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  1. Re:First ? on No Love From Ars For Samsung's New Smart Watch · · Score: 1

    And tons of generic Chinese ones for several years, that are a *complete* system, not tied to a phone..

  2. But but but on Sorm: Russia Intends To Monitor "All Communications" At Sochi Olympics · · Score: 0

    I thought you all said only the USA does this.. so this cant be true.. right?

  3. Re:US committing hostile acts on the world on US Intelligence Chief Defends Attempts To Break Tor · · Score: 1

    Tell your government to stop too.

  4. Re:Moral dilemma for the IT community on US Intelligence Chief Defends Attempts To Break Tor · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And that is the price of freedom. Some will abuse it. There is no moral dilemma; you don't compromise others rights for some imaginary sense of security. .

  5. Hands down the best choice for commodity hardware where you it it to 'just work' once its setup.

  6. Re:Hopefully, not everyone will participate on Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Approve Work On DRM For HTML 5.1 · · Score: 1

    Which is great until someone mandates it on all the places you are going, then having a browser that doesn't comply becomes a hindrence

  7. Re:Hmmm ... on Finding a Tech Museum For Your Beloved Retired Computer(s) · · Score: 1

    Its not worth anything. I know mine wasn't ( gen 1 even )

  8. Re:Hmmm ... on Finding a Tech Museum For Your Beloved Retired Computer(s) · · Score: 1

    To an large extent you are correct, but its pretty easy to do a quick search to see if what you have is fairly rare. You might be surprised. I have a few things that i thought were common as dirt but it turned out they were not and quite rare. To bad it was AFTER i tossed them.

  9. "public sentiment" on Lavabit Case Unsealed: FBI Demands Companies Secretly Turn Over Crypto Keys · · Score: 1

    So few people know it happened that its sort of funny to hear that. The real (voting ) public has no clue this ever happened. Nor would they understand it if they did.

    Besides that, those that do know what happened and matter will soon have a squirrel event and forget all about it anyway.

  10. The USA is ruled on Lavabit Case Unsealed: FBI Demands Companies Secretly Turn Over Crypto Keys · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Its not exclusive to the US. All governments are like this.

  11. Re:No. The cat has FriendlyChemists tongue Slashdo on Maryland Indictment Says Silk Road Founder Tried To Arrange Murder of Employee · · Score: 1

    So, in other words, the FBI is guilty of conspiracy to commit murder.

    Um, no. That isn't how it works.

  12. No wonder he got nailed on Maryland Indictment Says Silk Road Founder Tried To Arrange Murder of Employee · · Score: 1

    Just running the site he was 'safe', but the old rule applies that if you are doing anything remotely shady you don't stick your nose out there and make a target of yourself .. as they will use it to shut you down.

    Hiring someone for murder, well that qualifies as making yourself a target. Idiot.

  13. Dissident Speech on Do Comments On Web Pages Ruin Science? · · Score: -1, Troll

    Nope, no room for that, even in the "science" community.

    Conform or be squelched.

  14. GPS? on NSA Abandoned Project To Track Cell Phone Locations · · Score: 2

    Better turn off your wifi and your cellular radio too. Both of those combined is accurate enough to know where you are within a few meters. Plenty of accuracy to stake out your building in person, or order a drone strike.

  15. wifi drops on Dead Drops P2P File Sharing Spreads Around Globe · · Score: 1

    Those *might* be ok to use. at least then you can scan what you are getting, plus it wouldn't be obvious you are doing it.

  16. Re:How is this different from sneakernet? on Dead Drops P2P File Sharing Spreads Around Globe · · Score: 1

    With sneaker-net you knew who you were dealing with, and you took it to them personally. You didn't just lay a grocery bag of anonymous floppies under a park bench.

  17. No thanks on Dead Drops P2P File Sharing Spreads Around Globe · · Score: 1

    1 - God only knows what virus is on that device or if its not just wired to 220 and fry your machine on contact.
    2 - Who is watching? It wouldn't be considered entrapment if its the government.

  18. Ownership on California Outlaws 'Revenge Porn' · · Score: 1, Funny

    You gave me the image, its mine to do with as i please.

  19. If heroine were legal, nobody would die. on First Cases of Flesh-Eating Drug Emerge In the United States · · Score: 2

    Sure they would. People die every day from alcohol and its legal.

  20. Darwin on First Cases of Flesh-Eating Drug Emerge In the United States · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is hard at work.

  21. Talk about your stuff on Cricket Reactor Inventor Says $1mil Prize Winners Stole His Work · · Score: 1

    You gave it away for others to think about and perhaps improve. Don't want the risk, don't tell anyone.

  22. Hurd may have been a failure on GNU Hurd 0.5, GNU Mach 1.4, GNU MIG 1.4 Released · · Score: 1

    As a 'product' it may be a dismal failure, but the work getting to it has clearly been not and we every day enjoy the 'collateral successes'.

    For all his faults, RMS did help the 'movement' in incalculable ways.

  23. Re:Megalomanic on New Unix Implementation Turns 30 · · Score: 1

    Did he? Id say he never completed his goal.

  24. Re:Is there really any point to this? on Tech In the Hot Seat For Oct. 1st Obamacare Launch · · Score: 1

    The new resident cant do it alone, it will require a cooperative congress.

  25. Not saying that food cant be printed, but it opens up an entire new problem with health regulations.