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  1. Re:More info here on Bruce Schneier Becomes CTO of Co3 Systems · · Score: 2

    The above is a link to "Let Me Google That For You" with a query of "Co3 Systems".

    I don't trust URL shorteners and figured I would save everyone the time that I wasted in expanding it.

  2. Re: Stronger headlights on CES: Laser Headlights Edge Closer To Real-World Highways · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Stoplights?

  3. Re:uh oh, a Google glass story on Coming Soon: Prescription Lenses For Google Glass · · Score: 1

    Thank you for assuming that I haven't ever suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. If anything, you've just insulted the very group you were trying to "defend". When you believe that every person in a crowded room is watching you and can read your thoughts, then you can talk to me about the suffering. When you're afraid to turn on the radio because the advertisements are specially crafted secret codes trying to tell you the secrets behind reality, then maybe you'll understand what I've suffered from. When I went to DefCon and could hear people whispering my name as I wandered through the crowd, being scared to the point where I needed to retreat to my room, is a pretty recent reminder of how constant a presence this mental illness has in my life. So please, don't belittle me.

  4. Re:uh oh, a Google glass story on Coming Soon: Prescription Lenses For Google Glass · · Score: 2

    So every person with a cameraphone has it recording at all times? What person goes through life assuming that every camera in existence is recording their every move?

    Hint: It's called paranoid schizophrenia, and it's no fun.

  5. Re:Mod parent Funny on Video Games Charity Raises Over $10 Million · · Score: 1

    If they can catch a tax break for it, then yeah. It would be in their financial interests to do so.

  6. Brought to you by... on Game Preview: Hearthstone · · Score: 4, Funny

    This slashvertisement proudly brought to you by Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.

  7. Re:Open source it. on Winamp Shutting Down On December 20 · · Score: 0

    You had the same thought I did, but apparently two minutes sooner. :-P

  8. Here's to hoping... on Winamp Shutting Down On December 20 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...that someone who had been working on it "accidentally" leaks the source.

  9. Re:Bloated horseshit on Firefox 25 Arrives With Web Audio API Support, Guest Browsing On Android · · Score: 1

    Perhaps this would have been a better link: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201309-201309-bar

  10. Re:Bloated horseshit on Firefox 25 Arrives With Web Audio API Support, Guest Browsing On Android · · Score: 2

    Or you could use Chromium.

  11. Re:Bloated horseshit on Firefox 25 Arrives With Web Audio API Support, Guest Browsing On Android · · Score: 1

    Please, tell me more about how your anecdotal evidence trumps statistics. http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

  12. Come on, Timothy. on 210 Degrees of Heads-Up Display: Hands-On With the InfinitEye · · Score: 2

    First you allow a submission with a summary that completely contradicts the article; then you put the wrong specs in the headline when it's clear from both the summary and the article itself what the correct specs should be? Get yourself a cup of coffee, come back and try again.

  13. Re:Makes no sense. on NVIDIA's G-Sync Is VSync Designed For LCDs (not CRTs) · · Score: 1

    Considering the original version is priced at $280, that would put it closer to being 1.4x the cost of the original.

  14. Re:That's how I say SQL on New Standard For Website Authentication Proposed: SQRL (Secure QR Login) · · Score: 1

    So is it "gee-eye-eff", "giff" or "jiff"?

  15. This is only one layer. on Swartz-Designed Whistleblower Tool "SecureDrop" Launched · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I certainly hope that the news orgs will include a warning that they should be using this only as one part of an attempt at anonymity. With the NSA's beam splitters hard at work in every major ISP backbone, it would be quite trivial for them to trace this back.

  16. Just remember... on DOJ: Defendant Has No Standing To Oppose Use of Phone Records · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Anything they suck up in their endless surveillance will only ever be used AGAINST you, never for your defense.

  17. Re:Good. on UK Court Orders Two Sisters Must Receive MMR Vaccine · · Score: 2

    I thought it was common knowledge that life is a terminal, sexually transmitted disease.

  18. Re:"hack" on Want To Hijack a Domain? Just Get a Fax Machine · · Score: 2

    If manipulating people into doing things they wouldn't normally do is what you consider a "normal relationship", then you just might be a sociopath.

  19. Re:I'm surprised this didn't catch on sooner. on A Teletherapy Startup Removes Barriers To Mental Health Care · · Score: 1

    I think you misunderstood what I meant. 99% of the interaction with the therapist can be reproduced digitally. Of course it still comes down to it being a matter of somebody wanting to change, but that doesn't have anything to do with what means they use to interact with their therapist.

  20. Re:in other words on A Teletherapy Startup Removes Barriers To Mental Health Care · · Score: 1

    several recent studies have found that therapy via the Internet is just as effective as face-to-face treatment.

    In other words, not generally effective at all?

    [citation needed]

  21. Re:I'm surprised this didn't catch on sooner. on A Teletherapy Startup Removes Barriers To Mental Health Care · · Score: 1

    Not everyone has problems with social skills. My therapy experience is to help me overcome substance abuse.

  22. Re:Tell me about... on A Teletherapy Startup Removes Barriers To Mental Health Care · · Score: 3, Funny

    More like Dr. Sbaitso.

    xD

  23. I'm surprised this didn't catch on sooner. on A Teletherapy Startup Removes Barriers To Mental Health Care · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously, why the hell hasn't this already been a thing? I regularly engage in therapy, 99% of it is just discussion. Very little, if any, would be unable to be reproduced digitally.

  24. Re:Crime on 8 Users of Silk Road Arrested, 'Many More To Come' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Except in the finance world, you can screw people out of everything they have, get caught and STILL get your bonus.

  25. Dirt cheap thin clients. on Milestone: The Millionth UK-Made Raspberry Pi · · Score: 2

    Congrats on the milestone!

    Our business uses them as Linux Terminal Server Project thin clients. We were able to cut our new hardware costs to 1/5th of what they were before.