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  1. Re:That bank would be bankrupt fastly on Should Social Media Affect Your Creditworthiness? · · Score: 1

    someone got my debit card number and managed to empty and overdraw my checking account by about $1,800 within about 3 hours.

    My debit card requires a PIN in order to do a withdraw or do a payment. I specified that my account cannot be overdrawn and that there can't be more than a few hundreds pulled from the debit card within a day. I also get an e-mail within one minute of the transaction and I can buy a service that sends me an SMS after each transaction. Is my former-communist-country more advanced than yours?

  2. Re:The internet is an important right on A Quarter of the EU Has Never Used the Web · · Score: 1

    My bank still want me to change to completely paperless (no thanks, I like to keep paper evidence a

    What's wrong with account statements in PDFs cryptographically signed by the bank?

  3. Re:Users disagree with him on The Condescending UI · · Score: 1

    Having to figure out what goes in that text file for my given distro/config is the pain in the as

    It would be the case. If there are no comments and examples in the text file right next to the place that you edit.

  4. Re:They're missing a trick here... on Clothier Slammed For Using 'Perfect' Virtual Model · · Score: 2

    Have a look (pdf). Designing clothes, adjusting their size and shape without requiring to physically produce it (draw, cut, sew, ...) and try on a live person is very interesting and perspective.

  5. Re:What do they expect? on PC Makers Run Short of Popular Drives · · Score: 1

    if any one of those companies had split their factories 50/50 with another location, they could basically print money for the next 12 months by undercutting the entire rest of the market by 50%

    If they have had split the factories and only one half of them would be hit by the disaster, then it would not be a reason for such shortage and thus no reason for raised prices. Hence the surviving half of the factories would not profit so much. Am I wrong?

  6. Re:U.S. on Iran Shuts Down US Virtual Embassy · · Score: 1

    1 - The US is "everything that's wrong with the world". Really? If the US dissapeared tomorrow, just what do you think would happen to the world? Honestly. Do you think the world would suddenly live in peace and harmony?

    Yes, the GP was wrong by using the word "everything". It's called a hyperbole. Are you claiming that nothing is wrong with US? Are you saying that no problems would disappear if US disappeared tomorrow?

  7. Not questionable at all on Red Cross Debates If Virtual Killing Violates International Humanitarian Law · · Score: 2

    While it's questionable if gamers themselves can be prosecuted for not obeying the Geneva convention,

    Of course they should be prosecuted. Virtually.

  8. Re:Next up. on Mexican Gov't Shuts Down Zetas' Secret Cell Network · · Score: 1

    simple principle that my body belongs to me and the government has no fucking right to tell me or anyone else what they can do with their own body.

    Unless you expect the public health service to take care of your body after you damage it with drugs.

  9. Re:Isn't that kind of the point? on Iran's Military Claims To Have Downed US Surveillance Drone · · Score: 1

    so you want to enable a mechanism that would self distruct at a push of a button. okay, so what kind of public outcry would happen if a drone malfunctions and self distructs on a miltary base possibly injuring or killing troops?

    Indeed. I mean, what is on a military base except personnel? Tonnes and tonnes of explosives. That's clearly dangerous and should be banned. It's not like any other weapons have self-destruct capability.

  10. Re:Yes, it should be published on Paper On Super Flu Strain May Be Banned From Publication · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you know it can be done it is fairly trivial to make it happen.

    Hereby I claim that factoring large primes can be done. The task of finding fairly trivial implementation is left as an exercise for the reader.

  11. Cool on Senator Wants 'Terrorist' Label On Blogs · · Score: 1

    Cool. How do I sign up?

  12. Re:Smart phones are not private on Are There Any Smartphones That Respect Privacy? · · Score: 1
    From your link

    In 2006 Elad Barkan, Eli Biham and Nathan Keller demonstrated attacks against A5/1, A5/3, or even GPRS that allow attackers to tap GSM mobile phone conversations and decrypt them either in real-time, or at any later time.

    As far as I remember, the encryption is weak because, at the time when the technology was introduced, the phones lacked the computing power to do strong crypto. And ,perhaps because of difficulty of upgrading the already sold phones, it has survived until these days. I did not do any deeper research but I would not trust A5/1 for serious security.

  13. Re:Annoying boss? on Microsoft Patent Aims To Curb Obnoxious Employee Behavior · · Score: 1

    You are very clever, boy, but it's managers all the way down. Or possibly up in this case.

  14. Re:Google Maps on China Building Gigantic Structures In the Desert · · Score: 1

    Right. On the other hand,Chinese company selling such images to Google surely has to get government approval first. In fact, even Chinese company getting permission to fly over military sites can be unlikely. So I'm surprised that we can see this at all.

  15. Re:divorce on Judge Makes Divorcing Couple Swap Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    You told us you were going to break the law, and you've been told doing so now would be clearly illegal and indicative of you trying to avoid evidence being brought into court

    4, Insightful?? Is this how the law works in US nowadays? Is this /. submission somehow indicating that any future divorce proceeding will include exchange of Facebook passwords? It seems that anything that you do (or don't do!) will be used against you in a court. Now or ever in the future. And regardless of whether you are involved in a court case at this moment.

  16. Re:You're asking who? on Ask Slashdot: Unity/Gnome 3/Win8/iOS — Do We Really Hate All New GUIs? · · Score: 1

    developer's idea of a great UI and innovative interface is:
    $ convert label.gif ...

    convert command from ImageMagick has over 200 command-line options (many of them taking an argument). How exactly would you like to present that as a GUI?

  17. Re:Abuses on Illegal To Take a Photo In a Shopping Center? · · Score: 1

    the law does apply, even in private property and the person taking the potpgraph has rights under the law

    The owner has a right to own the property. "To own" means having right to decide what happens with the property. That includes the right to deny others the access or usage of property. I don't see what kind of law would grant the customer the right to use the property owned by someone else.

  18. Re:Women have it hard in the future on Company Unveils Personalized Anime Robot Girl · · Score: 1

    in the past we needed to commit to a woman to get assured of sex on a regular basis.

    Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

  19. next launch? on Ask Derek Deville About High-Altitude Amateur Rocketry · · Score: 1
    Three questions regarding next launch: Where? When? May I come?

    (Well in fact it's too far away for me, but I'd love to ;-) )

  20. flight control on Ask Derek Deville About High-Altitude Amateur Rocketry · · Score: 1

    The rocket landed only 3 miles from the launch site despite the tail fins being fixed. IMHO, that's impressive. How was that achieved?

  21. Re:Abuses on Illegal To Take a Photo In a Shopping Center? · · Score: 1

    I would ask the officer for the law that specifically forbids me from performing a specific action

    There isn't such law. However it's their ground and their rules. You are free not to shop there. (Which is the right thing to do.)

  22. Re:Why not use it as a bargaining chip? on Ask Slashdot: Does Being 'Loyal' Pay As a Developer? · · Score: 1

    He then matched the salary

    That means that until that point he paid you less then you were worth to him? Hmm ....

  23. Re:Re-opens? Those towns were never closed. on Japan Re-Opens Some Towns Near Fukushima · · Score: 1

    I have a map of radiation levels on my personal website

    Care to provide the link? (because I don't see any map on http://127.0.0.1/ , which is what /. lists as your homepage ;-) )

  24. Re:RAM usage shouldn't be a problem for VM users on Hot Multi-OS Switching — Why Isn't It Everywhere? · · Score: 1

    What they don't hog, though, is CPU time when they're merely sitting idle.

    Did you notice the raise of number of processes between XP and Win7? I did not analyze it closely, but the Processes tab in Win7 Task manager nearly scares me. Win7 seems to start a life of its own with all the background indexing, updating, caching, optimizing and I-have-no-idea-what-that-thing-does processes - there is always something going on in Windows 7.

  25. Re:Asus Transformer TF101 on The (Mostly) Sad Fates of 32 First-Generation iPad Rivals · · Score: 1

    What does matter is that the device works, works well, and that the user enjoys using it.

    Nah. He just used the language of the /. tribe to say the same.