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  1. Re:Video (without commentary) on My Neighbor Totoro In Virtual Reality · · Score: 2

    Or you could, you know, just download the whole thing and run it yourself. It will display on screen, just like in the linked video, with no head-slab required.

  2. Re:How boring. on My Neighbor Totoro In Virtual Reality · · Score: 1

    Or those idiots who respond to trolls on public message boards. How pathetic is that?

  3. Re:What? Bad interpretations on Heartbleed Bug Exploited Over Extensible Authentication Protocol · · Score: 1

    And note the question mark next to the list of Apple products, which is missing from every other line on that slide.

    It's almost as if he knew that they didn't use a vulnerable version of OpenSSL.

  4. Re:Should have upgraded Openssl on Heartbleed Bug Exploited Over Extensible Authentication Protocol · · Score: 2

    Did _you_ know that your wireless router was using OpenSSL to manage EAP? Or did you just assume that having SSH blocked and not serving HTTPS would be enough?

    And even if you did, is it even possible for you to upgrade a single library on your access point?

    Try going back to the original CVE, the plethora of vulnerability checkers, or any of the press surrounding it. Every reference to Heartbleed pointed to HTTPS or, rarely, TLS and VPN services as being vulnerable to the bug. Now pretend that you don't know the implementation details of WPA and EAP. Based on all of that, why would you even consider updating or replacing every wireless device you have which don't use HTTPS unless the manufacturer told you?

    Moreover, when have manufacturers of popular wireless equipment _ever_ produced timely and relevant updates without at least eight months lead time and court cases in at least three countries?

  5. Re:Cinema-like on Curved TVs Nothing But a Gimmick · · Score: 1

    You also have to buy drinks and snacks directly from Samsung, and they also cost four times what they would from anybody else.

  6. Why does that sound familiar? on 'Curiosity' Lead Engineer Suggests Printing Humans On Other Planets · · Score: 1

    Yes, I have read The Songs of Distant Earth too.

  7. Re:Well... on Mutant Registration vs. Vaccine Registration · · Score: 1

    nobody as far as i know is advocating a publicly-accessible database here, are they? we already have large data stores full of patient information and i still am not able to look up my neighbor's medical records on the internet.

    That's only because you aren't trying hard enough.

  8. Re:Yea, I'm sure he gives a rat's ass. on Iran Court Summons Mark Zuckerberg For Facebook Privacy Violations · · Score: 1

    Like this post to show your support for extraditing Zuck! Share this on your wall!

  9. Re:But hold on... on Human "Suspended Animation" Trials To Start This Month · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Science fiction is cool and full of stuff we'd be excited to see happen. "Emergency preservation and resuscitation" doesn't sound at all interesting.

    That's only because you're not the one with an injury which would be fatal to operate on.

    If you were, and your alternatives were "Death" or "Tea and cake, then death", then it would sound pretty damn awesome.

  10. He has one condition on Steve Ballmer In Talks To Buy Los Angeles Clippers · · Score: 1

    "You can sleep with [developers]. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. The little I ask you is not to promote it on that ... and not to bring them to my games,"

  11. Re:Sickening on Botched Executions Put Lethal Injections Under New Scrutiny · · Score: 2

    Should state-run prisons be entirely abandoned?

    Yes. Do you have any other questions which answer themselves?

  12. Re:Lots of alternatives.. on Botched Executions Put Lethal Injections Under New Scrutiny · · Score: 1

    And worse yet, it has the additional side effect of being manufactured outside of the USA.

  13. Re:save money on Botched Executions Put Lethal Injections Under New Scrutiny · · Score: 1

    And that they stop filing those oh-so-boring appeals which are just full of pointless legal mumbo-jumbo like "I didn't do it" or "I never confessed, even though that police officer says I did". Who needs all that?

  14. Plus ca change... on Google Using YouTube Threat As Leverage For Cheaper Streaming Rights · · Score: 1

    Steve Albini wrote about this about twenty years ago. Some things just never change.

    "Whenever I talk to a band who are about to sign with a major label, I always end up thinking of them in a particular context. I imagine a trench, about four feet wide and five feet deep, maybe sixty yards long, filled with runny, decaying shit. I imagine these people, some of them good friends, some of them barely acquaintances, at one end of this trench. I also imagine a faceless industry lackey at the other end, holding a fountain pen and a contract waiting to be signed.

    "Nobody can see what’s printed on the contract. It’s too far away, and besides, the shit stench is making everybody’s eyes water. The lackey shouts to everybody that the first one to swim the trench gets to sign the contract. Everybody dives in the trench and they struggle furiously to get to the other end. Two people arrive simultaneously and begin wrestling furiously, clawing each other and dunking each other under the shit. Eventually, one of them capitulates, and there’s only one contestant left. He reaches for the pen, but the Lackey says, “Actually, I think you need a little more development. Swim it again, please. Backstroke.”"

    Courney Love read that article and wrote a rambling summary of it in 2000, and I would like to thank everybody here who for not referring to her version first.

  15. In other news... on Why I'm Sending Back Google Glass · · Score: 1

    I am returning my Apple Newton, as tablet computers with touch screens will never work.

  16. Re:Work visa on Kaleidescape Settles With DVD CCA But No Victory For DRM · · Score: 1

    How should a U.S.-born U.S. citizen residing in the U.S. go about getting off his ass [...]

    I think you just answered your own question.

  17. Re:DRM on Kaleidescape Settles With DVD CCA But No Victory For DRM · · Score: 1

    You're thinking like an engineer and misunderstand what DRM is for. It just kept Kaleidescape in court for a lot longer than a few days and that was a big success.

  18. Re:How would this get rid of power cords? on Step Toward Liberating Electronic Devices From Their Power Cords · · Score: 1

    A more honest headline would have been: "Electronic devices may soon be smaller and charge faster!" There's nothing in this technology that will eliminate the need for a cord.

    Another equally honest headline would have been "Electronic devices may soon hold much more charge allowing them to be used without frequent charging via power cords or where existing battery powered devices would be impractical". The existing headline suggests the same thing with nineteen fewer words.

  19. Re:Corporate speak on The 69 Words GM Employees Can Never Say · · Score: 1

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    "Avoiding certain words", DOESN'T make sense, because it is STRONG internal evidence that you've got a MAJOR issue you're ignoring.

    And that major issue is that somebody is going to sue you four eighteen quadrillion dollars if you suggest that there might be a problem with their car, and use the fact that you said "problem" as evidence against you.

  20. Re:other uses were considered... on Thorium: The Wonder Fuel That Wasn't · · Score: 1

    Do not taunt Happy Fun Uranium.

  21. Re:Pron on Shunting the FCC To the Slow Lane · · Score: 1

    Every person who works at the FCC is culpable -- same rules apply to any organized evil.

    I forget... Who do you pay taxes to again?

  22. Re:Environmentalists eat your heart out. on Feds Issue Emergency Order On Crude Oil Trains · · Score: 2

    And a rail accidents is trivial spill next to a pipeline accident.

    Whatever you say.

  23. Re:It's the loophole on Wretched Ride: PS4 Driveclub Game Rental Tied To Paid Subscription · · Score: 1, Redundant

    "You get to keep it. We never said you could play it."

  24. Re:Open Source My Ass on McAfee Grabbed Data Without Paying, Says Open Source Vulnerability Database · · Score: 2

    The first link in the article is for The Linux Foundation, who have been publishing the same report since at least 2008, when a minimum of 70% of the contributors (including people who submitted one-line fixes) had corporate sponsorship. Even before then it is easy to see who the top contributors to Linux were -- Kernel maintainer Alan Cox was employed by Red Hat from 1999 to 2009. Ted Ts'o worked with MIT, VA Linux and IBM while he developed /dev/random and the ext2 file system. John "Mad Dog" Hall was the man responsible for making Alpha the second architecture Linux ran on while he worked with Digital. Prior to his employment with Transmeta and the Linux Foundation, Linus Torvalds was paid $20,000,000 in stock options by Red Hat and VA Linux.

    Even before the majority of kernel development was done with corporate sponsorship, it was done to further academic goals. While not every one of these people is a dot com millionaire for their work with Linux, calling it a product of slave labour is disingenuous at best.

  25. Re:Death sentence on Melbourne Uber Drivers Slapped With $1700 Fines; Service Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    So.. you would have no problem with not knowing that the person who is "giving you a ride" was twice convicted of rape, and spent some time in the hokey for kidnapping?

    And... are you okay with these people protecting you from rapists, murderers and convicted drunk drivers?