Some say it has failed in that latter category.

    I'd say that's a problem caused by the ISPs not by this initiative.

  18. Re:Octillions? on Star Falls Into Black Hole · · Score: 1

    It's powers of a million, so 1000000^8 or A thousand trillion trillion, a billion billion billion: 1 followed by 27 zeros, 10^27.

    One octillion.

  19. Re:Duh? on Dropbox Authentication: Insecure By Design · · Score: 2

    Did you even RTFS?

    Once you're compromised, it's permanent, you cant change your password, you can't reformat, etc. Regardless of what they steal, changing your credentials though available means should lock them out.

  20. Re:Hasn't this kind of search always been legal? on Appeals Court Affirms Warrantless Computer Searches · · Score: 1

    Actually data travelling over the wires into the US is subject to the Patriot Act, so they can just get it that way.

  21. Ninth . . . on Appeals Court Affirms Warrantless Computer Searches · · Score: 2

    They dont call it the Ninth Circus for nothing

  22. What shouldn't be patentable on Patent Troll Going After Alzheimer's Researchers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The suit concerns an AIA patent on a human DNA sequence used in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease.

    This.

  23. Re:How about fixing memory leaks first? on Firefox 5 Details: Sharing, Home Tab, PDF Viewer · · Score: 2

    I have been reading about firefox leaks for years, yet I have never seen them. I have always thought it must be a problem with some configurations, or a myth/antifirefox propaganda

    Ok, how about this one.

    Firefox eats your memory in safe mode by doing absolutely nothing but opening it.

  24. Re:Slashdot on Case Closed On Jerusalem UFO Video · · Score: 3, Funny

    It was already debunked, this is just a debunking of the bunk of the debunking of the hoax.

  25. Slashdot on Case Closed On Jerusalem UFO Video · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where non-news confirmed to be non-news is news.