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  1. Re: In after somebody says don't run Windows. on Ask Slashdot: Best Anti-Virus Software In 2015? Free Or Paid? · · Score: 2

    Guess you never heard of a flash exploit before?

    I don't know about Matheus, but I do hear about Flash exploits but I still don't use anti-virus software. It's just safer and easier to remove Flash from your computer. Same goes for Java. And since I use OS X I don't need Adobe Reader on my system either, so that's three of the biggest security holes completely removed from my system.

  2. Re:In after somebody says don't run Windows. on Ask Slashdot: Best Anti-Virus Software In 2015? Free Or Paid? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have a separate computer that I use if I need to actively infect one.

    Oh, so you're this guy.

  3. Re:In after somebody says don't run Windows. on Ask Slashdot: Best Anti-Virus Software In 2015? Free Or Paid? · · Score: 2

    Where is the insight?

    It's parked in the garage.

  4. Re:What are these Luddites ludding about? on 'Never Miss Another Delivery' - if You Have a TrackPIN (Video) · · Score: 1

    I'm waiting to be able to get a drone shipped to my house that will fly into my living room with a 3D printer to build the item I ordered online.

  5. Re:Solves a different problem I'm not sure exists? on 'Never Miss Another Delivery' - if You Have a TrackPIN (Video) · · Score: 1

    If you want something even weirder, just last week I received a package from China from an eBay seller that also required a signature. The funny part is, shipping was free and it was only a 2.50$ item.

  6. Re:Solves a different problem I'm not sure exists? on 'Never Miss Another Delivery' - if You Have a TrackPIN (Video) · · Score: 1

    The worst part is, it would be faster for them to just deliver the packages instead of filling out these stupid cards.

  7. Re:Crash-testing & strength? on Local Motors Looks To Disrupt the Auto Industry With 3D-Printed Car Bodies · · Score: 4, Funny

    "My test drives were all fine... but once I decided to open it up on a country road, I lost control and hit a horse drawn carriage full of people."

    That means you went over 88mph.

  8. Re:One more example of IoT on U.S. Gas Stations Vulnerable To Internet Attacks · · Score: 1

    Internet of Thingies.

  9. How accessible is this port? on U.S. Gas Stations Vulnerable To Internet Attacks · · Score: 1

    An attacker with access to the serial port interface...

    Is this port accessible by anyone, or is it under a locked access panel? And with the surveillance cameras at the gas stations, I'm pretty sure you won't be able to connect anything without being seen.

  10. Re:Obvious work is obvious on Scientists Slow the Speed of Light · · Score: 4, Funny

    At least you didn't write "Serves me right for reading coffee before drinking my morning Slashdot."

  11. Re:If all goes well. . . on Eric Schmidt: Our Perception of the Internet Will Fade · · Score: 1

    You, sir, win teh internets for today!!

    I hope he doesn't drop it and break it, because I'm planning a long session of pr0n later toni... I mean gaming. Yeah, that's it - gaming.

  12. Re:Cloud is useless in Canada on Data Encryption On the Rise In the Cloud and Mobile · · Score: 1

    That's true, but it's not like I'm the only one with such a problem. Not everyone lives in big cities, so I guess my title should have been "Cloud is useless for a lot of Canadians".

  13. Re:Cloud is useless in Canada on Data Encryption On the Rise In the Cloud and Mobile · · Score: 1

    I've known about Teksavvy for a few years but they're not available in my area.

  14. Re:Cloud is useless in Canada on Data Encryption On the Rise In the Cloud and Mobile · · Score: 1

    You only have alternatives if you live in or near a big city. My only other choice is "no Internet".

  15. Re:If all goes well. . . on Eric Schmidt: Our Perception of the Internet Will Fade · · Score: 2

    Imagine when your coffee maker won't work because it doesn't detect that you've gotten up and into the shower.

    That's still less annoying than when your ED-209 doesn't hear that you dropped your gun on the floor and is authorized to use physical force.

  16. Re:Article a bit on the vague side on Rare Astronomical Event Will See Triple Moon Shadows On Jupiter · · Score: 1

    That's why real astronomers use ludicrous speed.

  17. Cloud is useless in Canada on Data Encryption On the Rise In the Cloud and Mobile · · Score: 1

    Stupidly low monthly caps means we have better things to do with our bandwidth than to keep uploading and downloading our documents in "the cloud".

  18. Re:Shorter card on NVIDIA Launches New Midrange Maxwell-Based GeForce GTX 960 Graphics Card · · Score: 1

    I can use a D-pad and buttons just fine, I even grew up with consoles, starting with the Intellivision. I just never was able to use those thumbsticks - they're too sensitive and don't allow the same precision as a mouse.

    There's a reason why first-person shooter games don't let PC gamers play with console gamers. The console gamers would have no hope against the PC gamers.

  19. Re:Shorter card on NVIDIA Launches New Midrange Maxwell-Based GeForce GTX 960 Graphics Card · · Score: 1

    Stupid gamepads with tiny, over-sensitive and useless analog thumbsticks? No thanks.

  20. Re:128-bit Memory Interface? on NVIDIA Launches New Midrange Maxwell-Based GeForce GTX 960 Graphics Card · · Score: 1

    What's funny is that before the mid-2014 crypto-coin mining rage, the R9 270X was priced well below 200$CAD.

  21. Shorter card on NVIDIA Launches New Midrange Maxwell-Based GeForce GTX 960 Graphics Card · · Score: 1

    I'm glad to see ASUS understands that a lot of gamers have a small PC. Their Asus Strix GeForce GTX 960 looks like it might fit in a Cooler Master Elite 110.

  22. Discovery on The Camera That Changed the Universe · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The Hubble Space Telescope made us realize that space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

  23. Re:Currency on Researchers Moot "Teleportation" Via Destructive 3D Printing · · Score: 0

    There's also some kind of virtual, electronic currency being talked about but I don't know much about that.

    P.S.: check out the links in my sig, I need more refs!

  24. Re:Watch that capitalisation on TWEETHER Project Promises 10Gbps MmW 92-95GHz Based Wireless Broadband · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I read that as Mega-milli-Watt.

  25. Re:sh1t on Adobe Patches One Flash Zero Day, Another Still Unfixed · · Score: 1

    I'm beginning to think that all links to goat.cx are actually encrypted messages.