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  1. Re:How do they plan to do that if I own the kernel on Google Announces Android 4.3, Netflix, New Nexus 7, and Q Successor Chromecast · · Score: 1

    You're missing the point. Google doesn't care if DRM is bullet proof, or if it actually works at all. It only has to be good enough to make the content providers happy.

  2. Re:Ya well on TSA Orders Searches of Valet Parked Car At Airport · · Score: 1

    Do you really need to consult the military to recognize the absurdity of those laws? I'm not a gun expert nor even a gun fan, but it seems pretty obvious to me still how pointless those laws are.

  3. Re:False Flag on Apple Sued For Man's Porn Addiction · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Humans are selfish and self-serving like no other species can be.

    Sure... if by "like no other species can be" you mean "exactly like every other species is".

  4. Re:Definitely... on Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 2

    We know what kind of people are at gitmo, even horrible people are entitled to a trial.

  5. Re:That''s not an eclipse on First Exoplanet To Be Seen In Color Is Blue · · Score: 1

    How is it nonsense? Occulation is a type of eclipse, so all occultations are also eclipses..

  6. Re:Good... on Apple and Amazon End Lawsuit Over the Term 'App Store' · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think you're confused. The app store is where you go to get apps for your phone. A crap store on the other hand is where you can purchase things like that joke.

  7. Re:Doesn't address the problem. on Ask Slashdot: Preventing Snowden-Style Security Breaches? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Two months ago Snowden was living in Hawai'i with an attractive girlfriend and a decent salary. How is that more dysfunctional than living in a Russian airport on the run from the US government?

  8. Re:A bit confused. on Underground 'Wind Mines' Could Keep Datacenters Powered · · Score: 1

    What are you more likely to have handy, a hill or a massive abandoned salt mine?

  9. Re:God it feels good to be an American!!!!!!! on Bolivian President's Plane 'Rerouted Over Snowden Suspicions' · · Score: 2

    There are partisan hacks on MSNBC, but not everyone. Rachael Maddow has been critical of the administration the past few times I've seen her.

  10. Re:#1 reason to use Android on Motorola Is Listening · · Score: 1

    None of them come unlocked. The OP said Nexus devices are easily unlockable, as yours was.

  11. Re:I used to like it... on Is Google Voice Doomed To Be 2nd-Class Messaging System? · · Score: 1

    On T-mobile. No problems using it just for VM here.

  12. Re:All of them. on Google's Crazy Lack of Focus: Is It Really Serious About Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    How can you blame them for ending support for something you say was never really supported to begin with? The product may have been useful to enterprises, but without at least the option of a support agreement in writing you can not consider it enterprise software.

  13. Re:All of them. on Google's Crazy Lack of Focus: Is It Really Serious About Enterprise? · · Score: 2

    There are reasons why people trust their data with Google more than other companies. The fact that they have projects like dataliberation.org makes me less concerned about the possibility of being locked in to any of their products. People bitch about Google shutting down Reader, but Google makes it easy to export your subscriptions so you can use them in a new product. Also, Google does collect a lot of our data, but they are transparent about it and are pretty good about allowing people to opt out.

  14. Re:Geotarding? on Google To Buy Waze For $1.3 Billion · · Score: 1

    2.3; yes its old but whatever happened to the 'its a nexus, it will always get upgrades' bullshit?

    No one ever, ever said that. The N1 was severely limited by the space available on the device.

  15. Re:fooled by video instead? on Google Patents Frowns and Winks To Unlock Your Phone · · Score: 1

    Face unlock and slide to unlock are only intended to be moderately secure anyway. It's a trade off, because strong security is inconvenient. That said, photos of people's faces are generally much easier to come by than videos of people staring straight into a camera and blinking.

  16. Re:fooled by video instead? on Google Patents Frowns and Winks To Unlock Your Phone · · Score: 1

    There's already an option to require a blink during authentication so that photo's won't work. Your wife should probably enable that.

  17. Re:No! on Google Rolling Out Gmail Redesign · · Score: 1

    I have the most recent version of Gmail app on two Nexus devices. The priority and important folders are most certainly there when you select "Show all labels". And I do have them hidden in the web interface, but that doesn't remove them. I use the hidden labels for lower priority stuff.

  18. Re:No! on Google Rolling Out Gmail Redesign · · Score: 1

    No I'm not wrong on either count. I have both of those settings as you say already. In the app, the Priority Inbox option is only for making it default or not, the mailbox is still there either way. In the web page, I've always used Classic and I still have the Important label.

  19. Re:The ONLY Way this should work is... on Watching the Police: Will Two-Way Surveillance Reduce Crime? · · Score: 2

    Obviously the officer shouldn't have shot John Williams, but how is this an example of an officer strategically moving off camera? He was already off camera when he first tried telling the guy to put the knife down because that's where the guy was. There's nothing unusual about him being off camera in this case.

  20. Re:No! on Google Rolling Out Gmail Redesign · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Yes, exactly like that. The priority mail box used to be something you could disable in the Gmail app, now you can't get rid of it. Also, in the web interface there is the "Important" mailbox which I can't get rid of.

  21. Re:oops on Google I/O 2013 Underway: Watch For Updates · · Score: 1

    Making the wireless network private doesn't do anything about the interference in the room on every available frequency which is actually causing the problem.

  22. Re:Good start but... on NTSB Recommends Lower Drunk Driving Threshold Nationwide: 0.05 BAC · · Score: 1

    Umm, I did an FSB once. I passed and the officer sent me on my way.

  23. Re:I agree on BlackBerry CEO: Tablet Market Is Dying · · Score: 1

    As I already said, "whether they exist or not is irrelevant. Either way, we still can't have them." That may change within the decade, but it's true for now.

  24. Re:I must be stupid on Does Antimatter Fall Up? · · Score: 2

    As far as I'm aware, negative energy is still purely hypothetical. There is currently no reason to believe such a thing actually exists or is even allowed by physics.

  25. Re:I agree on BlackBerry CEO: Tablet Market Is Dying · · Score: 1

    Nope, currently a driver is still required to be in the car. In fact in Nevada two people are required in the car during this trial period.