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  1. Re:Good. on Man Who Pointed Laser At Aircraft Gets 30-Month Sentence · · Score: 1

    I am not so sure. I think it could reach a plane that was landing (which this one was) but I doubt it could cause permanent blindness at that range.

  2. Re:Headline and Summary Mismatch on Testers Say IE 11 Can Impersonate Firefox Via User Agent String · · Score: 1

    Not really. The browser still identifies itself as being IE11 although it now claims to render "like Gecko". This user agent doesn't hide anything. It is most likely for exactly what the article says it is for: to prevent servers sending it broken IE specific code created when IE couldn't render anything properly.

  3. That is not really the point on Can You Really Hear the Difference Between Lossless, Lossy Audio? · · Score: 1

    Most of the time I can't tell the difference. That is not why I use lossless. I use lossless audio because it means I can convert it between hundreds of different lossless formats and it is the exact same quality as it was when I started. It doesn't matter that every audio player I use requires a different audio format. 20 years down the line I can have changed audio formats as many times as I need to to take advantage of better compression or to achieve compatibility with a new player and I will still have high quality audio.

  4. Re:Yahoo Account Go Bye Bye on Twitter, Hotmail, LinkedIn, Yahoo Open To Hijacking · · Score: 1

    "Well, that explains how my Yahoo account got hacked a couple of weeks ago." No.

  5. Using two cookies? on Twitter, Hotmail, LinkedIn, Yahoo Open To Hijacking · · Score: 3, Insightful

    From the article "He said a quick fix for some complex frameworks could be to utilise two cookies for the login process." How exactly would that help. Maybe I am just misunderstanding how the attack works but what is to stop the attacker stealing both cookies and using them?

  6. Re:Stupid stupid stupid on SendGrid Fires Employee After Firestorm Over Inappropriate Jokes · · Score: 1

    On the most part I agree but what is professional about taking covert pictures of the people who have offended you and posting them online (also on her employers time may I point out)?

  7. Re:Wait a sec on SendGrid Fires Employee After Firestorm Over Inappropriate Jokes · · Score: 2

    They got fired to and the jokes were not sexist. If it was jokes about vaginas then you would still say it was sexist against women right? In fact the jokes were sexual in nature but they weren't sexist at all. No one should have been fired and this just makes everyone look bad. The people who made the jokes look bad. The company they work for looks bad. The woman who reported them looks bad. The company she works for looks bad. Everybody looses.

  8. Re:3D printers on Interviews: Blendtec Founder Tom Dickson Answers Your Questions · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes. It also mines Bitcoins.

  9. Re:I get up .. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Stay Fit At Work? · · Score: 1

    Isn't that the answer to the question "How do you stay sane at work?"

  10. Re:Better off enforcing an EA boycott on Is It Time To Enforce a Gamers' Bill of Rights? · · Score: 1

    I agree completely. I have no sympathy for anyone who purchased SimCity. EA has shown that they will screw over the consumer time and time again. You can't just keep buying from them and act all surprised when they pull their usual shit.

  11. Just tell your users what is happening on Game Site Wonders 'What Next?' When 50% of Users Block Ads · · Score: 1

    I block all ads by default but if the ads are non-intrusive (non-flash and don't constantly reload every 10 seconds) then I am happy to whitelist certain sites I frequent. Just by making the assurance that the ads are non-intrusive may well reduce the number of users that ad block.

  12. Re:So Microsoft lies on UC Davis Study Concludes H-1B Workers Neither Best Nor Brightest · · Score: 2

    With no swearing or racism either. What is happening on /. today?

  13. Re:Support response on HTML5 Storage Bug Can Fill Your Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Really? I just tried it and I get a basic page layout but no content.

  14. Surely this is expected on Bypassing Google's Two-Factor Authentication · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To be fair I can sort of see Google's point. An application specific password is meant to be given to the application once and then never typed again, heavily reducing the chance of it being compromised. It should still not be possible to turn off 2 step auth or change the users password with one though but I have never assumed that it couldn't. Google makes it quite clear that the password grants full account access.

  15. Re:i dont know WTF is this.. on Open Source Emoji Project Wants Money For Icons · · Score: 3, Informative

    Kind of. It goes beyond the scope of a usual font because the emoticons are actually images that can be displayed in full color but they can be manipulated like a character in regular text because they are stored as a Unicode character.

  16. Re:i dont know WTF is this.. on Open Source Emoji Project Wants Money For Icons · · Score: 1

    It is basically a copyright free set of all the "official" emoticons.

  17. Re:I have another idea on Open Source Emoji Project Wants Money For Icons · · Score: 1

    xD

  18. Re:And if that evidence isn't enough on Flu Shot Doing Poor Job of Protecting Older People This Year · · Score: 0

    Fuck you.

  19. Re:Ah. on Dutch MP Fined For Ethical Hacking · · Score: 2

    I asked if they could put me through to Anonymous Coward but they didn't seem to know who you were. xD

  20. Re:Unexpected consequences of paywalls. on Tesla Motors Battles the New York Times · · Score: 1

    Sure but it is still something you expect to be mentioned in the article.

  21. Re:How about the US-Canadian/US-Mexico border? on DHS Can Seize Your Electronics Within 100 Mi.of US Border, Says DHS · · Score: 1

    But peruse!=persue.

  22. Re:How about the US-Canadian/US-Mexico border? on DHS Can Seize Your Electronics Within 100 Mi.of US Border, Says DHS · · Score: 1

    Obviously it is not to do with US embassies in other countries.It is to do with other countries embassies in the US.

  23. I would want some kind of compensation to stay on Ask Slashdot: How Long Do We Give an Online Service To Fix Issues? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If it goes beyond 5 days I would expect a reduced bill for the time the service was unusable that month. If I didn't get one I would definitely cancel.

  24. Re:I don't understand on How Proxied Torrents Could End ISP Subpoenas · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I see the ridiculous attempt at equating piracy with theft has shown its ugly head again. This idea is bad for everyone any only serves to obstruct actual debate about the ethics behind intellectual property. People who post information about breaking the law (it isn't even the law everywhere by the way so don't just assume American laws should be enforced worldwide) are never going to be ashamed because the reason they post the information in the first place is because they disagree with the existence of the law. The law is not the law because it is morally right. The law is the law because of pressure from lobby groups.

  25. Re:Huh... on Jonathan Coulton Offers Some Gleeful Turnabout · · Score: 1

    Whilst it is not stealing it is not the same as non-commercial piracy either. It is a lot worse than that because of the fact that it is plagiarism and because of the fact that it is being used commercially.