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  1. minor edit... on US and UK Governments Advise Avoiding Internet Explorer Until Bug Fixed · · Score: 1

    you could have stopped after "explorer" and had just as valid a recommendation...

  2. is it complete? on Intel Releases 5,000 Pages of Open-Source Haswell Documentation · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does it include APIs for the NSA backdoors?

  3. They're right on RSA Flatly Denies That It Weakened Crypto For NSA Money · · Score: 3, Funny

    They didn't do it for NSA money, that was just gravy. They did it for Mossad money and got the NSA to chip in after the fact.

  4. No Ceasar jokes yet? on Lawsuits Seek To Turn Chimpanzees Into Legal Persons · · Score: 2

    I'll start: "You blew it up! You BASTARDS!"

  5. Re:one quick method.. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Protect Your Privacy When It's Out of Your Control? · · Score: 1

    In business, they have a standard "due diligence", before any transaction is completed, both parties are given enough time to determine if the transacion is all it seems. On the internet, there's a site called letmegooglethatforyou.com. Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.

  6. right... on Mediterranean Sea To Possibly Become Site of Chemical Weapons Dump · · Score: 0

    Because if there's any place in the entire world where you want to put decommissioned WMDs, it's in the middle of a sea too large for effective policing and too shallow to put them out of the reach of wreck divers

  7. one quick method.. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Protect Your Privacy When It's Out of Your Control? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    First, you stop asking sefl-defeating questions. The question is not "how do you protect privacy when its out of your control", it's "how do I control things in order to increase my privacy" You ask how to maintain your privacy when your friends all have cameras, why do you have friends that pull out a camera at the drop of a hat again? You ask about protecting personal data that's collected by banks and companies that have horrible IT, why are you doing business with them again? Your privacy is literally your own business, and if you don't mind it, someone else will.

  8. Re:Paranoid? Nope, he's merely one noid. on Dick Cheney Had Implanted Defibrillator Altered To Prevent Terrorist Attack · · Score: 1

    Not good enough for Cheney apparently

  9. Re:Paranoid? Nope, he's merely one noid. on Dick Cheney Had Implanted Defibrillator Altered To Prevent Terrorist Attack · · Score: 1

    Having said that, whose wise idea was it to make a defibrilator that can be remotely accessed wirelessly in the first place?

    Probably someone who thought that sticking a cable through your chest to change the things configuration is an even worse idea.

    Ahh, then not Cheney, who had his implant broken precisely so that would be the only way to do it...

  10. Paranoid? Nope, he's merely one noid. on Dick Cheney Had Implanted Defibrillator Altered To Prevent Terrorist Attack · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Okay, given Cheney's historical level of paranoia (this is nothing compared to some of his hijinks as SECNAV), I can TOTALLY see Cheney not understanding something and therefore assuming it's going to be used by people out to get him. Both "not understanding something" and "worried about trivial crap" are WELL within Cheney's persona. Having said that, whose wise idea was it to make a defibrilator that can be remotely accessed wirelessly in the first place? If nerd history has taught us anything, it's vulnerable shit eventually gets broken into, and wireless protocols are by definition vulnerable.

  11. Re:If this was Apple... on Samsung Fudging Benchmarks Again On Galaxy Note 3 · · Score: 1

    Okay, apple fanbois, you can all now seriously bugger off. I was pointing out that Apple DID care about benchmarks, to the point of cheating. I now have three people calling me a complete liar about that, even though there are also two different cases brought up of some alleged cheats (neither of which was the case I was thinking of) which were "well, it's not nearly the same caliber of cheat". WHO THE HELL CARES? They at this point CLEARLY cared about benchmarks, even going to the depths of trying to tweak the numbers to make themselves look better than they objectively were. Get the fuck over yourselves already, Neither of the Steves is going to give you a hummer for this, one's kinda living impaired and the other stopped caring about the company PRECISELY BECAUSE OF YOU IDIOTS.

  12. Re:If this was Apple... on Samsung Fudging Benchmarks Again On Galaxy Note 3 · · Score: 1

    "apparently" is SUCH a nice word, it allows you to argue against hypotheticals without actually admitting squat. You ought to try learning what it is sometime.... And it DOES have relevancy to "If Apple did this, people would be up in arms!", as they clearly were accused of it once, and people clearly still buy Apple products.

  13. Re:If this was Apple... on Samsung Fudging Benchmarks Again On Galaxy Note 3 · · Score: 1

    you don't deny fudging something you don't care about at all, no?

    You're joking, right? No? Okay, then don't bother denying that you masturbate using raw liver while soaking in raw sewage, as it's obvisouly something you don't care about.

    Or... DO YOU?!

    We know what sites YOU look for entertainment on now, don't we....

  14. Re:If this was Apple... on Samsung Fudging Benchmarks Again On Galaxy Note 3 · · Score: 1

    You forget that they DID do the benchmarks they were accusing of fudging in the first place. Again, if they didn't care, why were they doing them? So, not only did they care to do the benchmarks, they also cared enough to do ethically challenged things with the benchmarks AND THEN attempt to cover it up

  15. Re:If this was Apple... on Samsung Fudging Benchmarks Again On Galaxy Note 3 · · Score: 1

    It's apparently refuting the fudging part, but it's confirming that Apple DID care about benchmarks, you don't deny fudging something you don't care about at all, no?

  16. Re:If this was Apple... on Samsung Fudging Benchmarks Again On Galaxy Note 3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wrong, they DID care about benchmarking once, while Macs were still Power PC based, then they got caught fudging the benchmarks approximately like Samsung did. They suddenly decided that benchmarks didn't matter soon thereafter. They ought to sue Samsung again, because business methods are patentable...

  17. Surprised? on Kim Dotcom Resigns From Mega To Fight Extradition, Run For Office · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If anyone was actually surprised at this, given his attention-whore-arms-race-partner Julian Assange running for parliament, I've got some nice oceanfront property to sell you in Kansas. Schmitz (his v 1.0 last name) has pretty much had a year or two's shelf life on any given project before he found a bigger "look at ME" project for the last couple of decades. Well, I wish him good luck, and all that. I look forward to the schadenfreude of watching people actually think he's not just saying whatever it takes to get to the next headline for many years to come.

  18. Netscape called... on The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever · · Score: 3, Informative

    ctl-shift-t has been a staple of all tabbed browsers since quite literally they came out. While this IS "stuff that matters", it's hardly news for many nerds

  19. Re:Ever consider T-Mobile? on Ask Slashdot: 4G Networking Advice For Large Outdoor Festival? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, whatever, The coastline should be on this side of Snoqualmie ;P

  20. Re:Ever consider T-Mobile? on Ask Slashdot: 4G Networking Advice For Large Outdoor Festival? · · Score: 1

    T-Mobile is actually a subsidiary of Deustche Telekom, so not based in Belleview so much...

  21. Re:Use Broadband providers. on Ask Slashdot: 4G Networking Advice For Large Outdoor Festival? · · Score: 2

    You prolly won't need them, COWs are self-contained, with their own generators and everything. They're really designed to get cell service restored ASAP when a tower goes down, so have no time to worry about power or other crud, just find a high point, park the truck and get it lit.

  22. Re:If your never sprint coverage on Ask Slashdot: 4G Networking Advice For Large Outdoor Festival? · · Score: 2

    COWs are 2g/3g/4g towers, with antennas for each of the bands the cell provider supports. They're typically emergency deployments when a tower goes down or extra bandwidth is needed, say for a huge event like hempfest. OP is wrong, you shouldn't have to rent it, in fact, FWIU, you can't: Sprint/VZN/AT&T/T-Mob will do it all for you, and rather nastily tell you to quit bothering them if you persist in asking questions while they're doing it

  23. COWs, lots of COWs on Ask Slashdot: 4G Networking Advice For Large Outdoor Festival? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Talk to the major cell providers, get some Celltowers On Wheels. They loves them some COW events, every COW is a dozen overage charges waiting to happen.

  24. Re:Still overpriced on Microsoft Slashes Prices On Surface · · Score: 1

    there's value in what you say, but Microsoft goes the extra mile and is notable in a field littered with horrid corpses of things that never should have been

  25. Still overpriced on Microsoft Slashes Prices On Surface · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a first-gen hardware product from Microsoft, they should have to pay you for the headaches you're inevitably going to have