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  1. Re:Excellent Idea on NZ Professor Advocates Civil Disobedience Against Mass Surveillance · · Score: 2

    There are possibilities that don't require an external infrastructure: just use NFC (or, if possible, a more secure equivalent) on the smartphone to exchange keys. This is what Threema does, and it isn't any more complicated than exchanging email addresses. Most people communicate mostly with people they know in the real world, after all.

  2. Re:Slowing?! on The Open Source Laptop and the Golden Age of Open Hardware · · Score: 1

    A doubling every n years yields an exponential function, not a parabola.

  3. Re:Why not use real domains instead? on Generic TLDs Threaten Name Collisions and Information Leakage · · Score: 1

    Not everyone has a domain - what about my home network? Do I need to reserve a domain specifically for that?

  4. Re:SSL without SNI on Switzerland Tops IPv6 Adoption Charts; US Lags At 4th · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that a widespread deployment of SNI is a lot easier than a widespread deployment of IPv6. Note that IPv6 isn't enabled by default on Windows XP, so as an XP user you are out of luck either way.

  5. Re:Crap, the sky is falling on Last Forking Warning For Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    Total disaster, never happens in real world, not virtual one. Except for all the times when 'real world' currencies undergo devaluations, revaluations, forced exchanges, just plain old inflation, all the things that lead to currencies collapsing. I mean name me a paper currency that lasted longer than 80 years on this planet without a major restructuring, without collapsing?

    The Swiss Franc? Unless you count things like exchange rate manipulation by the central bank, but that isn't really a collapse.

  6. Re:What's Oracle doing so badly? on MySQL's Creator On Why the Future Belongs To MariaDB · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's mainly a problem for Linux distributors: they stopped providing things like regression tests and security advisories. Source: https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-February/024478.html

  7. Same old story on Testers Say IE 11 Can Impersonate Firefox Via User Agent String · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Good on Google Removing Ad-Blockers From Play · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, Chrome's store is called Chrome Web Store and doesn't appear to be affected, Adblock et al. are still available.

  9. Re:users? on NetBSD To Support Kernel Development In Lua Scripting · · Score: 1

    You can already write your USB driver in Lua (or most other popular language out there) if you want to, completely in userspace: http://www.libusb.org/#Bindings. No need for it to be in the kernel.

  10. Re:Don't do that on Ask Slashdot: 2nd Spoken/Written Language For Software Developer? · · Score: 1

    I don't know if it's more or less clean to use environment variables, but it certainly is easier. The official Gentoo wiki recommends it to set the locale, anyway. And, well, in Gentoo you need to do stuff manually anyway, so no big difference there. :) Btw, it should read LANG=de_CH.UTF-8, of course. Anyway, I agree that it works much better on Linux than Windows or even Android. It's so annoying that having the language set to English makes it show American news in the Google News app.

  11. Re:Don't do that on Ask Slashdot: 2nd Spoken/Written Language For Software Developer? · · Score: 1

    For me, having LANGUAGE=de_CH.UTF-8 and LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 works pretty well on Gentoo, without me having to create my own locale. Of course, occasionally I get a sentence which is half German, half English, especially in KDE, but I don't care much.

  12. Nothing compared to the Swiss FIS on US Air Force Scraps ERP Project After $1 Billion Spent · · Score: 1

    Consider me unimpressed. The Swiss military spent 750 Million Dollar on a similar system called "Führungsinformationssystem Heer" that also spectacularly failed to fulfill its intended purpose (or any other purpose, for that matter). While, in absoulte terms, this may not be quite as much as the US Air Force spent, you have to keep in mind that this is the equivalent of a seventh of the annual budget of the Swiss military. Also, they have not stopped this project yet, so there is no saying they won't exceed the US Air Force project.

  13. Apple Maps on Black Sheep Blackberry Blackballed By Business · · Score: 1

    Yeah, effortlessly navigating streets that don't exist...