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  1. Re:Shocking on Germany: We Think NSA May Have Tapped Chancellor Merkel's Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    Fuck her? Not for a million bucks :)

  2. Re:US Government logic on US Government Shutdown Ends · · Score: 2

    You mean... republicons?

  3. Re:You asked for this on CPJ Report: the Obama Administration and Press Freedoms · · Score: 0

    Leftest, now that is a joke. In most of Europe, he'd be considered a right-wing conservative for most of his policies :)

  4. Terrible! on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 1

    I hate it. I don't even know where to start: maybe the fact it's too fluffy (too much whitespace), maybe the giant headlines that you could read from a mile away, maybe the whole design that looks like some tech pundit's blog, but not like slashdot. The comments sections looks like it will be impossible to follow longer threads, a definite three steps down from the current layout which itself is not optimal.

    The whole design seems to be based on the assumption that right now, there's too much text and not enough media to "lighten it up". In effect, you're dumbing it down to a point where I feel like I'm being treated like some kind of moron who can't muster the attention span if there isn't enough fluff.

    I'm not normally hung up on design, but if this is what slashdot's coming to, I'm out. This ain't a threat, this is a fact.

  5. Re:How Australia handles this on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 1

    As if that would help. You still only got two choices: Reps or Dems. And no matter who you vote for, nothing's going to change. You might argue there's more than two parties, but most people are so afraid of "throwing away" their vote for a third-party candidate that they stick with either plague or cholera...

  6. Re:Oh no! on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 1

    Yeah lynch mobs roamed the streets, killing stasi agents left and right in brutal and creative ways! In your dreams.

  7. Internet of Crap on Interview: Contiki OS Creator On Building the Internet of Things · · Score: 2

    'nuff said.

  8. Re: Cringe! on Building Melts Car · · Score: 1

    A fucking vibrator? Is there any other kind?

  9. Re:CAPTCHA is dead! Long live CAPTCHA! on Campaign To Kill CAPTCHA Kicks Off · · Score: 1

    I myself was thinking of this...

  10. Made for Asia on BMW Debuts First Electric Vehicle Made Primarily of Carbon Fiber · · Score: 1

    These days, BMW sells a hell of a lot of cars on Asian markets, especially to China. China has a growing middle and upper class, and these people want fine German cars (not to mention the know-how of how to build them).

    China, like many other Asian countries, also has a massive pollution problem. You can't leave the house without a breathing mask in Bejing pretty much. That's the kind of market the BMWi i3 is made for. So if you're wondering why it's not designed to your expectations, that's probably why :)

  11. Wrong: HK-47 on The Plight of Star Wars Droids · · Score: 1

    HK-47 is designed to make PEOPLE* suffer! *) or 'undesireables', as he calls them

  12. AI advances in the last five decades on Rice Professor Predicts Humans Out of Work In 30 Years · · Score: 1

    Has there even been any significant advances in AI science in the last 50 years? Weren't we promised computers that think like people 30 years ago? Wasn't it all supposed to be a problem of CPU power? Now we have clouds, and there's still no artificial brain.

    Isn't AI in fact a field with a pretty high suicide rate because of that? Questions over questions.

  13. Re:Why not just 0? on NTSB Recommends Lower Drunk Driving Threshold Nationwide: 0.05 BAC · · Score: 1

    No, it's not PI, it's bullshit unless you offer data to back up your claim :)

  14. Free speech? on In Germany, Offensive Autocomplete Is No Laughing Matter · · Score: 1

    A lot of you are ignoring one important fact: Google is not a person.

    Does a company even have a right to free speech?

    Also, Google claims it's simply repeating what others typed into the search box, so it can hardly count as Google exercising free speech rights, correct?

    Now if it was a private person we're talking about and they typed that text by themselves, they'd be in for slander. And that even in the US. Case closed.

  15. Re:To be fair on German Court Rejects Apple's Privacy Policy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Strawman. You're not responsible for what happens with the data in transit to you, but you are responsible for a) what data you take from your customer (via app on the phone, for instance, reading out the phonebook) and you are responsible for what you do with the data once it has arrived at your end.

    Actually, that's wrong. If you are sending the data from your application on the user's device to yourself, you're also responsible for what happens in transit: You could easily crypt the information.

  16. Project Eternity might have helped? on Planescape: Torment Successor Funded In 6 Hours · · Score: 1

    This campaign was mentioned with great enthusiasm in a recent Project Eternity backer update email. Since both game projects target the same kind of audience, I wonder if this hasn't had some impact on the result...

  17. Re:Cars produce more on State Rep. Says Biking Is Not Earth Friendly Because Breathing Produces CO2 · · Score: 2

    I say we start with people that make this kind of suggestion. How about that? You volunteer? No? Thought so.

  18. Re:evil twin on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 2

    Expensive? Really? All you need is a small embedded device with WLAN and a modified WLAN driver that just bangs out frames unconditionally and without pause, ideally with 40 MHz bandwidth. (Tx99/Tx100). It's not exactly the same as a jammer but it works just as well.

  19. Re:i like to limit my DHCP scope on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 2

    Yes, but only if done right. Use EAP-PEAP with silly passwords or even something really stupid like LEAP, and you're not any more secure. Use something like EAP-TLS with proper certificates, and then you're set.

  20. Re:i like to limit my DHCP scope on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    ALERT ALERT! Weak passwords decrease security! Whodathunk! News at 11!

  21. Re:27" FTW on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Favorite Monitor For Programming? · · Score: 2

    I've got three monitors:

    • - left: portrait mode
    • - middle: landscape mode
    • - right: portrait mode

    I'm doing a lot of work with wireshark, analyzing logs from serial consoles and stuff like that, so that configuration suits me perfectly. I also get this mediaval castle feeling because I'm perfectly shielded from my coworkers!

  22. Re:There's a reason for that. on Beer Is Cheaper In the US Than Anywhere Else In the World · · Score: 1

    It's just that the beer that you actually get for your five minutes of work is not what you're talking about. Then again, there's also cheap and very shitty German beer! If you ever come here, don't drink Warsteiner or Löwenbräu, you might confuse it with Miller's or some other American tasteless piss.

    I guess the US and Germany have that in common: you have to know which beer is good and which isn't, then you're set. Here in Germany, you'll want beer from private breweries, much like your Microbreweries: Augustiner, Irrseer, Kloster Scheyern, Hirschbräu or the most tasty Ayinger.

  23. Baby Computer on Windows 8 Pre RTM Metro UI Leaked · · Score: 1

    It reminds me of those educational "laptops" for kids that have ten built in programs and an interface looking very very similar to this. I can tell with some certainty that, baring absolute necessity brought upon by business related pressure, I will not be installing this crap on any of my computers - I'm much too happy with Windows 7. And that's saying a lot for someone much preferring to work with Linux.

  24. Re:Linux market on Drawing the Line Between Android and Linux · · Score: 1

    Aren't we confusing free-as-in-beer and free-as-in-freedom?

  25. Re:In all seriousness on LulzSec Suspect Arrested By UK Police · · Score: 1

    Golden Rule.

    One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself (positive form)
    One should not treat others in ways that one would not like to be treated (negative/prohibitive form, also called the Silver Rule)

    Unless you enjoy to be hacked and have your data exposed...