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  1. Re:Yay :D on If You're Connected, Apple Collects Your Data · · Score: 1

    So when can we expect these UI "improvements"?

  2. Re:Some Sense Restored? on Debian Talks About Systemd Once Again · · Score: 1

    Yes, there are non-developer users of Linux on the desktop.

  3. Re: Is this counting Apple's new encryption scheme on Snowden's Tough Advice For Guarding Privacy · · Score: 1

    I don't think committing the crime in the US is grounds for extradition.

  4. Re:Is this counting Apple's new encryption scheme? on Snowden's Tough Advice For Guarding Privacy · · Score: 1

    Don't forget -- "illegal" applies globally. The US has extradition agreements with Saudi Arabia and Turkey, so technically, a US citizen can be extradited to KSA for something anti-Islamic (giving a church flyer to a Muslim), and then beheaded even though the person never set foot outside the US. So, what may be something one doesn't worry about now may be something (and their families) that one might be killed over in a few years.

    I don't think that's what extradition agreements are for.

  5. Re:Honestly, rifles are not the problem on The $1,200 DIY Gunsmithing Machine · · Score: 1

    They also maim and kill kids all the time. He hates kids too.

  6. Re:ugh on The $1,200 DIY Gunsmithing Machine · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually, the "gun show loophole" has been shown not to be the problem as only a small percentage of guns obtained this way end up being used in crimes. And all FFLs at all gun shows in the US must "background check". The "loophole" you're trying to sniff out here are private sales.

  7. Re:Missing in windows? on Remote Exploit Vulnerability Found In Bash · · Score: 2

    It can.

  8. Re:avois Asuswrt-Merlin if it's a choice. on Popular Wi-Fi Thermostat Full of Security Holes · · Score: 1

    Come again?

  9. Re:In lost the will to live ... on How Our Botched Understanding of "Science" Ruins Everything · · Score: 1

    I'd say the dude probably doesn't dig "pain", and therefore, due to the empathy he mentioned, assumes others don't either? Is this really that hard to grasp?

  10. Re:kill -1 on Fork of Systemd Leads To Lightweight Uselessd · · Score: 1

    I thought that was Unity.

  11. Re:what's the consensus? on Net Neutrality Comments Surge Past 1.7M, an All-Time Record For the FCC · · Score: 1

    I'm asking for good information here, and I'm modded down. Wow.

  12. what's the consensus? on Net Neutrality Comments Surge Past 1.7M, an All-Time Record For the FCC · · Score: 0, Troll

    I've read a few articles on /. about net neutrality, and I couldn't discern any consensus regarding it's overall positivity or negativity. Of course, I understand how a lack could be abused, stifling competition for eyeballs. But some of what I read, written by people actually in the communications industry, made seemingly good arguments against it. The more I read, the more ambivalent I became. It seems less cut and dried than, say, arguments against SOPA. Anyone have any serious material to read regarding the more technical aspects? I know that bias is inescapable, but I'd like some more informed information; John Oliver's delivery doesn't cut it. I'd greatly appreciate it.

  13. Re:Good decision? on Microsoft Killing Off Windows Phone Brand Name In Favor of Just Windows · · Score: 1

    This is not innovation. It's more of a repeated failure at rebranding.

  14. Re:Little Baby Linux on The State of ZFS On Linux · · Score: 1

    More like Big Baby BSD, amirite?

  15. Whoa. That is dark.

  16. Re:But... but.... but... What about teh Appelzzzzz on 5 Million Gmail Passwords Leaked, Google Says No Evidence Of Compromise · · Score: 1

    I neither know or care. It's just a bit early to try to stir the pudding here.

  17. Re:But... but.... but... What about teh Appelzzzzz on 5 Million Gmail Passwords Leaked, Google Says No Evidence Of Compromise · · Score: 1

    Has this resulted in one breached account? For all we know, this is just a list of email addresses. Need more evidence, like boobs.

  18. Re:Why just guns? on Using Wearable Tech To Track Gun Use · · Score: 1

    There are other factors, I assure you. They're just not PC and they're very uncomfortable to bring up.

  19. Re:A little scary on L.A. Times National Security Reporter Cleared Stories With CIA Before Publishing · · Score: 0

    I assume I can trust HuffPo to be objective here.

  20. Fear of spooking the folk... on Space Station's 'Cubesat Cannon' Has Gone Rogue · · Score: 1

    ...with talk of the third. Or maybe the third made a joke.

  21. Re:No surprise, but a bad idea on Dirty Diapers Used To Grow Mushrooms · · Score: 1

    Only thermophilic composting can kill diseases, and even then only the material in the core. A composting toilet usually doesn't have the critical mass.

  22. Re:Poll idea on Linux 3.17-rc2 Release Marks 23 Years of the Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    I "started" around 2000 or so with Mandrake. I learned the hard way about winmodems that year.

  23. Re:guns guns guns on South Carolina Student Arrested For "Killing Pet Dinosaur" · · Score: 1

    I have a sneaking suspicion that you're British.

  24. Re:Mandatory panic! on South Carolina Student Arrested For "Killing Pet Dinosaur" · · Score: 1

    No. This fear is irrational.

  25. Re: Jurisdiction 101 on UK Police Warn Sharing James Foley Killing Video Is a Crime · · Score: 1

    Yeah, sensible things. Like thought crime.