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  1. Re:Fingerprints for a Speedpass? Seriously? on German Data Protection Expert Warns Against Using iPhone5S Fingerprint Function · · Score: 1

    Traveling to Paris is not what requires a finger-print. The only country that requires finger-prints is the US, as long as you stay out of the US you do not need fingerprints for traveling.

  2. Re:Meta review on Are the NIST Standard Elliptic Curves Back-doored? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Iranians are NOT semitic, they are Aryan, the name Iran literally means home of the Aryans. Named so because that is the one common thing that separates the various Iranian people from their semitic neighbours the Arabs.

  3. Re:Did not notice effect at all... on How Seeing Can Trump Listening, Mapped In the Brain · · Score: 1

    The first video posted didn't work for me either, but the second one from BCC did.

  4. Re:"KitKat"? on Android 4.4 Named 'KitKat' · · Score: 1
  5. Re:but math *is* patentable. so we need a law on Taking the Battle Against Patent Trolls To the Public · · Score: 1

    Both the US and the UK have laws that prohibits software patent. In the US the special court setup to deal with patents suits just decided it didn't agree with the law and has chosen to ignore it, the US patent office has since started accepting more and more software patents. The supreme court has indicated they would overturn the lower patent court's decision to ignore the ban on software patents, but so far no software patent case has gone all the way to supreme court.

  6. Re:Information for the hard of thinking judiciary on NJ Court: Sending a Text Message To a Driver Could Make You Liable For Crash · · Score: 1

    Answering the call hands free is just a dangerous as answering in one hand. Sorry, but you make a terrible argument.

  7. Re:Hmmmm .... on Un-Un-Pentium On Your Periodic Table of the Elements? · · Score: 1

    Un-un means 1-1, as in un-un-pentium, 1-1-5

  8. Re:oh please please please on Death of the Car Salesman? BMW Makes AI App To Sell Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    You don't need middlemen, just ignore them, and it is like they were never there.... until they stab you in the back that is.

  9. Re:Female programmers on Could a Grace Hopper Get Hired In Today's Silicon Valley? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would say the same, and I don't understand what is being said about leaders. The women have their fair share of incompetent leaders as well. Well not completely fair, since the women to men ratio is still low, but I would guess the ratio of incompetence female leaders to competent ones is the same as for men.

    I can only think of a handfull of male leaders in IT that are more incompetent than Carly Fioni.

  10. Re: Compared to what? on Is the Stable Linux Kernel Moving Too Fast? · · Score: 1

    Impossible bugs happen 12 times every single day on most computers (the amount of spontanious errors in RAM due to cosmic radiation and the lack of error correcting memory). Now add one extra error every week from an operating system bug. Can you spot it?

  11. Re:Translation: Groklaw has been gagged on Joining Lavabit Et Al, Groklaw Shuts Down Because of NSA Dragnet · · Score: 2

    Of course there is evidence, the evidence is GrokLaw shutting down. There can be no more evidence than that because that would be illegal for them to announce, or even hint.

  12. Re:A European perspective on Ask Slashdot: When Is It OK To Not Give Notice? · · Score: 1

    Where I come from everybody gives 1 to 3 months notice. If you are a manager or engineer, you will always have at least 3 month notice, and that goes both ways. Of course you can always not show up for work one day, but then they can withhold your last paycheck and unspend vacation.

  13. Re:it's not really an integrated economy yet on Is Europe's Recession Really Over? · · Score: 2

    Some economies where never shrinking much in the first place. So if you are talking about EU recession you are talking EU numbers.

  14. Re:Removing bins will not fix underlying problem on London Bans Recycling Bins That Track Phones · · Score: 1

    That can already happen. MAC addresses are not guaranteed unique. It is extremely unlikely to happen but it can.

  15. Re:Removing bins will not fix underlying problem on London Bans Recycling Bins That Track Phones · · Score: 2

    If you have set up the phone to connect to a hidden SSID, then it will broadcast it MAC (and the hidden SSID) all the time asking if it is there.

    It can also prompt for nearby access points instead of waiting for them to announce themselves, this also broadcasts their MAC.

    The first is easy to solve (don't use hidden networks ever). The second one can be a bit of a compatibility issue.

  16. From the ashes into the fire? on Acer Pulls Back From Windows To Focus On Android and Chromebook · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So they are pulling out of one pointless OS (WinRT) and focus an another even more pointless OS (ChromeBook).

    When will they ever learn?

  17. Re:A Little Late? on IBM Opens Up POWER Architecture For Licensing · · Score: 4, Informative

    POWER has been been 64bit and massively out-of-order superscalar for years where ARM is only just beginning to enter the market. Simply put POWER is not in the same market as ARM, but in the same market as x86. Which means it is Intel (and AMD) who is killing them.

  18. Re:Rupert Murdoch can die in a hole already. on Rupert Murdoch Wants To Destroy Australia's National Broadband Network · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, he probably sees the opportunities, but also realize he is not the best person to take advantage of them, so he must destroy it to avoid his betters from getting an advantage there, since they might use that to bring light to the places his media empire currently rules.

  19. Re:well on Google Argues Against Net Neutrality · · Score: 2

    Leeching is apparently now having the TV on all the time maximizing the bandwidth on the cable. How dare they use what they paid for to the fullest extend?

  20. Re:Why is this news? on Google Starts Upgrading Its SSL Certificates To 2048-bit Keys · · Score: 0

    Yes, but unlike almost all other certificates and big websites Google uses elliptic curve diffie hellman

    I can't tell if you are making up ironic bullshit or being informative. Maybe using cute names in IT wasn't that good an idea anyway. But I guess if it was a joke there would have been at least 5 nonsequitor names after each other to describe a security tem and not only four.

  21. Re:Misleading Article on Google Argues Against Net Neutrality · · Score: 2

    I live in Canada, and I'm pretty sure not running business servers is the norm for terms of use everywhere in the world when it comes to residential ISPs.

    And you base that on your experience in living in Canada?

    In most cases running business servers does not need to be forbidden, since the consumers get dynamic IPs that a less useful for servers. The question usually comes down to whether the ISP offers fixed IPs for regular broadband connections.

    Also there is the small matter that forbidding servers is completely meaningles when it comes to internet. In many European countries writing meaningless drivel in your term of service is frowned upon.

  22. Re:Misleading Article on Google Argues Against Net Neutrality · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No they didn't. Nearly every consumer ISP has clauses that state you can't run "business servers" through the residential connections.

    Well, probably in the US, the rest of the world is not that silly.

    But even accepting that. Nearly every consumer ISP also was against net neutrality because it would disallow them from applying silly rules like that to maximize profit. Google claimed to be FOR net neutrality, well exactly until they became an ISP, and now they appear are against it.

  23. They could have clarified it even better by just making it work like VAT. It applies to everything but you get to subtract all expenses that VAT was payed on.

  24. Re:Most dont matter..... on UK ISP Filter Will Censor More Than Porn · · Score: 1

    As in any place users can post content uncensored. So all of the internet.

  25. Re:Only a matter of time on UK ISP Filter Will Censor More Than Porn · · Score: 1

    Especially because they are not blocking just extremist and terrorist content, but extremist and terrorist relatedt conten. That can be anything. Other than that web forums can pretty much covers anywhere you can exercise free speech.