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  1. Re:Good on Ubuntu Developing Its Own Package Format, Installer · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Well the ultimate value of Bitcoin is on BitCoin Value Collapses, Possibly Due To DDoS · · Score: 2

    There are places where you can trade your bitcoins for dollars. It is an extra step but you can then go buy food or pay for your operation.

  3. Re:did you change your email password? on Ask Slashdot: Identity Theft Attempt In Progress; How To Respond? · · Score: 2

    XKCD password regimen!

  4. Re:Your options are on Ask Slashdot: Identity Theft Attempt In Progress; How To Respond? · · Score: 1

    Use a password locker like LastPass, let it geneate the longest, most complex passwords the apps/websites will allow and a different one for each website or app.

  5. Re:Gaming potential on Disney Wants To Track You With RFID · · Score: 1

    After 2 HOURS in Its a small world, I think I would not be unhappy, I would be catatonic.

  6. Re:Non-issue on Disney Wants To Track You With RFID · · Score: 1

    Or more precisely knowing that Disney Customer 00123865387 existed that day or hour.

  7. Re:Why is this creepy? on Disney Wants To Track You With RFID · · Score: 1

    Baloney. I am a conservative and very pro privacy. Get a smaller brush.

  8. Re:Why is this creepy? on Disney Wants To Track You With RFID · · Score: 1

    And because you told your story here, Others who might not have considered a Vacation at a Disney Resort will now be happy customers. That park employee's action became advertising of the best sort.

  9. Re:Why is this creepy? on Disney Wants To Track You With RFID · · Score: 1

    Just think citizen, how useful this might be in real life. Skip all kinds of lines. DMV, Supermarket Checkout.

  10. Re:Why is this creepy? on Disney Wants To Track You With RFID · · Score: 1

    The little boys will get flashy pirate swords. Harry Potter wands available at Oleanders for everyone.

  11. Re:Why not SPARE the turkey (and yourself) on Ask Slashdot: Geekiest Way To Cook a Turkey? · · Score: 1

    It is much more difficult to eat a live one.

  12. Re:WELL, THAT'S OKAY SINCE WE ALL DIE SOMETIME !!! on Malware Is 'Rampant' On Medical Devices In Hospitals · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Caution: This Hospital Uses Microsoft Windows 98

  13. Re:Interesting contradiction on Prince of Sealand Dies At 91 · · Score: 1
    Then why not tax us all at %100 and free house, food, health care, car, energy (gas & electric), bandwidth (Internet and TV)...

    (disclaimer: This point of view not the poster's but is espoused to make a point)

  14. Re:Brain full by 20? What? on Kurzweil: The Cloud Will Expand Human Brain Capacity · · Score: 1

    You probably forget the things you don't need, and forget that you actually knew them. It's not a first-in-first-out, but governed by use counts. Use it a lot, keep it. Don't use it much, forget it - room for the next thing.

  15. Cloud and Cloud! What is "Cloud"? on Kurzweil: The Cloud Will Expand Human Brain Capacity · · Score: 1

    So, what is your definition of "The Cloud"? I have seen several kinds of things refered to as the cloud. Things like other people's storage like Dropbox or flickr. Things like other people's cycles like Google Docs. Things like that vertical market application you run in a web browser (like the ticket tracking software where I work).

  16. Re:First sentence is a doozy. on Study: Kids Under 3 Should Be Banned From Watching TV · · Score: 1
    sudo mod me up

    You are not in the SUDOERS file. This will be reported.

  17. Re:First sentence is a doozy. on Study: Kids Under 3 Should Be Banned From Watching TV · · Score: 1

    You also make use of context hints. "raed" is taken as read because of the words that surround it.

  18. Ageing cards change parameters. on Graphics Cards: the Future of Online Authentication? · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the specific parameters used to identify a card (note not a user or a machine...) can change as the card ages, as it wears. Heat/Cold cycles, failing bits in memory, changes / updates in drives, malware infecting drivers or firmware... (that last would be -real- fun... suddenly you are not you.)

  19. Re:Tip tc ch on The Rapid Rise of License Plate Readers · · Score: 1

    Your obviously brilliant point is lost on the rest of us who don't read your language. What did you say?

  20. Re:really? on The Rapid Rise of License Plate Readers · · Score: 1

    It's not the innocent places you go in your day to day travels. It is the places the over imaginative detective thinks you are going. You know how sometimes people think they see Jesus in a slice of toast? Well your travels taken in total may just look like crime to that faceless public servant.

  21. Re:privacy? on The Rapid Rise of License Plate Readers · · Score: 1

    I doubt if you could get a restraining order against the police force.

  22. Re:Is it worth it? on Patient Just Wants To See Data From His Implanted Medical Device · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since when is it ok for us to say "If you have nothing to hide you should not worry" to others?

  23. Re:Is this legal for citizens to do? on Minneapolis Police Catalog License Plates and Location Data · · Score: 2

    There is the story of the major supermarket chain that sent someone over to the competitors to record license plates. Then used the information to send out extra coupon flyers.

  24. Re:Why? on Thin Mini-ITX Platform Enables DIY iMacs · · Score: 1

    No the assignment operator is ":=" : ^ P

  25. Re:DSNChanger??? on DNSChanger Shut-Down Means Internet Blackout Coming For Hundreds of Thousands · · Score: 1

    Screensavers are run by the OS not by the user.

    Dropbox client (and that ilk) are also a service that gets run by the OS. Put a new item in the control panel to setup what gets synced.

    Your browser hides - it's documents are web-links.

    Your email hides, its documents are emails. They just appear in the inbox folder, you can move them to other folders, to send an email - double click the "Untitled Email" document in the store.

    Things like 7zip work on document by left clicking the document.

    Printing can be done this way as well, it actually just opens the handling application but it also autoloads the document, triggers a standard print, then closes the document and quits the application