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  1. Moxie Marlinspike - 'A Crypto Challenge For The Telegram Developers':
    http://thoughtcrime.org/blog/t...

    Pete Boyd

  2. Real Names on Google: Our New System For Recognizing Faces Is the Best · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Now do you understand Google+'s initial policy on real names?

    Pete Boyd

  3. Re: Perspective on NASA Video Shows What It's Like To Reenter the Earth's Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    No, you're thinking too much, you need to feel the beauty of this planet instead, and for that we need the video as uncluttered as possible. IMO.

  4. Sochi Project by Rob Hornstra & Arnold van Bru on How Russia Transformed a Subtropical Beach Resort To Host the Winter Olympics · · Score: 2

    Not to nention that Sochi is characterised by poverty, separatism, terrorism and mass beach tourism:
    http://www.thesochiproject.org...

    Pete Boyd

  5. Re:Well that's good. on D-Link Patches Critical Vulnerability In Older Routers · · Score: 1

    According to Wikipedia, DD-WRT haven't put out a stable release since 27 July 2008!

  6. Post-NSA on What Apple Does and Doesn't Know About You · · Score: 1

    If only we _were_ in a "post-NSA new world order".

    Pete Boyd

  7. Licencing... on USS Zumwalt — a Guided Missile Destroyer Running On Linux · · Score: 1

    Isn't there a rule against this?

  8. Re:100 GBit isn't large on Another 100 Gigabit DDoS Attack Strikes — This Time Unreflected · · Score: 1

    10 Mb/s upstream that is, not downstream.

  9. Re:If it ain't broke... on PDP-11 Still Working In Nuclear Plants - For 37 More Years · · Score: 1

    Not if they're not attached to the Internet.

  10. Re: Is this the point in time.. on Set Your Watches For the End of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Maybe he means that they are already locked down in that they're not a Power User or Administrator so can't install to %PROGRAMFILES%, but he doesn't lock them down such that they can't install add-ons into things like their browser, or Local Settings, so their Windows profile gets infected. Maybe.

  11. Wikipedia on Ask Slashdot: Really Short Time Wasters? · · Score: 1

    Work on Wikipedia. It's rare to find a Wikipedia article not in need of some work. You get to learn about various topics and you get to make something better for everyone. Wikipedia is reportedly the fifth most popular web site in the world. As you learn more about editing, it's easier and easier to find things that are broken that are easy to spot and fix in a couple of minutes.

  12. Re:god, the distros are LAZY, not him on After 12 years of Development, E17 Is Out · · Score: 1

    Super Store... Nice. You might have coined a phrase there.

  13. Re:Things the UK government / agencies want on UK Gov't Plans To Give 'Greater Freedom To Use Copyright Works' · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Thunderbird: No more development? on Ask Slashdot: Current State of Linux Email Clients? · · Score: 1

    > A "Get All Mail" button

    Shift + F5

  15. razor-thin! on Flexible Phones 'Out By 2013' · · Score: 2

    I don't want anything as sharp as "razor-thin" in my pocket.

  16. Re:iPhones are encrypted by default on Ask Slashdot: Managing Encrypted Android Devices In State and Local Gov't? · · Score: 1

    Settings -> Security:
    - Encrypt device
    - Encrypt SD Card

  17. Apply? on A Maker Space Favorite: Using a Laser Cutter (Video) · · Score: 1

    Why do people insist on selecting Apply before choosing Print or OK?

  18. Re:Why the anxiety? on Ask Slashdot: Life After Firefox 3.6.x? · · Score: 1

    You're right, it works fine but it does depend on a user's expectations, if it's their work computer and they're an information worker and they don't have a faster computer at home to compare it to then it's likely not seen as a significant problem, but if they have a faster computer at home then it will be definitely be noticeable.

  19. Re:Why the anxiety? on Ask Slashdot: Life After Firefox 3.6.x? · · Score: 1

    Windows XP SP3 with 512MB RAM and Firefox 3.6 is fine. We have loads of machines with that spec running in the field.

  20. full-body avatar on Bringing Online Shopping Into the Future With the 3D Web · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm imagining online shopping for clothes, where your full-body avatar has all your dimensions and you get to see how clothes might look on you.

  21. Re:Btrfs on Linux 3.2 Has Been Released · · Score: 2

    What part of "better you than me." sounded to you like he was bitter? I read it as quite humorous.

  22. Wasn't the GPS issue fixed? on Samsung Reconsidering Android 4.0 On the Galaxy S · · Score: 1

    Wasn't that issue fixed by an update some months after it came out? It was supposed to have been. What version of Android are you on now? 2.3.3 is available for it and eventually you'll be able to get 4.0 using cyanogenmod.

  23. Re:What do you spend your time doing? on Anti-Whaling Group Using Drones To Find Whalers · · Score: 2

    It's not the _time_ being wasted that they're bothered about, it's the whales being wasted that bothers them.
    Your point, that I was addressing, was "Do these people really have nothing better to do with their time".

  24. What do you spend your time doing? on Anti-Whaling Group Using Drones To Find Whalers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There's a lot of people on the planet, and so a lot of time being spent by them, why does the small amount of time these people spend grate on you that much? What do you spend your time doing?

  25. National Archives of Australia have them anyway? on Two Lost Doctor Who Episodes Found · · Score: 1

    "Fresh scans of the missing material have been made by the National Archives of Australia and will be incorporated into the restored episodes ahead of a DVD release."

    If they're missing, how can the National Archives of Australia be scanning them?