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  1. Re:18 years young on UK Suspect Arrested In Connection With PSN/XBL 'Lizard Squad' Attacks · · Score: 1

    you can imagine how dangerous it is in the USA, where 1) the police will shoot at anything that moves to fast and 2) twitchy people will draw down on anything coming into their homes because they have the right to "stand their ground" and "protect their castle".

  2. Re:comment on 19,000 French Websites Hit By DDoS, Defaced In Wake of Terror Attacks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd say the biggest blow to civil liberties was when islamists went into a newspaper office and killed everybody. that's what I call a chilling effect.

  3. Re:18 years young on UK Suspect Arrested In Connection With PSN/XBL 'Lizard Squad' Attacks · · Score: 2

    -1 disagree. swatting is a particularly dangerous type of prank call in which a swat team kicks in your door and carry live weapons. This is different than typical prank calls where you send the fire trucks to somebody's house. also, bomb threats are different than prank calls. Man, you had a messed up childhood.

    "18-year-old man" sounds about right, because he will likely go to pound-you-in-the-ass prison.

  4. Re:Good idea...outside of the public eye on Google Glass Is Dead, Long Live Google Glass · · Score: 0

    the "Google now knows exactly what my eyes are tracking in any given image" kind of creepy. I'm not a millenial, so I probably sound like an old coot, but Google already knows enough about us - phones, search, Gmail, etc.

    And that creepy stuff is why I'm not going to buy an eyepiece computer from Google. Or from Apple, or from Facebook (even Oculus), or from Microsoft. I'm already concerned with how much Google knows about me. I'm not giving them any more.

    That said, I would gladly buy an eyepiece computer, but it would have to be from a company that does not do data-mining at all. I'd actually be fine with one that doesn't even have mobile internet, and works as a self-contained computer.

    apple doesn't do data mining.

  5. Re:It was never really for sale on Google Glass Is Dead, Long Live Google Glass · · Score: 1

    srsly not marketed? there were millions of words written about it. even coined a new phrase "glassholes"

  6. Re:In other news... on Your High School Wants You To Install Snapchat · · Score: 1

    exactly. the truth here is that schools don't want to go anywhere near the subject of illicit photos. They would strongly prefer that it doesn't exist. If the photos were being taken on school equipment, schools would much sooner drill out the cameras than direct students to a medium more condusive to these photos.

    schools care about what is best for the schools, not what is best for the students.

  7. Re:Only 30 Grand? on Chevrolet Unveils 200-Mile Bolt EV At Detroit Auto Show · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, with the 2017 release Chevy's only one-upping on marketing since the Model 3 should be out by then and the Leaf will have 200+ range by 2016.

    links or it didnt happen

  8. Re: Only 30 Grand? on Chevrolet Unveils 200-Mile Bolt EV At Detroit Auto Show · · Score: 1

    the other dude is canadian andtalking canadian dollars among other things

  9. Re:Thank the Mozilla Foundation on Google Sees Biggest Search Traffic Drop Since 2009 As Yahoo Gains Ground · · Score: 2

    this is why I use duckduckgo. a business built on a model of respecting user's privacy. obv there's no way to be sure, but at least their TOS is customer friendly rather than customer-hostile. also, !bangs ftw

  10. Re:A job for Little Snitch on Glitch In OS X Search Can Expose Private Details of Apple Mail Users · · Score: 0

    but if you turn off spotlight, it will only search your mac, not the interwebz, so no info will be sent anywhere. note this addresses the GP's specific question at the end of his post, but does not address the submitter's question of how to avoid the tracking pixels.

  11. Re:A job for Little Snitch on Glitch In OS X Search Can Expose Private Details of Apple Mail Users · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm not particularly happy with all of Spotlight's newly introduced web search components, either -- I wonder if there's a way to turn that off.

    Apple says

    If you do not want your Spotlight search queries and Spotlight Suggestions usage data sent to Apple, you can turn off Spotlight Suggestions. Simply deselect the checkboxes for both Spotlight Suggestions and Bing Web Searches in the Search Results pane of Spotlight preferences in System Preferences on your Mac. If you turn off Spotlight Suggestions and Bing Web Searches, Spotlight will search the contents of only your Mac.

  12. Re:i vote with my wallet on Happy Public Domain Day: Works That Copyright Extension Stole From Us In 2015 · · Score: 1

    ironically, you're saying as an artist it's ok for people to steal music, because stealing deprives income from studios, who avariciously deprived income from artists.

  13. Re:Perfect? Really? on Researchers "Solve" Texas Hold'Em, Create Perfect Robotic Player · · Score: 1

    I already read that! (maybe I did, maybe I didn't - you can't tell!)

  14. Re:They (well some of them) are mental disorders on Russia Says Drivers Must Not Have "Sex Disorders" To Get License · · Score: 1

    ironically, i just got my DL back today from a 12 mo suspension, so it's cool that a story shows up on /..

  15. Re:Seems obvious but... on Ask Slashdot: High-Performance Laptop That Doesn't Overheat? · · Score: 1

    I question everybody's competence because they are on /.

  16. Re:Seems obvious but... on Ask Slashdot: High-Performance Laptop That Doesn't Overheat? · · Score: 1

    macminis are basically laptop parts put in a small box. you're not gonna get superior performance that way. may isuggest an ipad?

  17. Re:notice-and-notice on Canadian Copyright Notice-and-Notice System: Citing False Legal information · · Score: 1

    oh. in the US we say see something, say something.

  18. notice-and-notice on Canadian Copyright Notice-and-Notice System: Citing False Legal information · · Score: 1

    why do people keep saying "notice and notice"? it sounds like it's just "notice".

  19. Re:Perfect? Really? on Researchers "Solve" Texas Hold'Em, Create Perfect Robotic Player · · Score: 1

    the difference is in poker you can use intuition and body language to very your bets higher or lower than what the simple odds are.

  20. Re:Perfect? Really? on Researchers "Solve" Texas Hold'Em, Create Perfect Robotic Player · · Score: 1, Troll

    umm, no, you have never played poker before in your life. you play the people, not the cards. you rely on visual and verbal cues to guide you on when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em. In fact, this robot would be very easy to beat because its moves would always be predictable. it will never bluff

  21. Re:Transient skills on First OSX Bootkit Revealed · · Score: 1

    also you can get paid to do it.

  22. Re:"Firmware"? on First OSX Bootkit Revealed · · Score: 1

    he's asking for turgidware

  23. Re:and don't hook the little thingies up, either on BlackBerry's Survival Plan: the Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    except for the personal data that they directly collect, like a video feed, whether anyone is home, whether the alarm is on or not.

  24. Re:Countless Comments on Prior Articles & Now on FBI: North Korean Hackers "Got Sloppy", Leaked IP Addresses · · Score: 1

    we're saying the same thing. if you rob an actual bank in the course of filming a movie, you're breaking a law - bank robbery. I did not phrase my OP well. tbh I dictated the whole post via siri dictation so it kind of came out garbled. maybe even some verb tenses got changed, I don't know.

  25. Re:In the name of Allah ! on Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ · · Score: 1

    i hate this moral equivalency. what happened yesterday is horrible, full stop, no equivications. The world will burn because of this.