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  1. Re:Very tempting on Microsoft Will Allow Indie Self-publishing, Debugging On Retail Xbox One · · Score: 1

    If you're thinking you're going to get access to the unencrypted blu-ray disc stream, you can forget it sparky.

  2. KDE or it didn't happen! on The Rise of Linux In In-Vehicle Infotainment · · Score: 2

    It's not Linux if I can't configure it the way *I* want!

  3. Re:Wow, what a new idea on Ingy döt Net Tells How Acmeism Bridges Gaps in the Software World (Video) · · Score: 1

    This is just the kind of brilliant insight you get after smoking weed all night, only to wake up the next day and realize that none of what you wrote down even makes any sense.

  4. Re:Ingy döt Net on Ingy döt Net Tells How Acmeism Bridges Gaps in the Software World (Video) · · Score: 1

    Something tells me that there would be no shortage of people who would line up to kick this guy in the nuts.

  5. Yay, another hipster programming messiah!!! on Ingy döt Net Tells How Acmeism Bridges Gaps in the Software World (Video) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He's going to overturn decades of experience, hard work, research, and language development because HE'S A REBEL!!!

  6. Re:What problem is this solving? on British Porn-Censoring MP Has Website Defaced With Porn · · Score: 2

    Oh, I forgot, the UK isn't a democracy. Her Majesty the Queen appoints all your leaders from a list of freshly-scrubbed virginal aristocrats who've been bathed in the finest milk beforehand (as is the tradition). Under no circumstances will citizens or party members "vote" on anyone, and no aristocrat must ever be made to answer to a filthy commoner, much less PANDER to one (I almost faint at the thought).

    And this explains why Parliament is so civil and polite, and UK politics is so non-partisan.

  7. Re:Self signed? on Anonymous Source Claims Feds Demand Private SSL Keys From Web Services · · Score: 2

    The Feds are requesting the private keys from the server operators themselves, not from the CA.

    Something tells me that before this is over, we'll find out they've been requesting them (and getting them) from the CA's too.

  8. Re:"Main-in-the-middle"? on Anonymous Source Claims Feds Demand Private SSL Keys From Web Services · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not a "man in the middle" attack. It's the "government on top" attack.

  9. Re:He should just go to America and face the music on Edward Snowden Still Stuck At Airport, May Be Permitted Entry Into Russia Soon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You die for your principals

    As the great General Patton once said, you don't win by dying for your principles.

  10. Re:NSA *Won't* Search Its Own Email on NSA Can't Search Its Own Email · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why wouldn't they continue to lie? Congress, the President, and the American public have made it abundantly clear that there will be no consequences for lying. So, why not?

  11. Re:He should just go to America and face the music on Edward Snowden Still Stuck At Airport, May Be Permitted Entry Into Russia Soon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What good is disappearing into a hole forever, with no further contact with the world, going to do for his cause? People will just forget about him. At least this way, he and Assange can blog and publicly comment. That's way more than Bradley Manning will ever be able to do again.

  12. Re:Give up now! on Edward Snowden Still Stuck At Airport, May Be Permitted Entry Into Russia Soon · · Score: 2, Funny

    If he agrees to wear a muzzle and gag, they may even let him talk to his lawyer at Christmas.

  13. Re:What problem is this solving? on British Porn-Censoring MP Has Website Defaced With Porn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What exactly is the problem this legislation is trying to solve?

    Claire Perry is having a problem getting votes in her upcoming reelection.

  14. NSA *Won't* Search Its Own Email on NSA Can't Search Its Own Email · · Score: 4, Insightful

    FTFY

  15. Re:Cynic...? on Apple Profit Falls 22% But iPhone Sales Are Up · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure Samsung made a few bucks too.

  16. Re:Legal on SEC Alleges 'Bitcoin Savings & Trust' Is a Ponzi Scheme · · Score: 1

    When I first heard about Bitcoin, I thought it might have been well-intentioned. But well-intentioned or not, the whole thing is a giant flashing sign for scammers, thieves, and money-launderers reading "Marks Here!" It was only a (very brief) matter of time before they inevitably started showing up in droves.

  17. Re:I would, but... on Congress Voting On Amendment to Defund NSA Domestic Spying Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    That's the standard form letter that you get in ANY state (except for maybe 2 or 3 swing states, where the outcome of any election isn't already predetermined).

  18. It only works if there is a back end on A Radical Plan For Saving Microsoft's Surface RT · · Score: 2

    If getting these things into people's laps gets them to buy a buttload of MS software or makes them so attractive to developers that everybody shifts over to RT, it could work. But I would call that highly unlikely. Otherwise, they're just taking an even bigger loss than before. It certainly didn't work for HP.

  19. Re:Small correction on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up Non-Obnoxious Outdoor Lighting? · · Score: 1

    if (FireFury03.penis >= 6) {
                            English.language = American.language;
    };

  20. Re:Yeah it sucks to be in EE on Software Development Employment Rises 45% In 10 Years · · Score: 2

    It's been an important part since the beginning of EE. It's just that no one realized it until 1947.

  21. Re:Wages? on Software Development Employment Rises 45% In 10 Years · · Score: 1

    No but H1-B visa employment in the U.S. has EXPLODED!

  22. Re:Art, not science on Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops · · Score: 1

    Movies have always been about making money. You people are a bunch of romantics. Every now and then a great movie gets made IN SPITE OF THIS, but the major Hollywood studios have always been about making money first and foremost. Any artistic accomplishment has just been regarded as either a side benefit or a means to garner a smidgen of studio prestige. If you're remembering any era as different than that, you're remembering it wrong.

  23. Re:Movies used to be about the art, the story. on Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops · · Score: 1

    No, 95+% of movies have, and will always be, shit. If you think there is any era that's different, just name it and I'll name at least 10 shitty, forgotten, by-the-numbers crapfests for every 1 great movie. People remember Casablanca, but they forget the 100 b-rated Roy Rogers-type westerns that came out that same year.

  24. Re:Here's an idea on Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops · · Score: 1

    He wasn't a superhero in any sense of the word. He just had on a mask.

    And that's different from Batman how?

  25. Re:Better plots? on Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops · · Score: 1

    The Great Gatsby may well be doable for under $10 million. But I seriously doubt you could do The Lone Ranger for that price, and not have it look like complete b-rated schlock. Even the 80's version cost double that (in 1981 dollars, no less). And it didn't have any special effects at all, or even a big star.