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  1. IMHO it's more likely that... on Kaspersky Says Lack of Digital Voting Will Be Democracy's Downfall · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...digital voting will be democracy's downfall.

  2. "Which particular episodes would you recommend?" on Ask Slashdot: How To Introduce Someone To Star Trek? · · Score: 1

    The only really good one was the pilot, shown at TriCon in Cleveland in 1966. It went downhill from there.

  3. "what those private-sector astronauts... on Creating Budget Space Suits For the Private Space Industry · · Score: 1

    ...will be wearing."

    Flip-flops, baggy shorts, and t-shirts, init? They are going to be tourists, after all.

  4. Re:Interesting timing... on AMD To Open-Source Its Linux Execution & Compilation Stack · · Score: 2

    It is a classic case of the tragedy of the commons...

    No it isn't. Linux is not a scarce resource.

  5. Re:Interesting timing... on AMD To Open-Source Its Linux Execution & Compilation Stack · · Score: 3, Interesting

    > What?

    I believe that what he is getting at is that NVidia is still tied up in stupid "IP" licenses that might be revoked if they released source for their blobs or detailed specs for their chips.

  6. Re:Finding they right people on Why 'Nigerian Scammers' Say They're From Nigeria · · Score: 1

    > As I understand it, those Nigerian scams always tell a story
    > where the large sum of money is obtained illegally

    Not always. Sometimes the story is that the sender is a well-intentioned but naive fool whom the recipient will have an opportunity to swindle.

  7. So Ron Goulart's DispozHole(TM)... on NYC's Trash-Sucking Tubes May Be Upgraded, Expanded · · Score: 1

    ...is about to become reality.

  8. Re:DuckDuckGO - it's not Google, it's a Govn't iss on US Gov't Demands For Google Data Up 37% Over the Last Year · · Score: 1

    Of course, they too would have to legally comply with any government request

    No. They would be required to comply with any court order. A government request is just that.

  9. "76% spike" on US Gov't Demands For Google Data Up 37% Over the Last Year · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, a 76% increase. "Spike" implies that it went up quickly and then immediately came back down, forming a spike on a graph. Thus only in the unlikely event that it comes back down next year can you legitimately call it a spike. Yes, I'm being picky.

  10. If the data has value... on Banking On Your Personal Online Data · · Score: 2

    ...its creators ... should be paid for it.

    So you think you should pay for data created by businesses (eg, football scores, integrated circuit pinouts, instruction sets, financial statements)? You believe in copyright on information and data rather than just on creative expression?

  11. Or am I overreacting? on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Take On HTTPS Snooping? · · Score: 1

    Quit if you want, but the computers and the network are theirs. Would you rather they simply forbade all personal use?

  12. Re:Is this really a hardware issue? on US-CERT Discloses Security Flaw In 64-Bit Intel Chips · · Score: 1

    > If some operating systems are not affected, doesn't that
    > make this a software issue?

    Some programs were not affected by the FDIV bug; they did no floating point math. Did that make it a software "issue"?

  13. "...mirror image of the DMCA..." on MPAA's Dodd Secretly Lobbied For a Canadian DMCA · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Do you mean that it is exactly like the DMCA including the safe harbor provision, or that it is the DMCA, reversed? Neither seems likely.

  14. An airbase is an airbase. on 64 Drone Bases Located On American Soil · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And the USAF has many of them in the USA. Why do they suddenly become especially evil because some of the aircraft are unmanned?

  15. Re:Unwilling to (re)implement --geometry on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't You Running KDE? · · Score: 2

    And here we have an example of why many of us want nothing to do with KDE.

  16. Re:Because I run XFCE on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't You Running KDE? · · Score: 1

    Try FVWM. Everything can be configured.

  17. Re:Between Personal Life and Work on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't You Running KDE? · · Score: 0

    And computer games and movies are the only ways he can enjoy himself? Sad.

  18. Re:No problem on An HTTP Status Code For Censorship? · · Score: 2

    And here we have a real advocate of democracy...

  19. Redirect to a page... on An HTTP Status Code For Censorship? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ..that explains the situation and encourages the user to click on a clicky that automatically files a complaint with the approporiate government agency and/or sends an email to the relevant minister. Should be maintained by a third party such as the EFF.

  20. Nonsense. on FBI Used FedEx To Sneak Dotcom's Hard Drives Out of NZ · · Score: 2

    If the evidence had been paper documents and the NZ police had let the FBI take xerox copies back to the USA would you say that they took evidence out of the country? The actual evidence --the actual, original drives-- is still in NZ. No evidence was made unavailable to the defense. I oppose criminal prosecution for copyright infringement, but let's try not to invent bogus outrages. The real ones are quite sufficient.

  21. Is there a list of ISPs... on World IPv6 Launch Day Underway · · Score: 1

    ...that are going to enable IPv6 for all customers by the end of 2012? Does it include CenturyTel?

  22. What Is the Future of Standing/Walking? on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Future of Standing/Walking Workstations? · · Score: 0

    My observations of the younger generations indicate that it's going to die out.

  23. Virtualize everything. on Ask Slashdot: What Type of Asset Would You Not Virtualize? · · Score: 1

    Including the servers. No need for any hardware at all. It's VMs all the way down.

    Or maybe you could just virtualize the CIO.

  24. Re:Should read... on After Trip to ISS, SpaceX's Dragon Capsule Returns Safely To Earth · · Score: 0

    The tank never entered orbit. Every part of the shuttle that reached orbit returned (and more importantly, went up again). A ship is not a single-use device.

  25. Re:Should read... on After Trip to ISS, SpaceX's Dragon Capsule Returns Safely To Earth · · Score: 0

    > By this logic, Apollo wasn't a spaceship...

    Correct. Non-reusable "capsules" are not spaceships.