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  1. Re:Not this old info again on Paris Attacks Would Not Have Happened Without Crypto (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Damn, dude. I think he ran off crying. High five.

  2. Re:Not this old info again on Paris Attacks Would Not Have Happened Without Crypto (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The answer to your first question is: they can't. Tweets out in the open back when the Curtis Culwell Center shooting happened, and FBI informants were aware too, but the attack was not prevented. The deal here is that even with the surveillance tools that they say they need, they can't achieve what they want to promise.

    What they promise needs not this kind of surveillance capabilities, but changes within their organizations that they are somehow blind to or unwilling to undergo.

  3. They already let a county employee near the vital evidence, and said county employee bungled it completely.

  4. Re:You cancel service? on Dyn.com Ends Free Dynamic DNS · · Score: 1

    I once foolishly paid dyndns for some sort of very long term (lifetime? I cannot remember) dyndns account. That service went away, and I got left with just their free tier of service. Then they started with the "you must log in every x amount of time" thing. At this point, I got DNS subdomains on shtuff running in DigitalOcean, and it makes not a lot of sense to run things at home.

    tl;dr At this point in my life I don't even need dyndns. But thanks for all the fish, at the same time, dyndns.

  5. Re:Learn to code not necessarily to write code on Should Everybody Learn To Code? · · Score: 1

    And here I thought every father sat down at some point with their children to have "the talk" about the flyback.

  6. Re:Should Everybody Learn Calculus? on Should Everybody Learn To Code? · · Score: 1

    So hold on. You would like to see trig replaced by statistics. But recognize calculus as important.

    Allow me to ask how you will do Calculus without reliance on trig. And I do apologize for asking this very dumb question. I am but a mere math major and thus don't know things.

  7. Re:California on California Regulator Seeks To Shut Down 'Learn To Code' Bootcamps · · Score: 1

    My first job was at an Executrain branch. We did technical classes of the sort you mention. Microsoft Official Curriculum, and Oracle crap were big money makers. But the difference between SAP courses or other cert classes and what is pointed out in this article, is that the SAP class you went to did not promise you a job.

    Or did it?

  8. Re:California on California Regulator Seeks To Shut Down 'Learn To Code' Bootcamps · · Score: 1

    Haha. I see this kind of discussion everywhere.

    Honestly, I believe there are a lot of people who are not honest enough to accept that they don't entirely comprehend what in reality is a really complex system, and so absurd simplifications of some things seem to them like a sure fix to all the problems that ail us.

    Yes, we have problems. Yes, not everything we do is optimal, and there is a lot of room for improvement. But reducing things to a simplistic "GOVERNMENT SHOULD JUST DO X AND THAT WOULD FIX ALL THE PROBLEMS" makes people look silly, and really shows the level of political maturity and knowledge in the country that is supposed to be one of the older democracies in the hemisphere (that likes to "bring freedom" to other countries).

    People who don't understand complex systems, or people who don't think that government/the-state/society is a really complex system and are prepared to digest its functioning do not really contribute a lot to the political discourse of the nation when making uninformed statements whose simple and dumb loopholes are easily explored in less than a minute by comments such as the one I am responding to. Still it's a free country.

    But we should make a comedy show where we listen to all sorts of silly absolutist political pronouncements from the uninformed (and the dishonest, too, for kicks). Think of it as "An Idiot Abroad" but for politics.

  9. Re: Easy answer on No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service — and No Google Glass, Either · · Score: 1

    Leave your phone in the car? What the heck? You must be a luddite with only one computer.
    This is slashdot, not some sort of woodworking forum.
    Adopt tech. Use it. Inhabitants of the previous century need not apply.

  10. Re:You know that means suing a foreign government? on Could Slashdot (Or Other Private Entity) Sue a Spy Agency Like GCHQ Or NSA? · · Score: 1

    Belgium? Did you mean The Netherlands? The Hague in particular? Because of the International Criminal Court, maybe?

  11. Math? on A MathML Progress Report: More Light Than Shadow · · Score: 0

    Nobody likes math. Serves them nerds right!

  12. Re:So... no separation between system and userspac on New Operating System Seeks To Replace Linux In the Cloud · · Score: 1

    LOL! That JS emulator is awesome! But an Osborne with no MSBASIC is no fun!

  13. Re:Shocked. on Do You Really Need a Smart Phone? · · Score: 1

    What is a "phone conversation", and how do I do this to my HTC Incredible? Is this some sort of 20th century slang?

  14. Re:The good and bad... on Verizon Finally Unveils Apple iPhone · · Score: 0

    You're going to tell me you have friends you get in touch with using smoke signals, ham radio and telegraph, rite?

  15. Re:The good and bad... on Verizon Finally Unveils Apple iPhone · · Score: 0

    If you can't send an email to your friends while they are on the run, you need new friends.

  16. Re:4chan might be down forever. on 4chan Has Been DDOSed · · Score: 1

    You forgot /k/ (although you have to mentally filter out the wannabes).

  17. Re:Get your ass to Gliese 581g! on Earth-Like Planet That Could Sustain Life Found · · Score: 1

    Wow. I logged in just to say that.

  18. You guys seem to be forgetting... on Oracle Sues Google For Infringing Java Patents · · Score: 1

    Google has recently started its foray into services for governments: Google Apps for Governments. Oracle is quite well entrenched in the market. Oracle would rather have the place and time of their choosing for that fight than allow Google (or anybody with half a brain) fight them where it actually counts.

  19. Re:sure it is on College Police Think Using Linux Is Suspicious Behavior · · Score: 1

    YOU GO GIRL!

  20. Re:WTF? WinCE on Microsoft Wants OLPC System to Run Windows XP · · Score: 0

    After having two WinCE handhelds that sucked major sweaty donkey balls, and trying plenty of others from my nerd friends, PLUS having done work with WinCE, I can tell you WinCE sucks fucking donkey dick. No need for any crappy drivers from the device makers, CE sucks right out of the box. It has gotten better, yes, and now it only sucks black cock in hell. But let's get real, dude.

  21. Verizon is dead, long live Google on Vonage Loses Appeal; Verizon Owed $120 Million · · Score: 1

    Let's just see what happens when Google buys up all that spectrum, and kills the phone companies. Bye bye Verizon!

  22. Re:poor choice of topic in workplace conversation on Webcomic Author Deemed a Terrorist Threat · · Score: 1

    AHAHAHAHAH. Tons of countries don't have those restrictions, dude. You're describing a scenario that looks a lot like US Immigration requirements. Those requirements do not apply everywhere.

  23. Re:So...? on Webcomic Author Deemed a Terrorist Threat · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The funny thing is that the real terrorists will laugh at him being searched by TSA.

    As a poster above mentioned, the securrorists have won.

  24. Re:"Terroristic threat" != "terrorist threat" on Webcomic Author Deemed a Terrorist Threat · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sorry, you should have said "the law books don't think it is terrorism". In a day and age where your president cannot pronounce the word "education" correctly, I would not be so sure ALL of the government or state is aware of the correct definition. And when you say "no one who actually has the power to charge him with a crime", you should sit down, and think about that phrase really hard too.

  25. Re:blacks ftw on Webcomic Author Deemed a Terrorist Threat · · Score: 1

    Do you mean Giuliani is a real negro?