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  1. Re:An IP address doesn't identify a person on Sony Rootkit Redux: Canadian Business Groups Lobby For Right To Install Spyware · · Score: 1

    What if the spyware is designed to provide such proof? Using a webcam to transmit pictures of the user for instance.

  2. I'm not doubting the integrity of the open source community. I'm saying that the majority uses closed source software and are unaware of the potential risks.

    is aware :)

  3. I'm not doubting the integrity of the open source community. I'm saying that the majority uses closed source software and are unaware of the potential risks.

  4. Re:Dear CCC et al on Sony Rootkit Redux: Canadian Business Groups Lobby For Right To Install Spyware · · Score: 1

    Honey, so soon?

  5. Re:An IP address doesn't identify a person on Sony Rootkit Redux: Canadian Business Groups Lobby For Right To Install Spyware · · Score: 1

    You hit the nail right on the head. IP addresses can be spoofed. Long live Tor nodes and secure browser profiles.

  6. Re:Hang them. Problem solved. on Sony Rootkit Redux: Canadian Business Groups Lobby For Right To Install Spyware · · Score: 2

    Brutal, but effective.

  7. Re:Are we in China or some place like it? on Sony Rootkit Redux: Canadian Business Groups Lobby For Right To Install Spyware · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's getting pretty hard to differentiate between living in North America under corporate controlled government and China under government controlled corporatism.

    Different control mechanisms, same goal.

  8. Futhermore, you cannot expect all users to be familiar with netstat, iptables, tcpdump and other similar tools.

  9. Only if you can read code. What about people who can't and who rely on the integrity of companies to provide them with proper software. Oh, that's right. Companies and integrity don't mix.

  10. I reserve the right to install and recommend Linux on Sony Rootkit Redux: Canadian Business Groups Lobby For Right To Install Spyware · · Score: 2

    On every machine I find.

  11. The author is totalluy wrong and here's why on Will Renewable Energy Ever Meet All Our Energy Needs? · · Score: 1

    Clean energy is abundant on this planet. That's exactly why the investors and governments don't want to use it. Eventually, there will be no gain for them, because the cost to produce clean energy will amount to almost nothing for the consumers.

    70% of this word is covered by oceans, seas, rivers and lakes, which produce massive currents. If government aroud the world chose to use tidal energy plants on a planetary scale, combined with solar plants, geothermal plants (see Iceland, they want to export electricity), windmills and the recovery of gasses produced by natural waste, combine into a worldwide network, there wouldn't even be a debate about it.

    Also, electricity would be abundant enough to massively produce hydrogen for cars.

    Unfortunately, we do not live in a resource-based economy and the motives of investors, governments and other powers that be are anything but noble. They'd rather sell their sould to the devil and mess up this planet in spite of all the knowlege and the fact that there is no amount of money that could ever replace a ruined planet, not the mention the burden on future generations.

    So articles like the ones in this post can be dismissed as sick propaganda.

  12. Re:Watch your words... on FBI Publishes Top Email Terms Used By Corporate Fraudsters · · Score: 1

    My encryption was a failed investment...

  13. Re:You don't on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Explain To a Coworker That He Writes Bad Code? · · Score: 1

    That's obviously the attitude they use at Microsoft HQ.

  14. I have a DDoS patent on Patent Troll Targeting Users of Scanners; Wants $1000/Employee · · Score: 1

    I decided that everybody can use it against troll patenters.

  15. It will cost them more than 300 Euros on That Link You Just Posted Could Cost You 300 Euros · · Score: 1

    If we all decide to boycot this nonsense and not visit their website at all. That will be 0 hits, 0 revenue. Catch my drift? Maybe they don't understand the "Inter" word in Internet.

  16. Re:So much for democracy on European Commission Support of FRAND Licenses Hurts Open Standards · · Score: 1

    I second that. Corporate owned, corporate operated. No more democracy that in the United States, just more liberals.

  17. Re:Here it comes... on Scientology On Trial In Belgium · · Score: 2, Funny

    You mean the Moron Church?

  18. Re:Just like the movies on Real World Code Sucks · · Score: 1

    Alternative employment is also slave labor. Actually, anything that is based on monetary gain is slave labor.

  19. Just like the movies on Real World Code Sucks · · Score: 1

    In the real world, there no chance that a single man takes out entire armies. There is also no chance that CSI detectives drive Hummers. Academic code is better, because the purpose is entirely different. Once you start coding for a company, you basically become a code monkey under strict financial and other constraints. It's slave labor.

  20. Not using them may help on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 1

    I think that is extra safe, even when the safety is off.

  21. Re:Seeing how most companies won't migrate... on Microsoft Has Been Watching, and It Says You're Getting Used To Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    +1 for courage.

  22. I'm used to Linux on Microsoft Has Been Watching, and It Says You're Getting Used To Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    But thanks anyway, Microsoft.

  23. How the hell does one lose F-16 engines? on F-16 Engines Stolen From Israeli Air Base · · Score: 1

    Oops, I lost my F-16 engine. I can't remember where I put it.

  24. Re:Ignore this story on How Some Chinese Users Bypass The Great Firewall · · Score: 3, Funny

    I love panda steak with some whale sauce.

  25. China is not the only one on How Some Chinese Users Bypass The Great Firewall · · Score: 1